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Show SHUNS WATER SIXTY YEARS, THEN BATHES OREGON'S "ORIGINAL UNWASHEC." BREAKS LIFETIME HABIT. FIGHTS HARD AGAINST IT Burly Asylum Attendants Force Woodsman Into Tub After Unprecedented Unpre-cedented Period of Total Ab-stlnance Ab-stlnance from Aqua Pura. Portland, Ore. After battling va Ihintly for three hours with four burly men, Jake Fox, Oregon's "original unwashed," who for more than 00 years has shunned water ns though It were somu poisonous lluld to touch which meant Instant death, (ri unwashed un-washed no longer. To his great Indignation, Indig-nation, aged Jake has been forced to bathe. For f.O years of more Jake Fox, erstwhile trader, trapper and wagon-maker, wagon-maker, dwelt In pence on tho sunny banks of thn Calapoela river nt Albany, Al-bany, Ore. Although ho liver upon the very banks of tho stream, Fox had no uso for the contents of tho brook, and declared an effectual boycott on nqua purn, both as to external and Internal application. Jako's abode was n Ilttlo cabin In an Isolated spot near tho edge of tho village, nnd ho wns on object of terror ter-ror to tho youngstors who used to pass that way nnd ot dlsgtiBt to the more cleanly neighbors thereabouts. Many Ineffectual attempts were made by tho good people of tho town to provall upon Jake to remove nt lenst i few coats of dirt which was tho ac-mumulatlun ac-mumulatlun nf years, but he would have none of It, and turned a deaf ear upon their pleadings. Dressed In buckskin, oven in tho latter days of his rcsldcnco In tho town, which ho bud seen grow from a crossroads to a thriving little city, old Jnko Fox made n peculiar flguro as ho passed along the streets. Surprised Sur-prised tourists stared nt him In imnzement ns he stalked by, nnd many attempts wcru made to securo his photograph. Their attempts wero unsuccessful, however, as were those of tho townspeople In their effort to get him to 'bathe. At all attempts Fox wou'd draw himself up to the full height of six feet three Inches and with a scowl of disapproval mutter Imprecations nnd stalk away. This whim did not last so long as did his nutl-water crusade, for during the hiBt fow years of his llfo ho was prevailed upon by n friend o sit for u photograph. lie wont to tho artist's studio nnd had tho negative taken. The photographer pho-tographer printed two of tho pictures, and, putting ono carefully away, showed the other to Jake. With a cry of rage the old trapper, who by this time had repented his move, seized upon the bit of pasteboard and tore It to shreds, then ho shattered the photographer's plate. lie did not, however, know of tho remaining print, which is the only existing picture of til in to-day. it wus sad when tho lonely Fox bo-gnu bo-gnu showing unmistakable signs that ho was gradually losing his mind. The authorities decided that ho must be tnken enro of, ns they feared that In Jake Was Bathed After a Three-Hour Struggle. his disordered brnln ho might rovlvo tho old days of Indian lights nnd some night sally forth tinned to tho teeth nnd do his neighbors damage, llo was ndjudged Insane and sent to tho asylum asy-lum at Salem. Here It wns that his superstition ot years his horror of wuter was to bo broken. When ho nrrlved nt tho Institution tho attendants looked nt him in ills-mny. ills-mny. They had seen dirty mortals, but nuver ono who could equal this. They rushed him to the bathroom, nnd hero, nfter three hours of the hardest struggle they had ever experienced, expe-rienced, Jaku Fox wus bathed. The old man wus heart-broken, and the same battle Is experienced once a week, which, under the rules of the Institution, Is the Interval for the bath of each patient, anil thero seems Ilttlo hopo that during his life he will give up nnd siihmlsfcivcly tnke u plunge of bis own accord. |