The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-11-24
LAKE WENATCHEE NEWS

We understand that Oscar Blanken-
ship has disposed of his claim near the
Wenatchee Lake school and has left
for Seattle where he will spend the
winter.
Charles Cass, of Chiwaukum, is out
again after a severe siege of typhoid
fever.
Mrs. Sales, of the Chumstick valley,
has been holding meetings for the past
three or four Sundays in the Wenatchee
Lake school house.
Oliver Bates butchered couple of
fine porkers this week. 1t has been
said that pigs would not thrive in this
valley, but that assertion we question.
George Siverly brought in load OF
fruit trees this week from the Wash
ington Nursery Co. Judging from the
number of trees being set out in the
valley we may be safe in saying that
this locality may appear in the fruit
annals before many years,
Ross Sears has his new house finish
ed and is about to move in this week.
w. A. Nelson and John Hadene
made business trip to Chiwaukum
and Leayenworth last week.
d. w. Fowler has been getting up
his wood supply for the past few days,
Saturday evening, Nov. IS. we had a
light snow that drove the Indians out
of the hills and it was high time for il
they had stayed longer there would not
have been goat left this side of the
Cascade slope.
There seems to be passion pent up
in the breast of every lover Of open air
sports, to make a bulls eye of the heart
of the mountain goat. They are likely
to be led on and ninty-nine cases out of
one hundred deceived, while walking
in bottom land trail and by chance
spy silvery coated Billy perched on a
seemingly low cliff of a near noun tain
as If lord of all he surveys. The novice
does not realize the dangers nor hard
climbs he has before him but at once
starts after the spoils of adventure and
is likely to Willingly admit after his
Encf nlif h lat hn at told n
ing the cliffs in pursuit of the sure
footed goat sounds much better in a
story book than in reality. We reach
the first bench or knoll already quite
out of breath, here we pause for mo-
ment 10 get our air air as they say and
survey out the shortest route TO the top
of the next bench. Billy is watching
the meneuvers of his pursuers and
seems as large as an elephant but not
yet in good range. Up we go over
rock slides, fallen trees and through
brush nervously hanging on to punches
of pine grass and goat sage which gives
Billy his peculiar oder, then with an
other struggle the ambitious hunter
finds himself on the second bench and
apparently up against the real thing
for now comes cliff number one, solid
and perpendicular wall of granite that
shows some marks of the prospectors
hammer. For moment we are stalled
but just around the corner as usual is
way up a narrow canyon at an angle of
45 degrees, so up we go, loosening now
and then fragment of some nature
that goes bounding down hundred or
more feet at Jump, but our attention
is centered on the king of the noun
tains above us. Now we have to leave
the gulch and hang on with fingers and
toes to cross very smooth rock, per-
haps 200 feet across and half pitch,
no shrub or any thing to grapple but a
seam in the rock scarcely wide enough
to admit the toe of boot. Now be
careful for we are on top OF the first
cliff which is 200 yards high an life
hangs on thread suspended between
heaven and earth. Halt There goes
Billy, he is changing his position, he is
making his evacuation known by rat
Ting few pebbles down on US from
the cliff above. Now then watch for
him TO come in sight. Yonder he goes
up that little swag, set your sights at
about two hundred yards. With nervous
hands and bodies trembling like a