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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1905)
T H E S T A Y T O N MAIL r. D. AirXANDrR, Publisher M an/ , Entered »( ih» postonica >1 Mlaytont Oregon as mall matter uf tli* second das* I N * M » ii , la resiled regularly tolta subarrlb- eia m id i a drtliilta order to disc ontinue I* ru oeived and alt arraaragaa ara paid BUSINESS DIRECTORY W IL B U R N. I’INTLKR, D. M. D. DENTIST N (»Wir« over Fred Hock'* Htore 8TAYT0N OUKUON f)R . J. W. COLF. Ofllc« ami residence on Third Htreet, «n e biCH'k north of jirlntiiiK office. HTAYTON, OKK< JON J_J A. BEAUCHAMP. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON HTAYTON, OREGON JO H N H K IN K K L Merchant Tailor I have on hand a full line of «ample* for Hprintt »nd Summer Suita. Repairing and ( leaning a Spei lefty 8TAYT0N IN TE R E S T IN G STUDENTS. OREGON F ilip in o s P la c e d In A m e ric a n Hchoole b/ U n c le Ham. the annual yield 110,000.000 buehela, while population, acreage, and output are augmenting at a rate no other country can approach. To-day, ao amaxlng has been the development of the Northweet, the Canadian Pacific Railway la unable to serve lie commercial need«. The grain production of the territory U too enor mous for Its rood, practically double- tracked though It 1» with sidings and •entlneled with elevators. Every fall there la an absolute congeetlon. with grain coming out and lumber, coal and other commedltlee going In. Conse quently. much o f this traffic has to be bandied by American transportation agencies. Tbs United States has 2,000 cargo boats on the Orest Lakes, while Canada had only thirty; and all the principal American railways have working alliances with those of Can ada. Therefora, two other transconti nental railway ay stem a are now being projected for Canada, that the wheat belt may be properly served. These are tbe Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern lines, bisecting the pralrtee at distances apart which will enable tbe as yet unfilled areas to be brought Into speedy cultivation, and affording facilities for peopling the tenantleaa wild* at a rate undreamed of ten years ago. Nothing ao eloquently attests the altered attitude o f the world to Cana da aa her Increased Immigration and eepeclully that from acroaa tbe Ameri can border. In 1803 only 10.000 lm- mlrncnt* entered Canada, whereas In 1008 tbe total had grown to 124,663. In 1800 only 44 Americana applied for homesteads, while In 1002 the number had grown to 21,672 and last year this total more than doubled, rising to 47,- 780. which figure la expected to dupli cate Itself during the present season. A great deal o f Interest la being tliuwn regarding the new puplla Uocle Sam has brought from the Philippine Islands and plated In various at'hoola o f this country. More than 100 Fili pinos were s e le c te d by the government to «»m e to this country nod receive an education at the public expense, with a view to their returning to the islands and apreadlv* the light uf know bulge among their relatives anil associates. Most o f the contingent are In high sohoola under the care of the War Department. From this nuinlier alx of the bright est, four boya and two girls, were placed In the Drexel Institute and the School of Industrial Art o f the Penn sylvania Museum, both o f Philadel phia. the boya being In the latter school, fine o f the girl» will study domeatlc science, the other, after a year at Drexel, will take a course at the Women’s Medical College. O f the four lioya, one will study architecture, two painting, and the fourth litho graphic art. The four boya are o f various grades o f Intelligence. At least one Is fully the equal. If not the superior. In men lal force to the average American t>oy student at the school. The other« ire well able to hold their own In the clHsecN. They are not all shy. but move among their fellow students with a modest air that la entirely de void of eelf consciousness. They have nece*aarlly attracted a great deal of attention and can scarcely walk through the corridors o f the School of Industrial Art. where nearly 1,200 stu dents are enrolled, without causing bends to turn nud whispered explana tions to t>e made It troubles the four A u t h o r '* D a u g h t e r K in g*. black-haired l»oys not at all. They be Mias Ethel Bret Hurt«, the daughter have like Cheelerflelds at all times, nnd are not n hit suggestive o f the of tbe famous writer o f early Callfor- f. SILHAVY’S Wagon and Paint Shop Jtepa ring and Painting Wagon«, Buggies, Etc., a Hpeoiaity. New Wagon*, H ack* und Buggies made to order. f ir\l-< lau Work Guaranteed Water Street HTAYTON, OREGON Saatak & Stowall Dealers lu H "*- A ® . M i ¡mm y *X . , a V À j y HIGHEST M ARKET PRICE PAID FOR STOCK AND HIDES Stayton, Oregon AN IN T E K E 8 T IN O G RO U P OF “ new caught sullen peoples" o f Kip ling’s verse. Perhaps the most Interesting o f the Incorporated Philadelphia sextet are the two girls, CAPITAL, $20,000 each about lrt year* old. They are very small, although they dress and act like full-grown women. In short r. C. FRERE», Pre» N PRKRKfl, Vice 1‘raa Ireeses they would easily pass for girl* o f 10 or 12, so far a* appearance W. L. FKERK8, Cashier goes. Aa they wander through the corridors of the Drexel they look like ;lark-eyed, swarthy pygmies beside the Transact* a General Hanking Hjiineaa strapping American girls who nre studying there. They show little dis STAYTON , OREGON position to make friends with tho other pupils and are very studlons. That each o f Uncle Ham’a new pu pils has the typical features o f the race may be seen by a study o f tho group shown In the accompanying Il lustration, * which shows six young men who nre attending the State Nor mal nnd Trnlnlng School at Oswego, Good Assortment of N. Y „ to fit themselves for becoming Caskets and Cases teachers In their native land. Stayton State Bank W. E. THOMAS (Jndertaker-Embalmer Personal attention given to funerals C A N A D A S E X PA N SIO N . when desired. Embalming after Istest methods. H a * E x p e r ie n c e d » W o n d e r f u l D e v e lo p A First-Class Hearse at a Moderate Charge m e n t In K e c e n t T e a r s . Within the past live years, Canada's total trade tana Increased by 86 per cent; that of the United States. 33 Burial Robes, Shoes, Glove* end Hosiery per cen t; that o f Britain, 19 per cent. Furnished Canada's foreign trade la $83 per capi ta; that o f the United States only $36. Telegraph or Telephone at My Expense Her revenue Is $12.40 per capita, and tier expenditure $1*60; the United W. E. THOM AS STAYTO N , ORE. Staten’ revenue being $7.70 and ex penditure $7.04. The public debt of CauadA la but $00 per capita, while that o f her sister commonwealth— Australia— la $230. Canada's over-sea trade hurt year was $461,000,000— more tlmn double that of Japan, alnioat equal to Russia's. Her merchant ship ping tonnage exceed* Japan’s; her Keep it in your mind railway mileage la half that o f Rus that The Mail prints sia. It la now thirty-seven years since the federation o f Canada was accom plished. and a!>out half that apace of time since what wns then thought the visionary pro«p«ct o f spanning the continent with the Canadian IHieiflc Railway was conceived. The North west was considered a wilderness >A snow and Ice— a vast, lone land, ten- antleea save by the bison and the red man. Phenomenal has been the change since then. Along the inter national boundary, twenty year* ago. wa* an acreage o f 260,000 under crop, O r Anything Else You May yielding 1,200,000 hushele o f wheat. W ant at V ery Low Prices Now the acreage Is over 4,000,000, and Job Printing Note Meads, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Envelopes A gruesome tale Is told by the Pitts burg Dispatch o f the bringing o f tbe body o f the late Mayor o f Keattle from the Interior o f Alaska. M. A. Mahoney, who had charge o f the body, started alone from Fairbanks to draw the cof fin over the snow road by sledge. Tw o days out o f Fairbanks he wu* cross ing a level bit o f country over which the trail made way through forests o f giant pins and fir. With the first shad ow* o f night there came a long, low wall. It wa* followed by another and another, each unmistakably nearer. The man, standing on a lonely Alaskan trail, hundreds o f miles from the near Through Pullman •tsn<1*r>1 and tonrftRtrteep- est habitation, and with a burden on l o ( car* dally to Onisbs, Chicago, Hpokene; tourist sleeping car* dally to K an**» City: hi* hand* that he had sworn to bring through Pullman tourist (iM p In *e a r* (person ally conducted) weakly to Chicago, V a n »** safely to civlllzaxtlon, knew what It C ity ; reclining chair car* (seat* tree) to k **t meant. It wa* the cry o f the wolf. Mahoney realized that If he remain ed on the trail he would never live to see another day. He knew that three long day* and night* must pass before he could hope for hitman help. He had covered a vast stTetch at territory that day, and lie was exhausted; but he DE P A RT I TIME SCHEDULE» ARRIVE- FOR j from Portland, Or*. FROM must not think o f sleep. He turned off Into the woods, and Portland S‘ lt D#n»0», Worth, Omaha. Kansas under the shelter o f the pines built a 6:25 p ns « T5a m via C^ ° big fire. It wa* well he acted quickly, H ’ntlngt n th# E“ ‘ for he had scarcely fed his dogs and Atlantic halt Lake, Denver, Ft. Worth. Omaha, Kansas snatched a morsel o f supper himself Express 3:1* pm via City, 8t. Louis, Chicago 7:15 a m when the wolves arrived. H ’ntlngt’ n sua thè East A ll night long that lonely camp was Hi. Paul '.t ill» Walla. Lewiston, Mall Hpokane. Wallace, Pull surrounded by a row of gleaming eyes. 6 Fast 15pm man, Minneapolis, ht 8:00 a m Paul. Duluth, Milwau- Mahoney sat alone, the coffin for his vis hpokane |kee, Chicago and East seat, with every nerve strained. Once nature took revenge, and his heavy eyes drooped. River Schedule For Astoria, “ '¿y Point» and North Beech— While be dozzed the fire died down, Dolly (except Sunday) at 8 p m ; Saturday at 10 and Mahoney woke with a start. A pm Dally narvlc« (water permitting) an the Willamette and Yamhill river*. gaunt gray w olf was poking his nose very near to him. The man hastened to throw on more wood, and the beasts slunk away until only the gleam of their eyes told that they were keeping For further Information, ask or writ* yoar nearest tlrket agent or watch. A . L . C R A IG With the morning sun the wolves General Passenger Agent, vanished, and Mahoney once more took up the trail. Not once all day did he The Oregon Railroad <fc Navigation Co., Port land, Oregon. see a sign nor hear a sound from the pack that he knew was silently fol lowing. With the sunset, however, came the long, blood-curdling wall. The second night wag a fight against sleep. He tied a pine-knot to his right hand. As he dozed off, the flames would burn and waken him. As the day before, the wolves departed with the dawn, and gave no sign until even TIME CARD NO. ZS. ing. Then for a third night Mahoney went without sleep. The wolves, their hunger Increasing, N o. » , for Y tq n ln a : — Leave* Albany.............................. 12:45 PM grew bolder, and crept closer and Leave* Corvallis........................... i 48 P M Arrives Yaqulna........................... 4:20 P M closer. Every now and then one would Jtimp forward and snap at the feet of Wo. 1, returning: — the silent watcher. Then Mahoney, Leaves T aq u in a........................ . « 45 A M Leaves Corvallis........................... 11:30 A M with a Mazing brand, would strike at Arrives Albany............................ U :U P M the glowing eyes and drive back his foe. When morning came, the man, Wo. 3 fo r A lb a n y -D e t r o lt Leavai Corvallis........................... «:00 A M half-crazed with fear ami loss o f sleep, I Arrives Albany............................ 6:40 A M once more took the trail, and at noon Leave» Albany (or Detroit............. 7:30 A M Arrives Detroit............................ 12:02 P M came to a road-house, where he was cared for. He slept steadily for eight Wo. 4, from D etroit:— een hours, then resumed his journey. leaves Detroit.............................. 12:35 A M O regon S hort L ine amd union P acific Three Trains to the East Daily 7n Corvallis 4 Eastern R.R. CITY MEAT MARKET F r e s h , S a l t and S m o k e d M EATS THE GRAY TERROR. F IL IP IN O STUDENTS. nlan life, has deckled to devote herself to concert work. Although Bret Harte made large profits from his writings and won a success which seldom comes to a writer a* early as It did to him, he left hla family In very straitened circumstances, and If It were not for the many stanch friends In the Ameri can colony In London Mrs. Bret Harte would often find It difficult to make both ends meet. With her children she has made her home In Bayswater ever since Bret Harte’* death. The family difficulties have been compli cated by threatened loss o f sight o f one o f the sons and he has been sent to Switzerland In the hope that a re- nowed oculist may perform a success ful o;>eratlon. Miss Bret Harte has had a long up hill struggle tn her work. She served a stage apprentlceahlp with George Edwards and D'Oyly Carte. She has a soprano voice o f excellent range and sympathetic quality and her one desire la to bring It to greater perfection. Her capaetty for work seems endless and her love of music Is as much o f an In centive as the money which she hopes to bring Into the family purse. It 1» extremely difficult to get a hearing on the concert stage In London, where only the well-known artists are Invited to sing, but through the Influence of the friends o f the American author hi* daughter will have every opportunity to make the success which her friends anticipate. In E r r o r . * Marshall P. Wilder tells this story of two little children o f a Christian Sci ence farilily who were taken for the first time to see a Punch and Judy show. They enjoyed It heartily, until Punch finally. In a hurst of anger, be gan to beat Judy across the head with a big stick. Whereupon the little girl, hastily covering her eyes with her hands, called out, beseechingly, to her brother: “ Don't look, Teddy, don’t look! It’s errorP V e r d ic t C om es M o r e S lo w ly . Arrives Albany.............................. 6:15 P M Lr. Albany lor Corvallis.............. 7:15 P M Arriva Corvallla............................. 7:56 P M S C I E N T I F I C D U S T ER. A W o m a n 's S c h e m e t o S u p p r e s s th e I>ea<!l/ G e r m , The cult o f the modern housewife forbids the use o f the erstwhile uni versal feather duster and favors wool en polishing mlts, or fabric dusters of some kind, silk ones most o f all. One o f the fabric dusters recently in vented by a New York woman Is built up o f a densely woven fabric o f a comparatively hard, long nap or threads. This Is doubled upon itself, and a center tube, or pocket, formed by a double line of stitching, over Trains 1 arrive In Albany In time to connect with the S. P. south bound train, aa well as giving two or three hours In Albany before departure of 8. P. north bound train. Train No. * connecta with the 8. P. trains at Corvallla and Albany, giving direct service to Newport and adjacent Beaches. Train No. S (or Detroit, via Albany, leaves Corvallis at 6:00 a. m. and connects with the 8. P Albany-Portland local train leaving A l bany at 7 am . Train No. .4 leaves Albany for l>etrolt at 7:3i> a. m., arriving there at noon giving ample time to reach the Breltenbuth not springs the same day. Train No. 4 connects at Albany with tha Portland Albany local, which arrives there at 7 :10 and runs to Corvallis leaving Albany at 7:16 and arriving tn Corvallis at 7:55 p. m. For further lntormatlon apply to T. H. CURTIS, Acting Manrge* TIT Of* COCKRELL, Agent, Albany. H. B. CR0N18E, Agent. Corvallla. THE SAWITART DUST CLOTH. which Is stitched a tape reinforcing strip. The w eft threads are compare-1 tively soft and form the duster prop- j er by the removal of the warp threads as far as the stitching, producing a fringe. Into the completed tube a . stick o f convenient size Is placed, with ' a portion extending beyond the dus ter proper to form a handle. When i the tube of fabric Is mounted upon! the handle It furnishes a convenient \ dusting device that will effectively op -; erate over a large surface. When the fabric becomes soiled or loaded with | dust It may be readily removed from the holder and beaten or Milled to sterilize I t The loose, soft character j of the fabric Is such that I t readily takes up the dust and retains I t “ I ’d rather hot on a horse race than an auto race." M igh t Corner Ir. "W h y r “ A New York man Insists that the “ You don’t lose so quickly.” — Cleve world has four corners.” land Plain Dealer. “ He shouldn't talk so loud. One of Dogs have no constitution, and no those bllllon-dollar syndicates may take courts of Justice; hut they hare mora a notion to corner all the corners»“ — Cleveland Flaln Dealer. rights and liberties than the peopl*| HERE BOYS Fare Money for a S UMME R T R I P Every boy Enjoys a change of air and the fun to be had In the mountains or at the seashore, but nut every boy's father can afford the expense. Wouldn’t it be jolly to earn the money your- M iff There Is a way that Is as easy as It Is sure. It Is by getting sub scribers for TUE PACIFIC TREK AND VINE. Hundreds of boys all over the co ntry are doing this and you might Just as well have your ■hare of the profit*. Pend a postal today and we will send you complete instructions, together with e free outfit The Pacific Tree and Vine Park Hotel Bldg., Son Jos*, Caff.