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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-08-08

Mary H0ag, services as 1anitOr at court ~ m
whGGS oSnses Timber I'M Co. coal for poor. SSS
las M HlfchinSOn treas. salary .,,,,.... 1875 %
Commercial Bank, assign. d accounts. 49,. 80 81
August AuKamp, special night watch, jail 10 G0
VIC MaXey, county physician II days. oo
Robert Taylor. constable. "a 80, d1SalloW-
ed, not properly verified.
Robert Taylor, constable, $50. 90 dissalloW-
ed, MS authority shown.
Boone, assigned accounts ............. 4OQ 50
r X Tittie. nlfSe for iaiI,,,,.,,......... 220
GeorSe Hunt. labos Oh Poor Farm .... 10 90
X Wnny instIee M khe neace fees..,t.... 8 so
d Is Oam,bell. livery hire ...,..,......... AZ %
George dardner, constable. disaIlowed :. On
eL GSSas s'q SUPPLIES Tor pest house at
JH Merritt, mdse for county. .......,.. - 25
DR. j Meyers, county physician, services 1871 %
Central Lumber CO. mdse for poor farm
w + Loder, services under county physi- - -
Deiano, salary us coroner, list Or.
disallowed $40. 90, allowed. % 20
allowed $io 90, allowed ............... 26 90
L Payne, labor on poor farm. ........... GO
Carl Manghmer, Justice OF the peace,
East Nampa pr sS,f,sa laid over on
CaIdwsll Power CO. electric light for Or. 10 90
RH Stockton, supplies furnished poor. % 80
= II Orocker CO Book typewriter and - =,
DIR SHHpRgff sham examination Of two In ~ ~
Or s Js Meyer, examination Of two In :. =,
Noyey BROS and Cutler, mdse for county ., .,
G,aERs ay 4 RSndhomme mdse. disaiowed o
a. %. allowed Observation-Disclosures. "a 81
&C Lewis, livery Observation-Disclosures. go
Jas NJ Hutchinson, labor. II q
I'm motion adjourned until July 16
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-08-08

Caldwell, Idaho, July Ia, lSu3.
The Board of county commissioners
of Canyon County, State of Idaho, met
ut 8 o'clock a. IN. pursuant to adjourn
ment from yesterday.
Ali members Of the board being
present when the following proceed
ings were had:
On motion IL is herbey ordered that
the taxes for the year 1896 on lots II
and 18 of Block % Of Nampa, Canyon
County, Idaho, assessed and sold 10
the name of &. K. Wentworth, be
cancelled, and the Auditor and
Assessor are authorized to cancel the
name on the records of said sale in
their respective offices.
The following bills were read and
passed upon and warrants ordered
drawn ON the current expense fund for
the amounts allowed:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1903-08-08

On motion the following bills were
read and passed upon and warrants
ordered drawn on the Bounty Fund
for the amounts allowed:
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

fully worked out, and at times ono
might almost have imagined that a full
orchestra was performing. Another
very attractive number was the ladies'
Spinning Chorus from "The Flving
DutchmAn." This was as fine a niece
or chorus work as has been heard in
savannah. All of the vocalists on tba
programme were in good voice and the
concerted work was especially pleas
ing Mr.. Sundheimer has never been
heard to better advantage than in the
Wolfram Recitative and Romance from
Iannhauser," and the Rigoletto
Quartette. which closed the pro-
gramme, has probably never been sung
better In this city, except on the oc-
casion of Scalchi's appearance here
some eight years ago. Miss Addie Nav
Gibson's performance of the LISTS
lie Carnival de Pesth," displayed in
TINS young pianist power of tone with
a delicacy of touch rarely found in a
pianist of wide experience. Miss CHI
son is but barely past IA years of age.
and her technique and phrasing would
nave done credit to one many years
her senior Her presence at the piano
is easy and graceful, and she PLAYS
with firm, crisp tone. She has the
making of a fine pianist, and a brill
liant career ought to be ahead of her.
such programme as this would have
done credit to the May concerts of the
club of the past, but was only in keep
ing with the standard of the BRO
grammes of the regular meetings of the
club during this season just closing.
Among the Savannahians who have
gone to reside in New York, the recog-
nized musical center of America. Mr..
John r. Rebarer, the youngest of them
all has made the best progress for the
length OF time of his residence there.
-Four years ago he left Savannah TO
take up a course Of piano study at the
virgil Clavier School in New York
city. At the end of three years his
application and progress had been such
that he was honored wish an appoint
ment TO the faculty Of the school He
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
AS to the White EIenhant.

From the Bibliotheque UniverselIe.
The white elephant, as is not perhaps
universally known, is not white at all
only a lighter hue than his fellows, his
hide being light or reddish gray. A
perfect specimen should have pink eyes
with yellow iris, hide of a light brown
ish red, and the interior of his ears and
trunk, as well as his nails, should be
white, and his hair red. But Europeans
are unjust in attributing the epithet
white" to oriental exaggeration, as the
error is that of translators having an
imperfect knowledge of the fine points
of Eastern vernaculars. The truth is
that the term of white elephant does
not exactly translate the Siamese or
Burmese word which indicates the color
OF the animal. In Burmese, for in
stance, they say sin pyu, sin meaning
elephant. But pyu, although meaning
white, has also other acceptations-
such as gray, light, less dark. 1t is
used to characterize the lighter com
plexion of a native woman less dusky
than her countrywomen without being
even remotely to be COMPOUNDED with
Caucasian. Besides, the Burmese often
use the expression sin nee, meaning red
elephant. In Siamese the animal is
called chang pueuk, which formerly
meant white or light, is now only used
in the sense of albino. Thus we see
that the native expressions are errone-
ously translated by white elephant; the
correct term would be light elephant.
According to the Buddhist legend, be-
fore assuming the human form of eau
tama, the founder of Buddhism, Budd-
ha lived in the form of white ele-
plant; so, in all probability, the pres
tige of 1.-THE white elephant dated much
further back than Buddhism else he
would not have been chosen as the pre-
cursor of Gautama. Indeed, the ele-
plant had his place in the Indian PAN
theon' since the most remote periods.
Indra was always represented as
on an elephant, who shared in
his divinity; and in the ancient worship
of the sun the white elephant and the
white horse were considered emblems
of the sun himself
The true country Of the white ele-
plant is Indo-China. There his pres
tige has been longest maintained. There
the proudest orders of knighthood bear
his image on their regalia; there he stu
majestically represents the national an
tiquity and glory on the royal banner.
The travellers who visited Siam and the
neighboring regions in the sixteenth
century bear witness to this veneraton
In many passages. When the TroJans
were fighting because of a woman
many orientals waged war to gain
white elephant, and even about l65O
there was a continual strife between the
Siamese and the King of Pegu because
Of seven white elephants the latter eoY-
eted.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

planted in rows, and twenty-five feet
apart from one another. A San Fran
ciscan, who is heavily interested in
copra raising is J. Lamb Doty, vice
consul and later consul at Tahiti for
fourteen years. He has a tract of
about two hundred acres of shore land
about two and a half miles from Pa
peete, the capital of French Oceanica.
He has about fifty acres planted with
$500 cocoanut trees. half of them
already in bearing. The remainder of
the plantation will be similarly inn
proved.
The trees being widely separated,
opportunity is offered for the culture
of bananas and pineapples as an I'M
dergrowth. Comparatively little labor
is required for the purposes of the
plantation. Mr.. Doty is obliged to
employ only three natives, and even
that force would not be fully worked
were it not for the single detrimental
factor in cocoanut raising at Tahiti.
1t appears that many years ago some
body in the States sent to the island
a specimen of the ornamental plant
called lantana, which in this country
is grown in lighthouses, supposng that
it would add to the beauty of the gar
dens. AS a matter of fact, it acted
like the rabbits in Australia, and took
possession OF the territory, running all
over the ground and massing itself
in lofty and impenetrable punches of
jungle. 1t is a rough and thorny
creeper and makes life miserable to
the barefooted natives, thus rendering
IT difficult and arduous for them to
gather the cocoanuts. But unrelenting
war for several years has been waged
against the invader, and Mr.. Doty
thinks that before long lantana will
succomb and retire from business.
Otherwise, he says, cocoanut farming
is without appreciable drawbacks, I'M
less a cyclone should happen to dam
age the groves. Aside from that, you
do the planting and in seven years
the trees will begin and continue to
do the rest for at least a couple OF
generations. At least they nearly will,
because a single laborer can take COM
plete care Of one thousand trees with
out particular exertion. What a joy
such a pursuit would be to some of the
hardworked husbandmen of New Eng
land, whose farms produce cobble-
stones as their only certain crop.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

Ponciana Hotel-Messrs. Connerat and
Clarke.
Musical Director of the Ponce de
Leon Orchestra-Mr. Howard A. Win
burn.
Drum Majors-Master Hanlon and
Sickel
Vocal selections, opening choru-(a)
II want to be a Military Man." (b)
my Honolulu Queen" (c) "Oh Mr..
Noon" Cd THE Order of the Golden
Key" by the company.
Oats de Way to Spell Chicken" Mr..
Sickel.
mo One but YOU" (Bowers) Mr..
Fowler.
Then I'd be Satisfied With Life, "
Mr.. Morrisey
my Evening Star" Master Carter
Darrow.
Eva" Messrs. Connerat and Clarke.
MY Mississippi Sue Mid the Pines
OF Old Forsyth" Mr.. Banks.
Ding-aLing-D Ding" Mr. Clarke.
The Song of the Light House Bell
Mr.. McCardle.
Dat Lady With the Rag Time
Walk Messrs. Connerat and Everett.
MY Carolina, Caroline" BY the
Company.
THE Coming Doc Ouigley," Master
Regnial Futch.
In the Rhymed story of "Perdita"
"a Statuesque Poem in Costume)
Mrs. Claudia Hazen White.
The Original Master Preston Ever
ett The South's favorite song and
dance comedian.
Masters Silva, Hoynes and Bridges,
in their celebrated acrobatic feats.
A few minutes with Master Sammy
Brown, CThe young Primrose).
The closing scene is entitled. plan
tation Pasttime, Introducing Mr..
Banks and Mr.. Hull"
Stars may come and stars may go,
but Sullivan and Mack the
Irish comedians, seem like the pro
verbal brook. to run on forever"
Among the first to enter the field of
Irish comedy, they have kept in line
with the leaders. In their new skit.
1.-THE Irish Pawnbrokels," they have
surrounded themselves with a
company of merit, and have paid at
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

nothing else which was in good form
ten years ago which 1 could not wear
to-day without being badly dressed.
OF course, 1 do not mean fashionably
dressed"
WELL" said the tailor, thoughtfully
probably only tailor would see any
difference in the trousers, and likely
as not you could wear the same sack
coat without being detected by one
man in thousand. The frock-coat
would pass muster, too, and only men
who pay a good deal of attention to
dress would notice that the cutaway
coat, II you had one, was not along
the latest New York lines. GETAWAYS
are not worn much now. OF course,
there has been a great change in the
appearance of overcoats, which to-day
are made loose and flowing, as every
body knows. Still, if your overcoat
was the old-fashioned conventional
sort, without and current kind of
fashion incorporatedSin it's make, you
might wear it and maintain a prosper
Gus look"
Those who keep track of these things
say that the noticeable changes in the
cut of mems clothing are insignificant
within the Fast decade; and that a
business man at the Chicago Worlds
Fair looked very much the same as he
would look to-day. 1t is only the ex-
tremes of styles which would appear
out of place a year hence
But men are better dressed, say the
observers. That is to say, the standard
OF what to wear on certain occasions
has been raised. Fifteen years ago a
wellbred man could attend the theater
IN Boston of an evening, clad in a
business suit, without feeling that he
was doing anything unusual. Ten
years ago, in some of the big Western
cities, evening dress was an uncom-
mon garment, excepting at balls. But
that is changed.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
CoCOANUTs AND COPRA.
Important Articles of Commerce
from south Sea Islands.


From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Cocoanuts and copra, which is the
dried kernal of the fruit, as they come
to the port of San Francisco, are the
results of skill, labor and a consider
able investment in plantations which
are scattered over the Polynesian Is
lands. Our local commerce is mostly
with the islands of French Oceanica,
Tahiti being the assembling and ship
ping market and center. The Philip
pine Islands contain a large number
of wild cocoanut palm groves, dis
tributed along the shores of many of
them, but they have yet to become
commercially important We import a
little copra from Samoa and a few
other outlying insular places, but at
present Tahiti is our principal source
of supply.
Monthly the ships of the Oceanic
Steamship Company bring generous
consignments of fresh nuts and copra
in sacks to San Francisco to be manu-
featured into prepared cocoanut''
and cocoanut oil, most of which is
used in the preparation of fancy toilet
soaps and cocoa butter" Many
trading schooners supplement the
service. Importations of copra at this
port for the year 1901 amounted in
value to S207 ,604, and for the year 1902
TO $2e0,231. The annual expectation of
copra from Tahiti aggregates from
5000 TO 1000 tons, valued at from $50
to $65 a ton. About one-half of the
whole product goes to Europe, the re-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
WITH MUSICIANS
AND MUSICAL PEOPLE.

No more fitting programme for the
last of the regular meetings of the
Music Club this season could have been
arranged than what was given on last
Thursday evening Its selection and
arrangement reflected the highest
credit upon the ability and efforts
of the Programme Committee, Mrs. w.
p. Bailey, Miss Birdie Einstein and
Miss Meta Fretwell, and its successful
performance displayed at once a thor
ough preparation on the part of those
furnishing it. The opening number,
the "Tannhauser" Overture, played on
two pianos by Mrs. Edwin Bacon, Miss
Meta Fretwell, Miss May Won Gundell
and Miss Birdie Einstein, was gener-
ally pronounced the most thoroughly
attractive and enjoyable number ever
heard at the club. All the minute in
tricacies of the composition were care
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

several months, is now in Italy. Her
many friends will regret to learn that
on account of i'll health she has been
compelled to temporarily abandon her
music. Miss Taylor's plans for the tn
ture are now uncertain. She may re-
turn to Savannah next fall, or she may
return to Germany for another year i'll
order to continue her musical studies.
In all of the churches where special
Easter programmes were given last
Sunday, the same music will be repeat
ed to-day, with the exception, proba bly,
of changes in some of the solos.
AS the date approaches for the COM
plimentary benefit concert, which the
amateur members of the Music Club
Orchestra propose to give one week
from next Tuesday, the members of
the orchestra are busy rehearsing and
getting the programme for that even
ing IN shape. The orchestra will ap-
pear four times on the programme, Mr..
A. C. Meyer will play solo, and there
will be several vocal numbers. The
sale of tickets will commence during
this week, and everything points to
splendid success.
The chorus of the Music Club, under
the dictatorship of Miss Emma E. Co
lie" in excellent shape for the May con-
cert. This is the most elaborate work
that the chorus has yet undertaken,
and speaks we'll for the progress that
has been made under Miss Coburn's
able management. On many former
occasions choruses have been formed
in Savannah, but none have ever held
together for any length of time. Under
Miss Coburn the Music Club chorus
was formed in 1899, and has since then
not only held firmly together, but has
continued to grow in numbers each
year. 1t now numbers between fifty
and sixty voices. 1t has twice given
Rossinis Stabat Mater most success
fully has given several chorus num-
bers at various times, and at the two
last annual May concerts has formed
a most prominent and interesting por-
ton of the programme. AT the annual
concert this year it will occupy a more
prominent place even than heretofore,
giving Mendelssohn's "Athalie" as the
entire first half of the programme, ex-
cept the closing number which will be
the War March of the Priests" from
the same work, to be played by the
Music Club Orchestra, under the direc-
torship of Mr.. A. c. Meyer. To pre-
pare this work for the May concert
Miss Coburn and those under her d.
rectorship have worked untiringly, re-
hearsing each week since early in Feb
ruary, and the best and most thorough
choral work in the history of the club
will be heard on that occasion. Com
mencing with next Tuesday evening"
rehearsals will be held at the Lawton
Memorial every Tuesday and Thursday
evening until the May concert.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19
HOW THE FASHIONS IN
MEMS CLOTHES CHANGE.
The Tailor Has n Heart-tO-Heart
Talk With a Hopeful Customer,
to the Lattcr's Relief.


From the New York Mail and Ex-
press.
A man who for one reason or an
other had not worn evening dress for
several years, casually remarked to a
New York tailor the other day that
though his suit had been in storage
long time, it was new when he put
it away and was probably as good as
ever.
That's where men have the advan-
tage of women" he complacently re-
marked. "A good, well-made broad
cloth suit will last a quiet man who
doesn't go out much at least ten
years"
"BroadclothI" said the tailor, trying
not TO grin.
why, yes,'' returned the customer
in surprise. 81 never heard it called
anything else
Then the tailor, who gave a splendid
exhibition of tolerance under the cir
cumstances, explained that broadcloth
was obsolete. True, the material
which had served its purpose for gen.
erations had become so identified in
the minds of older men with the mas
culine evening garment of polite So
ciety that they unconsciously chung to
the term. But broadcloth had been
finally called in about twelve years
ago. and the man who wore it to-day
would be an object of curiousity. AS
for doeskin trousers. which had long
been the invariable accompaniment of
the broadcloth ''swallowtail," no one
wore them nowadays but the second
men" in domestic service
The tailor further explained that
even the material which succeeded
broadcloth had been relegated to limbo
some half dozen years ago. and that
the evening dress-suit of to-day is
made of very fine unfinished worsted
for Younger men. while the older gem
GRAFTON wears the more expensive
crepe.
AT least you viii admit that that
is the one exception said the Gus
TONER somewhat mortified. There is
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

The Vaudeville and Minstrel perfor-
nance Tuesday night for the benefit
of the Uniform Rank knights of
Pythias promises to be a most enjoy
able affair The members of the COM
pany have held weekly rehearsals for
the last month and every thing is
in readiness for a first-class show.
The first scene represents an even
ing in the garden of the hotel Ponce
de Leon. The guests will be dressed
in white suits, white slippers an.
straw hats; the walters in full dress
suits the boy choir in sailor suits with
white sailor hats and white shoes.
The programme is as follows:
Proprietor of Hotel Ponce de Leon,
Mr.. Edwin C, Ryals.
Guests, Messrs. Banks, Fowler Bes-
sellieu, McCardle, Purse, Chandler,
Saussy and Darrow.
Minstrel boy choir, Masters Hunter,
Corbett, Jaudon, Hunt, Vandiver, L.
Falligant, l.. Falligant, C. Simon, L.
Simon. and Bolder.
Waiters-Messrs. Thompson, Hull
Sickel, Morrisey, Logan and Sullivan.
Bell Boy-Mr. Arthur NJ. Robinson.
Visiting walters from the Royal
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

is to-day looked upon as one of the
best opponents of the Virgil Clavier
methods of piano study, and is spok-
en- of as one of the coming pianists of
America. He is already in demand
as solo pianist at public concerts and
recitals, and on Nov. IS last, he was the
soloist at a concert of the Women s
Philharmonic Society of New York.
His programme consisted of Beetho-
ven's sonata op. q. No. 2, Rheinber-
gers "Klene Fuge," Weber's Per
petuum Mobile" and three Chopin
numbers. On the I'd of fast month, as
the soloist at a concert of the Profess
sional Woman's League of New York
he played a Chopin waltz, and two
compositions of MacDowelps ITO a
Wild Rose" and From Wandering
Iceberg" His most recent appearance
was on the 14th of last month when
he played at Carnegie Hall at one of
Francis Fischer Powers musical Sc
ries recitals. On that evening he
opened with Beethoven's Sonata Op. 81,
No. 2, played three Mcdowell num-
bers, and closed the programme with
Rubinstein's D minor concerto with
the orchestral accompaniment played
on a second piano. He has been en-
gagged for an appearance at Karlten-
born's some time during this sum-
mer which is an addition evidence of
his ability. 1t is gratifying to all Sa-
Vannahians to hear of successes like
this coming to fellow townspeople,
and Mr.. Rebarer's success is especial
ly gratifying to Miss Emma e. Coburn,
as it was under her able instruction
that the ground work for his career
was laid. Mr.. Rebarer will probably
return to Savannah late in the sum-
mer for a visit to his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. Z. Rebarer.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-19

During the past few months several
of the local pianists have turned their
attention to the work of accompanying
which is an art to itself, and with ex-
cellent results. Among these are Miss
Birdie Einstein, Miss Meta Fretwell,
Miss Lola Moynello, Miss Rose Putzel,
Miss May Palmer, Mr.. w. S. Blum and
Mr.. James B. Cops. Good accompan-
lists are always in demand everywhere,
and it is a safe statement to make that
in no other city in the South are there
as many persons capable of presiding
at the piano as efficient accompanies
as are to be found in Savannah to-
day.