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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
WEEKLY WEATHER BULLETIN
General Summary.

The first FIVE days of the week we're
very warm and temperatures of 100 de-
grees and over occurred in the William
et'e valley, Southern Oregon and in
the Columbia river counties east of
the Cascade mountains. The winds
during this hot spell were generally
light, and the damage, therefore, was
less than otherwise would have been
the case. The last two days were not
so warm, although the temperatures
continued above the norpal. Between
the Coast and the Cascade ranges of
mountains dry weather prevailed dur
ing the entire week Local rains oc.
CURED in few of the coast counties,
and the weather generally in this por.
tion of the state was cool, with con-
siderable fog at night and for few
hours in the early forenoon. During
the last three days the weather was
partly cloudy in the eastern counties,
and thunder showers occurred in many
places, but the precipitation attending
them was too light to be of any bene-
fit, except over limited areas.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
FREAK DISEASES IN ENGLAND,
Big Man Shrinking to Nothing; Small
Man Getting Very Big.

London, July 9.-Two very peculiar
cases ARE reported by tIhe medical pap
erts which are tine exact amtithesis of
each other. In Birmingham is man
who is gradualAy diminishing in size,
and in Manchester is another man who
is slowly getting bigge,
Sixteen years ago Albert Mfrs of
Birmingbam was Deary six feet tain,
weigIhing 100 pounds, and a big. stu-
dy robust man. am engrava1 by trade.
Today hes is shrlnlen ito hess than four
feet, aUl every bit of him except the
head is 4 ataual.y getting 10 infam'ile
size. He sleeps i'm al baby's cot. h
totally blind, but has ala his other
faculties His aifliction is known ae
osteomalachda 1t is very rare, and a
disease hitIheuto scarcely ever known
outside one dIatridt in northern Ita1y
and ONE ON the Rhine in Germamy
The bones turn to chalk, and flac,
ture at the slightest touchl and the
flesh becomes as wax, aut1 shrinks ii
Mn Mills lives fo,- another sixteen
years he will have wasted AWAY to a
meme doll. He is now 40 years old.
In the Royal Infrmary In Mauches.
tel is john Davis, AZ years odd. He
has dIi ease known as acromegaly,
also ras'c one, but known in the
United States at Bellevue hospital,
New York; The man has been grow
ing to absurd Proportions, even his
eyes growing larger He is so big now
that ho CANNOT walk, but II Is only a
matter of months before he will die.
A bed in tine hospital improviscd out
of six dbinary beds, is used by him.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
A Persuaded, Prisoner.

The resourceful man is the one who
succeeds There is deputy marshal In
Alabama who does not let any such
trihes as extradition laws stop him.
A writer in the Washington Post tells
a sto"y Of one Of his achievements.
When the tenn Of court was about to
begin one time a man who was out on.
bail was reported to be enjoying him.
self over in Georgia.
DepW'y Jim went after him. The
next day he telegraphed the judge.
81 have persuaded him to come. -
A few days later he rode into town
on a mule, leading his prisoner tied up
snugly with a clothesline. The prisoner
looked as if he had seen hard service.
"Why, Jiml" exclaimed the Judge,
you didn't make him walk all the way
from Georgia, did youi"
"No sir, " replied Jim.
81 thought mo-" /" said the Judge
NO" responded Jim, "part of the
way l drug him and when We come to
the Tallapoosa river he swum. The
Youths Companion,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
About Vacations.
(Dudley in Boston Globe J


Before the railway and the steam.
shir a few, only those of high degree
like Lord Bateman, went abroad, the
Strange countries for to see. A beggarly
lot of diligences handled the tourist
business in Europe, while the Boston
ians who had seen the White Noun
tains then could not have been much
more numerous than those who have
visited the Himalayas in our time. On
the seashore there were neither hotels
nor cottages. There are more shacks
around Boston harbor today, it is safe
to say, than there were summer homes
for the rich in all the land three quar-.
ters of century ago.
No provision formerly was made for
vacations in any employment.
See your own country, by all means,
before trying TO see other countries
This is not merely patriotic measure
1t is a selfish one.
For most of us here that is the best
solution of the problem. We need to
undertake no long journey to gain the
delights of the most varied vacation
ground in all the world. 1t lies at oua
door.
For all those who live outside Of New
England, however, it is comparatively
easy, They have an advantage over
us. There is only one thing for them
to do and that is to come to New
England.
The West is no less inviting and
there is no education to be derived
from travel more needed by New Eng
landers than that which study of the
spirit and achievements of the great
West afford. Everyone with the time
and the money should make that study
But no one can make it by leapine
from Chicago to Denver and then ia
Salt Lake and California.
The West is much more than two OF
three cities and half dozen freaks OF
nature. Go into its fields and it's mines
And above all see the homes of a won.
de-ful people, who, in two generations
have wrought a mighty empire out OF
a savage wilderness.
Lastly, those who are the mos. mar
rowly limited in their travels this sum
mer may console themselves with the
true reflection that the enjoyment of 9
vacation is not to be measured by days
or miles.
There are people who can see mor'
of the world in a mile than others caI
see in the entire circuit of the glob'
and derive more solid pleasure in al
hour than others can gain in a season
Your vacation is all in your mind
it is neither in your shoes nor in youl
purse pocket
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Caught l42.s7e dogs.

Constable Robert Lowell, who has
just retired from the metropolitan po-
lice force, claims that in his twenty.
three years. service as dogcatchor he
has captured no fewer than l42.076
dogs His comrades claim that he Is
the champion dogeateher Of the world.
He performed the ordinary duties of
a constable for three years prior TO be-
coming dogeateher. His greatest year .
work was done in 1896 when he con-
yeyed 1881 stray dogs TO the Batter
sea home. e.--London Express.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Tallow in the Lard.

George Fendrich, local butcher,
was yesterday found guilty Of having
sold adulterated lard 10 the officials
Of tho state prison. The defendant had
previously been found guilty OF the
same charge in the Justices court, and
had taken an appeal to the circuit
court, the lower court being sus-
tanned by the jury The specific charge
was that the butcher was mixing tallOw
with his lard which he had contracted
to furnish the penitentiary. Dairy
and Food Commissioner j. w. Bailey
appeared as private prosecutor, and
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Bear Tales.
(Forest and stneam.)

As sportsman / want TO say there
is no. sport in killing a pola- bear;
| lthey come right up to the ship; they
do not know what a human being is
and as result of their hunger and cur
iosity they come right up TO you. To
day there is in your National. Geological
Park in Washington a small bear call
ed Buster, a pola- bear. This member
was captured by the Ziegler relief ship
and was presented to the National 10.
illogical Park. / want to tell you in a
few words the story of this capture. To
me it appeals strongly, as II occurred
after we had been In the pack about
twenty days, or about $50 miles into
the pack. Wa were enveloped In a
very dense fog for three days, and
when the fog lifted on the sky line
we noticed very large bear with a
young cub. Everybody on board the
ship was quiet when we went into the
pack, though we knew there was moth
ing 20 fear, and we waited TO see what
those bears would do The mother
bear had evidently been hunting for
food for several days She eDcircled
the ship entirely and gradually worked
her way up to the ship. In the mean
time the doctor who was on board and
one of the harpoone-s and myself went
on the ice and erawled up toward tho
bear behind huge cake Of Ice, and
finally dispatched the old bear. As
usual thing when the mother Is shot
the cub win run away, but In this In
stance the cub sat over the mother and
fought us of. We fought her with ow
rifles and I finally sent tho hasPooner
back 10 the ship for more ropes and
more men We lassoed the cub and
brought II TO the ship ard In its efforts
to get back 20 its mother II nearly biz
It's tongue on. We made II fast TO the
deck, and that WAS about O'Clock in
the evening About 0 o'clock the little
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Indigestion.
With its companions, heart burn, fla

With its companions, heart burn, fat.
ulence, torpidity Of the liver, consti'
patton, palpitation of the heart, poor
blood. headache and other nervous
symptoms, sallow skin, foul tongue, of
fensive breath and legion Of other
ailments, is at once the most wide
spread and destructive malady among
the American people. The Herbine
treatment will cure all these troubles.
soc bottle. For sale by D. j. Fry.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Stories of Strange Fish.

'Dwelleas inland have little, if any,
idea of the size to which edible fishes
grow in the North Atlantic and the
men who catch these fish are themselves
often surprised at the immense size of
some of the speciments captured'' says
p. T. McGrath. "During the last year
or two, fo- some unknown and unex-
plainable reason, cod of enormous size
have been taken along the coast from
Massachusetts, TO Labrador, some weigh
ing as high as 100 pounds, while the
majority run from fifty to seventy
pounds, though an ordinary sized cod
rarely exceeds ten o. fifteen pounds.
The larger speciments were perfectly
normal in makeup, fat and meaty
all the way through, exhibited no signs
of being freaks and were found by re-
peated trials, to be as succulent as the
smaller ones. Photographs taken by
DIR. Grenfell and others show cod FIVE
or six feet long and weighing seventy
or eighty pounds. The number of these
secured annually is increasing steadily.
"Scientifc investigation by the fish
cries bureaus of the different countries
, concerned and statistics kept by the
fishing organizations show that the cod
and other good fishes are growing
smaller and harder to secure every
year.
| Latterly the United States fish com
restock the ocean with cod and other
! fish, but this fact could not account
for the large number of huge fish taken
of late, as most of these must be at
least dozen years of age, judging
| from their size and the known rate of
the cod IS growth.
"The most reasonable supposition
with regard to the coming of these
large cod is that they are fish which
resorted to some mid-ocean bank or
shadows, but have recently been driven
to land by some submarine convulsion
like an earthquake. This supposition is
confirmed by the fact that about IF
teen years ago the United States fish
commissions steamer Fishhawk, while
cruising in mid Atlantic, discovered
millions of fish of a new species, large
plumb and very palatable. As they
were found in boundless shoals, the
fishery experts on board, believed they
had discovered a new and perpetual
food-fsh supply. The species was
named the tile fish, and was figured
and described in the official reports.
But when the steamer returned year
later no live ones could be found, al
though millions of decomposed bodies
were floating on the surface.
"For some time il was feared that
all the fish of this breed had perished
from some unknown and terrible mail
aay, but few survivors were found
later on, though not enough to warrant
the prospect of the fish being hunted as
an article of food for many years.
No cause is known for the virtual ex.
termination of the species and the ex-
PLANTATION arrived at was that some
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
X-RAYS

White shoes are pretty, but they
undoubtedly make the wearer' 's feet an.
pear larger than the good old black
variety.
1t might make the punishment fit
the crime if the packers were com
PEELED to feed entirely on Gamers"
for year or two
AS only few of our insurance COM
panies are paying San Francisco loss.
es, the sudden raise of 25 per cent to
reimburse them for what they have not
lost looks much like highway robbery.
And now it is said the laundries are
not clean, and are unsanitary. The
coffin trust seems to be about the only
thing left where no kick is made about
germs.
If Oregon people who carry insur.
ance are wise, they will see what com
panies they are in, and if in one of
those that does not pay losses, they had
better cancel their policies and save
their money.
j. Ogden Armour says the packers
have not been given fair play by their
critics. The trouble with j. Og. is
that he wouldn't know fair play if he
met it in broad daylight, without an
Introduction.
General Miles has nothing to say
about the Chicago packers. He quit
eating their products some eight years
ago. when Eagan was furnishing beef
less beef to the American soldiers, and
swearing it was the best in the world.
Senator Depew will not resign, but
has concluded to go to Europe for the
summer. If the effete aristocracy of
Europe can stand the presence of the
old whited sepulchre the people on
this side of the pond will manage to
bear his absence.
When a man becomes temporarily
insane just long enough to commit a
brutal murder, the great American
jury should have a fit of temporary in
sanity long enough to find him guilty,
and the judge should take enough of
the same disease to sentence him to
be- hanged
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Twenty Year Battle.

"I was loser in a twenty-yea bat
tie with chronic piles and 'maligna Mt
sores, until tried Bnckfin's AEnica
Saiye; which turned the tide, by cur
ing both. till not trace remains ~
writes A. M. Bruce, Of Farmville, Va.
Best for old Ulcers, Cuts, Burns and
Wounds. 25c at J. C. Peuy's drug
store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10

earthquake must have created such a
submarine as destroyed them en- masse,
1t is probable that some such circum-
stance is now driving the big cod to
the seaboard and the hope of every
fsherman is that they will remain
there. -
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Tho rexas wonder.

Cures all kidney, bladder and rhsu-
matte trouble; sold by all druggists, or
two months treatment by mail for 81.
DR.. E. W. Hall, 1929 Olive street, 81.
Louis. Mo. Send for testimonials. Sold
by Stones drug stores. dw-lyr
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Public scales.

We have installed Ayeton. high
grade, Fairbanks scale. and are pre-
pared to do all kinds Of weighing, OK.
cept loose stock. Correct weights guar
anteea GIDEON SToLZ,
Corner Miller and Summer streets.
79lwk-w1t
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
Without a hitch.

I "You say the wedding went without
hitch9"
eyes. The fellow who was to be
hitched didn t show p."-Judge.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10

several officials at the prison appeared
as witnesses. The state chemist made
an analysis of the lard in question, and
found that considerable tallow had
been mixed into it.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10
! DR.. KUN
|onderful ChINESE,DOCTOR


Viii treat You with Oriental herbs
cure any disease without operation
pain.
pr. Kun is known everywhere in
lem, and has cured many prominent
$ple here. He has lived in Salem
20 yeras, and can be trusted. he
many medicines unknown to white
ttoIs, and with them can cure
arrh, asthma, lung troubles, rheu.
tism, stomach, liver, and kidney dis
les.
pr. Kun makes a speciality of dropsy
female troubles. His remedies
fe private diseases when everything
fails. He has hundreds Of testi-
rials, and gives consultation free.
pee for medicines very moderate.
sons in the country can write for
pk. Send stamp.
8 you want some extra fine tea, get
from us.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10

DIR. KUN BOW wo CO.,
South High street, Salem, Oregon
posite Hotel Salem. p. o. Box 1875.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10

j. Ogden Armour says the packer
have not been given fair play by the
critics. The trouble with j. Og.
that he wouldn't know fair play if /
met it in broad daylight, without a
Introduction.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-07-10

1t might make the punishment fit
the crime if the packers were com
pelled to feed entirely on Gamers"
for a year or two
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-23
Positive Men Needed.

General William II Draper writes to
the Boston Herald that he is not a can.
didate for the governorship Of Massa.
ehasetts, ana moreover, that "if were
anxious for that position ! think | am
too positive d character TO be selected
in these compromising times" While
we consider General Diapers altitude on
the tariff issue too extreme and rigid
10 stand the test Of time and change,
we do not at all agree with his sugges
tion that positive characters should not
run for office because these are so9mproms
Using times If they are compromising
times and there IS no doubt that many
politicians would like TO have them 10
there il all the more reason why men
with positive opinions should make those
opinions known and should both forward
them and test their strength with the
people by becoming candidates for Office
II would be far better for the parties
and the Commonwealth II the candidates
were not picked out with reference to
their supposed adaptability for comprom-
ising times. New Bedford, Mass, Stand
ard.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-23
cupants than the horse drawn vehicle. !

cupants than the horse-drawn vehicle
As yet the number Of auto accidents
at grade crossings Is comparatively small
in Vermont. But there was an illustra-
ton at Bennington short time ago,
in which two persons lost their lives
while attempting TO drive their car
across a railroad track. II was said
that in their case not only was the
crossing dangerous one, but the chauf-
feur Of the car was running in a reck-
less manner II is easy to understand
how the noise Of the chugging machine
would drown the roar Of an oncomiug
train, and thus put the occupants of
the car at disadvantage. In those
places where automobiles are coming to
be commonly used as teams, strong
sentiment toward abolishing grade cross
ings is developing. II should be the
important work Of automobile clubs and
leagues, and in gaining their end they
will have gained certain standing
which is now denied them in some com
munities.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-23
PROVIDES $1,000 FINE.
Two Sections Of Uniform Insurance Code
Adopted.

ST Paul, Mimi, Aug. 23.--Two sec.
lions of the uniform Insurance code,
which II under consideration Of com.
mittee appointed at conference OF gov
errors, attorneysgene and insurance
commissioners ii Chicago, March 90
were adopted at the first session of the
committee yesterday.
Reau E. Folk OF Knoxville, Tenn,
chairman Of the COMMITTEES ON prohibit
tion Of political contributions, read re-
port covering this subject. which was
adopted, providing that no funds shall
be contributed BY the agents Of ins,m.
anee companies TO political parties.
Violation Of the section Is made punish
able BIZ Imprisonment and fine Of not
more than $1,000.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-23
Hr nEAr ( nrrnrAr. nowLna.

a young polecat and brought 1t up so
that it would treat him with due re-
spect, but make its presence known to
all strangers.
He kept it in an old barn at some dis
tanee from the house, so that II would
not salute his friends, and at night let
1t loose in the front yard. The expert
ment worked TO perfection, for the
very first night tramp came In CON
tact with the little animal and beat a
retreat bowling as he ran. Thereafter
be had no troubie with nocturnal visit.
ors. Let a tramp act foot within the
yard and he instantly regretted 1t.
Now and then mistake was made,
but In the long run the skunk kept
pretty close 10 his assignment Now,
Quantrain says the tramps have
passed the word along that his place is
no poaching ground for one OF the
fraternity, and they give him a wide
berth.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-23
CURRENT COMMENT.
wide-Awake New England.

There Is more politics 10 the square
inch in New England now than any
where else in the country. There's
Maine inst seething with politics; Com
pers going after Iittlefeld and Cannon
and Taft going after Gompers. The
election comes oil early ii September
and the referee viii declare FIRST class
blood down In the series 81 fights which
oigsnized labor is scheduled to pub off
with the Republican party in various
sections Of the country
There's New Hampshire. with Win
ston Churchill, the author, running
kind Of Don QuiXote campaign against
the Roston & Maine railroad and the
expression il not used extensively, for
MI. Churchill himself admits that lie
i leading a forlorn hope. The fight
witch former Senator Chandler began,
and which finally resulted III Mr.. Chan.
dler being forced out Of the senate, has
been taken up bg coterie of Young
Iesormers, with Mr. Churchill at their
head as candidate for governor, who
Will try to at least make 4 dent In
New Hampshire's politics this fall.
There's Massachusetts,, with District
Attorney Moran of Boston running dou-
bic team with Mr.. William r. Hearst,
to all intents and purposes. That is,
his campaign for governor IL being run
on Hearst lines Then there's the reel
procity and tariff revision bngaboo, that
il keeping the Republican national man
agcrs awake O. nights, Tor fears that
the oontagion may spread to other see
tins.
There's Rhode Island, with the fight
on Senator Wetmore, and incidentally
on Senator Aidrich, for their eggs are
in the same basket. All through New
England ,nere is unrest and revolt
against political machines and the regu-
lar order OF things. Bosses are in hot
water, railroads are being arraigned, the
stand -patters are on the rack, and, tax
IN by and large, the whole New Eng
Ind political situation il ut skies ana
seyens. Washington Star.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-23
TRAINED SKUNK
SCARED OFF TRAMPS.
Maine Farmer and Trapper Employed
Novel Watchdog With
Success.

A new method OF getting rid Of
tramps has been discovered by Joseph
Quantrain, farmer and trapper lv-
ing III the edge Of the Molunkus woods
in Maine. His place is ON the direct
line used by tramps, and he is so de-
lighted with the way bis plan works
that he Is advising others to do like
wise It is not likely, though, that
many folks win adopt his plan Of
campaign.
Quantrain had tried all kinds Of dogs
and had even used shotgun loaded
with salt. but,th tramps continued to
sneak into his barnyard, steal his
chickens and even invade his cellar.
When he was In the fields Or woods
they would threaten his wife and make
themselves thoroughly obnoxious, So
one day when he met a fellow trapper
leading tame skunk by a chain he
got an idea. He set box trap, caught