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DAILY CAPITAL TOtfRNAL, SALSA. dftttOOtf. SATURDAY. JULY 3, 1000.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
E. HOFKK, Editor ud Proprietor
Independent Neirtpaper DoYOtod to American Principle nd
the lroKT0u and Derelopement of All Oregon.
PublUhod Erorjr Kyenlng Rxcept Sunday, ealem, Ore.
SUIISCHIITION RATKS.
(tnvarlablr in Ailranco.)
DUlr. by CArrler, per year -.M.00
Dally, br wt P rear. - 4-00
Weekly, by null, per year. .00
Per month Wo
rer month 85c
Six months ..60o
RECORD OF A MINING CAMP STAMPEDER.
There are some live men among the hotel keepers of Ore
gon. w
There is Dickinson of the Hotel Oregon, who is building up
a million dollar hotel property at Portland.
He has been instrumental In organizing the hotel men of
Portland in the recent city campaign.
The hotel men with the associated commercial interests
elected Simon mayor.
Dickinson and those working with him are forming the
hotel men of the state into a powerful organization.
With them will go the butchers, the bakers, the grocers
and dairymen, the laundries, barber shops and printing of
fices. When hotels prosper the. whole town is making money and
a live, well-kept hotel is the best advertisement a town can
have.
Until the new hotel was built on Coos Bay, Fred Johnson
of the Drexel was running the best hotel in the state out
side of Portland.
The landlord of the Drexel holds the record as a mining
camp stampeder.
Ho was In every stampede for twenty years on the Colo
rado and Molave deserts and the big Nevada rushes,
Ho crossod Death Vallov every month in the year.
Ho was one of the first mon into Fairbanks, Alaska, and
in all the stampedes on the Tanana In 1904-5.
In 1902-3 he went into the British northern territories of
western central Africa for a syndicate, looking for the old
original King Solomon's mines 800 miles In the interior.
They found the original villages built before Christ out of
a cement as hard as steel that stands the corrosion of cen
turies. They found a big gold country that British capital is open
ing up and prospecting with great results,
They found that old Sol had worked the placers to a fin
ish but knew nothing about quartz mining.
Johnson never kept a hotel before but has made It a great
success with the help of Mrs, Johnson,
Their house Is full of people whether there are any peo
ple in the country or not.
Johnson and brogan are the live men ot Vale,
There is a big gold find about forty miles north of Vale,
It promises to be a free milling camp white quartz with
leads of gold.
Bigger still is a find of red oxide of iron with strings of
gold ail through it,
The Rainbow mine fifty miles from Vale is taking out
$1000 to $1500 a day.
It is nrotheast of vale at the headwaters of Willow river
in the Blue mountains,
Mining is expensive four dollars a day for men and sev
en dollars a day for a single team.
Johnson has confidence in Vale being the center of a
great mining rush,
This section of Oregon will be a red-hot territory if there
should ever be a great rush developed,
It is five hundred miles from the state capital, and paying
taxes is synonymous with highway robbery.
Secession from Oregon Is not talked openly in Malheur
and Harney counties, but at a development convention held
at Vale last December a resolution was offered to create a
new state of Lincoln out of part of Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington, with Baker City as the capital,
It never got any further, but the people feel their bonds
very lightly in statehood matters.
They have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars state
taxes and have never got any assistance In the way of development,
Mining development and railroad developmen t, reclama
tion of arid lands and better highways are j badly needed.
These are the only bonds that will hold this territory as
large as Massachusetts and Connecticut firmly to the rest of
Vgreat mining stampede in this part of the state will
develop wonderful possibilities in a political as well as along
development lines,
WHOLE
FAMILY
INJURED
United Press Leased Wire.)
Stockton, Cal., July 3. J. D.
Prldgcon, his wlfo nnd two daughters
today nro suffering from painful In
juries received when the horses at
tached to n uuck In which they wero
returning from a funeral ran away
and galloped madly through tho
streets of a suburb.
Tlio horses took fright when Ed
ward Scely, the driver, had a fit,
and fell from tho box across their
backs.
As the closed hack swayed through
tho streets, Prldgcon opened a door
and commanded his wlfo to Jump.
1.0 followed her to tho pavement,
sustaining Injuries that may dlsflg
uro htm porman6ntly. His nose was
mashed flat upon his face, and his
checks horribly lacoratcd. Mrs.
Prldgcon struck tho back of her
head sustaining u serious scalp
wound. Her escapo from death was
miraculous.
'i.io Misses Prldgcon, following tho
example, of their parents, also leaped.
Doth wero soveroly bruised but wero
ablo to walk to their home.
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Why worry since wo havo forgot
ten what wo wanted last yonr, and
don't know what wo may want next?
The Fight Is On
Evory momont of your llfo whor
you nro at homo or abroad,
nwnko or nsloop
Between tho poison germs that arc In nlr,
food nnd water, every whero in fact,
nnd tho billions of your invisible friends,
tholittlcsoldicr-corpuBclcsinyourblood.
If these, little soldiers aro kept strong
nnd healthy by taking Hood's Sarsa
parllla, you need havo no fear of dis
ease. Begin using it nt onco if you aro
at all under tho weather, or havo
troubles of tho blood, stomach, liver
and kidneys. Get it of your druggist.
COOL WAVE MAKES
CHICAGOANS HAPPY
Chicago, July 3. After a day of
sweltering heat tho (uttering pcoplo
of Chicago wore given n chango to
day for cool weather. Tho mercury
foil nearly 20 degrees during tho
night, nnd tho suffering was not near
ly to great as it has been most of
tho .timo In tho last fow wcoks.
CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK
J, H, Albert, Pres,
E, M, Croisan, Vice Pres,
Jos, H, Albert, Cashier
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Accounts
Semi-Annual Clearance Sale
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neve presented itself. We thow
down the gauntlet and challenge
competition to offer
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