Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-30

| tween the Selkirk and Gold ranges as they
run north and south. 1t took us from
early morning until late at night to make
| the run from Arrowhead to Nelson, and
| it's pity 1t didn't last longer. (Everybodys
getting sore on the anti-fishing committeeo
Twas the first time I'd ever ridden on .
stern wheel steamboat and up to now
never could conceive what earthly good
they were. But now l know. The Ross
land probably made a couple of dozen
stops today and not at any time was there
way they did things. When the captain
| decided it was about time to stop he'd Just
put the wheel over and the Rossland
| would hurry shoreward and Jam her nose
up on the bank twenty feet or so. If the
tide had gone out suddenly every one of
us would have shot the chutes. Q'm get
ting madder every minute about this fish,
ing fiasco).
All around would be an absolute will
derness, sometimes with a sun-browned
tent in sight, sometimes with not a sus-
picion of habitation. But something
always got off when the boat stopped.
Several times it was a human being, 0c-
casionally an Indian, and once a dog. I
couldn't swear they stopped Just for the
dog. Il don't believe there's going to he
any fishingD
A Simple Method.
When the captain decided 1t was about
time to move along he just rang bell and
| sat down. The big paddle wheel at ths
StCi IL DSsdH " anu kept up untli
the Rossland slid off backward. Some
| times it took only few minutes to ac-
complish this superior feat of navigation.
but occasionally much longer. Once, when
we had been smuggling up on the bank
for half an hour or so, with the wheel
churning merrfly at the stern. l assembled
to the captains cabin. He was engaged
in a game of pinochle with the first
mate and several passengers and ap-
when" demanded els this
likely to proceed?"
las soon as she slides off the bank"
when will that be-? / continued, refus-
ing to smile.
Il don't know" replied the captain as he
NEEDED, joyously, but we're bound to
We've never been stuck longer than two
days"
But, as I say, the merits of the stern
wheeler become very apparent. One land
ing like that with a sidewheeler would
finish the boat out of hand and a propel-
Ter steamer would remain on the bank until
the judgment day.
This Nelson place hasn't made any par
ticular hit with our crowd. owing to the re-
fusal of the local committee of natives to
let us fish, and the way they forced us to
inspect their fruit ranches. have prob
ably already indicated considerable peevish-
ness. 1t has been understood for some time
past that today was to be devoted TO a
genuine old-fashioned loaf, such as none
OI US has HdQ since ledNlHS washington
and that those who desired to fish might
fish And everybody wanted at least TO
make bluff at ii. But the local committee
had other plans. Mention of fishing
tackle was received in gloomy silence, fol-
lowed moment later by enthusiastic ac-
counts of the fruit ranches.
Finally, it not being considered good form
to call local committee names. the fruit
ranches won, and we boarded power
launches for ten or fifteen mile chug-chug
up the Columbia to the scene of the excite
ment.
That Lone Apple.
We saw one fruit ranch-that is, we were
told it was a ranch, and the natives ought
to know. / wouldn't care to be the man
that owns that ranch. Some year, when
the conditions are favorable, he's going to
raise couple Of quarts Of Strawberries and
a basket of plums. I'm looking forward to
that year with pleasure, for I'll bet he
won't survive the shock.
All of managed to get on the ranch at
one time although 1t was right crowded,
and Mr.. Lowry, who Is a very persistent
person. discovered an apple. 1t was small
and green and unpleasant looking, but It
was an apple. Then We boarded the
launches and came back.
And We haven't fished yet I. c. n.