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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-27
NEWS OF THE STATE
Review Of the Weeks Happenings
in Idaho
AS CLEANED FROM EXCHANGES
Tales from Mountain and Vale Briefly
Told for Benefit of the Exanain.
er'S Readers.

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er's Readers.
The Idaho Falls council has raised
the saloon license from 5000 TO $500
year.
Caldwell is now figuring on
getting a $l5,O Y. Nj. G. A. build
ing.
The town of Standpoint will erect
a new IL room school house this
summer.
The receipts of the Caldwell post
office for the year ending March 81,
were $7674.so.
Idaho Fails will expend 1854
this season in macadamlzing the
principal streets of the town.
The Burley State bank opened
for business this week. 1t is the
eighty-first state bank in Idaho.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Tele-
phone company will erect new ex-
change building in Weiser this sum-
mer.
The interest paid by the banks
holding state money for the year
ending March 81, amounted to
884sl.
J. E. Cosgriff and .others of Salt
Lake, have purchased controlling
interest in the First National bank
of Payette.
Work on Nampa's mammoth
brewery was begun last week. The
building and equipment will cost
about $l80,0 900.
Thos. Smith, another pioneer of
Idaho, passed to his final rest on
April IL. Deceased was 73 years
old and had been a resident of Boise
basin since 1864.
The estimate is made by Governor
Gooding that full two-thirds of the
wool of Idaho has been contracted
for at prices ranging from 10 to 2s9
cents q pound.
The North Idaho asylum is now
ready to receive patients and DIR.
Glyens will shortly remove from the
Blackfoot asylum those patients that
belong IN the north.
At the auction sale of state lands
at Twin Falls on April II, the total
amount realized was s74,0so Ono
man bought an entire section for
which he paid $ls,l2o.
The Interstate Electric Power
company, composed of Idaho capital
lists, has been organized to establish
a power plant on Snake river about
90 miles from Weiser. The plant
will supply 10000 horse power.
The Payette council has passed an
ordinance requiring saloons to here
after remove all screens, blinds or
other obstructions which shall pre-
vent view of the interior of sue h
places during the day or night.
The Burley Bulletin says that
town is long on dogs but shors on
cats, and that anybody wanting to
trade fellnes for CANNES can get two
for one, and no questions will be
asked as to the age or breed of the
cats.
The Billiard. Van Deusen Sheep
company of Emmett will ship 8, 900
head of ewes to Massachusetts about
May 1st. The sheep are Merlnos
and will be distributed among the
small farmers IN the Bay state for
breeding purposes.
The Rigby Star says that such
fancy prices were offered for good
horses in that vicinity the past win
ter. that many farmers disposed of
their best stock and they now find
themselves little short on motive
power with which to conduct their
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-04-27

In the event Inc people vote 10
make this an independent district,
the county commissioners will meet
in special session at once and APP
point the board of trustees, and it
will DE the recommendation of those
who are looking after the matter
that those who were members of
their respective boards in the old
districts shall be appointed to con-
tinne their work. Those men are:
J.. S. Robson, Martin Winters, W.
r. Holmes, III. Carrick, Henry
Douglas and Bert Toomer. II Is
possible, however, since Mr.. Robi-
son has accepted position which
takes him away from home almost
all the time, that some one else will
be appointed in his place.
The election next Friday will be
held at the city hall. The polls
will be open from a. IN. to p. m.
and every person qualified should go
and vote eyes" on the proposition
to make this an independent dis
trict.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
DON'T FEED THE DOG

Much meat is to the sporting dogs
nose what strong drink is to the de-
tective's eye-poison. The beginner in
the field often does not realize this,
and nightly attributes his indifferent
luck of the day to a scarcity of birds,
when generous portions of beef or pot
liquor are to blame.
OF course when there is hard work
to be done a dog must be well nour-
ished, and its vitality kept up by giving
1t light morsels at frequent intervals,
just as the man with the gun has to be
sustained by good wholesome food. Two
biscuits and water in the morning. a
half biscuit several times day, and
at night hearty meal of well-cooked
vegetables or oatmeal porridge form
the best fare for a dog in the field. Re-
member however, to give the portions
of biscuits when water is near by, since
dry crumbs create a thirst that fire.
quently handcaps a dog as much as
hunger.-Country Life in America.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
SALOON dead LINE"

Mayor McAleer says, 1.-The only way
to break up the traffic in licenses is
to take off the 200 limit on saloons"
If that statement is correct the traffic
in Los Angeles licenses may be con-
sidered as safe from interruption as
'life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" That 200 limit is a dead line"
and the whole community is on guard.
But the mayor is wrong again. He
is knowingly wrong, moreover, for no
body knows better than he that the
ownership of a saloon license carries
with 1t no right of transfer. The IL
cense covers the operation of liquor
business at a specified place and its
existence properly ceases when the
business ceases at that place. The
transfer precedent is simply a recogni-
ton of the political power of the brew
cries and other owners or hackers of
the saloons.
Not under any consideration should
the time-honored rule be broken which
limits the number of saloons to 200.
Not one inch over that dead line''
should the saloon octopus be allowed
to stretch tentacle. And when a sa-
loon ceases to exist at the point
designated in a license, that license
should cease to be either individual or
corporate property.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
LONDON IsHMAELs

Londons outdoor man Is the coster.
He is the Jshmael of our cutters. A
very jolly Ishmael. 1T is true, who is
more than content to acknowledge the
line of demarcation between himself
and the true cockney. But, ncverthe-
less, i'm a modified, twentieth century
way, he is still the wild man whose
hand is against every mans, and every
mans against his. He is probably the
last remnant of the worlds old race of
wanderers-the last suggestion Of the
primitive man-left to the cities. He is
to us town dwellers what the gypsy
Is to the countryside. His descent
seems to spring from the same roving G
stock. And he is regarded, from safe
distance, with the same contempt by
those who don't know him. His habits
and his impulses still SAVIOR strongly
of the days when tribe warred against
tribe, and every mans arm was for
himself and his clan. And although his
pitch is below the curb, his caravan a
barrow and his beast of burden Rus
sian pony, a donkey, or himself, he is
as free and as exclusive as any other
lusty scion of the people who live under
the skies. Ishmael he is, and Ishmael
he chooses to remain. And the chances
are ten to one that whoever goes "a
fishing for information among the bar
rows will come back with an empty
creel or a fine show of fisherman s
tales. For your coster knows both how
to keep silence and how to use his
tongue picturesquely in defense of his
jealously guarded traditions and the
internal economies OF his existence
Outing Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
cATERPILLARs STOP TiAIN
Passengers Think They Are Being
Held Up by Bandits

Dispatches from Savannah Cd, saw
that Seaboard train was sbpped
forty miles from that place by cahrpil-
lars. The train began to slackh its
pace, although the throttle wasIwide
open, until 1t came to a standstiliwith
the Wneels rapidly revolving tnder
the engine
The engineer applied the sand but TO
no avail. When all of the sand bpon
the engine was exhausted, the engineer
shut off the steam and went ahead
with lantern to investigate.
He found that the track was bm-
pletely lined with caterpillars which
had dropped from the overhansins
limbs of the trees that lined both sdes
of the track.
When the engine ran upon the ptsts
1T ground them into a substance that
was like so much oil. They had tolbe
swept from the rails with broom se-
fore the train could proceed.
Many of the passengers were badly
frightened on account of the lonely
part of the country in which the stop
was made. They thought that the train
had been held up. y
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
RAILWAY WORLD
SAY SUMNER TRAVEL WILL
BREAK RECORD
Officials Are Optimistic Regarding
Traffic During Coming sesson.
Advlces East state hat
Bookings Are HesV

Railroad men take an optihistio vlew
OF the prospect for large tdrIst buei-
ness this summer. 1t Is Ieir beIief
that It Will be record breaIer
With the idea Of securinl a large
tourist travel to the west. In Of The
roads have established a lon summer
rate, and the belief that the 1eople will
not be stopped from coninE bv The
earthquake at San Francisco tiIl cause
the original plans Of the railroads 10
be carried out
Advices from the cast stAe that
the bookings for passage to lie coast
have already broken all recAds for
this time Of year and and the hn,iirIes
that have been received indicAte that
Los Angeles will this summerlattract
more travellers than ever befordduring
the summer season.
Heretofore all of the limited ahd fast
trains have been taken off at TIL close
of the winter season, but this yea these
trains will be run through the simmer
season. The officials believe tlht the
business they will receive will ius-
fifV thie NJ
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
TALK BUSINESS AND FIESTA

1t is high time to cease talking earth
quake and to talk Fiesta. More than
two weeks have elapsed since the San
Francisco horror, and in that time all
has been done that humanity could to
relieve suffering and temporarily to re-
duce the chaos in the stricken city to
order. Things there now are as nearly
normal as they can be till it is re-
built, and San Francisco itself is as
Stunning its wonted condition. Whatever
further help it may require. Los Ange-
les will gladly extend; sympathy it
lavishes, but continual gable about the
awfulness of the horror is neither help
full. timely nor sympathetic.
Calamity Is always best overcome by
resumption OF the normal at the
earliest possible opportunity. Let us,
who of course had no calamity at all
lend our sister city all the encourage
ment we can by aiding her TO get back
TO her usual condition. And the best
ways to do this are, first. to cease
playing up" the disaster; and second.
to help the eastern world to minimize
1t so far as the state is concerned.
II is for this that Los Angeles has
clung TO its Fiesta despite the knock
ing Of a frozen-footed Canadian and an
alien who runs a vaunting. eGotistical
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

and utterly vile sheet here. Los Ange-
les proposes to show the world that II
Is 500 miles from the earthquake coun-
try; that It suffered not at all from the
troubles upstate; that California is too
big to be affected all over by a calamity
in one part. terrible though that may
be, and that this city is more on the
map than Il ever was before.
II invites the world-even IL the un-
speakable Hearst doesn't, who doesn't
belong here anyhow, thank Godl-to
come here and join with It in this fes-
tival. to help cheer up the stricken cities
by a show of good faith in California
generally. It will make welcome all
who come-except Hearst--and none
Will ever regret It.
Let us, then, begin to prove this well
come. Talk Fiesta; as to the recent
trouble in the north, "fergit It."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
SIGNS OF LONG LIFE

The woman who desires long life must
have round eyes and wide rather than
long and narrow. If they are brown
or hazel life will be longer than IL
they were black or violet.
The brow must be ample and slope
back slightly from an absolute perpen-
dicular. The head must be wide be-
hind and over the ears.
The brow must be wide and full and
well set, and the chin square and firm.
The nose must be wide and fun
through its whole length, and have
open. easy, dilating nostrils. This indi-
Gates a good heart and good lungs.
If the orifice Of the ear is low, indi-
eating a deeply seated brain, there is
better chance of long life.
The woman who appears taller in
proportion when sitting down than
when standing has good chance to live
long. If the body is long in proportion
to the limbs the heart, lungs and di-
gestive organs are large.-Modern
Women.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
FIRE AND FRYING PAN

There is cause for fear that San
Francisco may furnish an example Of
the reversal Of an old saying about
jumping "o6t of the frying pan into the
fire" out OF the Are into the frying
pan appears to be the fate OF the
stricken city. That inference Is war
ranted, anyway, by steps just taken
officially toward the cltys reconstruc-
tion.
Abe Ruef. the notorious political
leader, already seems to have got the
reins of reconstruction into his own
hands At meeting OF the citizens
committee on Thursday, with Mayor
Schmitz in the chair, the adrolt Abe
moved that "A committee of five, to be
known as the committee on organza-
ton, be appointed by the mayor to
adopt a scheme of subcommittee,
which should take up in detail the gen.
eral work to be accomplished"
Note the power of that committee,
composed of only five members, with
authority to control all subcommittee,
tNNs lntll lOle lllt tNlutllCG OI lne COu-
clusion that San Francisco is likely to
escape the fire only to be thrust back
into the frying pan.
Mayor Schmitz appointed, as chair
man of that supreme committee of FIVE.
Abraham Ruef. The mayor is regarded
In San Francisco as Ruef's most useful
political asset, and the scheme thus
disclosed is one of the cleverest that
Ruef ever has played. With the power
in his hands incident TO his position as
boss of the city's reconstruction, Ruef
will be politically omnipotent in San
Franc cisco, unless the very audacity of
his assumption leads to an all-powerful
anti-Ruef movement.
With Ruef's political grip on the
throat of San Francisco thus strength
ened immensely. 1t is "a toss up for
choice" between fire and frying pan.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
THE CITY In THE SEA

Lo! Death has reared himself throne
In strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim west,
Where the good and the bad and the
worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
Around by lifting winds forgot
The melancholy waters lie. +.
No rays from the holy heaven come
down
On the long nighttime of that town;
But light from out the lurid seal
Streams up the turrets silently.
Cleans up the pinnacles far and free;
Up domes, up spires, up kingly halls,
Up fanes, up Babylon-like walls
Up many and many a marvellous shrine
Whose wreathed friezes intertwine
The viol, the violet and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turretS and shadows there
That all seem pendulous In air,
While from q proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.
There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn level with the luminous waves:
But not the riches there that lie
In each IDOLS. diamond eyes
Not the gayly-jeweled dead,
Tempt the waters from their bed;
For no ripples curl, alas,
Along that wilderness of glass;
No swellings tell that winds may be
Upon some far-off happier sea;
No heavings hint that winds have been
On seas less hideously serene!
But 10, a stir is in the air!
The waYe-there is a moment there!
AS II the towers had thrust aside.
In slightly sinking, the dull tide;
AS If their tops had feebly given
void within the f1lmy heaven!
The waves have now a redder glow,
The hours are breathing faint and low;
And when, amid no earthly means,
Down, down that town shall settle
hence,
He'll, rising from thousand thrones,
Shall do it reverence.
Edgar Allen Poe.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

own San Francisco saloons. Mackay
was q blaster in the mines at -FOUR
dollars a day and Fair was q common
miner.
The history Of other California mag
mates is equally wonderful In IL
lustrating the possibilities of that mar
velous state. Senator John p. Jones
was a common miner. Lucky Baldwin
kept a livery stable; Lux and Miller
lords of ranches half the size OF Rhode
Island, were butcher boys; Sharon,
Hearst, d. o. Mills, Lloyd Tevis, j.
n. Haggin and many more climbed
from obscurity to enormous wealth.
Irwin M. Scott, the great shipbuilder
and the owner of one of the most
valuable collections of great paintings
I'm America, was an unschooled dollar
and -quarter boy i'm Baltimore
foundry, and began his California ca
reer as FOUNDER OF iron.
Alolf Sutro, perhaps the only one
whose millions were made without
gambling and by sheer hard work, was
a poor Russian, twenty years old, when
he landed In San Francisco In 1850,
and went TO selling cigars. Peter
Donohus. Scotts good angel and the
pioneer foundryman of the coast, was
engineer on one of the early steamers
to California But Sutro furnished
the greatest example of perseverance
and pluck. For more than fifteen years
he fought for his dream of hole to
drain the Comstock, four miles away
and nearly 1000 feet underground.
Alone against the hundred millionaires
of the Big Bonanza, against state and
national governments, against almost
insuperable physical, numerical and
financial odds, he carried his war to
the people, to congress, to Eprope-
and won. There are now larger and
oostlier mines than Sutro's, but 1t is the
greatest ground monument to any one
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
SECURES RICH OIL FIELDS
Rock Island VIII Use That Substance
for Fuel

For the past two years the officials
of the Rock Island have been investt-
eating the asphalt and oil fields OF
Indian Territory and Oklahoma and
have secured control of enough oil
producing land to supply the locomo-
tives with fuel for many years to come.
There are no coal fields in this part
of the country and fuel must be
hauled for a long distance to supply
the engines. For a long time the Rock
Island supplied the Santa Fe with coal,
but the latter road began to use oil.
The Rock Island then began investi-
eating, with the idea of securing this
substance for use as fuel upon their
own road with successful results.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
scoTTY

Wish I could do like Scotty can,
Cause he can smoke an chew
Tobacco all he wants to, an
Go fishin' Sunday. too.
An once in their ole stable lot
Where their ole boss wuz lame,
His pa was there an Scotty got
A chew o. him, the same
AS If they both wuz men. an said
Pap, that amt no bad Star"
An his pa low an nod his head,
IT'S bout the best they are"
will Vowter in the Reader
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

Los Angeles will cordially welcome
Corporal James Tanner. commauder-in-
chief Of the G. A. r.. who will arrive
today. He has shown himself not only
q true patriot, but also a compassionate
and sympathizlng man. His reoommen-
dation that the graves Of southern
soldiers in northern cemeteries be also
decorated has touched chord Of at
feetion throughout the nation.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

Go ahead with every important en-
terprise here" says F. Q. Story "Opin-
ion is general in San Francisco that
Los Angeles should not let the disaster
up north interfere with any of our un-
dertakings" Certainly not. and every
body who has any sense understands
and appreciates the fact. only Hearsts
yellow Examiner thinks otherwise.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

The census bureau shows that Cali
fornia manufactures increased 42.7 per
cent in the last five years, 19OO-5, while
Los Angeles increased 52.4 per cent.
OF course we led the stately 25 per
cent The capital employed increased
1905 per cent and the value of prod
ucts 1870 per cent. while the number of
workers doubled.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
NOBLE AMBITIONS

1 want to be a MILDLY,
Down in Annapo- lis;
1 want TO see them hazing-
It's lots of fun, i wis.
/ want to have them haze me,
To know just what it's like:
And be the bravest freshie
That e'er came down the pike.
/ want to sit like they do,
ON thin edge of my chair,
And underneath the table
OF dessert eat my share.
l want to get an order
TO tumble out OF bed
And nifty times or more so,
To stand upon my head.
I want TO fall unconscious
G neer had chance to fainD.
I want a code of honor,
TO show what honor amt,
/ want no time for studies
'TWixt hospital and haze;
For service in the navy,
ones not here spending days.
i want to be court martialed,
And look like thirty cents
When fool things i must tell Of
Rouse public wrath intense.
Now-do / want dismissal?
NO-there my wishing stays;
/ want to stand and get my chanc
The coming plebes to haze
Baltimore American.
---s-s-s-
II you want to go east. G. Haydocl
a ~ 10 a.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

Old gray hats, equally with the
cherished blue can rightfully be tossed
up today in honor of Corporal James
Tanner. In fact the local ex-confeder-
ate society could do no more pleasing
thing than receive the G.. A. r. COM
mander-in-chief in a body, at an early
meeting.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

Contractors declare that prices of
building material must come down If
many contemplated improvements are
to be made. The demand for reasona-
BILE prices should be needed, in order
that there may be no check upon the
rapid progress of this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

THE working girls look happy here. "
says Mrs. ]. G. Phelps-stohes, who
with her husband is a guest OF Pasa-
dena. And why shouldn't they? Under
blue skies, amidst perpetual roses and
sunshine, In the land of palms and
oranges, olives and figs. with fair COM
pensatlon and glad chances to live, II
would be surprise if they were not
happy.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05
Pi-LimeS and Pick-Ups
nlaaln, sruds

<fNHfH @FNA-
q made my first dollar digging pota
toes.-John D. Rockefeler)
out IN tn 'tater patch,
Man 'ith tn hoe,
Disgin' UP pertsters.
Row after row.
Mebbe Jawn d. worked this way,
Butt dunnol
Sun is a-shinin' down
Very, very hot;
An sich a backache as
hev got
Jawn -. ever work this way7
That's ali rotl
Jawn D., at disgin' spuds
50 they tell YOU.
Armed tn fust dollar at
lie ever knew.
All at I gotter say:
Ne ARMED It, tool
As the phoenix says. up i'm san Fran.
cisco, This is my busy day."
A Kansas farmer dug a we'll thirty
feet and struck water; then he went
another thirty feet and lost It. This
teaches. best beloved, that we should
leave well enough alone.
We'd give n good deal for tintype OF
Uncle Russ. Sage giving that $4,000 to
San Francisco sufferers.
ST. Louis has prohibited slSyscrapers
st. Louis. by the way. Is much nearer
New Madrid, the Missouri earthquake
region, than Los Angeles is to San
Francisco.
Jealous Editor
Some people in a dress suit remind
you of ice cream garnished with mus
(Okla.) Hornet.
The president wants to limit fortunes.
Why not limit misfortunes, of which
more of us have more?
That New York actress who led pig
up Broadway had often led a lobster,
but none ever noticed that.
The mud in the Dismal swamp is
boiling. Indignant at the muck rake,
maybe.
Palm-It takes more than ono swal-
low to make a summtr.
Pepper-Perhaps, but one toad can
make a lot of springs.
Jim Corbett left his dinner to wallop
a man who insulted his wife. How he
must love her!
Castro is going to Paris. Better audit
his books.
It'll soon be time for Generals Fun
ston and Greely to give way to General
Prosperity up in San Francisco.
A Washington woman puts perfume
in her autos gasoline. Thus she keeps
in good odor with the populace.
Dramatist Dam, who died in Havana,
does not seem to have been one of the
original whole family.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

Commissioner Garfield's charges
against the Standard Oil company re-
quire immediate action by the prosecut-
ing officers of the federal government
right here in Los Angeles What are
they going to do about it?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-05

Each of the three railroads entering
Los Angeles will run its fast limited
trains to this city every day this sum-
mer, for the first time in history. That
looks good for summer tourist travel.