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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-06
Exon's Best Family Flour

Exons Best Whole Whea, Flour, 50 III. sacks
only IS cents.
Ten Pound Sacks, Is cents
In Bulk. 2 cents pound
OUR BEST" Collins Mills Flour. made from
old wheat every sack guaranteed OF money re-
funded i not satisfactory. Try il,
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-06

NiNNial atiNlANA
"A The baptist church are coniiuaed
tonlght and Thursday night This viii
close The serles ol meetings a, the pre-.
snt time.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-06

ordent supbofter of the Pasteur thorles
He says: "When a man spends his liie
in sterilized clothing, eating sterilized
grapes off a sterilized table, washed
with sterilized water, and dried with a
sterilized napkin, and then dies at tne
early age Of sixty.two, l say his life Is
useless from scientific point oi view
His mind and time are occupied IN
dodging microbes"
Apropoa Of which, we are happy IN
announcing to the scientific world that
the microbe Of old age has at last been
discovered. lie is baldheaded, with no
teeth, and a triae sprung in his front
legs.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-06
SCHOOL MEETING
A Large Attendance AttestS Unusual
Interest in Our Public Schools.
over One Hundred Citizens mo LADIES'
Attended the School Meeting.

Prest Thos. Bruce called the annual
meeting TO order, and Clerk Jos. Baum
gartner read the annual report, Of the
directors, and his own report as clerk
Both adopted
Mr.. Presnall offered resolution that
the board be authorized TO rent the
Polytechnic school. A. n. Gilbert
moved TO ta.le asit was a matter prop
erly left 10 the discretion Of the Directors.
Consistent with the plan adopted by the
city y. Hoier offered a resolution to au.
thorize the board TO borrow $4,000 on
popular loan 10 refund the debt against
the East Salem school falling due Oct.
! az not 10 exceed four per cent inter-
est. The resolution was az follows and
adopted on motion Of Capt. T. S. North
cutt.
Resolved, by the electors o Salem
school district No. y, in annual meet
Ing assembled, that we authorize the
school board Of this district 10 refund
the debt Of $4,000 against the East
Salem School In popular loan at not 10
exceed per cent interest per annum,
10 borrow the same at par under the
seal Of the board, and withou. issuing
new bonds"
CASDfDArEs FOR DIRECTOR.
No names we're presented for director
at the annual meeting. Quite mum.
ber Of friends Of A.E Parker, OF
we're present to urge his
name. The other names mentioned are |
ex.Alderman j. NJ. Lawrence and II. G. /
Of North Salem. Following
petition and acceptance Of Mr. Fletcher
In submitted for publication
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-06
The liver Johnsons Are Now in

The liver Johnsons Are Now il
S35.
THE TRIBuNES Won't be- mucl
longer, We think this week will land
them It's disappointing hat We cant
help IL. The weather isn't exactly al
You'd wish, but it's in our favor.
WAIT for the easiest running ubre,
yon ever saw. THE TRIBUNE.
The SIS Folks
See those on, on display every dav.
Ever see the cQualG guess not.
HALLWAY crank hangers.
Tool steel bearings.
Felt washers,
Spalding pedals.
indianapolis chain.
Tobiel wood rims.
Excelsior spOkes.
What else do you want
For SIS
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-06

The full text of the parody Of Kipling
by Secretary Reitz Of the Transvaal is as
follows:
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-03-06

nhilomath, Ore, March 5, 1900.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
SALMON DESERT PENOBSCOT.
The King of Fishes Scarcer Than
Ever This Spring In the
Maine River.

The catch of salmon in Penobscot
river weirs has fallen off greatly with
in the past two years, so that num-
Der of fishermen who have relied upon
their summers work to tide them
through the long winter have aban-
doned their privileges and are plant
ing wide areas to land crops to make
up for the deficit FROM the sea. Thirty
years ago, says the New York Sun,
when the United States established a
salmon hatchery on Craig's brook in
the town of Orland very few salmon
came into the river. Choice cuts sold
for two dollars a pound early in the
season and never went below 40 cents.
c. G. Atkins, who has been in charge
of the station since its construction,
caused salmon fry to be planted in the
cold streams and lakes along the
Penobscot watershed, and in less than
ten years the poorest family could af-
ford salmon on its table. For ten
years succeeding 1876 a number of
weirs at the head of Verona and in
Penobscot narrows had an average
catch of ten salmon at every tide. The
fish were big and fat. In spite of the
low prices which prevailed on account
of bringing in cases of canned salmon
from Oregon and Alaska the weir own
ers made money and were in fair way
to get rich when the river pulp mills
began to pollute the water and dis
courage the fish from going beyond the
mouth of the river.
The value of the salmon caught in
the wires in the GUNNER of 1880 was
estimated at $4,000. Five years later
it had risen to 100000 Then the catch
diminished rapidly so that it was no
more than $4,000 in 1895 and hardly
$4,000 in 1899. This year the outlook
is very gloomy. In former years from
20 to 30 salmon We're taken with hook
and line at the pool above Bangor be-
fore the middle of April, and a half
dozen men made good wages setting
nets between Bangor and Hampden.
Though the first salmon taken by fly
fishing was caught ON April 1, the rec
ord of the pool up to April Is of this
year was only two fish for the season.
The men who owned nets put them out
and watched them closely for fort
night without getting anything more
valuable than few conger cells. Then
they hired out in the sawmills and
hung their nets up to dry. The weirs
on the shores of Prospect, Stockton,
Verona and Searsport have Jared little
better. Far down the river at the
foot of Brigadier island few salmon
have been caught, but the weirs that
have made the river famous for half
century take nothing but alewives,
sculpins and founders.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
SENEGALESE RIFLEMEN.
The French Colonial Troops That
Took Possession of Insalah
Oasis In North Africa.

The occupation of the Insalah oasis
by the column of French troops COM
posed of the foreign legion and the
Senegalese rifemen has called forth a
protest from the sultan of Morocco, but
no one in Paris imagines that any seri-
Gus consequences will ensue. The
frontier between Algeria and Morocco
is Intentionally left underlined. France
has often had trouble with Morocco, al
most invariably caused by the occupa-
ton of villages in the vicinity of the
border by French troops. NJ. Flamand,
chief OF the mission which took posses
sion of lEsalah, says that the question
of the union of the Sahara to Algeria
has been advanced 80 years by the
present occupation, and. that it will be
settled by 1903. The French govern
ment has only to establish intermedi-
airy stations, one in the direction of
Timbuctoo and the other in that of
Insalah, for the whole thing to be &C.
complished. Protests from Frances
neighbors in Africa may be expected,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
Used Splinters for Bullets.

In the old days when hunters used to
have to keep an eye for Indians, some
strange adventures were chronicled,
Shen all sorts of missiles were used
for bullets, from pebbles to jack
knives. Not so many years ago hunt
~er, with a muzzle loader, found himself
with lots of powder but only one bull
let. The bullet shot off the horn of a
big stag, and the stag charged the
man, who took to a treetop. He spent
his time whiting off two inch lengths
of branches, ramming them down ON
the powder and shooting the deer, fill
ing the animal with splinters. Finally
the mans partner came along and
killed the deer, but the man in the
tree declared he would have soon fin
ished him.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
THE DEACON'S SCHEME.
He Worked 1t on His Grocer to Get
Extra Weight and Broke Him
Up in Business.

Opposite the railroad depot there
was grocery kept by colored man,
and as we had some time to wait for
the train, three or four of us crossed
over to look at his stock, says a writer
in the Cincinnati Commercial Trib-
une. Business was very brisk with
the merchant, though all his custom
ers were colored. We noticed that
sugar, tea and Goldfish seemed to sell
above all else, and during a temporary
lull the colonel approached the bat
tered old scales on which everything
was weighed and picked up some of
the weights. The hollow in each one
had been filled with lead and when
quite sure that the pound weight
said to the old man:
II see you have filled your weights
with lead"
"Yes, sab; yes, sah;" he replied, as
he rubbed his hands together.
What was the idea?"
"To keep de dirt out O. de holes,
sab. Can't no dirt sit in dar now
WAS it your own idea?"
mo. sab. / never should hev got
dat idea if it hadn't bin fur Deacon
Williams. De deacon said it was de
way dey did down in Greenville an
he fixed 'em up fur me widout cost"
''The deacon buys all his groceries
here, doesn't hep"
''He do, sab; yes, sab, he buys 'em
all yere, an he was tellin' me only dis
mawnin' dat he nebber did see de beat
o how dem groceries held out"
He was advised to take his weights
over to the cotton warehouse and
have them weighed, and he picked
them up and in slow walk and very
much puzzled he proceeded to the
warehouse. When he returned it was
on the run. and his eyes hanging out,
and as he reached the store he ex-
claimed:
mo wonder / has gone into bank
ruptcy fo'teen times an had to sell
my nevis an hogs an make de ole
woman go bar'fut! Dat air pound
weight weighs % ounces, an every
time Deacon Williams has bought two
pounds o. sugar an Goldfish he has
tooken away three pounds an half!
Shoe, but I'ze gwine TO close de doah
an put up sign o Busted Ag'in!'"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
The Cuban Census

The Cuban census, recently COM
pleted, shows population of 1,572,-
797. OF this total, almost exactly two
thirds are white, and one-third negro
and mixed. OF the adult population,
only 2S per cent. can read and write.
Of the total population, according to
citizenship, 2O,47S are Spanish, 1885,
367 are Cuban, 1886 are of other cit
izenship, and 1851 are Gin sus-
pense;" that is, they are persons who,
when the census was taken, had not
used the privilege given them by the
treaty between Spain and the United
States of deciding whether to become
citizens of Cuba or to retain their al
legiance to Spain.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
A NEGLECTED CHARM.
"A WORD OF Counsel with the Ameri-
can Girl in Regard to a Too
Common Fault

women OF refinement and education
IN other directions often speak in
harsh, nasal or indistinct cultural
tones showing an entire want of care
and cultivation of the beautiful art of
familiar speaking, says Ada C. Sweet
IN Woman's Home Companion. A
musical-speaking voice. with clear
enumeration, is one of the most rest
ful and subtle charms of personality.
and unlike most precious things il is
within the reach of almost anyone
who cares to have it. Have you never
in some sudden pause and silence
been startled by the echoing ring of
your own voice in your ears? 1t had
been raised too high, perhaps, in
argument or eXpostulation, or had
vlbrated with anger. How quiet YOU
were, and full of chagrin, for a half
hour after that experiences, There is
comforting truth about this matter.
A pleasing voice and manner of speech
can be acquired by almost anyone
who is willing to give u little atten-
ton and practice to it. First, as |
have said, listen to your own voice as
you speak. Involuntarily you will low
er and soften it. Practice with your
sister or other girl associates each in
turn and each trying to improve her
own natural voice. Do not initiate
do not make unnatural or affected
changes. but having tried your usual
voice critically, decide where it needs
improvement, and hold yourself to
the reformation. If you are like nine
out of every ten American girls your
voice is pitched too high. Lower it.
and make a constant effort to keep
it down. Speak from the chest, not
from the throat or head. Practice
| the meditation of your speaking
voice as patiently as a singer prac-
tees the scales. 1t is worth while
because it is for the pleasure and
good of all around you more than for
your own. In the effort to keep your
voice low and gentle you will make
the first practical move toward a
calm outward demeanor, and success
in this will impress Immediately the
person to whom you are speaking.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
WAS A GOOD INDIAN.
Washakie, Head Chief of the En-
tire Tribe of Shoshones.
He Lived to he Over a Hundred and
Was Respected by All Who
Knew Him-ROde "a Wheel
I'm His OLD Age.

Plans are being made by officials of
the Indian Office in Washington for the
erection of an artistic and suitable
monument upon the plot where the re-
mains of the noble Indian Chief Washa
kie were buried in February last. His
grave is situated in peaceful, pictur-
esque section of the Post cemetery at
Fort Washable, which was named after
the old man long time ago. Washable
was a sworn friend to the white peo-
pie, endeavored always to maintain
peace, is quoted in history as never per-
uniting white mans blood to be shed
If he could prevent it, and he was es-
teemed by all persons with whom he
came in contact, both Americans and
his own people. The report of Agent
Nickerson, of the Shoshone agency,
which contained news of Washakie's
death, said that there was a larger at
tendance at his funeral than had been
seen in the vicinity of the Wind River
reservation in the last 20 years.
Washable was born, as nearly as can
be estimated, although some authori-
ties say that he was much older, in
1896. He fought in many battles, dis
playing fine qualities as warrior, and
at all times treating his enemies and
captives with great kindness. He was
subtle and active until few months
before he died, when he became phys
ically weak and feeble, but his mind
was clear, and his last wish, which he
expressed through an interpreter day
or so before he died, was that he be
buried Christian in the Fort Washable
cemetery and have military funeral.
This wish was gladly fulfilled, for he
was loved by all the officers of the post,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Oklahoma now has over 100000 pop
ulation, while the Indian Territory
claims over 10000.
Human hair varies in thickness from
the two hundred and fiftieth to the six
hundredth part of an inch.
A fox and hound belonging to a
gentleman in Kennebec, Me-, are af-
fectionate companions, and constant
ly sport and sleep with each other.
When both were young they were
placed together and have ever since
continued frolicsome comrades.
Military uniforms were not orig
inally especially splendid. 1t was the
Prussian army, and then Napoleon,
who set the example of adjoining the
soldiers dress all over with fur, gold
lace and so on. The Napoleonic ar
mics suffered from a perfect mania
for snowy trappings.
The total area of Cuba is about AS
900 square miles. OF this $4,000
square miles is uncleared and unex-
plored forest, 1000 square miles is de-
voted to pasture. 10000 square miles
susceptible of cultivation has never
felt the plow, and only about $4,000
square miles, or a little more than
one-fourth of the entire area, is or
ever has been productive.
To those who have never consid-
cred the subject it might appear that
each letter is of equal Importance in
the formation of words; but the rela-
tive proportions required in the Eng
fish language are these: a, So; b, Is;
c, 30; d. A; e, 1870; f, 25; g, II; h, GA;
i. so; j, 4; k, s; l, 40; m, 30; n, 80; o,
50; p, II; q, 5; +, 60; s, 50; t, 90; u,
34 v, IL; W, 20; X, 4; y, 20; z, 2. 1t is
this knowledge of how frequently one
letter is used compared with others
that enables cryptogram readers to
unravel so many mysteries.
A correspondent of knowledge tells
a curious story of a mare which was
accustomed while feeding in a field to
stand under low-spreading branch
of an elm tree, which just touched her
back, and to sway her body to and
fro in order to enjoy the brushing.
One winter the branch was removed,
but the next spring, when the mare
was turned into the field, she placed
herself day after day on the same
spot, and swayed backward and for
ward, apparently at loss to under
stand what had become of her fan.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26
"DRIvIN' STAGE" IN MAINE.
Some of the Grievances of Drivers
Against the Mail Com
tractors.

The Maine stage driver sings tale
of woe whenever one extends little
sympathy, says the Lewiston Journal.
The word contractor always will
bring burst of either anguish or
anger-it depends on the man.
You see,' said one of the ilk to me
the other day, those contractors don't
send slouches down here to make
trades with us fellows. They know
their business and they understand
human nature. If a man stands out
square for his price, the contractor
isn't apt to bother with him for any
great length of time. He simply goes
off to look for some other fool. And
he usually finds him, too. You see,
there's always some one who wants
to try staging.
''Now. you take it in my case. I'm
all fitted up with wagons and horses
and such like. with little freight and
express business established, and | have
to look to the mail fees for whatever
small profit l may get or perhaps to
make me even on the years business.
You see, a man thus situated is in a
box to start with. He sort of hates
to let the whole thing go. If some other
blasted fool steps in and takes the con-
tract the business is bound to be split
so that neither can make a dollar. and,
of course, the man with the mail has
the advantage.
st has been tried good many times
in Maine, and the man WHO stuck out
against being robbed by contractors
always comes off worst.
Now there was my friend, Cap'n
Sim Paine, of the Pennington & New
Sharon route. He had driven there 90
years and was an institution. Down
and down, season by season, had gone
the mail contract prices. and at last
the cap'n rebelled. He told the con-
tractors to go to the place where the
mail is delivered red hot with tongs.
The contractor straightaway at his
own figure got a new man to carry
the mail. The new man had his own
wagon and horses and there the cap'n
was with all his equipment on his
hands. He was so mighty mad that he
kept right on and run a rival line. Of
course the two got to cutting prices.
and pretty soon a man could not only
ride free to New Sharon. but could
have chrome and bag of crackers
thrown in.
The cap'n was all right in front of
the rebels, hut twas a foregone con-
clusion that he was licked in a contest
of this sort. He stood at the car steps
and fairly dragged passengers to his
coach. He canvassed for business. He
tore over the country roads on the
box of his big red coach in mad races
with his rival. He even made sensa-
ton on the Pennington station plat
form by vigorously booting the other
stage driver with all his choleric
strength. You see, the cap'n had got a
lady passenger for his stage. and the
other man picked up the woman child
and loaded it aboard his own convey
ance"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26

ST. Petersburg, where he was an at
tache of the American legation. He
aided in the founding of Cornell univer-
sity and was its president for 20 years.
During this time President Grant made
him commissioner to investigate the
proposed annexation of San Domingo.
He favored annexation. President
Hayes in 1879 appointed Mr.. White min
lister to Germany, and he remained at
Berlin two years. After this, giving
himself entirely to literary work and
travel, Mr.. White found in 1896 that
the government again desired his
services. President Cleveland APP
pointed him as one of the commits
sioners to investigate the Venezuelan
boundary dispute. President McKin
ley further honored him by making
him ambassador to Germany. His
services to this government at Berlin
during the Spanish-American war were
of incalculable value. He speaks
German and French as readily as he
does English.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26

but at the Quai d'Orsay it is thought
that this will make no difference in the
eventual result. NJ. Flamand is OPP
posed on principle to the extension of
Frances colonial domain, and he con-
siders that it would be better if the
possessions already won were organ
lied before the republic starts in search
of new territory. But in his opinion
France would be guilty of a serious
error if she were to suffer the Morocco
question to drag on when she can now
settle it once for all to her own adj
vantage.
The accompanying picture from the
New York Tribune shows the Sene-
galese riflemen who in March made a
triumphal entry into the Kesbah of the
Bajouda at Insalah. This corps is conf
posed of well-trained Senegalese and is
considered a remarkably efficient body
of men.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-26

and he was buried with the honors of
a regular army officer.
Washable was not only chief of the
eastern band of the Shoshones in Wyo-
ming, but was the head of the entire
tribe, some branches of which are scat
tered in parts of Montana and Utah.
Whenever portions of the tribe desired
disputes arose with other Indians,
Washakie's advice was solicited and
considered of value. His remarkable
oratorical ability has been commented
upon by all the government officers
who have visited the Wind River reser-
walton, and member of the bureau
of ethnology once heard him preach
8 fine sermon. He said it showed con-
siderable familiarity with the Bible
and was expressed i'm plain but at
tractive words of the Shoshone Ian
,guage. Washable was a great pro-
moter of Christianity and education,
and the present intellectually of the
Shoshones, as band, is largely due to
his strenuous efforts. He compelled all
of the children of his tribe to go to the
public schools in the rural district
where he lived, $50 miles from a rail-
road, and was instrumental in sending
several of his tribe to the Carlisle
school. One of these has since become
a minister in the Episcopal church, to
which Washable belonged.
Washable also had the unique dis
'tinction of being the only Indian who
ever propelled a bicycle at the age of
100 years. On the anniversary of his
one hundredth birthday the agent of
the reservation placed him upon a
wheel and photographed him as he ped
aled along for few yards. This tickled
the old man greatly, for he appreciated
the fact that it is a rare occurrence for
a man of that ripe old age to ride a
wheel. He remarked, when he had dis
mounted, that she believed that he
could soon learn to be an expert
wheelman."