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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25

of state insti' ;tions, Salem factories
hospitals, city buildings, private
schools and churches. A most strik-
ing picture is that of a modern dairy
barn, with a man drawing the lac
/ teal fluid with a modern milking
machine. The crowning picture OF
them al appears on the last page of
the cover, being Salem's beautiful
plaza, showing the state house, post
office, court house and Methodist
church, as well as Wilson Avenue
park with its winding paths and at
tractive shrubbery. On the whole,
this new Salem pamphlet is a credit
not only TO Marion County and the
Capital City of Oregon, bat to the
Salem Board of Trade and its en-
Iterprising management.
In concluding the review of this
new advertising medium TO be sent
out as an invitation for new comers
to look up the merits of Salem,
word must be said for the Salem
magnificent cu-rN la etaoin shrd sh
Board of Trede rooms and their
magnificent display, which is being
visited daily by scores of people and
by practically every new arrival in
our state. The work of this organi-
cation has grown until it has come TO
be recognized as the most substantial
factor in our midst for the upbuild-
ing of our eity's welfare, both from
a social as well as a business point
of view. Everybody in Salem
should visit the rooms and should
send copies of the new souvenir
booklet to their friends in the east.
After the above resume of the
Boards of Trades splendid pamph-
let was written the Journal in pre-
pairing material for its Christmas
number was forced to the conclusion
that the matter therein treated on
could not be improved on. That no
better, more carefully written state
ment of Marion County's resources,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25
JOSEPH MEYERS AND SONS
DEPARTMENT sToRI
Has Added About Seven Thousand
Feet Of Floor Space Which VIII
Soon BE Occupied.

Smitten with a disastrous fire dur
ing the past year. one Arm has in the
most dauntless manner restored its
trade and is building larger, quarters
for It's mabnifioent dry goods busi-
ness. Tho Joseph Meyers & Sons
department store has been recon-
structed throughout after the devas-
tation by fire and early after the
IRE occupied its old quarters better
lighted and finished than ever, aud
will soon get into a ten thousand
dollar addition TO its quarters. This
department store will then oc-
cupy three floors of space 165 by &c,
and two floors of a space 1O4 by co
that 10 being finished at present
The plate glass front on Court street
will be continuous for 165 feet and
90 feet on Liberty. The addition
10 their former large store had 10
have new concrete foundation walls
put under the three story brick
structure on two sides, and 5000
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25
FRED c. FISH, Proprietor

straightforward style followed
throughout the entire book:
1T has been the effort OF the Sa-
lem Board Of Trade in the compila-
tion of this booklet TO confine its.lf
TO absolute facts. Indeed We are
not sure II In our effort to be con-
servative We have not failed to do
justice 10 the marvellous opportun!-
ties that the Willamette Valley offers
to capable, industrious people who
may desire TO make their homes in a
land Of wondrous fertility, extraor-
binary diversity of resources and de-
| llightful climate. In fact, were an
linsurmountable Chinese wall built
around Marion County no necessary
of life, saving perhaps salt, would
be lacking. and but few of the luxur-
les of life indigenous to the tenn
perate zone wonld be missing.
''The Salem Board of Trade earn
estly invites correspondence and
promises to answer truthfully and
promptly any questions that yod
may have to ask that are not herein
answered, A hearty welcome TO all
new comers,"
This is followed by telling chap
ters on the Willamette Valley, Sa-
lem and Marion County. In fact,
the whole book is as much devoted
to the entire county as it is to Sa-
lem, and in this respect II is a bene-
ft to every taxpayer of old Marion
whether a farmer or a resident of
one of tn, smaller towns. Next is a
short story on The Cherry City,
which tells of some of the magnif-
cent displays at our annual cherry
fair, as we'll as few statements of
profit made by individual cherry
growers in the Salem cherry belt.
Under the head of Oregon Fruits"
all the large and small fruits Of the
valley are fully set forth. In like
manner the book reviews the hop
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25

II is conceded by all who have
seen the pamphlets and souvenir
booklets published by the various
cities of Oregon that the one just
gotten out by the Salem Board OF
Trade is pre-eminently the most at
tractive of them ALL This new pub
lication for the promotion of Sa-
lem's interests is entitled Salem,
the Capital City of Oregon, the
Cherry City OF the World" The
cover page is illuminated with a
handsome sprig of cherries designed
in national colors by Miss Doris
Evans. This makes a most striking
cover and is printed in striking col
ors, which is certain to make a last
ing first impression upon the mind
of the easterner. Miss Evans makes
a study of designing book covers,
and has done herself great credit IN
this piece of work. The text of the
new book is the work of some of the
brainiest men in Salem's leading
organization, headed by
President Thielsen, who assigned
the various topics TO the men best
calculated to handle them. The
work is introduced with the follow
ing "Foreward" which is a fair
specimen of the conservative,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25

so far as they are exploited, could
possibly be prepared, and the fact
that Il was prepared under the d.
r 'ctlon and published with the en-
Idorsement of Salem's Board ct
Trade gives II such weight that the
Journal conclnded to still further
the good cause by reproducing the
text. The Journal realizes. as does
everyone who has lived In Oregon
any ! myth of time, that no pamph-
let can begin to do justice to all the
varied industries, to the wealth OF
opportunities oregon offers to the
home seeker. IL could not be done
in volume, or in anything less than
a small library. The state is Old
but tho country is new. Thousands
OF acres OF virgin soil; thousands
OF square miles OF primeyal forest;
incalculable water power TO move
the machinery OF nation; on every
hand a wealth OF opportunity await
ing the coming of those who shall
profit by IL: these and Thousand
other things the "call OF the wild
to the sons of men to come and con-
quer them, ar here in abundance
for the taking. The publishing oi
this little pamphlet is. however, pu'
the beginning OF the work OF adVe'-
Using Oregon's resources, and Whlie
the Board OF Trade or the news
papers can publish the facts the CO.
operation Of every citizen is needed
to send the pamphlets and papers 20
friends in the East. We have come
to Oregon from every state IN the
union, and II each will send a lew
copies OF such pamphlets as 'ne
Board of Trade issues, or copies o'
the papers exploiting the country
then an endless chain OF adVeIus,'
-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25
How Is 1t With You!

cubic feet OF concrete were used.
The walls above that weighed two
hundred tons were supported by false
work while the new underpinning
was put in place and Il was a great
piece OF construction work for the
contractor. Ira Erb. The sidewalks
will be equipped with doors and
lights. The merchandise, when re-
ceived will be ldopDed into the base
ment where IL is unpacked, distrib-
.uted to storage departments, is then
marked and distributed to the vari-
Gus retailing departments. A per-
feet system is followed from receipt
of shipment from factories in Europe
and the United States until the par
eel is in the hands or the home OF
the purchase. The present head of
this large business is Mr.. Henry w.
Meyers. The building has been es-
pecially fitted up for their business
by the proprietor, e. p. Mccormack
who has spared neither pains nor
expense to give this city one of the
finest moderen department buildings
for general merchandising in the dry
goods line. The people OF Salem
may well take pride in this large es-
tablishment OF Joseph Meyers G.
Sons, and take strangers and visitors
to show them through II.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25
CHERRY CITY
OF THE WORLD
Has Began vertisirg Campaign That Is Pased Upon
Productions That Cannot Be Matched Elsewhere.

industry, live stock of all kinds,
dairying, poultry, fax and hemp,
numbering, and general farming.
Educational and civic matters come
in for a liberal setting forth, as well
as our manufacturing industries. 4
little hint is also given of our mag
nificent hunting and fishing oppor-
tunities.
The book is illustrated through
out with a high class of half-tone
engravings, all made direct from
photographs, which fact insures the
accuracy and truthfulness of the
statements. Among the most striking
OF the Illus rations are scenes of Il
lumber camp, mountain picnic par
ties, convicts building good roads
with modern machinery, hop fields,
Loganberry forms, pear pickers at
work, etc. Several striking groups
OF goats, sheep and collie dogs,
poultry and live stock make 1t at
tractive, and most practical pic
ture Is that of a fourth crop OF al
falfa near Salon, showing a man
standing I'm it knee deep. There IS
also a magnificent group of Salem's
Ave big school houses, as well as an
other OF Willamette University build
ingg. These ore followed with groups
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25
NO. s4o5.
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NO. 3405.
vi 'ne capital National Bank NJ g., ooNDlilOy
''oSe OF business December g. 1897 u ns STATE "a
Loan. 49,, ,, Resources
Loans ana discounts ~
oVerdrafts, secured and unsoc,ros 49,
y. 3. Bonds to secure circulation - .,.
o. S. Bonds to secure II 9 dosa.,'' ,''''' -. -
u 5. Bonds on hand 49, '..., ).
premium on U. s. Bonds ''.'' -. -.
uoa,.1 uli'ies , etc ''.....,.... ''''''. -.
oanhing g mousse furniture and axtpro. : ....
o'"er reSi estate owned ...,.. "'''''.. -.
~, na.i'nal banks tno reserve AGENT, $50. j..
Due from state banks and bankers "eeH'sl -.
Que from approved reserve agents 80 ''.." -.
Exohan,,a. -. o'A1l oash items ........ '''''
Notes of other national banks . = '..,.....
ionai paper currency, nickels ana oor,. . '''...
bawful money reserve in bank. via. 'e"" ''.... ..
specie -. ........ ...,,.
Legal tender notes ..... - ~ Ss6sN
redemption fund with U. s. Treasurer fs -. "le@
'io"' - - '.''................. e'a
o.,.-, LIABILITIES. 80"
capital stock paid in ......,..
Undivided profits, less expenses and ta,e. .,, +''
Naional bank notes outstanding ''''''"
Due TO other national banks ..... '"'
Due to state banks and bankers .. g go
Due to approved reserve agents . 80
Ia,,,.e., ,~.s, ''.''''''. ..,.,.. 49,.
individual deposits subject to check ~ ''
Demand certificates of deposit - 80 '"'
Time certificates of deposit and savings account.
Certined checks ......., ..........
Cashiers checks outstanding ~ ''''
United States deposits ...........,,.
Bills payable, including certificates Of deposn -, 49,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25
CONDENSED and F'sA
About the WAIsa

CONDENSED and f'' !.
| About the Wihsa
The average aim
! The Willamette ~
greater variety q 80
than any section b y
| There are spsal'p
great number Of ~. :
work up the ss
work up the Tas n'''-
ped away. -
straWberrlss las''-
berries, nsPbsffl@
ana hops need . 90
IELEyEN-xNAs 80 e
ers. "A |
chIldrsp cara ''Hp
picking frii a. ID,
keep them in ''A'@
Roses bloom '''q
-. - 49,. ~
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25

tI
r. A. Turner Ol 1a
toned as a eaniAn \
OF City AttOrng n y
for sixteen yean lm
the Capital City u'
fine law practice
with public recOrdiiH
years service aia
one Of the largsa
and two years q
Marion county. 81
lalty Of probate ssA
the Modern Wcosnni
and attorney ioi ~
board.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-25

Ing will have beei irz
rults OF which vii WI
and beneficial.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
CAR ORDINANCE
Up TONIGHT

The Pratt ordinance requiring
employees of the street railways to
be trained 10 days before taking
charge of streetcars will come be-
fore the council this evening. 1t
has been reported out Of the com
mittee of the whole without amend
ment and its many supporters hope
it will pass in its present form. Mr..
Pratt was given a practical dem
onstration of the necessity for the
ordinance recently when the car he
and his family was on went bump
ing across the railway tracks on
Division St, the new motorman not
knowing where the tracks were.
Whispering Harry" has been
quietly doing his best to knock out
the ordinance. claiming it was a
strike measure. Up to the present
time his efforts have not been sue
cessful, on the surface at least, and
the public will watch with interest
the action of the council this even
ing. The concensus of opinion at
the last meeting was that, strike
or no strike, the public was en-
titled to protection from the Grim
inal negligence and parsimony o.
the local monopoly management.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
CENTRAL LABOR
UNION

Another union affiliated with the
Central Labor union last night, the
Switchmen of North America send
ing delegates. This is the first O:
the unions actually engaged in NOV
ing trains to affiliate with the Spo-
kane central body, an dtheir advent
into the big organization was the
cause of considerable good feeling
on the part of the delegates as
sembled.
Communications were received
from the State Federation of Labor
giving an account of the defeat of
the eight hour law and the initia-
tive and referendum amendment.
The names of the Spokane men,
bers of the senate and house who
voted to defeat the bills, Stancher,
Congleton, Brown. Rosenhaupt and
Gilbert, were given.
The Plumbers and the Press
mems unions sent in communications
stating they were in favor of seat
ing a fraternal delegate from the
Ministerial alliance and asking that
favorable action be taken by the
central body in giving the Minis
terial association recognition.
A motion that Mr.. Hindley be in
vited to attend the meetings of the
central body was opposed by e. A
Cooney on the ground the organi.
zation had asked for credentials
from the Ministerial association
and would act on such credentials
when presented. Mr.. Cooney is g
member of the Engineers union
which is favorable to the seating O.
fraternal delegate. and his OBJ
lection was in conformity with The
laws of the central body. 1t wa!
sustained by the chair.
During the discussion of the Cit,
elague baseball matters Delegate
| Golden, of the Plumbers union
| took occasion to tell the unions
represented that they could spcn(
| their time to much better advan
tage by securing from the cit.
council a compulsory arbitration
| clause in all franchises granted
public utility corporations in the fu
ture.
The removal OF the w. w. P
coop" planted on the corner 0
Riverside and Howard was ais,
brought up by Delegate Stephen
son, of the Teamowners' union. H,
said over $50 business men hat
signed the petition to remove tn,
| obstruction. and more than 200
other citizens had affixed thei
| names TO the petition. He citet
| as an example of the hostility Of al
! classes of citizens to the occupanc,
| of the streets by the w. w. p. CO
| the action of Manager Fitzpatrick
of the Union Iron Works, who sen
for a petition and had it circulated
throughout his entire plant. Tn
petition will be presented to tn,
city council tonight.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
MANY MILLIONS AT STAKE.

LEXINGTON, KY, March 12-
One of the most important suits
ever brought in this state, and
which involves the ownership of
100000 acres of coal lands valued
at 100000, has been com
menced at Prestonburg, in Floyd
county. The Eastern Kentucky
Land corporation, made up of
wealthy New Workers, are seeking
to get the property and base their
claims on the fact that they have
purchased the deeds from people
all over the county, whose an.
cestors received the grants from
the government. The suits are
known as the Old Virginia Land
Grant suits.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
SPOKANE RING
FIXES SENATE

The direct primary law as mu-
tilated in conference of the com
mittees of the senate and house
passed the state senate yesterday.
There is no provision for making
the law applicable to the coming
city election in Spokane. No mem
Der of the Spokane delegation ask
ed for an emergency clause which
would provide for the holding of
the primaries in this city by the
new method.
The friends of Senator Will
Graves are particularly sore over
his falling down at this time and
not using his influence to have the
law made applicable to the coming
election. His action bears out the
statements of many local demo
Gratis that the democratic machine
as well as the republican politica
mechanics. have been moving
heaven and earth to keep the law
from becoming operative in this
city for two years more.
The federated clubs of the cit.
telegraphed the Spokane delega
ton in the house that the member
of the delegation would be held per
sonally responsible for the Law
passing without an emergenc.
clause providing for the law be
coming effective in the city thi
spring.
The machine object is undoubt
edly gained. however, as the bill
will have to go back to the senate
If an emergency clause is inserted
today by the house. With but TIVE
days of the session left there is NJ
time left for anything but hast.
compromise.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
A SOUL WEIGHS
ABOUT ONE
OUNCE

That the weight of the human
soul can be accurately registered
by methodical mechanical scales
like a pound of sausage is the con-
clusion reached by DR.. Mac
Dougall, of Massachusetts, who has
been figuring on soul weights for
the past six or seven years.
Deductions from these expert
ments in which the doctor was as
sisted by several colleagues, show
that the souls they were able to
keep tab on weighed only from one
half to one ounce. Five or six dy-
ing wretches at hospitals were
moved, bed and all, ONO delicately
adjusted scales when the doctors
had figured out that their souls
were just about ready to quit this
earth. The moment death occurred
the scales showed a difference In
weight, growing lighter as If dis.
solution had left deceased shy an
ounce or so.
Whether souls differ in density
or weight according to their moods
and makeup of course has not yet
been ascertained. 1t Is supposed
that some wholesome souls will be
heavier freighted than others of the
small and gnarled variety, as dem
onstrated by the behavior of own
ers on earth.
The experiment has opened up a
wide avenue of spiritual specula-
ton among medical men and
scientists generally. One sportive-
ly inclined member OF the profess
sion is Offering a bet without limit
that John d. Rockefeller's soul
will be found winner of the feather
weight belt If it is ever weighed
with his recent donation to educa-
tional work thrown in.
1t is said that the next step OF
the experimenters will be made in
the direction of finding whether a
generous soul weighs more than a
stingy one, or in fact whether good
qualities outweigh bad ones, or vice
versa.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
COUNCIL HAS
HEAVY GR|ST

Among the questions which may
be considered by the city council
tonight are the appointment of a
successor to the late Harry G
Stimmell, council from the Third
ward; endorsement of the five men
named by the mayor to comprise
the new library commission, which
will act henceforth under the state
law: the Y. NJ. c. A. objection to
saloons in the vicinity of its new
building on the southwest corner
of First av. and Lincoln st; new
park SYSTEM the alley franchise
asked by Jay p. Graves and asso'
ciates for running cars along the
alley between Main and Front avs
from Market to Lincoln SITS.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
WATER ONLY SUSTENANCE.

YOUNGSTON, O., March 12.--
Harry Spellman, a clerk in a whole
sale drug house, is confined in the
county Jail here on the charge of
insanity and has developed the
most astounding manias. The
greatest of these is an aversion to
solid food. In two weeks he has
tasted nothing but water, and he
declares that is all he needs, as he
is being sustained by God, as are
the trees" Spellman was arrested
while running amuck, and during
his violence he destroyed all the
furniture that came within his
reach.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
NONE Of THESE
WILL Be OLD
MAIDS

"And this, ladies, is a porter
house. something that when prop
erly cooked will subdue the wild
est specimen of the animal man
and make him eat out Of your
hand
Dear me-" responded a chorus
of feminine voices, "and it looks
Just like a piece of meat"
So spake the blushing butcher
man at the Fulton market yester-
day afternoon and so answered IS
members Of the junior high school
class in domestic science, gazing
sweetly on him. Domestic science
is merely a technical term for the
art of dishing up a hot and hasty
breakfast and other meals in fine
fashion when the high school days
are over. Jessie dear. In inculcat-
ing these principles upon which
hang the happiness of future house
holds, Miss Riese, instructor, leads
HeT HOCh luItH " lCoNh NhNi' ~
practical demonstration how to
beat the butcher to it when he
hands out a tough round steak for
a T-bone, and little things of that
sort. The class also investigates
the groceryman, the baker and ey'
cry other sort of a dealer with
whom the fair members will be &C
cumulating little accounts by and
by.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
Bits o News

The Ladies' Aid society Of the
Corbin Park Congregational church
will meet at the home of Mrs. M. H .
Granwell, O2721 Oak St., Thursday
afternoon.
F. B. Forest, formerly superin-
tendent of the Spokane Falls &
Northern railway, arrived in the
city yesterday to take up his duties
as general superintendent of the
Great Northern. He succeeds II. A.
Kennedy.
The funeral services of H. P.
Davis, who died Friday, will be
held from the New England Under
taking parlors tomorrow at p. m.
Rev. Henry |. Rasmus will officiate
The remains will be sent to St.
Paul Thursday for burial.
A rally will be held tomorrow
night by the w. o. w. to plan a
big reception to be given about
1900 eastern and southern visitors
who will stop off here on their way
to Seattle to attend the two weeks
convention of all the western states
next July.
At a meeting presided over by
DR.. Henry B. Luhn last night the
sum of $7,410 was pledged for the
completion of the church of Our
Lady of Lourdes. Priests of the
parish will have charge of the cam
paign to be started Immediately to
finish the church.
John A. Martin died yesterday
forenoon of appoplexy at the Sa-
cred Heart hospital. The deceased
was so years of age and lived at
2510 Broadway with his daughter
Mrs. j. C. Atherton. He leaves a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
BALDWIN BARS BARNS
FROM SOCIETY

Councilman Fred Baldwin has
drafted an ordinance to preserve
residence districts from livery barn
invasions. 1t provides that no liv-
cry shall be built in a block con-
tanning residences unless two
thirds of the property owners on
both sides Of the street express a
desire for horse and mule neigh.
bors. A livery barn in any case
shall not be within 200 feet of a
residence. Baldwin believes that
the livery barn of commerce is no
fit companion for either a mansion
or cottage.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12

wife and daughter in this city
Funeral arrangements have been
withheld awaiting word from two
children in Duluth.
Professor Charles d'Urbal, a wei:
known French teacher of this city,
who became i'll last Thursday, was
examined yesterday and committed
to the Medical Lake asylum. His
insanity is supposed to be due to
financial reverses. He was we'll
educated and on several occasions
lectured to the French alliance of
this city. He was formerly lieu
tenant in the French army.