a lot of potatoes) at the boy, who in retaliation, threw a stone at the deckhand. The deckhand then threw another stone at young Davis, who then somehow managed to get hold of a shotgun and shot it at the deckhand, but fortunately missed hitting anyone. The next month, April 1896, Victor Davis pled guilty in Clark County Superior Court to the charge of simple assault, and fine of $25 and court costs was imposed. Victor Davis later became a steamboat captain himself, and when he died on Sunday, May 29, 1910 in Portland, following funeral services at Holman's undertaking, his body was taken back to La Center aboard Mascot. His father, W.A. Davis, then pilot of the sternwheeler Beaver, survived him. Mascot was capable of carrying a herd of 400 sheep, as it did on the morning of August 3, 1898, running them to Morgan's ranch on Sauvie's Island. On the morning of Tuesday April 14, 1896, as Mascot was coming down the Lake River from Ridgefield, Washington, a man who was not identified, climbed on the railing on the cabin deck and jumped into the river. Captain Lee of Mascot signaled some fishermen to pick up the man. They did so, and he turned out to have a mental illness. Snag problems on the Lewis River Steamboat operations on the Lewis River were made difficult by the presence of numerous sunken trees and logs, called "snags." Steamboat operators had to plan ahead for striking snags and be ready to beach their vessels in case of emergencies. According to a January 1900 Morning Oregonian report, "the north fork of the Lewis river just below Woodland is a perfect next of snags, enough to make a steamboatman’s hair stand on end, and the only wonder is that more boats are not sunk there." 1898 sinking On December 7, 1898, Mascot hit a snag in the Lewis River and sank. The incident occurred in mid-channel at Richardsons Landing. The accident occurred just after the steamer had left Woodland at 5:30 a.m. The steamer reached a point about one-half mile from the mouth of the river, and had just passed the most dangerous part, after which Captain Davis left the pilot house and turned the wheel over to the mate. Just as the captain was sitting down to breakfast, he felt the boat suddenly lurch to a stop. The snag broke through