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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21

Prune orchards are being planted on
large scale, and all those now in bear
ing are more than fulfilling the
most ssnguine expectation Of the own
ers. Hop culture is also beginning to
receive the attention which is due an
industry which Is bound to be Of great
importance to this valley. These are
two industries which know will more
than double discount any branch OF
farming az carried on In the East.
write this letter with a view Of in
ducing any Of my old neighbors and
friends or any others who may be think.
ing Of changing their location TO at least
see this country, and Investigate these
matters for themselves before 10
eating elsewhere. do this because
know an a business proposition II will
benefit them and incidentally II will ben
eft me and all other ldahoans to have
our state settled and developed by the
class OF people who have made Western
Pennsylvania and adjoining states what
they are today What Idaho needs is
men with little means and plenty Of
intelligence and Industry to settle on
small tracts Of land. and TO make the
most OF the natural advantages with
which we have been lavishly endowed.
which are climate, soil, water and
mineral wealth which lasts provides the
greatest boon for the farmer, stockmsn.
the orchardist, namely home market
for the products OF his farm, garden,
and focks. An eastern syndicate are
at the present time commencing oper-
atoms In placer mining on a gigantic
fcale only ten miles above Emmett. Prol
ably more thanslo0. 900 will be expended
In that camp this season, and this and
the numberless other scattered all thro.
our mountains furnish the best Of mark
ct in America today. would like to
say something in regard to the social.
educational and religious status of Ida.
no, but space forbids, suffice to say that
socially, intellectually and rcligiously
| believe Idaho will rank with any OF
the older states. True, we have some
citizens who are not desirable. But ]
think to n less degree than the older
states, with their hords of Huns. Slaves
and Dagoes Bat think the idea OF
this country being populated by a few
half-wild cowboys miners. outlaws and
Indians, IA too ridiculous for me to risk
insulting the intelligence Of your readers
In attempting to refute"
Yours ETC.,
SAMUEL A PATTIsoN.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21

A wag Of a woman was sweeping off
her doorstep, when n friendly house
maid strolled by. Mistalsing the
sweeper for one of her clan she ad-
dressed her without formality.
Good morningl Got good placer"
"First-classl"
"IIow much wages do you get?"
"My board and clothes"
"Your board and clothes? Well.
you're fool. You can get twenty
dollars n month as well as not" replied
the stroller with emphasis.
"Ah, ycs-but you see, have priv
ilcgcs--I am the wife of the proprie-
tor"
"Ohl"-Boston Post.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21
Cosmopolitan Relation.

Here is state OF things that New
Workers need not be assured is actual.
The speaker Is n bachelor, perhaps
thirty years old, lie says:
"My barber is an Italian, a Chinese
does my laundry work, my tailor is a
Jew; breakfast in nm American din
ing-room, lunch in n German saloon,
and dine usually in French restau-
rant; my physician is an Englishman,
aud my favorite preacher is Scotch
dominic"
but where does the Irishman come
IMP"
"Oh, he owns the house ] live in
y. Y. Sun.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21

u is the most 9niable of sep
tuagcnarians. The other day he met
Countess de T., who asked how he
was. and complimentcd him on his
perennial youth.
MADAME" u replied, with a
bow, Il am young enough to consider
you charming, and old enough to be
permitted TO tell you so to your face"
La Voix du Peuple.
How the world Rates Us
browns clever fellow, amt he?"
mo; doesn't own a dollar"
"Well, what sort Of chap is Jones?'
"Splcndid--worth a million. AT
ianta Constitution.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21

u You Wish to Help the town.
rakette independent
Don't fail to sound It's praises where
ever you are.
Don't make your money ont Of It's citi.
xens and spend Il somewhere else.
Don't frown on every public improve
ment simply because II will cost you
dollar or two.
Don't sneeze at the efforts OF your
fellow citizens 70 build up the town. but
take a hand yourself.
Don't talk a great deal about what
should be done and remain on back
seat waiting for someone else to do it,
Don't let a good local paper that is the
towns untiring chanpioa abandon the
champion business because II lack Of
deserved patronage.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21
Mr. 0oty Killed.

rcaho World
A. }. Doty, an old resident Of Squaw
creek. was kicked by horse aud killed
on the 5th inst. on Soldier creek. a
tributary of Sqnaw creek. sr Doty
and Gay Silver were OF the ranch of
VIM. Ireton while Mr.. lreton WA away
The following statement OF Mr. Silver
was sent TO Judge Hart.
last saw Mr. Doty about dark or
'hc ''cning of The 5'h. he was then
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21

Boirc Democrat
Again has the onsweep OF time, the
mighty tidal waves OF infinity. whirled
us abreast with the fact that those pat
triots who yearn for office expect us to
bury animosities, smell noses and kiss
and all-hsnds-around for the good Of the
party However hard you may have
got II In the neck, politically OF other
wise; however much you may have been
injured financially or traduced, you are
nxpected by those gentry to forget the
past and get in and whoop'er up for the
sake OF harmony and make the chances
more favorable for their nomination and
election. We must harmonize the fac
tions. We must have peace, or the i'm
mortal principles OF jefferson 4 Co. will
not show up three colors to the pan.
The Idaho Democrat has been heal
ing sores, clasping hands across the
bloody chasm, forgiving and forgetting
In every campaign for years and years.
In fact that sort Of thing has been its
chief occupation and religion, while the
other fellow got away with the sugar.
But this year Of our Lord 'ninty-four
The Idaho Democrat is not doing any
kissing. is not toting around an olive
branch Of peace. Instead, while re.
membesing its friends and waving aloft
the democratic banner as II ever has and
ever will, II now SHES its castor into the
ring In the pink of condition for Fight
to the flush. II will neither ask nol
give quarter, and about the first work il
does will be securing the sidewalk with
A. A. Fraser and all others who, Will,
secretely doing all they can to injurc ia
business have the insudcrable gall 4,
approach and ask ii TO forget two year
ago and stand in for thu good Of the par
~ The Democrat will make it so no
for yon that an of the electric fans be
tween Boise aud hell couldn't cool YOU
throbbing hrows.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land once at Boise City Idaho
juno - 1874.
Notice = hereby given that the following nam
cd acttlcr has fled notice OF his Intention TO
make tlnal proof IA support OF his claim. aud
that said proof will he made before the Register
and Receiver at Uoise City, IDAHO on August Z,
1874. viz:
JOHN MAHAR.
Of Emmett. Idaho. who made HID application
No. 3ixa for tho lots S&4ssis NV y, sec tp o
nrew. He names the following witnesses to
prove HIS continuous residence upon and cultiva-
lion Of said land. viz. Charles A. Crowdcr.
Warren kiirgback. Pctcr j. Mann. SterlingP.
BAnc. all OF Emmett Canyon county. Idaho.
CHAS. : kINCsLfv. Register.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1894-07-21
Pasture.

The undersigned has 300 acres OF pasture two
miles and a half east OF Falk's Store and con-
tanning plenty of water. with good fence around
Il. Torlns. seventy i've cents per head a
month. Apply TO.
JACOB YCusrLKR.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06
"Tote" Not an African ,yora.

In nothing is the student of Ameri
can folk-speech so liable to error as in
assigning geographical limits to a word
or phrase. The English local dialects
were pretty thoroughly mixed. One
gained little more dominance in one
place, another in another, but stray
provincial term is prone to turn up in
place the most unexpected. Tote
has long been regarded as a word OF
African origin, confined to certain re-
gions where negroes abound. A few
years ago Mr.. C. A. Stephens, in a
story, mentioned an odd tote road" in
Maine. l wrote to inquire, and he told
me that certain old portage roads, now
abandoned. bore that name. / find the
word used in a "Remonstrance" from
the people of Gloucester county, Va,
preserved in the public record office in
London. This paper bears date 1877,
when there were four times as many
white bond servants as negroes in Nir-
ginia. Tote" appears to have been a
MISUNDERSTOOD English word in the
seventeenth century. 1t meant then,
as now, to bear. Burlesque writers
who represent negro as "toting a
horse to water" betray their ignorance.
In Virginia English, the negro car
ries" the horse to water by making the
horse tote" him.-Edward EgglestOn,
in Centurv
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
Items Picked Up at the Depots, Of
fees and Along the Lines.

hCoS anu oAOhS WIG Alhoo'
George Gould and party are at
present hunting in Calhoun county
in the vicinity Of Port Lavaca.
Track laying on the San Antonio
and Gulf shore. is completed two
miles beyond Saunders, or four
teen miles out of San Antonio, and
the good work continues to pro.
gress.
The San Antonio Milling COM
pany shipped six cars Of cotton
east over the Southern Pacific Yes
terday and as many the day before.
F. b. Drake, of Toledo. O., has
been appointed receiver OF the Gin
cinnati, jackson and Mackinaw
railroad by the United States
courts in three districts through
which the road runs, upon applica-
ton of Nelson Robinson, of New
York.
Ernest Brinkman, conductor on
the Southern Pacific, who was in
jured at Raceland, La, last Sun
day, died in the hospital at New
IOrleanS MONDAY.
Southern Pacific pile driver No.
., is now lying idle in the local
yards.
John F. Ryan, chief clerk for
Roadmaster Blue, is out west with
General Superintendent w. q.
Van Week, acting as stenographer.
Division Superintendent ID. Il.
Forbes, of the Southern Pacific,
left for the west this morning. \
A carload of cheese consigned
from Antwerp to San Francisco
passed through here over the
Southern Pacific Monday night
and stopped here to be re-iced.
S. A. MOrrisOn'S trotters Lurline,
Crayon and Norwood arrived over
the Southern Pacific from Houston
yesterday afternoon and will
winter at the Jockey club grounds
Colonel AL Dupre, OF the South
ern Pacific, is quite a dog fancier
and has presented Manager Walk
er, Of the Grand Opera house, with
one of his specimens, which, he
claims, is mascot.
Rumor has it that Louis Boltz,
the popular stenographer for Su-
perintendent Butcher, of the Aran-
sas Pass, will be welded to a
charming La Grange belle on the
18th OF next month.
| George Cunningham, general
foreman of the Pinto quarry, on
the Southern Pacific, is in town.
Hank Small returned today from
Waco, where he attended the Cot
ton Palace.
The San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass earnings are as follows: Oc-
tober, 1894, $240,257: 1898, $235,03 !;
increase. 1924. Net, 1894, $1l4,-
sos; 1898, $1l1,476: increase, 1882.
Mr.. Juan Reyes, general agent
Of the Bermillijo Cotton and Mill
ing company OF the City Of Mexico
is here and has contracted for a
shipment OF seven hundred bales
of cotton from San Antonio.
The war between China and ia
pan has caused a very large in
crease in the amount of freight for
China. The City of Pekin on one of
her recent trips earned S97 900
gross and the China 100000
gross.
The Southern Pacific is doing a
heavy freight business for local
merchants yesterday, seven cars of
potatoes were received from Colo
RADIO, nine cars Of sugar and mo-
lasses from Sugarland and New
Orleans and two cars Of meat from
the Armour Packing company.
Chairman Day of the Southwest
ern Traffic association is endeavor-
ing to get meeting Of the freight
traffic managers of the Wisconsin
and Minnesota lines with the
Southwestern lines early next
week to consider Texas traffic mat
tiers Of joint interest.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06
TO THE INVESTOR.

We have several beautiful tracts
of land lying within the city limits
suitable for subdivision city water
and car lines to the property. Now
is the time to buy, as these tracts
can be purchased a a bargain.
JOHN 7. HAMBLEToN & Co.,
II % If No. 104 East Commerce st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06
Only Six Blocks From Light Office

On Presa street, S.room rock house,
galleries, water, electric light, new
ly painted and papered, in first
class condition, lot 20x4O varas.
VIII be sold very cheap. Price
$3.50, long time. Address &C."
care LIGHT office. ll24 If
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06
under one Roof 1000 Nights.

Mary Elizabeth Kyel, a London
woman who passed the century mark
four years ago, has slept 10000 nights
under one roof. -
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06
To the Laboripg Men.

Why will you pay rent when
you can purchase home at reason
able figures, and on the installment
plan. The rent you pay will be
saved, and in time you will own
your own property. IL 90 If
See JOHN Il. HAMILTON d Co.
No. 1O4 East Commerce street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06

Capt. Neal Caldwell of Centre
Point, is at the Southern.
Hon. J. B. Hawley, consulting
engineer, Fort Worth is in our city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06

DE-. Miles Nerve Plasters 2sG al all druggists,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-04
SUDDEN DESTRUCTION.
The Terrific Forco of = ClOud-Burst
Death Valley.

Death Valley.
Although little rain falls in Death
valley, SO called from the terrible loss
OF life from heat which occurred there
in 1864, cloud-burstS Of the utmost
fury are often experienced. The cloud
is always formed above the mountains,
and after time its bulbous body
strikes peak. Floods of water are re-
leased on the instant, and in waves of
incredible size they roll down the
cliffs and canyons.
II. an hour the face of the mountain
may be SO changed as to be scarcely
recognizable, and even the lighter
storms rip the heart out of a canyon so
that only gulches and heaps of broken
rock are found where once, perhaps, a
good trail existed.
''Cub" Lee, in Sketches in Death
Valley" tells of sleeping in camp near
the mouth of Furnace Creek canyon
one night with bug hunter" as the
desert-tramping scientists are cnlled.
1t was so hot that the naturalist could
not sleep.
About midnight he heard a roaring
noise up the canyon. which, as il kept
increasing in volume, caused him to
look that way. TO his surprise he
saw, as he supposed, the sky between
the canyon walls grow suddenly white
At that moment Lee rolled over. and
the ''bug-hunter" asked him what
allied the sky. Lee gave one glance,
and shouted:
''Cloud-burst! Climb.''
They scrambled up the steep walls
as best they could, just in time to save
their lives. Lee thinks the foaming
wall of water that whitened the sky
and swept everything before it was
not less than one hundred feet high.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-04
Tho Moth as q Decorative Artist.

Few persons suspect that the COM
mon moth may be utilized as decora-
tive artist, but he may be if only one
be watchful. patient and acquainted
with the Great lures habits. The larva
of the moth has habit OF spinning
about itself sort of sac from the ma
terial upon which it feeds. AS the
worm grows it enlarges this sac by the
process of splitting it and inserting
new material. Now, if a moth worm
that has inclosed itself in red flannel
be afterward transferred, sac and all,
to white flannel, the growing insect
will slit its red flannel covering and
enlarge it with portion of the white
flannel If, then, the worm and the
sac be transferred to blue flannel. the
creature will in course of time enlarge
the sac with blue flannel, and thus
clothe itself patriotically in red, white
and blue. Entomologist Southwick,
of the park department. says that it is
no great trouble to put moth worm
through this performance.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-04
BRAVERY OF THE TURKS.
A Regiment That Fulfilled q Command
That Was FrauCht with Peril.

That Was Fraught with Peril.
The accounts given by the pilgrims
of the way in which cholera attacked
them are terrible in their grim fatal
ism. ''On June -, two days before
the Courban Bairam, upward of ten
thousand Mussulmans, Arabs, Turks
and Indians had gathered on the sacred
mount to hear the solemn address
which is delivered to those who wish
to become Hadji. Many of these peo-
pie were in the most wretched condi-
ton and some had not even a loaf of
bread"
1t was here that the disease appears
to have struck them like blast of
poisoned wind. When next day the
onward movement to the holy city
began it was found that the ground
was strewn like a battlefield with
the dead and dying, and SO terribly
virnlent was the type of infection thus
engendered that it was, says the ac-
count, impossible for any living
creature to approach the place"
The authorities seem, however, to
have realized that something must be
done. and that the bodies could not be
left to rot. Accordingly, Turkish
regiment was sent to perform the work
of burial and to remove any of the pill
grims who still lived. Never did troops
in the heat of battle receive a COM
mand more fraught with peril. The
risk. as it proved. was literally great
er than that of facing machine guns,
and the moral effect more terrible.
There are ten men who will face death
by bullets to one who will face death
by cholera. Yet these Turkish sol
diers, with the fataIist;c courage of
Plevna.
The battalion when it reached the
mount was seven hundred strong After
the work had been done two hundred
men only remained TO go back to the
coast. Five hundred of the soldiers
had died of cholera" That is. nearly
three-quarters of the regiment perished
in the work of burial. No doubt En-
glish troops would have done the same.
but they would have been upheld by
many considerations-by religious feel
ing and by the instinct of mercy. and
they would, moreover, have been well
led.
The Turkish troops probably felt the
sense OF pity very little. and their Off
GERS were almost certainly men with
anything but high sense of conduct.
They acted merely from the most naked
sense of the duty of not fiinching 1T
command. 1t was a n order given from
afar and from above, and that and fate
are to them all ons.-London Specta.
tor.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-04
A Joke Tried hY Jury.

A North Carolina paper tells the
following: At Harnett county superior
court. few years since, Judge Shipp
presiding. the trial Of a cause had been
protracted till near midnight The
jury was tired and sleepy and showed
tagging attention. Willie Murchison,
who was addressing the jury. thought
to arouse them, so he said: Gentle
men, will tell you an anecdote." In
stantly the judge, the jury and the few
spectators pricked up their ears and
were all attention, as Murchison was
admirable in that line, had a fund Of
anecdotes and no one corld tell them
better. But he soon proceeded TO tell
one of the dullest, prosiest and most
pointless jokes possible. Everybody
looked disappointed. The judge, lean
ing over. said in an unmistakable tone
of disappointment: Mr.. Murchison, I
don't see the point to that joke" Nor
I, either" replied the witty counsel.
But your honor told it to me on our
way down here and as l thought the
lack Of appreciation must be due to my
obtuseness concluded to give the joke
a trial by jury"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-04
THE FUTURE OF AFRICA.

Explorers Think the Dark Continent VIII
in limo Resemble South America.
There is no country in the world to
which SO much attention has of late
been directed as to Africa, and, if the
powers of Europe can only smother
their rivalries and jealousies, the pros
poets are bright for the development
of the Dark Continent"
In the opinion of explorers, it will,
when progress has been made in the
work of civilization, be like South
America. There is a strange mingling
of tongues and of tribes in Africa.
There are three great families on the
continent-the Nigers in the west, the
Bantas in the east and south, and the
Hamits in the north.
But there are hundreds of different
kinds of languages spoken in Africa,
and some of the tribes are as different
from the others as are Chinese from
Europeans. Many of them are indus
trious, while others steal and murder,
but the latter viii undoubtedly be ex-
terminated in the course of time.
There are reasons for believing that
away back in history white people
came from the north, and established
an empire around the great African
lakes. There is tribe in that region
called Beejina, which is evidently de-
scended from them.
The men and women are a very light
brown. They bury their dead in the
same way as the old Egyptians did, in
pyramids; only they do not use stone,
but timber. Many of the pyramids
have crumbled away, and only the
mummies remain. Each one of these
pyramids means a generation. 1t
would be strange if Africa should
again be ruled by the white race, as at
the berinuiny