The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-01-26
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of nights. Yes sir, by Heck, come
home every night about six o'clock,
and splash around the sea wall until
Swanson would come down and open
the gate for 'em. They got so they'd
follow his boat too. Sometimes they'd
follow him clear to town.
We'll one night Swanson was ON
his way home in his launch when he
run ont of gasoline. He thought he
was iii for driftin' alnight, but no.
He hadn't drifted more'n few min
utes when along come one of them
sturgeon and commenced roofing and
shown at the back of the boat. The
tide was runnin' the wrong way but
between 'em them two sturgeon push
ed that boat all the way home.
We'll that give Swanson a notion.
If them sturgeon could push the boat
against the tide it would be snap
for 'em to haul it. So he contrived
some collars and some tugs and some
After just few weeks he had 'em
SO they'd take that boat about 49
knots an hour. He had to put up
wind and spray brake OF glass on
the front of his boat. That's right,
iaint it Jack" and Jack said it was.
But Fitz, you said he was tanning
them for the market. Did he catch a
lot more"
Just give me time sonny, I'm
comm to that. Swanson is about the
most lucky feller | ever knew. Do
you know it happened--yo under
stand he had no notion it was hat
way-but it just happened chat one
Of them fish was a female and one
Ss anson rushed down to hitch up she
fish in rush to make a "trip 10
Seattle, what does he find Dut thu 1t
there's a whole litter of little stur-
geons in that pen
Fact, Jack knows about it, don
you Jack.
We'll sir Swanson didn't have the
heart to work that female sturgeon
mother so hejust hitched up the male
single and made his trip just the same
That night when he got home he
counted the increase in his sturgeon
herd, and found that there was 12,i61
of 'em Fish men tell him that was Il
| p.ctty small litter but Swanson WAS
satisfied.
"The next spring there was another
,ter-somethin' over 1900 of them.
wasn't there. Jack? Yes, | think
that's right, somethin' over 1900.
Meanwhile the first litter is all
e,owed up now, and ready for the
market. Swanson is KILN off the
males, and sellin' 'em down town
here at 10 cents pound. He is train
in all the females to drive single or
double. Another year they will begin
to have young, and by then Swanson
expects to begin to sell drivin' stur-
geon.
Jack and mes thinkin' of gettin II
pair, for use in the harbOr here. The
Hecked council is SO Hecked stingy
it won't give us a police launch, but
if We can get pair of them stur-
geon we won't give Heck
Just then the alarm rang, and over
the phone the sergeant got wor'l
that some one was killed at 2121
South C. Both detectives jumped Tor
the street to catch the patrol auto,
and of course | did too. 1t was
murder case and | never thought Of
those tame surgeons until about Il
week later Then | proposed 10 Fitz
hat we go down that night and get
picture of 'em.
BY Heck, that's too bad. Jack
jr,st got word today. Somethin' like
hog colera got into Swanson's herd
and every Hecked sturgeon is dead.
Haint that Heck?"
But, of course, the story is true,
for FitZ is a man of reputation. II
you don't believe it you don't have
to, but I'm like Jack. Eve got lots Of
confidence in Fitzgerald.