Fort Wrangel news., 1898-08-31

There was considerable ill-feeling be- tween the two camps IL all began with Billy ChctWyude declaring thnt he could paddle from Silver Glen dam to the railroad bridge tn twenty minutes. Nobody had ever thought of doing it In less than twenty-five before, and Hal Burgess, who heard Billy's hoasting from the other tent, stuck his head through the flap and sald:
 What you growing about. Billy? Do you want to make new record for Still RiyerY
 Il can do a better sprint than you anyway, Mr. Smartler' exclaimed Bill ly, shying n saucepan at Halls head But the head WAS immediately with drawn and there was only Halls mock ing laugh in reply to the missile. and that was all the hEinning. But the ending
 Hal took Ii up the next morning as soon as Billy appeared. SWhen you going to make that wonderful record. Rilly?' he asked, and before the day was over We were all squahhling over the individual paddlinG of both crowds. Nothing would satisfy us but chance tournament i'll which every member of the Chetwy1lde crowd was pitted against some memlPr of the Burgess fraternity. Now take my advice: when eVer two parties oi school friends camp oslt near each other st-e that there Is no racing or trials of dpXterity. At least if you want quiet time.
 There isn't more peaceful spot in all the State than the stretch of quiet water known as Still River But from the day Billy and Hal got to wrangling over who could make the best time be tween the dam and the railroad bridge the two tents full of fellows were in q continual squabblc. Before we were all having a jolly good time and every fellow behaved himselif But after the ''mild-eyed angel of peace folded its wings and fled"-well. as my young brother Teddy remarked with great freedom of speech, ~tbs Kilkenny cats weren't in it"'
 The race came of. and naturally the greatest excitement was over the trial between Billy and Hal. Both had the best canoes of tne lOt-real Indian Grchbarks made l7y Johnny Nose tor Nosey Johnny. as We called him, n half breed Indian who was quite n character about Silver Glen. All We could think or talk about were the races, and fishing. ball play and swim ming were forgotten while We prac- ticed our strokes on the quiet waters o4 the Still River.
 Well, Billy was incllned to blow" on all occasions. and he had done an extra amount of bragging before this race, so perhaps it served him right to be beaten. But l hated to see Hal do it. Hal was always so awfully topping when he got the best of fellow. Billy had declared that he could make the distance in less than twenty minutes, and he was just twenty-one minutes and seven seconds In getting over the course, according to Freddy Maxwell's stop-watch, while Hal got in in little over nineteen minutes.
 Well, the Burgess crowd was, of CIuTSe, LOO uuDtd(Hb4y ITtsu to llNe with after that and when It was dis covered that Ned Chetwynde, BiIly's cousin, had Invited Halls brother Dave around behind the tents and thrashed him royalty, we older fellows, who should have frowned upon any such proceeding, never took either of the youngsters to task.
 So these were the strained relations existing between the two camps on the day the mill hands at Silver Glen struck. We heard they were going to strike the day before, for Jim Nolan, Halls fathers gardener, drove by on his way to Lonsdale and told us about it. MT. Burgess was one of the chief owners of the mill and Nolan had been sent to telegraph him to come up from New York and settle the trouble with the men All the old hands liked MT. Burgess and they would listen to him, knowing that he would give them fair treatment.
 But the men who were stirring up all the trouble at the mill did not want Hars father as arbitrator, and there fore the message was to be sent him 4ror, IancdoIa So that thorn yyor1ld he