Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-02-21

Uut ds ~ u b SuUlIIleT TeSbTt tuc ENpul6-
iion runs up to 10000 TO $4,000 in the
summer. season. This is the most
beautiful beach that have seen
on the Pacific coast. and the town the
most quiet and orderly. The people
here have no use for prohibition, as
they have taken time by the ''fore-top"
and have made such arrangements that
the deed to every lot sold contains a
clause that no s1.loon shall ever be run
upon it, and the result is that the
"Governor of North Carolina would
say to the Governor of So. Carolina, lit
is an eternity bet @een drinks" Men,
women and children were bathing in
the sea without having tire least idea
that it was winter. There is fine
park here, but the great attraction is
the skeleton of whale mounted in the
center of the park, In building built
expressly for it, On May 20, 1897, the.
huge monster for some cause, either
being wounded or not moving "where
he was att, drifted onto the beach in
shallow water and couldn't get to sea
again, and was soon dispatched. The
dimensions Of the fish were as follows:
length SO feet; length of jaw, Is feet;
width oftail, IL feet; diameter of whale,
IL feet; width Of skull, 2 feet; estimated
live weight, As TONS AS there are
many whales much larger than this
one, Jonah must have had ample room
for housekeeping while he resided in
that tropical climate.
Among my wanderiDgs for week, j
have rode through nearly twenty miles
of orange orchards and can see oranges
while 1 am asleep as well as awake.
Through the courtesy of the secretary
of big packing house at COvina, / was
shown through the establishment. 1.
employs SIS hands and yet most of the
work is done by machinery, such as
cleaning, sorting, making boxes, etc.
In one room there were fifteen young
women packing oranges for market, as
we see when we buy the best quality
by the piece or dozen, each orange is
wrapped in tissue paper, and all this
is done by hand. The sreed reached
by our grandmothers with their knit
ting needles was slow gait, compared
with the lightning motion of these
girls hands. Just bear In mind when
you eat an orange with tissue paper
around it, that the greatest record of
the fastest packer l saw, was 100 boxes
in day. This house ships three car
loads day and there are four others
nearly as large in the same vicinity.
There has been a good deal of strife
about locating q harbor here. For q
long time the people whom it will
benefit, wanted it at San Pedro, but
Mr.. Huntington, the railroad magnate,
one of the richest meI in the world,
wanted it somewhere else That 1t will
be great benefit to southern California
is no question, as'Santiago, l30 miles on
the south, and San Francisco, 450 miles
on the north, are the only good harbors
on the coast of California 1t is graft
flying to state that the people won and
San Pedro will have the government
harbor, and work is already rapidly go
ing on. Another notable contest be-
tween Mr.. Huntington and the people
has been the election of u. S. Senator
Mr.. Huntington's candidate, whom he
is supposed to own and control, was one
Col. Burns. The peoples candidate
was any good republican that could
beat Burns tof course 1t is a republican
row.. AT the last regular session of tn,
Legislature there was dead lock. 81
a special session was called this winter
which has just closed, resulting in tn,
overthrow of Mr.. Huntington and Col
Burns and the election of Mr.. Bard
who appears to be gentleman o.
ability and what is better, honesty
The Senator elect held a reception il