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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23
The Carnival Queen
81. Paul Aorss shsa

ST Paul. MINI, June 21-rls b
~. wealth and fashion Of he n
cities viii combine with an litric'
exhibition OF thoroughbred cquira
make brilliant the opening q a' )
Paul horse show az Lexingioa hn'
night. The entries number more q
500. aud include prizewinnins ~
from many Of The most pronlnsa
tabllshments OF the West lrs
will commence tonight. and III .
tlnue until the close OF the sAos =
Friday. Prizes and plate aeErss-
5000 will be distributed ancns
successful owners.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23

in tickets that are redeemed on pre-
seutation. and will not have to be
paid for much faster than they are
used The risk in the undertaking Is
81 or the side OF Capt Skinner and
his son. and his letters all give the
impression that he is a man Of expert
enoe and will keep his contract with
this city. or die in the attempt There
are those who give him black eye.
but steamboat men are little like
editors. they sometimes try to do too
much. and get cussed for their enter
prise.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23

President Theilseu. Of the Greater
Salem Commercial Club. and his com.
mittee have not completed the can.
vass OF the city by any means. and
some of the largest interests have not
yet been conferred with. OF course.
existing steamboat interests will not
encourage an opposition boat. but they
feel that the interests Of Salem bust.
ness men would be promoted BY a
rapid transit with all nearby towns.
There is a subscription list at The
Journal ofhoe. which anyone can see
and put down for what they wish in
the way Of tickets. J. J. Henry the
owner of the Salem lighting and
street car plant. has offered to give
the enterprise a substantial lift. and
We expect 10 hear from him In a few
days. Quite a number have been seen
who have promised subscriptions. The
educational Institutions OF the city
would set a bic revenue from the es-
Enlistment Of such a boat. as students
could come down Monday morning
and go home Friday evening. at a
very Low rate. Let an help this 20 the
fullest extent Of their ability. and let
Salem have the tWice-a-day boat 20
Independence. Monmouth and Dallas
win be closely connected with Salem
BY the same route.
Capt SINNERS orer % put on a
$500 boat that would run summer and
winter Is a snap bargain for this city,
as Ne are only asked to put up $1,000
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23
RAISING
STEAMER
SUBSIDY
Eight Hundred Tickets
are Already Sub
Scribed for
Twice-a-Day Boat That
Would Connect up River
Points With
Salem

The committee to raise the subsidy
for a twicea-day steamer to Independ.
ence has met with considerable sue.
cess, and some opposition from peo-
ple who cannot see any merit in the
proposition. The following is the
form OF subscription that is being cir.
culated. and the amounts subscribed
in 5O-cent tickets:
whereas. Captain George Skinner
agrees to place a small passenger boat
on the Willamette river. to run one
or two r6undtrips a day between sS
lem and Independence. we the under
signed agree to aid him by purchasing
the number OF tickets set opposite our
names Il Is understood that these
tickets are 10 be taken and paid for
in four equal installments. the first
upon the arrival Of the boat. the 9TH
ers in %. 60 and 90 days thereafter
The price OF the tickets is 70 be 80
cents. and good for passage either
way. II the boat ceases to run before
the entire number OF tickets are TAX.
en-, then this agreement ceases to be
binding
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23
Palace Is Nearly Blown Up.

Paris. June 23.-A dispatch to the
Rappell. dated at Budapest today.
says a rumor is current that the pal
ace OF the grand vizer at Constantine
pie narrowly escaped being blown up
today by dynamite bombs. The CORE
spondent says Il Is certain the grand
ylzer has received threatening letters.
and that a number OF arrests have
been made recently.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23
Russians Eos servian ofheers.

ST. Petersburg. June ga party OF
servian officers met with a violent
demonstration last evening while at
tending a performance AZ a variety
theater. The audience hurled eggs
and vegetables at them. shouting
Down with the muFderers." The
servians were compelled 10 make a
hasty Withdrawal
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-06-23
Suffered 8 Monthi

I can heartily recommend "'n
Tablets for dyspepsia and -
troubles. I have been sunsf-s
eight months, and tried May
dies without any relief. unin
AekeTs Dyspepsia TablstA
used only a short time, and .
perfectly weIl. Thanking yH - I
speedy recovery. I Am
yours, Francis I. Cannon. Van''
Wash.
Send TO W. II. Hooker 4 o.
10. N. Y. for a free trial
Nothing Ike them
Williams news., 1903-01-31
Notice to Physicians

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the Common Council of the Town of Williams for services as health officer for said town during the term of the present council. Bids will be opened February 3, 1903. The council reserves the right to re- ject any and all bids.
 E. G. DUBoIs,
 Town Clerk
Williams news., 1903-01-31
DR. GEO. B. PRATT ARIZONA'S LEADING OPTICIAN
Overland to the Grand Canyon in 'oo.

How differentis the present way of visiting the Grand Canyonfro that of a few years ago? Now, upon leaving the main line of the Santa Fe at Williams it is a matter of but few hours until one stands beside that beautiful, that awe-in- spring Canyon, the creation of the ages A few years ago a trip there meant more than this. It meant days of travel over miles of dusty roads with watering places often distressingly far apart Usually large parties were organized for this trip and went prepared to stay seldom less than two weeks.
 With such a party the writer made a trip to the Grand Canyon in September, 1896. There were seventeen in the party. and the con veyances and saddle horses made a caravan of no mean length. If tLe dust did make the days journying tiresome, pleasant evenings spent in song and laughter about the camp-fres and the very joy and charm of the outdoor life made recompense. Then there were glimpses of deer and other game not so rare then as now-and their pursuit to enliven the way.
 The party made permanent camp within three miles of the Canyons rim From there a few of its mem bers started for a descent into the Canyon Bright Angel trail was not in so good condition nor so con- spicuous then as now. Mistaking a trail leading to an abandoned copper mine for the Bright Angel trail, the party started down it. The first half mile of it was very good climbing. But a good begin ming does not always portend a good ending. So it was with that
Williams news., 1903-01-31

trail, for soon began what one of party afterwards described as ''The Devils Leap" And it was devil ish. First there were some rickety ladders to climb down Then iron pegs drilled into the sheer face of the Canyons wall. But even that was not enough. Soon the party were sliding down a great table of sandstone tilted at an angle of per baps forty-five degrees. To cap it all the trail lead to a place where an immense Assure cut it in two. This was crossed on two rotten logs and in the passage one of them gave way, falling to a rock shelf five hundred feet below.
 At the mine the trail ended ab- ruptly, for below it was a precipice six hundred feet deep and impos- sible of descent. Night had fallen by this time and when the moon sailed out over the Canyon walls it looked down on a very tired party with little food and less water. Some water trickled from the mine but it was so charged with arsenic as not to be fit to drink and the only recourse was to squeeze water out of moss in the rock crevices.
 Some wood had fallen from above and with it a fire was built. Under a stone monument the location papers were discovered and when read by the fire it was found that the mine was three miles west of the Bright Angel trail. In the morning, stiff and sore from the previous days exertions, the little party wound its way along the trail at the foot of the white sand stone formation to Bright Angel trail at a point a mile from its top. | There a relief party from above was waiting with water which was greatly needed.
 At the top were carriages which | the weary ones to Rowe's Well whence the return trip to Williams was made.
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Williams news., 1903-01-31

The coal situation is something more than deplorable; it is a dis tinct threat to our system of govern ment. No one connected with the situation seems to have clean hands The operators have been harsh and unjust to the men; the men have been guilty of anarchistic methods; the dealers have undoubtedly preyed upon the sufferings and ne cessities of the public, and the state and national officers have been afraid to touch the combination. A remedy must be found, and found before another winter, or there will be more and worse suffering than the pinch of cold.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

cessity of severe toll and study, and
this is the reason why so much of the
current output of the press is OF little
consequence.
The writer has in mind a young man
who determined when only lad TO
make his way with his pen. He was
clearer sighted than many, and made
up his mind that the only way to reach
the goal which slowed before him in
the eve of his imagination was to learn
something about people and things
at first hand.
This young mans name is Albert
Sonnichsen, and in order to get the
material for the books he intended
to write he shipped before the mast
as an ordinary seaman when under
twenty. Since that time he has sailed
the seven seas almost continuously
until a year or two ago. His voyages
have led him to many strange ports
and over almost all the oceans. His
book, Deep Sea Vagabonds," details
many of the experiences and adven-
lures which he met in the pursuit of
material as a sailor, and he has many
more, as yet unwritten. Having passed
through the preliminary period of
study, he is now training himself
technically by working in a newspaper
shop.
Meanwhile his first book is selling
very well, and a. odd times he is lay
ing the keel pieces and skeleton frame
of another craft which he means to
launch upon the literary sea- bye
and bye. duane.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09
THE GIRL AND THE COWBOY
Montana Maiden Arrested Bad Man and Then Fell
in Love With Him.

In Culbertson, Mont, says the Port
land Oregonian, Miss Edith O'Mara,
a pretty young woman, who is prom
inent member of the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union and a church
member Of that place, arrested Red"
Cutcheon and John Morley, two bad
men, who came drunk into the town
and terrorized all the male inhabitants
with. their pistol practice. After land
ing the desperadoes in Jail, Miss
O'Mara Immediately fell violently in
love with Cutcheon and promised to
marry him. On his part, Cutcheon has
agreed to stop drinking liquor. The
whole town is watching the end of
this queer courtship with mabated in
terest.
The young woman was walking
along the street in the evening when
the two men rode into town and be-
gan to shoot out lights, whooping like
Indians on a raid. Miss O'Mara was
the only resident of the town who did
not run for shelter. AS the men came
dashing up she accosted them politely
and then she suddenly drew a pistol
from the folds of her dress. The muz-
zle was first pointed at one and then
at the other, with such rapidity that
the two desperadoes failed to see any
joke in it.
Drop your revolvers, and drop them
at once!" commanded the girl The
two men allowed their revolvers to
fall to the ground. The weapons were
picked up by the girl, who then
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

marched her prisoners to the Jail and
turned them over to the marshal.
Then, like a true daughter of Eve,
Miss O'Mara began to pity her pris-
oners, especially Cutcheon, and pity,
poet says, is akin to love. She was
heard to remark that Red" Clutch
con was not such a bad-looking fell
low, after all, when he was sober and
washed up. She talked long and ear
nestly with him in his cell about his
salvation.
why don't you brace up and be
MANI" she asked.
Because no good-looking young
woman like you ever asked me-" said
Bad Man Cutcheon. He swore he
loved her and promised that he would
never touch another drop of liquor if
she would be his wife. She cried a
bit, and then consented to marry him.
So, when Red" Cutcheon was ar
raigned in court and fined S25, charged
with shooting his revolver inside the
city limits, his fine was paid. After
fond temporary parting with mis-
newly-found sweetheart, he went to
the ranch where he is employed.
strangely quiet, and the manager was
so tickled when he heard of the
stran=e adventure that he made
Cutcheon foreman of the ranch. Now
the most of the other COWBOYS want
to get drunk. ride into Culbertson and
be arrested at the hands of the first
pretty girl they meet.
In telling of her engagement Miss
O'Mara said: LAS long as l arrest-
ed Mr.. Cutcheon. it is but fair that
1 make amends in some way-and so
we are to be married"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09
HAY FEVER.
An Efficient Toxin for Its Cure Has
Been Found.

An Efficient Toxin for It's Cure Has
Been Found.
From the Hospital.
Sufferers from hay fever win now
be rejoicing, no doubt that their spe-
cial malady. which has hitherto made
them look forward with something like
dread to the approach of early summer,
is at this moment the subject of extern
sive experimental research at the
hands of Prof. Dunbar of Hamburg,
and that. so far as his investigations
go, judging from Sir Felix Semons re-
port in the British Medical Journal,
there seems to be a reasonable likeli-
hood that in the near future medical
men will be in a position to treat the
complaint on a basis Of rational path
ology and therapeutics
Up to the present time the only sure
way Of obtaining relief from the affec-
ton has been TO run away from II and
70 abide the summer in some place
where the baleful pollen is not a course
obviously impossible for the many.
Now, however, according 10 Prof. Dun
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09
Security at Sea.
From the National Magazine

From the National Magazine.
Within ten years, thanks to better
ships and better navigation, the death
rate of sailors has decreased one-nalf,
and is now only thirteen per 1000, or
40 to 30 per cent. below the rate for
all inhabitants of such cities as Bos-
ton, New York or cago-though,
OF course, such a comparison must
not be pursued to it's last analysis of
why or wherefore, but taken for what
1t is worth as a sufficiently surprising
statement of an actual fact. Out of
10000 accidents reported to the TRAY
elers' Insurance Company, 2413 oc-
CURED to pedestrians and 1880 to
persons who were comfortably at home
indoors. No fewer than 1875 accidents
were due to riding or driving, $50 10
various sports, 406 to bicycling and 447
to railway travel, while only seventy
of these 10000 accidents occurred upon
the ocean. Making all due allowance
for the obvious fact that there are al
ways many more persons walking, or
indoors, or engaged in pastimes, or
railway journeying than there are at
sea. these figures are still significant.
one great steamship company, with
forty vessels, lost only one seaman in
a year, and it was recorded of the
celebrated Inman line some years ago
that ut had conveyed, without one
death, million passengers. In the
year 1890 the transatlantic liners
made nearly 1000 voyages from New
York to the various ports of the United
King dom and the continent, carrying
100000 cabin and $4,000 steerage pas
sengers across 5000 miles of bolster
Gus ocean. And yet in this entire year
there was not one accident costing
the life of a single one of these more
than half a million people
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

bar, the toxin has been discovered. He
has isolated from the pollen Of certain
grasses a toxic substance which, when
applied in very dilute solution to the
eyes or nostrils of individuals who are
subject to hay fever. produces within
few minutes the characteristic local
symptoms OF the complaint. The toxin
solution has no effect upon one who
is not a sufferer from hay fever.
BY injecting the pollen or various
grasses into the circulation of certain
animals-rabbits, goats and horses
Prof. Dunbar has succeeded, he be-
lieves, In producing an active anti
toxin, which. when applied to the eyes
and nOstrils OF hay fever patients IN
whom the local symptoms have been
produced artihcially by the previous
employment Of the toxin. immediately
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

quells the subjective symptoms. and
in few minutes causes the objective
signs to subside.
Grasses appear to be the chief Offend
ers in causing the affection, for Prof
Dunbar has failed to discover the toxin
in the pollen of roses and many other
flowers. The toxin was obtained in
sufficient quantity for experimental
purposes by extracting the crushed
pollen of maize with saline solutions
at the body temperature for about sly
hours, and by precipitating the toxin
from the solution with alcohol. The
ant-toxin was obtained by injecting the
toxin into horses. A full report OF
Prof. Dunbars investigations will be
welcomed with considerable amount
OF interest BY the medical profession
at large.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

AT the end of tine year 1902 the
Russian army had 1886 generals. Of
whom 129 We're ''polmije generalue"
full generals), 3S7 lieutenant generals
and $40 major generals. The average
age of these generals was SO years for
the FULL generals. 90 years for the
lieutenant generals and Sc years for
the major generals. F'ifty-eight per
cent. of all the generals have seen ac-
tive warfare and four of them are over
80 years of age.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

None of these, probably, were dam
aged as fictionsts by their experience
as Journalists, but Mr.. Allen believed
that If he ever got into the hapt OF
writing under pressure-of having TO
complete his work at a certain time
he would fall into careless methods
from which he would never recover
And so it was that one day. some six
teen or eighteen years ago, when
friend advised him to relieve the stress
of the situation by turning to news
paper work, Allen answered that he
could not do it.
Il am going to succeed along. the
lines l have laid out or starve," he
said; Just now I am starving mostly,
but the tide will turn bye and bye
and then / shall be glad that 1 have
never modified my original plan in the
least"
Bliss Carman, the poet-critic
whose review of The Mettle OF the
Pasture" is making him almost as
much talked about as Mr.. Allen him
self, did not begin with the notion of
adhering rigidly to literary effort in
his work
Mr.. Carman is one of those who de-
sired rapid success, and could not
brook the idea of the very meager in
come that would have been his had he
declined to accept journalism as a help.
Ten or twelve years ago he was writ
ing newspaper transients for anyone
who would buy them, and at that time
he produced newspaper verse in great
quantities. In the opinion of the writ
er of this letter, Mr.. Carman's style
did not suffer from his newspaper ex-
perience; on the contrary, 1t was prob
ably improved thereby. Certainly his
early manuscript, like that of every
young writer for the newspapers, was
sometimes edited most severely. His
verses ~ en- have zen blue-penCit-d We
fore now, when the editor thought the
pencil would better the meter or the
idea, and his specials were often chop
ped UP and cut down with great Sc
verify in those early days. The writer
who is never subject to the newspa-
per's demands for conciseness and di-
rectness is very likely to become diff
fuse and involved in his style, and there
is no question at all that many of the
literary successes of to-day who be-
gan as journalists owe much to the
rough blue pencil of the man at the
desk, who insists that whatever is said
shall be said in the briefest and most
direct manner possible.
Bliss Carman is now devoting most
of his talent to essays and criticism,
and is making a better mark in those
directions for himself than most writ
ers who make these their speciality.
He appears to criticise with honesty, to
be uninfiuenced by personal feeling and
to avoid both the bludgeon and the
soft-soaO ladle.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

1t is interesting to note the way in
which writers who come from south of
Mason and Dixon's line are making
themselves felt in the literary field.
Mr.. Allen is'spending most of his time
in Kentucky. where he was born and
bred, but the majority of the Southern
writer's currently before the public
dwell here or in this vicinity.
Martha Williams, author
of Next to the Ground" is one of
these. 1t is only fair to her to say,
however, that her residence in the Me-
| tropolis is more a matter of conven-
fence than of choice. If she could do
as she liked she would undoubtedly
dwell in Tennessee, which is her ma,
tive state. To her there is no other land
so fair. It's mountains are the bluest
its grass the greenest, its flowers the
brightest, it's skies the clearest, it's
trees the noblest, it's streams the most
sparkling in all the world. But the
publishing houses are not there.
Mrs. Williams is one of those who
has followed the path of journalism as
well as the pursuit of literature, and
without the slightest deterioration of
her literary style as a result. She is
fertile of invention and her short sto-
ries are legion in number. They appear
everywhere, in the magazines, the
weeklies and the daily newspapers
Her verse is graceful and character
istic. OF her book, Next to the
Ground" which was written along en-
tirely original lines, it is said that the
sale is constantly growing at the pres
ent time, though it was issued from
the press more than year ago.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09
BOOK TALK IN NEW YORK
James Lane Allen and The MettIe of the Pasture

1t Attracting Attention from All Classes Of Readers-Bss
Carmans Criticism Thereof and the Answers to 1t That
Have Been PrntedMr Aliens FondneSs for Discussing
the Problems of Married Life in His Books.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

One important element in the sue
cess of the three writers mentioned
above is the circumstances that each
has something to write about. Each
has studied humanity deeply and low
ingly, being quite aware that one who
knows little of his fellow men and
women is ill-equipped to write inter-
estingly for them.
Undoubtedly the cause of failure on
the part of many bright young man
and woman who has come to this town
in search of literary career has been
the lack of just such study. There are
many aspirants to literary success who
believe it possible to win by the mere
stringing together of words in grace
full combination. There is scarcely an
editor to-day who would not tell you,
were he willing to say anything about
it. that at least as much manuscript is
rejected because it shows no knowledge
of humanity on the part of the writer
as because it is not well written. In
this day of general education the per-
centage of people who can produce ac-
ceptable English is larger than ever
before. and the percentage of those
| who wish to write for a living is al
most past belief. Not one in ten of
| these, however. understands the ne
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-09

New York. Aug. Stew books pub
nshed recently have caused so much
discussion in the public press as James
Lane Aliens novel. The Mettle of the
PASTURE"
One of the New York papers that is
sues a literary review every Saturday
morning has just devoted nearly a
page to letters from readers, brought
out by Bliss Garments review of the
book. and discussing it's ethics.