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Ag. not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 yeats---Some less )ose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonrales
The following famous Mexican story has been so badly garbled in recent years, that I have been asked to re-print it in its original form.
A Judge in New Morico, in whose court a Mexican had just been found guilty of first-degree murder by the jury, pronounced sentence on the condemned man, in the following fashion:
"Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, in but a few weeks it wiU be spring. The snows of winter will fee away, the ice will vanish and the air will become soft and balmy. In short, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, the annual miracle of the year's awakening will come to pass-but you won't be here.
"The rivulet will run its purring course to the sea, the timid desert flowers will put.forth their tender shoots, the glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the ros+but you won't be here.
"From every tree top some wild woods songster will
Returns To Northwest
F. E. Frost, Bellingham, Wash., treasurer and assistant manager of Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, left for the North on November 19 after spending a few days at the company's Los Angeles office where he conferred with J.
H. Prentice, Southern California representative. Mr. Frost has just completed a business trip through the East.
carol his mating song, butterflies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happily as it pursues its accustorned vocation, the gentle breezes will tease the tassels of the $"ild grasses, and all nature, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, will be glad but you, and you won't be here to enjoy it because I command the sheriff or some other offrcer or officers of this county, to lead you out to some remo'te spot, swing you by the neck to some nodding bough of some sturdy oak, and let you hang until you are deaddead-dead.
"And then, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, I further command that such officer or officers, retire quietly from your swinging, dangling corpse, that the vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body and pick the putrid flesh therefrom until nothing remains but the bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded, copper-colored, blood-thirsty, chile-eating, sheep-herding, guilty, Mexican So-and-So."
SCHAFER BROS. HOLD SALES MEETING
Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., P. W. Chantland, manager of the Los Angeles office and Ray Klotz of the Los Angeles office, attended a sales meeting at the company's head office in Montesano, Wash., November 16. Mr. Elliott also visited the Marshfield offrce on his way north.
West Oregon Lumber Co. Opens Los Angeles Sales Office
The West Oregon Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, wellknown Northwest lumber manufacturing firm, announces the opening of a direct mill sales office at 427-4n petro_ leum Securities Building, Los Angeles, on December 1.
With the opening of the Los Angeles office, the company will cater particularlv to the California trade, speci alizing in general yard stock, and both green and dry clears. The company cuts old growth Douglas Fir, the mill having an annual capacity of 100,000,000 feet. The firm has been active in the California market for years, making both rail and cargo shipments.
A. E. Mclntosh, prominent Northwest lumberrnan. is president of the company.
C. H. Ditewig, who has been the company,s sales man_ ager wrth headquarters at the mill, will be in charge of the Los Angeles office. Mr. Diter,r,ig has been connected with the lumber industry in the Northwest for years and is well known in California lumber circles.
Stuart Smith will be outside salesman working out of the Los Angeles office. Mr. Smith has been associated with the lumber market here for many years and has a large ac_ quaintance with the Southern Califor.nia retail lumber trade.
The Chamberlin Steamship Co. will continue to freight its lumber to California ports.
Mead Clark Elected President of Redwood Empire Lumbermen's Club
The Redwood Empire Lumbermen's Club held its annual meeting at the Gallo Cafe, Santa Rosa, November 9. Louis F. Erb, deputy registrar of the Contractors, License Bu_ reau, San Francisco, was the speaker of the evening.
Mead Clark of Santa Rosa u,as re-elected president for the seventh consecutive year. Vice-president R. B. Stevens of Healdsburg, and Treasurer Henry Laws of Santa Rosa were re-elected, and Fred Sayre of Oakland was elected a member of the board of directors.
President Mead Clark, and I. E. Brink of the Diamond Match Company, Chico, addressed the meeting. Thirty_five memberq of the Club were ,present.
J. B. POWER CALTFORNTA vrsrToR
J. B. Power, general manager of the Vancouver plvwood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, 'Wash., was in California re_ cently on business. He attended the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at Del Monte, and conferred with George C. phillips, salesman for the company in Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles he made his headquarters at the office of Tacoma Lumber Sales.
Appointed Yard Manager
Fred M. Johnson, formerly with the palo Alto Lumber & Roof ng Co., Palo_Alto, has been appointed manager of the Citi'zens Mill & Lumber Co. yard al Santa paulal
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