Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-10-31

crop, but ]. II. Stewart planted wis
er than he dreamed of and his son
Is following with still larger enter
prises.
Got a New Hotel.
One of the first things the Med
ford boosters did was to get a first
class hotel service. They got new
owner TO renovate the old hotel
Nash. They tore out the old parti-
tions full of vermin, took up the old
carpets that had been put down on
top of each other seven deep and
sometimes more, tore out the old
unsanitary, disease-breedlng plumb
ing. and put in some baths. The
first step toward arouslng a COM
munlty out OF its Rip Van Winkle-
sleep Is TO get a hotel where a CIV
lized man with money who Is not
afraid to spend Il. can telegraph for
a smite OF rooms with bath and
closet attached. Such a telegram
creates surprise at Salem. but can
not be answered in the Affirmative.
The ownership Of salem's principal
hotel refuses TO make improvements
or to allow a Lessee to make any
Such an attitude is almost a dis
grace TO civilization. Whoever Is
responsible for such conditions can
never make good 10 this community
the injury they have done in ad-
vertising us to the world as a city
where the travelling public cannot
get decent accommodation even II
they have the money 10 pay for
them. Neither the State Fair nor
the State Capital can be kept at
Salem with the filthy sanitary con-
ditions that are imposed upon the
well-to-do and influential class OF
people who have to put up with
primitive conditions and go un
washed for want OF decent hotel Ia
cllities.
/ was delighted with the hote
service at Ashland,-where th'
Hotel Oregon is up to date-witi
the service at hotel Nash and hote
Moore. The Nash has suites o
rooms with baths on all the floors
and a grill room where everything u
the finest. Where oysters are serve'
in the shells, nd game Is on the bill
OF fare every day. A hotel registe
at Medford reads like a register a
New York or Seattle. Medford I
the Seattle OF Southern Oregon an
the state knows II.
Found Some Salemites.
Besides DIR. Keene I found Franl
Hollis, who has become a furnitur
king in Southern oregon. ownin
three bed, carpet and chair an
table stores, and looking for NOR
to buy. Young Or. f. r. Seele
has medical practice worth abou
ten thousand year. Doc. Keen
was celebrating his 44th birthda
and has made money enough In l
years TO retire from his practice. II
wears aawless clothes, spotles
shirts and gloves without wrinkles
He knows everybody and when h
goes donw street he bows to rigf
. and left, young and old. farmer
and bankers, women and children
, and they all seem TO know and lik
Doc.
A man warned me not TO be see
around with Doc. We had fougi
) for and against each other b.
, when Il comes TO boosting for Me-
2 ford. Doc knows no politics and
no respecter of persons. He put us
IT, d. oiweli's REQ car and we d
1 80 miles OF pear, apple and eherl
:, orchards, when II convenient
a broke down in front OF blael
Y smith shop Just in time to take u
z train 10 Medford. There the doct'
4 4 D0nuitQ uo AhAO -HasNA
s horsepower Thomas car and we d
20 miles more of pear and apple o
chards on the east side OF tie TOW
4 that Is worth. Just like the west 81
' from $500 to $500 an acre. Me
. ford sits like big rose In the ee
l. ter of a circle OF mountains cover
,, with blue mists and over the plsi
, radlating like the spokes OF so'd
3 wheel OF fortune one look down 9
Il long continuous rows OF oreha
. trees.
4 The Big Three Varieties
a The big cash bumper crops ha
d fixed things so that about all 'n
a Is planted now are Newtown Pipl
= and spltzenberg apples. and Cons
% pears. There are others nearly
,e good thai make big money bat tn'
T,An UUANIaW R8THI