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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
THETExT BOOK BILL
State Superintendent of Schools
Tells Of its Defeat in
Legislature.

The following letter concerning the
defeat Of the text book legislation in the
last legislature has been sent out by the
state superintendent OF schools:
BoisE. March "a. 1905
To the County Superintendent
H. view Of the TACT that through the
lobbying Of several representatives. u
text book companies, the influence of
certain lawyers paid by them and the
antagouism of few If the educators Of
the state. hehli proyiding for a state
text book commission Was neirated and
no provision made for the adoption ci
text books Tor use in The public schools
Of the state. With this condition exist
ing, feel that we must enaeavor To-
keep The educational system Of the
state as nearly uniform a. possible and
not retrocede
! shall outline course Of study to be
used in the schools OF thu state and
haee copies ef same ready for distribu-
. 30 h~f r- ti- fab term opens. The
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
Sues for sIo. pro.

Ed Peasley has brought suit in the
district court Of Ada county, against
Robert Noble, alleging the wrongful and
Illegal ccnveu ion Of 2560 ewes, and ask
ing for their return or their value, which
is placed at s400 per head, total OF
$40, ,24O, and damages in the sum OF
$500. Il is stated that Peasley WAS the
lawful owner OF the sheep on March 4,
snd that they we're upon that date
wrongfuliy and illegally taken by Noble
Armed with the summons in the case
sheriff Hayird has seized the sheep in
question, to hold them until their owner
ship has been decided.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25

same text books may be used by those
preferring them and supplementary
texts will he added to the list for those
who desire the change.
With the assistance and cooperation Of
the county superintendents during the
next two years, hope to be able to pre-
serve the general uniformity now ex-
isting and to protect the school districts
from the incursions Of the book COM
panies, who are already sending repre-
sentatives to the state. Guard the
school districts Of your respective coun-
ties against detrimental influences. You
can readily see what the result will be If
great caution is not exercised in this
matter. We must hold together and
follow the course Of study as closely as
possible or the state will be filled with
texts Of all kinds and the school work
anything but uniform
Very truly Yours,
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
suBscRrrrroy: $50 a YEAR.

rate Of 100 miles or more an hour IL the
Of a new type Of locomotives
which has been ordered by the Harri-
man lines for the Southern Pacific. II
It does all that its makers promise for it,
this locomotive, which is revision OF
the Dissel engine, viii reyolutionize
transportation. The locomotive, or
really power house on wheels, Is entire
" different from anything now in use.
The cost Of operating it will be less than
one-half OF the cost OF operating the pres
sent type Of steam engine. Fuel oil
costing but 3 or cents a gallon is the
only fuel that has to be purchased and
there il no necessity for erecting and
maintaining expensive water tanks and
coal chutes.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
DISCOVERED AGAIN
Rich Fiaeers Have Once Again
Been Found on the Snake
Near Parma.

yesterday, wednesday,. ia mes
OImstead Of Nsssa, Ore was in the
city ard reported thai there was great
excitement on the Snake river near Par
ma over the discovery oi placer gold
there. In section %. west, there have
been located several mining claims.
Whereas most of the. Snake river gold Is
very fine and difficult to save, this gold
is coarse, and Is found on the he'd rock.
John Dol, one Of the locators OF claim
there, reports that he has refused Sl0,-
GOO for his claim, says Mr.. Olmstead.
Estimates made give the yield at about
SO so to the yard. People are coming
into the new country and loeatirg 6
claims daily. Mr. Oimstead says that
in the opinion of expert miners, the gold
is not drift or pocket gold, but mines Of
permanenee.
The foregoing is taken from the spec
ial Caldwell correspondence to the Boise
Statesman of March %. Coming from
such a source there can be no doubt of
the genuineness Of the article We have
been looking for this for some time. II
has been long while since we
had a rush TO the gold placers near Par
ma, and the time is ripe. By the way,
what part Of Snake river, near Parma,
does ''sec. 80, 5 west" touch7 And how
deep did they go to find BEDROCK
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
sooo Miies Without Stop.

A Chicsgo dispatch ssys: Three thou
sand miles without stop and at the
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
WOOL CLIP OF 1905
Shearing Has Begun Earlier
Than Usual and the Clip
Is Beginning to Move.

The Idaho wool clip Of 1905 is hegin-
ming to move. shearing is general and
will soon begin. The season
is earlier than usual owing 70 the open
winter, and growers are anxious to get
their flocks shcared and moved from the
spring range, which is very dry. The
first carload Of this seasons clip viii he
shipped from Weiser this week. The
first trajnload Of sheep oi the year
mo.ed from Gooding on March >. It.
consisted cf ~ cars OF tat wethers, the
besf conditioned on record for this time
of year The shipment was made by
Hammond & Burns Fully 50 per cent
81 the 1905 clip has been sold already al
better prices than the growers have re-
crived in wears. The last sale ef not,
was made at l6 cents Some Of tbs
wool il being held at II cents The
amount Of unsold wod at Weiser is esti
mated at 25O. 900 pounds. There arr
some $1,000 pounds at Payette and I
small quantity at Caldwell Only fou
clips have been sold at Mountainhom
and approximately 100000 pounds re
main to be contracted for. In sho
=hone and vicinity there are perhap
,000, 900 pounds yet TO be bought. Tn
southeast has been cleaned up with tn
exception Of about 100000 pound
around Blackioot and Idaho Falls.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
Farmers Cooperative Ditch Co.
Parma. Idaho, March oh, lea

Parma, Idaho, March 9Th, 1895.
Notice il hereby given. that az a meet
ing OF the directors held on the tth dsy
Of March, 1905, an assessment OF one
dollar per share was levied npon the out
standing espitol stock Of the eorporatons
payable to W. b. Mitchell secretary
Parma. idaho. ANY stock upon which
tAis remains unnaid On the tenth day OF
Aprii. 1906. will be delinquent and sd-
vertised ior sale at public auction, snc,
unless payment i made before, viii be
sold on the 1st day OF May, 1870, to pay
the delindnent assessment together with
costs OF advertis ng and expense OF sale.
W. B. MITCHELL
Secretary, Parma, Idaho
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
Around the State


There arr now 200 conviets in tbs
state penitentiary.
c. K. McCrum Of Boise. has been
chosen, president of the state board q
pharmacy.
c. B. Knox Of Emmett, has been re-
appointed deputy live stock inspector for
Canyon county
The proceeds Of the land sold at Twin
Falls Wednesday will go into the capitol
building fund
The new government building at
Boise is now occupied by all the federal
institutions Of that place.
C. f. Elmer, newspaper man Of
Lewiston, will become private secretary
70 Governor Cooling April lst. ~
State Senator George Das has been
selected as state lard appraiser. and has
assumed the duties oi the Office.
DR.. 1. F. Roach, Of Boise, has been
chosen president, and Mrs.w- H. Riden-
btush, also Of Boise, secretary OF the
board OF regents of the state university.
Frank Martin, grand master OF the
Oddfellows. will establish an Oddfellovs
lodge at Twin Falls March q. The new
lodge will start off with a membership
of abont forty.
senator Dubois has accepted an invi-
tstiou from the Phitppine government
ta visit the islands this summe'. He
!. will j9in party OF about so senators,
and will be accom- panird by his wife.
George Renee was hound over to the
district court at Bgi=e vednesdiy for as
s,ult with intent % commit murder
upon the pefsoa Of Henry Clark. His
t bail was hxed at s. 90, which he was
z unable to furnish.
: wv. Watkins, county assessor, was
t /, town Friday. H is just closing =
4 tour OF the county "a ascertain the
f number Of transient sheep that have
been wintered in Canyon county in or
= der 10 assess the tax on them. He esti-
e mates a total Of 10000 animals. The
n sheep are assessed rents per year and
# the tax collected is for the actual time
e the sheep we're in the county. Payetts
L Valley Enterprise.
e A special dispatch from Twin Falls to
r the statesman Wednesday says: "It re-
:, auired Just an hour and IS minutes fol
!, C. d. Thomus, special agent of the state
W land department, to sell at auction 800
acres of state land lying seven to nine
miles from this place and that will b'
not further than four miles from tbs
a railroad. The bidding was verv spirited
le and in many cases spot cash payments
~ we're made. The highest price paid wa
ie s29 an acre and the lowest SIS, the aver
n. age being s21 so. The price for the wa
V. ter for this land is els an acre, which
ng makes the top price at the sale s44 an
n the lowest $50 an acre. One bidder, "
be II. Watts, of the Utah CONSTRUCTION
VS. company, respecting himself and Others
is bought 1920 acres and paid Tor
ps SO, 900 cash.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25

State Superintendent.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1905-03-25
FARM LOANS

., borrow monev7 We can accom-
10 you M''''' M tedious waits. Simply snow
aa ale execute the necessary papers an" '"s
T1en uaney lis Is at your disposal without delay
Io,xso ON FARM AND Town PROPERTY
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13
WEST BRATTLEeoRo.

The Melrose House has seven regular
boarders besides its transient custom.
Miss Harriet Wariner is ill., Her sister
from Mortified visited her one day this
week.
Mrs, Alkaline Miller. having closed her
house for the winter, will board AT l.. II.
Stellman's.
The Young Peoples Society Of Christian
Endeavor held social Thursday evening
at the home OF J. c. Johnson on Grove
street.
Rev. Lewis Grout. who sustained
paralytc shock and has been in a serious
condition, is much improved at present
writing
Prof. w. H. Hosmer OF Waterbury. Vt,
a former principal of the Bratteboro
academy, spent one day last week visit
ing i'm this village.
Ernest Perry. having sold his home
known as the Deertield farm. has moved
with his family to the Hiram Weather
head house in this village.
The annual roll call of the Baptist
church will be held Jan. % 4 supper will
be served at o'clock. to be followed by
a social gathering and rol-call exercises
at s.
Mrs. T.. L. Bass returned to her home
in Randolph, this state on Saturday ac-
companied by her mother, Mrs. J. =.
Goodenough, who will remain with her
two or three months.
Fred Sumner, the blacksmith, had "A
horse step upon his right foot last sum-
mer He has never recovered from the
injury and it was necessary recently to
have one toe amputated.
Charles Davis has placed "a 12-horse
power gasoline engine in his job shop.
There is sufficient water i'm the brook at
the present time, but during December
Mr. Davis was short of power.
After getting off the electric car We'd
nesday morning, Mrs. f. h. Horton
slipped and fell on the track, striking
her back on the rough ice and injuring
it so badly that she was not able to teach,
and returned to her home on Brook street.
Her daughter. Mrs. Harold Smith, is
teaching for her.
Clarence and Roy Barney entertained
a party of school friends and others last
Thursday evening at their home. About
SO assembled and a pleasant time was
enjoyed. program was rendered con-
sisting of violin and piano selections, and
refreshments of cocoa and cake We're
served.
A merry party of p young people con-
nected with the academy took a sleigh
ride to Townshend last Wednesday after
noon. Starting from West Brattleboro
the party arrived at Townshend at
o'clock where a bountiful supper was serv-
ed at the Townshend Inn. Afterward a
spirited game of basket ball was played
between the teams of Brattleboro academy
and Leland and Gray seminary, result
ing i'm a score of 81 to 2S in favor of Le-
land and Gray.
The ladies' aid society of the Baptist
church, held their annual meeting Friday
afternoon, Dec 20, at the home of Mrs.
Evans. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Mrs. o. G. Convey; vice president, Mrs.
Leonard Taylor; secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. II. II. Thurber; directors, Mrs.
Charles A. Van Doom, Mrs. Abner p.
Eddy, Mrs. Stanford Morse. The society
closed a very successful year of work and
the outlook for the coming year is en-
couraging
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13
IN OUR OWN STATE
LOOKS LIKE MURDER
Louis Lamora, SO, Found Dead with Head
Crushed Near His Home in Winooski
Sunday Morning.

Louis Lamora, so, a resident of the
White block in Winoosd was found dead
Sunday morning by Isador Barney who
was on his way to church. The back of
Lemora's head was crushed, one eye was
blackened, there were bruises about the
face, and the body, which was only par
TALLY clothed, was frozen into the ice
He was about ~ feet from the entrance
to the tenement where the Lemora family
lived. The warmth Of the body had melted
the ice somewhat, and blood from a wound
In the head had frozen into a pool A
short distance away were several pieces of
box boards and a stone weighing about
pound. Lemora came home Saturday
night about 10 o'clock drunk and ugly
lie ordered his wife and five children out
of the house, and they went to the home
Of the eldest child of the family Mrs Fred
Barber, where they spent the night Louis
and Dennis Trombley, French Canad-
ians and brothers of Mrs Lemora, were
arrested and locked up pending the result
Of a hearing directed by States Attorney
A. l.. sherman. Lemora had an unsavory
reputation, as he was addicted to drink
and often abused his family. The from
bleys lived In the same building with the
Lemoras but they claim that they heard
no disturbance during the night
The autopsy which was performed on
Lamora's body Monday leaves no doubt
that death was due to violence. A
large box of exhibits has been sent to
the state laboratory for examination
and States Attorney Sherman has con-
suited with Attorney General Fits.
The Trombleys are in the county Jail
pending further investigation.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13
Big Record of Exports for 1904.

Exports of manufactures in the calen-
dar year 1904 will probably exceed $780,
000,O 900 in value. Details of eleven months
exports just completed by the department
of commerce and labor, through its bureau
of statistics, show for the eleven months
Of the past year a total of $3.50, 1915, 023
of manufactures exported and for the
month of November alone 46,60S, 500; so
that, unless the December exports should
prove much less than those of November,
the total exports of manufactures for the
calendar year must exceed $500 900 900.
In the calendar year 1908 the exports
of manufactures were but Si2l, 900, 900; i'm
1900 in which year the highest export
record in manufactures occurred, the
total of the calendar year was SAL, O00.-
900; i'm 1898, S30S 900 900; in 1896, $3.50, OOO,-
000; and in 1894 Sis 900, 600 Thus the
exports of manufactures in 1904 seem like
ly to be nearly three times as great as
those in 1894. The increase in the eN-
poration of manufactures has been sufn-
cient to nearly Offset the phenomenal re-
duction in exports of agricultural pro-
ducts.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

\ gift Of 500 600 to Tufts college by
Andrew Carnegie is announced for the
erection Of a college library.
The Maine legislature appropriated
$1,000 to pay hedgehog bounties and il is
now found that there Is deficit Of $29.-
600
Alva Adams on Saturday night was de-
clared by the legislature to be the duly
elected governor of Colorado. The re-
turns showed Adams 123.O7S. Peabody
ll3,3o4. Plurality for Adams. 9,774 Gov.
Peabody says that he will offer no contest
Adams was inaugurated Tuesday.
Clarence +. Jones' son of r. H. Jones
Of the Boston banking firm Of Blake Bros.
was fatally shot from weapon i'm the
hands of Samuel Hoar son OF the late
Samuel Hoar, late Saturday afternoon at
Concord. He died few minutes later.
The discharge of the firing piece was ac-
cidental The boys. who were close
friends, and each Il years old. were hunt
ing muskrats on the Concord river when
the accident occurred. Jones received a
ball from S2-caliber rifle in the left
temple,
Jospeh Mlos 42 of Ware. was fatally
stabbed in the abdomen Sunday morning
az South Barre, Mass, by Joseph Tire
inski, "a, a dozen Poanders were to-
gether i'm a small tenement when an al
tercation arose over n game of cards and
Tircinsk stabbed Milos with small still
letto. Milos went 10 bed upstairs and
ii was not supposed that he was serious
~ injured. He grew worse and when a
doctor was summoned he was at the point
of death. Tircinski fed when Milos was
dead, but was captured by Constable Fred
Parmenter after chase across the fields
Brodie L. Duke. an elderly man of
great wealth, brother of J. b. Duke head
of the tobacco trust at the instance of
tig VIOLA
wife, to whom he was married only a
few weeks ago. lie is now in a sanito-
rum and 1t is claimed that he knew
nothing about a ceremony being per-
formed. When taken to Bellevue hos
pital he had 100000 in securities in his
pockets. Mrs. Duke is the daughter of
w. II. Webb, Chicago business man.
and the young woman has aided in the
promotion of several large industrial
concerns,
Betina Gerard who died in the Roose-
welt hospital in New York Sunday night
from pneumonia, had had a wild career
She was daughter of the late Gen Ord
way. chief of the ordnance department
in Washington. From a convent in early
life she went to a fashionable finishing
school. She was a musician and linguist,
beautiful of face and figure, could ride
with the best and excelled in all out
door sports. She was a favorite in Wash
ington society, and gained her first no.
toriety by filling her slipper with cham
payne and presenting it to a young man
who drank the contents Her first hus-
band was a wealthy man in Baltimore,
and she had been married seven times,
most of her liege lords being theatrical
men. She had been on the stage since
1890, at one time being with DiXey of
Adonis fame. After she went on the
stage she was found on the streets drunk
time after time, was sent to hospitals and
sanitariums and was once imprisoned on
Blackwell's island.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13
The Possibilities of Boo Fuel.

Investigations of bog fuel made by the
Insurance Engineering Experiment Sta
ton under the direction of Mr.. Edward
Atkinson apparently demonstrate beyond
question that the possible exhaustion of
our coal supply need not Immediately
trouble us, since this country possesses
vast quantities of available fuel in its
marshes and boys The Irish peasants
have for generations been making use of
peat, which practically forms their sole
basis of fuel supply, but the boys of Ire
land differ from those in this country in
asmuch as they are composed Of moss and
other vegetable products only partially
decayed, while the larger deposits here
are more of the nature of mud. Many
failures have resulted from attempting
to work the contents of mud Dogs into
fuel at a low cost and apparently for
very simple reasons. The efforts hereto
fore have been to dry and then compress
the fuel, using some other substance as
a binding material to overcome it's friable
nature. This, of course, made necessary
lot of expensive machinery for COM
pressing the briquettes, and required the
addition of various foreign materials for
the binder. According to Mr.. Atkinsons
report investigation in Germany disclosed
the fact that the carbonaceous contents
of these Dogs consist of fixed carbon and
hydrocarbon, the latter being very adhe-
SlNe substance contained III Illlule N6Si-
cles. These vesicles are broken up, which
is done very simply by running the mud
through a machine resembling a sausage
chopper, and the broken hydrOcarbon
vesicles and their contents became diff
fused through the mud and act as
binder. Moreover, the mechanical break
ing up of the mud mass liberates the
water and allows it to evaporate rapidly
under ordinary conditions. 1t is said that
briquettes made in this manner contract
or condense into a more or less solid
form, in some cases increasing in specific
gravity to that of the ordinary types of
bituminous coal.
Apparently, from Messrs. Atkinson and
Norton's reports there are many oppor-
tunities for the development of fuel plants
with comparatively small capital where
ever Dogs or marshes of the proper con-
stituency exist OF course many Dogs
are not possible sources of profitable fuel
supply and in any case careful investiga-
tion should be made before an attempt
is made at development. Mr.. Atkinson
thinks that a plant costing about $500
WILL as an average, turn out 20 tons of
bog fuel per day or allowing for holidays
and storms about 5000 tons per year
There are many regions now, more or less
remote from coal mines, where a cheaper
fuel supply would be greatly appreciated
and If such happen to possess supposedly
worthless swamps, 1t may be instead that
they have an inexhaustible supply of good
fuel at their very doors.-[From Ma
chinery.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1905-01-13
O. j. PRATT.
The First Steam Fire Engine.

In a paper on the modern steam fire
engine read by F. f. LOOMS before the
ninth meeting of the Ohio Society of Me
chanical, Electrical and Steam Engineers,
1t was stated that the first steam fire
engine dates back to 1910 and was built
by p. r. Hodge, a mechanical engineer of
New York city. Strange to say this ma
chine was of the automobile type being
-propeling. The rear wheels which
were the drivers also, served as balance
wheels when the engine was at a fire,
the machine then being lacked up so as
to clear the ground Although IL worked
very well for its small capacity, Weighing
only 5000 pounds, it was opposed by
general prejudice and by the volunteer
fire departments of those days, and
allowed to fall into dsuse. A. 3. Latta
built the next steam fire engine for the
city of Cincinnati in 1852, and its great
success paved the way for its general
adoption in all cities.-[From Machinery.