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
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—We have some fresh Red Seal
flour in now. Come and get a sacK.
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