The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-28
BUNKOED BY A STRANGER,
DR.. r. E. Williams Was Hum
plugged by a Bogus
Indian.
The Physicians Experience In Fish
ing and Hunting Near
Tacoma.

When City man leaves for q vacation in
the northwest country, tempted thither-
ward by the glowing reports the natives
circulate when they sojourn here, he
usually considers that he must load up
with the weapons of the chase and album
dance of tackle for the brook. This opinion
took possession of DR.. r. E. Williams
when he departed for Tacoma some ten
days ago. OF rifles and shotguns the medi-
cal tourist had an ample outfit, and there
was a bait-hook or fly in every bag he
packed, independent of the spacious trunk
devoted solely to the storage of those de-
structive lures.
DR.. Williams has written long and
elaborate description of his adventures by
wood and stream. When he arrived at Ia
coma he was received with much attention
and respect. That city is not as lively now
as formerly, and a San Francisco visitor
with an unusual quantity of baggage is re-
ceiyed as special gift. The rifles ard
rods were slowed away in a spare room,
and the doctor started out to canvas the
town regarding the shooting and fishing
possibilities OF the suburbs. He found a
dozen of natives willing to afford him
reams of information. They told him of a
stream called the Skookum Chuch which
was literally stiff with trout. Another an
cient inhabitant related of a wood where
the deer were iostling one another like
cows in corral. To these tales did the ex-
and dispensed with liberal hand the hos
pitalities of Tacoma, willingly reversing
the duties of host and guest.
The next morning, according to the doc
tors narrative. he proceeded to the stream
of the Indian name. He found a siwash
T,,l
and accepted big American dollar just
like awhile man. Williams thought there
was something familiar about the man.
figure, but he put his rod to-
gether and began to fish. Morning wore
to noon and noon to evening, but not a fish
the siwash who had grunted ''plenty fish,
plenty fish" he drove back to Tacoma.
On the evening of that day he dropped
in to get some refreshment at a saloon and
there was man leaning on the bar whose
appearance suggested the mendacious in
formant of the morning.
The second day of the doctors visit was
put in deer-shooting With his best rife
he drove to the forest where deer were sup
posed to be numerous. His guide had not
taken him dozen steps from the hitchlng-
up place when they met an Indian.
Better give him piece, DOCTOR" sug-
gesteof the guide; she knows all about the
country.
Willingly the hunter complied and the
siwash led them up a mountain and down
mountain, over streams and through
brush and bid them to keep sharp look
out. Then he left them. Williams hunted
all day, but never deer saw he. He was
| footsore and weary when he got back
to Tacoma, and after his bath and
dinner he wandered about the streets
A snug little saloon reminded him
| that he was thirty, and he entered. AS he
was about to push aside the swinging doors
| he heard voice that seemed familiar tc
| him. He listened. 1t was the bogus 81
| wash relating how he had made So out o.
fellow from San Francisco who thought
| he could carry off all the fish and deer il
the county, how he had put him on {
stream where there were nothing bu1
suckers and steered him to wood where
there wasn't even a gray squirrel. HI
himself was barber out of job and, at
tracted by the doctors appearance, hac
taken this ingenious method Of earning ar
honest living.
Doctor Williams did not quench hi
thirst at that saloon and next morning Ii
| out for Victoria.
''THE strength of Royal Baking Powde'
is shown to be % per cent greater than any
other.