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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13
PRESS CLIPPINGS.

Washington Times-The outcome of
the Senatorial contest in Idaho was the
most remarkable ever recorded. The
legislature is composed Of seventy mem
bers. One is a gold Republican, twenty
six are Dubois silver men, twenty-three
silver Populists, and twenty silver Dem
ocrats. The solitary, lone gold Repub-
lican directed the battle at the State
capitol at the dictatiun of Republican
leaders here and in Cantcn. New York
and Cleveland Seems rather strange
that this single Individual should have
controlled the actioas OF forty-fou, men
belonging to different political parties.
II Nine. blavaisky we're alive perhaps
SHE could tell, but as lhc clever old lady
IL. ,u,nc h,u. Mat. Haaaa Ma, be
Coz Saoup, senator Duuos every dear
friend aud coiiea.ue. nl-hi also bee
able 10 enighlen the wore on ,u,, iaicr-
eS'iug question
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

TrE blll introduced ia the House hy
Elder which provides that not less than
30 minutes each week in all puhlic
schools mnst be devoted tn systematic
teaching Of Kindness To. NO. only done. E
tic animals but all living creatures.
should be- amended To provide that 10
shall be the duty of school trustees to
procure suitable collection of living
creatures including snakes. lizards. horn
I'd 'oads, mountain lions. Skunks. grizzly
bears, mugwumps. hyenas. etc, and
keep the same on the school Fairgrounds
for the kids to practice kindness upon
A practical demonstration OF any propo.
sition. will appeal more strongly 10 IN,
mind Of child than the finest theor,
which has ever been evolved IN IN,
brain Of any man-even member oil
the legislature.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

81. OF The Republican aF,, over
hundred ihoesaud duliar- ioorf,ai Seos.
tor Fred nunul- said q s.nrl .eU.u
YESTERDAY, "fiit, lh.us,ao %. Inc amman.
was spent To secure the election of Pupu-
list members of the legislature who were
nimical TO thu Senator The other iifty
thousand was spent in some old way at
Boise City after the assembling Of the
legislature.
THE campaign against Dubois was d.
rected from Washington. New York.
Cleveland aud Caution Now what kind
Of man have the people-no. not the
people but the legislature Of Idaho ex-
changed for Dubois. A good enough
farmer. Fred Dubois stood among the
foremost in the Senate and be has prob
ably done more for the slate in congress
and the departments than his predeces-
sOrs in both houses"
But you didn't Tell us. T." said a listen
er, ''who pocks,c'l metropolitan DO die
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All curaoie CHROME uiseaSes WIN e'ec-
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successfully P'r'o''ne" il NECESSARY
Ou'-o'-'o"" p"',e"'S 're"'eo WIN ""-
'"'''"s suooeSS ''i'ouS" correspondence
one Sis'' uesiraoie ou' nov necessary
servation to any nart of The country
Write for symptom blank and circular
Drs. Liebig * Co. continue to treat
on'on''' nervous "nu sprO'o' uis'a s',,
inc memory. lack of energy. nhvsical
decay, deiormities, etc. etc, arising
from indiscretion, excess or indulgence
producing some of the following effects,
Nervousness, debility, dimness of vision
self distrust' directive memory, prema-
tureness. want of control of vital organs.
pimplcs on face, aversion to the society
Of females. loss OF ambition, lack Of con-
idence, gloominess. desrondency. I'M
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

made during the next four years on the
international agreement" question,
fer the purpose Of fooling the people,
and Mr.. Hoar and the Statesman are
both getting in line TO help along with
the deception. The Statesman should
understand, however, that in the light
Of It's past zigzag record on the financial
question that IT is not likely to be able
to fool all Of the people Of Idaho all o:
the time, or even any considerable por-
ton Of the people part OF the time
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

S. H. Mitchell and G. A. Walker. who
have been working the Iron Dollar mine
at Pearl, under lease for several
months have nbscondcd with the clean
up without paying their men. Officers
have been after them for week or
more but have failed to apprehend them.
Ten men have been at work for the
outfit since last summer none Of whom
have received dollar for their services.
The Rigdon hotel will lose about 5000
board bill. IL is pity the scoundrels
could not be caught and turned over to
the injured miners to be dealt with as
they deserve. A iirst-class "neck-tie"
mining operations and Willow creek
VIII never take its place IN the first
ranks OF mining camps until "a few such
formalities have been observed.
Six men employed in the Dewey
mines at Pearl struck last week because
their demand Tor an incre Use OF wages
was not complied with. The company
had no trouble in finding other men to
take their places.
A wonderfully rich strike was made
in the Pearl mine at Willow creek on
Monday morning. The Pearl Is one of
the Oldest claims in the district and has
been considered one Of the best. luls
owned by Costcr e. Lockerman A tun
mel has lately been run ON the property
and when the ledge was struck on Mon
day a six inch pay streak was found that
is said to carry by far the richest ore yet
found IN the camp. No assays have as
yet been made but the rock Is said to be
literally glittering with coarse gold.
One piece no larger than an ordinary
Dipe bowl was estimated to be worth
from IS to $40 The find caused consid.
cradle excitement in camp.
T.. IL. Dewey arrived in Pearl Monday
and spent the day examining number
of properties IN the district. ltlS thought
that his company intend to secure a
number of other claims there, fact
which speaks well for their faith in the
future Of Willow creek.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

no wish TO take issue with the Record on
either Of these propositions neither does
il wish to be understood as making the
claim that the present price received by
the Record is particularly exhorbitant.
We do not understand either that the
cost Of stationary etc, is included in the
Records bid Of seven aud half aud
three cents per line for printing the com
missioners proceedings etc, but presume
that such worn is let in seperate CON
tract. What then does the Record
mean oy laying particular stress on sin
fcrior material. Is the Record printed
on so much finer quality Of paper and
with such vastly superior ink that the
commissioners should make difference
in the cost Of printing a report OF their
proceedings in the interest Of economy
II the Record charges ten and half
cents per liue for two insertions OF such
matter as the law requires TO be pub
lished in a newspaper Of the county and
throws in the stationary and job work
gratis IL may nni that it has worse
contract than the independent had IN
1895. While on the other hand If the
job work is done on a separate contract
II depends altogether on the terms Of
that contract whether it may not have a
better contract than the Tribune had in
lS03-1
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13
The Happy Family.

Boise decentralization is called
to the fact that when Senator Sherman
takes his seat at the cabinet table he
will see the face Of one there whom he
has charged vita very reprehensible act.
In his book, the Ohioan states his belief
that General Alger bought up lot of
his southern delegates in the convention
Of 1883. He also charges Tom Plat
with having made a corrupt bargin by
which the vote Of New York was given
to Harrison Platt will be setting IN the
senate while Sherman bangles his legs
under the cabinet board, and it is not
unlikely that he will find way to stick
pins in the limbs Of the man who wrote
the book.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

Entered at the Emmett POI, ONCE as second
class mail matter.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

Or TO the present time l0l bills have
been introduced in the legislature. IA
IN inc house and so m the senate Twen-
N-four of these bills have been dis
Ios'd Of M the hous, 10y being "inden-
nliely postponed 800 hsscr nnrf er
have met he same tate 10 The e0a
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

The Caldwell Record devo,es consid-
cradle space in its last issue TO the mat
t'r Of count, printing, iniimailng on The
cue hand that in former DAYS the Tri-
bune received too great compensation
for the work. and on the other that the
Independent received entirely too little.
- Gar Us The INDEx IS CONCERNED Il has
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

which was sent to Bose"
mo; but | think the lobbyists got
away with a good part of it. and maybe
the coyotes packed away some Of lie
nuggets
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-02-13

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house in Idaho. Salary $3.50. payable as week
" and expenses. Position permanent. Refer
enccs. Enclose self-adlressed stamped ev-
veiope. The national. star Building, Chicago.
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Wanted-kn Idea r.; $ss So !: 'sIS:

Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth.
Write JOHN WEDDERBuRN q CO., Patent Attor-
nsy , wasninston ~ C Tor TIER si:o prize oner
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DAPTIsT CHURCH Regular services
ID every Sunday morning at li.3o A. n. and
al l. NJ on the second ana fourth Sundays
sf each month sunday School az 1890 a. NJ.
every sunday.
l.. W. GOwEa, Pastor
ions II. Lively supt, s. :.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-08

The Indianapolis campaign has finally
reached the sewer basis, and Taggarts side
partner, Sterling r. Holt, is at the bottom
of it.-Connersville News.
1t will be a bad slam on our beautiful
capital city should the present mayor be
continued at the head of affairs for the only
reason that he is good feloW.-Clay
County Enterprise.
The municipal campaign at Indianapolis
has now entered on it's last week and the
prospects for Republican success are
brighter than at any time since the begin
ming of the struggle.-Connersvl Times.
Indianapolis is happy over city political
contest. The residents of that city are never
themselves unless they are in the tIroes Of
a campaign. Politics is their food drink
happy they are when fighting partisan bait
tles.-Elkhart Review.
Will it be Harding or will it be Taggart?
That is the question the Indianapolis peo-
pie are debating and which they will de-
termine soon. One thing is already de-
termined and that is, Mr. Smith, of the
Smith party is not in the race as they
come down the home stretch.-Middletown
News
While it is not state campaign still the
Republicans of the State are watching the
proceedings with considerable interest, and
they will not forget those who have taken
off their coats in the municipal fight in the
interests of economical and important gov
eminent Mr.. Harding is a good man and
would make a good mayor.-Greenfeld Re-
publican.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-08
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR WHEAT
GROWERS

Mr.. c.. Wood Davis, of Kansas who has
for years showed by figures that wheat
bread eaters were increasing more RAPIDLY
than the supply of wheat, did not attract
much attention during the years of low
priced wheat Now, however, he is sure
of a hearing for his fresh statistics, pub
lished in the Forum for October in an
article entitled 1.-THE Impending Deficiency
in Breadstuffs. In this article he not only
bread-eating population is increasing more
rapidly than the production of wheat, rye
and other breadmakng grains, corn ex-
cepted, but that the unit consumption of
bread is increasing.
Some of the figures of Mr.. Davis are
very striking, few of which are here pre-
scented. The wheat area OF the countries
inhabited by bread-eaters increased 24,2O0,-
900 acres, or 11.2 per cent. between 1871 and
1882, and but 100000 acres, or So per cent.
between 1882 and 1885. The increase of acre
age the past twenty-five years has been
$50 per cent, while the increase of the
bread-eating people has been 375. He
also shows that population of the bread
eating countries, because of better food,
shelter and sanitary conditions, is increas-
ing faster than in previous decades. He
shows that 100000 acres of the "a, 200, 200
acres of increased wheat acreage in the
United States was put in cultivation be-
tween 1871 and 1882 while not an acre of
the increased acreage since 1882 is in this
country.
In view of the low prices of wheat the
past few years, due to large accumulation
in sight, one is not prepared to accept Mr..
Davss statement to the effect that, when
the United States ceases to add to its
wheat area, the wheatheds of other ma
tions failed to keep pace with the increase
of bread-eating population. so great is
this deficit" he says. that. with no better
than an average OF 127 bushels for the last
twenty-six harvests from contributory
area. the output would be 275. 100000 BUSH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-08
LOST IT'S HEAD.

Evidently the Taggart party has lost its
head. If it has not lost its head why did
Mr.. Holt after emphatic denials, refund the
5000 to the contractors? Indeed, the
mayors immediate friends are so frightened
that they have parted with ordinary dis
erection. The S. 600 scandal would have been
talked about and the lame and labored de-
Tense of the News entitled "a Last Card
believe that reputable firm was slandering
Mayor Taggart's assistants. No adequate
purpose could have been assigned for such
procedure yet the denial of Mr.. Holt and
the others would have left slight chance
for defense. That slight chance Mr.. Holt
destroyed when he caused the contractors
to be paid 5000 The payment of the s.. 900
is practical confession of guilt and it is
generally so regarded. The Journal does NOT
pretend to know how much this official and
that official received. That some OF them
received some of the Seibert- Fulmer- Robin
sou money seems clear. MIR. Holt admitted
this when he said that it was so scattered
that it would be impossible to collect it in
order to pay it back
If the Taggart regime had not lost their
heads this money would not have been paid
back until after the election. They would
have said to the contractors. go ahead with
your suit IL you dare; the sooner the bet
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-08
A GOOD LOSER.


mo. have nothing more to say at pres
a Journal reporter last evening at his Of
flee. He had already said that his resig-
nation was of mis- own motion. Further
than this he declined absolutely to discuss
the matter. There was no effort upon his
part to explain matters. to cast the blame
upon others, or to in any way relieve him
self from the storm of criticism raging
about his head. He has gambled with for
tune all his life not with cards, dice
bucket shops or boards of trade, but with
the chances of politics and the risks of
large business. This was his first loss, and
no man at the card table or on the stock
exchange ever gave a finer exhibition of
the dead game" loser than he.
Everybody who knows Holt Taggart and
the remarkable combination of political SOL
diers of fortune in which they have been
conspicuous figures understands perfectly
we'll that Holt could pull the temple down
about his ears with the most magnificent
kind of a crash if he cared to open his
mouth and tell the smallest fraction of
what he knows of their operations in this
community. There is no disposition to re-
gard Holt as a fool. 1t is not imagined
for moment that he did not know his
ground when he agreed to obtain a change
in the specifications of the sewer. The con-
tractors found it next to impossible to
build it at this point upon the original
level. Had they been compelled to do 1t,
it would have cost them many thousands
of dollars. 1t is in evidence that this money
was paid to obtain a change in the speci-
fications. Holt would not have been foolish
enough to undertake to agree to have the
sewer accepted a year before it was fin
ished, and it is in evidence that the agree
ment was that he should obtain the change
in the specifications, which the contractors
had failed to obtain. He obtained it. He
disgorged the money to obtain silence from
the contractors, and, when the story came
out anyhow, he died his political death,
that the rest of the gang might survive.
In the end his ice-cold nerve is serving his
companons-at-arm right handsomely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-08
TIME FOR ACTIVE WORK.

The revelations which have thus far been
made regarding S. 900 paid by contracting
firm to Sterling r. Holt, a member of the
most important board in the city govern
ment, have caused widespread amazement
and no little Indignation. They are the
talk of the town. Scores and hundreds of
men who were sure to vote for Mr.. Tag
CART a week ago have either decided to vote
against him or are seriously considering
the situation. Men of both parties are
asking themselves If by voting the Tag
CART ticket they will not indorse ali the
men in Office connected with the 5000
transaction.
There can be but one answer: Mr.. Holt
was a member of the Taggart cabinet-a
member of the Park Commission, which,
during the next three years, will have to
do with more contracts, the employment
of more labor and the direct expenditure of
more money than any other of the mayors
boards. The reelection of Mr.. Taggart is
a practical Endorsement of the 5000 trans
action. Every man who votes the Taggart
ticket will declare that the accepting of
money from contractors by those near to
or connected with the city government is
not a venal offense.
This one answer the thoughtful voters
are making as they consider the startling
revelation. Many have made 1t an3 hun
dreds are undecided. If the $500 transac-
ton pertained to a matter of private or cor
porate business in which these hundreds
of voters should be interested, and depend
ed on their votes, the authors would be
punished at the ballot box.
The time has come for Republicans and
others who desire to crush out park land
tractors to take an active part in the cam
paign. The best interests of the taxpayers
demand that the Taggart regime be de-
feated next Tuesday. Let all who do not
approve such irregularities take an active
part in bringing out a full vote of those
who do not believe in Taggartism as indi-
Gated in the recent developments. 1t will
be comparatively easy to defeat the gang
now but when it shall be intrenched under
the leadership of Holt behind the hundreds
of employees and possibilities of plumber
and extensive park construction, it will be
difficult task.
To-day the Taggartites are demoralized
Public sentiment is against Taggartism
Force the fighting all along the line. not so
much in shouting at meetings as in earn
est effort with neighbors and friends to
smite Tammanyism in indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-08
Is THE TAGGART ADMINIsTRATI
CLEAR3

The resignation Of Mr.. Holt as a member
of the Board of Park Commissioners was
a foregone conclusion. In the face of recent
disclosures he would not have dared to defy
pubic opinion by continuing to hold the
place, and Mayor Taggart would not have
dared to try and shield him. II Holt had
remained on the Parks Board until next
Tuesday Mr.. Taggart would have been
beaten ten thousand votes. 1t remains to be
seen whether Hollis resignation will save
him. The Journal submits that it does not
change he moral quality of the transac-
ton which brought about the scandal nor
lessen the grounds for believing that other
members OF the Taggart administration
may be and possibly are as deep in the
mud as Holt was in the mire. There was
tar enough to go around, and there is rea-
son to believe that others are tarred with
the same stick. Undoubtedly the resignation
of Holt was intended to operate as COM
plete vindication and exculpation of the
Taggart administration, just as the resig-
nation of Mr.. Colbert was in the case of
the police scandal. But Mr.. Colberts resig-
nation did not alter the fact that the entire
police force had become demoralized during
the Taggart administration, and Mr.. Holt $
resignation cannot change any of the es-
tablished facts in this case. These are that
one year ago, viz, on Sept. 30, 1896, the Full
mer-Seibert Company, sewer contractors,
paid Sterling r. Holt, an intimate friend of
Mayor Taggart, and a member of the city
government, S., 900 to bring about certain
changes in their contract; that prior to
Hollis undertaking to have this done the
city engineer had refused to do it; that
Mayor Taggart knew Holt had undertaken
to accomplish it; that Immediately after he
received the 1000 a correspondence took
place between the city engineer and city
attorney which resulted in an opinion by
the latter that the change would be legal;
that, fortified with this opinion, Holt. the
city attorney and city engineer went be-
fore the Board of Public WORKS, and had
the change made; that he kept the money,
or mis- share of it, one year and only re-
funded it under threat of lawsuit that
would bring out all the facts; that before
refunding it he had several interviews with
Mayor Taggart on the subject; that the
final act of refunding was done at Mayor
Taggart's hotel that the city controller
another appointee of Mayor Taggart, acted
as a go-between and messenger between
Holt and the contractors attorneys in the
settlement. These facts are not changed a
particle by Hollis resignation. On the con-
trary that is equivalent to an admission
that so far as he is concerned every charge
ipfa ic Ac ha
is made up and cannot be changed by his
resignation the public will continue to draw
its own differences. The truth is, between the
police scandal and this one the whole Tag
CART administration is smirched.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-08

New York Special 10 PIttSDurg Dispatch.
The campaign for the capture of the rich
plumS that will be at the disposal of the
rulers of greater New York promises to
give birth to new notions on the part of
the patriots who take an active interest
in politics. Nearly every important cam
paign here has had some striking charac-
teristic that has made it memorable what
ever the result of the election Last year
the meetings were large and enthusiastic
and the campaign novelties were new and
attractive, and were to be seen everywhere
1t remained for this year, however, to in
troduce something entirely new, weird and
startling to the people 1t is the opposition
wall of woe. Where this wall came from,
or how ii originated, no one seems to know
1t is not a howl. It is not a groan 1t is
not q yell, nor is ii q moan. 1t is q COM
bination of all these, with an undercurrent
Of apparent agony that goes right to the
marrow of the listener and sets a chill
running up and down his backbone It
starts in a low moan somewhere in the rear
of the hall where a convention or meeting
is being held. 1t rises gradually and eff
fectuaily and then sinks away like the wall
of a lost soul. And then il returns in a
great howl of agony hideous and quakjng
until the whole gathering Of men seems to
be affected by it, and the speaker whom
it assails must be q courageous one to
stand it. 1T is worse than xpithets of the
eggs. Already several care-hardened spell
binders have been sickened by the strange
and uncanny campaign wall 1t is simply
whitening in its effect, and it promises to
cut lot Of ice in the battle now raging
throughout the region to be embraced by
the winners. This weird wall is probably
due to existing conditions.