The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-18

a baby, and made good Mrs. Sargent nervous and
angry-and all for nothing. The married couple
had "vamosed the ranchen We thought the
musicians had enjoyed about fun enough after
half an hour and the elder Mrs Hundsaker ac-
companied Us out to the teamsters' campfire,
around which the serenaders had assembled for a
few minutes consultation; and when we gra-
ciously informed the amateurs that their victims
had ''skedaddled," it was our turn to enjoy the
fun. Some of them held their guns awkwardly i'm
their hands and gazed straight down their noses
in silence, others tOyed idly with the discordant
bells and said nothing, and others asked ques-
tions incredUlously. After being repeatedly
sured that their game was gone, they felt that
their music had been made i'm vain; but we begged
them to believe it was all right II was a grand
serenade said, in honor of Mrs. Hundsaker
and ourself in particular and woman's rights in
general. We were very thankful and compli-
mentary and bowed ourselves away at the close
of the little speech accompanied by "Three cheers
for the New NORTHWEST" and a grand "hurrah
for Hardscrabble." The reveers then suspected
the whereabouts Of the bride and groom, and after
further consultation, departed for their place of
entertainment. But the groom, anticipating such
a visit, and determined to mislead them, had hid
den his hack in q ravine over an adjoining hill
and, as they could not find it the premises
they supposed he had gone i'm some other direc-
ton; and they returned, crestalen but jolly, and
consoled themselves by giving another outdoor
concert in honor of their own discontinue
The morrow came, and we off for Spanish
Gulch, or Camp Watson, the former being the
local and the latter the geographical name of the
village 10 which we had previously forwarded the
announcement of the next lecture Our route lay
through another long unvarying stretch of alter
nate gorges, wales and mountains, and brought Us
at three T.. NJ. to the dinner station kept by Mr.
Emil Shutz, formerly sheriff of Wasco county, but
now an extensive rancheman Of Grant. An ex-
cellent dinner and pleasant chat with this gen
tleman and his enterprising wife both of whom
are good Woman Suffngists, prepared us for the
next ride Of dozen miles to our next appoint
ment.
Spanish Gulch is a noted mining camp, situated
high up in the John Day Valley-if that may be
called a valley which is composed of alternate
stretches Of mountains, with only deep gulches
between. Here are three prosperous mining
claims, where men are engaged i'm Summer in
searching through the auriferous rocks with hy-
draulic rams in quest OF yellow ore. At present
the mines are idle, owing to the scarcity of water
but the Summer yield has been "A good one, and
the prospects for the coming year are hattering.
We reached the village at nightfall after having
been cheered i'm the afternoon by information ten
dered by the returning stage driver that the sta
tiOn-keeper and landlord Of the one hotel couldn't
keep over night account of a rush of travel.
But we scented the breath of Jacksonville i'm the
story, and pushed confidently on, well knowing
there was nothing but little opposition ahead in
the shape Of mans rights bulldosing Wed use
a better word if there were one but language
making isn't our forte, and there's no other that
will do the subject justice.)
/ Arriving at the station, we found as we ex-
pected, that the landlord had drawn upon his
| imagination for his facts about the "rush OF
travel" But we were not without friends. as the
sequel proved for Mrs. Kerns, bright, intelligent
| lady from East Portland, whose husband Samuel
Kerns, Esq, is largely engaged in mining here,
had heard of our arrival, and she favored us with
an invitation to her cosy and charming cottage
where we were soon enjoying a hearty welcome
and hospitable board. The station-keeper and
landlord had "smothered our bills in committee, -
and there was no lecture announced But the
amabIe schoolma'am, Miss Marshall, of Linn
county, who boards with Mrs. Kerns had the
schOOl-hOuse and i'm ORDER and the little
children soon spread the news of our coming. All
the ladies of the place Except the wife of the
staton-keeper) and all their bright and rosy chill
dren with two three gentlemen, were soon as
sembled at the schOol-rOOm, and we had grand
good time. We hope the station-keeper will read
his good wife's NEW NORTHWEST during the
coming year, and learn therefrom that women
who want their rights are making no raid upon
his domestic felicity or that of any other man.
1t is only ignorance, fostered by prejudice, that
ever leads any well-intentiOned man to oppose the
enfranchisement of women mistreat its advO-
Gates.
The bed Of the gulch at Camp Watson has been
sluiced out, rolled up and turned over in search Of