Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-31


gives the population as $780, and if the and the
population both given correctly it would amount not
to $500 but to $50 EACH
The indications are from the spectacular pronounce
ments from the Portland pupts, anent preparedness,
that the reverend gentlemen moved by desire
for publicity and nOtOrety than by patriotism Each one
little more violent and vrent than those who broke
into the limeight before him.
The Cage submarine invented by a Los Angeles man is
true to Not long ago sunk in the haIbor at Los
Angeles and Saturday it went down for the second time
while being towed to the wharf This type not only sub
marges easily, but stays submerged indefinitely
With the streets of Yuma Arizona running seven feet
deep with flood waters Phoenix in the swim and other
towns in Arizona drowned out old timers familiar with
that section would not be surprised to hear by wireless
that Satan was busy just now building boats
"
Astronomers have decided there are no canals on Mars
This too just when apparently of them has broken
and turned its contents down southern California.
Maybe they all broke at and that is the reason the
astronomers could not find them
Lloyd George says: '"The war has hardly begun "
With thirty billion dollars already expended it
would seem that if Mr. Georges statement is correct
someone's credit is going to be badly stretched before the
end is reached
The Capital Journal does not mind printing stories
about picking here Christmas day. but respectfully
asks contributors not to send anything Of this kind for
publication until the weather moderates and the snow
melts.
United States senators are establishing dangerous
precedent for themselves in suggesting that Brandeis
should not be confirmed associate justice of the United
States supreme court because he is unfit for the place
Chinese rebels have dynamited big sections of the
Hankow and Pekin railroad, preventing Yuan Sh Kai
transporting troops from north to SOUTH Evidently the
Chinks have been studying the European methods
Nobody is to blame for that fire in Seattle Wednes-
day IN which SIX persons lost their lives 1t lot
of hemp was hung over the stove pipes to dry and it
thoughtlessly got too hot and started to blaze,
With President Wilson touring the country and boost
ing for preparedness it wonder that Teddy will 90
to the windward islands, Woodrow has stolen most of
his ammunition, also his gun.
With the Chinese revolution assuming alarming pro-
portions all the continents of the old world now the
scenes of war; Will it be the Americas next?
Those astronomers who discovered a couple of new
worlds few days ago evidently caught them young as
they are both in the milky way.
The floods north of the Mexican border may account
for the fact that Villa has not been captured married
killed for several days.
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EPIDEMIC
LheS sad and painful trip for people who are aging
An epidemic Of the grip DER all the land is raging The
young men sneeze while and laugh and cough while
and snicker; the old men break themselves
4 S@~STS in half when coughing, and grow sicker
M, The young recover when they take of med.