Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-14
ACROSS THE coNrrEENT.

vet recorded. Cheyenne we found 10
he a city of about the size of Salem,
but not nearly so solid and lively
town. The newspapers were smaller
the state house about as large, candi-
oates for senator about as numerous.
Only horse car line was abandoned for
lack OF nickels on the part of the peo-
pie more than for want Of disposition
to p.y. There were far more empty
houses In The suburbs than at Salem,
and the once Tedhot town is now very
quiet. No electric liue.
IN HIGH LATITUDE.
O. course, Cheyenne depends upon
m ming and cattle ranging, tie latter
ldustry being very fiat, owing to the
grasses being very short and fed down
to the earth. All the stock ranging
countries we passed through wore
tired, dssolate appearance. They can
only maintain very thin population,
that ekes out precarious existence,
being toled by the long distance
fre ghts and water monopolies. A few
cattle baroDs and a great mauv penni-
ess cowboys make up the population.
The elevation of Cheyenne is SIX thou
sand feet. The ozone, or electricity, in
the air fairly snapped and cracked, and
We felt a shortness of breath once in a
while, even in the sleeping cars. First
We thought of heart failure. But we
had eaten all right at the last station
for grub. 1t was the altitude that
made our head swim.
WE MEET A HYPNoTIsT.
At Eau Clare, Wis, recently, Drs.
Pickin G Son, were arrested and put
under bonds for getting hypnotic con-
troll of seventeen.year-old Edna Briggs
and keeping her under hypnotic influ-
ences for vile purposes. She was only
rescued by employing a hypnotist
physician, to counteract the malign in
fluences of Pckin g. Son, who are
expert mental telegraphers. Reading
this we were fortunate in meeting DIR.
l.. II. Anderson, whose card read;
"Hypnotist and Scientific Magnetic
Physician, Masonic Temple, Chicago"
Fe was en- route to San Francisco, with
a lady presumably his wife. On his
card was printed; obstruction given
physicians and others. Call or write
for pamphlets" In the American
Tyler,of Chicago, Waverlys's Magazine,
of Boston, and other papers, l found
his advertisement as follows: "How
to succeed. A we'll written treatise on
Personal Magnetism, and it's develop
ment, etc. One hundred page book on
HypnotIsm, 10 cents" But the doctor
would not talk. What we learned here
about him had TO be CLEANED from other
sources. He told us he was going to
San Francisco. He told the conductor
he was going to Colorado Springs. /
got the Pullman conductor to ask him
for his card. The lady he was with
left some newspapers in the seat with
his advertisements. The porter tried
to pump her but she would not talk.
The hypnotist would not play whist.
His art was not to be exercised at such
low pursuits. He was innocent of any
knowledge Of cards. A Chicago lady
took the train at Cheyenne, where our
hypnotists had suddenly left us. The
lady said he was one Of several who
had been operating from Masonic
Temple, but had recently been run out
of there. These hypnotIsts are vile
quacks ard their advertisements should
be run out of decent newspapers. The
question however remains, do physi-
clans take instructions from these fell
lows?
now PEOPLE LIVE.
Many Of the stories Of starvation and
suffering one reads about Ia Dakota,
Nebraska aud elsewhere, where they
had crop failures, are exaggerated. In
North Dakota, where they had dronth,
not winds and Russian thistles, we did
not browse OF thistles by any meaDs,
The potatoes there were finer than
ever tasted IN the East, But We
worked, two Of us, the better part Of
i've days 10 get twenty bushels into the
cellar, the greater part Of them no
larger than pigeon eggs aud some blew
away But the people, who arc able 10
stay Ia North Dakota this winter, have
enough 20 liYe as rule, In Wlseon'
sip, Illinois aud Iowa the bills Of fare
we're exoellenl. Of course, We Dragged
on our Oregon bin Of fare, bat never 30
much that we did not take llme 20 do
justice 20 All that was aet before us, A.
have remarked 20 several who BAYS
asked nle sinoe my return, ! ofllelaled
AZ tbs ohsequles " 0YeF 400 turkeys
aud other fowls, wipdlug up with a
Thanksgiving dipneF " turkey Wild
goose, chicken And duck lp Utah,
where we spent lhe day
p0hTlns ~ urAH
Tao g0men DO nol gole ln uiah they