Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-07-20
aHAPPY" IS HoMEsIcK.
.Still Going Some", He Says
Hair Holds the Job.

at Willmar, Minp., and want to
thank you for them. I was get
ting mighty homesick for sight
of the Gazette.
The weather up in Minnesota
was something awful; rained all
the time and half the state was
under water. We like that fine
as we were living in a tent all the
time. I was mighty homesick
for Corvallis for a while. The
weather finally got better and we
had a fine time. The weather
now is as hot as the hinges on the
secretary'sdesk downin perdition.
1 don't want very much of this
country in the summer or the
winter; it is all right in the spring
or in the fail, but In the summer
or winter it is fierce.
I will tell you something about
the life with the show and that is
all I can tell you about myself.
I arrived in Rockford, from
Portland, all right and found
word waiting for me (not Tom
Word to join the show at Mime
apolis and we have been hitting
it up ever since. We have eight
people with us and we are max
ing good right along. We are
handling the Navajo Indian Rem
edies and we have DR.. Jim Long
(White Spear at the head of the
company. We have three full
blood Navajo Indians and two
actors and one actress besides my
self. I am a combined actor,
lecturer and salesman and am
kept pretty busy most of the time.
Doc Jim pays good salaries and
every body seems to be satisfied.
/ arm well and fat and cam t com
plain cnly about the weather..
We stop from two to ten days In
each town and we manage to get
wei enough acquainted that We
can have a pretty good time in
every town. I have three hours
work in the afternoon aud three
hours work after supper and the
rest of the time is my own. I get
500 a month and board, the In
dians get $50 month the two ac-
tors get 800, the actress $40 and
Doc Jim gets 5000 month,
so you see we are doing some
business all the time.
Now if my hair was not long
and luxuriant I could not hold
my Job for a minute and I would
be sticking type in some country
print shop this hot weather at $12
"per", while as it is I am able
to be out of doors most of the
time, and what is more I am hav-
ing a good time along with it.
The show was FIVE weeks in
Minnesota and will be IN Iowa
until it closes, which will be
about the end OF July. We will
have six weeks of aud then open
in Indiana. If they stay around
in the Central States this winter
1 will not stay with them; it will
be me back to Oregon, for Ore
gon looks good to me in the win
ter. l think l will have to come
back to Corvallis in November
anyway on account of those Club
trials, unless they are settled be-
fore then, because I promised Mr..
Bryson 1 would come back as a
witness and am going to do it.
tell you that there is no coun-
try like Oregon, to me, and I am
coming back some time TO stay.
1 want to live in the Willamette
Valley some more. Why, I have
not heard the word ''Hops"
since I have been out in this coun-
try; 1 don't think they know what
they are.
have beenin two train wrecks,
one cyclone and was in a b ouse
that was struck with lightning,
and am still going some. 1 was
in the cyclone that tore through
Murdock, Mimi, and I got out
with slight scare. I assisted in
putting out the FIRE that was
started by lightning in the house
where I was staying in Minneap-
oils, and I got out of two wrecks
on the Great Northern with fe "
scratches. I guess I was some
| lucky.