The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-09-04

teacher, while his wife will take charge
of the laundry department of the
school. Both are full-blood Indians
born in the Indian territory, and are
highly educated people. 1t appears to
be wise move on the part of the
government to put Indians in the
different agency schools when possible
II crave but one minute" said the
public speaker in a husky voice and
then he took Il dose of One rinute Cough
Cure and porceeded with his oratory
One Minute Cough Cure is unequalled
for throat and lung troubles. The
Snipes Kinersly Drug Co.
CAVES IN WASHINGTON.
Explored by Party of DaIies Sight
The other day our party went In
carriages, jaunting cars and on bicy-
cles to visit the Lava cave. This cave
is about one mile and a half from
Trout Lake, and is easy of access. We
arrived at the mouth of a huge cavern,
and found the men of the first carriage
procuring pitch for torches, which
they told us we must use. We found q
stout ladder, made of pine poles, reach
| ing down in the cave for "a distance of
forty feet, and touching the floor of
solid rock It was dizzy trip, but we
descended in safety. At the foot of the
ladder we lighted the torches and pro-
ceeded to follow the guide. We were
| in room whose ceiling was forty feet
high, to begin with, and whose walls
were about the same distance apart.
| We took the left.hand chamber to eX-
| plore, and found the floor compara-
lively smooth for some distance, then
becoming corrogated, and the walls
were very rough, showing how the
action of fire had melted the rocky
walls and the lava had run down ,leav-
ing globules and queer shaped pieces
which visitors break off and carry
away as relics.
People haye differences of opinion
as to the causes which led to the for
nation of these caves. I believe that
there once existed veins of coal, and
that when Mt. Adams was a volcano.
the hot lava followed the veins of coal
and burned them, leaving hollow
space now caiied "caves." This seems
probable, but yet the mystery is un-
explained.
We followed the guide for a mile aud
then saw away ahead of Us light,
which looked like star in the heavens.
The effect was wierd, as the light
moved and soon we saw two and then
three and four moving up there, and
then John Filloon hallooed to US that
he was going up in the ''loft. We
followed up and up. We reached the
summit of the -ude stairway, then be-
gan going down just as far as we had
ascended. The way began getting
narrower and the ceiling lower until
we bumped our heads very often. At
length We arrived at the end and
found cards left by other visitors. We
left ours, so that those coming after
us may see that we have been there too.
The air in the cave was quite cold so
that wraps had.to be worn.
This is mile aud half long, and
being tired We did not stop to explore
the right-hand cave. We secured
some very fine relics and climed out of
the cave,and on reaching the outer air
were almost smothered by contact
with the heat, which was such con-
trast to that which we had been
breathing.
We started on to the famous Ice
caves which one apprehension a warm
day. The dust was something that |
must be met with to be properly appre- |
ciated. We were literally covered by |
about three inches of real estate. We |
soon came to hole in the level ground |
and descended ladder for about |
feet where magnificent view |
met our eyes. Long icicles hanging |
from an ice cealing to an ice floor.
Away back in the end of .t5e cave are
huge pillars of ice, which is called the |
pulpit, and behind which some one
held lighted torches. The effect was |
beautiful. The icicles shone like |
diamonds in the brilliant light. L.
have visited the caves often. but have
never seen them4so full of ice at this
time OF the year-August :. 1t seems
a shame for persons to break down
these pieces OF ice. when there is a
cave .of the congealed aqueous sub
stance only about q mile from Trout
Lake.
After going to.the outside world we
next went two miles to beautiful
level meadow where we gathered
gallon of wild Strawberries and that
evening we had strawberries and
cream.
So much for this days explorations,
Our party who went to the Ice Cave
were Mr.. and Mrs. Filloon, Misses
Eff : and Minnie Crooks, Edith Fisher,
and Lena Thompson, Mrs. Fisher, MIR.
Dunn and there was also there a
kodak man. Yours .ruly,
INEZ FILLoON.
"They don't make much fuss about