CASTLEGAR NEWS Thursday, August 19, 1976

A Beautifol Girl, Children, and a Horse A Combination No oc Can Resist

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EXHIBITION BY CALGARY ARTIST.

Art exhibit by Calgary artist) Anthony Martin
continues today and Esiaey at the National Exhibition si
Centre from 10 a.m.:to 4 p.m.

JUNIOR GOLFERS:

Remember the Castlegar Junior Golfers’ Open
Golf Tournament on Aug. 29. Please register now at
the Clubhouse. "

POTTERY DISPLAY

From Mon., Aug. 23 to Fri., Aug. 27, the Potters
Guild of B.C. will be exkibiting a Pottery Display at
the Natidtial Exhibi ¥
viewing are 10 a.m. to iY

CEstlegar News by by i, im m,

A Public-Service of Interior Pulp and
Interior Lumber, Operations

Canadian Cellulose

A West Kootenay “hard
case”, Three-Fingered Frank,
has been largely overlooked by
our historians with one notable
exception, Kate Johnson. This
colorful chapter from her book,
Pioneer Days of Nakusp and
the Arrow Lakes, was contri-
buted by Ed Picard, a Nakusp
oldtimer and eyewitness to
Frank's spectacular death:

‘The summer of 1886 found

the little town of Farwell, now

Revelstoke, teeming with acti-
vity. Hundreds: of men were
building Y! sheds through Ro-
gers Pass for Canadian Pacific,
the rails of which had been
connected from coast to coast
the year before. Located on the

+ main line, Farwell was the

nhtural habitat for these men
witle ils dancing girls in the
saloon bar rooms, drinking and
gambling, ©

Most of the men were
Easterners, but outstanding
amongst them were a few
Westerners with their different
elothes, speech and actions
which revealed a fearless free-
dom the Easterners did not

Perhaps the most out+
standing of these was a man
known only. as Three-Fingered
Frank, How he lost the two
fingers from his right hand was
not known, but that summer,
had seen Frank involved in two
or three shooting scrapes at
Rogers Pass.

Oy fall, ‘with work on the
railroad finished, money. was
scarce. On one of these days in
the face of a long winter, five
men vied in a poker game at
Jimmy's “The Bear” Saloon.

My old friend Paul Hen-
derson, sitting with a stack of
chips in front of him, had just

Committee is to Study
_ Hiring Traffic Officer

city’s traffic commit-
tee is Ay look into the possibil

ry.
of hiring a part-time violation °

officer’ for Castlegar. °

_ Ald. Andy Shutek made
the recommendation at coun-
cil’s: meeting last week.

“It's time we did some-*

|” 2Beok: Review Core

“thing,” responded Ald. Dave
Ferguson.
Referring to the matter of
parking in the downtown area,
Mr. Shutek said he would have
a brief report on the subject for
aldermen ‘in a closed-session
committee. meeting.

Stories of the Macabre

STORIES OF THE MA-
CABRE. Edited by, Denys Val
Baker. William. Kimber, Lon-
don. (In Canada: Clarke, Irwin
& Co. Ltd., Toronto. $10.) 224

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By Percy Maddux

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by such diverse and well known
writers as H. G, Wells, Agatha
Christie, Algernon Blackwood,
Daphne Du Maurier, J. C. Tre-
win, Elizabeth Bowen, and A.
L. Rowse ought to sound ex-
citing, but’. somehow, the 15
stories in. Denys Val Baker's
anthology, “Stories of the Ma-
cabre", each by a different
author, fail to be impressive.

They ‘are interesting
enough reading, but that is
about all that they’ are—just
reading. There is no build-up of

* suspense, no revelation of what

the author is driving at, and ifa
story has a startling

author was a long time getting
to it,

Ed Picard Tells Story in Kate Johnson’s Book

The Tale of Three-Fingered Frank

opened a jackpot for $60,
making the pot $320. He had

drawn three aces and caught
two jack:

‘Three-Fingered Frank, the
only one to stay with Paul,
drew two cards, Both men had
been sitting at the table for
almost 48 hours, drinking occa-
sionally, but they were any-
thing but friends,

Paul held his full house in
his left hand and his right hand
toyed with the chips. A big man
with an easy-going disposition,
immovable in what he thought.
was right, he was thinking of
the generous but untrustwor-
thy Frank with his short,
sturdy build, quick actions and
snappy blue eyes, well known
as a gunman with sticky
fingers. Had he caught his card
to make four of a kind?

-Frank dropped his cards on
the table and covered them
with a stack of chips, leaned
over the table and growled to
Paul, “Well, you opened, it's
your bet!”

Paul slowly leaned back in
his chair, put his cards on.the
table as Frank had. done,
stripped off four $50 bills from
the roll in his pocket and threw
them on the table, Frank’s face
changed color.

‘The three players who had
dropped: out of the game

‘watched tensely as the two who F
were left looked at each’ other,’

Paul with the hard steady. eyes
of a real man, Frank with the
shifty eyes of a trickster.

As the bartender, Johnny
Dick, passed the tray in front of
him for his empty glass, Frank
placed it with his left hand. His
right hand went to his hip
pocket and, with the report of
his gun, the coal oil lamp went
out and his left hand grabbed
the money.

In the ensuing scuffle the
table was upset and chips rolled
over the floor. Paul won
possession of Frank's gun with-
one hand and, holding him by
the shirt collar with the other,
he walked Frank out in front of
the bar, took the money from
him, gave him his gun and told
him to get out.

For some time after that,
Frank was fairly well behaved.
BY spring, however, he began
to make himself heard and the
Provincial : Policeman, Jack

across

-Calrabla River “bridge and set
up’a tent, but'of.cburse he had
to come to town for supplies,
occasionally staying overnight.

Qne morning the news
leaked out that Frank had

“rolled” one of our businessmen
the night before. Apparently he
had helped the man home from
a spree and payed himself for
his work. Once more it was up
to the policeman to order him
out of the district or arrest him.

Big Jack Kirkup had been
on the police force all through
the construction of the CPR
without packing.a gun. A
perfectly built man weighing
over 200 pounds, he was known
‘as one of the best on the foree
at the time. -

Around 9 a.m. he walked
over the bridge to Frank's test,
opened the flap and found
Frank apparently asleep on his
bunk,

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“Frankt" he repeated, “Ill
give you two hours to get out of
my district!”

Then he saw the muzzle of
a 40-82 rifle pointed at him and
heard Frank grow}, “I'll give
you two minutes to get out of
here—now movel”

Jack knew his man and
went back to town. The same
night he went back to arrest
Frank but he had gone, tent

and all. The fugitive had

apparently taken a boat and
some dynamite down the Co-
lumbia River, through the
‘Arrow Lakes and across the
border into Washington.

Not long after Frank's
hasty departure, ‘I and two
partners left Farwell to trap

-snd prospect on the Arrow

Lakes, We eventually arrived
at Little Dalles, 17 miles below
the border, the site of a trading
post owned and operated by an
old cariboo miner, Peter Elli-

son. :

As we walked into the bar
room, we saw Three-Fingered
Frank, half full, standing at the
bar with two or three other
men who were working at a
prospect which later resulted in
the building of Northport.

‘The conversation turned to

‘the Little Dalles, a canyon in

the Columbia River we had
heard about and wanted to see.
‘The report was that no small
boat could go through.because
of the huge whirlpool, one of
the biggest in the country.
Frank said he could go
through in a dugout canoe.

COURT

In provincial court here on
Tuesday, Robert Halbaver
pleaded guilty to a charge of
causing a disturbance and was
fined $76 or in default 10 days
in jail, He also pleaded guilty to
a charge of not having current
licence plates on his vehicle and
was fined $35.

«8 oe

Mark Hatlen was charged
with driving with a blood
alcohol: count of over .08. He

‘pleaded guilty and was fined

$250 or in default 30 days in jail.
* ry

Mark | Patrick D:
pleaded “guilty; to.
driving. mithonts insurance. He
was” fined

saa es

Melford rrell_ pleaded
guilty to driving a truck that
oe overweight and was fined
151.

Results From Soy
Keillor Bridge Club
Monday Night Play

A total of 12-1/2 tables
took part in Monday night's
play at the Joy Keillor Bridge
Club with the following results:

South
First, Jim Campbell and

Dan Moran; second, Dan,

Greenwood and Emile Gobat;

third, Joy Keillor and Ron

Chalmers; fourth, Don Ellison

and John Davis; fifth, Lois

Cairns and ‘Agnes Charlton,
East-West

First, Mike Pepper and
Wayne Wyton; second, Bennie
Schneider and Louise White-
head; third, Dr. and Mrs, Gary
Jenkins; fourth, Normand Joan
Command; filth, Libby Weaver
and Dave Theil.

Slocan Planning
Baseball Tourney

September 5 and 6 -

A two-day baseball. tour-
nament is scheduled for Slocan
on Sept. 5 and 6.

Prizes of $100, $60 and $40
will be awarded to the winners.

Defending ‘champions,
Thrums Chevrons, will face six

teams from Nelson, Castlegar °

and Slocan.

Games start at 8 a.m. and
will be preceded by a team
breakfast arranged by the Slo-

“can Committee:
Camping facilities at -
Springer Creek will be: pro-

vided. Teams expected to com-
pete are KFP, Emery’ Expos,
Savoys, Valley Combine and
Slocan.

after 7 p.m.
“Seattle. Suns”

‘@ charge-of<”

One of the men, Jack
Armstrong, said, "Frank,
you're crazy. You or no other
man can go through the Dalles
dn a dugout.”

“What do you know about
it anyway?” Frank retorted.
“Come on, boys! I'll show you
how it's done!” He walked out
of the bar and down towards
the river where there was 3
dugout canoe about 16 feet long
but not very well built,

Frank was a good boat-

-man, a man without fear and

very determined. He jumped

+ into the canoe and paddled out

“(continued on page 6)

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Trail Clearing
Crew Working
On Glacier Trail

By John Bohle
‘The trail clearing crew has
reached the 4,700-foot level on
the New Denver Glacier trail,
reports the Valhalla -Com-
mittee.

Two students, Wade" Mc- -
Cullough of Calgary and Pat:

White of New Denver, have
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Bachman Turner.
Overdrive Returns
To Vancouver. PNE

BTO is back!

Bachman . Turner,, .Over-
drive is .returning’-to -Van-
couver's, Pacific Coliseum on
Sept. 4 for its second successive
appearance in the PNE's “Star
Spectacular." -

And spectacular was the
word for BTO’s appearance at
PNE ‘75. The coliseum was
packed as over 17,500 fans

roared their support :for the .;

local group that has conquered
the rock world. ~

It will be the same story
this year as BIO stand before
Vancouver fans to celebrate

another 12 months of triumph. *

Since their first album was
released on May Day, 1973,
BTO has hoarded precious

All their albums have been
golds while three earned:

ified its success overseas with a a

series of sellout concerts.
~The single, “You Ain't

Seen ‘Nothin’ Yet,” was Top

Five in England, France, —

Sweden, West Germany, Aus-
tralia and New Zealand.

:Randy Bachman, Fred
Turner, Robbie Bachman and
Blair Thornton—members of
the most successful Canadian
rock group in history.

Pass Creek Man

* Writes New Song

The World's Dying

A Pass Creek man, Jack
Strleoff, has written a_sang
entitled “The World's Dying.”

-He says he wasn't really
inspired. to become a song-
-writer but “just wanted to see
if I had any talent.”

“The World's Dying” is his
first attempt at songwriting,
and he intends to continue
writing. He plays the trombone
and his favorite style of music is
pop. His favorite singers are
John Denver and Olivia
Newton John.

His favorite disk Jockey # is
Fred Jack of CKQR.

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