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sunshine, brilliant eolOrs and the absence Of
seasonal variations.
Scientific investigations have not shown.
however, that climate Is any insuperable barrier
to the white mans successful continued life i'm
the tropics
Even more optimistic concerning the fate
of the fair races in the tropics is Col. Weston
experience with the Medical Department Of the
U. 8. Army in Panama.
THE greater part Of the sickness and death
formerly attributed to malign influences ezerted
by the tropical climate was actually due to
infections which q NOW almost entirely pre-
ventable," said Col. Chamberlain.
In proof Of his contention Col. Chamberlain
cites the Improvement in health conditions i'm
the Canal Zone during the past IS years.
Before the Americans were given sanitary
control over the zone malaria, yellow fever
dysentery, typhoid, smallpox, uncinariasis and
skin diseases were endemic. Indeed, the failure
of the French to make q canal across the
isthmus where the Americans were later sue
cessful has been blamed on unhealthy tropical
conditions. It has been estimated that between
1881 and 1889 at least 10000 employees died
from all causes. This mortality occurred in O
force which averaged only a little over 100O0.
In 1894 the United States bought the prop
erty Of the French company and was given
unrestricted sanitary control.
Much less was then known about tropical
u
and malaria were, however, the two worst
scouFges on the isthmus and medical research
during the preceding decade had revealed that
these dangerous diseases are spread by the
mosquito.
As . result OF strenuous measures for mosquito
control which involved the establishment Of O
water system and the abolition of cisteFns,
tanks, rain barrels, roof cutters and similar
breeding places, yellow fever soon disappeared.
The last local case occurred in Colon IN May
IL, 1906
Control Of malaria has been more difhcult
and expensive because conditions Of Panama
are particularly favorable to breeding the
malaria mosquito. Because of the expense, the
large towns where the white population is con-
centrated
During the nine years from 1921 to 1929 there
were only three deaths from malaria in an
employee force averaging $4,000 persons.
Success of American sanitary measures Is
further Indicated by the reduction of the
deaths due to all causes in the Canal Zone
In Colon 81 people ont Of every 1000 died IN
1906, while today the annual rate is between
Ia and II people out OF every 1000. Panama
City has not such Q good record, with a NOR
tality rate Of 10 per 1890. Even this compares
.Ayorably with some Southern cities in the
United States. however. according to Col
Chamberlain.
Tropical diseases today do not cause q large
number Of deaths in the areas controlled By
the Health Department.. People who die sue
eumh, for the most part, 10 the same diseases
which cause the mosk deaths IN the United
States tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrheas
syphilis cancer. nephritis apOplexy and heart
disease head the list I'm the mortality figure 1oE
the Canal Zone just as IN America
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08
BY ELIZABETH SPENCE.

- ARKING back to the old Bible story
of Noah dividing the earth between
/" his sons the belief has long pre-
vailed that every race Of people IS
- born to live in one particular climate,
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FORMAL DENIAL ISSUED
 5 AMERICANS KILLED

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. l. (R- Formal denial of the killing of three Americans in Mukden by Jap anese soldiers was issued here by the Consul General of Japan. The ConSuls statement follows:
 The Japanese Consulate General at San Francisco is official in formed from Tokyo that the report from Berlin, published in the news papers here, that three Americans were killed by Japanese soldiers in Mukden is entirely unfounded."
 That report was originally pub lished in Berlin by the Nationalist Chinese party. The original dis patch said the Americans were killed when the Japanese swept the streets of Mukden with machine gun fire from an airplane.
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.POLYNES|AN WOOD RUINS
 SAW; 'BUOYENT' AS IRON

WASHINGTON, D. O., Oct. l P)-A specimen of hardest known wood in the world has been brought to the N s. National Museum from Mutation Island in the Pacific ocean.
 It is species of Polynesian iron wood and was discovered by Lieut. Henry c. Kellers, a member of the U. s. Naval Observatory expedition that went to Niuafou last year to observe the eclipse.
 The ironWood specimen is so hard it spoiled the edge of cir |cular saw with which an attempt was made to cut a cross section. After the saw had penetrated only about an inch it was necessary to refile the teeth to continue.
 The ironwood is hard because it's sap veins are impregnated with crystals of calcium oxalate. It Is as if the wood were permeated with tiny pebbles.
 The wood sinks in water like a rock. It is so heavy three men are needed to carry upstairs log five feet long and from six to eight inches in diameter.
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FRAUD FUR CAL|FORN|ANs
 TO SEEK DIVORCE IN RENO

LOS ANGELES, Oct. l. (P)- California residents who go to Reno for the solid purpose of seeking divorce and evading the laws of this state are guilty ot fraud Superior Judge Joseph P. Sproul ruled in annuling decree received by Mrs. Jessie E. Bow man in Reno.
 Taking single point, that Mrs. Bowman went to Reno only to obtain a divorce, Judge Sproul held that the decree she received was invalid This automatically nullified her marriage to Bow man, who had been her husband some 18 years ago while living in Tucson, Ariz.
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POWER PLANT EARNINGS
 PROMISE TAXLEsS C|TY

PONCA CITY, Sept, 30, P-- This city, one of the few in the United States which have had no general municipal tax for seven years, will have no city levy of any kind by 1884, Harry A. Hay ward, city finance commissioner predicts
 Earnings of the city's electric and water plants have taken care of the general tax. Hayward said accured surplus would make an- nual bond payments on outstand- ing bonded indebtedness.
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LEGAL NOTICE
i UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE ! INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
 DISTRICT LAND OFFICE | Anchorage Alaska

August B. 1881
 Notice is hereby given that Nes Olaf Svedlund. entryman, together with his wit nesses Carl Albert Sholin and Henry Ohlsen, all of Homer, Alaska, has submitted final proof his homestead entry Anchorage 06257 for the WhNWA sec. 20. WhSWA sec. IT, T. S. R. 13 W. s. M. and it is now in the f,es Cf the U. s. Land Office Anchorage, Alaska. and if protest is filed in the local land office at Anchorage. Alaska. within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter said final proof will be accepted and final certi- ficate issued
 J. Lndley Green.
 Register.
 Date First Publication. August 26, 1881. Date Last Publication, September 23. 1881. Pub Aug. 26. September ?. g, IS. 23. all of 1881. CD
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PROVIDES LIMESTONE

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 1. (P-An appropriation of $25,OOO has been made by the Tennessee legislature to provide pulverized limestone to farmers at cost.
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TARTAN SERIES-The books you have always wanted to own-two for the price of one, at the ALASKA SHOP.
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FOR SALE

Old papers; z5c per bundle. At The Gateway office. Write. phone or call.
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Have you heard he new "OKEv" records at Sylvia's. They are won derful.
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Developing, printing, enlargine and framing at SYLVIA'S.
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Seattle Ice Cream at ALASKA SHOP.
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Science
Death Is Process Similar
to Explosion.

Death is a process similar to an ex-
plosion, DR.. v. w. Lepeschkin reports
in the Quarterly Review of Biology.
The principal chemical compounds of
living matter are so unstable, he says,
as to be comparable to explosives, and
they decompose in the same way under
relatively slight mechanical stimuli.
In experiments he has found that the
death of yeast cells is accompanied by
the production of heat.
Even if an explosive is not set of. he
reports, in common with all unstable
substances it is subject to slow decom-
position. This he compares to natural
death from old age. Only at extremely
low temperatures, where all chemical
reactions would cease, he says, could
this decomposition be prevented and
life last for very long time.
If any vital principal, such as the
soul, leaves the body at death, he says,
it is because of the results of the EEK
ploSion" It's departure must be the
result, rather than the cause, Of death.
T. r. H.
(Copyright, 1917
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DEATH OVERTAKES
ITS LEADING TEASER
49, Year Old Steepleiack,
Sea Diver and Chute Jump
er SuccumbS in a Bed.
snacial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. July 23-Can you
imagine a 79-year-old man continuing
in the business of being steeplejack?
That fact became public when Robert
Merrill died in the Coney Island Hos
pital few days ago. He had done
lofty stunts on land and sea for years
and years, but never was seriously in
jured in his periliouS undertakings.
One of the last jobs he did was to
paint the coping and flagpoleS ON the
Hotel st. Regis.
Merrill. or Bob, as he preferred to
be called did not attempt to conceal
his age from his employer, but he did
ask that 1t be kept in secret, because
If it became generally known 1t might
ruin his trade Bob did not hesitate
to talk about himself once he got on
his job. This is his story:
ct have done things on the sea. In
the sky and in the deep. In other
words, I have been sailor, a para
chute Jumper and a sea diver. And, OF
course. I'm a steeplejack. I was born
on a ranch near Tucson, Ariz.
MY father was a whaler, sailing out
of New Bedford. In l849 he loaded his
ship with provisions and went round the
Horn to San Francisco. There the crew
deserted and joined the gold rush crowd
and the ship rotted at her berth.
My father then bought an Arizona
ranch and there l was born. When ]
was IL I ran away to San Francisco,
slowed away in a ship bound for Pana-
ma, made my way across the isthmuS
and then slowed away for Boston. Back
in my dads home port I Joined a
whaler
Then I took UP deep-sea diving. One
day had got off a ship in San Fran
cisco. I was broke when l heard man
say he wanted to get a man to put a
rigging around a church spire for paint
ing. / took the job and tried steeple-
iacking as business. In the Summer
Travelled with circus, doing parachute
jumping.
Early in the century I landed from
q ship that touched Havre and made my
way to Paris. l needed work. The
Eiffel Tower attracted me, and found
they were looking for some one to do a
paint Job near the top. l was quite an
attraction to the curious"
(Copyright, 1879
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CAROL ACTS TO AID
ISLAND SMUGGLERS
DEGREES Free Port Status for Ada
Kaleh After Visit to
River Colony.

By Cable to The Star.
VIENNA, Austria, July 23.-By royal
decree Yesterday King Carol Of Ru-
mania made the tiny Danube island
called Ada Kaleh a free port so the
poverty crushed inhabitants can legally
resume their former occupation of
smuggling
Ada Kaleh is an infinitesimal spot of
rock with $50 inhabitants situated in
the Danube exactly where the three
countries of Rumania, Jugoslavia and
Hungary meet. So barren and incon-
spicuous was Ada Kaleh that it was
forgotten by map makers after the
treaty of San Stefano. and the popu-
lation, with no legal nationality except
Turkish, did thriving smuggling busI-
ness, since Ada Kaleh for almost so
years had no frontiers.
Rumania. however, got Ada Kaleh
after the World War and smuggling
stepped. King Carol visited Ada Ka!eh
during the Danube journey in which he
met King Alexander of Jugoslavia, and
was so impressed by the desperate
plight Of the islanders that he has now
restored it's free port status, according
to the Weiner Journal.
(Copyright, 1919
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OTTO STORY is DENIED

BRUSSELS. Belgium. July % (Pl.-
Cen Keresztes, attached to the staff Of
Primo Otto of Hungary at Steenock-
erzeel Castle. today denied a story in
the Paris newspaper lie Populaire that
Hunga rian Legitimists had announced
their intention to proclaim Prince Otto
King of Hungary as soon as the new
Hungarian Parliament is convened
The story is false from top to bot
tom" the general said, adding that the
young prince is concerned only with
continuing his studies at the University
of IOuVain.
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eight or nine days. The DO-X is
still being overhauled. but it was ex-
pected 1t would leave the drydock Sat-
urday In as perfect condition as when
1t left Germany seven months ago.
Plans call for taking 40 passengers
on the trip to the United States, as
well as special mail The flight will
be made over the regular route of the
Fan american Always, along which
refueling arrangements have been made.
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Several test flights are planned here
before the take-off. as well as a flight
over Rio De Janeiro and q flight to
Santos, Brazil, on Sunday.
After reaching Miami stops will be
made at Charleston, S. c., and Nor
folk, Va, on the way to New York.
There were rumors here that the
DO-X might be placed In service be-
tween Havana and Miami within O
few months.
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.DO.X PLANS TRIP TO U. S.
BY END OF NEXT WEEK

BY the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 23.-The
giant German seaplane DO-X will
probably leave here at the end OF next
week for Miami, F1al
The trip is expected to take about
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MRS. ROCKNE IN FILMS

Widow Leaves TOT dOIIyWOOu W TN
Former Foot Ball Stars.
CHICAGO. July % tP.-Mrs. Knute
Rockne Is going into the movies.
The widow of the famous foot ball
coach left last night with group of
former gridiron stars for Hollywood,
Calf, where she will take part in a
picture portraying foot ball days at
Notre Dame.
Rockne was killed in an airplane
accident last Spring while en- route to
California in connection with the
picture.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-11-20


Mr.. and Mrs. P. L. Collins mo-
tored to Williston Wednesday
where Mr.. Collins will receive
medical attention. Grandma Col
Inns and Gene are taking care of
the farm during their absence.
a girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed. Berke Friday at the Plenty
wod hospital.
Reports are current that Frank
Stewart is getting somewhat bet
ter after his illness. He will be
kept in the hospital till h els en-
tirely over the malady.
Ed. Hannah returned home on
Thursday from Wolf Point where
he has been working for a few
weeks.
A Farmers Union meeting was
held at the Raymond school Wed
nesday evening, The clothes that
were brot from Wolf Creek hal
on Sunday were distributed.
Alfred Stadstad made bust
ness trip to Plentywood Monday.
Several people from around here
went to Plentywood Tuesday t.
get clothes that were shipped il
by the Red Cross.
The library meeting at the 10
cal school Saturday was well at
tended. Miss Harrison holds thes'
meetings every Saturday. Every
one is welcome.
The seed loan inspector was il
town and around the vicinity tn
past week.
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RESERVE ITEMS

Nearly everyone in town drove
to Antelope Saturday evening to
take in the home talent play and
dance given in the Sons of Nor
way hall there.
Roy Barsness met with serious
accident in the stcrip mine ten
miles west of town on Tuesday
evening. While digging coal a
large piece of rock fell on him
breaking leg. Cliff Hansen, who
was at the mine at the time took
him to the hospital at Plentywood.
The Farmers Elevator shipped
in two cars of baled hay from
Simms, Mont, Monday.
Skating on the river is the eve
ming pastime for the young people
just now.
Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Christensen
are the happy parents of a bounc-
ing baby son born Monday morn
ing.
The Wakea Club held a very
successful and enjoyable meeting
at the Gust Strand home last
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairweather and
Miss Frances Wheeler were six
o'clock dinner guests at the Glib
bons home last Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Sarah Stevens left fol
Nashua Thursday after spending
a couple of weeks with friends
east of town.
Pete Lund and Ray Murk left
for Pacific coast points Thursday
of last week.
Mrs. Strandskov was a Plenty
wood visitor between trains Mon
day.
Mrs. Jacobsen, Mrs. EvenseI
and Mrs. Gibbons attended care
party in Medicine Lake Thursda!
evening.
Miss Frances Wheeler returnet
TO Plentywood on Wednesday aft
er spending a couple of days Q
the Fairweather home here
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FROM AROUND THE COUNTY.


The Lutheran aid was least en-
tertained by Mrs. Henhy Hill of
Raymond on We'd, Nov. Is. A fair
sized crowd attended and appar-
emily had an enjoyable time.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Larter and
daughter Edith motored up to Es-
tevan Thursday where Mrs. Lart-
er and Edith will take the train
for Winnipeg. Mrs. Larter has rel
atives there.
Mrs. Carl -Stadstad spent an Ell
joyable afternoon visiting at the
Ben Void home Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Void and
children left on Friday for parts
of South Dakota where they will
spend a while visiting with friends
and relatives.
The dance at brentwood Satur-
day night was well attended by
many of the young people from
around here.
Mrs. Joe Brown and daughter
Florence and son Milton, and
"Hib" Malcolm drove TOT Minton
Friday night to attend the we'd
ding dance given there.
James and Kenneth Symes, FL
eanore and Ruth Holland were Wis.
itors at the Lena Wilson home or
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred StadstaG
and family spent Sunday visiting
with Mrs. Stadstad's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Pete Petersen and fam
lily near Dooley. They report thai
Byron Petersen had returned from
Rochester, Mimi, altho they were
unable to cure his illness there.
Mrs. VIM. Robinson and sol
Richard returned to their home Of
Sunday after spending a few day
visiting with the Ed. Robinson
family of Bainville. Mrs. Robin
son and children brought then
back by car.
Eddie Larter was a bushes
caller at the Henry Ross home Of
Saturday.
Mrs. Cora Allen spent last Tues
day visiting at the Carl Stadsta'
home.
i Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Nash o
Redstone were guests of the w. G
McCrady family Sunday.
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WESLEY ITEMS

The Westby high school boys and
girls basket ball teams played at
Fortuna last Friday evening. The
Fortuna teams won both games.
A carload of vegetables and po-
tatoes arrived here from the east
on Thursday. All the farmers are
busy hauling their winter supply
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Rogstad,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Juve, Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar Juve, Ole Metvedt, Err
lex Eggen and Melvin Dalhe from
Pleasant Valley were shoppers in
Westby Thursday.
A number of Westby folks at
tended the dance at Fortuna on
Friday evening.
Edna Eaton spent the week end
at the McCallister home.
Jacob Freund is back at Westby
again for a few days after spend
ing the fall in Sidney.
Severt Hammer arrived home on
Tuesday after visiting with rela-
tives and friends in Minot for 9
few days.
Rev. Amlie held confirmation
services at theLutheran church OF
Sunday morning at IL o'clock
There were six girls and two boy:
who took the baptismal vow. The
parents and relatives had dinner
at the church basement and a
300 p. m. Rev. Amlie conducted
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communion services.
Mrs. Paul Hultgren spent a few
days in Pleasant alley visiting
with friends and relatives.
Vernon Kittleson and Harold
Simundson from Daleview were
callers at Westby on Sunday.
A group of Westby folks at
tended the dance at Comertown
Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Jermenson
and Mr.. and Mrs. julius Jermon-
son and daughters from Canada
attended the confirmation services
on Sunday.
Sig Nelson from southwest of
town was a Westby caller Monday
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7th at the home of his grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Peele. DR..
LaBarge was in attendance. Mrs.
Ole HELEN helped care for moth
er and child. Both are doing well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seim of Turtle
Mountain, N. D. are guests this
week at the Nils Kdonen home.
Mrs. Seim is sister of Mrs. Kro-
nen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur LELAND
and Mrs. Andrew LELAND of Out
look were Friday visitors at the
o. M. Lutnes home. Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur LELAND also called at the
Peter Solberg home.
Selmer copeland and Niels Dan
ielson have tried. a new method OF
handling their thistle hay. They
have ground it up by running il
thru the threshing machine.
Mrs. John Shoal and infant sol
came home from Minot last week
Mr.. Shoal brot them here by car.
The Civic Improvement club me-
Nov. 4th the the Myron Taylor
home. Miss Jessie Degen joinet
the club at this time.
H. B. Foss has finished work OF
his house. Part of the origina
dwelling was torn down and re
built. The house from the JOIN
copeland farm was moved to MI
Foss' place and attached to tn
house there. Mr.. Foss now has
roomier and more comfortable
dwelling.
Miss Fengestad of Bromhead
Sask., was a week end visitor a
the home of her sister, Mrs. Sci
mer copeland.
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LOCAL |
H4PREnzzN'GS
LOCAL MARKETS
NnvEMRER 20. 1881

,vo1 Christensen Of Reserve Wis
a.. a. ~ town Tuesday afternono.
W. 90
lucille Wright was a visitor In
DaJstone Sunday evening.
Bill Paske
o+tended a party in Redstone Sun
day night
MYRTLE Klakken Of DoOley is
ounioved at the Martin TOftness
home as hOusekeeper.
Ed. Kielstrup of the Continental
nil Co. was a caller in Plentywood
Sunday.
Joe Walkonis and daughter of
Reserve were PlentywOod callers
on Tuesday.
A. T. Larson of Antelope was a
bueiness visitor around town Mon
day.
90
Supt. and Mrs. w. e. Stegner
are the proud parents of a daugh-
ter born to them Sunday, Nov. Is
J. O. Brensdal of Antelope was
a visitor in the county seat Mon
day.
A Great Northern Work train
has pulled in on the siding neal
g the court house.
-oo-~
Misses Lola Everson and Marcia
Dindoien of Whitehall were among
the out of town shoppers in Plen
tywood Monday.
Three carloads of bailed alfalfa
hav was shipped in Tuesday from
around Great Falls. 1t is selling
at about SIG a ton.
There will be a dance in tn,
Cookery school house at Raymond
Saturday, Oct. 81 for the benefi
of the Lagrange school.
ODD
James Ostby, J. A. Blodgett
Bob johnson and Caesar Larsen o
Froid dropped in at the News of
flee Tuesday for a short visit wit
We scribe.
Hans Rasmussen, Harry Juul
Simon Hanson, Rodney Salisbury
Mable Husa and Fred Holmgaar
were among those who drove t
Minot Saturday morning to NEE
with the United Farmers Leagu
heads. They returned Monda
! evening.
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NEW
ePRINcESS
ELIZABETH 4"

Pacific under their own power. The
celebrated triangle route" Vancou-
yer, Victoria. Seattle. is served by
equally hne vessels equipped with all
modern conveniences and coy state
rooms.
From Victoria delightful excursions
may be made into the interior Of
Vancouver Island, either by the Esqui-
malt and Nanaimo Railway or BY
automobile. Excellent hotels are To-
Gated at Cameron Lake and elsewhere.
Fine fishing for salmon and trout 10
available at numerous places. The
immense Douglas fir forests Of the
interior make trip there well WORTH
while.