Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-23
NEWSPAPER FREAKS
Ono Printed in Shorthand by In
dams, One for Engaged Couples,
Another Read in the Dark.
ORGANS IN ALL CALLINGS

One OF the queerest newspapers
in the world is the Kamloops Wawn,
a journal printed in shorthand by a
tribe of Indians who live in the in
terror Of British Columbia. 1t was
established through the efforts OF a
French missionary, lie Jeune by name,
who came to the Fraser river district
of British Columbia some years ago.
He found the natives superstitious,
ignorant and unable to write their
language. He soon learned the Indian
vocabulary, and then began to write
it by means Of shorthand signs which
represented all the sounds the Indians
use in pronouncing the words.
lie Jeune first explained his system
to an intelligent Indian lad who lived
in the central village. The boy took
to it intuitively. In few months
he had thoroughly learned the art
of writing his language III shorthand,
and began to teach his friends. The
new talk language" created wide
spread interest, and the Indians,
young and old, were soon engaged in
practicing this strange method Of
communication.
After about 500 had mastered the
system, various parts of the Bible
were translated by the missionary
and finally the Kamloops Wawn was
started.
The paper was printed on mimeo-
graph for the first year, but after that
LIE Jeune succeeded in having type
made, and 1t is now printed on a
press in the nearest city. 1t has SIX
teen pages, and contains all the news
of the tribe and of the church that
the missionary has built up in the
main village. Over 1000 Indians
have learned to read. 1t is said that
a very interesting sight is presented
when one looks into Chinook wig
wan, where the women still use stone
implements to prepare their cloth
ing of deerskin, and beholds the FAM
| lily grouped about eagerly reading the
latest number of the Kamloops
Wawn.
Just as the height of editorialism"
may refer to the publication OF the
news on top of Mount Washington,
so the Lowest paper in the United
States" may have no connection with
yellow" Journalism. Burdick has
given some curious information in re-
gard to the press in the Colorado
desert. His experience dates back
some years; possibly today the paper
he mentions may have descended to
even greater depths.
Undersea Newspaper.
| Two ,,,ers v.re nuhi;shed beneath
~. Isv.I ~ the se, The Submarine
uss 80 f;rst ~ he Issued "thr low
sst dowr Of ,nv nsner in The world !"
Ano.bsr nuhi;cst;on WAS heo,,n at a
Iii io,,.r d.n,h and The Submarine
~ Ibid ;ts record was ohl;urd 70
49,. T. a,ronnced tic change ~ To-
n.I;,v in the follow;ne language.
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De- ps.;f Gn - 90. ino ,hs shnr. IN front
- a .ha So So" r"n p ,ro,,nts;n stream
which revoIves in it's rush to the sea.
great mill wheel, which in turn opc-
rates the Megaphone's printing press.
When respite from their tasks is af-
forded the members of the staff OF
the paper they may gather apples by
reaching out Of window. just outside
the door are pears, prunes, plums
and cherries, and little farther away
blackberries and salmon berries are
their for the picking. Perhaps if the
editor is of Waltonian bent he can
entice salmon, trout and perch from
their native element.
But the editor of the Megaphone, it
appears, it not the only journalist in
the world enjoying uncommon ad-
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