Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-18


going on the ways for repairs.
If you ask Master Mariner Thom1s
Broadhead, Chief Engineer Harry White
or Ships Surgeon Charlie Bonynge about
it they will tell you that the yacht is
simply being slowed away for the winter.
The truth of the matter, however, came
out at the meeting of the police branch
of the Ananias club last night
1t was revealed that the inordinate de-
sire of Gaff Wieder. otherwise Chief
Engineer Harry White, to capture an
other championship medal Of the first
class. He got the medal all right, but
he gave away a secret which has been
sacredly guarded for 10 these many days.
or this story however as a kinder
garten scrivener would say, more anon.
The first matter to be reported of the
Ananias club meeting is the wonderful
and veracious narrative whereby Charlie
Dixon got into the front rank oS
Ananiases AS will be remembered by
the readers Of these DER true chronicles,
Lieut. Dixon was Interrupted in the
telling of his famous story at the last
meeting of the club by the arrival of the
mayor, who took all the medals that
night, and until the club supply was re-
plenished the committee on award did not
feet like allowing any more contests.
The lack of tokens of merit has now
been done away with, and the delectable
organization has resumed its regular
sessions. There was an unusually large
attendance of members at the last ses-
sion of the club, and, after the prelim-
inaries had been attended to, Lieut.
Dixon held his audience spellbound while
he delivered himself Of the following:
Lieut.. Dixon's Whopper
"As l started to tell you, brother
Ananiases, at he last session of our
glorious order. my friend Mr.. Calder and
myself enjoyed a great and glorious time
on our trip to the Eel river country i'll
the northern part of the state.
',ro briefly sketch the events of our
trip is but to do simple justice to the
patience of my hearers, but there are
two or three incidents that I will ex-
patiate upon in Justice to myself and
Mr.. Calder
First l want to tell you of little ad-
venture we had on the good steamer in
which we made the journey up the coast
from San Pedro. G
1.-THE Francis f. Leggett is a fine large
boat of some 5000 tons burden, and her
officers are the finest gentlemen ono
would care to meet. The captain and
crew all showed us the greatest courtesy
and we had lots of fun. On the way up
and while off the Mendocino coast We
fished for porpoises. Great schools of
these playful fish followed the ship night
and day. disporting themselves in the
water, evidently for our enjoyment
II suggested that we try and catch
some and the officers readily agreed
and provided us with lines and hooks
We caught quite a number, weighing
from 150 to 800 pounds, but finally we ran
into a school of great right whales.
Makes Jonah Story Weak
''Now, these whales were evidently
hungry, for one big fellow came right
after a 250-pound porpoise / had hooked
and, like a fash had swallowed it,
Say, maybe you think there wasn't
something doing right there? That whale
just pulled and .ugged at. the end of that
line, hut 1 played him with the assist
ance of the bosun,s mate, the galley boy
and the midshipmite until we got him up
close enough to slip hawser over his
head and make him all tight and fast.
THAT seemed to make him real mad,
and he began to drag back on the hawser,
and, would you believe, he soon had the
Leggett pulled up to a standstill, and the
captain made us let him go for fear he
would lose so much time that the mails
would be delayed
AFTER a pleasant voyage we arrived al
| Eureka, ana from lnerc we Indue our way
overland to the fishing camp on Eel
river. Talk about sport! We had the
greatest time of our lives. What Calder
told you about the trained devils darning
needles is all right. | confess l was bit
skeptical when he told that story, but
he made good when we got there. had
a pair of darning needles which were the
best trained insects l ever saw.
Trained Darninu Needles
"They just nosed out the steelhead trout
like pointer dog after quail, and !
caught them so fast that l got tired OF
pulling them in. They were big fellows,
too, weighing from sixteen to forty
pounds apiece. There were two big ones
though in little pool where L was fish
ing that couldn't be lured to hook by a y
sort of device that l could think of.
Finally Calder said to me, Tomorrow
we'll bring Buddie fuckers dog with us
and try him.. l asked him what in the
world we could do with a dog. He said
he didn't know, but that Buddie's dog
was the most wonderful beast he ever
saw and we would try him, anyway.
asked him to explain how we could use
the dog, and he said, Just wait till we
go back to camp and / will show YOU
"Well, when we got back to our camp
we walked over to Old Man fuckers, just
across the hill and hollered for Buddie.
The boy came out and following him was
q little bit of nondescript yellow cur,