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Show I'HhH I Joaquin Miller was in town this week. He '..JjHbS ! talked about a little of everything from the ride 9IB of Marcus Whitman to save Oregon, to the Inven- - tdHHl I tion of the' telegraph and the telephone, both of : which he characterizes as obnoxious and neither iMffil I of wlllcu ne allws on n premises in the vicinity wmBB 1 1 Speaking of Whitman's ride, in the dead of 'jImM '' winter, from Oregon to the city of Washington, " 'Jlwral ' he sad' that no feat of ImIan traPPer or guide, 'Iljjfifll ever compared with it, because he took but two IjlBp men with him and started from Oregon when ' ''twffifinB 1 white men were scarcer than the proverbial hen 'ffiwK teeth and made his way to Washington. In the '' 'KjSjH course of the conversation he also mentioned the '''fiflBI fact at Whitman wore buckskin which freezes iS&fli ln winter and n lmd nIy one suIt- - ;'vJHHn Joaquin Miller is just a kid. He swore to that twBBff in tue Prescncc of tlie editorial "we," and we ' IBBmI were bound to believe him. However he thinks he . ' RflflSflr is developing because the biggest check he ever received was from the "Century" last month, and 'IHHf lf nIs conversatlon counts for aught in forty or IhR fifty years from now he may have the instincts of rfaSllHj a real Pet- By tllG way ne toolc nis uoots off in CaMBHm our mc0 remarking as he pulled a flash roll from ' iIImH lliS SOc1c' tnat ll6 (1 snow tlie kys something about llKHfl Mr" Miller entertained us the best he could. MraKBv e ie samo or nm ut we think we were -illffiluMi n falIuro because when we asked him how he vllflHI 1Iked Salt Lake 110 salc1, 1,1 think when 1 dIe 111 ? iI&BBI Mr Mller 5ias tne true spirit of newspaperdom PIsmH because when he saw his poem regarding San 'M Francisco, which appeared in the Sunset Mag- iwlHH azine, and the things- that had happened to it at ImBBB the hands of the compositor, he raved like a real frafR3 Having come in contact with some of Mr. Mil- '"IshBk ers nyrSraphy which in English Is called writ- ' IwHBi inff' wo scarcely blame the San Francisco mag- ' fwuR However, Mr. Miller was angry enough about 'ffim it to write an original verse for Goodwin's Weekly . TSUm a of wlllcn ls appended to the poem. |