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Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

plOye Of the Roosevelt ranch In Nerth
Dakota:
II saw the colonel get a fine sheep one day.
He and Bill and / were sitting on the porch,
taking 1t easy, when Bill says: 4 saw a
sleeps track up on that butte yesterday
pointing to the range right In front of US,
across the valley. A Rocky mountain sheep
Is about the rarest game we get out there.
Bill had no more than got the words out
OF his mouth when something poked its
head up over the edge Of the cliff. There's
the sheep now says Roosevelt. No, l
believe it's a black tailed antelope and I've
a mind to go after him.
+" Black tailed nothing said Bill. That's
the whitest tailed antelope you ever saw
"By this time the colonel was creeping up
the river, with his rife. We two sat still
and watched him. The air was calm and
clear as a bell, and when he was a half mile
on VIC could hear every word we said. 'He
ought to keep to the left and climb that
~eoulee,' said Bill, never thinking the colonel
would hear him. But he did keep to the
left and began crawling up the butte, which
was all hutted with gullles. Gimme them
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

many thousands of the people passed In
line and shook hands with the president.
After the reception President Harrison Wis
tied The Bee Offices and rested for a time
in the editors office. At 8 o'clock in the
afternoon the president was driven to the
high school grounds and gave a short ad-
dress to the children. The party were then
driven to the home of Alvin Saunders where
they took lunch before returning 10 the
train and taking their way to Kansas City.
The three days and a half spent by Presi-
dent Mckinley in Omaha during the Trans
mississippi Exposition are so near yet that
they are in the memory OF all people. It
was 8 o'clock in the evening Of October IL,
1898. when the special train arrived in the
city, bearing the president and his party,
among whom were Secretaries Gage of
Treasury, Bliss of Interior, Wilson of Agrl-
culture, Postmaster General Smith. Lieu
tenant General Nelson A. Miles and many
other men Of the nations affairs.
The night Of the arrival OF President Nc
Kinley the electric parade OF the knights
Of Ak-Sar-Ben was repeated for his benefit.
Wednesday was presidents day at the ex-
position and the grounds were thronged
from morning to midnight with people. The
president was on the grounds from IL
o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at
night. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon he held
a reception in the government building and
at 6 O'Clock a dinner was given in his
honor at the Markell cafe on the grounds.
Thursday morning following he took his de-
parture and returned but once afterward.
That was on May 2S, 1901, when he was
returning with Mrs. Mckinley from the
coast after her serious illness there and the
president lett the car only for a few min
utes while II stood at the Union station.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

In 1887 President Cleveland and his June
bride were in the city for barely an hour,
arriving at 1880 in the morning, and were
driven about the city as far west as Twenty
second street and as far south as Brownell
hall. Arrangements had been made for him
to deliver a five-minute speech, but he asked
to be excused from doing so.
The train on which President Cleveland
and his wife, Daniel Lamont, Colonel Bis
sell and Postmaster General and Mrs. villas
arrived was met at Council Bluffs by a
party of Omaha citizens in a private car,
which was coupled on to the presidential
train and brought to Omaha with 1t. The
party that met him included Congressman
]. a. McShane. Judge ]. M. Woolworth,
Senator Henderson, DR.. George L. Miller,
e.. w. Holdrege, w. A.. Paxton, General G.
B. Dandy, Max Meyer, Hon. James e. Boyd
and Hon. Charles H. Brown. When the
train reached the center of the Missouri
river bridge Congressman McShane deliv-
cred an address Of welcome and was given
the sobriquet of mayor at once and unwit-
tingly by the president.
On the morning of May 10, 1891, President
Benjamin Harrison arrived In Omaha from
Lincoln. He was accompanied by his son,
Russell Harrison and Mrs. Russell Harri-
son, his daughter, Mrs. Mckee. Mrs. Dim
mock, whom he afterwards married, and
Secretaries Wanamaker and Rusk. Mayor
Cushing, Senator Henderson, Governor
Thayer, Ex-Governor Saunders and Hon. ].
G. Gown acted as an escort to the presi-
dent on HIS entrance to the city. President
Harrison spoke from a platform erected at
the northeast corner Of the courthouse
grounds, addressing one of the largest
throngs that ever assembled in Nebraska.
Afterwards he rendered a public reception
in the court OF The Bee building. when
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

AZ Just brought him over from the
stock yards this week. responded the rough
rider rather breathlessly. He had never
been ridden when l got him. There was
no time for more words and the Mexican
bit drew the fractions steed into line be-
hind the carriage"
Before arriving In Omaha Mr.. Roosevelt
had visited a lot OF other western cities
and states, just as he has done on his
present trip. He had been in Wisconsin,
Minnesota. North and South Dakota, Mon
tana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Kansas.
In Nebraska he had spent four days pasa-
ing through forty-four of the ninety coun-
ties and all six of the congressional ais
tricts. speaking to many thousands along
the way.
Since the first Omaha visit the city has
been disappointed in not receiving another
that planned for last fall, which ended ut
Indianapolis owing to the presidents ply
steal condition. Extensive arrangements
wore made for the visit In connection with
the Ak Sar-Ben festivities and the an
ticipated presence of the chief executive OF
the nation widely advertised. He then
promised TO come in the spring to Omaha
and 9th r western cities that he had missed,
and he is keeping good his word.
As On his first inspection OF Omaha
President Roosevelt will find the city in
the throes Of a political battle. This time
the contentious are narrowed TO the bound
aries of the city. but the excitement runs
almost as high, the occasion lacking only
the lavish display that only national cam
paign exchequers can supply.
But the president himself will come re-
freshed and vigorous from a solitary and
unmolested Journey into Yellows;o one park.
He will reach the city while there is yet
daylight, will ride through the principal
main streets and will be at his leisure to
observe various features of the city, ply
steal and otherwise. While there will be
crowds and generous expression of delight
at his presence there will not be the
thirty-seeond degree expression of II that
he encountered before. In other words, he
will have moro chance to enjoy himself az
is BETTING the head Of the nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

~N THE EVENING OF October 4,
1900, a very distinguished and a
- very tired man stepped from a
An special train at the Webster
@ street station into the hands of
a committee Of Omaha political leaders,
headed by Mayor Moores, Howard Bald
ridge, Edward Rosewater, John G. Gown,
c. ]. Greene, David II. Mercer, j. G.
Wharton and w. s. Summers. The tired
man was not allowed to rest. It was the
FIRST time he had ever been in Omaha, and
he looked sooty and grimy and fatigued
despite a tall hat and his black Prince
Albert coat.
Some 49, 900 persons had been intent upon
his coming for hours, however, and for the
good Of the republican party the tired
talker proceeded for Ave hours to ex-
emplify what he meant when he said
strenuous life" Omahans have not for
gotten their taste Of 1t. More than 10000
persons gathered in four different places
heard sharp, ringing words fall from the
lips of the man who wanted Mckinley
elected again and was willing to cease
being governor Of New York state to fight
for an election as vice president and help
to keep the republican president in office.
Three times as many caught a view of his
features as he passed through the streets.
That was President Theodore Roosevelt's
first visit to Omaha. He reached Omaha
about 8 o'clock in the evening from the
west after a four days campaign tour of
Nebraska, and he left town about midnight
via the Illinois Central, enroute through
Iowa. During those four hours Omaha was
a blaze Of glory and a blare of sound. The
Ak-Sar-Ben Nominations glowed again after
q weeks darkness, and the city and thou
sands of visitors fiocked down town to view
Roosevelt. Enthusiasm as he passed
through the streets reached a point prop
eTly termed grand, and the spell OF intense
nervous excitement produced by the ex>
pectant assembling of thousands in the city
by night hung tense and splendid every
moment of the time Governor Roosevelt
spent in Omaha. Everywhere there was
energy, effort, noise, excitement, light and
voices. 1t was one of those times in the midst
Of a national political campaign when people
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opery glasses said Bill-he always called
the coloneIs field glasses opery-and
just then the colonel fred. That was
enough for us. and Bill and I went after
him as hard as we could.
Did you get your antelOpeT' called Bill.
as the colonel stuck his head up from be-
hind a boulder.
TITS a sheep yelled the colonel. push
ing the eritter up over the rock in front OF
him. It's a sheep. by George. and l shot
him through the heart
my last hunt with Colonel Roosevelt was
late In November. / guess he and I remem-
Der II mainly because We both froze our
ears getting home to the ranch. He was
anxious 10 kill a mountain ram before he
went back east. It's all right to shoot
Rocky Mountain sheep, but a whaeking big
ram with horns spread like all out doors is
different. So we both made up our minds
he must have a RAM. and started early in
the morning over the divide between the
Yellowstone and the Little Missouri rivers.
by that time Of the year the bunch
grass was so brown you couldn't tell It
from the rocks. The country looked about
as desolate as you can imagine. The buttes
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raised their Jagged edges against q cold
gray sky and the only color in the landscape
was in the sandstone and porphyFy strata
of the cliffs. We had 4 hard time of It
making our way up to the crest of the
divide. and just as we got there, along
tOward evening. / saw something moving
ahead of Us.
Easy now says /. and yOum get your
RAM 'where?' says he. and l could see by
his voice he was all on thorns. We had
worked hard for this very chance. He had
his $3.50 rife swinging easy over HIS left
arm. / pointed about 400 yards In front of
us q little down the ridge. 1t was one Of the
finest rams 1 ever saw. his long brown hair
SO much lighter in color than an ewes that
he stood out ~tolerably plain. even among
the bouIders and at that distance.
II was bust pointing the critter out when
he faced about. lifted his big horns over a
rock he'd been grazing behind and caught
sight Of us against the sky line. There hs
goes / yelled, for twas no use keeping
quiet any longer. Maybe that ram didn't
CONTINUED on Page Fourteen.)
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

Il a Nth the coming Of President
wv Roosevelt to Omaha on Monday
N the people of Omaha enter on to
&41EHl the fifth era OF presidential en-
~ t~ertainment, for already four Of
the presidents of the United States have
entered the gates Of the city while holding
the executive office, and four times has the
city, through it's officers and people well
coined and cheered the president. Yet these
visits reach over a period of twenty-eight
years and the presidents being in Omaha is,
as it always will be, an event.
The first of the presidents to come to
Omaha was President Ulysses s. Grant, and
that was way back in 1875. 1t was the
morning of October 1 when the presidential
train arrived in Council Bluffs and was met
by a party of Omaha officials and men
prominent in Omaha. The presidential
party, which included, besides the presl-
dent and his wife, Colonel Fred D.. Grant
and his wife. ex-Secretary of the Navy A.
Boree and his wife and son, Secretary of
War w. w. Belknap, General Babcock,
General Alvord. General MeFeely, General
Vincent, General william Myers, General
M. ]. Myers, Colonel Benjamin and Colonel
Crosby. were brought from the Council
Bluffs transfer to Omaha on a special train,
which was decorated with bunting. As the
train pulled into the station in Omaha the
artillery from the barracks fired the presi-
Dental salute and the Twenty third in
fantry band struck up with a national air.
Amid the shouts and cheers of a great
~eOncourse Of people. that had come from
all of eastern Nebraska, the president was
escorted from the train to the carriage in
waiting for him. The others of the party
followed and took their places in the car
Eiages and were driven slowly up Tenth
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

west and settled Town to the life
81 a ranchman in the widest part Of the
northwest, the Little Missouri country.
Many tales OF his career in the bad lands"
as that picturesque region is called in the
west, have been told. and Mr.. Roosevelt
himself has made familiar some of his ex-
periences in his books. His Ranch Life in
the West" one of the best known works on
the topic, Is especially interesting for the
reason tina II deals with the topic first
hand and not from hearsay, being the result
of his actual experience on a ranch and
with the men TO be met there. A great
many stories have been published concern
ing the experience OF the president on his
trips to the mountains of the west in
search OF big game, but the majority OF
these are apocryphal. Some are founded
on fact, though, and one Of the best is the
account of how he killed his hrst mountain
sheep. 1t is thus related by Fred Herrig,
who was a member Of Troop X Of the D
Rough Riders, and who was also an EN-
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26
Roosevelt, Burroughs and Yellowstone Park

YNESTERN people have known the
president for at least twenty
- years, just that length of time
<8 having elapsed since he came out
- west and settled down to the life
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-26

THE EVENING of October 4.
1900, a very distinguished and a
very tired man stepped from a
special train at the Webster
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-23
THURSDAY, JULN %, 1908
ELECTING A POPE

There are three valid modes of elect
ing q pope-by ballot, by compromise
aud by acclamation. Election by bal
lot is the ordinary way. Since the
thirteenth century elections have usu-
ally been made in this way with rea-
sonable dispatch.
After the death of pope the cardl-
mails who are absent are immediately
10 be summoned to the conclave by
one OF the secretaries Of the Sacred col
lcge, and the election is to begin on the
tenth day after the death. In what
ever city the pope dies there it must be
held. Wilma ten days the conclave
must be constructed in the Papal pal
ace or in some other suitable edlfice.
The large halls of the palace are so di.
vided by small partitions as to furnish
. number OF sets of apartments all
opening on a corridor, which are dis
tributed by lot, two for an ordinary
cardinal and three for one of extraor-
Urinary IduN' mere Vie CaIulIlalS iluSl
remain until they have elected pope
Before the election begins each cardi-
nal goes through the formalty Of prov
ing his identity and right to be present
at the conclave. The balloting tax es
place in the prebytery before the alter
There have been 1913 Italians in the
chair of st. Peter, IA Greeks, Ia French.
men, Syrians, 6 Germans, 4 Bavar-
ians, Spaniards, Africans, Sardin.
ians, > Dalnnatians, . Burgundians,
Saxons, l Thracian, Belgian and
Englishman adrian ", 1l54-ll59)
The nationality Of the others cannot be
determined.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-23
sHERIFES SALE OF REAL ESTATE

By virtue of an order of sale issued out of the
Superior Court of the state of Washington, for
the county of San Juan, and to me directed and
delivered, for a judgment of foreclosure render
ed in said Court the 9TH day of July A. ID. 1903,
in favor of Winfield X. Smith, plaintiff and
against Sten K. Larson and Annie Larson his
wife; and Eliza Harriet Jane Daily and Philip
Daily, her husband, defendants. for the sum of
$78oS4 with interest at the rate of 10 per cent.
from its date until paid and $3I IS costs of suit
have levied upon the following described real
estate, to-wt:
Lot one ~, Section fourteen (I4), and Lot two
(2) Section fifteen (I5), in Township thirty-four
(34) North, Range two (2) West, w. M, contain
ing 32.4o acres; situate, lying and being in San
Juan County, State of Washington.
Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the
9Th day of August, A. ID. 1908, at the hour of 10
O'Clock a. m. of said day. at the Court House
door, in Friday Harbor, i'll said county of San
Juan, will sell all the right title and interest
of the said Sten K. Larsen and Annie Larson,
his wife and Eliza Harriet Jane Daily and Philip
Daily her husband, defendants, in and to the
above described real estate, to the highest and
best bidder, to satisfy said execution and all
costs
Given under my hand this 9TH day of July
A. d. 1903.
w. H. McCrary,
Sheriff of San Juan County, Washington.
First publication, July g, 1908.
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turned aside. 1t was a DARK. Ioggy
day, you remember, and the man might
have clutched her by the throat to pre-
vent an alarm and carried her to the
storehouse. He took great risks, but
was not discovered. ! have always
felt much grieved over the fate of that
poor girl"
what motive do you think the MUIR
derer had?' asked.
Probably to don her clothes and
pass out to liberty"
"But why didn't he carry out his
plan"
probably something threw him off
his nerve as he approached the wicket.
He could have gone out unQuestioned,
but something happened to make him
suspect that he would be nabbed."
"And you will not confess, realizing,
as you must, Inat death is not tar
awayY
'My dear man." Horton replied as
smile played over his pale face, let's
talk about that tunnel and drop all dis
NAL subjects. So all of you called 1t
an excellent bit Of civil engineering.
Ell? Well, think it was. was very
proud of that tunnel, and l sometimes
felt like going back to have look at
it."
Four hours later he was dead, pass
ing away as peacefully as If he had
never shed drop Of human blood.
M OTIAD
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-23
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO LEASE
COUNTY REAL ESTATE

Notice is hereby given that the County Com
missioners of san Juan county, state OF WASH
ington propose to lease Lot I, OF BLOCK I, Walei
Front Addition to the Town of Friday Harpor,
San Juan county, washishton according to the
recorded plat thereof, on file i'll the county
auditors Office of said county, and to when piaa
reference is hereby especially madel with lne
appurtenanceS, for term OF not less tnah one
nor more than ten years, to the highest responi,
sible bidder rental price to be cash, Pa,d
i'll advance at the beginning OF each leaseno'u
year.
Any lease of said premises will be made only
on the condition and understanding that say
county reserves to itself road and street risnf
of-way over and across said described lo's u
land, approximately as the same is useo any an
travelled by the public over the same at ihi'
time. s<
This notice is made under, and based on, tnal
certain order of the Board OF County S0m III,
sioners made on the 9TH day of July, A u. i9os
relative TO this matter, which SAID oiuef ro M
pears of record at page 10, VOL 4, County Son
missioners Journal of said county. n.,,.
Notice is hereby further given that the Soua :,
ty Commissioners of said county will meet meet, a.
the county auditors Office, in the county Sot t
House, at Friday Harbor San Juan eoanI1
Washington, on the 5th day OF August std a. day,
1903, at the hour of O'Clock p. IN. OF said esy y
for the purpose of leasing said properly. cent
lease of said property will be subject 10 press
lease on same. .s IN
The San Juan Islander" the official newsPsPhe
of said county, and that copy OF SAID holise
posted according to law. the
The said Board of Commissioners reserve h;ds
right to reject any and all applications anu said
made under said order and this NOTICE ioi
described real estate and property; oorrty
Dated at Friday Harbor, San Juan coaA'''
Washington, this 9TH day ofJuly, A. ID; 1875
PETER BQSTIAN'
VIM GRAHAM,
County Commissioners of San Juan @0''''
Attest: FRED K. KIRBY,
Clerk of County commiss'oas"
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politan of the Roman Province, Sow
ereign of the Temporal Dominions of
the HQly Roman Church"
A Powder Spray for Orchards

A press dispatch from Columbia,
Missouri, says that DR.. r. M. Bird, of
the Missouri Experiment Station, has
made discovery that will be wei
cpmed by all fruit growers aud horti-
cultursts. It is Il dry powder FOR spray
ing fruit trees and has proved more
deadly to all insects affecting the trees
and plants than the liquid sprays now
in use. 1t is II very fine powder which
contains copper in the same form that
occurs in the liquid mixture.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-07-23

The death of Pope Leo XIII. closes
one of the longest and worthiest ca
reers in the entire history of the Cath
Ollie Church. A broad-minded, kindly
man, of high intellectual attachments
and the loftiest aspirations he welded
the immense power of the papacy for a
quarter of century not alone for the
advancement of the great church of
which he was the head, but for the
good of humanity everywhere. Ever
a powerful advocate of peace and a
close student of social problems, he
welded very potent influence against
Socialism, nihilism aid all efforts to
bring about political reforms through
violence. He combined the talents of
statesman with those Of a scholar as
well as a churchman, and it may we'll
be questioned if any of the long line OF
his predecessors in all the centuries
covered by the history of the church
accomplished more real good for Christ
,anity and humanity. His successor
will do well if he makes for himself as
great a place in the esteem of the
Protestant as we'll as the Catholic
wsrld.
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certain order of the Board of County Comms
sioners, made on the 9TH day of July, A. d. 1908,
relative to this matter, which said order ap-
pears of record at page IS, Vol. 4, County Com
missioners Journal of said county.
Notice is hereby further given that the Coun-
ty Commissioners of said county will meet at
the county auditors Office, in the county Court
House, at Friday Harbor San Juan county,
Washington, on the 5th day of August A. d.
1908, at the hour OF o'clock p. m. of said day,
for the purpose of leasing said property Any
lease of said property will be subject to present
lease on same.
1t is ordered that this notice be published In
''The San Juan Islander" the official newspaper
of said county, and that copy of said notice be
posted according to law.
The said Board of County Commissioners re-
serve the right to reject any aud all appliea-
tons and bids made under said order and this
notice, for said described real estate .and prop
erty.
Dated at Friday Harbor San Juan county,
Washington, this 9TH day of July, A. d. 1908.
ISAAC SANDWITH,
PETER BOSTIAN,
VIM. GRAHAM,
County Commissioners of San Juan County
Washington.
Attest: PRED E. KIRBY.
Clerk of County Commissioners
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NOTICE OF SALE OF COUNTY LAND

Notice is hereby given that will offer for sale
at the front door of the Court House In Friday
Harbor, San Juan County, Washington, on Sat
urday. August I, 1908, at the hour of 10 O'Clock
a. m, TO the highest and best bidder, the fol.
Port Stanley, San Juan County, Washington
said tots being the property of San Juan Coun-
ty, having been acquired at tax sale:
Lots to 10 in Block 3, Lot 3 in Block s, Lots
s, II, II, Is, ID, IS and I6, ali in Block TO- and
Lots and in Black II, all in the aforesaid
town.
the day of sale for any lots purchased at said
sale.
Witness my hand this 10th day of July, A. d.
1875.
st en-. TUCKER, County treasurer