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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-20
Plant Polsons.

Needless anf ignorant persons should
be warned against meddling needlessly
with strange negotiations or expert
menting upon their internal economy
with unknown green foods. Sometimes
it is the foliage and sometimes the
flower that is vicious.
The young foliage of the larburnum
contains narcotic and acrid juice that
produces nausea and sometimes death
The green leaves Of the daffodil are
poisonous II swallowed.
The foliage of meadow saffron tau-
tumn crocus) causes a burning thirst
dilated pupils and Irritation of the
throat, with vomiting and purging.
Both the leaves and flowers of the
oleander are poisonous and should not
be left within the reach of little chill
dren.
The red berries Of wild briony are
pretty to look at but have proved dead
ly to persons who have swallowed
them, acting as powerful purgative,
The tuberous roots of wild parsley
are sometimes mistaken for turnips by
children and death speedily follows in
most cases where they are eaten. This
plant Is sometimes called fools pars-
ley" It has a fetid odor and is the
most dangerous of common weeds. Its
color is darker than garden parsley,
and this difference, with it's odor, pre-
vents mistakes of Judgment about 1t
by mature persons.
Serious though not fatal illness has
resulted from using the bulb of daft
fodlls for leeks in soup
The glossy arrow-shaped beans of the
cuckoo plant (arum) are virulent poi
sons in the stomach and great suffer
ing and often death follow the mis-
take of chewing them. The tongue
swells and swallowing becomes very
difficult. II not impossible.
An experimenting housewife sup
posed that as the stalks of pieplant-
otherwise known as rhubarb--are
wholesome and agreeable. its foliage
might take the place Of spinach. She
wanted to be a dscoverer and she was
Her family endured. as a result. n
serious illness and much prolonged sui
fering.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-20

efforts came n total emancipation
from all foundations, and the ''punto
In aria was an assured fact. The first
lace, 1t Is thought, was made with the
needle fpcinD. the battern being traced
upon parchment or paper. and the out
lines marked by thread caught now
and then to the paper. to keep II in
place. Upon this scnifolding the SLIGHT
superstructure was built. and the me-
thod is stil the same. Soon arterward
the bobbins came in as n factor. and
the needle and the bobbins remain Ia
this day the only means employed to
produce hand made lace. So that all
OF 1t resolves itself into the two gem
eric kinds--point, which is made by
tine needle, and pillow. by the bobbins;
or there may be a composite article
made by both.--London Woman's
Home Companion.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-20

The mistake is, 1t Is feared, very fire.
quently made in the case of children of
sending them to school at too early an
age. Parents are anxious that their
children should have a knowledge Of
the alphabet, of spelling. reading, geo.
graphy and other branches of learning
and this Is more mischievous to them
too early in life than teaching them
to walk too soon, because the organ
that Is likely to be injured by the prac-
tice that is referred To Is much more
important than the muscles and bones
of the lower extremities. 1t may do
irreparablc injury to the brain, as un-
til from the sixth to eighth year of
life, the seventh. perhaps being the
happy medium, all its energies are nee
essary for its own healthy development
and that of the other portions of the
system. Exercise is as essential to the
health and vigor OF the brain Mt that
early age MS at any other, but II
should be obtained pleasurably by OBJ
servation and action and not by the
compulsory exercise of tasks. There
is one thing very certain--infant
prodigies rarely attain mature dis
tinction. The reason of this is obvious
their brains are injured by premature
toll and their general health impaired.
If parents were only sensible of this
they would no longer overload the
brains of their mere babies with study
any more than they would their half
organized muscles and Joints with
heavy burdens. As matter of fact,
the latter would, in the long run, per-
haps be the more mericful of the two,
Most of the evils OF education under
which the world has 50 long suffered.
and is still suffering. arose from the
mistaken belief that in what is called
moral and Intellectual education 1t is
the mind that is exercised, and not the
brain. There is, perhaps. no part OF
the human organism SO easily OF
ruinously deranged by excessive action
as the BRAIN especially the half-formed
fants
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-20
"RRD LETTER. DAYS {!
To the Editor.

TO the Editor:
over twenty years have passed away
s'nee In very modest manner was or
.eihated what Is now known as the
o'u Folks Excursion. The expert i.
.Hen'a' lew soon merged into per-
"aheht committee whose labors have
.eea wonderfully and literally sus
~'ned by the great railroad COM
saH'es which operate in Utah. Under
Ns Joint management and assistance
' thousand OF veterans or both
.Aes over the age of seventy have had
annual out to towns and cities north
H. a4 south OF this city, where the pub
a..spri'ed citizens have catered for an
Embarrassing M. number, adding to de-
n. fu visitors the same class of local
,s e'is who had this pleasure of re-
ing old associations or creating
INV, H.. ones as the case might be. Music
.n,o,., speeches, eating. drinking and
thss. s' We're the grand features of
AVA occasions where universal cheer
nm. s0'u viii was fostered and nreei.
du,, memories created which win on
lor;s,s @''ash this probation and ba
no doubt. 10 on the other side
has IS me- y evident that special n,sss,,o
WORKER iN these faithful, diliFen,
would an IN Utah for such gatherInns
communl,rn impossible in any othe,
much "a veterans seem 10 increas ahes 81
adyanesJs mat the rating aye ,nnsi Il.
lmpossSI. future become nnwisld,." W., ~ ~
mo vsmsN,, The basic idea e' os NM m
cisty ,hSs,a now into the fabric go, ~ So Sc
most tba. % age claims attent,o or SO 80
tlementss' Ssshout the state ' nud "a. az,
zach otbs are unconsclously vle Ia set ~,
arrsn ppss0ssram have the s' bas, s ;t u tn,
pases ~ I0f the creates nu ysI .llne ant
evidence The "News' are , cnn;,n,, I'm,
lest Is and oraiory Of s'hsi e;
he asking, mad for less ,h ,ns
Interest Wb,n lher is a spontanel,v mar par
VA Is us fiaiterins as Il lii Il
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-20
$500. DENVER AND REruRN-s,s,oo


For Stock Growers Convention at
Denver Union Pacific will. on January
gard and Gath. sell tickets to Denver
and return at the very low rate of
$500. Through sleepers. Buffet
Smoking and Library Cars, Dining
Cars and Free Reclining Chair Cars.
Shortest route. quickest time. best
equipped. Call at No. 20l Idain
Street for tickets
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-20

Work and scheme for every cent,
Beat the Landlord out the rent.
Saving all the cash l get
Never worry, never fret,
Live In Just frugal way.
Glad to get two meals day.
All / wants to get roll
Then you bet I'll take stroll,
Way back east to see the boys.
Talk of pleasures and of joys,
Sleepers with ELECTRIC LIGHT
Makes day out of night.
Dining cars and lots to eat.
Stoves? NIT" all steam heat,
Rock ballast and oak ties
vestibule train. how she flies.
Service the best you ever see.
On the great &C. NJ. n st. p
Try them once. then | guess
You'll know what's TRUE HAPPI
NESS.
Ticket once 2i2 south West Tempt
Street. Salt Lake City. Utah.
l.. L. DOWNING. Coml. Agt
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
Gold Mining a Legitimate BUSH
nRCG

] ness.
PINE, Idaho, Feb. 81, 1898.
We have here large bodies of low
grade ore, also immense tracts OF
good placer mining ground, and it
would only take a few thousand
dollars to purchase them, and the
one who does so and developes
them will be lucky man, Now
the sale of the product of gold
mine requires no high-rent build
lngs, no drummers, no commission
brokers, no advertising, and very
little correspondence after the gold
is in the bar. The superintendent
or the manager Of the mine sends
the gold to the mint and the equiv
alent in weight of gold money paid
in return is put to the credit OF the
company. This money comes out
of the ground and is of benefit to
the community, to the state it comes
from and to the national govern
ment, and especially to the mine
owner. 1t requires no high-priced
officers to handle it; no percentage
of loss by bad debts, no danger of
glutting the market by over-produc-
ton, no quareling with your neigh
Dor about competition or prices.
There is less risk in gold mining
than in any other business, when it
is carried on upon business princi-
Piles, for if the grade of ore is low in
value and you have plenty of it,
you can figure exactly the cost of
producing it, and when it is pro-
duced you have an absolute market
for it. Now take any other line of
industry, no matter what it may
be-railroads compete with one an
other and cut prices of both pas
senger and freight rates; when there
is an over-production of any staple
article down goes the price of such
article and there is nothing in it.
Many manufacturers think that by
putting their profits back into their
business they are likely to keep in
creasing their profits, whereas in
most cases it leads to bankruptcy
by over production.
With large body of ore, even if
it is low grade, by having proper
superintendent who understands the
handling of men and the art of
there is very little chance
of losing money in gold mining.
OLIVER SLOAN.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
Card from Mr.. BRYANT.

To the Public wish to say
that the item relative to myself
which appeared in the Elmore Re-
publican is untrue, and that the
author of such statement is traitor
in the Democratic party ranks.
JOHN P. BRYANT.
Little Camas, Feb. 26, 1898.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
Letter from r1r. Blackstone.
Hor SPRING. Idaho. Feb. 2S

hui oPklNGi IuauO, req. 20.
EDITOR BULLETIN Considering
the agitation of building a wagon
road into the Elko county mining
camps from the Oregon Short Line
railroad at Mountain Home, and
the routes proposed, l have drawn
map of the country the best
could. 1t will give a fair idea OF
the lay of the land and the most
direct route to Mountain City and
other camps of that district. You
can see by the sketch that the
Duck valley route is too far west to
be direct road to any of the min
ing camps in that district.
If the Mountain Home people
and the 0. S. l.. Co. will each send
man to my place l will guide
them over both proposed routes,
and | think a report from those
gentlemen would cause the road to
be built this spring Beyond doubt
Mountain Home would command a
fair trade from that district if we
could get good road built. The
people of Mountain City and other
camps will make the road to the
State line, and | think that would
be the most difficult and expensive
part of the whole route.
| will start my stage again as
soon as | can get into Mountain
City, and will run to Gold Creek
by way of that place.
BEE BLACKSTONE.
The map is on file in this office
and should be seen by all who feel
interested in the new road, which
when completed would doubtless
bring much trade and travel to
Home Would it not be
we'll for our business men to lend a
helping hand to our friends across
the Snake.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02

OLIVER SLOAN.
Large line outing fiannels. Kel-
sey u Co.
Miss Ada Robbins is added to
the sick list this week.
Brick fues cheaper than ever.
80 cents per foot. Geo. Smith.
Collar pads, three bits a pair,
not $500, at G. w. Fletcher Co.'S,
Ltd.
Garden seeds, rakes, hoes, ETC.,
for spring work, at G. w. Fletcher
Co.'S, Ltd.
B. B. A. sheep shears, both wide
and narrow grips, for one dollar
pair, at G. w. Fletcher Co.'S, Ltd.
G. A. Atkinson of Lincoln Neb.,
will deliver free lecture on Era
ternalism," at the auditorium in
this place Saturday evening, March
9TH.
The sublime degree of Master
Mason was conferred upon w. H
Manion an6 Harry Willis last We'd
nesday night by Gilmore Lodge No.
80, A. F. & A. M.
In the year 1897 Idaho produced
$2,125.33 in gold and 7,103,321 in
silver. OF this sum of dollars Little
Elmore contributed $64,037, and
Owyhee $2,2S6,642.
Sheriff Bob Burns returned from
Salt Lake Monday. He reports the
operation performed upon his wife
by Dr. Pinkerton as being very sue
cessful and that Mrs. Burns will
entirely recover.
The Nampa Leader says: Jack
Kinnally has accepted the position
of manager of the Bruneau Placer
Mining Co., at Grand View. Jack
has hosts of friends here who wish
him every success.
Assessor Jim O'Neill was taken
very sick while at Glenn's Ferry
last week. Mrs. O'Neill went down
to that place and soon nursed him
to recovery and they returned to
this place last Sunday.
A preliminary meeting of II new
members of the order of Modern
Woodman of America was held al
Odd Fellows hall Monday evening
About the middle of March full
fiedged lodge will be organized.
1t is only about 200 miles across
from Mountain Home to Elko OIL
Winnemucca, and about 500 by
rail. A through stage line coulc
compete with the railroad and alst
find considerable local traffic.
Mountain City Times.
In the published court proceed
ings in the Statesman of last Sun
day, we find the following: 81
change of venue to Gilmore count,
was granted in the action brough
by George V. Foreman agains
Frank l.. Givens and Frank De
Cloedt."
The town of Elko should not fee
that the movement to get northern
outlet is inimical to her interests
Elko has for years been in bondage
to the Central Pacific railroad.
good wagon road to the Short Lin
will prove an entering wedge t,
break the hold of that monopoly
Mountain City Times.
Our friend who claims to edit tn,
Elmore County Republican-bu
! don't-accuses the BULLETIN ofsteal
ing a certain article from the Salubri;
Citizen. Our friend is not only ,
falsitier but he is a renegade fire,
silver democrat from Boise and hal
been bought by Hanna, Shoup
Corker & Cos. gold-and for small
piece at that. We stole that article
from an Oregon paper, not the Sa
lubria Citizen.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
Placer Mines for Sale.

hydraulic gold placer mine. on an ancient chan.
mel go acres, 10000 miners inches of water. One.
fifth of price down. and the balance from profits after
the property is equipped
Address, OLIVER SLOAN, Pine P. o,
m2tf Eimore County. idaho
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02

JAS. Wilson came in from Boise
last evening.
Alforgus and pack outfits. Kel-
sey e. Co.
The Pocatello Advance has been
sold to Harry Moore, an able news
paper man.
If you would be happy and con.
tented never borrow trouble or lend
money through friendship alone.
E~J. M. Neil will save you
money on coal, hay and grain, and
furnish you teams or feed for your
stock cheaper than any one in
town.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
To Sheep Men.

We are prepared to contract for
the storing and handling of wool,
guaranteeing to protect same from
the wind, rain and sun. We will
have storage for one million pounds
and there will be no additional
charge for such warehouse storage.
CHAs. r. KELSEY q Co.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-02
Jack DoIan Suicides.

A special dispatch from Albiol
to the Statesman, gives the follow
ing particulars Of the tragic deatl
of party well known in this sec
ton:
Albion, Ida, Feb. 26.-Jack Do
Ian. the famous cowboy, committed
suicide today at / o'clock p. m. by
blowing out his brains with Al.
calibre revolver.
Dolan had been gambling all
night and was drinking heavily.
During the morning he had some
trouble with George Burdick and
had stated his intention of doing
him. Just before l o'clock he walk
ed into the Turf saloon and asked
the proprietor, James r. Howell,
for his gun which was behind the
bar. Howell knew Dolan's reputa-
ton as gun man and told him he
did not think he wanted the gun.
Dolan then slapped the bar with his
hand and demanded it, and it was
given him.
Dolan then said, "Boys I'm going
to kill myself" and placed the gun
to his forehead, and pulled the trig-
ger, the ball entering the center of
the forehead, coming out just over
the right ear, tearing gaping wound
four inches long and two wide, and
blowing all the brains out of his
head and scattering them over the
floor, causing instant death.
The spectacle was most horrible,
Dolan lying fiat on his back, his
eyes wide open, gaping hole in the
skull and one pile of brains as large
as a mans two hands lying on the
floor about four feet away.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-13
FARM AND GARDEN.
WAYSlDE FRUIT TREES.
a German Custom Which We Should
Follow Extensively.

a German Custom Which We Should
Follow Extensively.
A friend who recently Travelled
through Germany told me about the
fruit trees that line the wayside in
some parts of that country. The trees
he most noticed were cherry and pear
trees. These are open to the public
and the ripened fruit may be gathered
and eaten by the passer-by, but the
breaking of branches or any other dam.
age done to the trees is severely pun.
ished, if the perpetrator be discovered
The people, however, feel an interest in
these trees and treat them respectfully
in almost every case.
1t seems to me that we should follow
this German custom extensively in this
country. 1t ornaments a farm to have
trees growing by the wayside and adds
beauty TO the country, giving the trav.
eler welcome shade and putting to
good use land that is otherwise uuoccu.
pied. The damage to crops in adjoin-
ing fields is inconsiderable, as the dis
lance from the roadside to the line of
the growing crops is about as far as
the roots of the trees extend.
If we are going to plant trees along
our roads it costs but little more to
plant apple, pear and cherry trees than
any other kind. Growing in single
row, as they would, they can be trained
so as to produce a good shade and be
of as much use as any other kind of
trees.
The fruit grown upon these trees
would be clear profit, and if the travel
ing public should eat a part of it, we
could well afford to let them have it,
If everyone in a certain section or
along certain line of road would plant
fruit trees there would be so MANY OF
them that but a small portion of the
crop would be taken by the public, and
the remainder would be left for the use
Of the owner of the land along the
roadside.
There is not enough fruit grown in
this country, and if this plan of road
side planting were once inaugurated il
would soon become popular, and mil
lions of fruit trees would be set out
and soon furnish such a supply of fruit
as this country has never yet enjoyed
In Delaware county, o., there is q
village that is shaded by walnut trees.
and the roads that lead away from thi.
village have walnut trees along their
sides. In fruitful years there are hun
dreds of bushels of walnuts on these
trees-enough for all the village and
the people about it.
Tree planting is too much neglected
and it would be well to think seriously
of beginning it more extensively, an6
when we do begin we should follow E
definite plan, having it arranged so as
to produce the best effect and most
profitable results.
Planting fruit or nut trees seems to
offer both, and as there is but little ad.
ditional cost for the trees over those
more commonly used, do not see any
objection to using them.-Bert Car.
roll, in Farmers Voice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-13
OPPOSES TOLL ROADS.
Michigan Farmer Thinks Them Worn,
MOnOpOlics on Record.

A veteran Michigan farmer. writino
to the Grand Rapids Press, SAYS: Toll
roads do not meet the wants of the
farmer; he wants free roads, not toll
roads, and wants all who use them to
oelp make them at cost that will not
be burdenSome on the farmer. The toll
roads are too costly for the farmer. To
get the products of the farm to market
he now pays enough taxes in the way
of tolls 10 pay for the toll roads in five
years at price they cold be built for
now. Though the tax is paid Indirectly,
It is paid Farmers, as class, are op.
posed to monopolies, and yet they grant
franchises to toll road companies which
are, on small scale, greater monopolies
than any of the railroad corporations
of the state.
"These toll roads are not only a public
nuisance, but the owners of them are
the worst tax dodgers of the state, rail.
road corporations not excepted. The
farmers in many parts of the county
cannot get into the city without being
compelled to pay a toll, or else drive a
4OhS Odl Vi lllClI way. L 1t
farmers wife cannot get into the city
with small basket of eggs or a few
pounds of butter, without paying toll
almost as much as she receives for what
she has to sell.
The farmer is opposed to high rates of
interest, and if he wanted to borrow
money and the lender charged him IS
per cent. for the use of it, he would de-
cline the offer with indignation, and yet
the same farmer votes franchises to
corporations which make him pay in
directly, but none the less surely, over
rs per cent. on the money he used to
build toll roads for his accommodation.
If the cost of the roads was figured at
what it would cost to build them at the
present time. The railroads
bt the state are required by law to pay
taxes on gross receipts, but TIE toll
roads only on net receipts. The toll
road lobbyist, when at Lansing, beats
the railroad lobbyist two to one. n y
You truly say that it is somewhat sur
prising that the farmers, in view of all
the facts, are not more generally in
favor of system that will give better
roads"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-01-13
ICE HOUSE IN CORNER OF BARN.

NE MUSE In (O1NNG1k Of BARN.
than the source from which it is taken
If it be used for cooling purposes only,
the ice taken from any reasonably clear
stream or pond can be made available
Where two or more farmers live within
short distance of each other, the CO.
operative plan of building an icehouse
sufficiently large for all, will be found
| cheaper and more advantageous than
building singly.
The accompanying cut gives an idea
for an ice house in a barn, and a few
hints on points necessary to be observed
in its construction, etc, will be use
full: For these hints we are indebted
to an article in the report of the Kan
sas state board of agriculture, 1896. On
farm with dairy of ten cows, the
consumption, including a supply for
household use, would amount to about
300 pounds daily; the shrinkage
amounts to 40 per cent. on an average;
and the period during which ice is nee
essary in ordinary years, about 100 days.
This will necessitate a supply of IS tons
OF ice, to store which space of ~ feet
square and ten feet high will be neces-
sary. If a smaller daily supply is re-
quired, the size of the space will be
proportionately reduced. In building
an icehouse, the chief points to be con-
sidered are the exclusion of air from
under or around the body of ice; proper
ventilation over the ice, and proper sur
face draining around the icehouse. ANY
little crack that admits of the inflow of
warm air will play havoc with a body
of ice. Hence waterproof paper should
interline the walls, so as to exclude
every possible chance for the admission
of current of air. If there be too
much sawdust placed around ice it is
liable to ferment and develop heat to
such an extent as to melt the ice. Four
inches of sawdust or chaff is sufficient
to place under the ice, and eight inches
is sufficient on the sides of a house
with a single wall, and four inches in
case OF q twin wall.
twin wall is made by boxing the
studding on both plates and sills, so
that they shall alternate with each
other. Two by six may be used, and
they may be placed two feet apart; 12-
inch boards will answer for plates an6
stills. This permits each studding tt,
project two inches past the center of
the wall and prevents the air current
from setting. The studding must be
papered with waterproof paper and
then ceiled.-Journal of Agriculture.