Show newspapers THROUGH difficulties the san francisco chronicle notes as an indication of the utter ool collapse lapie of business on the IL isthmus of panama the ine sheriff sheriffs s sale of the panama star mar and herald it says say this thia journal for several years derived an enormous enor moua revenue in subsidies fram the panama canal compary company besic besires ies the legitimate advertising which came to it while the canal boom lasted it coined money and even in the days of the decline it bad a royal time when canal work ceased however the ruin of business on the isthmus was total and for many months the be paper has hag been filled with stereotype matter sent bent 0 thre from new york the history of this journal during its hush dush days would make a very readable article tho the chief difficulty of its manager was waa to get competent newspaper men to re main at panama the deadly fever was a menace tuat outweighed all the oil vantages advantages of a handsome salary and liberal for expenses one new yorker who was lured by toe the golden bait i offered reached ninfi panama odly to learn that his predecessor bad succumbed the night before 0 to o a sudden attack of fever the new mauve mans nerves were so badly shaken that he be took the steamer for san fran ciasco after spending less than twelve hours in the place thair proved so deadly to an p army of adventurous shirts it I 1 is a settled fact that the newspaper business has a Mici nation which everybody cannot resist no matter what the drawbacks some of the papers we receive from nearer home I 1 iak or is as it if the ones who conduct them were engaged at logging in the canyon also and got the two occupations mixed up now slid and then as it were |