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Show LIFE IN FAR-OFF OREGON. What Old Friends Had to Relate After a Long Separation. As a reporter was walking down Alder street yesterday a man, whom he did not at once recognize, accosted accost-ed him and in a few words showed that he was an old friend who had been absent from the city for a number num-ber of years. As they walked along he asked the reporter if he remembered remem-bered the time Sandy Olds shot Emil Weber. The reporter replied that he remembered the incident. "Well," said the returned friend, "I happened along at Third and Alder just in time to see the shooting and the sight got onto 'my nerves and rather badly rattled me. You came along and remarked that I was looking look-ing pale and suggested that we go down to the Reception and get a drink to brace me up. We did so," he continued, "and I would like to return the compliment now." "I had thought that incident was closed," was the reply. "Weber was killed by Olds' shot and Olds after serving a year in the penitentiary and knocking about the coast as a roustabout roust-about gambler for years finally died of consumption in Albina something over a year ago. How long is it since that shooting occurred?" "Oh, twelve to fifteen years." "Well, that is a long time between drinks, but the Reception has moved and I have quit drinking, so we will excuse the return of the compliment. Your memory of the treat, however, goes to show that there is something of the old saying, 'Cast your bread upon the waters, and it will sometimes some-times return after many days,' though generally in a very soaked condition." Many old residents will remember the shooting of Weber by Olds, but it is doubtful if many of them have any drink coming to them In connection with the tragedy. Portland Oregon-ian. |