Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-09
Camping on Rock Creek.
On Tuesday morning S. V. BuI

the quiet village Of Toledo for the
! purpose Of taking all outing on the
headwaters Of Rock Creek. After
a pleasant drive Of two hours the
Siletz river was reached where the
party stopped for lunch, which was
heartily enjoyed by all hands and
all Agency hog. The latter suc-
ceeded in stealing and eating
stock of bread that had been pre-
pared by the ladies Of the party for
use on the trip. After Ben Jones
had chased the SOW and pigs until
he was thoroughly satisfied that he
could not recover the bread, the re-
naming provisions were loaded in
to the hack and the party headed
for Rock Creek where they arrived
at the residence of Commodore LII
cas- at 7:3o p, m. Here a tempe
rary camp was struck and all hands
were soon busy in the routine of
camp life. Soon a splendid supper
was prepared which all seemed to
enjoy, especially Al. Waugh.
When the hour Of bedtime arrived
1t was apparent that there was loom
Ill the tent for but a part Of tie
party, so it was arranged that The
ladies' have the tent and that the
men should sleep hard by under the
hack, but some Of the ladies object
ed 10 this arrangement upon the
ground that bear might attack
the unprotected women and child
rSn, so it was finally arranged that
the Judge should sleep at the door
Of the tent, and that Jones and
Waugh should should take to the
woods. We don't know just how
things were located III that tent,
but II seems that Judge Burt did
not have any too much cover, for
along about I o'clock in the morn
ing the Judge got up and built a
fire and was quietly chewing his
favorite brand of "saw-log," the
eXertions of Waugh and Jones, who
were trying to keep utAer the hack
on the hillside above the camp,
knocked the brake loose on the
hack and it went laundering down
toward the camp. The noise awak-
ened Lucas dog and he went roar
ing after the hack. The first thing
that got out Of the tent was Jones
boy, Francis, and the first thing he
saw was the Judge running stopped
over to avoid collision with the
brush and the same time dodge
the hack. The boy having heard
bear stories at the camp fire before
going to bed supposed that the
woods were full OF bears, and let
out yell that caused all the per-
sons in that tent to get a move OH
themselves. In the meantime Lii
cas-, who was quietly sleeping in
his cabin, was awakened by the un-
earthly noises coming from the
camp, and he got n double-quick
move on himself and grabbed a sack
of SCOTS chittim bark and rushed
wildly toward the scene Of disturb
ance; but between his cabin and
the camp was deep spring, and
about the second jump John made
he landed head first in that ice cold
water. Now Lucas had been both
cred by skunks, and Scott, the
young man who had been peeling
the bark above mentioned, had set
a trap down by the spring for the
avowed purpose Of catching that
particular skunk, and when he
awoke and heard the noise of splash
ing water down by the spring, he
naturally supposed that he had
caught the skunk, so be gathered
up the first weapon that was handy,
which happened to be a garden
rake, and rushed down to the
spring and made a grab for MI.
Skunk. AS a result of his strike
he caught Lucas in his overalls and
dragged him out. In the mean
tine things at the camp had quieted
20 I'll, and Lucas was in for whip
ing Scott, but when the latter
claimed 81 as a reasonable damage
to the sack Of chittim bark a conf
pronite was effected.
The next day the party moved
camp a mile lower down the creek
to where Pearse and others, Of Cor
wallis, had been cafnped. Here o