Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-09-07

PATTON
WHITNEY
Trio of Mighty Hunters Who
Found Everything In the
Mountains Except ------

1t seems quite certain that since
the return Of the Crawford Patton
Whitney crowd that the frst-named
gentleman has started a press bureau
for the purpose Of belittling the
mighty deeds Of his fellow tourists in
the mountains. Regard for the eter-
nal principles of truth impels us to
state that General Crawford was not
the whole cheese. Cooke Patton,
maintaining modest silence, still
manages to give away some Of the de-
tails of the trip, and incidentally does
justice to Whitney. The latter distin-
guished himself in many ways; his
thoughtfulness and care adding much
to the comfort and pleasure of the trip.
When the party started from Rose
burg, among its other conveniences
was a pot, big, shining galvanized
iron coffee pot holding a gallon. When
the party reached their first camping
ground 80 miles from no place, they
found Old Man Van Eaton holding
down tho location. Van was a whole
souled hermit, innocent and bland;
an unsophisticated child of nature, ig-
norant Of civilization and it's wilos,
and soap and combs and other encum-
'bering bric-a-brac. Whitney, somehow
became imbued with the idea that the
company coffee pot was too small, and
as Baton's place was ON the periphary
Of civilization concluded to show his
New England descent by making
swap. He came into camp after hav-
ing done Old Man Eaton up in the
trade, with a tin coffee pot Of the vim
tage Of 1879. It only held quart,
and it wouldn't hold that long, owing
to some breaks below the water line,
due TO the infrmities of age, and the
fact that the holes were only partly
stopped by the remnants of Eaton's
one-time, but longago discarded dish
rag, which previously had served him
for an undershirt.
After the first boiling of coffee
Whitney was given to understand
that he was TO do no more trading, for
the company, and he was also pretty
thoroughly informed that printer
who would permit himself TO be done
up, 10 to /, on the edge OF no place
by the connecting link between Rose
burg and the other shore, was dis
grace to the profession, and a discred'
it to tho camp.
At the Lake Of the Woods Mccall
killed a bear. General Crawford has
persistently insisted that 1t was an
Italian bear, but Candor eompels US to
state, that the bear, when shot, called
Mccall to one side and told him con-
fdentially that he had como down to
be shot by whitney, and then mur'
muring, "In Lauterback habe mine
strumb verloren," bo turned over on
his back, realizing that tho Attorney
General would be in at the inquest
10 was the same thing with the other
game, a sort Of "come and kill mo,
Hiawatha," but Crawford and Nc
Call were always there, and had their
scalpiug knives out. Whitney was the
one the wild denizens Of nature came
down to be sacrificed to, but what was
the usef Cooke Patton went up on to
the highest peak in the Crater Lake
neighbOrhoOd and brought down by
the power Of his hyPnotic eye one of
the biggest grizzlies in the state, but
whom he saw Crawford coming with a
gun and a camera he let him 60,
Cooke wants justice done to Whitney
but still it is against the law toi
shoot him.