Breeder and sportsman . ters into the LittleSpokane. We fished for a short time in the latter stream, cap-turing several large trout and handsome night was coming on apace and a heavy, soakingshower set in, we gave up fishing for that day, andwent back to the farm house, where we had madearrangements to remain over night. Were we wet? Soaked to the skin! Not a drystitch on our bodies. But we were not cold—wereactually sweating. There was a deep and wide old-fashioned fireplace atone end of the capacious sitting room. The rancherpiled on logs and soon there was a noble fire. By
Breeder and sportsman . ters into the LittleSpokane. We fished for a short time in the latter stream, cap-turing several large trout and handsome night was coming on apace and a heavy, soakingshower set in, we gave up fishing for that day, andwent back to the farm house, where we had madearrangements to remain over night. Were we wet? Soaked to the skin! Not a drystitch on our bodies. But we were not cold—wereactually sweating. There was a deep and wide old-fashioned fireplace atone end of the capacious sitting room. The rancherpiled on logs and soon there was a noble fire. By it,we speedily dried our clothes. The housewife proved to be a good cook. Soon shehad something less than a half a bushel of elegantlyfried fish heaped up on several big plates. These, sup-plemented with hot biscuits, butter and steaming hotcoffee, made a superb meal. The rancher and his in-teresting family and the members of our party gatheredaround the festive board. There were feasting, bigappetites and good RUSSIAN RIVER NEAR GUERNEVILLE. further. Unmistakable evidences were discovered thatthere had been foul play. It was a case of murder will out. A few days afterthe murder there came a heavy, protracted rain, whichcaused the creek to swell and overflow its high violent was the current that it swept the body outof the eddy and carried it up where it caught on thepoints of some sharp drift. As soon as the waters sub-sided the body was quickly discovered. Three Indianswere distinctly connected with the murder. Suspicionpointed to them; they were arrested, convicted andcondignly punished for the crime. From that time thestream has borne the name of Deadman—a gloomy,suggestive appellation which will always cling to thebeautiful little water course. The total length of the Deadman does not exceed tenmiles. It rises in a bunch of small hills almost duenorth of the City of Spokane, and, running westward,empties into the Little Spokane. For most of the distanc
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