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Show WAITS UNTIL RIVER HAS FLOWED PAST YAKIMA. Wash.. Feb 26 Th old story of the man who waited for tho river lo run by In order that he might cross is not so humorously impossible, according to Jack Nelson, reclamation Service caretaker at Bumping lake, near Yakima, for he proved recently that It could be done. Nelson found it necessary to go t o J the junction of the Bumping and I American rivers 12 miles below the! I Bumping Lake dam to repair telephone tele-phone Wires. He travelled on sklis to the break In the line but could not make hl-s way back because the snow-had snow-had become too soft Hastening to the telephone at the American river fork he called his wife and instructed her to close the tunnel in the dam Euring the winter no effort Is made to store water and a large How washes through the tunnel. When Mrs. Nelson closod the tunnel! Intake the Bumping river was shut oft at Its source. Nelson waited several' hours until the water In the rlrer head1 between the American river ami the dam hail run by and he then walked, home m the bottom of the Stream |