The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-11-28

I can see the picture before me as
plainly as though it happened yes
terday. Imagine, will you please,
high toering bridge, around whose
base are hundreds of cursing men
and morbid women, with here and
there frightened child tugging at
it's mothers skirts. To the right
upon the end of the structure, stood
the sheriff, elected by the committee,
and at the left the unfortunate wo-
man, who had been dragged there
to play the chief role in the sombre
drama. AS background there was
hills and country, and underneath
the silent, ever-flowing river, mourn
ing, and moving as fate itself. silent
ly and infexibly, to be swallowed up
in the eternity of waters, even as
the soul OF the unfortunate senorita
would soon be engulfed in the eter-
nifty of human foibles and weak
nesses.
Sun Sets for Senorita.
The last rays of the setting sun
were Illuminating the earth, casting
tiny beams of warmth upon the river
and the bridge and frightening the
shadows in the neighboring trees as
the moose was adjusted. Then the
sheriff sprang the trap, and there
were many who said that the sun
seemed to reflect q glow Of blood
like crimson as the beautiful seno-
rita, with hair streaming to the light
evening breezes, nostrils dilated with
terror, and eyes flashing defiance,
went down, down, to endless eternity
'Ah, me. Such things are not pleas
ant, but is not life made up of I'M
pleasant things? In August, 1853,
We went to Sonona county, Califor
mia, and on the 14th day of Deem
Der of 1856 I was married in the
Stony Point House, an old and land
mark of the section; united to Miss
Sarah Woodwork, whose father had
a hotel, stage route, and general
store at that point
A Man with Good Sons-in-Law.
after the wedding I had desire
to go 10 Oregon, but my wife wanted
to remain at the old home, and so
there we stayed. For forty-three
years we lived together there and
raised nine children-five girls and
-four boys-and they were all cred
it to me. I wish to say that my chill
dren who married secured excellent
husbands, and SO the old joke OF
sons-in-law is without virtue as far
as my experience is concerned
About that time there occurred an
event which filed me with profound
sadness. It came so suddenly and
was so bound to me by an infinite
variety OF ties that had preceded us
in our lives, that it was the more
overpowering and for a time SEEM
ed unreconcilable. Ny dear wife
died She passed away in the same
room we had been married in forty
three odd years before, and in her
absence l have been comforted only
by the thought that death cannot
enter that sphere to which the de-
lparted are removed upon paying the
tribute of nature, and that some
time, when | have completed my
journey, we shall meet again.
Lives Six Months in Okanogan.
After my wife's death one OF my
sisters, Mrs. Malott of the Malott re-
! lay station on the stage line in the
! Ckanogan country, interested me in
the region, and so l made my first
j trip there six years ago. Since then
l have divided my time and lived
i six months in the Okanogan. I thus
live in perpetual summer and steal s
march on Father Tima-for one
must learn to husband their forces,
boy, after the three score and ten
mile post is passed. One Of my sons
in-law, Mr. Augustine, CT the former
firm of Louch & Augustine of Seattle
laughs at ne and agrees to this as
well as my other children who live
in various section of California and
! Washington.
81 have been asked several times
recently what l thought of modern
conditions, and 1 want to say to yo'
boy, that there are unnatural con
ditions existing today. l regret thu
grasping modern conditions which !!
making money god throughout thu
land, squeezing sentiment and virtue
and degrading human kindness be
tween man and man. For example
take the life of the average bushes!
man of ambitious tendencies who i: