Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-07-12

hit upon something to aid me in my
errand, which was no more than be
gun. 1t seemed. Entering the place
shortly before noon, / made pretense
of reading. all the while with an eye
and an ear out for anything that
might happen.
AS / stared in pretense at the page
before me, fumbled idly in a pocket
with unthinking hand, and brought out
to place before me on the table, an
object of which at first l was uncon
scious-the little Indian blanket clasp
AS it lay before me l felt seized OF q
sudden hatred for it, and let fall on
it a heavy hand AS | did so, hearo
a voice at my ear.
"Mein Colt, man, do not! You
break it, surely"
I started at this. l had not hearo
any one approach. I discovered now
that the speaker had taken a seat
near me at the table, and could MOI
fail to see this object which lay De-
fore me.
81 beg pardon" he said, in broken
speech WHICH onOWOu hA'
birth; but it iss so beautiful; 10
break it iss wrong"
pushed the trnket along the table
towards him.
Its of little value" l said, and Is
always in the way when l would ma
anything in my pocket.
But once some one bass made II;
once it bass been value. Tell me
where you get it?'
North OF the Platte, in our west
ern territories" l said. x once taxed
in that country"
"You are Americana"
Eyes"
80" he said thoughtfully, -.
great country, very great country.
Me. | also live in it.
"Indeed?" l said. In what part!
1T ISIS five years since l cross the
Rockies"
envy you"
You meesunderstand me. live
west of them for five years. l am no"
come east
was afraid my eyes showed my
interest; but he went on.
81 hat been in the Columbia coun-
trv and in the Willamette country,
where most of your Americans are
settled. l know somewhat OF CallIor-
MIA. Mr.. Howard, of the HUDSON Bay
Company, knows also of the country
If California. He said to those Eng
Iish gentlemans at our meeting last
night that England should hat some
thing to offset California on the west
coast: because, though Mexico claims
California, the Yankees really RUE
there, and will rule there yet more.
He ISIS right; but they laughed at
him"
"Oh. | think little will come OF all
this talk" I said carelessly. 1t Is
very fa1, out to Oregon" Yet all the
time my heart was leaping. So he
had been there, at that very meetlns
of which I could learn nothing!
"You know not what you say.
thousand men came into Oregon last
wear. 1t ISIS like one of the great MI
grations of the peoples of Asia, o.
Europe. l say to you, it ISIS great
epoch. There ISIS a folk-movemen1
such as we hat not seen since the
DAYS of the Huns, the Goths, the Van
dals. since the Cimri movement. II
ISIS an epoch, my friend! 1t ISIS fate
that ISIS in it."
$50, then, it is great country! !
asked.
ut ISIS SO great, these traders do not
wish II known. They wish only that
it may be savage; also that their
posts and their harems may be und1s-
turbed. That fss what they wish.
These Scots go wild again, in the
wilderness. They trade and they trav-
ell. but It ISIS not homes they build.
Sir George Simpson wants steel traps
and not plows west of the Rockies.
That ISIS air.
'They do not speak so of DIR. Me.
Laughlfn," / began tentatively.
my friend, a great man, McLaugh-
| lin. believe mel But he ISIS not Nc
Kay; he ISIS not Simpson; he ISIS not
Behrens; he ISIS net Colville; he iss
not Douglas. And l say to you, as
| learned last night-you see, they
asked me also to tell what l knew OF
Oregon say to you that last night
Mclaughlin was deposed. He ISIS in
| charge no more-so soon as they can
get word to him, he loses his place at
| Vancouver"
! after lifetime IN the service!"
| commented.
"Yess, after a lifetime; and Nc
| Laughlin had brain and heart, too. II
England would listen to him, she
would learn something's. He plants, he
plows, he hass gardens and mills and
houses and herds. Yess, if they let
/ Mclaughlin alone, they would hat a
i civilization on the Columbia, and not
a fur-trading post. Then they could
oppose your civilization there. That
/ iss what he breaches. Simpson
breaches otherwise. Simpson loses