Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-02
THE LOCAL SPORTING WORLD.
Grand Finale OF the Horse-Bicycle
Chase.
FISHING AT LAKE OSAkIS.
News From the Ball Fields--COliscum
Neutrality-suspicious. and Answers,
and Miscellaneous Sports
ETC., Etc.
On Lovely Osakis.

Messrs. w. G.. Albright jeff w. Bedford,
j. S. Mccormick, George g. Alnes, Marsh
Kennard, G.. w Rood, r. Il. Duke, and w. j.
Hahn have just returned from two weeks
outing at lovely Lake Osakis, which lies,
like diamond IN an emerald bed, way up in
the wilds of northwestern Minnesota II
goes without saying that they had great
time, but If proof is desired all that is neces-
sary to state is that they brought to basket>
something like half dozen tons of fish, and
the expedition was purely an archaeological
one. Their adventures and misadventures
were OF course both numerous and thrilling,
and it is with no little trepidaton that pre-
sumo to attempt to briefly portray them
The party arrived at the end of their long
Journey late in the afternoon, and it was
with feelings indescribable that they stood
and gaaed out upon those lovely waters.
Osakis Lake!
Have you ever been there' MOI Then
you have missed half your life.
A picture Of rapturous enChantment and
would thOt my unpretentious pencil could do
1t justice. IL seemed as If the party would
never tire Geasting upon the scene. On the
placid bosom of the lake the slan,ing rays of
the low-haugng May sun fell like shafts Of
silver. Not fragment of cloud, but found
on its delicate texture AN immediate image
Tlnts not detachable in the atmosphere kin
with every passing moment-now smiling in
tendercst azure, then n faint breath from
the darkeniag woods lighted upon it and n
CLEAN of silver ripple cut athwart; next some
impalpablo shade turned it into purple, again
dull gray. then fitting with dark and
lights, settling into softest quiet and
divinest hues, beamy, velvety, one broad
sheen of magic tint Away with the daub
cry of Domcuichiuo, Correggio, or Titan, IN
the face of this, Osakis, the chef d'oeuvre of
the master hand.
"ralk about Cutoff Lake" calculated Dick
Mccormick, ~ tell you, boys, she haint no.
whereui
The party eucamped just back of a little
bay in sturdy grove of naples, an old sugar
camp, with /. baldrick of glistening sand
stretching down TO the waters edge. IL was
well along toward evening ana Osakis wore
dark green polish with an intermiugling of
shadows, full of sprinkled light, which made
the outlook superlatiyely enchanting, The
tents was quickly up, and moment later the
beautiful spot was alive with culinary opcr-
atoms. and the noddug trees listened 10 the
song OF the Erid-iron and saucepan, instead
of bird ard nipple
OF course they all ate heartily
The long Journey, the pure air of the north
woods thc exercise, and--I don't know what
else-y-keops fishermen on sor, of a famshcd
lookout ali the time The very work of eat
ing seems 10 give one an appetite, and Bed
ford says that Ilghn's stomach, for depth, on
such an ccccsicn can only be likencd TO the
bottpmoss pit
Duke ana Hahn ere regular old Izaak Wal
tons, and, Notwithstanding their iaded con
ditiop, thcir inpatience got the best of them,
and after finishing supper they went round
TO old Jim Nmzanps-old Jim IS a jack of
alI-trades ana u uordescript, who lives in q
hut by himself up there and acts as rover,
guide, barber, photographer, artist, lecturer
aud everything else for hunting and fishing
pariics-und securing one of his boats pushed
on onto the shadowy waters
g'hey hadn't proceeded more than two hun