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Journey to the Great Northwest As Described by Mrs. C. J Crook Si Helena is an old town and n very beautiful one Here was the first that 1 saw of the tropical foliage —Immense palm trees, oleanders in full bloom; the great Madrono trees, etc \t Seattle and Portland there were many trees that we have here, the evergreens, and a few new var ieties to me, but here I found as I say the first of tropical vegetation and in the forests the grand festoons Of grey moss hanging from the trees —a eight 1 ran never forget, 1 visited with my brother and fam ily a few days, a never-to-be forgot ten visit, then turned niv face toward San Kraneiseo, that itieora of till tourists. One can hardly describe the sensations when coming in view of Ibis grand city. Of course In reaching the city from the east side we cross San Kraneiseo Hay. one Of the most beautiful bodies of water In the world; blue as the sky and placid as an inland lake. It is a six mile ride In u magnificent steamer and perhaps n mile from shore rises two great buttes from the water is lands, mountain islands, on which are situated a military fort and light house. It almost seems as If God placed them there on purpose to pro tect the city on this side. As we landed at the great "Kerry Slips" and looked hack over the blue waters of the lmy at the city of Oklaml in the distance it seemed almost like an enchanted land. The great new buildings on every hand were indeed a great surprise. I lmd no idea Hint tilt' i ity would or could bo rebuilt bo quickly after the awful earthquake and file of April liiOti. We saw piles of old brick, fire-twisted masses of iron and debris in many places where splendid buildings had stood. Hut the business streets are nearly res tored with structures much more beau tiful. stately and substantial than those that were destroyed, as 1 was told Many public buildings hate also been rebuilt much more commodious and beautiful than of old. They say they go! rid of some things of which they arc glad, and they have learned some tilings which will he of great benefit to them in (lie future, should such an other catastrophe overtake them. Great tanks or resorvolrs are placed In different parts of the city with an arrangement of pipes so they will have water though the earth do quake. The new Cldua-Towa is fine, with its grand Oriental struct ures ami its great bazaars and much less of evil. They tell you it is a great improvement over the old, and can not tell hardly how they would get along without the Chinese labor ers. Of course it will take a few more years yet to put Sank'nimiseo where she was but she will lie grand er and greater than ever before. We took an observation ear ami went oi< r tln> city; saw many things of interest, then went out to tin* Clift House and Seal Hocks and Sutor's IIeighths and Gardens for one day We sat down and ate our luncheon ■with the broad ocean at our feet. The great seal rocks rising like pyra mills from the ocean and thousands ot seals sunning themselves upon them. A great ocean liner, "The Princess," just passing through Golden Gate to enter the harbor. Tills was a day of solid cement. This was a day well spent and long to be remember ed. Then one half day in Golden Gate park, the pride of San Fran cisco, and justly so. It is the most beautiful city park which I visited and I went to many, It contains 1.110 acres. Tropical plants and flowers 'loom in the open air the year round. Its museums, hand stands, aviary, children's playground, dem and buffoln paddocks, bear pits, con servatory, Japanese tea garden, ten ids io.nl. statuary, recreation ground and hitch of flowers make a para dise. 1 started from Sail Francisco for Los Angeles over the Coast line of the Southern Pacific, a lovely ride it is, and as long as it was daylight wt passed through a wonderful conn try of varied products, industries and occupations. Tropical plants, flow ers and trees, houses of all types, from the modern cottage or modern palace to the humble dwelling made of adobe brick and thatched with palm leaves. Then darkness and sleep. But long before morning I awoke to a realization of the beat ing of the waves on the shore and the smell of the salt breeze, for over one hundred miles the road tied is hardly a stone throw from the ocean. There are many notable and beautiful towns on this line Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Monti r.v, and Sail Jose, all well known and inter esting to thousands of tourists. At X:,!0 a. m. I reached the great and grand eity of Los Angeles, "Tile Place of Angels," it was termed in the old days of its first glory, when it was found that with the aid of irrigating ditches that acres of val ueless cactus land could be trans formed into fertile vineyards and gardens and valuable orchards of lemon, orange, fig, prune and Eng lish walnut.' Then inter when hard times and land sharks (land ticks they are called there) got the advan tage, ‘I was sold "Los Diublos" would be more appropriate. Hut that is all past now. For Hie city of Los Angeles is the most remarkable il lustration of progress!venens on the whole Pacific coast. It lias a popu lation of "20,000. or in other words it has gained over 200,000 in the last ten years. My husband's sister and her husband liv in that city and have for some years, consequently tny visit to them was one of great pleasure to us all and particularly a grand one to me, as they know the city by heart and all the sid*- trips which are Interesting to take and they did take me on many excursions which I will try and give a brief description pf to help some one who may not be fortunate t6 have friends to escort them. Tlie area of the city is forty-four square miles. its schools compare tvitli any on the coast. There are over r.2,000 school children; 2nn fine churches and forty banks; a splendid street railway system; beautiful paving; grand public buildings; lovely parks mid everything to make a grand city. There are twelve dif ferent parks, which are within twen ty minutes ride of the heart of the city, so children limy get the benefit of the great out doors very easily Fifty Years the Standard Baking powder A Guarantee of Light, Sweet, Pure, Whoiesome Food and often, which Is a great thing Indeed. Nearly every house in thej residence portion lias its lawn with flowers of many kinds. The beauti ful llrevalia vine took my eye, and geraniums will grow as high as the house if they are not pruned back. [ They say the flower parade or festl-, vals ill*' something wonderful to be hold and that we can hardly Imagine' the wealth of beauty and variety. It surely is the grandest climate in tlie world. Voti have the bright sun shine and the pure bracing air and at night you lie down to sleep you tnay have cover over you, one or two light blankets, wake up refreshed and Invigorated. I was there in August and one or two days they called it quite hot, but it did not seem so to me; the lovely sea breeze seems to temper the heat.. By annexing San J’edr > last summer I,oa Angeles be cattle a seaport, town, though she is twenty-three miles inland. But that is nothing in that land of daring pro Jorls, as tiny are to nring tlieir city wate^ from Owens Lake, over 200 miles away. There is a great oil field dose try and the supply seems inexhmistntde. They use it for the fuel for factories, they oil the dusty roads, etc. They know they have a bonanza in their petroleum as well as their fruits amt harbor and other enterprises, for without this oil Los Angeles t oukl not have become a nuinufa taring city. Last year young orange trees were in such demand that >mr ! iiii’ii could not till their orders. The same was true of the fast growing eucalyptus; some vari eties are planted for the timber, rail road ties, etc., while some much like our williw is put on low ground to absorb the moisture or reclaim land. We learn many interesting things in the great west. Pasadena is call ed a suberb, yet it is a city of itself. It Is called "The Venice of America,” it is a wonderful place patterned from the Venice of the old world, but they say much more beautiful. Boating down the streets and the wonderful lighting by electri city, making It so beautiful by night It must be seen to be appreciated. "One New York man lias put $.'!,n()0, 000.00 here they tell you besides a number of smaller contributors." • Ocean park an 'ideal beach resort Inis a magnificent bath house and a grand concrete walk along the ocean shore. And then the ocean baths! Oh rny! Redonda Beach has an immense auditorium, grand hotel and immense shipping interests. San ta Monica, one of the most beautiful little cities on the cost lias many fine residences and some millionaires. I Then we came to Long Beach. the greatest and grandest of them all. A real city where many of you have been and where many of our town s people live, luis attractions which make one wish to resist it often. It I as t ho most magnificent as well as the largest bathhouse we visited and the Virginia hotel litis a slate wide reputation fot its splendor and mag ic licence. San Pedro is not such a large city, but it lias one of the greatest "made” harbors in the world. The government lias put im mense sums of money into it already . ml it will take $”,000,000 more to omplete it, hut they have immense -hipping interests, great fisheries and lactories and are wide-awake to ev crediting which will make* them great er. This city was attached to Los '■ngoles last August, the election be . g held whil-> 1 was there. There is a great light house situated there1 which we visited. There are side trips out from the city called "bal loon route excursion,” not up in air, hut balloon shaped, hv Trolley line, 100 miles for loo cents. They are very nice and instructive as well as reasonable. On one of those we vis ited the old San Gabrel Mission, the Cawston Ostrich farm and the Alli gator Farm. One1 c an tee much wide is of, interest on one of tlmse trips, hut it seems to me that the trip to Santa Catalin<< Island was a little the finest of all. We started at 8:110 a. m and got hack at 6:110 p. in., makin a full day, while many tourists stay over night or more if they wish. Wo went over on the steamer Cab rillo, an ocean trip of thirty-two miles from San Pedro. There were fully five hundred passengers on the steamer hut it was very enjoyable to us as we had a party of nine and eight of us were from Kichprdson county, so we had a great visit. as well us a pleasant trip. There is a beautiful village on the island called Avalon, with many attractions but what we cared for the most was to .-•••• the Marine Gardens, ho we took tin glass bottomed boats (each boat is supposed to hold about thirty peo ple). We seat ourselves just next to the deck with a sort of board curb ing in front of us. Inside of this curb ing the bottom of the boat is blass through which you look to view the wonderful masses of vegetation which grow in the bottom of the sea. The guide told us that where the water was over 100 feet deep we could not see the bottom;then it all looked blue like the sky, but where it was under one hundred or ninety feet in depth you can see the most wonderful grow th which looks like flowers and ferns and plants and trees. At times it seems like vert table forests, but in stead of birds in the trees you will see fish of all varieties and - shells by the hundreds. It is a sight and a trip to be remembered the rest of ones life. And of course every tour ist must go to San Diego. Taking advantage of excursion rates one can go very reasonable either by rail or by water. We went by rail and it is a beautiful ride of l .TO miles. You pass through a fine agricultural j district—fine groves of lemons, figs1 and English walnuts and at times along the ocean beach with cliffs of sandstone on the one side in the: most fantastic shapes imaginable caus ed by the action of wind and water in past ages. But the city is beauti ful. The streets are all very wide and run exactly straight each way and finely paved or graded. There are two hundred miles of cement sidewalks. It has a population of tin,noil el 70,000. fine public buildings and parks, splendid schools and churches with adequate car service to all parts of tin* city, many costly and beautiful residences,among them Gen. Fred Grant's, Its great pride is its harbor, San Diego Bay, which covers an area of twenty-two square miles and is many fathoms deeper than an other harbor in the Pacific coast. Tile navies of the world it 's said could he anchored there. An. way it seems great to a "tender ioo'.” I attended the First M. E. i hutch tlie Sunday I spent there and the pastor used to belong to our conference in tills state and a very pri mint nt presiding elder in our con fer.1 ce was there on his vacating, ftor services were over they re* • ■.«tl tlie Nebraska tourists at the Chancel rail with a Methodist hand* ake. Some twenty of us went up, all strangers (vet not strangers) for " c were all front the same grand state. This is the country where the ro mance or plot of ‘ Ramona” was laid, so one could take the trip to Point Leona. On this trip you pass through Old Town with its quaint adobe dwell ings, tin birth place of Ramona, the old mission where she was married and the landing, where it was said she embarked. Of course, all may not hi> true, which, the guides tell you, but in such surroundings one I may imagine them to he true all right. A trip into Old Mexico is one we could not leave out, for having been to Canada we wished to go onto Mex ican soil. It was a delightful trip in deed to the town of Tia Juana. We passed many lemon groves and the great monument which is the boundary line between United States and Mexico. We bought curios and had to come through the custom lfbusi. It was a trip well worth taking. Then I went back to Los Angeles to prepare for my homeward journey. But there was two or three more vis its made before I started and on one of them I picked oranges ami lemons with my own bands. The crop was just beginning to ripen so that I did not get to see much of il gathered. There were some places where the lemons were being gathered and pack ed. They n< ver waste anything. There are industries of every kind. The inferior lemons are converted into oil of lemon, lemon extract, citric acid and other by-products. There are gri at olive oil factories and pickle factories and fig evaporaters and everything seems to be used. You would notice the packing boxes on their depot platforms were from every quarter of the United States. 1 said to myself though we buy their fruits, they buy our corn, cot ton, syrup, lard and dairy products 'tis a fair exchange. Well the time came when I must leave t!i« lovely city of Los \nseles gnd our dear sister and turn east ward, so oil a bright and lovely .Mon day morning she came with me to the Salt Lake depot and I started for San Bernardino and Redlands, be cause they were in the Orange belt. So I took a day for the two cities and think ’twas a day well spent. The climate is hotter here than at Los Angeles, consequently just the place to raise fine oragges. The city of Redlands has 13,000 population and thirty millionaires reside there. It has beautiful homes, public buildings and parks. A. K. Smiley has been a great benefactor. He built a mag nificent library building for the city, besidi s converting a mountain into a veritable garden of Paradise, called, Smilep- Heighths, for a city park. Then I came hack down the valley to San Bernardino, took an observa tion car for two hours and saw many things of interest. There were many lovely residences and magnificent, public buildings, and there is a ^pusli j and enterprise everywhere apparent. At 8 p. m. our train was due which \ was to bear us away from the great, j grand, beautiful and delightful Cali fornia. J was in the company of twoj of our Nebraska girls this day and we; spent a delightful day together and left this grand little city with ihe do- i lightful climate of California and pre pared to face the awful desert of Ne vada on the morrow Legal Notice. E. S. Pyle, whose true name is Edward S. Pyle, non-resident defend ant., will take notice that on the 25th day of January, 1910, Mrs. Sarah L. Faker filed her petition, as plaintiff, in the District Court of Richardson County, Siate of Nebraska, against you the said E. S. Pyle, defendant, the object and prayer of which are ic el tain judgment against you on a Joint and several note made and de livered to t!n> said Mrs. Sarah L. Baker by yourself and Jennie R.Pyle which said note is dated October 12, 1905, and is for the sunt of $150.00 with interest from said date at the rate of eight per cent per annum from said date, and which note be came due on October 12, 1906, and upon which tnere is now due, in cluding interest, the sum of $201.40. And you are further notified that at the same time, said plaintiff pur suant to file statute in such cases, made and provided, sued out. ail order of attachment against you in said cause on the ground that you are a non-resident of the State of Nebraska, and have real estate in said county and state,'and, that said order of attachment was delivered to the sheriff of said county on said date and that on the 26th day of January, 1910, he, »the sheriff, did levy upon said land by attaching the same, which is located near the vil lage of l’reston, Nebraska, and is described as follows: Being tin* 12 acres of land pur chased by you from the heirs of John Pyle, deceased, and situated in the east -12 rods of the northeast quar ter of the southeast quarter of Sec tion No. twenty, in Township one, north. Range seventeen, east of the Oth I’. M.. in Richardson County Ne braska. And you are further notified that unless you plead, answer or de mur to sttid petition filed in said cause, on or before Monday the 9th day of May, 1910, the same will be taken as true and judgment rendered against you according to the prayer of said petition, and an order by said court will be bad that said attached real estate be sold at public sale as under execution, to satisfy whatever amount the court shall find due from you to the plaintiff herein, and pay the cost of said action and of said sale and of the proceedings in at tachment. SARAH E. BAKER. By John Wiltse and .1. E. Leyda, Attorneys. Bated April I, 1910. First publication April I- 1 times. Legal Notice. In the Richardson County District Court, State of Nebraska. Peter Frederick Sr., plaintiff, vs. Charles McMahan, Anna McMahan, his wife, Frank Gilliland and Emma 10. Gilliland, his wife, defendants. Notice is hereby given that by vir tne of an order of sale issued out of the District Court of Richardson county, state of Nebraska, and uj me directed as sherfif of said coun ty.bearing date on the 7th day of March, 1910, I will offer at public sale at the west door of the court house in Falls City, in said county, on the 18th day of April, 1910, at the hour of 1 o’clock p. in. of said day, the following described real estate, situated in Richardson county, state of Nebraska, to-wit: The E. of the E. y2 of tin- S. E. Quarter of the N. VV. 14 of Section lG, Township 3 N. in Range 17, East of the 6th P. M. This sale is made in pursuance of the decree of foreclosure of two mortgages held by said Peter Fred erick Sr., severally executed to him by Charles McMahan and Anna Mc Mahan 011 the property above des cribed and which was by them sold to defendants, Frank Gilliland and Emma E. Gilliland, his wife, who also executed a subsequent inert gage to plaintiff on the same prem ises, the said Frank L. Gilliland and Emma E. Gilliland having purchas ed the legal title of said land from Charles McMahan and Anna Mc Mahan subject to the first mortgage, foreclosed in tiiis action and given by tiie said McMahan and liis wife; the legal title to said land now be ing in tlii> said Frank L. Gilliland and his wife, Emma E. Gilliland, and the same is seized and will be sold as above stated to satisfy the deer; — and costs foreclosing botli mortgages above described. Terms of sale cash. W. T. FENTON, Sheriff of Richardson County Reavis H Reavis, Attorneys for Plaintiff. First publication March 18, 1910. D. S. ricCarthy DRAY AND TRANSFER Prompt attention triven to the removal of house hold -roods. PHONE NO. 21 I Back to the Farm ! The greatest advertisement ever given to western farm lands is contained in the present discussion regarding the high cost of living. Our population and its demands has increased 'beyond the ratio of increased soil products. The man who owns a farm is surer today than ever before of its future value and worth to him. Nearly a million immigrants come annually to this country. The west is increasing in population at the rate of half a million a year. The man who owns a s() or 40 acre worn out farm in Europe is con sidered independent, vet the west offers you 320-acre tracts of Mondell lands or 80 acre tracts of Government irrigated lands at a price that comes near being a gift. With the absolute certainty that these lands will be beyond the reach of the homesteader in a few years, it Will pay you tO get hold Of a WTSteru farm for yourself or your son before it is too late. Get in touch with me. P” D. CLEM DEAVER, General Agent Land Seekers Information Bureau 1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebr. JOHN W. POWELL Real Estate and Loans MORTGAGES BOUGHT AND SOLD Money to Loan at 5 and G per cent interest on good real estate security. Also money to loan on good chattel security. SWcStfaS?' - Falls Citv, Nebraska Passenger Trains South Bound Tr. lo4—St. Louis Mail and Ex press .1:50 p. m. Tr. 106—Kansas City Exp., 3:41 a. m. Tr. 132 x- K. C.loeal leaves. .7:30 a. m. Tr. 138 x- Falls City arrives 0:00 p. m. x—Daily except .Sunday • North Bound Tr 103—Nebraska Mai! and Ex press.1:50 p. m Tr. 10.5—Omaha Express . ,1:48 a.m. Tr. 1.37 x Omaha local leaves 7:00 a m. Tr. 131 x—Tails City local ar rives.8:45 p.m. x—Daily except Sunday Local Frt. Trains Carrying Passengers North Bound Tr. 102.x—To Atchison.11:10 a. m. South Bound Tr. 191x—To Auburn.1:23 p *i. Burlington Route 1 ___ _—..... _..... West Bound No. 13—Denver Exp......... 1:10 a, m. | No. 15—Denver Exp. (Local).1:40 p. m. ' No- 43—Portland Exp._10:17 p. m. No. 41—Portland Exp.2:25 p. m. No. 121—Lincoln Loc. via Ne braska City..5:00 a. m. East Bound No. 14 St. J., K. C. & St. L. .7:38 a. in. No. 41—St. J., K.C. &St. L. .4:11 a. m No. 16—St. J., K. C. & St. L. .4:22 p. tn. (Local) No. 42 St. .T., K. C. A St. L. .6:32 p. m No. 122—From Lincoln, via Nebraska City. 8:43 p m. E. Ci. WHITFORD. Agrent. —We have some fresh Red Seal flour in now. Come and get a sacK. —C. A. Heck.