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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-04
DOLE GETS DIVORCE.

HONOLULU. Feb. 4.-Attorney
General Dole was today granted a
divorce on the grounds of extreme
cruelty.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-04

The Fraternal Brotherhood held a
well attended regular meeting al
their hall last evening and. after mi
tiating 16 new members, proceeded
to enjoy a spread.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-04

YOUNG RAY IN HOSPITAL.
Johnnie Ray. one of the three boys
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-04
BUSY PEOPLE:

BUSY PEOPLE;
instruction at the Walton School of
Expression will reward you with
strong eyes. full. melodious voices.
clear, active brains and magnetic
personality. The catalogue will tell
you about II. Leo Walton. director.
Auditorium block, Spokane. Wash.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-02-04

Except Sunday.
cisco Portland route. Steamers Baii
from Ainsworth dock. Portland. at 8
p. m. every five days.
GEO. J. MOHLER, Gen. Agt.,
$50 Riverside Ave, Spokane. Wash
Telephone Main 152
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

For a good many years a large
and healthy class, known to itself as
substantial citizens, which means
men of property, has been pining
for and bowling for business men
and business methods in politics.
"Give US business administration" n"
has been a cry to conjure with.
THE TRIBUNE believes that in the
early stages of the fad, it was NOV
ed to feebly echo the business man
crv, but we don't recall ever hav-
ing lifted up our voice with a great
noise. Fact is, we always had our
doubts about the overmasterlng
virtue and felicity of business meth
DDS. The controlling principle OF
business mans life is to get money
and keep it, and his whole being IS
absorbed in devising schemes tor
getting it. It never quite seemed
to US that such principle and
such training peculiarly qualified
men for the administration of pub
lie affairs. 1t is argued that a man
of business ability and training
will naturally be economical,
Naturally he will, in respect o.
his own money, but there isn't any
naturally about it when it comes to
expending other mems money
The stingiest cuss we ever knew
would blow in his best friends al
day if they would stand it.
We believe it will be conceded
that the application of business
methods to public affairs has beer
more prolific of private fortune
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

Samoan and friendly Filipino in
the land. Morever, it would be
a nice thing for J. P. Morgan, ct al
because they would own and run the
whole business. This is correct IL
lustration of the economical tenden-
cies of business methods. You
put a good business man r. office
and straight way his mind goes to
working on economical schemes
for throwing all the rest out of of .
fee and leaving the management to
himself alone. To him it seems
most unbusiness like to let four or
five people hold jobs and get salar-
les which he could, by virtue OF
his business ability and strenuosity,
manage to take care of himself, es
pecially the salaries.
Naturally, the business man seek:
to accomplish things in the mos
economical way, to the end tina
the direct benefits shall flow tt
himself. If the public be inciden
tally benefited he will not complain
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21
TENDENCY OF
BUSINESS METHODS

than public blessings. Put into
control of a growing, young city
coterie of business men, and in less
than year they will have secured
to themselves every public contract,
every profitable privilege and every
valuable franchise in the place.
When you examine into it, you
will find that all the great big pub
lie gratis have been worked by
men with a good head for business.
The biggest grafters in the world
are the superior business men.
Look at the Rockefellers, the Carne-
gies, the Morgans and the Schwahs.
Are not they the best business
menin the country? Doesn't t every
young man and young women,
when entering upon a business
career, take them for models? Now,
what would happen if those model
business men should get politiCa
control? In less than a week they
would devise a scheme of consoli
dation for wiping out every last city
county and State government
annihilating congress and erasins
the courts. Then they would g
over to New Jersey and reincorpor
ate under that scheme, publish
prospectus, and proceed to selling
stocks in the Consolidated Republi
of America, Limited. Try to cal
cu1ate the economical advantage c
it. 1t would save, at least, 4 biI
lions of dollars a year, that woul
be $40 to every man, women an
child, Indian, Sandwich ISLANDER
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

and may even evince a degree OF
qualification, provided the benefit
is of such a nature that the most
careful business management could
not prevent it.
Business men, in politics, do not
very generally descend to actual
pilfering in fees. That is not con-
sidered businesslike. What is the
use of stealing dollar when the
same amount of energy and sagaci-
ty, required to get the dollar, will,
if directed by sound business prin-
ciples, get hundred dollars, and
legislatures, courts and municipal
councils afford a rich field for the
exercise of legitimate business
methods. There are things to be
had in those quarters worth the
! having. But, why elaborate?
The inquiring mind may in these
few hints find much food for re-
Election. 1t must be understood
that we are only pointing out the
tendency Of business methods not
characterizing all business men. A
good many of them are not strictly
methodical, and some do not wor-
ship the orthodox business FETCH
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

mons which confront the people
under the Ridenbaugh, what is a
priority worth, anyway? It seems
10 US that the thing for the people
tnere to DO is that which the people
unoer the Phyllis and Caldwell did,
namely, waive the whole unsub-
stantial fabric of priorities, get in
and build canal large enough for
everybody and trust to God and the
BOISE river until the construction of
reservoirs is clearly indicated. I'm
der no circumstance should priori-
ties be carried into the District
organization They will be a con.
stant source of irritation, DESTROYING
that community amity so essential
to the successful management of an
enterprise founded upon community
interests. Where individuals reallv
have equities in the shape of priori-
ties those should be purchased out
right to the end that all lands within
the District shall stand equal, and
the cost of these equities should be
deducted from the price paid for the
canal, Let people beware what
obligations they assume when they
take over irrigation canals. Also
let them beware of trusting to the
goodness of heart of canal com
panies. The goodness of heart is
altogether alive pending the organ
ization of the District, but it withers
and dies with the judicial decree
that binds the organization.
Mr.. McElroy argues that after
organization the advantage will be
on the side of the District, and the
canal company can be. forced tc
reasonable terms. The gentleman
is lacking either in knowledge OF
sincerity. The plans of the District
will necessarily involve the purchase
of the Ridenbaugh canal, and or
ganization will have been in vain i
that canal is not purchased. Hence
it is seen how vitality important i
is to arrange all the terms of pur
chase before the fact of organiza
ton. The people of the Pionee
Irrigation District fell into exactly
the trap into which Mr.. McElroy
would lead the people under tn
Ridenbaugh, and it cost them no
less than $4,000, and some of u
shrewdly suspect where that money
went to.
Mr.. McElroy tentatively propose
to assess $50, 900, or three ffths
of the cost of the canal to the land
now receiving water, and $Ioo, ,ooo
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

two fifth, to lands not now receiv-
ing water. Some things are to be
considered in connection with that
idea. The prior rights people own
ing the $4,000 acres Of land now
receiving water, if their rights are
to be accounted of any value, must
be presumed to have the means of
conveying the water to the land,
for water right without the ability
to conduct the water to the point of
usage is certainly most unsubstan'
tial thing and as value1ess as the
abstract of an abstraction. So,
acknowledgment OF the priorities
carries with it acknowledgment of
possession of the means Of conduct,
therefore, upon what principle of
justice will you assess the owners
of the $4,000 acres of land to
pay for that which they already
have? In the case under consider
alton, the prior rights people do
! not, in physical sense, own the
canal, but they rest upon the prop
osition that they can compel the
actual owner to convey the water
to them through the canal, which,
for all practical purposes, amounts
to ownership in so far as having a
means of conduct is concerned.
This raises the question, Why
should those owning priorities be
favorable to District organization?
That is exactly the question which
the promoters of the District must
be able to satisfactorily answer.
We believe they can do it. 1t is
not for us to attempt it here, ou,
purpose being only to examine the
subject in general way. But this
much we will venture to suggest
All priorities should be extin.
guished before organization. II
this can not be done, then it were
better to organize on lines intended
to exclude all lands to which prior.
tiles attach. If all the cost of en-.
largement must fall upon new lands,
and no advantage is gained in the
matter of equal adjustment o.
water rights, why include within
the district the disquieting and irri.
tating question of priorities? The
law empowers the owners of the
$4,000 acres to go ahead AMI en-
large the Ridenbaugh canal to g
size sufficient to accommodate what
ever water they may have, then.
why not go ahead and do it? There
will be no more conflict between
separate ownerships than among
numerous priorities.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21
STILL WE
WANT WATER
Our Congressional Delega-
.: ton is Addressed

To the Idaho Delegation in Congress,
Senators and Representative, Dis
ttmgufshed and Honorable Gentle
men, .SirS::
The President, and the Secretary
of the Interior have been each and
severally addressed touching a
matter Of great import to your be-
loved State in the arid portion
thereof, with view to attracting
their honorable attention, and now,
perforce, your distinguished body
is appealed to. 1t has come to the
knowledge of your faithful and ad-
miring constituency, in the arid
zone, that Idaho's, Reclamation
Fund has attained respectable, it
might be said magnificent, proper
tions, but the knowledge does not
thrill. The heart of Idaho is not
made glad, the pulse throb is not
joyously quickened. In the solemn
language of mixed metaphor, there
is a screw loose somewhere; your
constituency smells rat; it is
floating in the air and ought to be
nipped in the bud. There is mig
ger in the wood pile, and stitch
in time saves nine.
Your faithful constituency is be-
ginning to feel that the accumula-
ton of the Reclamation Fund is a
matter which but vaguely and re-
motely concerns them. They are
coming to look upon it as an en-
dowment removed many centuries
henceforward into the mystic lap Of
futurity-the heritageo OF generations
unborn-the patrimony of vital
sparks which have yet scarce begun
the evolutionary journey from the
caverns of space unto the bowels
of posterity. 1t pains your
arid constituents to feel that
they are looked down upon by the
proud and humid East as the lega-
tees of Nations generosity, when
they know to a confounded certainty
that, things going as they are, they
will never see a dollar of the legacy,
nor will their children, nor their
children's children, except, per-
chance, it percolates down to them
through the fingers of an Eastern
bred civil engineer in need of pair
of sox or a tooth brush.
Distinguished and honorable mem
bers, we want you to do something
and we don't want it done in cycles
and geological periods. If the Rec
lamation Fund is to be worked uE
into hydro-annuities for the aquatic
end of the u. S. Geological
Survey, we would like to know il
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

Immediately, in order that our
minds may be relieved from the
burden of contemplating it. The
agony of suspense is more painful
than any possible catastrophe. We
wish you would go around and see
Mr.. Hitchcock and ask him if he
has any idea of what he intends
shall become of the Idaho Reclama-
ton Fund. Maybe he has thought
about it. You can't tell till you
ask him. He may actually be plan
ming to have something left over,
after paying for engineering, with
which to do business. What we
want you to do, if that should be
his plan, is to persuade him not to
spend any of the residue in print
ing Reports for Idaho, and, if
you cannot prevail upon him to de-
sist, we want to warn you against
becoming accessories after the fact
by sending those reports" out
here. We have had all the reports
we can stomach. We are troubled
more with undigested reports than
Wall Street is with undigested Sc
curities. The air is thick with re-
ports. Some have recently come
from engineering corpses in the
field and they smell bad. Maybe
because we misspelled them-not
the smell; the corpses. They, the
reports and the corpses, are redolent
of jobs-life long jobs, and jobs
like a Mormon sealing, for time
and eternity. We would like you
to see about this.
1t has just this minute occurred
to US that if nothing is to be
done in Idaho under the Recla-
nation Act for the next five or
six thousand years, except run
surveys and write reports, it is
downright cruelty to keep the poor
engineers out on Minidoka plain in
the hot sun and cold wind all the
time. The next fifteen or twenty
generations Of them might just as
we'll be detailed to the Payette Lakes
or the National Park in summer
and to California or Florida irwin
ter. The people of Idaho wouldn't
mind it a bit. They amt small
about thing like that. They relish
Joke, and if it is nice large joke
that can be seen across a Io-acre
field they actually dote on it.
We hope, gentlemen, you will
intercede on behalf of the engineers,
and, if convenient, put us on the
force. We need longtime recre-
alton with annuity attachment the
worse kind and could do the busi-
[ ness full Justice with one eye shut.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-11-21

Mr. HughL McElroy has contrib
rted an able article to the Nampa
eader favoring the organization of
~ irrigation District under the Rid
enbaugh.
In the article. he discusses
he question OF what is COM
monlv called priorities, or the
water rights which inure to iudi-
viduals by virtue of being first in
time of appropriation. This ques-
tiop should be examined with a
view to ascertaining the foundation
upon which prior rights rest as well
ssthe character of the rights and
what they actually warrant.
In dealing with the water ques-
ton, the State constitution wisely
dedicates all the waters of the State
to public uses. If anything is
meant by that, it means that such
disposition shall be made of the
water as will produce the greatest
public good. Fundamentally, all,
soealled, water rights are held sub
jeCt to and subservient to the gen.
1sl veal. Then a private or indi-
Vidual priority vests in the holder
only such right as may be consistent
with, and promotive of, public good.
In other words, a priority which
operates to the injury, or not to the
advantage, of the public, however
much 1t benefits the individual,
cannot be maintained under the
constitution. The constitution clear
ly distinguishes water rights from
all classes Of property rights. The
Individual owner of a horse may
turn him to pasture, through life,
and the law will not interfere. He
may build house and leave it to
decay without occupant, and the
law will not object; he may permit
his land to lie fallow for 20 years,
and the State will not complain,
nor in either case is his title in the
least vitiated. But with water it is
altogether different, for the moment
Que tails to use it, or applies it tc
any but beneficial purpose, his
utle is destroyed and the water be-
comes public property. The Law
Will 60 even farther and absolutely
prescribe, not only what is a bene
AclaI purpose, but the quantity O
water which in a given case may
Oe used; and this with good reason
lot water is valuable public utility
ano Its wasteful or extravagant us'
"nStltutes public loss.
Its, therefore, clear that absolut,
ownership of water, in proprietar,
'euSe' does not exist. Neither doe
absolute right to its use exist, a
.ne night to use it is at all times sub
Fe1 to such regulations as publ
advantage may indicate. Henc
.uy and every form of water RICH
% !" the nature of a temporar
S.ant' from the State to the ind
Houal' '. which may be modified G
u'SsolVed whenever the public wes
4ulres it. 1t may thus be see
'ua' ' the value, or indeed, the actr
sN'y' OF a water right does not S
much depend on priority as on til
"@y In which the public welfare
anected' AS between individual
"nen public interests are ne
"0cned' priority may he and ge,
uallY is determining factor.
~ N0w' we may consider this que
: Ou OF priority rights in its relatic
S the people claiming prioriti,
ra; Suoer the Ridenbaugh canal. II
fUp'e there, according to Mr.. M
n0y, who are opposing Distri
san'zat'on are doing it upon tt
''uno that such organizatic
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-08-22
FOUND GUILTY.
Jett and white Convicted of Murder
Of rcum-Penalty for Each,
Life mprisOnmcnt.

Cynthiana, KY, Aug. 15.-The jury In
the case of Curtis Jett and Thomas
White, charged with the assassination
Of James B. Marcum, at Jackson, Ky.
Friday morning returned a verdict OF
guilty fixing the punishment on each
life Imprisonment. The verdict was re.
turned at time when there we're but
few persons In the courtroom. The only
attorney present was County Attorney
Webster. Jet received the verdict with
comparative Indifference and calmness
White, who has been apparently under
severe strain during the trial, flushed up
and his eyes filled with tears. Attorney
Golden, for the defense, stated that mo-
ton for new trial would be made as
soon as possible. The general opinion
seems to be that the motion will be
overruled by the court and that 1t will
then go to the court of appeals. The
verdict occasioned little surprise here
after the elaboration OF the jury had
been so prolonged. The only question
which caused the delay, It is said. was
that Of punishment, death or life i'm
prisonment. The verdict on the whole
Is regarded as a victory for the defense
as the prosecution asked that no middle
ground be taken and that the men either
go acquitted or be hanged.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-08-22
DUE TO AN OPEN SWITCH.
Pennsylvania Train Wrecked at Van
Vert, O.-Engineer Killed
Fifteen Injured.

Van Vert, o., Aug. 15.-Fifteen min
utes late and running at the rate of IS
miles an hour, the limited New York ex-
press on the Pennsylvania road ran into
an open switch at the Burt street cross
ing late Friday afternoon. The engineer
was instantly killed, the fireman fatally
injured, while IA others were more or
less seriously injured.
The dead man Is Charles b. Eaton, OF
Fort Wayne, crushed beneath his en-
CINE.
The train consisted of a mail car.
baggage car, combination express and
baggage car, two day coaches and
dining car, in addition to three Pullman
coaches. When the engine entered the
switch 1t first struck fat car. going
clear over It, The first mail car In turn
climbed over the engine and was fol-
owed by the other three cars, all OF
which were reduced to kindling wood.
The rear cars remained upon the track.
It is presumed that Engineer Eaton saw
the open switch, as the steam was al
forwards found shut of in his engine
and the sand had been applied. All the
injured were removed to their homes
on various trains. II is not definitely
known how the switch came to be open
but 1t is thought that the crew Of a loca,
freight which had been switching there
a short time before accidentally failed
to close the switch.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-08-22
NEW VICEROYALTY.
Established by Ukass of Car of Rus
sia-Combines Amar and kwan-
Tung DlLtricts.

st. Petersburg, Aug. IA new vice.
royalty, comprising the Amur district
and the Kwan-Tung province (created
August, 1S99), mas been established.
Heretofore the Amur district has been
controlled by Il governor general.
A ukase signed by the car and pro-
mulgated August II appoints Vice Adj
miral Alexi.ff, aide-de-camp general to
the czar, as viceroy OF this far eastern
territory. He will be vested with SUI
preme authority in all the branches of
the civil administration the direction of
which will no longer be in the hands
of the ministries. 1t will be the viceroy's
duty TO maintain order and insure
safety in the district traversed by the
eastern Chinese railway, as we'll as to
watch over the needs of the Russian in
habitants. both within and without the
Russian possessions bordering on the
territory under his jurisdiction.
London, Aug. IA press correspond
eLt learns on high Russian authority
that the establishment Of viceroyalty
>gf the Amur district and KwanTung
province will not affect the evacuation
of Manchuria In October.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-08-22
NEW POPE is CROWNED.
Vast Multitude Witnesses the MnG-
niAcent Ceremony at
st. Peters.

Rome, Aug. 10.-The ceremony Of the
coronation of Pope Plus x. took place
Sunday In the basilica of st. Peters in
the presence of the princes and high
dignitaries of the church, diplomats and
Roman mobiles, and with all the solem-
nifty and splendor associated with this.
the most magnificent rite in the Roman
Catholic church.
AS Cardinal Macchi, the dean OF the
cardinal-deacons, placed the triple
crown on the head Of the venerable pom
tiff the throng of 10000 persons gath
cred within the cathedral burst into
unrestrained acclamations, the choir
intoned a hymn Of triumph and the
bells of Rome rang out joyful peal.
Pope Plus was quite overcome and had
scarcely strength left to impart the apos-
tolic benediction. Cardinals Macchi and
Segna granted a plenary indulgence to
all present.
Rome, Aug. 12.-Just a week has
elapsed since the election of Plus X, and
he has been already overcome by the
unaccustomed strain of his pontifical
duties Tuesday morning he tainted
while at mass. His collapse is consid-
cred to be due to heart weakness, aggra-
waited by fatigue. 1t constitutes the first
victory of his encourage, which has in
sisted that he should take the change
from his previous life less strenuously.
Even though he disappoint some peo-
pie. they urge him not to concede audi
ences to all corners and to render him
self less accessible. DR.. Lapponi sup
ported this view and recommended the
pope to take a complete rest. The doc
tor has ordered all audiences postponed.