The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
AROUND TEE coRR1poRs.

At the State Board of Trade rooms is regis
ter In which visitors are asked to write their
names. After the place for names is q space
for remarks and there the visitors make Won
derful display of their ina bility to express
themselves in writing.
at seems strange that our visitors, many OF
them well educa ted, too, are so utterly unable
10 express themselves with pen," said Secre-
tary Filcher the other day. 81 suppose 1T is be-
cause the public schools do not give enough at
tention to English composition"
About half the visitors make some remark
after their signature. One page differs very
little from another. The following is SAM
pie: "Fine,' twice Every fine" "Out OF sight"
Excellent, extra fine," "Good," "The best
OF its kind" Magnificent" "Pretty good"
Remarkable" "Slick ITSELF" "Pretty good"
In the whole book very few additional adjee-
tlves viii be found. A sweet young girl from
Fresno wrote ''Simply lovely" An English
man put down ''Not bad" One admiring Wis
itor whose education had been neg lected wrote
without pear" The place is full OF pears
late visitor was poetical and wrote, 'Ihe as
sertion l now boldly make, that this exhibit at
Atlanta will get the cake" ''Muy blen," wrote
man from Guaymas, and "Belly good" wrote
You Hi Yum of Canton. D. R. Corey OF Lam
sing, Mich, wrote, cleft here Apr. j, "a
Have visited all the country south OF this place.
Possibly the man who wrote 'Tnexpressible"
explained why the ''remarks" are generally not
more satisfactory to Mr.. Filcher.
Eugene Howell, the Secretary of State of
Nevada, thinks that State has a great future.
'All that is needed to develop great deal OF
valuable agricultural country is cheaper trans
portation," he said yesterday at the Occidental
''With that we could reach market, and with
a m no tiVated
that is now. Down in Lincoln County they
can grow all sorts of semi-tropical fruits. You
know the first settlers there were Mormons,
who built up some fourishing settlements
When the county was organized most OF them,
rather than pay tribute to the State, left their
homes. They deserted their comfortable
houses and cultivated fields, in which thelT
plows were afterward found rusting. However,
some of them remained. At Bunkerville there
is settlement of about 200 Mormons, and
they make good citizens, are thrifty and the
most orderly we have. Along the Muddy River
and Rio Vista in Lincoln are grown cotton,
tobacco and most of the semi-tropical fruits.
There is plenty of land and an abundance of
water, and, as 1 said, all that is necessary to
make a rich agricultural country is the means
OF reaching market. The people have hopes
that the Salt Lake and Los Angeles road will
be built, and it looks very much If it will, i'll
and Salt Lake people have been taking up land
in that part of Nevada lately, and that is
good sign.
Jesse Frick, who has lately returned from
visit TO Indian Territory, was talking yesterday
about the character of the civilized Indians.
''The Indians are much more honest in many
ways than the average white man. seid he.
'tIn the Choctaw Nation, at Fort Smith, where
Indians are tried for murder, it has been the
custom for thirty years, after murderer is
convicted and sentenced, to turn him loose on
his own agreement to show up on the day set
for his execution. Only one Indian ever failed
to keep his appointment. They tell of case
where newly appointed Deputy Marshal met
O convicted man on his way to the place Of his
execution and stopped him to ask some ques-
tons. Soon the doomed man excused himself
saying that he had to hurry on down to the
Commons where he had an engagement to
be shot at o'clock. The deputy resigned next
day He said that he didn't care to take the
risk of getting into trouble with people as fear
less of death as that.
t'The bandits it is almost impossible to cap
ture in that country. The only way to manage
them is TO offer them e full pardon and throw
in deputy marshalship to boot if they will
agree to reform. Many have accepted the
terms, and they always keep their word and
make good officers"