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Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08
The Catalogue House Stove.

There is no need Of pointing a
moral in the following tale from the
Shopper-News. Just read it over and
keep it where you can show it to the
customer who insists upon sending
away for his stove.
A well-known Watertown Is. d.
man not long ago conceived the idea
that home stove dealers were making
a little too much money on their stoves
and ranges, and after talking the matter
over with his wife he sent to one OF the
large catalogue houses in the East for a
range. The cut Of the range in the
catalogue looked fine and contained a
very elaborate description-and the
price was only $40. Just think OF
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08
No Sample Copies.

We are in receipt of numerous
letters from taxpayers in various sec
aons of Latah county asking US to mail
them sample copies of The Troy News,
containing the delinquent tax list, the
commissioners proceedings or some
other official business. Many of the
letters contain five cents in stamps with
an urgent request for rush order
of one copy. We do not intend to
print extra copies to accommodate the
fellow who is too penurious to take his
official county paper. We don't pro-
pose to do county printing at cost and
then tie up more good money in sam
pie copies for the benefit of men who
ought to be regular subscribers. If
taxpayers want the delinquent tax list
or ether official news they can get it by
sending one dollar to this Office. The
News is now printing about one thou
sand copies every week but we haven't
any samples. Not now.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08
He is a Bel gian.

What is without doubt the finest
speciman of the best draught horse, was
taken off the car at Troy Wednesday,
and left yesterday for the country east
of Troy where he will probably be sold
TO the farmers under very liberal
contract. This new horse is known as
Rostan, and was foaled January l, l9OO,
in Belgium. He is a roam and is what
is known as roam Belgium draft horse.
He weighed when he landed in Troy
2.O7O; and looks it, too. This animal
has large, perfect feet, large bonny
legs, and is pronounced by local horse
men as about the most perfect speci-
man ever seen. To give our readers
an idea of the size of horse that will
weigh over a ton we will mention that
Rostan measures over six feet around
the neck, but his head is very small,
his eyes mild and his disposition per
feet. He is as gentle and kind as
some old family carriage horse. No
idea of the beauty Of the animal can be
had from cold type, and we are sorry
we have not a picture. Rostan won
1st prize at the Ohio State Fair in
1905; 2nd prize at Portland Exposition;
2nd prize at American Royal Live
Stock Expositi,n, Chicago, 1905, and
1st prize at the International Live
Stock Exposition, Chicago, 1905. He
has been approved by the Belgian and
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08
Best Country Ever.

No town can have any degree OF
prosperity unless there is work for every
honest man. And of the towns Of
Latah county how many can offer to
laboring man anything like steady
employment? Only one, and that is
Troy, the town that does more business
and ships more stuff than any other two
towns combined. Here no man need
be idle, not for one month. Our farms
and orchards, our fields and gardens, our
saw mills and wood camps, and our
timber industry, all demand labor, and
all contribute to the prosperity enjoyed
bv Troy and the surrounding section.
Here we have an increasing home
market for farm produce, while the de-
mand for butter, eggs, poultry, fruit
and vegetables will grow much faster
than the farmer can produce the strff
to supply it. No other section offers
such excellent opportunities to the
farmer for here land is comparatively
cheap and exceptionally good. Here
can be produced successfully beans,
corn and tomatoes, for here can be
found thousands of acres free from frost.
Here the farmer cleans his land by
rotating crops, and here land is worth
more than any other place in the north
rract
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08
Voted a Tax.

The annual school election Monday,
passed off quietly and satisfactorily to
the patrons Of this district. R. G.
Plunkett was reelected as trustee for
a three year term, there being no op-
position. He has made most excell-
ent director. 1t was decided to rebond,
the old eight per cent bonds to be
taken up and per cent bonds issued
to the state. 1t was decided that a
new building at this time was not ad-
visable and the board will repair the
present house and make it entirely safe
and comfortable A special tax of S
mills was voted to be used for general
school purposes.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08
Improved Methods.

Modern inventions has done wonder
full things, and in no line of industry is
this more evident than in the printing
and mailing of newspapers. Even the
small country newspaper, if means are
available, can be turned out with in
creased speed and care. AS an ex-
ample the News has been each week
addressed to about one thousand
people and each name has been written
by hand, slow process at best, re-
curing several hours Of the most
tedious and tiresome labor. Now we
are going to change all this. A new
Horton Mailing Machine arrived this
week and within a few weeks will be
used to mail out our list. With this
machine a speed of ten thousand copies
an hour has been made and that
too with no possibility of an error, for
the operator cannot we'll miss a name.
The News desires to grow. We hope
to keep up to the demands of our
readers for a live country newspaper,
ana II peIlnlllCQ VIC VIII hOl NAooPPOAh
them. If every subscriber of the News
will only keep his subscription paid up,
giving us the use of the money we
think we earn, we will have no trouble
in carrying out our end of the bargain.
A paper whose subscription list is COM
posed of dead head delinquents and
dead beats generally can't grow very
much and if The Troy News is growing
it is because we have for subscribers
few of the aforementioned class. We
are glad to send the paper to anyone
and wait a year or so for our money,
lust as is every editor, but we would,
like other editors, like to parboil in hot
sulphur the fellow who will take his
local paper for years Gust as long as
the editor will send it) and then gel
mad when asked to settle up, and quii
without paying what he owes for the
time he has taken it. The News has
but few Of this class, but we have one
or two, and we feel like publishing
their names so that the public nigh
know who they are. One OF these
fellows lives in Juliaetta.
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Best on Earth.

Is there another section on Earth
where soil, based upon actual expert
ments, can equal the farm lands on the
Potlatch ridges tributary to Troy7 We
have never heard of such country if
one exists. Twenty-four years ago Lee
Carlton broke up and sowed to grain
land on his American ridge farm and
every year since that time this same
land has produced crop of grain.
Last year the grain was cut for hay,
Dan Holm, a neighbor, doing the cut
ting, and it is estimated that the yield
from this land of grain hay was two tons
per acre. During all this quarter of a
century no fertilizer has been used and
no rest given the soil. But it has pro-
duced and that abundantly. Still there
are people who look upon the Potlatch
as a very ordinary country, where
crops sometimes turn out pretty well. "
AS a matter of fact the finest corps, the
largest yields, and the best climate in
the Northwest is to be found here on
the Potlatch ridges. Here beans and
corn and tomatoes grow and mature;
here fruits and berries and tender
vegetables grow to perfection. AS
compared to the great Palouse country
that section isn't knee high and the
Big Bend is but a desert waste.
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it." said the good wife, there is a
saving of at least $15r' The man sent
his $40 cash for the range and it arrived
at the depot the other day. When he
took the boxing off he found it all
caved in on the bottom and sides. 1t
was impossible to use the range in this
condition, so he took it to the new
stovemen in town. A reporter for
Shopper News happened in the store
just at the time they were trying to fix
it up. Perhaps some people will not
believe it, but it is nevertheless a fact
that the range was not nor never was
worth. So. 1t would not even make
decent camp stove. The material used
in that range was not as good as the
ordinary stove pipe. 1t looked like the
wrecked battleship Maine. The re-
porter asked the slovenian who belonged
to the stove and they smiled and refused
to answer. There was another man
present eagerly watching the perform
ance and he spoke up and said: 1
am the sucker who was bumped on this
deal, and l have made a solemn prom
ise that if the good Lord will forgive
me this time 1 will never again send to
another catalogue house for anything
else as long as live" The freight on
the stove was over 81. That range
could not have been purchased in
Watertown at any price. A slovenian
who would sell stove like that in this
city would be promptly rode out of
town on a rail. Still there is sucker
born every minute, and sometimes
twice.
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Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08
pRIcE pAIp ZOE PRopucE
FOLLOWING THE FLAG.

When our soldiers went to Cuba and
the Philippines, health was the most
important consideration. Willis T. Nor
gan, retired Commissary Sergeant U. s..
A., of Rural Route. l f., Concord, n. H.,
say &" was two years in Cuba and two
years in the Philippines, and being sub
iect to colds, took DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, which kept me
in perfect health. And now, in New
Hampshire, we find it the best medicine
in the world for coughs, colds, bronchial
troubles and all lung diseases. Guaran-
teed at Johnson's drug store. Price SOC
and 81. Trial bottle free.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-06-08

French governments, and prorolnced
by European experts as the best draft
stallion that ever left the continent for
America. VIM. Elsie representing
Mclaughlin Bros, of Columbus, Ohio,
is in charge of the stallion.
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direction, and also by the ticks made by
then in charge Of the telegraph bureau and
he used to be 30 proud OF Murphy's attain
ments that he was always exhibiting him to
friends.
"The old system was slow, OF course, :"
said Eddie Murphy as he watched the junk
dealer irreverently carting the antiquities
away, "but 1t was wonderfully effective
and far more secret than the telephone is to-
day. There was nc danger OF
leaking out as there now is.
Orders were understood then, too.
Wonderful as the telephone Is, it is not al
together reliable. So many words and
figures sound alike that there is always more
or less confusion. With the dial system
mistakes were impossible.
For forty years it did good and faithful
| service, but it couldn't satisfy the modern
demand for speed. 1t is inextrioably in
terwoven with the history Of the city. For
nearly half a century the first report Of
every fire, accident, murder, suicide or
arrest went through these machines.
@0ne of the first murders they ever re-
corded wasthat Of DR.. Harvey Burdell, away
back in 1857. Some other famous murders
and events they could tell about were the
cimi In 81; the hanging Of pirate Hicks on
Bedlow's Island in 80; the murder of Henry
lazarus in '65; Of Charles II. Rogers in '8S;
Of Benjamin Nathan in 20; of James Fisk in
IL; OF william Sharkey n Thomas Dono-
hue In ~; OF John MoKenna, supposedly by
Richard Croker, in IA; Of Abraham Weis-
berg, the Hebrew pedler, in Kingsbridge in
rs; of Mrs. Hull in 70; of Louis Henri in 81,
when Mike McGloin, the murderer, made his
famous remark: "A guy amt tough till he
has knocked his man out; Of Jack Hussey
by Policeman Ed Hahn in 's7, and of James
Brennan by Handsome Harry Carleton, who
was the last murderer hanged in the old
Tombs, in 'Ss.
Among the noted incidents that I can
recall which cane in over the old system
was the burning of the ~Seawanhaka off
Randall's Island in 1880, the loss of the
steamboat Riverdale in SO, the explosion
on the Staten Island ferryboat Westfeld
in II, the New York Central Railway dis
aster at Spuyten Duyvil in so, the burn
ing Of the Crystal Palace in SO, Of Barnum's
Museum in '85, of the Academy Of Music
and the American Theatre in go, Of the
New Bowery In the same year, Of the Winter
Garden in '87, Of Niblo,s in To, OF the Brook
lyn Theatre In 70, of the Union Square in 4,
'7s, Of the Park in 50, of the Windsor in SO,
of the Potter Building in 's2 and Of the
Hotel Royal fire in '92.
"The value Of the telephone to do quick
work was fully exemplifed at. the time |
of the Slocum disaster. Within five
minutes after it happened every am
bulance in the city and every available
police surgeon in the department was
hurrying to the scene Of the disaster. Under
the dial system it would have taken ten !
times as long to get one-half the results.
/ was sorry when Commissioner Roosevelt
abolished it, but 1t had outived its useful
ness.'
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and several at Headquarters. There were
four or five on q single circuit.

and several at Headquarters. There were
four or five on a single circuit.
AS the sergeant at one end laboriously
spelled out his message on the machine by
pressing the right buttons the operator at
the other end would write 1t down, all the
time keeping one eye upon the needle
which paused before each character. There
was a code system, and each station house
had its Individual call or number which
the sender licked of on a telegraph key
attached to the box and which rams a bell
at every station on the circuit.
|, For instance, the second precinct was
known as 2. The sender would cali that
number until the sergeant answered by
pressing the buttons opposite the figures
70 on his dial. Twenty-three In those days
OF the othe r code figures woro:
27-what is your answer to my messages
s2-Hurry up.
SH-Have you a lost boy?
GIVE have a lost girl.
4a5-The parents have claimed the child
2424-Send the ambulance here forthwith.
2785-Is 1t likely to be a large nreP
2si7-Third alarm has been sent out for that
FIRE.
2si5-The FIRE Is under control.
The regular operators at headquarters,
most OF whom were also Morse telegraph
operators, soon became very proficient
IN manipulating tne Instruments, out Che
desk sergeants at the different station houses
did not have so easy a time. They had to
spell out every word not covered by the code
and some OF the MESA ges received are re-
membered yet AS marvels OF photography
and philology.
The mistakes Of one sergeant In particu-
lar have become classics In the annals OF
the department. One day the operator
at headquarters got the following message
from this particular sergeant:
Sind the dead Wagon here fer a dead gut.
1t was goat" that the sergeant tried to
spell. Another message was:
The mar who was. killed In a fight last night
died this morning.
There was no way for an illiterate sergeant
to beat the old system. His spelling in
firmities went down in black and white,
One of the most adept operators of the
old dials was Eddie Murphy. He was a
friend of Gen. Grant and Samuel j. Tilden
and during their Presidential campaigns
had charge Of the telegraph bureaus at their
headquarters. He finally drifted into the
police telegraph bureau and has been as
sistant superintendent there for many
years.
It was said Of him that he was the only
man who could read the dial instruments
without looking at them, a feat which to
appreciate one must know the Instruments,
Sometimes he would be busy in another
part of the room when a message would
come in and without leaving his work he
would read of what the needle spelled.
He did IL by familiarizing himself with the
pauses of the needle on the ratchet wheel.
knew the position of the dial figures by
heart and he had calculated to a nicely the
proper aus between letters as the needle
made its rounds, moving always In one
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FUN OF THE VASSAR GIRLS.
FACULTY CENSOR SMUDGES TIL 4
DRAMAS UNDERPINNINGS.

Omission In the Pictures OF Plays Given by
the students OF the Girls College
-HumOr o us Features OF Life at a Girls
College Told In Prose and Poetry.
~PoUaHkEEPsIE, May 2e.-The Vdssarion
for 1909 has just been issued. It contains
both prose and poems contributed by Vassar
graduates and students and Is illustrated
by numerous pictures Of college scenes and
incidents.
The only censorship evident Is In the hall
play groups, where an indignant faculty
! pencil has marred>the human form divine.
The male characters In Twelfth Night
a ppear without the support provided by
nature. Black smudges take their place.
The mutilation is evident again in 'Cyrano
de Bergerac" and "A Royal Family" The
| figures in "A School for Scandal appear to
be floating through an everyday environ
ment Of tables and chairs. The art OF walk
ing without legs has not affected the poise
and expression Of the students Of the drama
who look most natural and charming from
the waist up.
The henor Of being the most popular
member Of the faculty among the seniors is
accorded this year to H. Heath Bawden,
Phi. D., professor Of philosophy, whose por-
trait appears in the f~rontispieoe. The class
flowers are; Freshmen, lily Of the valley;
sophie more, dark red oarnation; junior.
bridesmaid rose; senior, white rose.
The officers of the senior class are: Presi-
dent, Julia Soaring, Brooklyn; vioe-presi-
dent, Esther Saville, Waban, Mass; score
treasurer, Leila Wolfersperger, .ster-
ling, ILL.,; class day committee, Marie
w albridge, Mabel Valdwin, Carlotte Krause,
Jean OIiphant, Marion Sears, Eleanor
Wortendyke. Julia Wright; Commence
ment speakers, Emily Ford, Susan Griggs,
Reba Hendriokson, . Sidney Lewis, Alice
McGirr, Sarah Morris.
Fun is poked lin the pages Of the ' assdrion
at each one of the seniors. Here is a sample:
If for a book you try TO sign,
To read at home with care,
Fen though YOU go three weeks before
Youth find her name Is there.
A bit of satire at the expense Of the ad-
ministration officials is presented In con-
trasting pen and ink sketches Of dormitory |
construction as advertised and as 1t is.
In n two college girls are shown taking |
afternoon tea in lonely solitude. their en-
joyment unmarried by sight or sound.
This is the wished for but unattainabls
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condition yearned for by generations Of

condition yearned for by generations OF
students.
The real situation is presented in a picture
showing a distracted girl vainly suing
Morpheus, while in rooms adjoining her
apartment on either side classmates strum
mandolins and turn on the bathroom
faucets with a rush and roar. Underneath
is the following extract from the Vassar
catalogue:
aThe construction Of the building Is such
that even more quiet ia secured than In
most smaller edifces. The walls separating
the rooms are Of brick and the floors are
deadened."
The book gives these suggestions for
senior year:
Take these hints as suggestions. not as
Instructions. and improve on them as you
= I.-What the student brings to senior year.
4. From the subject studied,
6 Christy pictures.
1 Sir Gallahad.-
Ba tered sofa pillows.
I set Temple shakespeare.
2 cups without handles.
~ ] brass candlestick tprice 10 cents).
unsecured chatting dish.
fat Memory Book.
2, From the study Of the subject.
Ability TO make q shirtwaist
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POLICE RELICS GO AT $16.
OLD DIAL TELEGRAPH SYSTEM
SOLD AS JUNK.
Did Good Work, Too, Untl Police Commits
sioner Roosevelt and the Telephone
Came In-Classlc Messages That We're
Sent Over IL by nliterate Sergeants.

Sent Over IL by Hllterate SerBeants
A heap Of old junk was sold at auction a
Police Headquarters the other day. For the
most part it consisted of ancient stoves
which had long outlived their usefulness u,
station houses, but there was also a pile OF
queer looking wooden boxes, Only the old
timers around headquarters knew what
they we're.
An Fast Side junk dealer bought them for
SIS. That was the proaic ending of an
interesting chapter of the New York Police
Department.
The boxes we're all that was left OF the
old dial telegraph system which served a
long period of usefulness until the tele-
phone made 1t hopelessly obsolete. A few
OF the old timers, among them Eddie Muir
ply, deputy superintendent of the tele-
graph bureau at headquarters, hovereI
about the pile looking as solemn as a funeral
party. They recalled many stories of the
old system.
There are very few people to-day, out
side Of the Police Department, who know
what the dial telegraph system was, yet for
forty years 1t was the only means Of COM
munication between Police Headquarters
and the precinct station houses, and its in
vention was considered a great feat Of
science. 1t remained in use until 1897,
when Theodore Roosevelt, then Police Com
missioner, abolished it. -
Anticipated as the method now is, and
cumbersome compared TO the telephone, it
was always very trustworthy and is even
now in partial Use by the Philadelphia
Police Department.
The dial system was first installed in this
city early in 1857. The inventor was a man
made by Pearce d Jones. The invention
direct and speedy communication between
Police Headquarters and the various station
houses.
The dial system took the place Of messen-
geI and revolutionized the police business.
It'd greatest drawback was its lack Of speed,
but that wasn't noticed until the telephone
later served asa basis for comparison.
1t was simple enough, and what was more
to the point II could be worked by the most
Ignorant sergeant, for there was no Morse
alphabet Of dots and dashes to learn. The
wooden boxes were, about two feet long, a
foot wide and half a foot deep. The interior
was filled with works like a clock, and it
rested horizontally on a little table.
There wal n face dial on which were printed
the letters Of the alphabet and the numbers.
Opposite these. just outside the dial, was a
circular row of push buttons which COM
municated with two large needles, one on
the dial's face and the other beneath
1t and connected with a ratchet, When the
button was ptshed opposite the desired
letter the two needles would %revolve, the
lower around the ratchet and the upper
around the dial, stopping at the desired
letter. Weights dangled from the machine
by cords and it had to be wound up like a
clock.
There wss ono of these Instruments with
the necessary batteries in each station house
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Biz Reduction Sale
.R NEW BRANCH WAREROOMs.

Every muscle. each neck craning
Just to peep into the mirror through the
crowds that throng the way
Surely then they'd ope their golfers.
And they'd make us splendid offers
To line all the walls with mirrors-iHas'en
We. oh happy dayi
The Students Handy Dictionary Of
College Terms" contains, among others.
thef following definitions.
A~thlete-Any member OF the Athletic
Association unconditional In her academic
work.
Chapel-A place where you wish you had
gone yesterday.
Phi Beta Kappa-A key which Cts no lock,
costing ,e5 OF hard cash and four years OF
hard labor.
Philosophy-The belonsingness and hars-
ingonedness Of concepts.
stemp-A medium OF exchange. and 0
standard Of deferred payment.
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