Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-04-04
GREAT
CATTLE
COUNTRY
Editor Suggests Exhibit for
Lewis and Clark Fair

having passed another 10 degrees of
longitude, and illustrating another old
rule of arithmetic that Is degrees of
longitude were equal to one hour of
time. 1t seems funny to wake up in
the morning, and find you have slept
an hour longer, according to your
watch, than you really have. But life
is full of illusions In sailing around
the world you would come to a point
where the day changes and you lose or
gain day by the calendar, according
to which way you are going, east or
west. There may be place in eterni-
ty where we lose all account of time.
1t is four nights and three days
ride from Salem to st. Paul over the
Northern Pacific, 9104 miles. About 80
hours of this is required to cross Mon
tana, and SO hours more across North
Dakota and Minnesota. The endless
folding brown hills at this season are
without a spear Of vegetation and still
the herds of cattle Craze in content
ment. Here is the raw material for
the beef trust millions.
Garrison, Mont, is the center of a
great cattle country. There are some
sheep, but more goats. The country Is
free of mines and smelters. The air is
cool. crisp. clear, bracing. There are
no diseases and NO deaths. All con-
sumptives recover who go out and rustic
with the stock. There are no eeme-
teries, and in fact you travel from one
end of Montana to the other without
seeing one.
The best proof that the Northern Pa
cifc has a good track is found in the
fact that, if for any reason, train
gets behind time an hour or two, II
soon makes it up. The road has reserve
power. Its trains are not worked nj
to the limit, as on many roads. W.
took on extra cars at Spokane, an'
were two hours late at Helena, wher'
they were cut out. At Miles City W
were on time.
At the Livingston, n. D., depot, som
miserable fellow had defaced an oi
painting of Robert Burns with chal
II marks, and it cost me good clea
Ie handkerchief to wash the Scotch poet
A. face. 1t is bad enough in our degenei
ate, commercial age to use the portrai
Il of Burns for cigar advertisement, bu
IS to scratch it over with chalk at tn
n hands of an unappreciative wanda
ought to be made crime.
,e If the Lewis and Clark commissioner
want TO do something to really pleas
their Eastern visitors they will fit u
room to be filed with Tracy and Mel
rill relics 1t is said to be fact tina
some of the murderous paraphernali
employed by the James boys and Col
Younger attracted more attention
the St Louis fair than the wonderfr
educational exhibit, Such is unrecor
structed human nature. The grisly re
les of Tracy's career, including hi
skull, would be a drawing card.
Met an Indian Belle.
Travelling across the continent on
meets some richly dressed women, bu
an Indian woman of the Flathead trib'
who got on at a little station in tn
Yellowstone valley, was the owner
~, an Indian buckskin dress, trimmed wit
elk teeth, which was told is considere
= to be the most valuable gaSment OF tn
sort now in existence. Over 1900 el
" tusks covered this squaw's dress, an
most of them were good specimen
They represent, Of course, the death
not less than $50 bull elk. IL is nc
known where all the elk were obtaine'
The garment was finished in 1874, an
e was used as state robe for the VII
Of Little Boy, a chief Of the kio"
w tribe. II became one of the state robe
Of that people, and after the death
the chiefs wife, was worn by kiow
Anna, reigning belle Of the tribe
was lost by the Kiowas ia skirmi-
US with anothe tribe Chief Lone Wolf, y
TX next owner, gave II 90 his niece "a
Lone Wolf. There is perhaps no bh
dress Of America which has a long'
or more authentic history, nor is thei
any bah dress Of a white woman whi'
St. has more value than this savage "
10 mans robe, come down from anoth'
dav. There were enough teeth on thi
sauaw's pettieOat to decorate eye'
= member Of the Salem lodge, and gi'
i've extra 70 Hal Patton, Harry Abe
and Frank Feller.
Inter Mountain Prices.
Living is not 50 high at Butte, Mon
on a. one might think. Everybody
Of Meat Market" advertised March ~