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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-08-30
COMMISSIONERS PRoCEEDIA G&

The Board met pursuant to adjonrn-
ment at 10 O'Clock u. m. Aug 10Th 1901
Present II II. HoH Chairman, Nel5 G.
Nelson Jr and Philemon Lindsay Conn
missioners, aud James 4. Kart Clerk,
when the following proceedings We're
had to-wit:
III the matter of the petition of John
Fox ct. al. Of Paris fer a change in the
road at or near the residence OF the said
John Fox III Paris canyon. Pending
the time of fling said petition and this
date d road has been constructed bat iii
view Of the fact that the same is mss
entirely satisfactory to the people, it is
agreed by the said John Fox that he
will make good practicable road next
spring, one which the people will APP
prove and accept. 1t is also agreed by
the said Fox that he will give A. j.
Groebli right OF way through and
over his land.
La the matter of the application Of
John A. Sutton ST., 10. the removal of
certain alleged distractions from wna5
IS. known IS the 'BundeberY TOAD,
leading toward the Outlet"
After hearing the testimony Of q mum
Der OF parties the matter is hereby taken
under consideration by The board
IL Is hereby ordered that the sam Of
500. co be and the same il hereby an
propriated out of the Road and Bridge
Fund for the purpose OF improvements
in the Star valley road. $50 TO be ex-
pended under the direction ct George
Moore and ;S25 under the direction Of
JOAN A. Perkins. The districts of he
above named oyerseers are defined as
follows to-wit: John A. Perkins from
montpelier to q point one and one half
mile down the canyon from Give-out
Grorge Moore from the last named
point distance Of 16 miles. The first
being district No. II; the latter No. 18.
Up on the representation OF Orson
Pendry that he had lost waprent No.
400 which was issued July 18th, 1883 in
1aVoF o. . astlce Pugmire for the sam
OF 500, it is hereby ordered that the
clerk issue a duplicate warrant.
IN conformity with an ac5 entitled
An act Providing for bounty for the
! killing Of coyotes, L nS, and wild eats.
And providing for the payment Of the
same = 1t is hereby ordered that a
special tax of one cent per head upon
all sheep assessrble within the county
OF Bear Lake be and the same is hereby
levied and the assessor and collector OF
said county is instructed to collect the
said sum of one cent as aforesaid at tho
same time and in the same manner as
county and State taxes are collected
Ordered that this board do now ad.
journ sine die.
Attest TT TT r4oR
JAS E. Fart, Clerk, Chairman
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acts Of justice, patience and heroism
are not uncommon in the Christian
Religion; but they would have been
deemed prodigies Of virtue in pagan
times. Finally some mag say:
''let knowledge be dlffused over the
land
Mental culture, knowledge and
education are right and useful when
founded on religion, but the expert
ence Of all nations, shows it to be a
very great illusion to suppose that
diffusion Of knowledge is sztt
Tclent Of itself to make US Writ
uous men. Just at the time that
the great Roman Empire had
reached the highest degree Of men
tai culture, 1t was sunk in the low
est depth Of vice and corruption.
The Persian Empire, according to
the testimony Of Plato and all other
historians, persisted on account Of
the vicious mental culture and wrong
education Of its rulers. The voice
Of conscience wasdrowned by the
captivating cries ofpassion and they
grow up monsters Of lust, rapine and
oppression, governed by 10 law
save the instincts Of their brutal
nature. Statistics here in the U. S.
do not prove that vice recedes in
preparation as public education adj
Vances. Our newspapers are every
day Of the year filled with startling
accounts Of deep-laid schemes OF
burglary, bank defalcations, pre-
meditated murders, and acts OF re-
fined, shrewdly executed lasciv:ous
ness. These enormities are perpre-
tated for the most part, not by IN
lettered men, but bU cri91jnN1s
Of c0nSltD1T1ate address,
ShiW and educational at
tGij1D1 e51fS, as the records in our
penltentiaries fully testify unto.
Being afraid Of having trespassed
already on the kindness Of the
Editor aud the patience Of the read
ers Ct the EXAMINER, ! will bring
this essay to close by stating that |
hope OF having thrown some light
upon that great principle Of life, the
noble human sonl, of having suf-
ficiently proved to the unprecedented
man, who sincerely longs for the
truth, that the belief in the exist.
enee of the human soul is truth
founded on the po1oer OF
human reason alone, with
out there being any need of having
recourse to Gods revelation and the
great principles of religion.
Beware then, my dear friends,
beware of believing all you hear of
one.sided men, who never examine
the other side of the question, be-
ware of all new systems and fads i'll
religion, so nnmerously Matched out
in our days by vagaries of mind,
knowing for certain that 1uhat is
good In these religious fads
is not ne1o by any means,
and all that is netO IN them
is rot GOOD.
Rev w. J. A. Hendrickx.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1901-08-30
4Astounded the Editor.

Editor $. A. Brown. of Bennettville,
$. Z. was once immensely surprised.
Through long suffering from nyspep-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
GENERAL SPORTING.
FLoTsAM AND JETsAM FROM HERE
AND THERE.
Bottled Up Energy of the Irish Race
Likely to Manifest Itself In Connec-
ton with Coming Athletic Events
Notes of Sport.
BOTTLED UP ENERGY.

The page of this newspaper devoted
to athletic sports will follow with
care the progress of the Irish-Amer-
lean Athletic club, says the Chicago
American. This organization is to
compete in all the important contests
held abroad It's membership is to
consist mainly, If not entirely, of men
OF Irish birth or Irish descent. 1t is
an interesting and extraordinary fact
that a collection of the best Irish ath-
letes in the world would constitute the
pick of all the worlds strong men.
One member of the Irish-American
Athletic club recently acquired is John
Flanagan, the holder of the worlds
record for throwing the sixteen-pound
hammer Another member is P.
OConnor, the holder of the worlds
record for the broad jump.
This extraordinary energetic Irish
man has jumped twenty-five feet and
one-half inch. Measure it out on the
ground and you will see what that
means. Everybody knows that an
Irish-American athletic association
would naturally include such athletes
as John L. Sullivan, Mike Donovan,
Corbett, Jeffries, Terry McGovern-in
fact, the entire list of those that have
proved their ability to overcome their
fellows in physical combat Accord
ing to records in the past, you will find
Heenon, Yankee" Sullivan, John Nor
rissey and others all of Irish blood.
If this fighting athletic popularity
OF the Irish race meant only muscular
development it would not be particu-
larly interesting. What lends interest
to the Irish athlete is the fact that he
excels in those particular games in
which victory is due not to muscular
force, but to mental energy. There are
thousands of men that can lift heavier
weights than could be lifted by the
champion Irish fighter. There is no
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

the worlds history more in the way
of energetic mental and physical ac-
ton than any equal area of the earth's
surface. 1t is an excellent thing to
encourage this Irish-American Athletic
association. Not Irishmen alone, but
all that are interested in the develop
ment of the human race, should watch
the records and the relative achieve
ments of this association compared
with others. There is something ex-
traordinary in a race persistently per-
secuted, inhabiting small and not too
fertile island, subject to centuries Of
butchery and misrule, which produces
such men as Wellington, Wolfe, Fox,
Burke, Swift, Parnell and Patrick
Henry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
JEFFRIEs-RUHL1N TALK.

To all intents and purposes Manag-
er Billy Madden is desperately in ear
nest in his challenge to Jim Jeffries,
and that Rubin is ready and willing to
meet him there is not tho slightest
doubt in the minds Of the general pub
lie. 1t really would have been a
shame to cast aside Rubin for Shar-
key, as alleged. It's good bet that
IL there is championship battle on
the coast this fall Gus Rubin will be
one of the principals.
From down in the land OF corn and
cotton comes a clamor for the Rubin
Jsffries contest. The sports of Savan-
nah, where boxing has continued all
summer with good support from the
better class of people, there is a desire
to get the worlds champion to face
Rubin at the fair grounds In that city
The mayor of the town and the gov
ernor of the state have offered no OBJ
lection to the proposed match, and the
promoters, who are men of consider
able experience in the boxing line
have come to the conclusion that they
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
Robbers in and Our off Lail.

In Chicago, as in several other cit
les, some good people arrange for oc-
caslonal meetings in the county jail.
at which speaker discourses to the
prisoners on their situation and NOR
Allies for their instruction. 1t is a
pleasant event for the rpeaker, at any
rate, since the audience cannot get
away, and the platitudes which pro-
priety demands on such occasions re-
quire no thought, but may indeed be
culled from any old copy book or vol
ume of moral maxims. Some time ago
the committee having this function in
charge made a mistake. 1t asked a
man that actually thought to talk. Now
a man that actually thinks is rather
dangerous character anywhere, but
If he gets into a jail in the present
state of society and reflects on what he
sees there and then speaks frankly
what is in his mind he is apt to say
things more pleasing to those inside
the walls than to those that put them
there. So it was with this Chicago
man-Clarence barrow, lawyer who
has bit of a reputation for plain
speaking. He wasn't particularly COM
plimentary to his audience, for he re-
marked that if he met some of them
on the street he would be pretty apt
to get his pocket picked or be held up,
but, said he: when l get outside
pretty nearly everybody holds me up"
This rather startling statement he
supported by saying that the gas COM
pany holds him up by charging a dol
lar for something worth twenty-five
cents. If to escape this highwayman
he turns to burning oil Mr.. Rookie
Teller holds him up, and then uses
a certain portion of his money to build
universities and support churches
which are engaged in telling us how
to be good"
Nor are these spoliations ALL AS the
instructor in jail ethics truly said:
when 1 ride on the street car I am
held up-I pay five cents for ride that
is worth two and half cents or three
cents, simply because a body of men
has bribed the city council and the
legislature so that all the rest have to
pay tribute to them and cannot help
it."
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
- HosO Sanfos- Dun1o1f Escaped Death *

The illustration printed herewith,
sketched by Paris artist, shows how
the intrepid Brazilian aeronaut, M.
Santos Dumont, escaped from death
by his alrship, "Santos-Dumont ",
being caught between two houses at
Passy in falling M. Santos-Dumont
was trying to win with the airship OF
his own invention the Deutsch prize
of 500. 600. He had succeeded in round
ing the Eiffel tower with difficulty, but
his balloon was then unable to make
Roadway against the strong wind
which was blowing, and 1t fell on one
of the new houses near the Trocadero
and close to the Seine Luckily the
frame of the car caught in one OF the
walls, where it remained suspended.
But for this. M. Santos-Dumont would
probably have been killed. AS it was,
he was in a most dangerous position
for over half an hour, hanging in mid
air in the small wicker basket which
forms the car. Here he chung until res
cued by some workmen, who climbed
over the roofs of the adjoining houses
and let down the guide rope, which had
fallen on the roof of thebuilding struck
by the balloon. Santos-Dumont fasten-
ed the rope about his body and was,
with some difficulty, hauled up to a
place Of safety by the workmen.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
OTHER SPORTING MATTERS.

Major" Taylor and Frank Kramer
are not having everything their own
way among the short-distance cyclers.
A new factor has appeared as a COM
petitor for the grand circuit champion
ship of the National Cycling associa-
ton, in the person of liver Lawson, the
Swede, who recently returned from
Australia, where he won the one-mile
championship of that island. Lawson
has defeated both Taylor and Cooper
and is riding in whirlwind fashion.
Bobby Walthour, the speedy
Georgia wheelman, has been doing the
best riding of any of the middle dis
lance cyclers of late. Harry Elkes,
Jimmy Michael, Johnny Nelson, Archie
McSachren and other fast men at this
distance have all had to bow before
the superior prowess of the Georgia
Cracker" Walthour is a good, hard
worker and by dint of perseverance
has come to top among the middle-dis-
lance men. The title of champion OF
this season, from present Indications
lies between Elkes and Walthour.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
FRANCIS O'NEILL.
DfOorceS in Indiana.

The state statistican of Indiana has
done an important service of sociology
by compiling the statistics Of mar
riages and divorces throughout the
entire state. If the same work could
be done, and done as thoroughly, in
every other state a more exhaustive
study of the divorce question would be
possible, and the needs of uniform
legislation would be more apparent.
The reports of the statistician show
that during the year ending June 80.
1901, the total number Of marriages
in the state was 24,O07, and the total
number of divorces granted was 1909.
or about 10 per cent. Undoubtedly
some of these divorces have been
granted, but it is extremely doubtful
whether such a large percentage of
marriages as this should have been
annulled. Other statistics are also of
interest. The divorces granted to
wives were 1867, to husbands $50, and
this is about the proportions in other
states. 1t does not follow from this
that women are more prone to rush
into the divorce courts than men. The
causes explain the numerical differ
ence. OF the total Q,967) divorces
granted to wives 1872 were for abando
ment by husbands and 901 for cruel
treatment by them. These are suffi-
cient causes and explain the appar-
emily large proportion of wives seek
ing divorce.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

the cultivated potato differs from the
wild in seldom producing seed bearing
fruits.
The edible portion of the potato is
made up of 1873 per cent water, 90 per
cent protein (total heterogeneous mat
teri, OIL per cent is made up of crude
fiber and materials which in some Of
their notifications constitute the cell
walls of plants and give them rigid
structure. These figures, like others
for composition of food materials, rep
resent general averages, from which
there are wide variations in individual
specimens. Though the skin, cortical
layer, and flesh differ somewhat in
composition. they all resemble more
or less closely that of the whole tuber.
When potatoes are stored they I'M
dergo shrinkage. According to tests
made at the Michigan agricultural ex-
pertinent station this amounted to
11.5 per cent when they were kept IN
storage from Sept. 80 to May l. This
shrinkage is probably due to the loss
of water by evaporation.
To obtain the highest food value po-
tatoes should not be peeled before
cooking. When potatoes are peeled
before cooking and placed directly in
hot water and boiled rapidly less loss
of material is sustained than when
they are cooked in water cold at the
start. The wholesomeness of potatoes
cooked in different ways is largely a
matter which each must decide for
himself, the general experience being
that for men in health most of the
methods followed are satisfactory.
Although under ordinary circum-
stances potatoes are unquestionably a
wholesome food for most persons, i'll
ness is sometimes caused by eating
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

can afford to offer purse of 10000
for the match and quit winners.
The prospects look very good as
they now stand, but it is a question
whether or not Jeffries and Rubin will
care to fight in Savannah. They got
more than they bargained for when
they went to Cincinnati last February,
after they had been promised that
there would be no interference with
the contest.
They were not only arrested and
kept in suspense during the last week
or SO while they were in training
when the injunction proceedings were
gstng on, but on top of it all Gov.
Nash threatened to send regiment
of soldiers to the ringside to prevent
the fight if necessary. It is no won
der now that they will not take
chances of fighting where there is
liable to be interference from the city,
county or state authorities. Jeffries
and Rubin will want a guarantee that
their contest can be pulled off with the
sanction of every man in the state
who has the authority to prevent such
contest
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

Uncle Sam has been prying into the
inner life of the humble potato and
after a most thorough and rigid in
vestigation declares in the year book
OF the Department of Agriculture that
the potato is a deserving and ex-
tremeiy valuable member of the com
munity. Just at this time when the
country is in the throes of potato
famine. the deductions of Uncle Sam
will be of special interest.
Scientific investigation on the part
of the government has shown that the
practice. which has become so general
OF serving potatoes with meat and
other similar foods which contain lib
eral amounts OF protein is based upon
correct principles, one food supplying
the deficiencies OF the other. Potatoes
and other foods containing carbo-
hydrates are sometimes objected to on
the ground that they are starchy foods
and do not supply much heterogeneous
material. 1t should be remembered
however, that the potato does contain
by no means inconsiderable amount
of protein, and further that carbo-
hydrates are an essential part Of a
well regulated diet.
The potato called in different regions
white potato, Irish potato. English po-
tato. or round potato was first intro
1uced into Europe between 1880 and
1886 by the Spaniards, and afterwards
by the English about the time of Ra-
ieigh's voyages to Virginia 1t is COM
monty believed to be native of Chile.
wild potato plants closely resembling
those cultivated today are still found
there, though 1t is a fact worthy of
mention that. as the potato has been
modified by cultivation. 1t has largely
lost the power of producing seeds, and
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
! Current Topics
Cbicado's Police scandal.


Astounding revelations of the mis-
conduct of the police force OF Chicago
continue to amaze the public. 1t was
generally suspected that the depart
ment, through some of its commanding
officers, is a patron of the criminal
classes, shielding them from prosecu-
ton in return for money or political
assistance. This was dignified and
honorable business compared with the
position in which the most recent
charges have placed the department,
1t figures now not as the protector, but
as the tool of criminals The accusa-
ton is made by one of the societies for
the prevention of crime that when a
raid of poolroom owners commune
Gated with police captains and SER
geants over the police telephone, which
had been kindly placed at the disposal
of the runners, and the captains and
sergeants forthwith sent out men from
the stations to warn the criminals.
This is in some respects the worst
charge that has been made against
the department. Not only does it con-
nive at crime, but it devotes its ener-
gies to a systematic defeat of the pro-
cesses of the court. 1t is apparent
from the manner of the men under
suspicion that they are in no terror
of punishment, and will be in none
until the sustaining political power
behind them, which would compel
them to protect vice and crime even
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
OLD SPORTS SAD END.

Warren Lewis, who committed sui
eide by jumping from a steamer into
Long Island sound not long ago, was
an old-time sporting man and promi-
nent hacker of pugilists. He was 55
years old and was born in Ithaca, N.
Y. For fifteen years he had been in
terested in prize fighting He brought
out Jack Dempsey and took Jim Hall
to England. He backed Corbett when
he won the championship from John
l.. Sullivan, and five years ago was
worth 100000. Since the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight in Nevada his
money has been gradually Slipping
away. He was engaged in several
business enterprises. bat the tide had
set against him. Heart broken be-
cause OF his failures. he took his life.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

man who can beat him. The muscles
act in obedience to impulses received
from the brain. 1t is the nervous men,
tai force stored up in the Irish race
that makes the Irish dominant in GER
tain lines Of athletic as in certain
mental lines. The refined mental force
which makes a mental giant of a
Burke, or a Fox, or a Dillon, is dis
played in crude form in the energy OF
John L. Sullivan or Of McGovern. The
small spot of the earth's surface called
Ireland has probably contributed to
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

The bookkecper is on the topogga n
slide. The advance in labor-savipg
machinery has finally reached his
sphere and warned him that he mt@t
seek other occupation The latest piece
OF mechanism to invade the larger
cities consists of machines which dis
pense with bookkeepers in large es-
Establishments and perform their labor
through the medium of an operator
and typewriter. One Of the machines
in an ordinary establishment does
away with the labor of two men; an
other dispensing with the labor Of
eight men.
The first machine, under the direc-
ton of an ordinary typewritist, makes
out bill, copies the invoice perma-
nently in book, and makes a perma-
nent sales sheet copy The work is
all done In typewriting and in perma-
nent books The second machine
makes a sales copy, an original, du-
plicate and triplicate bill of lading,
a platform order, factory shipping
order. bag-room order, loading or
der and car card Still third ma
chine, OF which Marshall Field has
taken thirty, makes one bill month
adding the items day by day, record
ing the date and salesman's number by
a lock arrangement which makes it
impossible for the operator to enter a
series of items without dating the
same and entering the salesman's
number, enters all credits in red ink.
and carries 1900 accounts at one time.
A Tennessee bank cashier is respon-
slble for the invention Of these ma
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
Famous Pearl Necklace.

A jewelry firm of London are now
the fortunate possessors Of the mag
nificent six-row pearl necklace, sold
for 100000 ($1OO,OOO) recently at
Christie, the property of a French
lady of rank, and sold for the pur-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

Several colonies of stingless bees
have been discovered in the ISL
and Of Montserrat. in the West In
dies. Efforts are being made to in
troduce them in this country, as their
honey producing qualities are fully
equal to those of the common variety
II bee.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31
A BOOKKEEPING TYPEWRITER.

chimes. His name is Fisher, and he
lives at Athens. Some years ago, look
ing through postoffice window, he
noted clerk cancelling stamps with
a hand stamp. He wondered why the
same work could not be done by ma
chinery. From that point his thoughts
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

Even in the hottest weather the
house painter may have to put on an
overcoat
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-12-31

1t is within each one of us-this In
ner Temple.