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THE OREGON JDAILV) JOURNAL 4 PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY-EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1009.
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But Lacks a Lot of Living in
- It Exists for the Opulent
Tourist AloneHistory of
i an Outpost of Old Spain
OldestvTown in America
. ... , r irornrcmO J. HASKIN,
rrvnvrthL 190. by Frederic J. Haskln.)
fi Anmistlne. Hi.. Jan. . Forty-
two rears before m Captain John i Braitn
' and his party landed at Jamestown 56
" v?aVi T before the Mayflower brought the
- Pilgrims to Plymouth, this ancient toan
.: li i....ii.n ma a. pitv or consla-
- -r.hi. Imnni-fance. It U the- oldest.
town in the United States and although
- is hasno history or tradition which
links 4t to any event of importance in
- 'vnnnia. it is Interesting be-
' cause of its antioulty.
t. T...n ai imii. that debon
.1 n - .,, Hvnttiror- rime to ot
in isia in search of the
;fa.bTed fountain of youth. Here at the
indent Indian vllllage of toXor.to tlMt
- nlaced foot upon , the Nor.th American
' Continent It was Easter &unaay n
i It was a land of flowers, so he gave
the land the beautiful name of Pfcu
Florida. : His search for the mystic
, fountain Of youth was fruitless, but
V there Is no doubt that if he had found
here then e magnificent hotel which
Is here now andwhleh bears his name
he would have believed that he had
- found El Dorado and fairyland at the
same time.,: ...-, v, . .
Opened Witt a Massacre.
The French cam and founded a
Huguenot colony, but It did. BotgmUniw.
and It was not until 156 that Fedro
; Menendea brought a colony of Spanish
to take actual possess on of the terrl-
tory which had been claimed by Ponce
de ron. which had been largely explored
.. by P Soto and which had been overrun
: by Wore than one band of gold-seeking
Spanish murderers. The colony landed on
' St. Augustine's day, and. following the
religious custom of the "me. the new
. town received the name otjhtt saint.
' After having properly l1'"
' br the massacre of the French Hugue
nots on the nearhy 6.. John rfver.
th colony settled down to a humdrum
'life. - Forts were built of course, the
pirates came, the town ha,wJ.t,h
most Spanish-American settlements the
distinguished honor ot being attacked
by that noble Britisher Sir Francis j
Drake, there were Pctesand rnas-sacres.-
wars with, the Inf,an. .Jt".
.the French and with the kn1'8 Af,te.r
j nearly three centuries of blood, the llt-
M oitv Wjimit as American town,
is?f it knew the curse of war
again In the Seminole war, U felt I
Fortlon r tne mock wi vuu ' - -
lict of the 0's. and then peace came.
And after peace came the railroad
, and the, orange grove P.u?-.m.
tt the winter resort hoteL Now St. Aug
( ustine -is a winter resort; a place lor
sightseers and nothing more.
'- wot Much Xf of Oil Spain.
t. town itself shows rery Uttla of
th. nM Krmnish character. There Is the
Inevitable plaza, with its old cathedral
h cantaln seneral's palace which
now does duty as a postofficfc These,
ih- tuxr tumble down houses, th
ctm and the old fort, are
"about the only survivals Of the ancient
Spanish days. ; .. -. ;
rr-u- t... a "Plza Constltu
f lonal" because of a monument erected
Augustine people are said to have told
it so onen inai iuejr '
selves. , ,
Old Tort Marlon.
Fort Marion la the most interesting
thing to soe In St. Augustine, uompiei
ed in17B6 it is the only example of
medieval fortification extant in ryorcn
America. - It Is In an almost perieci
nBa nf nrpKprvatlon and. Jndeea, nas
been repaired and improved by thet unt
ted states since me Anient"
tinn. It was garrisoned until me epan-
Ish war, but for the lael m year no
snMlflm h-ve been keut here and the
nlor-s la In rharirn nf an Old sergeant
whn ha aien 0 vears' service In the
nrmv. It Is his deilgni 10 leu vioii-
ors the' story of the did fort where he
ha, v...n BtattAn.H for m veneration.
Th 'fort occupies the position of
more than one predecessor. Menendes
built a fort of pine loj?s here in J56o.
t w n,.iAAf1.ii hv a jitronaer- one Of
enj-thwork and finally a small one of
stone. Then the English navy became
very active in American waters and It
was necessary-to protect the capital of
Florida. The worn or cunning me
present fort extended through many
years. The stone, coquina, was quar
ried on the island of St. Anastasia, and
ferried across the bay in rowboats. The
work was done by convicts from Spain,
Cuba and Mexico, by Indian slaves and
negroes. King Ferdinand VI is said
tr. Ihvj dprlnred that he believed the
fort was built of gold, It had cost so
much. Fort San Mareo it waa called
in those days, and it was the strongest
and the noblest fortification In all
North America. -
General Jackson's Bald.
Within a decade, however, it became
English property. In 1762 the English
captured Havana and occupied Cuba.
In the following year England gava
Cuba back to Spain in exchange for
Florida and the Bahama islands. St.
Auguhtine became the English capital
of East Florida and earnest efforts
were made to introduce English colo
nists. The English retained control for
20 years. In the meantime tney naa
in lis center in-honor or tne graminp
of a liberal constitution by the wpanisn
mriH to the colony of Florida in
' Ti.. conioh ritv fatners hired an Emg-
" lishraan to, cut the inscriptions on the
. monument, so It is presumed, tor on all
.' foiis sides he spelled the word "consti
tution" with its proper English comple--r-MMU
of three ns On the front of
tha monument some Spanish scholar,
probably arisen since the winter resort
word to its proper Spanish spelling- of
' "constltucton.- - ...
At one end of the nlaza Is an old stone
" pavilion which is used for band concerts
these days. The-negro carriage drivers,
' the professional guides and the souvenir
postcards gravely inform the credulous
, tourist that it is the old "slave market,"
built by the Spanish and used until the
time 01 ,tne civil war. m manor m
fant the clace was built long after the
end of Spanish rule and was used for a
meat and .vegeiaoie maraeu oc Aug
. natina waa too small and too ooor to
afford a slave market, but1 the story is
' a arood one ior lourisia ana some ot.
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Snow-Balling Our Prices
, We give our customers the
- -opportunity of saving on doc
' tors' bills by dressing com-
i ortably during - this below
comfort weather. These will
- keep U"iiirarnir''-''-"-',;""''-.
WARM ULSTERS,
$20.00 value . . '. f 11.85
'.WARM SWEATERS, Y
I - $3.00 value .V. . . 9I.35
WARM ARCTICS, ' '
" $2.00 value .;,;.;?15
WARM GLOVES,
75c value 45
FUR-LINED CAPS.
. $1.00 value .... , . . .45
EAR MUFFS, " - '
50c value -23 '
We Advertise Facts Only.
lost -the 13 colonies to the north y
the war of Independence, and were only
too willing to get rid of East Florida
in some great international land swap.
The Spanish came back, to the great
Joy of the inhabitants, and once more
the red and yellow standard of the Cas
tilian monarchs floated over the old
fort The power of the new republic
to' the north was constantly increasing,
and, following upon ' the second war
between England and the United States.
General Andrew Jackson invaded Flor
ida. There was a great hue and cry,
resulting finally In a treaty negotiated
in 1818. by which the United States
purchased Florida from Spain. The
transfer of sovereignty was not made
until two years later. Then the Amer
ican flag was raised over San Marco
and the fort was rechrlstened Fort Ma
rlon in honor of Francis Marion, a
hero of the Revolution;
A few'years later the American army
used the fort as a prison for captured
chiefs of the warring Seminoles. The
great Osceola was imprisoned here for
a time before he was taken to Fort
Moultrie, at Charleston, where he -died.
rort XTseless in Thsse Bays.
Fort Marion Is absolutely useless as
a fortiricatlon in these days or im
proved artillery. It is now nothing but
a, reminder of the days when Florida
was an outpost of the great' Spanish
empire In America, of which not one
vestige remains. - f ar to tne norm was
the English colony of Jamestown,
Nothing Is left of it now but the ruined
tower of a church. It never had a
reat fort. Massachusetts bay never
ad such a fort as this. Not one of
the English speaking colonies in Amer
ica built such a structure. While mis
takes were made and while the history
of the English colonies is not without
its blots, the fact remains that they
were -built upon the principles of hu
man liberty and were protected by the
sacrificing heroism Of volunteers. Tlio
Spanish colonies were built upon a
foundation of blood -and greed, and
Spain vainly sought to protect them
by building cannon proof forts to be
garrisoned ny mercenary soldiers. That
is the lesson of Fort Marlon.
St. Augustine's Dreams.
But St Augustine Is a winter resort.
The Hotel Ponce de Leon is perhaps
the. finest tourist hotel on the conti
nent, certainly there is none more beau
tiful. It and the Cordova and the Al
cazar and other modern buildings give
the city of St Augustine its Spanish
flavor by their adherence to Spanish
architecture with 'a Moorish tincture.
They give St Augustine its life, for
during the long summer months the old
town sleeps and dreams, not of its his
toric past, but of the season that In
to come and the tourists with fat pock
etbooks which It will bring.
Christmas holidays bring the first
few stragglers; then comes the New
Year, and the season is on. The trains
discharge their cargo of gold-lined
fiockets, the hotels are ablaze with
ights and color, and the whole city is
alive with souvenir sellers and mouth
ing guides
There is the beautiful bay, the axuro
kv. the sDrlna- like warmth, the charm
of antiquity and the spell of Florida
the tourist is roiaea up in aeugni. Ana
the happy citizen of St. Augustine is
busv selling his sacred history and his
incomparable climate at so much per
day.
IRRIGATION FOR
14,000 ACRES
Crook County Land Will Be
Reclaimed by the De
schutes Company.
EASY MEY
THAI GOES
BEGGING
Yankees , Break Their Neclcs
to Sell in Crowded Europd
While South America is
Screaming for the Wares
Vast Resources.
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. By Tar.
Washington. Jan. . Thomas C. Daw
son. envov extraordinary ana minister
plenipotentiary to coiomoia, wno naa
lust returned to Washington from his
South American post to discuss some
state matters with Secretary Root Says
any enterprising- American may find any
number or money making opportunities
Mr. Dawson, wno is a ua.
(gpecltl IHapatch to Tfa Journal.
Salem. Or.. Jan. 6. Seventy-four
thousand acres of arid land in Crook
county will be reclaimed, according to
. contract wnicn tne state land noara
esterday signed up with the Deschutes
rrigatlon & Power company.
It is to have a lien upon the land for
the estimated cost of reclamation, fixed
at 160 per acre for irrigable land and
Z.fiU per acre ior non-irrigable land.
The company already has contracts
for the reclamation of two tracts, one
consisting of 84,000 acres, the Pilot
Butte segregation, and the other con
f t,
sisting of
-.000 acres, the Oregon Irri
tation company segregation.
This land Is in the vicinity of Bend,
Crook county. The tract covered by
the contract signed yesterday lies south
and east of the tracts covered by the
earlier contracts, and reaches from the
Deschutes river nearly to rrinevllle.
Water for tbe irrigation will be taken
from Deschutes river. The plans call
for the construction of a storage reser
voir, the details of which are vet to be
definitely decided upon.
The per cent of irrible and non
Irrigable land is not definitely known.
but it Is estimated that the total lien
of the company wui be in the neighbor
hood of 13,500.000. The company is to
receive !0 cents per acre ner year from
settlers as a maintenance charge until
1817, when tbe system is to be turned
down there.
tlve of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Is an un
usually close ana careful observer.
'The natural resources of the country
are enormous' said Mr. Dawson, "but
their development has been retarded by
the lack Of capital and means of trans
portation, xi Americans get io Colom
bia first thev will reap a rich harvest.
but if thev delay much longer foreign
promoters ere apt to set into the coun
try before them, in which event our
countrymen will have missed a golden
nnnnrtllnftv.
"It will give you some idea of the
country to knew that over 80,000 square
miles of land near Bogota, an or wnicn
is as rich as the best lowa-soil. Is going
utterly ' to waste. In addition to this
there are 160,000 square miles of range
uiat is practically unusea.
Yankees' Ideas AU Wrong-, "
Minister Dawson emphasises the views
of other members of the diplomatic
corps whoare stationed in South Amer
ican cities relative to tne Business op
portunities that are to be round down
there. These "men constantly deplore
the fact that an American ship is sel
dom seen in South American waters,
whereas the flags of other nations are
always flying from mastheads 10 the
various harbors.
Not only do American merchants ap
pear to be indifferent to the commercial
opportunities of South America, but the
average American cltisen has little or
no conception of what that continent
really la In the popular estimation
Central and South America constitute
vast torrid regions, sparsely populated
bv Inferior and bellicose peoples, whose
chief occupation is fighting among
themselves. North Americans generally
can not realize that their cousins to tne
south are of intellectual and commer
cial Importance, or that their universi
ties and professional schools are turning
out scholars and scientists who are as
far advanced as those of the United
States and Europe.
Wnat Argentina Is Doing.
Buenos Ayres. capital of Argentina, la
a city of over 1,000.000 inhabitants. Its
foreign trade has risen In 10 years from
$125,000,000 to $628,000,000. As a hint
of what may be expected !n other direc
tions, Argentina corn uas already large
ly displaced tnat ot tne united mates in
German, markets. Three hundred mil
lion tons of oats are shipped annually
rrom . Argentina to otner countries.
Among the leading industries are in
cluded factories for the manufacture of
textiles, shirts, ties, clothing, shoes,
hats, umbrellas, furniture, paper,
matches, grain bags and hardware. Two
hundred tanneries make good use of the
hides that are obtained from the im
mense cattle Dusmess.
Hot on American Ship.
As an evidence of what American mer
chants are hot doing In South America
it may be stated that out of 2194 ships
which anchored In the harbor of Buenos
Ayres last year, not one, outside of our
battleships, waa registered from the
United States. The same thing is true
of all the harbors of the republic, as
not one ship of more than 8000 that en
tered the four principal 'harbors carried
the stars and strlnes. Hern In a rnnntrv
doing an annual export business of $528.-
000,000 a year, receiving over 10,000
ships at her five principal harbors, and
not one of them in the year quoted, so
far is the records show, was from the
uuiieu Duties.
Where Merchants Are Foolish.
"Today tbe merchants of the United
States are sending scores of commercial
travelers to the markets of Europe, an
already overworked field," said Minis
ter Dawson, "and where, if they are
successful in placing their goods, they
do not begin to command the prices that
prevail in the Latin-American republics.
in coiomoia mere is a large and increas
ing demand for foreign commodities and
luxarious. but it is very seldom that
one can find these things in the public
market places, if any one seeks toilet
articles, or canned goods, for Instance,
he will be unable to find any except
those of German or English manufac
ture. My belief Is that if a man should
come to Colombia representing almost
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This Is the appeal of nature, and It
auouid be heard.
Over-eating, lats suppers, ' poorly
chewed food, too rich pastries and un-der-uone
cooking are some of the causes
of th stomach's 111 health.
When th stomach la busy. It presses
and churns all the liquid matter from
food and with its juloes dissolves into
liquid form Or pulp everything which
comes into It
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The contract gives ths irrigation com- m, "'7 wimuui buotuu
panr the right to use tns water powers .mm u lumauu. iotr wui
available la ths canal system for a p- i "took the gastric fluid with all the
riod of 86 years, in consideration of elements needed. They bouild up ths
which the company la to maintain ths . oiooo, destroy sour taste. Had breath.
govern
canals during; that period. The land
will be sold to settlers br the state, the
purchasers paring off the eorapany's
len.. this being ui consideration, .
Grand Duke's Enormous Fortune. ,
St Petersburg. Jan. 6. Br ths czar's
rdars vthe estate sf it he. Grand Xuks
Alexis, who died intestate, is to be di
vided - between- Jils -surviving brothers,
the Grand Dukes Vladimir and Paul.
The value of the private estate Is over
iau.ooo.wuv. - - 11 -
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belching, stomach and bowel trouble
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Address rv A. etuart I o.. is fitiurt
any of our American manufacturers he
would rind a ready sale for his wares.
Moreover, If the ioe Is once broken
American merchants will have tbe ad
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Is a glorious opportunity to increase
American trada. but it will reaulre cer-
sonal and direct representation to get It."
Character of ths Bogotans.
General Rafael X. Reves. nresident of
the Colombian republic, is described as a
wide awake, enterprising ruler. He
speaks perfect English, and has a broad
and comprehensive knowledge of world
affairs. The population of Bogota is
about. 300,000, ranging in type from the
aescenaants or pure blooded Spaniards
to the full blooded Indian. Bogota Is
beautifully located, 0000 feet above the
sea level. Inhabited by a refined, polite
and educated people. Several languages
are spoaen nuenuy Dy many or-the cit
izens, and the arts and sciences are lib
erally patronised. The city boasts of
three beautifully appointed clubs the
foio, jockey and Gun clubs.
Thirty miles from Bogota by rail are
the Zipakulra salt mines, which are
celebrated the world over. About seven
miles from the railroad station the trav
eler notes a cone shaped hill, resembling
a solid mass of salt rock. The product
of the mine contains 20 per cent nure
salt The mine produces 22.000 tons of
sail annuauy, ana brings the
ment a revenue of 1860,000.
SAYS MAtf SHE SLEW
WAS HER TEMPTER
(Special Dispatch to Tbe Journal
Newark, N. J, Jan. a. The case of
Mrs. Josephine Amore, the Italian
woman charged with the murder of
Micnaei Marieuo, was called for trial
In the criminal court today. The al
leged murder occurred early In August
last and attracted much attention at
the time. Martello. a boss Dalnter and
married, was shot down in the Amore
nome in unit street, death ensuing in
a few minutes. At first Mr Amore'"
husband, who has sines disappeared, was
suspected Dy ine ponca or tne murder-,
but while he was bains- aunntlnnmA hv
the police the wife appeared and con
fessed that it was she who had com
mitted the deed. According to the
woman's confession she had long been
annoyed by the attentions Martello
forced upon ner. finally, goaded to
aeeperauon ana reariui or her own life,
she (recided to wreak swift vengeance
on the man. who, she alleges, had tried
to roree ner to rorsak honor and fam
ily to flee with him.
TJNCLE JOE CARES ,
NOT FOR BIG TREES
ftTaitsd Pmm Imf Wlr. "
Washington, Jan. . Representative
Englebrlght of California Is considering
the advisability of calling to- his aid
Senator Flrnt In ah endeavor to per
suade Speaker Cannon to call up ths
Calaveras big tree measure, which has
passed ths senate and awaits action by
the house. - - - - . - . v
- Cannon was interviewed -by Engle
brlght but maintained his usual stti
tude toward forest - legislation end the
Californlan received little- encourage
ment There la apparently no . reason
why the bill should not pass, except
Uncle Joe. - - - - .
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