PEPTIC* S
ITOPWOOD CANOE
By George T. Hasury.
The cottonwood canoe sli.pt easily across the surface of the swiftly
A*'-r‘sjt'g ^hijkat diver, .its bow being held upstream by the paddle of Pedro,
'■no set In Ate otorw,- pBandy" Gilbert and ’’Fat’’' Jathews, the other two cc
cupanus. were sea'*.ed juaetly on the br.ttcnu All three were seeking a cross
-!'l •■•Juongs!. the numerous «hcdl2ov, shifting channels cause I by the low water
;-e.ri».* ;t .vt dune* A smooth expanse oi water from a sand spit to the
'.*j git; thin I'edrc, wi u» a quick 3tr:-ke ci the pa del1 e, tockr the water being
she In rr ar.d not ever oa::; inches ...n .e,." n wk'aniy w in the bow, looking alio ad,
called oa;k to redro that, be didn't think there was enough water to float the
canoe* Pedro, however, continued tc press on, eventually crossing & bar
the bo of.012 of whi ch scraped that of the canoe® Into the main channel they
glided and quick2y crossed to the ban]; for which they were seeking. Arriving
there, they disembarked, pulling the canoe up on tine baric, turned it over,
cached, the paddle 3 underneath and rested then selves in the shale of the al
ders which grew there®
"Be91ee*9evs rr>e, Pedro,11 said Sandy. "I wouldn't have bet a dobie cracker
on our crossing that shal low place. That cottonwood canoe of yours sure does
n’t need much water to float on-”
"Huhi" ejaculated Pedro ® '’That canoe will float on most any tiling* Til
1 ever tell you felio vs about the time that * Ignatz ’ Moyer anl ^ got left
eight miles from camp by the falling tide?”
"No," said "Fit” Mathers. "Tell us about it."
"’Veil,” said Pedro. "Iloyer and 2 had gone to Haines after our grub sup
ply. e.nd were returning tc camp in tins sane canoe with it. V/e thought we coula
make it all right, but. the bide dropped so fast that we v/e re left high and dry
on the sandy bottom eighb miles from camp. We could pack i:i all right, but
didn’t want to loose the canoe, as you can see it’s a good one and doesn’t need
much water. 'J-gnatz* and I sat there trying to figure what we were going to
do.. My eyes finally fell on a sack of onions amongst our supplies and I got
an idea. I sent 'Ignatz: over and he peeled a chuck of bark off a tree about
three feet long and four inches wide. This made a good trough. 1 then stret
ed our sail on the canoe- *Ignatz* sat in the bow? placed one end of the troug,.
over it and held theother end close to his face with one hand while in the
otherhe held a peeled onion under his eyes* ’hoe tears start'd to flow, fell
into the trough add sc ever the bow and under the canoe. The water caused by
these tears was too shallow to paddle in. so I sab behind the sail i had str# h
ed and by blowing hard against it. wore able to sail clear into camp, the
whole eight miles- Yept 'That canoe doesn’t need ruch water."
"Huh* Veil can you beat that?" exclaimed Sandy.
"You win, Pedro," said "Fat."
"Well, if you fellows don’t believe ib, there’s the cartoe, "
Pedro, as all three arose to continue on their way.
replied
MOTHER ASKS ’THEREABORTS 0? EX-CORPORAL •
Mrs* Luke Barker, of Mountain Horae, Idaho, has written asking anyone who
has information as to the thereabout k of her son, E.'.c-Cj: per at Ma: a an DANIELS,
to please write her. Corporal Daniels wrote home prior to his d; soharge that
ire was returning to Idaho, but is known here to have stopped at Juneau and wo
ed for some time at the Alaska-Juneau Miner He quit work there this spring tn<
is thought to have gone to western A?, a oka, but his esaet location is not known
to the editors of this paper.
Sergeant Edward F„ Harney, Corporal Theodore Cirar.t, Corporal Jesse Porte
and Corporal Dennis O’* Shea were among the visito rs to Juneau the Fourth