The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-03-07

write about him it because | have
known him and his record for so long
time. The interviewers who tried to
extract some facts about himself
after the international laughing incl
dent couldn't get anything out of the
man with forceps.
There is, by the way, little thing
called Glass" which many of US pro-
TESS to disbelieve in, but which we
would all very much like to possess.
Steunenberg has it. Not only the
Glass" of personality, but the "class"
of breeding Steunenberg's ancestry
is Holland Dutch, which has come to
mean lot for sturdiness and get
tfereness and other high qualities.
The Steunenbergs have been prom.
inent in Idaho ever since there was
an Idaho. One of them--Captain
Steuenberg's brother became Cover
nor Steunenberg of Idaho, who,
few years ago, was assassinated by
a bomb. There are four or
five other brothers of the cap
tain in Idaho, all big men 6gura-
lively and literally.
! George, the youngest of the lot,
became convinced, about twenty
years ago, when he was bit past
his majority, that there was some
thing else in the world worth seeing
besides the Idaho sagebrush. He
heard, in short, from various sources,
that there were many interesting and
divertng things to be seen elsewhere.
He desired to be Shown"
In June, 1892, he emerged there
fore from the aforesaid sagebrush
and took a vanished car for San
Francisco. San Francisco then was
the dandy old Getty that was" But
Steunenberg was not for cities, nor
cities for him. Likewise American
, cities. What he desired to be
Shown" was foreign parts. This lat
; ter wasn't feasible on a bank roll of
six bits, which was the size of the
wad he packed into San Francisco.
| But six bits was enough to carry
. him to Vallejo. Vallejo. you know,
, is the unlidded little town across the
{ way for the Mare Island Navy Yard
Z Steunenberg crossed Napa Greek
from Vallejo in sampan to the old
"guardo," or receiving ship, Inde-
6 pendence. Here he presented himself
for enlistment in the Navy.
! What do you want to ship as?'
the blithe young gentleman who hap
, pened to be officer of the deck in.
quired of Steunenberg, who wore q
, cowboy hat and a leather coat ant
looked very sagebrushy indeed.
! "I'll ship as any old thing" replied
Steunenberg. what have you got?
e Goal beavers are needed" said thu
Y officer of the deck.
I That's me-" said Steuenberg.
81 His going before the medical of
:, hcer for examination was a kind of
y necessary joke. The examining medi
!" cal officer pronounced Steunenberg t
be one of the finest human being
:, stripped that he'd ever asked to no
c around on one leg to see if his hear
= was there" Steunenberg was KEEP
: on the "guardo" for a little while
4 long enough to learn how to lash
hammock and such like
IS Among other things he was take
e out with squad of bluejackets fo
/ instruction in revolver shooting. Thi
e was rather comical. Steuenbert
o with his little gun, could hit dim
+ tossed in the air so far away tina
he could only see it by getting tn
!, CLINT of the sun on it. All during tn
: time of his navy service he was tn
> official chamion revolver shot of tn
Pacific coast.
! The Irish Were the Whole Squeeze
What Happened to the Swede
Is History
After few weeks on the "guardo'
, he was sent on board a cruising shit
to begin work as bunker dog" OF
coal HEAVIER. Deadly hot, cruel work
this, neighbors; particularly in the
tropics, where Steuenberg's first ship
went.
Il Steunenberg stood it uncomplain-
ingly. He felt that, seeing as how he
had shipped as coal HEAVIER, why
heaving coal was about. the kind OF
thing he was supposed to do-and dc
!, proper. He did it that way until he
was made fireman.
When Steunenberg made his first
. appearance the freroom he found
1t dominated by a clique of husky
Irish lads. The Irish buckos looked
upon Steunenberg ("he's Deotch")
and Swede who reached the fire.
! room at the same time as interlopers
and rank outsiders. So Steunenbere
: and the Swede were put into the hot.
| 49, ~StASA Va NuN AiSIOOulA 1ulE
. Swede dropped in his place after two
watches. Steunenberg stuck it out
Thereby he gained the firm admira.
ton and buddyism of the Irish FIRE
men, and drew one of the cooler cor
. ners of the fireroom for his nerve.
His ship was in Honolulu during
the Queen Lii episode, when feeling
: Lin Hawaii ran high against Americans
5 One night Steuenberg and another
, bluejacket named Shorty" Larser
: afterwards famous in pugilistic cir
: cles as the "The Terrible Swede"-
were surrounded by gang of drunken
! Kanakes, and Steunenberg got a cracl
on the head with war club, the sea-
of which still shows when he stakes
8 himself to haircut.
b At that time England coveted tn,
r Hawaiian Islands. One day a gam
: of sailors from a British man-o'-wa
1 surrounded Steunenberg and starte,
: to work on him. He jerked out al
: eight-inch dirk and started to worl
y back. He cleared the dock. Thel
r he pulled off one of the most amusing