Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-11-16
AN entertaining STORY.
OF a Trip to CaIifornia-Touch=
ing the High Places.

In his characteristic and very
entertaining style Ruthyn Tur-
ney, editor of the Gazette, writes
friend Of his trip from Corval-
lis to Los Angeles, where he is
visiting for few weeks with his
parents. He left this city ten
days ago, and his letter says:
Saturday 1 caught the over
land out of Albany at noon. l
preferred to ride in the smoking
car for awhile. Every car was
filed to the utmost and seats
were at premium. AS I can
yassed the smoker for resting
place the chances of securing a
seat appeared small, but finally 1
struck an old man of some 90
odd years who made room tor
me. He proved to be one Ezra
Town, a capitalist, who has in
vestments in Minnesota and Cal
ifornia. He was en- route to the
latter place and we travelled in
d company to Goshen Junction.
south of Fresno. in California.
He was a companionable old
chap-an old soldier and good
smoker.
On our train were people of all
,nationa]ities. AS we rode
through Southern Oregon a wo-
man got on the train and located
in the smoking car. The con-
ductor suggested TO her that the
proper atmosphere for a non
smoking woman was not to be
found in a smoker. This sug-
gestion was not kindly received
and there was that in the eyes
of the female which indicated
that nothing short of violence
would remove her from the car
she had selected, so the conduc-
tor wisely dropped the matter.
Perhaps he was doubtful of the
outcome of a personal encounter,
scratching, hair-pulling, etc.
On the train through Southern
Oregon there was peculiar in
dividual who in his own mino
was the source of all wisdom.
Ignoramus was written all ovel
him. His head was shaped after
some carrots that my father rails
ed when I was a boy; the eye:
were set high up in the temple
of acknowledgement least 90 pc
cent of the head was below the
eyes; the mouth was large ane
seemed to open and close noisl.
and constantly without menta
guidance; the ears were like ba
wings and after studying then
for some time felt certain tha
they were capable of Tapping
such is the kind of individual th
poor old S. P. must carry TO
coin of the realm.
While we were in Oregon
rained. 1t had also rained heav
ily in Northern California, bu
on Sunday morning as we pluns
ed down the mountains to th
Sacramento valley the sun wa
shining brightly and evervthin
seemed fresh and beautiful
There was an immense passengt
traffic and we were behind tin
an hour when we reached tt
Sacramento valley. The ros
was good, however, and we mat
up the lost time and pulled in
Davis according to schedul
Here we changed ca1s for Sacr
mento, a ride of about IS mile
We reached that city about $
M, Sunday, and found that l
train departed for Los Angel
before 1910 next morning.
rained quite hard in the capt.
city that night and the peoE
were rejoiced.
To pass the time Sunday eve
ing went to Clunies' theatI
where I witnessed production
Peggy from Paris" Geor
AIDES latest musical coined
The scene is laid in and ne
Chicago and the work is real
quite clever. There was moi
single individual voice of e
ceptional quality in the who
company, but the ensemble wo
was good. There was an acceI
able orchestral support under
direction of the composer of
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