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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
HOW TO TeLL YOUR GEAR.

The up-tO-date wheelman or wheel
woman takes a great pride in being
able to tell you the gear of the bicycle
to the fraction of an inch. 1t was easy
to determine the gear on the chain
wheel, the process being simply to null
tiply the diameter of the rear wheel by
the number of teeth in the front spro-
ket and divide the result by the number
of teeth in the rear spocket.
But the chainless wheel has been
puzzling those who have bought them
or intend 20 buy them. To determine
the gear of a chainless wheel, unless
the formula is known, is an extended
and difficult problem, The new chain
less, as now made, has but two gears.
the highest being seventy-two. Later
on there will be others to choose from,
but as it necessitates cutting teeth of
different pit Gu in the rear cogs it will
be impracticable to have the variety of
gear obtainable in the chain wheel.
The seventv-twO-inch geared chain
less has forty and fifteen teeth, respec-
lively, in its front cogs. On its real
cogs it has twenty-three and twenty
four. The formula for determining the
gear is to divide the number of teeth
on the inside cogs front and rear by
the number Of teeth on the outside
cogs that engage them. These results
are multiplied and the total is again
multiplied by the diameter of the rear
wheel. The result is the gear, as fol,
] lows:
(4Ox15) (23x24) 2S-71.56.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
THEY MAY HAVE NO CASE.

Joseph Perrault, the new Surveyor
General of Idaho, has discharged the
majority of the clerical force of the
office, and the gentleman removed to
make room for others are said to in
tend to appeal to the civil service
commission for reinstatement.
During thu past summer it was
commonly reported that the work of
the Surveyor Generals Office was
greatly obstructed by the efforts of
the Surveyor General to remain in
office. Applicants for patents to min
ing claims were delayed on one pretext
or another, until over so mining claims
were thus tied up, and the mojority OF
them were thus held so long as to rem
der it impossible for the applicants tC
get their claims patented this year.
If the Surveyor Generals Office is re-
sponsible for any considerable proper
ton of these delays, it is clearly to the
public interest that those so respOn
sible should be made to suffer. In
such case the changes will be- shown
to have been proper, and the appel
lants will have no plea.-Hailey Times
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
SALE OF THE UNION PACIFIC.

Omaha, Nov. S,-The interest of the
United States to the Union Pacific
railroad terminated at Has o'clock
yesterday morning, when at the fore
closure sale the mortgage held by the
United States against the road was
purchased by the committee of eastern
capitalists formed for its reorganiza-
ton. The amount due the govern
ment is made up as follows: Princip-
al of debt, S27,2S6,512; interest paid
by the government up to September
80, ~, $50, $50, SS5.S7; interest accrued
by Sept. 30 aud still unpaid, 1926, 147.69
interest accrued in October, sos, 1885,. 56
total due the government, sos, 44S,928
81.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13

Emmett Monday evening, the bright
moonlight. twinkiiDg starlight and
balmy summer-like air offering in
ducements to some of our musicians, to
strong too be resisted, to turn out and
give their friends an opportunity Of en-.
joying little of the melody which
they so easily evoke from guitar, man.
dolin and organ. The music was of
first quality, and the spirit of fun and
merriment which prevailed the party
seemed contagious with those whom
they visited aud made the evening one
long to be remembered. Such episodes
are like flashes of sunshine on a winter
scene in the KlOndike, and the latch
string of the Index home will always
be found "out" to such invaders. The
musicians wore the full regalia of their
order were chaperoned by MADAM
ShakepillOw in striking costume Of
scarlet, cut after the fashion of twenty
years ago. Here's to the Emmett man.
dolin and guitar club. Long may il
continue to bring joy and gladaess to
the man who has been oppressed by the
terrOrs of house cleaning season.
Emmett Iudex.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
Sells a Railroad, Rolling Stock and
Stations.
THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGE
The Nugget Pays Judge Stewart Neat
Compliment Emmett Mandolin and
Guitar Club-FIgure Ont the Gear Of
Your Wheel.

From the following it will be noticed
that the old saying about sucker
being born every minute still holds
good, and we venture the assertion
that not one of these who were author
lied by the alleged tramp are subscri-
bers to their home papers, or any others
for that matter; Farmers along the
line of the abandoned Meridian, Water
bury and Connecticut sRiver railroad,
in Connecticut have been victimized
by tramp under peculiar circum
stances. He stopped at nearly every
house along the road and told his
story:
My employer, Judge Robertson sent
me from his New Haven office to close
up the affairs of the railroad. AS the
land through which the railroad runs
reverts to the persons who owned il
prior to the tracks being laid, Judge
Robertson is dispOsing OF all the pas
senger stations, pumping stations
tanks, railroad ties, etc. The Judge i;
anxious to sell Off the membranes az
soon as possible, so that the soil car
be titled once more in its verdan
freshness
The man "sOld" over $1,000 worth o.
property to Herr Mischler for So OF
account with railroad ties thrown in
AT West Chesting he offered to sci
the depot for 500, dropped to SIS ant
accepted SO from a cnnfding victim
In each case the tramp signed receipt
for the nancy.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
Will Be 100 Feet Long and -Four
Feet in Diameter.
PRESSURE OF i4Olbs TO SQUARE INCH
TO Introduce the KOhlO MeysOn Bird
DestrOyers Of the Goblin M0th-Their
Introduction at $4,000 Considered
Reasonable.

The many friends of iovial Sam
Gundaker will be pleased to hear that
he has secured the contract for one of
the greatest works in the country. We
clip the following from the Boise
Statesman;
Sam Gundaker will leave this morn
ing to erect the siphon over the Boise
river for the Twin Springs company.
This will be one of the greatest works
of the kind in the country, The siph-
on will be some 100 feet.in length and
four feet in diameter, crossing the
river on a bridge 60 feet above the
water,
The pipe is made of steel varying in
thickness from one-eighth OF an inch
TO ine.sixteenths. The sections Of
pipe are Is feet and weigh from 1000 to
45OO pounds. One section that stood
on wagon at the corner Of Eight and
Main yesterday afternoon weighed
$3.50 pounds 1t seemed almost large
enough for a man to walk through.
Wnere the pipe crosses the DTldge IL
viii have to sustain a pressure of
about l4o pounds to the square inch,
The load upon the bridge when the
pipe is filled will be enormous. On the
Sheep Creek side the siphon will at
tain a perpendicular height of 36S feet
In erecting the siphon the pipe will
be handled in cars, a tramway being
built for that purpose. Fhe joints
will be rivited and the seams al
the joints calked. 1t is the agree
ment that the work shall be com
pleted by January.
The Importance of this portion Of
the Twin Springs company's work.
may be made more clear by statement
of the fact that the pipe for the siphoE
cost $4,000.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
A VALUABLE BIRD.

Mr.. q. G. Fife writes from Germany
that it will cost from S125 TO $3.50 to de-
liver in New York 400 of the "Kohlo
Meyson" birds which have proven to
be the exterminators of the fruit pests,
especially the Goblin moth, in Germany.
This is matter which the state horti-
cultural society should be able to give
immediate consideration, but we pre-
sumo that is out of the question, for
several reasons, chief among which is
that the board is a kind of dress
parade affair, rich in oFatory but as
poor in pocket as a Methodist circuit
rider. There is the state board of
horticultural inspection which has
few thousand of state funds at its dis
pOsal, but without authority to use the
same for such purposes as that of buy
ing birds. In our present dilemma
there is but one thing to do, that is for
our Payette Valley fruitgrowers to
pass the hat, raise the necessary
amount required and import a suffi-
Gent number of the birds to thorough
ly test their utility. Mr.. Fife will be
coming home in February and will be
only to glad too be of service in the
matter Of securing the birds and
bringing them over when he comes.
If this German bird is all that is
claimed for it, this co immunity alone
would have been benefited a good
many thousand dollars by its presence
the past season. 1t is to be hoped that
someone will take the lead at once and
see what can be done towards raising
funds sufficient to secure at least a
few hundred birds. We understand
the birds are not migratory in their
habits, and the communities that Sc.
cure them can safely count on reapine
the full benefits accruing from such
Observation-Disclosures Independent.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
JUDGE STEWART.

The Third Judicial District can GER
tainly congratulate itself upon the
manner in which the courts have bee n
conducted under the administration of
nearly every Judge who has presided
for some time prior to the admission of
Idaho to statehood, and since. A long
line of presiding judges from Case
Broderick to the present Judge Stew
art haYe been learned, alert and fair
men, who have added honor to the
profession of the law, and none of
them haYe been more prompt, imparti-
al or better equipped to fill the posi-
ton with dignity and honor than the
present presiding Officer The term of
court closed last week disposed of two
importsnt cases and some minor ones
in matter which has given almost
entire satisfaction, and all the officers
of the court are to be commended.
Were Judge Stewart to become can
didate for the same position at any
time in the future, so far as Owyhee
county, at least, is concerned, the re-
cord made up to this date, would be
all the canvass required TO be made, to
insure his election. When the costs
of the last term of court are con.
sidered-a matter which concerns
every taxpayer-it will be found that
the amount is remarkably small. There
were no delays and no time unneces
sarily spent.
In this connection the Judge very
properly paid high compliment to
the sheriff and indirectly to the jury
men, when he commended his sexecu-
tive officer for the manner in which he
had filed the panels from an open ven
!. ire. In an important murder tria
only two peremptory challenges wer'
made and the jury box was prompt!
filed with intelligent and honest men
With courts always conducted as tn
recent term was conducted, with mel
selected as jurymen such as were EN-
panneled at the recent term of court
Owyhee county Will win back a repu
tat;on its courts lost years ago, TO
getting men on juries opposed to con
Victlon under any circu instances
H ung juries have too long been tn
ule rather than the exception in OwI
bee and the recent exception was
happy one-DeLamar Nugget.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
pEArH oR MRs. J. c. eRowN

Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Syms received
the sad news Monday morning of the
death at Boise, of Mrs. Brown. De-
ceased was the wife of Mr.. ]. G. Brown,
of Shoshone, and mother of Mrs. H. j.
Syms. She has been ailing for some
time and about a month since was
taken to Boise for treatment. All that
human hands could do was done for
the sufferer, but Sunday she gradually
sank and passed away about 80 Mon
day morning. Her son Henry, who
lives at ShoshOne, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Syms were quickly notified, and Mon
day noon reached Boise, where it was
decided to inter the remains. The
funeral services were held Tuesday at
the Episcopal church, of which she was
member, after which the remains
were carried to Morris Hill for inter.
ment. The pail bearers were all OLD
friends of the family, some of whom
had been acquainted with MIR. and
Mrs. Brown for over fifteen years.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13

by John e. Roberts and e. r.. Murray.
Mr.. Lees is a successful newspaper
man as well a brilliant lawyer and
we wish him abundant success in
whatever field he may decide to enter.
Editor George E. Simpson, of the
Mountain Home Republican was
Caldwell visitor Sunday. Mr.. Simpson
is brother. in law of w. f. Dolan, of
the Record office and whose guest he
was while here. Jerry is always
welcome visitor in TIE TRIBUNE
Office, where he at one time held forth
as compOsitor.
Mondays mail between Meadows
and Warrens was robbed by masked
men. The carrier, Homer Levander,
was held up and ordered to dismount,
unpack his horse, cut open the mail
sack and look for registered packages.
He was then ordered to move on. As
soon as the carrier arrived a deputy
sheriff started out with a posse in
search Of the robbers, but no clue
has so far been obtained.
Tuesday evening a merry crowd
assembled at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
f. L. Keller and gave their daughter,
Miss Matte very pleasant surprise,
it being her birthday. The earlier part
of the evening was spent in games and
music, and at about II o'clock they all
participated in "taffy pull, after
which they departed for home leaving
tokens by which the night might be
remembered.
TIE TRIBUNE is in receipt of a box
of potatoes sent from Castle Creek,
which were grown on the Evans ranch.
They are beauties. One potato would
make good meal for any ordinary
family. 21O sacks OF this variety were
grown on one half acre of ground
which is a pretty good showing for
Idaho. The box also contained few
Ben Davis apples. They we're large
and firm, and not wormy like most OF
the apples this season. About thirty
five hundred of these were sacked.
w. A. Carter, of Westfall, Ore, was
in the city Sunday. He was on his
way to Boise to try and locate a coupl,
of men named Berry and Chilcot, whC
have been representing themselves il
Malheur Co. as organizers of the Mac
cabees. 1t appears that Mr.. Carter ii
a member of the order. He IS also 1
hotelkeeper. The two 'iiners" appeared
IN Westfall, organized a lodge, and af
ter securing the initiation money be
gan to drink and gamble. Afte
spending all they collected and al
they could borrow, they then forge'
Mr.. Carriers name to u check for S6C
The men were followed to Boise. MI
Carter expected to find them there ant
then prosecute them to the fullest ex
tent of the law.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
AN AERoNAur DROWNED.

An eronaut named Stewart Young
went up in balloon at Chicago last
Wednesday, and when at great height
the balloon exploded and Young
dropped into Lake Michigan and was
drowned.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
LADIES ATTENTION.

We haye been appointed agents for
BUTTERICK PATTERNS
All orders promptly 6Iled.
The Falk Bloch Mercantile Co., Ltd.
Boise, Idaho.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13

BY John E. Roberts and e. R. Murray.
Mr.. Lees is successful newspaper
man as well a brilliant lawyer and
we wish him abundant success in
whatever field he may decide to enter.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13

l4ox15) K (2Sx24) K 2S-7l.5o.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13
FARMS FOR SALE.

If you are looking for good farm
lands, improved or unimproved. Call
on or address Jasper Nichols, Caldwell.
Idaho. d14
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-11-13

MUSIC IN THE AIR.
There was music in the air around
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-23
PUBLICITY OF TRIALS.

In answer to several inquiries,
we reply that the law regarding
the right to exclude the public
from trials in divorce cases is
well settled. Under the common
law, and also by the constitution
al law of many States, trials In
criminal, and generally in civil
cases, are open to the public. But
the courts have the right to con
troll their own proceedings, in the
interests of justice and decorum.
Even in criminal case. the
Court may exclude the public. II
did so in a recent murder case. III
California when the prisoner act,
ed insanely. The higher court
sustained the action of the lower
court, and said that all persons
had been admitted to the court
room who were needed to pro
tect the prisoner. The laws of
many States provide that in di-
vOrce cases the parties may agree
to a private trial, and the Court
may so order, and exclude the
public. Scores of cases are so
tried every year. Such "a trial
does not involve public interests
as a rule. and the court has full
power to protect those interests.
In some States, the evidence
taken before the court in divorce
cases must be sealed up and de
posted with the public records,
and no access can be had to it
without a special order of the
Court.
The proceedings in the case be
fore Judge Carter are not unus
ual. The courts of Great Britain
take the same course. This prin
ciple of procedure is now so well
settled that it is not worth the
while to discuss it. Judge Carter
is not striking down any ''palla-
dunn of liberty"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-23
THE PLANTERS MONTHLY.

The February number of this
periodical has been issued, and
other interesting matter
in it will be found Prof. Koe-
bele's report to the Government,
reviewing the work in combat
ting the injurious insects of these
islands, showing what has been
accomplished in checking their
depredatiOns. Referring to the
coffee blight, he says: 1--WE have
accomplished what had been de
sired, viz, the eradication of the
worst blight or scale plague that
ever appeared in any country"
He names a large number of
scale and other insect pests,
which he has found and obtained
remedies for. What he says about
the Japan bugs is of special in
terest. 1t is a new pest here, but
in Japan, the cold weather pre-
vents its rapid increase, while
here it breeds all the year round
and increases wonderfully fast
He has not found the remedy
which he hopes to secure for com.
batting their increase. He has
found some other new and dan
gerous pests, which if, not check
ed. will prove destructive to sug
ar cane and other products. He
is now in Central America
searching for parasites which
will combat these new pests, and
| if possible. attack the Japan bug.
also. Everyone interested il
flowers, fruits or coffee and can,
should read his report and learl
from it how diligent he has beer
in his great work.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-23

The Society of the Cincinnati
at first included only men of dis
tinction, who had served in the
Revolutionary War, and the pri-
vilege of membership, in the flu
ture, was entailed ON the eldest
son of a member. Local societies.
in several places, have, in later
years, taken in many members
who are not distinguished" but
are related to the heroes, and
there is some complaint that the
society has lost its high charac
ter. The truth is, that the mem
bers of it look down upon the
"SOns of the American Revolu-
ton" regard them as inferior be-
ings and cOnceited upstairs. The
Sons, however, are the descend
ents of the best blood of the Rev
dictionary period, and as there is
no limited and absurd qualifica-
ton in their membership, as
there is in the Cincinnati" the
Sons will, in the future, present
the most creditable figure in his
tOrV.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-23
ANOTHER HISTORICAL LIE.

We recently referred TO the err
rors of American historians in re-
lating the events of the Revolu
tionary War.
The Nation February 4th) con
tains a letter from the Librarian
of Norfolk, Va. He says that ''if
we are to believe the school his
tories of the day, if we are to be
lieve Bancroft and Fiske, Lord
Dunmore, early in the Revolu
tionary War. burned Norfolk to
the ground. He then quotes a
report made in 1877 to the Gen
eral Assembly of Virginia, by its
own Commissioners, in which it is
said that out of 1888 houses
burned, only "a were destroyed
by Lord DunmOre, the rest of
them having been destroyed by
the Continental or State troops,
and that this destruction made by
the troops was wanton, and was
done in order to defend the town.
Although the documentary eyi-
dence is of the highest character,
and has been deposited in the
State archives for more than 100
years, the historian, Bancroft,
graphically describes the destruc
ton of the town by the British,
and General Washington, misin
formed at the time on the subject,
denounced the British severely,
while his breast heaved with
waves of anger and grief" In the
public schools of the United
States some five millions of chill
dren are today told a lie, and their
minds are infamed by this in
stance of British brutality
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-23

true sense of the word. They see
that at last the time has come
when the planters here must
wheel into the line of the march
of American ideas, or that the
Americans will take care to
wheel" the advantages of reel
procity out of the line of Hawaii
an industry. The American peo-
pie may be very naughty and ig-
norant, but they are peculiar,
YOU know. and will have their
own way. But the cranks are not
bigOted, and if a better way of
securing the end in view is pre-
sented, they will gladly adopt it.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-02-23

that it be ended. Well, on the
other hand we have the declara
ton of Mr.. Sherman made in
1890. he who will be within two
weeks, Secretary of State for the
United States, that this Hawaii
an sugar businessis a stupendous
fraud. In his words There is not
probably in the history of the hu-
man race, contract so one-sided,
so absurd, SO indefeasible."
Mr.. Sherman, it is well known,
is strongly opposed to the com
petition of Asiatic labor with
American labor. SO we have a
set of men crying farce" at this
end of the line, and man who
has something to say about our
affairs. crying ''fraud" at the 9th
er end of the line. In the contest
it is not difficult to see where the
whip handle is. Our contempor-
AIRY is of the opinion that tire
large sugar interest of these Isl
lands, has been created by plan
tiers who have wasted the best
years of their lives" in making
sugar production a success by
means of Asiatic labor. He makes
no allusion to the benefit of reel
procity. Mr.. Sherman, on the
other hand, believes that the sug-
ar business has been built up
with over $50, 100000 in boun-
ties granted by the United States.
In sizing up the relative strength
of the forces here, which cries
out farce against American civ
and the force over there,
which cries out against penal AS
iatic labor here, we, in our eX-
IRENE simplicity, believe that Mr..
Sherman and the sugar-beet brig
ade carry the heaviest guns, and
we, in advocating Teutonic labor,
are only trying to get out of the
line of fire.
AS to our contemporaries be-
lief that the Islands can $50 it
alone" and find markets for their
sugar in Canada and Australia.
we are sure it would be a god
send to the planters of the Brit
ish West Indies if they were in
formed by mail and telegraph of
these markets. They are nearly
bankrupt, and, i'll anguish, are
crying out to the Imperial Gov
for aid. 1t is a pity that
they know nothing about Canada
and Australia.