August 5, 1949 (8 pages)

itd. °° s Such is the butchery of historical fact as time begins to. See < _ 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, August 5, 1949 . 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ‘ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers: KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager . Member California Newspaper Publishers Association , Published, every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and ‘entered ds'maitter ofthe second clags-in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. > ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) -...22..c0-cceecceceesecenee $3.00 One year in county. (in advance) ..... beter test scissile cibecwes 2.50 Four months (in advance) ......0.jeccectecceececoecceccceseqeeessece 1,00 One month (in advance) ....-.--.----Z i 80 THE BUTCHERY OF HISTORY We have often wondered about the. veracity of much of history—particularly when research of even only a few years in the past reveals glaring! inconsistency of present day recollection wtih the recorded fact. For in.stance we have often wondered whether Hannibal's hosts _actually slaughtered 100,000°Romans in single battle or whether the mists of time multiplied the number tenfold or more. When considered as a matter of logistics the number ‘becomes ridiculous. We recall many times in our latest modern war when logistics for a handful of men was a tough problem. Too often false accounts of an incident or event supplant the true facts. If you are wondering what all this is about, it stems from:an article about the early days of this area that was recently published asa‘ factual story ina magazine. En. . titled ‘Drought at Durgan’s Flat’’ and written by a John -T. Lynch, it is called a distortion from beginning to end by H. P. Davis, Nevada county historian and not retired mining engineer. . Professor Robinson’s Dramatic Hall was a flimsy structure. Built on stilts over Deer. Creek at Nevada City, it was a combination theater and saloon, serving high class drama and low class whiskey to the rugged citizens of the district in the early 1850s. One winter night, during a performance of The Merchant of Venice, a flood roared down Deer Creek. Just as the character, Portia, proclaimed that, “The quality of mercy is not strained,” the supporting stilts under the theater, were strained. The Merchant of Venice, Portia, the scenery, Professor Robinson and his Dramatic Hall, and the entire audience were sucked into the raging torrent and swept down-stream. Eighty people were drowned in the disaster. lf When, within the next few days, news of the tragedy was — spread up and down the river settlements, it was received with sorrow-and sympathy, as well.as horror. Entire towns went into official. mourning and held memorial services. However, there was one notable exception—the town of Durgan’s Flat This little community wondered why so much sympathy was wasted on the Nevada City affair. ‘ DAs the Mayor of Durgan’s Flat expressed it, “Why, we had a : worse tragedy than that. Hell, them eighty people merely got ‘droWhed—while we had to go without whiskey for two whole . }, days!” : ti sian OA . ’ How the Deer Creek flash flood left Durgan’s Flat in such sitwation of enforced dryness became a warning to all river towns “putting all of the eggs into one basket,” as the old saying goes. Durgan’s Flat and Jersey Flat would have been one town but for the fact that they were separated by Deer Creek, and joined by .a bridge. On the Durgan side were three grocery stores, a bakery, a butcher shop, and various business places, none of which sold liquor in any form. All of the saloons—seven of them —occupied the Jersey side. The flash flood tore out the only bridge between the two flats. The Jerseyites had no food; the Durganites had no whiskey. For three days Deer Creek would not remain placid enough to permit building a bridge. ; On the morning of the second day a group of Jerseyites inspired to invention after drinking breakfast, and full of pity for their thirsty neighbors, rigged up a section of stovepipe and made it into a crude cannon. Wtih a charge of gun powder they shot a ball of yarn across the river, keeping one end of it secure on their side. The Durganites eagerly seized’ the yarn and pulled on it. Tied to the yarn was a strand of twine. Then came a heavy rope. The rope was then propped on jury struts, on both shores. A basket, tied to rope, served to convey the exchanges of supplies from one flat to the other. _ The first cargo, of course, was a basketful of whiskey for the long-suffering Durganites. On the return ‘trip the basket con_ tained bread, beans and sow belly for the hungry—but ‘not When Ss mot Qurgan's Flat heard. # ,the heaptfe}t. sorrow and meurning* an@ sympathy being éd to -Névada City, “« in its loss of the theater containing an audience, they were not only scornful but jealous and indignant. What did the. drowning of eighty people amount to, compared with an entire town going without whiskey for two days? As a good public servant, wtih the welfare and comfort of his people at ‘heart, the Mayor of Durgan’s Flat soon took. definite steps to prevent such a calamity from repeating itself. Within two weeks after the new bridge was built, the Mayor made arrangements for two of the Durgan grocery stores to exchange places with two of the Jersey saloons. “With this sensible arrangement,” he said, “we ain’t puttin’ all our aigs in one basket. Now, with saloons on both sides, a man wouldn’t have to care what side of th’ river he was caught on. In either Durgan’s Flat or Jersey he could get not only food —but th’ real necessities of life, too!” Davis says: (1) Professor Robinson's hall was located where the Cardinal hall now stands; (2) it was not ‘The “Merchant of Venice’’, actually ‘a trial was being held in the theater that colla into Deer creek; (3) no one was drowned; (4) Durgan’s Flat and Jersey Flat were . met in an emergency session last: 4 Washington Notes By Congressman Clair Engle FRUIT PRODUCERS methods will be successful of FACE EMERGENCY course is not known, and if acMembers of the Californi dele. complished how. much help.-will gation “interested in agriculture . "theréby “be given’-to: California perishables is not known. However, they are sure to help to some extent, and they appear to be the only methods open to us now. There of course remains the long-range problem of what California’s agriculture is going to do about orchards 40 per cent of which were planted for export trade no longer in existence— and which may be a long time in reviving. California tree and vine producers are going to have to think seriously in terms of limited production so that these trees and vines planted to supply an export market will not continue to ruin their domestic market. FOREST SURVEY BILL SIGNED The president has signed a bill which I am co-author, to provide authority for the U. S. forest service to complete and keep current a national survey of forest resources. There are approximately 625,000,000 acres of forest land throughout the U. S. of which some ° 225,000,000 acres ‘have, never been fully surveyed. The lumber industry generally has advocated the survey so that we can better determine the kind and amount of timber available for present and future development particularly in the. west. Senator Morse’s bill to expand the government’s access road system to and within the national forests is still pending on the Senate calendar. No action will be taken by the House .committee on agriculture on my companion bill until the Senate votes one way or the other on the Morse bill. week in connection with the serious situation in the California fruit market. Pears selling at $120 a ton last year are down to $40 and less. Peaches are in a somewhat similar position and it is expected that other California fruits and vine crops will be equally seriously affected. You will immediately ask why this happened. It must be remembered that the fruit industry in California was built pre-war on an export market of approximately 40 per cent. We have not had the export market since the war started but the requirements of the armed services and our allies took up the slack. Now we have neither the export markets hor the requirements of the armed services. Last year E.C.A, helped to some extent and Canada afforded a limited market. We aren’t making any progress with E.C.A. this year and Canada is tied up on a dollar shortage. The picture is not very promising. THREE-POINT PROGRAM OUTLINED What we aré trying to do about it: The California congressmen are trying to do three things: First, they want to amend the E.C.A. act making some allocation of E.C.A. funds for purchase of fresh and dried fruits. Senator McClellan of Arkansas had this amendment put on in the senate committee but the amendment was opposed on the floor of the Senate and the bill finally sent back.to the committee. Secondly, we hope to:amend the agricultural adjustment act which passed the House and is now pending in the Senate to earmark what are called “section 32 funds” (30 per cent of our import revenue. set aside to assist agriculture) exclusively for support prices for, perishables. That is what the fund was originally intended for, but the basic crops, so-called, got into the picture and take most of the funds, Thirdly, we. are taking steps to try to break down the. Canadian import embargo on American fresh fruits. As indicated above, this was done because of the Canadian, do}lar shortage, but the Canadjans want fresh fruits and we are in hopes we can get. them to jake at least: a ‘part, of, our surplus. EST OES If the first two objectives ‘can’t be accomplished legislatively, we will try to get it done partially at least administratively. Hoffman, the administrator of E.C.A. funds, could help materially, but so far he has absolutely refused to help American industry in the expenditure of E.C.A. funds. In fact, he is doing exactly the opposite. He is making dollar loans to Britain which are used to buy Italian pears. In short, he is lending American dollars to be used ‘to steal traditional and prewar American export markets— all with the idea of helping European economy while our own goes to pot. In addition, if they can’t amend the agricultural adjustment act requiring it to be done, we will endeavor to get the secretary. of agriculture to refuse to spend section 32 funds . supporting basic commodities and save that money to help perishables. RECENT GUESTS AT THE NATIONAL HOTEL Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Talbot, Mrs. Agnes Ray, N. Axelrod, William Peters, T. J. Robertson, Jean Scott, William Etter, Jack Coffey, Al Lynn, San Francisco; Harry Farrell, Veronica Foley, San Mateo; Mr. and Mrs. ‘Carl Unger, Stella Unger, Santa Rosa; Mr. and Mrs. Al. Trivelpiece, ‘Mrs. Ruby Trivelpiece, Susan Trivelpiece, Angel’s Camp; Mrs. Ida Williamson, -Orinda; George Williams, . Ella "Blackmore, Mrs. J. R. Robbins and son, Alleghany. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Shaw, Alice Leete, Ethel Lucas, Howard Veale, William L. Geraty, Berkeley; William F. Gollub, Mill Valley; Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholl, H. B. Bentley, Reno, Nev.; Walter Clausen, Winnemucca, Nev.; Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Elain, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Speaker, Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Deming and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Charannat, Mrs. R. Geen, H. J. Leslie, H. J. McMahon, Oakland; Robert Cline, Graniteville; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stevens, Conora City. George Knudson, Sutter Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Scofield, Arbuckle; G. Galta, Albany; D. 'Perkins, Camptonville; Mr.:.and Mrs. Wallace: ‘Doolittle and family, Carmel; A. S. Hurren, Ray Davies, Earl C. Hefner, Sacramento; Harley Noll, Douglas Steele, Oroville; L. Selig, Yuba City; Mr. and Mrs,’ J. B. O’Day, LONG'RANGE PROBLEM . Jamesown; R. Carey, R. Hunter, ' UNSOLVED ‘Walnut Creek; Elmer Johnson, = & o Whether any or all of these Soda Springs. Mrs. Ida Zurloch,}: -. Gorw Diceer’s Tran Charles Scott Haley explained to me is that the man is supposed to stand absolutely ‘still, whereat the bull takes him for some sort of . statue, and pays no attention to him. It works, nine times out of ten, but in this case our bull was especially agitated. He did not appear to c in the mood for admiring plastic art. After it cayght “hi stifflegged and indignant; and gave the whole thing a careful inspection. i _ It was the statue’s knees that gave him away, because even from our box we could see that there was too much action for an inanimate object, try as he would to keep steady. Anyway, the byll began stamping his feet and pawing, backing off foot by foot. _ A blind man could have told what was coming, and no chance to beat a retreat, and could only: stand there nae nerds in our mouths and almost delirious with mirth. It came about just as we expected it. When the bull had backed away to his proper take-off, he dropped his head and ran full speed ahead. Wham! went the packing case. Out went the barrel from beneath our hero's feet, and right underneath him charged the bull. The statue went at least eight feet in the air, and his legs were making running motions before he hit the ground. By and large, it was the best performance of a wonderful day. The little bull seemed to realize that something was wrong. The barrel and the box were all right, but there was too much motion about the statue, so he took after it. Handicapped as he was by about four jumps, he strove appoint us. Round horns or no, a perfectly good pair of tights was spoiled as the statue-made a flying leap for.a balcony standard, where willing hands pulled him over. But . still think the statue had to borrow a pair of pants to get home with. By this time the bull was getting tired and the effects of the stuff were wearing off. He trotted around to the door whereby he had entered, and found it open, and they were only too glad to let him out. And we four sat in that box holding our sides, literally, but we did not dare to let go and laugh. The crowd would have mobbed us in a minute if they had suspected. After some confusion, they decided to go on with the show, and turned another bull, even smaller, into the ring. He was a little black chap, and as he came under, Juan reached down and gave him a good dose from his syringe. Just three jumps into the ring, and all the brave bullfighters were either in high or on high. They surely seemed nervous. The bull charged round the ring half a dozen times, picking up and tossing barrel, box, and anything that came his way—but the . fighters never came down. This broke up the show. They let the black out, and in about five minutes he was as mild a little calf as anyone would want. But the fighters had sneaked for home, and all the senoritas and their escorts got up and followed them. Whereby five friendly little bulls’ that!) had been slated for slaughter, got a new lease on life. At least we had a chance to relieve our feelings. We got outside the fence and thought it over till we were too weak from laughing to do anything but look at one another and wipe the tears off our faces. Juan was the most delighted, as society bullfighting never had appealed to him. I' suppose his education in the States was responsible. It had been a wonderful day, and we rode. back to Lima to the bar of the Gran Hotel Maury to have the dinner and the rounds of drinks that the affair called for. Apparently many of the audience were there, and they were certainly mystified and excited about the whole affair. We hardly dared look at one another, for fear we would break down again. But we ate our.dinner without causing any suspicion to be invited on us. After dinner, we were enjoying our ‘cigars in the inner court when Pablo, the big maltese cat who made his home at the hotel, came purring round. Juan still had his bag, and at the moment we were by ourselves. One short squirt, and Pablo was immortalized forever. attractive pla ut there was too much bric-brac about it, qn ‘tables: and ‘along walls.Pablo: made a round of everything in’ the room that could be knocked off or broken. I never before realized how cogent was Mark Twain's phrase about ‘a frenzy of cat profanity”. He gave several wild yowls and ran round both rooms like a crazy cat. Naturally it created more or less excitement in the room, arid when Pablo ended up his cross-country by landing all tangled up in the hair of a: particularly stout lady who was trying to handle a plate of hot soup when the interruption occurred, and when he landed bodily in the tureen from which she had served herself, he finally decided to dash outside and cool off. So then we thought we'd better go home. This last afternoon was my farewell to Lima. I had looked into the legislative situation a little more thoroughly, and decided that . was wasting my time and my company's money -by: staying longer. As I have said before, there were five major companies whose representatives were in Lima on the same errand as my own, and when the legislation was introduced and passed some six months later, they all folded their tents and left for home. ae es (to be continued) toy The idea of the altar business, as I have since’ had i s eye, he sauntered over, rather the statue’s knees began to be even more active. He hadand take it, while we who were in our box were stuffing nobly to pick. up the gap,,.and he managed not to dis-_ The Maury dining room and court used to be a very . , ’ es Sd a& . ."

itd.. °° s Such is the butchery of historical fact as time begins to. See < _ 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, August 5, 1949 . 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ‘ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers: KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager . Member California Newspaper Publishers Association , Published, every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and ‘entered ds'maitter ofthe second clags-in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. > ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) -......22...c0-cceecceceesecenee $3.00 One year in county. (in advance) .......... beter test scissile cibecwes 2.50 Four months (in advance) ............0.jeccectecceececoecceccceseqeeessece 1,00 One month (in advance) .......-.--..----Z i 80 THE BUTCHERY OF HISTORY We have often wondered about the. veracity of much of history—particularly when research of even only a few years in the past reveals glaring! inconsistency of present day recollection wtih the recorded fact. For in.stance we have often wondered whether Hannibal's hosts _actually slaughtered 100,000°Romans in single battle or whether the mists of time multiplied the number tenfold or more. When considered as a matter of logistics the number ‘becomes ridiculous. We recall many times in our latest modern war when logistics for a handful of men was a tough problem. Too often false accounts of an incident or event supplant the true facts. If you are wondering what all this is about, it stems from:an article about the early days of this area that was recently published asa‘ factual story ina magazine. En. . titled ‘Drought at Durgan’s Flat’’ and written by a John -T. Lynch, it is called a distortion from beginning to end by H. P. Davis, Nevada county historian and not retired mining engineer. . Professor Robinson’s Dramatic Hall was a flimsy structure. Built on stilts over Deer. Creek at Nevada City, it was a combination theater and saloon, serving high class drama and low class whiskey to the rugged citizens of the district in the early 1850s. One winter night, during a performance of The Merchant of Venice, a flood roared down Deer Creek. Just as the character, Portia, proclaimed that, “The quality of mercy is not strained,” the supporting stilts under the theater, were strained. The Merchant of Venice, Portia, the scenery, Professor Robinson and his Dramatic Hall, and the entire audience were sucked into the raging torrent and swept down-stream. Eighty people were drowned in the disaster. lf When, within the next few days, news of the tragedy was — spread up and down the river settlements, it was received with sorrow-and sympathy, as well.as horror. Entire towns went into official. mourning and held memorial services. However, there was one notable exception—the town of Durgan’s Flat This little community wondered why so much sympathy was wasted on the Nevada City affair. ‘ DAs the Mayor of Durgan’s Flat expressed it, “Why, we had a : worse tragedy than that. Hell, them eighty people merely got ‘droWhed—while we had to go without whiskey for two whole . }, days!” : ti sian OA . ’ How the Deer Creek flash flood left Durgan’s Flat in such sitwation of enforced dryness became a warning to all river towns “putting all of the eggs into one basket,” as the old saying goes. Durgan’s Flat and Jersey Flat would have been one town but for the fact that they were separated by Deer Creek, and joined by .a bridge. On the Durgan side were three grocery stores, a bakery, a butcher shop, and various business places, none of which sold liquor in any form. All of the saloons—seven of them —occupied the Jersey side. The flash flood tore out the only bridge between the two flats. The Jerseyites had no food; the Durganites had no whiskey. For three days Deer Creek would not remain placid enough to permit building a bridge. ; On the morning of the second day a group of Jerseyites inspired to invention after drinking breakfast, and full of pity for their thirsty neighbors, rigged up a section of stovepipe and made it into a crude cannon. Wtih a charge of gun powder they shot a ball of yarn across the river, keeping one end of it secure on their side. The Durganites eagerly seized’ the yarn and pulled on it. Tied to the yarn was a strand of twine. Then came a heavy rope. The rope was then propped on jury struts, on both shores. A basket, tied to rope, served to convey the exchanges of supplies from one flat to the other. _ The first cargo, of course, was a basketful of whiskey for the long-suffering Durganites. On the return ‘trip the basket con_ tained bread, beans and sow belly for the hungry—but ‘not When Ss mot Qurgan's Flat heard. # ,the heaptfe}t. sorrow and meurning* an@ sympathy being éd to -Névada City, “« in its loss of the theater containing an audience, they were not only scornful but jealous and indignant. What did the. drowning of eighty people amount to, compared with an entire town going without whiskey for two days? As a good public servant, wtih the welfare and comfort of his people at ‘heart, the Mayor of Durgan’s Flat soon took. definite steps to prevent such a calamity from repeating itself. Within two weeks after the new bridge was built, the Mayor made arrangements for two of the Durgan grocery stores to exchange places with two of the Jersey saloons. “With this sensible arrangement,” he said, “we ain’t puttin’ all our aigs in one basket. Now, with saloons on both sides, a man wouldn’t have to care what side of th’ river he was caught on. In either Durgan’s Flat or Jersey he could get not only food —but th’ real necessities of life, too!” Davis says: (1) Professor Robinson's hall was located where the Cardinal hall now stands; (2) it was not ‘The “Merchant of Venice’’, actually ‘a trial was being held in the theater that colla into Deer creek; (3) no one was drowned; (4) Durgan’s Flat and Jersey Flat were . met in an emergency session last: 4 Washington Notes By Congressman Clair Engle FRUIT PRODUCERS methods will be successful of FACE EMERGENCY course is not known, and if acMembers of the Californi dele. complished how. much help.-will gation “interested in agriculture . "theréby “be given’-to: California perishables is not known. However, they are sure to help to some extent, and they appear to be the only methods open to us now. There of course remains the long-range problem of what California’s agriculture is going to do about orchards 40 per cent of which were planted for export trade no longer in existence— and which may be a long time in reviving. California tree and vine producers are going to have to think seriously in terms of limited production so that these trees and vines planted to supply an export market will not continue to ruin their domestic market. FOREST SURVEY BILL SIGNED The president has signed a bill which I am co-author, to provide authority for the U. S. forest service to complete and keep current a national survey of forest resources. There are approximately 625,000,000 acres of forest land throughout the U. S. of which some ° 225,000,000 acres ‘have, never been fully surveyed. The lumber industry generally has advocated the survey so that we can better determine the kind and amount of timber available for present and future development particularly in the. west. Senator Morse’s bill to expand the government’s access road system to and within the national forests is still pending on the Senate calendar. No action will be taken by the House .committee on agriculture on my companion bill until the Senate votes one way or the other on the Morse bill. week in connection with the serious situation in the California fruit market. Pears selling at $120 a ton last year are down to $40 and less. Peaches are in a somewhat similar position and it is expected that other California fruits and vine crops will be equally seriously affected. You will immediately ask why this happened. It must be remembered that the fruit industry in California was built pre-war on an export market of approximately 40 per cent. We have not had the export market since the war started but the requirements of the armed services and our allies took up the slack. Now we have neither the export markets hor the requirements of the armed services. Last year E.C.A, helped to some extent and Canada afforded a limited market. We aren’t making any progress with E.C.A. this year and Canada is tied up on a dollar shortage. The picture is not very promising. THREE-POINT PROGRAM OUTLINED What we aré trying to do about it: The California congressmen are trying to do three things: First, they want to amend the E.C.A. act making some allocation of E.C.A. funds for purchase of fresh and dried fruits. Senator McClellan of Arkansas had this amendment put on in the senate committee but the amendment was opposed on the floor of the

Senate and the bill finally sent back.to the committee. Secondly, we hope to:amend the agricultural adjustment act which passed the House and is now pending in the Senate to earmark what are called “section 32 funds” (30 per cent of our import revenue. set aside to assist agriculture) exclusively for support prices for, perishables. That is what the fund was originally intended for, but the basic crops, so-called, got into the picture and take most of the funds, Thirdly, we. are taking steps to try to break down the. Canadian import embargo on American fresh fruits. As indicated above, this was done because of the Canadian, do}lar shortage, but the Canadjans want fresh fruits and we are in hopes we can get. them to jake at least: a ‘part, of, our surplus. EST OES If the first two objectives ‘can’t be accomplished legislatively, we will try to get it done partially at least administratively. Hoffman, the administrator of E.C.A. funds, could help materially, but so far he has absolutely refused to help American industry in the expenditure of E.C.A. funds. In fact, he is doing exactly the opposite. He is making dollar loans to Britain which are used to buy Italian pears. In short, he is lending American dollars to be used ‘to steal traditional and prewar American export markets— all with the idea of helping European economy while our own goes to pot. In addition, if they can’t amend the agricultural adjustment act requiring it to be done, we will endeavor to get the secretary. of agriculture to refuse to spend section 32 funds . supporting basic commodities and save that money to help perishables. RECENT GUESTS AT THE NATIONAL HOTEL Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Talbot, Mrs. Agnes Ray, N. Axelrod, William Peters, T. J. Robertson, Jean Scott, William Etter, Jack Coffey, Al Lynn, San Francisco; Harry Farrell, Veronica Foley, San Mateo; Mr. and Mrs. ‘Carl Unger, Stella Unger, Santa Rosa; Mr. and Mrs. Al. Trivelpiece, ‘Mrs. Ruby Trivelpiece, Susan Trivelpiece, Angel’s Camp; Mrs. Ida Williamson, -Orinda; George Williams, . Ella "Blackmore, Mrs. J. R. Robbins and son, Alleghany. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Shaw, Alice Leete, Ethel Lucas, Howard Veale, William L. Geraty, Berkeley; William F. Gollub, Mill Valley; Mr. and Mrs. John Nicholl, H. B. Bentley, Reno, Nev.; Walter Clausen, Winnemucca, Nev.; Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Elain, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Speaker, Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Deming and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Charannat, Mrs. R. Geen, H. J. Leslie, H. J. McMahon, Oakland; Robert Cline, Graniteville; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stevens, Conora City. George Knudson, Sutter Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Scofield, Arbuckle; G. Galta, Albany; D. 'Perkins, Camptonville; Mr.:.and Mrs. Wallace: ‘Doolittle and family, Carmel; A. S. Hurren, Ray Davies, Earl C. Hefner, Sacramento; Harley Noll, Douglas Steele, Oroville; L. Selig, Yuba City; Mr. and Mrs,’ J. B. O’Day, LONG'RANGE PROBLEM . Jamesown; R. Carey, R. Hunter, ' UNSOLVED ‘Walnut Creek; Elmer Johnson, = & o Whether any or all of these Soda Springs. Mrs. Ida Zurloch,}: -. Gorw Diceer’s Tran Charles Scott Haley explained to me is that the man is supposed to stand absolutely ‘still, whereat the bull takes him for some sort of . statue, and pays no attention to him. It works, nine times out of ten, but in this case our bull was especially agitated. He did not appear to c in the mood for admiring plastic art. After it cayght “hi stifflegged and indignant; and gave the whole thing a careful inspection. i _ It was the statue’s knees that gave him away, because even from our box we could see that there was too much action for an inanimate object, try as he would to keep steady. Anyway, the byll began stamping his feet and pawing, backing off foot by foot. _ A blind man could have told what was coming, and no chance to beat a retreat, and could only: stand there nae nerds in our mouths and almost delirious with mirth. It came about just as we expected it. When the bull had backed away to his proper take-off, he dropped his head and ran full speed ahead. Wham! went the packing case. Out went the barrel from beneath our hero's feet, and right underneath him charged the bull. The statue went at least eight feet in the air, and his legs were making running motions before he hit the ground. By and large, it was the best performance of a wonderful day. The little bull seemed to realize that something was wrong. The barrel and the box were all right, but there was too much motion about the statue, so he took after it. Handicapped as he was by about four jumps, he strove appoint us. Round horns or no, a perfectly good pair of tights was spoiled as the statue-made a flying leap for.a balcony standard, where willing hands pulled him over. But . still think the statue had to borrow a pair of pants to get home with. By this time the bull was getting tired and the effects of the stuff were wearing off. He trotted around to the door whereby he had entered, and found it open, and they were only too glad to let him out. And we four sat in that box holding our sides, literally, but we did not dare to let go and laugh. The crowd would have mobbed us in a minute if they had suspected. After some confusion, they decided to go on with the show, and turned another bull, even smaller, into the ring. He was a little black chap, and as he came under, Juan reached down and gave him a good dose from his syringe. Just three jumps into the ring, and all the brave bullfighters were either in high or on high. They surely seemed nervous. The bull charged round the ring half a dozen times, picking up and tossing barrel, box, and anything that came his way—but the . fighters never came down. This broke up the show. They let the black out, and in about five minutes he was as mild a little calf as anyone would want. But the fighters had sneaked for home, and all the senoritas and their escorts got up and followed them. Whereby five friendly little bulls’ that!) had been slated for slaughter, got a new lease on life. At least we had a chance to relieve our feelings. We got outside the fence and thought it over till we were too weak from laughing to do anything but look at one another and wipe the tears off our faces. Juan was the most delighted, as society bullfighting never had appealed to him. I' suppose his education in the States was responsible. It had been a wonderful day, and we rode. back to Lima to the bar of the Gran Hotel Maury to have the dinner and the rounds of drinks that the affair called for. Apparently many of the audience were there, and they were certainly mystified and excited about the whole affair. We hardly dared look at one another, for fear we would break down again. But we ate our.dinner without causing any suspicion to be invited on us. After dinner, we were enjoying our ‘cigars in the inner court when Pablo, the big maltese cat who made his home at the hotel, came purring round. Juan still had his bag, and at the moment we were by ourselves. One short squirt, and Pablo was immortalized forever. attractive pla ut there was too much bric-brac about it, qn ‘tables: and ‘along walls.Pablo: made a round of everything in’ the room that could be knocked off or broken. I never before realized how cogent was Mark Twain's phrase about ‘a frenzy of cat profanity”. He gave several wild yowls and ran round both rooms like a crazy cat. Naturally it created more or less excitement in the room, arid when Pablo ended up his cross-country by landing all tangled up in the hair of a: particularly stout lady who was trying to handle a plate of hot soup when the interruption occurred, and when he landed bodily in the tureen from which she had served herself, he finally decided to dash outside and cool off. So then we thought we'd better go home. This last afternoon was my farewell to Lima. I had looked into the legislative situation a little more thoroughly, and decided that . was wasting my time and my company's money -by: staying longer. As I have said before, there were five major companies whose representatives were in Lima on the same errand as my own, and when the legislation was introduced and passed some six months later, they all folded their tents and left for home. ae es (to be continued) toy The idea of the altar business, as I have since’ had i s eye, he sauntered over, rather the statue’s knees began to be even more active. He hadand take it, while we who were in our box were stuffing nobly to pick. up the gap,,.and he managed not to dis-_ The Maury dining room and court used to be a very . , ’ es Sd a& . ."