The Fast Runner and the Stiffed Innkeeper

The young man Tate, known in Portland as Charles Krakendorf, but whose real name is Archy Holmes, who has been winning many laurels in the foot-racing arena of the Pacific coast, attempted to skip out of this city into British Columbia on Saturday evening, without settling his board bill at the Occidental, where he was owing some twelve dollars. He managed to get his baggage out of the house without the knowledge of the proprietor and transferred it on board the Annie Stewart, bound for Port Townsend. He then went to bed, thinking he had played it pretty fine. As it happened, Constable Thornton was going to Port Townsend on the same boat to serve a writ upon the Sheriff of Jefferson county, and the proper person here told him about the Tate affair and to look out for him. The officer soon found him in bed and told him his mission. Tate told him that he did not intend to pay the bill, as he desired to beat the house as he had the rest of the town. The constable told him unless he paid before the boat passed Port Gamble he would make it cost him much more than twelve dollars. After considerable parleying, he produced a very large sack of coin and reluctantly paid over the desired amount. We are sorry to be called upon to chronicle these facts in regard to the young man, as he had a very prepossessing appearance, and pleasant address, and almost the last person any one would put up for a bilk; but such he has certainly proven himself in the minds of the people here.