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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05

Don't know, only there was a squabble
over in the Chinese camp last night, replied
Russell, indifferently. Don't know whether
Qucng got mixed up in it any or not, but
heard there was a great row. Dorr told me
he was by there and heard the fuss, and 1t
didn't amount to much after all. Guess
Quong hasn't got his temper Strengthened out
since, though"
Ouong had not stopped to hear the remarks
made on his appearance, He went toward
his work, which was the directing of one of
the monitors, those tremendously powerful
agents in hydraulic mining
The water for the mines came from long
distance away, being brought through great
nume that extended across the valleys and
gulches and around mountains.
Miles on miles the hume had stretched
away before it came to the neighborhood OF
the mines.
There the water passed into box, and
then INTO a pipe that carried the water to
the place where it should rush out to do its
mighty work on the boulders and hillsides.
There was fall of about four hundred
teet between the level of the box and that of
the monitor, and this gave the water ire
mendous force as it shot in one solid, six-inch
stream from the nozzle of the monitor.
II stream like that should hit man it
would kill him auicSs fash" said one Of
the old miners to Fred, when the boy, new
conner then at the mines, was first seeing the
monitors solid jet bore into hillside three
uunuteu rect away from the nozzle, tossing
boulders and tree trunks aloft as il they were
chips, and digging out great caves in the gra-
vel, hundreds and hundreds of tons of earth
falling and being washed away. That moni-
tor as deadly weapon a gun. Why, |
knew man once, sluice tender he was, and
one day one of the monitors got loose--you
know they do that sometimes seems as
though they couldn't be managed-and this
man heard the noise. and he just raised him
self up by the edge of the sluice and looked.
and if that flying stream of water didn't
strike him right square on the chest! 1t was
the end of poor Sim, right there. Knocked
him straight into the sluice and washed him
away, and when we found him there WASH t
whole bone in his body"
Fred looked somewhat apprehensively at
the tremendous devastation the water was
working before his eyes.
He wondered if that stream could reach
where they stood. if it should suddenly be-
come unmanageable.
THE monitors don't get loose very often,
dc they| he questioned
The miner smiled grimly.
81 should hope not" he replied. "A run
away monitors about the awfulest thing a
man would ever want after him. 1t flies all
around, and the stream jest goes one way
and then another, and ! tell you the men
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have to look sharp which way it's coming
next. The pipe will swing one side and then
another, and therell be a big hole made IN
one hill here and other cliff there, and II
the miners don't get out OF reach in time it's
all up with them. But then it's most times
easy enough to swing monitor SOS to make
the stream go where it ought to. 1t has a
ball joint, you know. and it can be swung
any way you're a mind to. being balanced
with weights, and there's a thing called the
defleetof that turns that big stream the easiest
OF anything you ever saw. You can almost
do 1t with one of your fingers"
For little time after this, Fred felt some
what apprehensive, but a number OF months
had passed and he had grown accustomed to
the work, and so used to the steady action
OF the monitors OF the mining districts as to
have lost all fear and to have come to regard
them as reliable and exceedingly valuable as
sistants of toll
ing face to take the usual charge of his mon
itor,, Fred learned that there might be danger
III the midst of seeming security.
Fred had worked all the forenoon, eaten
his lunch and been at work again alone for
half an hour. He was bending over the
sluice when a shrill cry and clatter of fall
ing gravel made him look up. A blue bloused
| figure sped by.
'TWhy, What's Quong doing?~ Why isn't
he tending his work." questioned Fred. in
| sudden alarm.
He sprang to the edge of the cut in which
his sluice ran. One glance at Quongs mon
itor told the boy what had happened I'm
tended, uncontrolled, the mighty stream shot
forth, the pipe swaying unsteadily from side
to side.
Who knew what damage it might do? At
any moment the stream might change its
aim. II it struck a group of miners it might
as well be the ball from a cannon
Were Jim Ridley and Dick and Cal and
Dan away over there in the gulch going to
be killed that way? They did not see that
anything was wrong Where was that heath
en- going!
"Quongl Quong!" shouted Fred.
! Quong flew wildly on, gesticulating, his
dangling queue dancing up and down as he fed,
his beaded hat left on the rough clods be-
hind him.
''Tt hittee mel 1t hittee mel" he shrieked.
as he few, half glancing back at his deserted
monitor
Coward Why don't you stay there and
manage it? Go back" yelled Fred.
| But Quong, with screech of terror, fed
on
! One instant Fred stood irresolute. What
| should he do? TO run the long distance to
the head gate and shut the water off there
would take too long. Who knew how many
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men might be killed before the gate could
possibly be reached?
He was evidently the first person who had
noticed Quong's desertion of his post The
men scattered at distance had NOS seen
their danger
Run, run, rum" screamed Fred to the
miners, at the top of his voice.
lie sprang from the siuice box cut and ran
hlmself-but it was toward the monitor. not
from it that Fred ran
lt would have been easy enough for him
to have reached a place@of safety, early
had he seen the DANGER but the other miners.
He would try to reach that monitor him
self; he would save those some way.
II he, could once lay his hand that defec-
tor there would be danger to any one.
But could he reach it without being struck
by the veering stream? That meant death.
Crash went rocks and trees over where
the runaway monitors stream was mining for
itself.
The pipe was swaying hither and thither.
Tie stream was beginning to fly first one
way, then another, in irregular fashion.
Kun! run! rum! All you men" called
Fred, as he sprang from one rough boulder
to another
Did anybody hear him above the rush of
water and the crash of falling rock? He
dared not look to see--he dared not look at
anything but the uneven ground below and
tho monitor beyond.
The stream was going to veer to the right
no, to the left IL would hit him.
He jumped, staggered over the boulders,
caught at the stones and leaped to another
boulder.
The stream from the monitor SHOT with
terrific force over the way he had Just come
He had escaped by hairbreadth
At the left the three-hundred-feet-lo
stream was gouging out an enormous cavern
in cliff The miners of that spot were fee
ing for their lives. he hoped
He caught momentary glimpse of a
man in the distance, and a great boulder
striking the ground near him. Did it hit the
man? Fred did not dare stop to see. The
stream struck a great hillside of gravel and
tons came down.
And still he sprang across erevices. and
leaped from one boulder to another alter
nately losing his footing and again recover
ing it.
He gained little ground and lost II fleeing
from some sudden veer of the streams direc
ton, and then he made distinct advance
But the monitor was turning again. Look
Quit look outl Here it came!
His breath grew short, his white face stared
across the eut-up stretch between him and
the monitor
He ran, he leapsd desperately He made
CONTINUED ON PAGE sIx
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-05
Copyright by James ElversOn.

TDO-LAH, Quongi"
The Chinaman addressed came
slowly and gravely down the gulch.
HEHIlEH at the bottom, near the edge OF
UlakEl0 sluice, was the blue-shirted brown
checked lad who had given the salutatloh
suited to Chinese ears. But there was no
answer.
''Ho'-lah. Quongl" repeated Fred, gOod-no-
turedly, as the Chinaman came nearer.
All the other miners on the red-solled
gulches of the mining district envied Fred.
Did they not have to live together ana coos
for themselves in a camp, and did not FRED
have home to go to?
To-be-sure, the home was very humble
little shanty, out on a rough hillside. near
some buckeye trees; but did not the home
contain Freds widowed mother and his three
year-old little sister?
All the miners hearts were owned by little
Nellie, and many a gift of pine nuts and
manzanita berries did the men bring her.
Was it not worth tramp of couple OF
miles to hear her sing THE 'Tar-'pangled Ban
nerP
Where else in the mining district was there
little girl to be seen?
Quong was used to city life. His former
avocation had been the constant washing OF
bottles or splitting of old boxes in a certain
rag, bag and bottle yard.
There he could meet the various Chinese
rag pickers as they came trotting in with
their baskets and picking hooks, after their
trips along the Sdn Francisco steetS anu d.
leys.
The tale of gold probably induced Quong
to leave his occupation and to journey all
these miles to a Chinese camp on barren hill
side. But some miners persisted in declar.
ing that Quong came here because he dared
not wear in the city the picturesque sort OF
hat that he. as well as the other Cinnamon
here wore. wide brimmed kind OF article,
with very short rows of beads dangling per
pendicularly all around the brim.
One miner, however, declared that Quong
came to this region for the express purpose Of
supplying Fred with all the brown Chinese
candy he wanted.
And, indeed, the brown sugar candy was
very toothsome and Fred was rather apt to
ride his mule by the Chinese camp, three
quarters of mile away from the American
one. and Quong, approaching the. cheerful
good nature of the lad, would snilingly offer
a great lump of the sweet confection
But Quong was certainly out of sorts this
morning. He hardly responded to Fred's sal.
utation.
Quongs beads dangled around the brim OF
a hat that refused to bob in its usual good
humored fashion.
whats the matter with Quong?" asked
Fred. Of feilow-miner, Bart Russell
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
SABBATH REFLECTIONS

Did you ever sit down and patiently
think out just about what you ought
to be, and then without bias or mercy
not? Well, few people have; buff you
do you will find yourself longing for
the wings of sea gull that you might
escape the weary pilgrimage through
the ogre-haunted wilderness that
stretches away between what you are
and what you ought to be. Success in
life means being what we ought to be.
1t is clear that to be what we ought to
be requires q struggle that demands
watchfUlness, patience and courage.
We do sometimes succeed in being
what we DESIRE to be for brief spell.
Then it is that an ephemeral blossom
of happiness springs up in our hearts
only to be crushed the next hour by
the discovery that what we desired to
be was so far, far away from what we
ought to be. This puts us in a dilem-
ma and sets us to thinking. We soon
see that we have been victims of vic
ious desires and conclude that our
only course is to weed out our evil de-
sires and cultivate the good ones until
the desire to be what we ought to be
dominates our lives. The Good Book
says: I" He shall give thee the desires
of thine heart"
APRIL AND MAY, 1908
Oh, April; shame! You fickled thing;
To deck yourself in flowers of spring
And then, to all refinement lost,
Elope with silly Old Jack Frost.
Then May came in and stood for hours
Sobbing DER the blighted flowers
Ere she, like a winsome wife,
Kissed her darlings back to life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07

Will PARROT lost valuable horse
and colt last week.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
The Baker medicine man was a
pleasant Greeley visitor Thursday.

The Baker medicine man was a
pleasant Greeley visitor Thursday.
April decked herself in blossoms
and thenran away with old Jack Frost
For hea ven's sake! guard our re-
ligion from politics; but, equally, for
heavens sake. inject little religion
into our politics.
VIM Fuckers prosperity has reach
ed point where modern new resi-
dence is consistent and proper; so, up
she goes. The material is in readi-
ness for the workman.
James Chairman and wife, from
Greeley, were Sunday guests at the
Geo. Spencer home Just over east OF
creamery hill near Hamlin station.
Chas. S. White was a guest in the
John Dawson home, Sunday, April
70, during which he was the instigator
and leader of merry flower party
that robbed the Davis Creek woods OF
some of its rarest spring blossoms.
How careless it was for April to 90
off and leave the north door open, and
then to bring the thing to a disgust
iAS SiiiuoAJ AhdN CdLu6 SdWh1Q0
without closing it. Such carelessness
is very detrimental to the good repu-
tation of Iowa.
An instructed delegation is the prod
uct of dirty politics. 1t is offensive
to the American idea of freedom, and
convention composed of instructed
delegates is a farce. | would not per-
init myself to be one of bundle of
labeled delegates.
Max Zinke and Geo. Dawson met in
the road a few days since George
challenged Max for a wrestle. Max
accepted the challenge, so they clear
ed for immediate action and went at it
In true Farmer Burns style. The con-
test went fast and furious for almost
one hour when victory was conceded
to Max. The most sensational phase
OF the fierce struggle was the complete
destruction of Georges shirt, which
fact compelled him to slip home the
back way.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
Bethel BreeZes Blow

Margrie, Leila, Fred and Gordon
Mccoy visited with w. w. Weston,
Sunday.
Grandma Duvall arrived here Sat
urday from Oklahoma where she has
been visiting relatives and spending
the winter. She has scores of friends
who are glad to have her with then
again.
Preaching services next Sunday eve
ming at Bethel by Rev. Young, the
subject, "JOb's Wife.
Ora Fancher and Orval Buckner
spent Sunday at T. II. Turner's.
Albert Weston was an Audubon
caller Saturday.
J. M. Edwards and family were Sun
day visitors at Mr.. Nelson's, of Viola
Myrtle Callow spent Sunday with
her friend Effie Edwards.
Rev Shugg took dinner at the
Weston home Sunday.
Cleavie Bamsey and wife were enter,
tanned at the Ralph Duvall home Sun
day.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07

Fred Bartlett and Geo. Kness was in
Audubon Saturday, the former attend
ing to business and pertaining to the
Audubon County Agricultural Society
of which he is one of the directors
John Wammann and family visited
OF Christian Heckman's Jr. Sunday.
The Audubon township Republican
ticket is as follows: Trustees Thomas
Rogers, Chas. Boehme, Henry Tibben
Clerk, Juel l.. Swinehart; Constable,
VIM Petit; Justice of the Peace, VIM
Kirkham; and Committeeman, Chas.
BOehme.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
Audubon Township News

Anna and Lily Jensen visited at the
Hans Petersen home the first of the
week.
There was a pleasant dance at the
John Vetri's Saturday night.
Chas. Jensen still remains seriously
i'll with pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Founts, Of Ida Grove,
have been visiting relatives in this
township and west Guthrie county.
The lady is a daughter of Mrs. krum.
VIM Hocamp Jr. and family and
Henry Huss and family visited at the
Geo. Kness home Sunday.
Susie Hickman was over near Adair
last week helping her sister Mrs.
Julius Jergins, care for very sick
child.
Jake Wahlert Jr. of south Greeley
has been remodeling his dwelling and
is building a new barn.
Mrs. Sarah Littletield is having a
large barn built on her farm.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
Some Cameron News

Will PARROT lost valuable horse
and colt last week.
Maggie Twist, who is employed in
the home of Mrs. Ira Baird at Audu-
bon, came up Wednesday evening to
visit with Mrs. Mabel Schrader.
Henry schrader and family are now
enjoying the comforts of fine new
carriage.
Rev. Johnson delivered a fine SER
mon to a large assembly of young
people at Eden Valley, last Saturday
evening.
John Zion, of Audubon, was hang
ing paper for William PARROT, last
Wednesday.
Harry Schrader, Clara Cyrka, Min
ME Neitzel and number of young
people attended the baptismal rites
held Sunday afternoon by the Evan
gelical church people in the William
Perrine pasture.
William Ballou and family were
Sunday visitors at the Will PARROT
home.
James Baker was caller in this
vicinity Saturday while enroute to Au-
dubon.
Amos Fancher sold fine herd of
cattle Saturday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07

Margrie, Leila, Fred and Gordon
Mccoy visited with w. w. Weston S
Sunday.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07

Land Is advancing
People are coming
The country is settling up with thrifty
class of Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and
Illinois farmers
In one year it will cost $40 to SIS more per
acre
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
Here And There

Business called Orrin Eddy over to
Guthrie county Thursday.
Geo. Scott, Bert May and Ralph
Stanley marketed hogs in Hamlin the
last of the week.
c. A. w. Colee drove a fine bunch
of Hereford cattle to Hamlin Saturday
and started them for Chicago.
Mrs. Earl Morris and Eta Morris
alighted from the train at Hamlin, Fri
day morning. They hale from Burr
Oak, Kansas, and have come to visit
with their friends, the Cameron's over
in Greeley township.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07

Mrs. Charles Hensley is quite SER
iously i'll at the home of her brother
George Gill, near Hamlin station.
Mr.. Hensley is looked for on every
train.
The improvement Mr.. w. d. Stan
ley is making on his residenc is a re-
markable combination of beauty and
utility.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
THE COUNTY NEWS

William Schrader and family were
busy Friday and Saturday planting
potatoes on the lot occupied by that
b achelOr James Baker.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-07
Ralph Miller and family spent Sun
with NelS OlsOn's at Ross.

Frank and Bessie Olson, Mart and
wife, Mary and Ray Duvall were en-,
tertained at the home of Ralph DuVal,
and wife Sunday.
Frank Leonard and lady friend at
tended church at Bethel Sunday even
ing.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-04-16

Read the News-5Oc Der year.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-04-16
CHADWICK-LAWSON.

Mr. John Lawson and Miss Della
Chadwick, both we'll known young
people of this city, were married yes
terday morning about $50 o'clock,
Squire Wilson performing the cere-
mony in graceful style The contract
ing parties with friends drove in bug
gies to the county bridge over Little
Sequachee River and were there met
by the Squire. Those comprising the
party besides the bride and groom
were James Lawson and Miss Annie
Lawson, Miss Ruby Chadwick and w.
c. Hill A return was made to town,
and at twelve an excellent dinner was
enjoyed at the home of the brides pa
rents, Rev. and Mrs. w. A. Chad
wick
The bride is a young lady of ines
Unable qualities and highly esteemed
by all who are acquainted with her.
while Mr.. Lawson has always been
recognized as an upright, truthful,
honest and hard-working young man.
The News joins with the many friends
of the happy pair in wishing them ev-
cry happiness that can be derived from
life, and feels sure that two excellent
people are Joined in wedlock.
They will commence housekeeping
this week in the Cogswell cottage ON
Alabama Avenue.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-04-16
Pryor Cove.

Special 10 the Me7OS. ~
Planting corn is the order of the
day.
Miss Byrtle Mccullough visited
Mrs j. M. Haynes Saturday
Mrs. Robert Davis, of Hill City, is
visiting her sister in the cove, Mrs. W.
r. Hatfield, this week.
Mrs. F. M. Mccullough visited Mrs.
A. L. Mccullough Sunday evening.
Manuel Brown, of Sequachee, was
in the cove Thursday.
Mrs. John Smith, of Hill City, is
visiting her parents in the cove, Mr..
and Mrs. q. w. Walsh.
Mrs, ]. NJ. Haynes visited Mrs A.
l.. Mccullough Monday.
Fred Campbell and Bud Kilgore pass
ed through the cove Monday.
Miss Beulah Martin visited the Miss
es Tate Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Byrtle Mccullough visited
friends at Pryor Institute Sunday.
Lee Lasater of near Victoria, was in
the cove Sunday to see the tick inspec-
tor.
Miss Matte Davis and Frank Brew
er, Martin and Maggie Tate, Bula
Martin and L. L. Haynes were at f.
NJ Mccullough Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mr.. Clarence Tate and Mil
tie Tate were visiting the family of
Mrs. j. NJ. Haynes Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Mccullough
visited Mrs. J. NJ. Haynes Saturday
evening.
F. NJ. Mccullough is out inspecting
cattle this week.
John Tate was at T. L. Haynes
Monday.
r. E. NOyes was at f. NJ. McCul-
lough's Sunday. Apple Blossom.
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WATCH US GROW.

Sherman Barnett, Sequachee. renews
his subscription.
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Jane Thomas, Whitwell, now reads
the News.
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M. c. Pryor Whitwell, pays his
dues in the News army this week.
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J. Hudson, Whitwell, had had his
name enrolled among the News gang.
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g. W. Jordan, Whitwell pays sub
scription this week
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G. w. Duke, Petros Tenn. pays
subscription to the News per our Whit
well agent.
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M. 7. Upton, Tracy City, Tenn,
pays subscription this week.
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J. S. Bennett, Sequachee, renews
his subscription.
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DIR. J. A. Walker, Whitwell orders
the News sent to him.
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G.. B. Powell, Whitwell, orders the
News.
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John McHone Whitwell, renews his
subscription.
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Mrs, Bessie Dickerson, Wildwood,
Ga, orders the News continued to her.
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Jonathan Turner, of Jasper, renews
for the Old Reliable, and says his
wife likes to read it very much.
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Ash Rollins, Whitwell, pays SOC for
the News to be continued to him.
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Tex, will read the News.
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per courtesy G. w. Jordan, Whitwell.
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| News.
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WILDWOOD, GA.

OpECtdE 20 me IFe1OS.
Bursting hard clods seems to be the
order of the day here and fox hunting
the order of the night
Wildwood is a railroad station about
seven miles south of Chattanooga on
the A. G. S. road. Geo. Hale is run
ming a very good store at this place
We have good society, singing schools,
prayer meeting and so on.
Geo. Hale has lost four milk cows
inside of a month.
John Majors returned home yester-
day from off the Nashville road.
J. H. Wears made a flying trip to
Chattanooga Friday.
John Potts went to Chattanooga Fri
day on business.
John Majors and wife were the
guests of Dona Majors Saturday night.
Etna must be dead. We didn't as
much as hear from the Candy Kid
in the last issue. | think we can furn-
ish her water melons and pumpkins,
too. this summer.
There is plenty of fruit so far.
Most of us are panic struck, but we
think we can pull through some way.
The people do a great deal Of fishing
in Lookout Greek, but catch no fish.
We fear they don t cast their hooks on
the right side.
Filman Berdon and Pearl Steel visit
ed John Majors Sunday afternoon.
Walter Mann was at Wildwood Sat
urday. One Eye.