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The Teton peak-chronicle., 1904-12-15
difficulties IN PROVING UP.
New Regulations to Guard Against
Land Frauds.

..Fverv homesteader is looked
I,ron as a swindler," was remark
Made to the writer early this week.
FThis M arose from the rigid inquiry
Ind procedure which the govern
[nent has adopted to prevent fraud
[,lent entry and appropriation of
rovernment land. Revelations in
fhe Oregon land frauds, which
reach many thousands of acres, and
(which was participated in by those
high in the government service, is
RESPONSIBLE for this searching scru-
|tiny.
While it is only right that ex-
irene care be used to guard against
| frauds, the regulations should not
| he too stringent. Every man who
settles on a piece of sagebrush
LAND, especially if he be without
much means, constructs irrigation
works and reclaims it, must endure
|privations and hardships for a
number Of years, and circumstances
! NAV make it impossible for him to
fully comply with every letter and
detail Of the law. Yet he is
bona hde settler, and one of the
= class for whose particular benefit
the law was framed. Its object is
TO enable the homeless to secure
homes, and it is not probable thai
requirements will be exacted which
will prevent anyone who has showr
good faith from making final proc
and securing title, yet it is nnques
tionably true that the present strict
inquiry and rigid exaction, accord
ing to reports, is embarrassing te
not a few.
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Stands Fourteenth in the State
With Receipts Of $4,6S4.50.

The report of the auditor of the
postoffice department for the fiscal
year ending June 30, places St.
Anthony fourteenth, the thirteen
others outranking her being Boise,
Pocatello, Lewiston. Moscow, Ida
no Falls, Wallace, Weiser, Payette,
Nampa, Blackfoot, Caldwell, Coeur
d'Alene and Grangeville. The
receipts of the St. Anthony office
were $4,684.5O. The receipts OF
the Rexburg office were So, 224. 95.
This is very good showing for a
town that was not large enough tc
have place on the map seven OF
eight years ago.
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Made Fortune on Idaho Farm.

Illustrative of Idaho's most won
derful productiveness is the follow
ing from the Capital News, makes
interesting reading
The account of how Mr.. Thomas
started with nothing, accumulated
the snug sum Of $4,000, only to
lose all in the crisis, and how he
then turned around and has since
amassed $4,000, reads more like
fiction than cold facts, but Mr..
Thomas vouches for the story.
"Twenty-seven years ago l came
west from southern Missouri with
out dollar. l secured a pre-emp-
ton between Genesee and Union
town, which latter changed to a
homestead. After improving the
land for FIVE years sold out and
found had saved up just $500.
For the next seven years worked
for wages, and at the end of that
time l could boast of roll of $l2,-
600. Then l bought the old Tay-
lor farm of 800 acres on American
Ridge, paying $6500 for 1t. The
rest of my money left lying
around loose, and I had many
causes to be sorry afterward.
picked up another 100 acres of land
adjoining my first purchase, but
this was subject to heavy mort
gage, and then the crisis of 1885
came, and together with bad croI
set me back. When l took stock
of my holdings l found that l hao
Indebtedness enough to cover prac
ticallv everything l owned, while
my money that had been loaned
was lost. My original $40 acres
was clear of mortgage, but l hae
enough debts to eat that up.
found myself on just about ever
terms with the world.
"That was bad, but in 1894 ny
warehouse, with 100 bushels o
wheat, burned. After that l ran
threshing machine and continued
TO farm and in 1897 l had such
good crop that together with m,
savings, I cleared off my debts AM
had nv farm clear. Since then
have added to my farm, till now
have 853 acres, and I would nc
sell it for $40, 600.
"Mr. Thomas admitted that hi
other holdings in and around Ker
drick were worth $4,000 an
!. everything is clear. When tn
.. reporter remarked that he had dor
we'll he only smiled and sait
anybody could make none
here"
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depth of seventy-six inches. There
are seven other large rivers flowing
through valleys many miles wide,
not to speak of numberless smaller
streams. But though the farms
are not visible from a car window
they are there just the same. AL
ready SO, 100000 of private capital
is invested in irrigation projects in
Idaho, which embrace 1000 miles
Of trunk canals. which water
1,726,O0O acres of fertile sd il.
There are 100000 acres mi ore
suitable for irrigation, on some Of
which the government is now at
work. Corporations with capital
amounting to millions are being
organized to develop still OF her
acres. So it is not difficult to see
that things are going to happen in
Idaho before long. Perhaps it may
be we'll to say here that the people
of Idaho are not the sort who wait
for things to happen. Just to be
enterprising they have hea ted
Boise, the capital, by hot water
from an artisan we'll. The Boise
people try to let on that this is
nothing, that they could heat the
whole state the same way if they
wanted to. But as a matter of fact
they didn't do it on that purpose
at all. They really bored for oil
in a plot of black, shiny ground or
which not even sagebrush would
grow. When they reached depth
of $50 feet a stream of boi lins
water spurted up and knocked thu
derrick over. They built dis
tributing system to pipe water t
. the better class of residences an6
Office buildings, where it is used TO
heating bathing and laundry worl
, and warming ovens in the hotels
5 for it comes out of the ground at
temperature of 1913 degrees ant
r loses but six degrees by the time
reaches the most distant houses
: This is the only town that wa
: ever heated by natural hot water
! "Idaho is going into the bee
, sugar business, TOO. A mi lilo
dollar factory was put in operatio
e at Idaho Falls in 1908, which pre-
e duced 1000, 600 pounds of gfanu
| lated sugar. This year Idaho farm
r ers received $3.50, 900 for their bee
e crop, which was at the rate OF Y4.o
Y a ton, and they raised 20 to ~ ton
t to the acre" :,
f That fortunes are to b
;. made on Idaho farms is illlstrs
e ted in the case of M. V. Thon las
q Kendrick, who is estimated 70 {
:, worth more than $4,000. Goo
d land,- plenty of water ana sur
;. crops, which is the general rule !
y Idaho, will place any enefget
e man in comfortable circumstance
IS in a very short time.
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Has Had Unusual Experience.

w. H. Homer was recent caller
at this Office. He has had an unus-
ual career. He crossed the plains
with the pioneers in 1S47, an in
fant. About 30 years ago he re-
moved from Salt Lake to Oxford,
Bannock county. Since that time
he has paid taxes in two territories,
one state and five or six counties
on his homestead, and has never
moved. When he first settled
there, the territory of Idaho had
not been created and he paid taxes
in Utah territory. When Idaho
was created as territory and later
admitted as state, his taxes were
paid to each in turn. Old Oneida
county at that time embraced Bear
Lake, Bingham, Bannock, FIRE.
mont and part of Cassia, Lincoln,
Blaine and Custer, as we'll as the
present territory embraced in
Oneida. Mr.. Homer has not NOV
ed, but the counties and states have
shifted so much that he may be
considered a widely travelled man.
In speaking of the development
of the west, Mr.. Homer said it was
incredible. He travelled by wagon
from Salt Lake to Puget Sound and
thence into California at timewhen
it would have been impossible fol
anyone to induce him to accept as
a gift land on which thriving cities
now exist and where some of the
most valuable farms and fruit
orchards have been created. Tine
entire country then might be called
desert, and none could foresee tht
wonderful development that would
follow. Could he have foreseef
the future, he would today be th'
wealthiest man in the west. Re
garding climate, he says southeast
ern Idaho, between Shoshone FALL
and Nampa along the Snake river
is the most favored section in tn
United States. Mr.. Homer wa
sheriff of this county when it wa
part of Oneida. He was on tn
Egin bench when Bishop Parke
and his son and one of the Winega
BOYS were the only residents. II
would not look twice at land thel
that now sells for 800 per acre o
more, and might have had his picl
of the choicest land in the country
Although Oneida at that tim
was as large as an eastern state, ant
has since been subdivided severa
times, Fremont county now ha
!, more than three times as much tax
able property as Oneida had twent
years ago, and is increasing. at tn
rate of 20 per cent. a year.
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Senator Stewart will open a law
office at Tonapah when his term in
the Senate expires.
Washington had 1 1,416,116 acres
in wheat this year, which yielded
%, 4S9, $50, bushels.
The senate has passed to final
reading bill providing for twenty
eight new warships.
Senator Clark is deciding all his
Montana property to his son, and
it is surmised that he is intending
to leave Montana at the expiration
of his term in the senate.
Senator Burrows is said to be
preparing a constitutional amend
ment against polygamy providing
some form of disfranchisement for
those who practice it. This may
carry a provision that all who are
polygamists or have been or still
defend it as a tenet shall not vote.
A Washington dispatch says:
The treasury department is review
ing the Assayer Wooley charges IN
the case of Francis Fletcher who
was removed from the position OF
watchman. Fletcher is making
vigorous defense. In view OF
Fletcher's old soldier record it IS
likely he will be reinstated to his
former position at the assay Office.
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More HOnors for Idaho.

The Idaho horticultural exhibit
has been awarded a gold medal for
collective display and with special
reference to the keeping quality of
fruit at the worlds fair.
In addition to this award, which
is second only to the grand prize,
Sc gold, silver and bronze medals
have been won by Idaho fruits OF
| different varieties.
1t was not expected that Idaho
stood a chance to win the grand
prize in horticulture. The cost of
transporting fruits to the fair was
too great to enable the commission
to keep up the exhibit as desired.
The express companies demanded
five cents per pound for carrying
the fruit and the expense of storing
the product in St. Louis and deliv-
ering it at the fair grounds amount
ed TO as much more. Under these
conditions it was next to impossi-
BILE for the commission to make a
showing such as the state might
have made had funds been availa-
Bile. So great was the cost Of
maintaining a fruit exhibit at the
fair that Utah and Other western
states did not attempt an exhibit,
and the small appropriation at the
disposal of the commission wa:
we'll used. Second to California
only, however, is not bad, even fol
Idaho.
Idaho is recovering large
amount of good advertising in th'
east, which no doubt springs from
her exhibit at the fair. The Idaho
building was visited and viewed
by thousands, and nearly all wer'
astonished at the exhibit. Th'
impression is altogether too genera
that the state is barren waste to
the greater part, because, for on
reason. the railroads general.
skirt, instead of traversing the bes
lands. This is particularly true o
the line from Pocatello to Boise
From Pocatello to St. Anthony tn
reverse is true, the railroad passin'
through the finest land in the west
and the evidences of prosperity an
development are unmistakable
Through travel, however, entirel
misses this section, and the stat
has been judged from the lava bed
and sage brush wastes that constl
tute the greater part of the scener
from Soda Springs to Nampa. In
tair did much to remove the falls
Impressions entertained about Ida
no. The following is from tn
Buffalo. IN. W Courier:
Few streams and few farms ca
be seen from the trains of the ORE
son Short Line, which traverse
the best part of Idaho, so 1t
rather surprising to hear that it
the best watered of all the arl
states and destined because of tn
tact and also because of its ferti
soil and mild climate to becon
one of the richest agriculture
states in the Union. But one rive
alone, the Snake, ineanders throug
the state for a thousand mile
carrying volume of water sufh
lent, according to the state eng
neer's report. to cover all the avai
able lands in its immense basin to
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G.. c. Bowerman was y the
Squirrel creek country last week.
While there he found last year 5
bear track and at once developed
an uncomfortable desire to learn
where the bear started from aho
took the back track to hnq OUT,
doubtless believing that he wouio
find a whole herd. Ever SIM &c the
publication of Bergman L. } acoo
champion bear story two weeks
ago, Mr.. Bowerman has desired .e
discover a bear story that WI y out
class it. The above Information
was CLEANED from George q Harrig,
field, who gave it out with grea'
reluctance, fearing that some othel
adventurous hunter might dl lscove'
the bear story first.
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1t is announced that there Will
be no extra session of congress.
The Teton peak-chronicle., 1904-12-15
Vim Furniture Co. Starts Up.

The Winn Furniture Co., has
secured new and complete stock
of furniture and will begin business
next week in the building just
south of the postoffice. The Winn
store was completely destroyed by
fire on the night of November %,
resulting in loss of about 1000,
with but 81 900 insurance.
Since the fire Mr.. Winn has been
endeavoring to secure a building,
but until last week was unable to
do so. He is one of the most ac-
commodating of business men, and
was enjoying his full measure OF
prosperity when the disastrous tre
occurred, and all hope that he will
speedily retrieve his losses.
Associated with Mr.. Winn is Il.
A. Chase, we'll and favorably
known to the people of this vicini-
ty, and they deserve and doubtless
will receive a generous patronage.
Their stock is completely new
and of latest designs, and in this
respect is ahead of anything Ill the
county,
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The Merchant Marine League OF
Cleveland, is sending out literature
agitating the establishment OF a
government ship subsidy.
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d;st;rouished engineer predicts
.,at :, time the Panama canal will
have to seek sea level.
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Howard Aldrich was arrested
Tuesday morning as he was going
to take the train for Minnesota with
his bride of the day before, on a
charge of petit larceny preferred by
Walter Chase. He was discharged
by Judge King, who considered
there was no evience against him.
Mr.. Aldrich has borne good rep
utation and esteemed as a gooo
citizen. Mrs. Aldrich was much
shocked by the arrest of her hus
band but took the morning train
Mr.. Aldrich following on the alter
noon train.
| u =: oo,o,ucad that there VII
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DR.. BIevins' STAG Party.

Ever since MIS-. BleV1nS lett Tor
the east, Mr.. Blevins has been
manifesting the same kind of a
spirit which, when boy, prompted
him to steal melons because he did
not know how to do anything
worse. This eliminated Saturday
night in stag party, composed Of
people, many Of whom left their
former homes after night, and
others were in a great hurry to
catch the train, possibly not caring
to wait for the cover of darkness.
Several Of the party were originally
from Missouri. When man leaves
Missouri, the usual procedure is to
transfer his name from the regis
tration list to the court records, and
enter a charge Of horse stealing
after it. If he has good judgment
of horse flesh, and is never caught,
he usually manages to escape
lynching. There are good many
people in this western country who
visit their Missouri relatives by
proxy only. The former homes of
several of the party are unknown,
but the worst is suspected.
Among the party were Dick
Costley, political ward heeler; Lee
Borrows, and G. c. Bowerman
hiding out near the Tetons, ostensi-
bly, on an elk hunt; George Swartz,
run out Of Grrmauy for lese majestic;
c. c. Moore, ex-Missourian, men,
Der of the slippery seventh and
who recently induced the respecta-
Bile people of the county to send
him back to what will be known
in future as the slippery eighth" ;"
Bill Gray, a government pap-suck-
er, noted for profanity when the
noon train is seventeen hours late,
but has escaped arrest; DR.. Clark,
nothing known Of his antecedents; !;
DR.. and John Blevins and M. ].
Walter, Missouri democratic exiles !;
Captain Galley of Idaho Falls,
who was up here lobbying for
election as major of this battalion
of the state militia on grounds of
bravery during a skirmish at
American Lakes last summer,
when all OF his company deserted
him and left him alone to be taken
prisoner by the blood-thirsty ene-
my, and who was lost III the woods
twenty four hours after having been
released; Zard Yearian suspected OF
being Russian nihilist, and Lew
Maurer, who was invited to give
the assemblage an appearance OF re-
spectability. Refreshments were
served in the shape of fresh oysters,
of the moonshine brand. Marshal
Buchenau did not get onto the
bunch until after they had dispers
ed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-11
Judge Parkers friendly attitude

Judge Parker's friendly attitude to-
ward labor is proven by the fact that
as chief justice of the New York court
of appeals he upheld the law providing
for the payment of the prevailing rate
of wages" in municipal contracts, the
law providing for the regulation of
child labor, the law which limited the
number of hours during which bakers
might work, and the eight hour law
affecting municipal contracts. Judge
Parker is thoroughly conscientious and
absolutely fearless in the discharge of
what he believes to be his duty. He is
a true man of the people and the in
terests of both capital and labor will
receive fair treatment at his hands if
he should be elected president.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-11
PARKER AND FOLK.

One fearless, honest man in Missouri,
has been able to overthrow a corrupt
government by determined effort and
a direct appeal to the people. All over
the land the voter is awake to the ne
cessity of equally determined assault
upon a national government which has
been proven to be equally corrupt with
that administration which attracted
the Missouri mans attack and made
his success the more pronounced.
Delay of the republican party in
prosecuting officials of it's making who
were known to be robbing the public
till, evasion in removing the greater
boodlers from their high places, has
not gone misunderstood by the COM
mon people. They cannot be misled by
speciOus reasoning or cajoled by the
flattery of those they have repeatedly
trusted in vain. They are awake all
over the land to the Importance and
necessity of placing the reins of gov
eminent into hands that are strong.
that are guided by promptings ever
loyal to the trust reposed. What the
people simply want after eight years of
republican abuse of privilege is a
leader who has the courage of his con-
victions and the bravery to lead. Such
a man they believe democracy has
is not illogical to assume that they
will come to his support, north, east,
south and west, as Missouri's citizens
came to indorse Joseph w. Folk.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-11

employers has been the direct result of
the unfairness and intolerance of the
average strike, and it ought to occa-
sion no surprise, save that it did not
come earlier. In the light of the con-
ditions which too frequently have pre-
vailed during strike periods, organi-
zation of the employers is pnilosophi-
cally sound. Both sides have rights.
and those rights should be respected.
1t is too bad that this respect should
ever need to be secured by the exercise
of brute force.
We doubt if Mr.. Poole is right in
suggesting that the great American
public has been swallowed up in the
union organizations on the one hand
and the employers organizations on
the other Outside of these two great
classes abides the controlling factor
in public sentiment. That factor will,
in the end, we believe. operate to re-
lleVe the present nigh tension. the
pendulum has now been travelling full
long in one direction, and the time for
a retrograde movement is almost at
hand. The reaction which we believe
public sentiment will eventually ac-
complish will not work any harm to
labor. On the other hand, it will help
dignity and uplift it. Nor will this
reaction turn against the employers as
such. 1t will help bring both to some
proper feeling of responsibility to the
people as a whole. When that feeling
shall have taken possession of labor
and capital the labor problem will be
solved and strikes will be no more.
The principal lesson of the present
hour for both sides is that neither is
above the law, and that is the lesson
which public sentiment will enforce.
Failure to learn it has been at the bot
tom of all the serious labor troubles
the country has haG.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-11

President Roosevelt has instructed
several federal officehOlders in Idaho
that they must keep out Of politics or
lose their jobs. The same rule does
not seem to hold good in this state, as
many of them We're delegates to the
republican state convention and many
are actively engaged in the campaign
as members of executive and advisory
committees and otherwise. In every
other state of the Union federal office
holders are equally active and the in
structions sent to Idaho are probably
intended only for political effect
Theodore Roosevelt was at one time a
Jealous civil service reformer and he
hopes to hold the mugwump vote in
the east by a pretense of practising
what he has so loudly preached.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-08-11
ALANDSLIDE FOR TURNER

The Seattle Commonwealth recently
announced its abandonment of the re-
publican party and its conversion to
the democratic cause. 1t is now doing
splendid service for Parker and Tur-
ner. In its last issue it gave the fol-
lowing review of the political situation
in eastern Washington:
Daily advices are being received at
the office of The Commonwealth from
the eastern part of the state showing
that the voters of the Inland Empire
nave truly sized up the railroad chat
tel Mead, and will repudiate him at the
polls in November. The vote will be
practically unanimous in the next cleo
ton as far as eastern Washington is
concerned. The Commonwealth. thus
early III the campaign, will make the
prediction that the anti-railroad vote
of the eastern. part of the state will
beat all records in history, at the COM
ing election.
Last Saturday. well known busi
ness man and politicians of Walls
Nalla-his name is suppressed for OBJ.
NlouS reasons-made the statement +,
a republican King county man at tn,
race track that even Walla Walla. tn,
republican stronghold of +ba o,,. -,
would give Senator Turner a ma iorit,
Tor governor. He said that Spokane