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Show r - V' ooooo oooooooo OOOOOOOOOOCOb OSAKA TIIE BUSIEST CI?Y .YOUNG GIRL BRAVES PERIL IN TIIE JAPANESE EMPIRE WITH GOLD IN PROSPECT Probably to Vesfern Eyes lh Most Interesting Metropolis of the East Traveler Alas Described the Streets as Veritable Beehive of Hamarl Industry, Hardships and Danger Cheerfully Endured in Quest of Wealth Thrilling Description of Journey to the Thunder Mountain District of Idaho. It Is expected that when the mow ended, but found afterward that It was disappears this spring there will be only half begun, tor the hllla were so another rush tor the new gold Helds high, the Thunder Mountain district la the Thunder Mountain region of so big and horses so hard to hunt that Idaho. A 'rear ago the Thunder Moun-tai- many is the time we hare walked gold fields were almost unknown. miles to examine a property Ms nr gold seekers were deterred from "When we were fortunate enough venturing to the reglops by stories of to find a horse to ride, Its back was so sore or its feet ho tender that as the difficulties of the route. The hare seemed less formidable a rule we walked sod led the horse. a HI never forget. since a woman. Miss Mr A Rice of One experlent e Texas, made the trip while the snow It was late In September, and I was was still twenty-fivfeet In places. She was the first woman to enter the n 1 e region. Mias Rices father kat his property la the Galveston flood. Afterward the family went through the Ileauraont oil excitement To help along Mist Rice established the Beaumont Oil Review. 8be continued to he proprietor and editor of this little sheet until she and her father started on the long and dangerous trip Into the wilds of Idaho. Here is her story of the journey: Papa and 1 left Beaumont the first Ray of May, 1902. We arrived in Idaho about, the 4th and stayed in Halley until the 13th, getting ready for the awful and wonderful trip ahead of us. The outfitting of the first woman to go to the camp was an aw Inspiring thing. 1 was taken to the tailor's and had a pair of knickerbockers made, and waa so pleased with them that 1 ordered another pair, f felt about the name as 1 expect all little boys do who are getting ont of dresses for th first time. Most of the women In Idaho ride cross saddle, so it was nothing new for me to leave the town astride. Our party consisted of eleven, with fifteen horses, two wagons and an Immense amount of provisions, bedding, am e - (Special Correaponi Oaakarfhe second city in Japan', is an) sometimes called the Chicago of pan. It is probably so named because it is such an enterprising, hustling, bustling place In comparison with other Japanese cities. It is, indeed, the commercial metropolis of Japan. It boasts much greater antiquity than tbe American city, as ft traces Us history hack even to prehistoric times. The first Buddhist temple ever built In Japan was erected at Kaniwa, as the piece wa The name original I y called. Osaka, meaning Big HI IT, was given to it about the time Columbus discovered America. Osaka was at first fa giveg vivid picture of what may The s We always load your teams promptly. Load them with COAL, of course, for be seen In the Japanese Chicago: streets of Osaka are the busiest have ever seen. They are literally 1 thats our stock 111 trade.- thronged with human beings engaged Tbe stores and in unceasing toll. shops are also workshops and warehouses. Clerks, designers, artisans, packers, carters, sellers anS buyers are so mixed up that Zhe wonder Is how they all unravel themselves and bring order out of the chaos which seems to reign supreme In this respect you are reminded of the description of those wonderful cities of the ancient world where every man - Wasatch Mine . You win find constantly the best COAL And as for prices, note the 02.20 1.60 Patronize t Bose Industry. WEBER COAL CO. Do You Want Some? J ,.TU f.Vj: Whsa You M Sheep Eaters' Monument, One of th , Strang Natural Formations , of tho Region. gathering my aamptes preparatory to leaving when I heard that tbe owners of a property on Smith Creek, thirty miles sway, were gone. I had the option on tbe cjalroe and was anxious to procure my samples alone, so I took a woman friend and her little boy, and we three went the whole distance alone with our bedding beneath our saddles and provisions tied behind. 1 he first night out we fell Into good bands and were taken splendid care of, as also the second night, but the next day. our troubles began again. My horse had lost a shoe and had one lame foot, while we failed completely In locating a property on Snow Slide, which I was also to get samples from. Dark came before we really knew It and we were still fifteen miles from our destination. We had had no lunch and our provisions had dwindled down to corn meal and salt. Mush wse our upper, and after an awful night we had the same repast for breakfast A very light meal to start fifteen miles on, and to add to our misery a forest fir had broken out between us and Roosevelt I cannot tell you just how we got through it, but I do know that we met my friends husband a few miles from home and he had a sandwich for th hoy. The dear little fellow, who was only t years old, would not taste a bit until it was divided so we all had a taste. The first gold pan of dirt 4 panned left a string of color six Inches long with a Quantity of whlte metaf which AND. GROCERIES G t COALVILLE, UTAH Good Job Work..... Iku-dam- five-storie- d lift.. vxdl--tapldate- x-- -- u Is whn.t people wivnt, and at Times office is fust the place where you can get it at prices that will suit ever one. ... All Fork AT fo 0) C) (0 e) (9 GRASS CREEK MINES We have the very best Coal there on the market for domestic or steam purposes. i v h c) (o ) (o e) Well Screened Domestic. (a Lump and Stow e) $1.75 Mixed PR TON. (o (o 9 (a c) 3 e) a a 1 There Is no shoveling or waking, as we hive a SPECIAL CHUTE (a FOR LOADING TEAMS GRASS-GREE- ' a Promptly Executed GRASS CREEK COAL -.g-- -- then CASH BARGAIN STORE ?v v Ns DRY GOODS Pagoda ef Tennojl, mous as the print Ipat seat of the Shin had a .handicraft nla own before the sect of Buddhism. But when these days of capitalization and" the central-zatlo- n is known as Sea Foam. The wagons of Industrial energy. The street priests happened to Incur the fnmlty of the great chieftain. NobunagA they scenes of Osakg are simply indescribwere finally. In J580, driven gut of able. Months could be profitably spent In walks and talks with those who Osaka, and their temple Las bn nod. In 1583 the famous LnerilWRld-yoshl- , thus ply their trades amid the never-'ceasin"the Napoleon 4t Japan, deinterruption of dally traffic. cided to make Osaka the seat of his Now you pass through long streets power and ordered to be constructed given over to pottery and porcelain, there n castle, said lo be probably tbe next one devoted to umbrellas, then most magnificent building that Japan matting, followed by a vast emporium ever saw But unfortunately, it was of cotton fabrics, of rugs, of brushes, mostly destroyed by fire in 1868, and of leather goods, of bronze and metal only a few bulldldgs remain. Tbe cas- work, of provisions, of clothing. Methtle grounds are now the headquarters ods and Implements take ranges or of the Osaka military district. leaps, perhaps, I should say of a thoua One Shinto temple, known as sand years. Jlnga, Is fabled to have been Here are five men with their founded more than 600 years B. C.; bronze skin ' bare, save a breechcloth but historical criticism prevents us around the loins, pounding rice with from believing such a claim. One of a long wooden pole. Next door are a the oldest buildings In Osaka la tbe fadozen operatives making garments mous Buddhist .temple knows as Ten-noj- t, with the latest American sewing mawhose Is a pagoda landmark for miles around It Is pos- chine. Over the rice exchange they Miss M. A. Rice. sible to climb to the top of this pa- are waving the quotations from hill The First Woman In the N.w Idaho to hill and peak to peak by means of Fields. Quid goda and obtain a fine view. mornHorn the This temple was founded about 600 flags. Within n stone's throw, at the had been left at Cape comso men were all tbs A D.; has been frequently destroyed magnificent poatofflee building, may .before, ing "hello of the telephone. over one hundred fire walk to miles and was last rebuilt In 1864. It be beard by pelled Yon may vitw within a few minutes has Just received a fine large bell, isto th town of Roosevelt said dm be the first one east la Japan the oldest and most primitive spinning Roosevelt, on the third day of last wheel and the latest Fall River an was not much honor to of the June, according to modern scientific prinspindle; thb clumsiest wooden loom man it waa named for. There was on ciples. maOsaklT w as once' the capital 0f th and the mtfst Intricate Jacquard cabin, a saloon, five tents and aa A delirium of work pervades chine. abundance of water caused by th empire, at least in the reign of Em.. peror Klnkotu (313 399 A. D), Con- the peoplemany beaver damn. Green tops were Although the Chicago of Japan has .few, for some ten years ago a fire cerning this kind ruler there ig a favorite legend, as follows: Having no university. It has, nevertheless, a swept the whole of central Idaho. The climbed a hill, looked all around and great many Institutions of learning, dead timber towered everywhere, and we were blew wind observing tbe absence of amok front public and private, secular and Chriswben the afraid the collages of the people, Klnkotu tian. The most prominent of all is of being crushed. Osaka Commercial the decreed that for. the space of three perhaps "Mountain fever attacked the little year neither taxes nor, forced labor school; and mission schools for both colony and three died. The rest of us should be Imposed or bis subject Hla boys and girls, as well as the Y. M. C. had it and came near wishing we own palace, for want of funds to re- A., are all doing a grand work there. could be taken, too. When I was Churches and Sunday schools also are d pair It, was allowed to become taken til nothing was too great for elSthat the roof admitted rain. there, although they may not be the miners to do for me. They sat up "Three years later he again aa end- prominent and are a greaj power for all night with papa watching to see Roosevelt the New Mining Town in ed the hill and beheld smoke rising righteousness. It my fever had cooled, and when the Thunder Mountain Region. In this city, eight miles square, with it was rumored that some butter had prospectors thought to be either silver from every dwelling The people were arrived In Marble City, five miles or white Iron but was proved by ex now rich enough to brai taxation more than 800,000 inhabitants, one without feeling the burden and volun- finds the old and the new crowded away, a prospector walked the whole pert to be a platinum. tarily contributed toward rebuilding together, but without much confusion. back and after nightfall to distance have a surprise tor ms next morning. Buzzards No Longer Needed. At one time t was doctoring and nurs- Tbe buzzards that have long In lug eight men. So, In a measure. I fested Vera Cruz and served a useful was able to rTay what they hed done purpose aa winged scavengers are for me. doomed. A London firm Is putting in My pony was too small to pack, a modern sewer and water lystem. The else I would have had towxlk that birds have become so numerous that isorethaaofia hundred miles; too," ! they sfe A pest" The protection of the fear. By this time, people who had municipality hat been removed. 'and started to snowshoe In had begun to when the new drainage system shall turn back, heartsick, with neither be completed the city will be rid of the money nor food nor gold. pest the numbers of which have si Words cannot describe the hard- ready been reduced somewhat by ships we encountered on that journey catching tbe huxxards and placing to Roosevelt I was being taken pretty them in wooden cages to be taken to good care of and can honestly say sea and drowned. that I enjoyed every bit of the trip except when I came so near being Explanation of Colored Rains. An explanation of tho recent-colore- d killed. By actual count we passed more than fifty dead hones and ralna which have fallen In Engcrossed what Is known SI Marble land is found In the Story told by a Creek 105 tiroes. skipper of the steamship Sok. which The news that I was coming was recently arrived la Plymouth, England, carried ahead of me to the mines by from South African ports. Off the some of our party, who went on and African coast for eight days the vesleft us with the load. 1 never will has sel was enveloped In a sand storm of get now every man bared his head snch density that speed had to be reNnwaika Cattle. lie 1 respon-iiwhen I passed thev Dewey bmrdinf duced, the fog horn had to be blown the palace." ror And yet In this transition era It 4s tbe following aphorism: And in the middle of the day tbe cabin Whes the sometimes difficult to distinguish the hm.se. It was the third night of June had to be lighted During alt this time people are rkh we also arv neb old and the new. Things oriental and The follow Ire ext set from p. v- -t when w camped in Roosevelt, very the ship was navigated by dead reck occidental are fnind cheek by things P . Poster's T ere In- - Nippon tired and mighty glad our journey mas ontrg: (fap. jowl in the Chicago Tif Japan. : - DELAY. LUMP $ STOVE - munition, etc We had a jolly good time the first four days, but at the end of that time were much the worse for wear. Twenty-fivfeet of snow had been encountered in places, and a cold north wind was blowing with just enough aleet to make one think of the Texas plains. A party behind us lost three horses the next day and we lost two, while 1 came near being killed by one falling oa me. The creek was too high for us to cross the tollowing morning, so we lay over at the Bull Dog mine, near what THERE'S NO v K- COAL CO. ii ( |