Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-01
ACROSS THE CONTINENT.
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DEs NOISES, Ia, Nov. 26.-We meet
a number Of people who have relatives
aud friends at Salem and Portland,
among them Mr.. aud Mrs. Busby,
formerly at Salem; family friends
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gabrelson; Secretary
Of State Mcfarland, schuolmate of
Judge Henton, of Albany: We met a
great many who had returned to Des
Moines from Seattle and the Puget
Sound country. We also met Rev.
Cline, formerly at Salem. Ga the way
10 Omaha we travelled with d. w.
Terril, of Hardin county. He sat un.
der Pr1f. +. A. Moore, the county su-
pedutendent of schools. When Moore
began teaching school there he worked
at his trade up to the minute the school
belLrang, when he would put on his
coat and enter the school room. His
trade there was digging out white oak
grubs. He was also digging hard for
an education. He is now supreme
Judge of Oregon.
THE ROCK BYE ROAD.
While in Iowa we met Theo. G.
Sherwood, a young New Englander,
who is perintendent of the Des
Moiues q Kansas City. The line rms
south into Missouri, through one of the
richest farming regions of Iowa. 1t is
owned entirely by Eastern capitalist.
Mr.. Sherwood has made 1t popular
line with ,the business men of Iowa's
metropolis, and the little narrow gauge,
that was once called the Rock a-Bye
Baby" road, is now a well-managed
passenger and freight line. No one Can
do business with Mr.. Sherwood with
out feeling that he is in the front rank
of young western railroad managers.
IN NEBRASKA.
We left Omaha Monday evening, af-
ter visi: to the Bee building to leave
our card with Editor Rosewater, whom
we found little fat puffy Hebrew mill
llonaire publisher of big morning
and evening paper, and political dicta-
tor Of Nebraska. AT South Omaha we
had some healthy whiffs of packing
house atmosphere. Fine farming coun-
try to Lincoln, then 1t grows more and
more like desert. For five hundred
miles it does not seem as though hui
man beings could live. Nebraskans
confidently told me that their whole
state was underlaid by an inexhausti-
bic river of pure water. All that re-
mains to be done is to tap it and bring
it to the surface to make Nebraska
land flowing with milk and honey.
We rode along the Platte river for
hundreds of miles, showing its bottom
full width to the autumn sun.
A WESTERN SCHOOL.
On the train through Nebraska we
met Chancellor Crook, of Nebraska
Wesleyan University. he was aschool-
mate of President Catch, of Washing.
ton University. at old Ohio Wesleyan
and was president of University of the
Pacific, San Jose, Cal, succeeding ID.
d. StrAtton, who was there before COM
ing to Salem. The Methodist college
has $50 students and is prosperous, as
all rival church schools of this denomi-
nation in the state have died. The
Methodists of Nebraska have fortu-
nately not divided their strength as
they have In Oregon. Mr.. Crook was
going TO Ogallala to attend an educa-
tional conference, In the heart of the
worst burnt district of Nebraska, a
hopeful sign. The Nebraska Univer-
sity at Lincoln has fine plant and
takes a high scholastic rank among
western schools.
wYoMING's CAPITAL.
Two hours at Cheyenne gave us a
glimpse Of the seat Of government Ia
the first state 10 give women a COM
plete Acknowledgement, even 10 voting
for presidential electors. Mrs. w. j.
O'Bnen, wife OF Col. O'Bren, late of
the United States army, an old Iowa
friend, gave US warm welcome and
showed US the town. II is beautiful
place about the size Of Salem, but has
no electric cars. Mrs. o'BrieD, with a
lady friend, escorted us TO points OF
Interest. We felt rather cheap and
one Oregon voter and
two Wyoming voters 10 pettIeoals,
they pointed with pride 10 large post
srs announcing ladies as speakers In
ihe late campaign. Miss Reel, who
was elected state superintendent Of
schools, proved al attractive cam.
palgneT aud "whOOped II up" for her
side among the miners aud cowboys all
oyer lhe state, She led the caDgass
snd tho whole Republican state ticket
v "a. elected, Women were eleaied su
periplsndents of schools IN every
1ounly Ia the Slate, aud VI ihe neat
slaelion Will begln 10 Invade tho other