Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-23

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Of doors and windows saving inward
and a section of the s~plit-shingle roof
leaping toward the spacious firma~
meht on high. 'F
Now, durn ye," wal Daddy HI
rams n,orose comment, made with
an eye to a p%eep-hole. "now, durn We,
maybe you'll let folks sleep penceable
for a little spell!"
OF course in the darkness. made
thicker by the cloud of dust the ex-
tell what had become of the cabin
garrison, on whether OF no we'd killed
all or any Of 1t. But the immediate
result was perfectly soul-sAtisfying.
There were no more roof lombard
ments, and after we had remained OF
watch together for perhaps half an
hour, Daddy sent me To- the blankets
for MY forty Ninks:: did this, and att
erward played a low-down trick o.
me. For. what with the previous
nights broken -, a4d the more or
Slept like a tired baby, IL when I
awoke the sun was shining in at the
two high window holes at something
more than an acute. angle. and Daddy.
Hiram was making coffec and trying
bacon and baking pan-bread over Il
chip, fire built on apiece of boiler
iron we had turned down for hearth
purposes the previous evening.
The old angel took my r%eproach-
good naturedly; as he did most things.
and made his report Of the nights
.doinEs. Up to midnight there had
been nothing stirring: but after that
there Had been noises on the black
smith shop side. and indications that
the jumpers were at work on some
thing in the boiler shed. Since this
lay beyond our field Of vision, we
couldn't see what was going on. nor
could We apply the dynamite remedy.
Shortly after we had finished break
fast the work noises began again, but
with the blanketing blacksmith shop
in the way we couldn't qsee a. thing
and could only make wild guesses at
what the raiders were up to. Along
about -the middle OF the forenoon
they fired up one or more OF the
boilers; a Whit Of wind coming along
1.-THE side of the: mountain blew the
smoke over so that some Of it dritted
into. the shait=house through the high
windows. Still we were completely
lost in the guessing wilderness.
1t was a little after noon, while w4
were squatting on the floor to eat
another meal warmed up over the
chip fire; that we found out the an
ewer to- all the euesses and learned
what. the mechanical noises Of, the
night and forenoon had been leading
up to. One Of the left-overs from the
working period of the mine was a
gcod-sized steam force pump which,
we took it, had onc been installed
on one Of the lower mine levels and
had been hoistedI out of the shaft
ahead OF the advancing water flood
and put under shelter in corner Of
the boiler shed. AS I was passing my
tin cup for more Of Daddy,s excel
lent .conee the rattle, and clank of "a
pump began to make itsNlf heard, to-
eether with the coughing chug-chue
of the steam exhaust therefron.
That's that low-level5 pun1pH' /
ed it up with the boil,
W!hoosh! that. was just as far as /
sot. In the middle midst OF the word
"boilers'>a two-inch Jet offmuddy wa.
ter came curyfhg up through one OF
the window openings to- arch over
and fall. splash, all over us las we hat
munching u dinner. Everhsttnsly
ruined the dinner, put out the fire,
upset the coffee pot, and made
drowned rats OF both. Of US in less
time than it takes to tell t-huch
less
50 much for that. or course, we
ran and ducked and doEged. like the
drowned rats / speak of hunting for
q hole. But now Pullerton'S deviNsh
engineering ingenuity came into play.
BY some means az yet.unknown TO us,
he had tontrived atmovable nozzle to
his squtrt-gun, and in another minute
there wasn't a single dry spot LETT in
that shaft-house. venture to ray
that Daddy and ! and the dos ran a
full mile trying to get out lot range
OF that .demoniaca1 sozale.machine.
but there wasn't a corner Of the place
that 1t couldn't ana didn't, reach.
During the night the scoupdreS had
laid a pipe line from the pump IA the
boiler shed alongside Of our prison
fortress: this with an upright exterr
sion on the business end 81 Il. At the
top OF the sandpipe stem fhere wa
an elbow with a short joint Of pine
tsehesgsd into 1t TO point Q way; ami
piece Of rubber hose. Under the ierk.
impulses of the pump serokssI this
flexible extendon OF tho nozsle flop-
Iped UP ands down 4nd around .and
sidewise. like the nose OF q patent
lawn sprinkler;S and there you are
or there we WERE.
Observation-Disclosures. Daddy spl.t-
tered We anton the water WaRon
we're spank inside OF It.! Are you
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