Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-07-26

about three seats back OF the one oc-
cupied by Mr. Bryan. Sitting near
US were Capt. and Mrs Leabo, Mr..
and Mrs. Dan1 Fry and Major and
Mrs. Sherman, of Salem, DR.. Guiss
and E. P. MOrcum, Of WoOdburn,
Judge ]. J. DAILY, Of Polk county,
Hon. F. A. Z. STAR, Of Portland, Hon.
NJ. a.. Miller, of Lebanon, Hon. Peter
darcy of Salem, Hon. J. c.
Cooper, of McMinnville, and Others
who 1 did not know were
passing back and forth through
two cars occupied by Mr. Bryan and
committees. Messrs. John and Thos.
Holman, Laf. Kavanaugh, Geo. W.
Weeks, Frank Williams, G. W. Tai
mage, Geo, E. Allen, Ed FritZzel and
a number of ladies whom l did not
know occupied seats in the Bryan car.
The only plug hat in the car was
worn by Attorney George Washing
ton Wright, of Albany, who sat just
across the aisle from Mr.. Bryan and
whose silk tile contrasted quite
strongly with Mr.. Bryan's soft gray
white hat. Attorney John Bayne, Of
Salem, and Bishop Fl. L. Barkley, of
Woodburn, and Mr.. Montague, Of
Lebanon, were among those who So
journed with the distinguished COM
moner.
On the Bryan special train of eleven
cars L noticed VIM. Westacott, the
Salem restauranteur; Mr.. Reeves,
the mining man; DR.. Mott, the bright
eclectic physician, of Salem; Judge R.
p. Boise, ex.chief justice of the su-
preme court of Oregon; Attorney ST.
Richardson, dean Of the Willamette
law school;Mayor Mckinley Mitchell,
of Gervais; Attorney Woodson Slater,
son of Senator Slater;Louis McClaine,
the Salem gas man; Mr.. and Mrs J.H.
Stump; Mr.. E. +. Osborn, the racket
store man, late of Eugene. now of Sa-
lem; Mr.. Steiner, the fish market
man, of Salem, had his family with
him and Governor Fletcher, of the
Salem Independent, was accompanied
by his daughter. These names are
given as samples of the kind of people
who escorted Mr.. Bryan through the
Willamette valley.
Mrs. Leabo, of Salem, in conversing
with Mr.. Bryan, presented herself as
part of the rag-tag and the bob
tail of the country" He replied that
he was indeed glad to meet her and
was only sorry his 'country-bred
wife" was not with him to greet her.
Mrs. Leabo is one of the most active
of the young women who took an in
terest in the late presidential cam
paign.
Mrs. DR.. Mott, and three sons were
presented to Mr.. Bryan on the train.
The Mott brothers-the eldest not
over thirteen-did very effective SER
vice for Mr.. Bryan in the late cam
paign, singing campaign songs and
rendering campaign declamations.
He thanked them for their services.
Mr.. Fred Steusloff, the Salem
butcher, was on the Bryan special and
looked as happy and fat as ever. Hon.
Scotch" Miller, a venerable pioneer,
of Salem, sat Just back OF Ex-Chief
Justice Boise and looked aged, honest
and distinguished as he alwas does.
Mrs. E. 'Hofer, wife of Hoe. f.
Hofer, of Salem, was active and in
strumental in making the floral
tributes appropriate and in admins
istering to the pleasures Of the
sojourner in the Bryan car.
AT first sight Mr.. j. C. Cooper, the
silyer.union leader of McMinnville,
looked like Congressman Tongue.
His beard however seemed darker with
a few gray hairs.
Prop. ID. w. Yoder, one of the Bit
terest gold standard men In Marion
county, was on the Bryan special
train but perhaps was simply travel