A TRII* TO CALIFORNIA
Newark Citizen Writes of Things
Seen and heard En Route
to the Pacific Coast.
To The Newark Journal:
I left Newark on Christmas day
to visit my brother, James G. Ed
wards, and landed in this city Fri
day, December 2S.
I stopped over at Texarkana
tin* 26th and found a nice little
city, but at Fort Worth, Texas,
my next stop, 1 found a much
■nicer place. My next stop was at
Itig Springs, Tex., where 1 found
m town of 3,000 people, not incor
porated. There are live saloons
«t that place, but 1 did not see a
■nan under the influence of whis
key while there, and they are the
■nost friendly people I ever met.
Here 1 took the train for El Paso,
Tex., where 1 found a nice little
city. Leaving there I took the
Southwestern for Los Angeles.
On the way 1 saw a lake which
was 46 miles wide and 9S miles
long. It was formed by the ocean,
atml just began to run into a can
yon a year ago. It rises steadily
an inch a day, and has forced the
^southwestern railroad to move
three times and it is now making
•ts fourth move. It is said to be
about 40 feet deep and in many
places you can see where houses
«r little villages have been.
Calton, where you change ears
for Riverside, eight miles south, is
a line place, sourrounded by tine
prange groves. The trees are now
loaded with fruit, and young
oranges are still putting on. From
there to Los Angeles is a valley
■about 40 miles wide, where they
grow the finest fruit and flowers
and have the finest residences you
ever saw.
Los Angeles is a nice city ot
some 2(H),000 people, and people
from the East are corning here so
fast the dray wagons can't keep
the trunks hauled away from the
depot. This country is a sure
’iiough a Sunny South. As far as
one can see there are line vine
yards and flowers, all green and in
full bloom, anil it is this way all
the year round. They have a tine
climate, tine water and a tine ocean
breeze, and its the best place on
earth for enjoyments of all kinds.
This is a very cheap place to
live. ()ne can get room and board
for $-1 per week, and wages are
very good. Clerks in mercantile
establishments get $10 to $d<> per
week, and street car men get 22
to 2M cents per hour. They have
all kinds of places of amusement
*nd one can live cheap or live
liigh, just as he likes.
Western Texas, Southern Arizo
na and New Mexico are not worth
a copper nothing but bald hills
nnil bald prairies. Nothing to see
but prairie dogs and coyotes. No
water, no nothing. I never saw a
house for a thousand miles across
the desert except a depot ever.v
580 or miles.
1 think 1 will stay here, but
can't say yet. Am going down
«»n the coast tomorrow. Will
write more when 1 get better ac
quainted. If any ot my friends
want to ask me any questions
about the country, write me at
Ix>s Angeles, and I will take pleas
ure in answering the same.
Ciiai.k .
Los Angeles, Cal., January d.
Forced to Starve.
15. F, Leek, of Concord. Kv.,
aays : “For 20 years 1 suffered
agonies, with a sore on my upper
lip. so painful, sometimes, that l
could not eat. After vainly try
ing everything else, 1 cured it
with Bucklen's Arnica Salve.”
It’s great for burns, cuts and
wounds. At J. I. Sturdivant’s
drug store, only 25c.
LETTER FROH TEXAS.
To The Newark Journal:
I enclose herewith a dollar,
which please place to my credit
on subscription. I cannot do with
out The Journal, for it is a {food,
nice, clean paper, well printed,
and the best of all, its like getting
a weekly letter from home. One
cannot get my wife to leave home
on Monday, for that is the day
The Journal gets here.
We have a very pleasant climate
in this country. There has been
no cold weather here yet this
winter, and only about two frosts.
1 have been here ten years, and
have seen snow only twice during
that time.
People are beginning to farm,
or, rather, are preparing their
lands for it. They plant corn
here in next month. A large cot
ton crop was made here last year.
Corn, wheat and oats were alse
good.
We have but little sickness, and
any man who will work can make
money, in spite of the monstrou
boll weevil. We have but om
negro in the town. He is 94 years
old. There is a colony of negroes
off from town a few miles. Tin
people raise almost anything they
want to. I am told that corn
averages 35 bushels per acre, and
cotton about half a bale. One
man, with a cultivator, can culti
vate 40 to 00 acres.
Best wishes to The Journal.
May 1900 be the most prosperous
| year of its life. ,J. H. Powki.i,.
Bertram, Tex., January 4.
Bent her Double.
‘*1 knew no one, for foui
weeks, when I was sick with ty
phoid and kidney tioudlc,” writes
Mrs. Annie Hunter, of Pittsburg,
Pa., “and when 1 got. better, al
though I hid one of the best doe
tors I could get. I was bent dou
ble, and nad to rest my hands <n
my knees when I walked. Finn
this terrible affliction I was res
; cued by Electric Bitters, which
restored my health and stlength,
and now 1 can walk as straight a>
ever. They are simply wonder
ful.” Guaranteed to cure stom
ach, liver and kidney disorders ;
at J 1 Sturdivant’s drug store;
price 50c.
SCHOOL FURNITURE.
School directors are reminded
that Craig & Henderson of New
ark still handle school furniture
and apparatus of all kinds, and are
prepared to sell first* class goods at
low prices. If you expect to buy
anything in their line see or write
to them and you will have prompt
attention.
OLTEM SHEELEY.
rI'o The Newark Journal:
Death has visited the horaeof Mr.
and Mrs. John Sheeley and taken
from them their beloved son, Ol
tem. lie departed this life .Janu
ary 1, 1 His remains were
laid to rest at the Dugger ceme
tery.
Oltem was a young man about
21 years of age. He leaves a
father, mother, two brothers and
a host of friends to mourn his
death. Oltem was a good kind
hearted boy, loved by all who
knew him. 11 is death was quite
unexpected. He was sick only a
few days with pneumonia.
How sad anu lonely the home
when all are gathered around the
1 liieplaee, and we see a vacant
seat. We look around for Oltem,
but he is not there. 11 is voice is
hushed, his footsteps are heard no
more.
Rev. McDoniel conducted the
service at the grave, where a
large concourse of people assem
■ bled to pay the laH sad tribute of
respect to the memory of a de
■ parted friend. The bereaved
1 family have the sympathy of the
community.
We’ll never hear 1 iis footsteps
Foi (Jod has cal led him hom ',
lie’s gone to join the angels,
Where he’ll never be alone.
Weep not for dear Oltem:
For (Jod knows best, we know;
It i.s so hard to give him up.
Hut (Jod called him Ilis own*
A Fkiend.
CRUSHED BY A TRAIN.
Warren, .Inn. ♦>. John (loss
Woods, foreman of the Arkansas
Lumber Company, was today run
over by the log train and so badi.v
injured that he died in a short
time. He had been married but a
! few days and was highly esteem
ed by his employers and by his
accuaintances generally.
i A reasonable amount of food
tlmioughly dig* sled and properly
| assimilated will always increase
tlie strengih. If youi stomach is a
i‘"little off” Kodol I)\ spepsia Cure
' will digest what you eat and en
able the digestive organs to its
|
similate and transform ail foods
1 into tissue-building Idood- Kodol
relieves sum stomach, belching,
heart burn and all forms of indi
jgestion. Palatable and .strength
ening. Sold l-\ J. 1 Sturdivant. !
The total number of patients
confined in the state insane asylum
at the close of the year was 'd"24,
grouped as follows: 40S white
males and 385 white females; 57
negro males and 73 negro females.1
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