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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-10-17
Women to fleet at Boise.

! The district federation of wo
mems clubs will meet at Boise Oh
the 22d instant, and a large numbe
of club women from all sctions O
the district are expected to attend
Mountain Home clubs, we are told
will be well represented, and foI
the benefit of those interested W,
give the program below:
MONDAY EVENING IS O'CLOCK.
decentralization, w. O.
Howard, Phi. d., chief department
OF entomology, Washington, d. c.
TUESDAY MoRNING-10 O'clock.
Call to order.
Invocation-Mrs. s. A. Mitchell,
Parma.
Song.
Report of credentials committee.
Roll call of delegates.
Address of Welcome-Mrs. Will
liam III. Ridenbaugh, President Wo-
mans Columbian club.
Response-Mrs. Aubrey Butter
field, vice-president second district
federation.
Greeting-Mrs. c B. Wade, pres
ident Oregon state federation.
Reading Of minutes OF district
federation meeting held at Noun
tain Home
Address-Mrs. H. w. Mansfield,
president second district federation.
Reports of officers.
Appointment of committee on re-
vision of constitution and bylaws.
Adjourn.
Basket luncheon at Natutorium.
2 O'CLOCK.
Call to order.
Music.
Report of clubs.
Object Of Federation-Mrs. Sam
uel II. Hays, chairman federation
for Idaho.
Educational Committee--(a)Kin-
dergarten Work, Mrs. John w.
Griffiths, Nampa; (b) Travelling
Museums for Schools, Miss An
ma Lodge, Mountain Home; (c) Co
operation of Woman's Clubs with
Literary Interests, Mrs. e. ]. Dock
cry, chairman educational commit
Zee
Town and Village Improvement
Mrs. l.. l.. Feltham, Weiser.
Leaders of Discussion-Mrs.
John Griifiths, Nampa
Adjourn. ....
8 O'clock.
Contralto Solo-"Song of
Heart" Mrs Samuel Gray Rhoades,
Mountain Home; Mrs. NJ. E. Swift,
Boise, accompanist.
Lecture-Mrs. Jane Slocum, Wei
er.
Reception.
WEDNESDAY MoRNING-1O.
Call to order.
Industrial possibilities of the Wo-
nen of ldaho-Mrs. J. w. Owens,
resident first district federation.
Art Education-Mrs. G.. M.
ayne, Mountain Home.
Leaders of Discussion-Mrs. AL. !
nea Fouch, Parma; Mrs. c. l.. !
weet, Boise. :
Report OF Mrs. l.. F. Henderson, |
loscow, federation secretary for 5
lird district.
Report of Mrs. d. w. Standrod
ocatello, federation secretary for
rst district.
II o'ULocK.
Report of committee on revision ,
constitution and bylaws. ;
Election of officers.
Ajourn. t
Luncheon at home of Mrs. vii. i
m IT, Ridenbaugh to visiting del
ates and club women. {
4 O'clock.
Visit to rooms of state library {
capitol building !
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A Fiendish Attack.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-10-17

At current rates the best way Ia
rescue missionaries is not to send
them.
Frank Martin, attorney general
OF Idaho, was in the city few hours
Saturday, on his way to Salt Lake.
Mr.. Martin had but little to saw
about politics, beyond the fact that
the democratic party in the state
is in excellent condition and he has
no doubt will win as usual at the
election, with at least as large a
majority as at the last election
Pocatello Advance.
Says the Lewiston Tribune.
There are not enough school teach
ers IN northern Idaho to take charge
OF all the schools organized and
waiting for some one to open them.
There are half a dozen or more
schoolhouses in Nez Perce county
alone that have not been able to
procure teachers"
Little Cigarette is said to have
soliloquized thus: 81 am not much
OF a mathematician. but | can ada
TO mans nervous trouble; | can
subtract from his physical energy.
! can multiply his aches and pains
| can divide his mental powers: |
can take interest from his work and
discount his chance for success
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-10-17
A Fiendish Attack,

An attack was lately made on c. F.
Collier of Cherokee, Iowa, that nearly
proved fatal. Il came through his
kidneys. His back got so lame he
could not stonp without great pain
nor SIT in chair except propped by
cushions. No remedy helped him until
he tried Electric Biuers, which ef-
tected such wonderful change that
he writes he feels like a new man.
This marvellous medicine cures back
ache and kidney trouble. puriiies the
blood and builds up your health Only
50c at X. w. Smiths drug store.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-13
TRAMPs AND OTHERS.

The tramps which we have. in town,
and who sleep in unused lots and houses
or barns, are not of the genus which
infests the Eastern States and travels
even to California, They are lazy sail
ors and water front loafers who have
worked their passages here from San
Francisco, Seattle and other Pacific
ports, Enquiry at the police station
shows that as a rule they do about
couple of days work a week for the
stevedores. This brings them in $3.50 a
day, or $500 for the week which is am
pie for their wants.
Probably few people know how cheap
ly a man can live at the restaurants
beyond Nuuanu street. For ten cents
man can get piled up bowl of rice,
one kind of meat and tea. For fifteen
cents he gets two kinds Of meat and
bread and butter, besides rice and tea.
This is not served in Delmonico style,
but it is remarkably filling at the price
For $l.75 per week one of these tramps
can live quite contentedly. and he has
1928 left for his tobacco and swipes.
He seldom or never pays for bed and
a bath is his horror.
But the breed will soon DEGENERATE
unless it is kept constantly hustled up
by the police. From doing a couple of
days work, they will get to doin" no
work at all and will then begin to prey
upon the community. 1t takes very
little to turn such men from tramps in
to petty thieves, and then to produce
full fedged and dangerous criminals.
A good many people have the idea
that the men who congregate on Nuu-
anu street around Wing Wo CHAINS are
tramps, but in this they are mistakes,
nearly ALL if not ali of these are sailors
who are loafing round till their ships
are ready to go to sea. Sailors of the
Sailors Union do not unload their
ships, that is the business of the steve
ing to do a large part of his time. 1t is
pity that something cannot be done
for these men, and that they should
not have some recreation better than
sitting on the steps of store and &C.
casionally loafing into the ever conVen-
lent bar room. However as a rule a
drunk among this set Of men is rare
and that speaks well for them. They
are simply there because they have no
where else to go. Some of our philan-
thropists ought to see what can be
done for these men.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-13

stop. A table for the quarter ending
September &c. 1900, compared with the
same quarter in 1899 shows a woful
falling off. Drills dropped to STA
pieces in 1900 against $3.50 in 1899.
Kerosene came down to 5000 gallons
against S51,100 in the corresponding
quarter of the previous year. other
lines of goods followed the same course
it was a tlro~ almost to humiliation of
trade.
Every country doing trade with China
has lost, but the loss has come most
heavily upon the American textile
manufacturers and upon the oil trade.
The fact is that the ports with which
the United States deals and through
which her trade goes into China are
within the area where all the trouble
has occurred, while other countries
have been in the habit of using avenues
not opened up by the American traders
and merchants.
The loss to the cotton trade alone has
been over 100000, and the total loss
to our trade may be put at considerably
over double that amount. There has
not been very much cutlery as yet,
though there have been representations
made to the State department by indi-
vidual manufacturers. But even
though a separate peace could be made
with the Chinese Government by the
United States, as long as a state of war
exists in the northern provinces, which
are our chief field for selling our
goods, trade will be paralyzed.
This feature is brought olSA- in a re-
port upon exports made by Consul
Ragsdale of Tientsin. He says:
THE export returns give striking evil
dences of how Tientsin and North
China have suffered in consequence of
the uprising. The enormous discre-
pancies between the figures for the pre-
sent and for last year tell a tale of loss
to the producer, as we'll as to the mer-
chant, that is startling. In the item of
dogskins, it will be noticed that 1884
were exported this year, against 1887
last year, while in bristles, sheepskin
clothing, and many other articles, the
falling off is equally noticeable. Nor is
the outlook for the year 1901 favorable
for large shipments. The country north
of Tientsn, where the principal articles
of export are produced, is now overrun
with eX-BoXers and eX-soIdiers who
have turned bandits, and it will be
exceedingly difficult for merchants to
get goods out of or into the interior"
Probably the large war supplies
which have been called for by the wars
now going on all over the world have
prevented this large falling off in our
regular trade from being noticed but
that our commerce will feel it more
and more is certain, and our manufac-
turers will begin to be pinched in GER
tain directions before the present year
it out.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-13

The work which the survey depart
ment has instructed Professor Alexan-
der to carry out. will be very important,
and no better man would be found on
the Islands for this purpose. Professor
Alexander is par excellence Hawaii s
scholar. He is a man of wide erudi-
ton and special erudition upon Hawai-
ian language, history, folk lore, man
ners and customs. In this particular
The index encyclopaedia of names. of
places, localities and natural objects
which he will compile will be most
thorough, and will prove monument
to his learning and his industry,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-13
CHINESE TRADE.

The Magazines and newspapers have
been full of the ills that have been
personally suffered in China, are now
discussing policies commenting upon
another, but theimmense loss in United
States trade hardly seems to have been
touched on,
At the time of the Boxer outbreak
the increase of American trade with
China had been something enormous.
Between the years 1899 to 1900, June, the
outbreak in the East this was frequent
ly treated of in these columns.
A consular report shows that after
June 80 the trade came to almost dead
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-13

A battle royal between the sections of
the city is a novelty here though it is
common enough elsewhere. de gang"
has it's representatives in all parts of
the mainland as well as in New York
and the Hooligan raises his melodious
voice in East and South London.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-13

Scientists predict an unusually
warm season all over the world,
owing to certain meteoric dis
turbances.
J why not prepare for the COM
ing summer and make ourselves
J as comfortable as possible.
Allow us to offer the sugges-
! ton to purchase from our large
stock a neat little Puritan Two
Burner Blue Flame, wickless,
! kerosene stove, price $3.50, no
danger, no odor and economical
in operation, costs one cent per
hour for each burner.
} We can also recommend a Cur
ney Ice Box, price $3.50, which
} requires only five cents worth Of
ice per day.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

The death of Major Hugh R. Bel
KNAPP, paymaster in the United States
army on duty in the Philippines win
be deplored by Iowa as well as by
Illinois. Major Belknap died on the
18th instant, on the Island of Luzon,
and his remains will be sent to the
United States for interment. He was
the son of the late Secretary Belknap,
of Grants cabinet and was himself
prominent in the councils of the re-
publican party and served one or two
terms as member of congress from
Chicago district. Major Belknap
was well known in Keokuk, and had
many warm friends in Ottumwa who
remember him well as a visitor in the
city during the, reunion of the Crock
er Brigade of which he was an hon
orary member.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

Pension Commissioner H. Clay Ev-
ans, in his recent report, makes some
statements that are of great public
interest and some comparisons be-
tween the veterans of the civil war and
the Spanish-American soldiers in re-
gard to pensions. He quotes from
Commissioner Baker, in his report for
the year 1872, eleven years after the
beginning of the civil war, to the eff
feet that only about 6 per cent of the
soldiers of the Union army had filed
claims for pensions. On the other
hand, little over three years after
the begging of the Spanish-American
war, 20 per cent of the number enlist
ed have already filed their claims
These figures are instructive as we'll
as interesting.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

convert it into a terrible tropical tor
rent. The engineers who have made
surveys of this region are in doubt
about their ability to control this over
flow and superabundance of water, eX-
cept at the expenditures of vast sums
of money.
1t is we'll that these difficulties be
considered at the beginning and it is
we'll that our government should, not
altogether lose sight of other routes in
canvassing the situation.
The reelection Of zelaya, however,
makes the position of the United States
secure in Nicaragua, so far as aid of
the local government can bestow en-
couragement. The physical obstacles
to the great work may be easier over
come with the aid and sympathy of
the Nicaraguan government.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
GEORGE SMITHS "SINcE THE
SMOKE OF BATTLE" ARTICLE.

Geo. F. Smith of Keosauqua, who for
a few months conducted the democrat
ic organ of this city, is still publishing
the State Line Democrat at Keosauqua
and in his "Since the smoke of battle
has cleared away article Mr.. Smith
states that "The democratic vote Of
Van Buren, county this year is less
than it was for Seymour away back in
1868, and it will continue to get less
and less as long as the attempt to
amalgamate the party with the popu-
lists is kept up" Mr.. Smith goes on
to say in his border democrat that
"the same thing is true throughout the
state Even in Davis county, the
home of the chairman of the state COM
mittee, the wiseacre who last summer
announced the doctrine that no demo-
crat had a right to take part in a
democratic convention unless he sWal-
lowed the Kansas City platform at a
whole. And now in Davis county 500
democrats fail to vote, thus letting in
all the republican candidates except
supervisor and coroner.
Mr.. Smith concludes his article with
the observation: What is the use OF
longer trying to force the people to
endorse policies that they do not be-
lieve in and refuse to endorse year
after year with added emphasis"
This is conundrum that is not prop
erly within the providence of a repub-
lican journal to answer; but it is given
the required publicity so that the DEM
ocrats of all degrees may try their
hand on it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
THE TREAsURERsHIP.

The action of the board of supervis-
ors yesterday in issuing a certificate
of election to r. p. Dana, as county
treasurer was right, and this action
will have the approval of the public
generally. We do not see how any
other determination could have been
reached under the circumstances, and
we believe that the facts brought out
before the board, amply demonstrated
that Mr.. Dana was entitled to the GER
tihcate. The action of the board does
not deprive Mr.. Chisman Of recourse
along legal and entirely proper lines
to contest of its decision, SO that
it cannot be held that he has been de-
prived of any of his rights in the mat
ter. A contest, of course, would mean
a re-counting OF the votes on treasur-
er in every election precinct in the
county and it is now pretty fully I'M
derstood that such recount would
unquestionably give, the election to
Mr. Dana, without reference to the en-
ror that has been claimed in the sixth
ward. In this difficult matter, we be-
lieve that the board of supervisors
has done its duty with full pur-
pose and intention of doing only what
was right under the circumstances.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

A recent dispatch from Jerusalem
tells of a bloody fight in the church of
the alleged Holy Sepulcher, between
the Franciscans and adherents to the
Greek faith over the right to sweep
the church. 1t is gratifying to realize
that the real site of the Holy Sepul-
cher can never be ascertained and also
the almost absolute certainty that the
site now selected and fought over is
not the true sepulcher. 1t was within
the power of the Prince of Peace that
has grave should not be the place of
strife. No man knows where the true
sepulcher may have been and it is not
material. 1t is certain; however, that
it has not nor never will be ascertain
ed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

state where men highest in rank in
prominent fraternal orders have be-
come defaulters. 1t is not essential to
the lesson that is to be taught that
names may be mentioned, but it will
be sufficient to say that one of the
most benevolent orders in Iowa has
more than three times been subjected
to great losses through similar defal-
cations. 1t is the irony of the situa-
ton, too, that fraternal ideas taught
in this order, gave the defaulters a
certain sort of license in their own dis
ordered minds that they were free to
use the money of the lodge for their
own purposes. 1t is true that they did
not start out with the intention of
wronging the order to the value of a
dollar, but after having been entrust-
ed year after year with large sums of
/ ing lodge money in small sums at first.
But the bad habit grew until it ruined
them and brought disgrace upon the
lodge. These are matters that affect
the fraternal orders more than those
outside of them, but there are so many
citizens, both men and women, who
have deep interest financially and
otherwise in the prosperity of their
faVorite lodges that it becomes some
thing of public concern and the legiti-
mate subject newspapeF comment
and criticism. These fraternal socie,
ties are Of great. good Ito the general
public in many ways and their pros
perity should be well assured by prop
er safeguards.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
LONG RANGE INTERVIEWS.

absolutely, am forced to say wo-
man suffrage has been failure de-
clared Mrs. Clara Bell Brown, of
paper woman and lecturer, while in
Des Moines Monday.
There's higher sphere for wo-
man than voting. | believe in mother
hood, in the bringing up of boys and
girls of the country as they should be
brought up. Show me single man
of genuine ability and power whose
wife is a woman suffragist and will
abandon my anti-suffrage work and
admit / am in the wrong.
On the suffrage question in Colo
RADIO and California Mrs. Brown talks
entertaingly. Woman suffrage is a
failure in Colorado" she said. "The
democrats are only waiting to get into
power there to strike the blow. The
republicans favored suffrage original
ly in Colorado because they thought
it would be to their advantage. Now
they wish they were rid of it. The
fact isl speak plainly on this mat
ter-the women have but single idea
in the election of men to Office, and
that is to put men into power whose
moral standards are acceptable to
themselves. The question of fitness
and ability to conduct public affairs
seems to be lost sight of. The pres.
ence of women in a campaign has
proved to be demoralizing in Colorado.
The state chairman and county chair
men can make no move without being
threatened that unless they let the wo-
men have their way they will not get
the women's vote. It's enough to
prostration
while the suffragists are much
wrought up in California, do not be-
lieve they will get suffrage. Kansas
may, but / doubt it. The fact is, and
you will live to see it, though | may
not, that the time is coming when suf-
frage for women will be thing of the
past. Women have all the rights they
are entitled to at the hands of the
men. When law gets on the statute
books that is found to work an injury
to women it is at once repealed or
modified.
THE great argument of the suffra-
gists is that the woman with property
is entitled to vote. Well, that argu.
ment is absurd. Helen Gould, Just
because she has millions, is no more
entitled to have the ballot than is the
woman who washes for living. If
the women with property are going to
be allowed to vote, and property is
the test of the right to suffrage, then
this country has abandoned its tradi-
tons, and we have encouraged a sort
of voting trust, What we need is not
the ballot, but better womanhood and
motherhood, better care for the prop.
er rearing of our children, and better
laws for the protection of the young
womanhood OF the country"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

D. .
Without reference to any decision
made by the county board Of supervis-
ors as to contests on election returns
it is the deliberate judgment of the
people at large and of various coun-
ties that not enough discrimination has
heretofore been made in the appoint
ment of township and precinct cleo
ton officers. In many cases the re-
turns are not signed by the members
of the board and they have to be sum
moned to do plain duty. The men
who vote have right to demand that
their ballots shall be entered and
scanned by officers of intelligence and
good business ability.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

The election of Col S. A. Moore, the
veteran soldier, for representative in
Davis county by 1875 majority is sur
prising result of the recent contest.
Col. Moore was badly wounded at Shi-
lob and when he passed through OF
tumwa on his way home there We're
very slight hopes of his recovery but
he lived to fight another day and to
achieve victory in civil life thatsadds
to and rounds out the career Of one
of the granest old men on the south
ern border.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19

The, recent elections show the de.
cline of Organism. Nebraska itself vot.
ed republican by an increased majority
although Mr.. Bryan made special eff
forts to prevent such result. Where.
ever Organism was made prominent
there came increased republican ma
jorities as if the people were anxious
to indicate their objection to free sill
yer. And yet Bryan was as clean a
representative of that kind of democ
racy as could have been brought for
ward either in 1896, 1900 or 1901. He
is personally unobjectionable, but
there is a decided objection to the doc
trines of which he is the special cham
pion. Democracy will now be com
PEELED to take new departure OF
rather a return to first principles
There is not, however, a Tilden tt
guide the movement and Cleveland
can never again be the Moses to leat
The bewildered tribes out of the wilder
ness.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-19
DEFAuLTING FRATERNITY OFF
GERS.

The recent disclosures relating to
Chas. D. Thompson, treasurer and
supreme finance keeper of the SUI
preme tent, knights of the Maccabees,
whereby the order would lose
$4,000 were it not that 1t
is protected from loss by the
bond of a surety company, awakens
interest in this phase of mems weak
ness in matters connected with money.
Mr. Thompson was exalted to the place
Of supreme treasurer on account Of the
confidence reposed in him by the lodge
of which he was a member. 1t is not
only possible but very probable that he
took the Office with firm determine
ton to account honestly for every dol
lar that came into his hands as treas
urer of the society. He had no thought
of ever becoming a defaulter, but the
possession of that amount of money
gave him confidence in himself and
his financial ability that was not war
ranted. The money was at his com
mand, but not a dollar of it was bis
own. He took the chances and engag
ed in speculations that terminated dis
astrously as such speculations nearly
always do. when based on false prem
ises. He used the money of the lodge
to protect himself from bankruptcy
and lost; hence his disgrace. The in
cident brinss to mind examples in this