Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-12-14

wind was blowingstiffdown stream,
and as our steamboat was waiting
TO tow up a barge loading with rail-
road iron, Capt. Kow suggested that
we 90 n fishing to certain lake
some miles back in the woods. We
knew that no one had flshed there
for several years, and that the In
dians never went near II, as they
said an evil spirit In the shape Of a
monster man lived In its waters, and
though several Indians had In
bravado gone to the lake to fish,
none Of them ever returned. After
hard tramp we reached the lake,
and In u few minutes had construc-
ed a rough craft, pushed out to the
center of the lake and thrown our
flies. l never had such sport In my
life. A fly could scarcely touch the
water before 1t was seized by
some hungry aud keen-eyed trout.
Finally, tired Of the sport
we determined to put back to
the shore, and, just for luck, I threw
my fly once more. There was a
slight tug, but to my annoyance
found the fly was caught in bit Of
drift. We padded up to it, and,
reaching over to free the hook, !
saw piece of shining metal on the
drift. I hauled in the branch, and
there was that bracelet you have
been looking at. At first did not
notice the letters scratched on it,
but fell to wondering how 1t got into
the lake, for certainly for twenty
years past no Indian had been with
In mile of the lake.
Capt. Kow, who was one Of the
Oldest pilots on the river and deeply
versed In all of the river lore, took
the bit of jewelry in his hand ard
began o close examination. He
was, In the main, one Of the coolest
men ! ever knew and seldom
showed the slightest emotion under
any circumstances. He had examin-
ed the bracelet but q moment or so
when / heard him exclaim, in what
for him were most unusual tones:
"Here, G. H., Chats what he always
called me), look and sec If these
are not letters ! looked
and made out as you have, the word
NOMAH. Yes, yes said the cap
tain. that's what 1 thought. The
first part of the name has been ef-
faced by time, but the name In full
was Multnomah. When / was II
boy / remember she was the most
maiden among the Klicki-
tats-and they were warriors In those
days
"'Why, captain said I, this is
quite u romance; tell me about it,
"There isn't much to tell, except
that thirty years ago Harry Sprague
and myself were just of age, and
the Klickitats were u powerful tribe
Of Indians, and during the salmon
seasons they came In great numbers
to the Cascades 10 fish and gather
berries. Harry and l were on
running TO the Cascades,
md Multnomah was beautiful In
IiIan girl. ! always thought that
she must have been n descendant Of
some adventurous fur trader, for her
features were OF Caucasian type, and
her complexion WINS not more dusky
IbaD tbnt 0f Spanish beauty.
Harry fell Ia love with her aud she
with him-tbose things often hap
peped In early days, you know
and all would have been well but
for the Indian war which broke
,ui about that time, aud the tribe to
which MullDomab belonged lefl
lbe river "a W. upon the war path.
4 little while before the tribe dlsap-
@nred Harry had taken one ~
hUliDoDiab's bracelets aud scratched
~ II with bls knife her name.
shortly after this the blockliouss NJ
lac Cascades sas attacked, but the
indians ssm f.pulssd, aud Thai
llRbi Ne captured young Indian
,Oy iurklDg around the settlement
ahv know Harry aud e,nddsd "a
him that AullDaDlab slslled a.
meet him ihs BsKi night AZ ihs
la~i lake. u must have iesn very
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