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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-28
Warehouse at EIIensburq.

ELL,ENSBURG, Aug. 2S.-W. Rob-
inson has let the contract for his new
warehouse. which is to occupy the site
of the old City Mills, to Ames Bros,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-28
MERCHANDISE CAR
LOOTED AT BOISE CITY

Havoc has been played, it was
learned yesterday, with a carload of
merchandise belonging to Thomas w.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-28
jim HILL PAID THE BILLS
Built Fine Country School N
Douglas County
TAXES On HIS LAND IS DOING Il
SCHOOL DISTRICT SOLVES PROB
LEM OF SECURING FINE
NEW SCHOOLS.
TAXES On HIS LAND IS DOING IT

over in the gray desert land of
Douglas county, near the line of the
Great Northern railway, where the
sage brush fiourishes particularly well,
and where people go for miles to visit
with their neighbors, stands a school
house of which any rural community
in any part of the country might be
proud, says the Wenatchee World. 1t
is built according to the latest ideas of
country school house construction. 1t
is we'll lighted and roomy and stands
in the midst of neatly cleared and well
tended grounds. It's air of well kept
luxury is entirely foreign to its sur
roundings.
Hills Money Pays the Bill.
Jim Hills money is paying for it.
He is paying the taxes which are de-
creasing the bonds and making it the
property of the district.
Mr.. Hill has not gone into the bust
ness of endowing schools nor is he a
willing contributor toward the edu-
cation of Young America; but all the
same it is said that he has paid for
more school houses than any other
man in the country. The one standing
over in Douglas county is but sam
dot the line of his road west from st
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-28

links the HORSEPOWER. Phone 1S45.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
Judge Goodwin on Idaho.

Utah and Idaho are closely linked
in many ways; socially and in bus
mess and in common hopes and
fears. All reports agree that Idaho
is enjoying exceeding prosperity.
Her mines are holding their own
and are enough to vitalize all the
other branches of business in the
state. In farming and fruit raising
she is advancing by leaps and
bounds, her grain is heavier than
the standard weight; her fruit has a
fame as wide as the Republic. She
has more superb agricultural land
than New York or Pennsylvania,
the average of her crops per acre
exceeds those states two to one.
When, perhaps five years hence,
she will be able to utilize the water
now running TO waste, she VIII
have more land under cultivation
than all New England has today
Her people are justly exultant owe
their present prosperity and owe
the hopes justly cherished for he
future. And they are a grca
people. The climate they live ii
is perfect from health standpoint
a climate which enables them I
work every day in the year out c
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
Congregational Church.

The Christmas exercises by the
Sunday school Monday evening
drew a full house. The program
prepared by Miss Emma Bunk con-
sisted of Christmas songs, class ex-
ercises and recitations. The star
drill was especially pleasing. The
decorations, under the direction of
Mrs. Nieukirk, gave pretty effect.
The Christmas prick house, with
snowy roof, red electric lights over
head and light within was stored
with brick candy boxes for MEM
bers of the school. Santa Claus was
in happy mood and pleased the chill
dren of smaller and larger growth.
Services Sunday at IL a. m. ano
1880 p. m. Sunday school at IL.
| Junior Endcaor at 4. Y. P. S. G.
E. at 6 80. Prayer meeting Wed
nesday 7 80. The monthly mission
airy meeting Friday, this week, al
2:30, with Mrs. Cyrus Carr. Th'
furnace is in use and is a grea
convenience.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27

A dispatch from Washington
dated yesterday, relative to the rail-
road situation in the west, among
other things, says: Governor Good
ing, of Idaho, to whom Commits
sioner Lane had written for infor-
nation concerning conditions in
Idaho and inviting suggestions re-
specting the difficulties met with,
writes as follows:
"The serious trouble, it seems to
me. is the fact that, among the
transportation companies, the one
important consideration in their
management is the securing oi di-
vidends without regard to the ser
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
Experts Report on Bailey-Garrett Block

A the request of A. Gendron, the
]. A. Fennell, of the
firm of Wyland & Fennell, archi-
tects of Boise, came here Saturday
and examined the Bailey-Garrett
building, now in process of erec-
tion, at the corner of Canyon and
Jackson. Some weeks since one of
the walls of this building cracked
and a dozen or more hammers were
drawn and beat knocking chorus.
Every amateur in town had his the
ory as to the cause of the crack
and expressed the same without
hesitancy. Though they differed as
to detail, all agreed that the foun-
dation was the foundation of the
trouble. Mr.. Fcnnell differs with
all of them on this point. He says
the foundations are of ample
strength to sustain the building.
The crack, according to his opin-
ion, was caused by the swelling of
the lumber used, owing to the re-
cent rains, it being unprotected.
The slight deviation from the
plumb, he says, was occasioned by
the insufficiency of the support
I given the piers sustaining the Sec
ond story in the front of the build
ing, and the remedy suggested fol-
this is to reinforce the footings o
these piers, where the load, o
course, is heaviest. He also say
that where the side and partition
walls unite, they should be ancllore'
together by iron bolts.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
One COntestee who will Fight.

James Grady, who has been liv-
ing at Valley City until recently,
arrived here Saturday from Boise,
where he has been for some time
past, to begin the improvement
and cultivation of half section
of land which his wife filed on
in 1905. While here he let the
contract for a dwelling house. The
land is located in section 18, town
4, range 7, on which ]. M. Owen
has recently filed contest, on the
ground that the contcstee is not nor
has she been a resident of this
state. She will fight the contest.
Mr.. Grady says that though he has
had to be in North Dakota more or
/ less since the land was filed on,
winding up his business affairs, his
wife has been living in the state
almost continuously, with relatives
in Moscow, and he has no doubt
but what the original filing viii
stand, as he has complied with the
/ law.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
Thomas After Another Colony.

G. B. Thomas, who is connected
with the Great Western Beet
Sugar Company, at Mountain
Home, having an office in this
city, leaves Saturday for North
Dakota and expects to return with
Is or 80 farmers from that state
whom he has interested in ranch
land about Mountain Home. He
states the Great Western Beet
Sugar company has brought 400
farmers from North Dakota to
Mountain Home and that he alone
has induced $50 to come from that
state within the last few years.
1--WE are going to have city Of
5000 inhabitants at Mountain Home
in five years. - That is the way
Mr.. Thomas expressed his enthusi-
asm over the growth of that portion
of the Gem sta c. ''Thc population
is now 1000, while three years sgo
it was only 400,' he said. 1.-The
farmers who have come from North
Dakota represent the most success
full tiliers of the soil in that state.
They have money and are able tC
pay for water rights when they
purchase their land. A short tim,
ago one of them paid 10000 casf
for the water right on half sec
ton. Statesman.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27

was raised. Mr.. Hewitt's novel
peech is reported in the West
Coast Lumberman as follows:
Although in way Henry Hewitt
is one of the best known men on
the coast, in one sense he is the
least known. He is a man that
one has to know intimately before |
he is conscious of his latont good
ness, liberailty, his ability and, /
lastly, his honor. He is perhaps
the largest individual owner of tim
Der land on the coast. 1t is not OF
his success in that line, however,
that this article is written, but
rather to reproduce as nearly as pos
sible an impr omptu speech recently
made by him. The Congregational
! church of Tacoma has mems club,
before which Mr.. Hewctt was re-
Gently invited to appear and make
an address. Mr.. Hcwett does not
need notes, his tongue and brain
have a close connection. His speech
was brict, but was received with
great applause. 1t as about as
follows:
81 am not a public speaker, and
do not feel quite at home among a
lot of Christians. / was born and
raised in the woods My first ex-
perience was in the days when the
OK team furnished the motive power
. for moving logs; a man who could
swear the loudest and use his goad
| to the best advantage was the man
. that received the best wages and
obtained the best results, so swear
0 ing got to be a factor in logging,
and picked up the habit. Now,
p we timber men don't mean any Of
r fense to our Creator because we
S swear. He knows everything,
r and He knows we don't. l dom
want to offend One who has fur
4 nished all these beautiful forests
: but l learned to swear, and l an
[. liable to slip any time. In fact
e am liable to slip right here, but i
t. do l don't mean anything by it.
Ie ''Now have only about fifteel
|
l. want to try to do little good
,c l have not always done just what
IS should do. l am not like Carnegi
at Il do not care to erect a gres
Id monument Of cold stone, but wan
.r to help put up some monument
r. that will do good. That is why
I'd have been doing something for tn
is Young Mems Christian association
,e There are five or six hundred youn
re fellows in this town belonging
that association, and l want thei
lie to speak good word for me instca
nd of slapping me in the face. wal
so them to grow up, and maybe the
to will want some of my timber.
ed want them to be successful. W
". fellows when we die can't take OF
ne timber with us, and someone hs
got to have it. AS l said in II
nd start, can't make a speech, and
re am going to give place to someboc
l. alec -
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
MOUNTAIN HOME WINS
DEBATE FROM NAMPA
Home Team Makes Winning Fight of
the Argument From Start
to Finish.

The Mountain Home High school
at the debate in that place Friday
evening. The question discussed
was: Resolved that the United
States should grant shipping subsi-
dies, other than mail subsidies, for
the encouragement of the merchant
marine" The affirmative was up
held by the Nampa team comprised
of Leila and Arthur Beckner and
Gladys Graybi1l.
Miss Chrissie Mahoney opened
for the negative, Miss Lydia Lahti-
nen following and Joe Longfellow
closing, summing up the points and
clinching. Competent judges pres
ent say that the Nampa team cx-
cclled somewhat in delivery and
composition, but were deficient in
argument and displayed little en-
thusiasni; while the Mountain
Home debaters were loaded to the
guards with arguments, enthusias-
tic and made a fight of it from
start to finish. The competent
! judges were Professor o. E. Rose,
Judge Perky, of Boise, and Judge
Haglin, of CALDWELL. OF course,
Professors Warner and Culver,
particularly gratified over their sue
cess, while the whole town feels a
pardonable pride in the result.
The Nampa Leader Herald says
that in the markings the Napma
dcbatcrs were twenty ahead Even
if that statement is correct, it cuts
no figure in the decision and Pro-
fessor Warner says that it was one
of the rules adopted in arranging
for the debate, that, as any sys-
tenn of marking is purely arbitrary,
it should neither influence the
judges, nor the result be made pub
lie.
The Nampa quartet furnished the
have been unusually good. A re-
ception was given the Mount air
Home visitors after the debate
when the Nampa people united ir
q extending courtesies, making the
visit an entirely pleasant one.
The following Mountain Home
{ people accompanied the home de
q bate.-s to Nampa and attended boil
: the discussion and the reception:
e Professor |. B. Warner, Professo
y E. w. Tracy, Mrs. M. E. Longfcl
q low, Georgia Mahoney, Giady
10 and Vida Loveridgc, Eva earns, l.
We're Bell, Bertha Heard, Mamr
II AXE, Robert and Alice Chattin
m Edith and Fred Turner, Harry Cor
Is rel, Stella Harris, Albert Mar hoefcr
= Hazel Boyer, Ellen Brady, Ere
10 Waller, Ed Grecnough, H. Mag
at den and James Wilson.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
G0ODING WILL GALL FOR
RAILROAD COMMISSION
Conditions in Idaho Under This Necessary
for the Protection of the
State.

vice rendered to the people. The
latter consideration is entirely lost
sight Of"
The governor of Idaho informs
the commissioner that he will rec
ommend the creation of a railroad
commission in his annual message
to the legislature. He includes in
his letter to Commissioner Lane a
copy of a report made by the i'm
migration commissioner, who,
after an analysis of existing con-
ditions, concludes that the coal
famine in western Wyoming and
south and southeast Idaho is due to
shortage in motive power and
J cars.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
For Sale, Trade or Barter.

MAVERICK has an unpaid ac-
count against one, Tyler, (givcn
name not known positively who
claims to be tailor; which it will
sell dirt cheap for cash, at an ex-
tremely low figure on the install
mcnt plan, trade for an equity in a
meal ticket on Chink restaurant,
or barter for old junk anything in
the line of scrap iron, discarded
rubber boots, or coal oil cans. Or,
it will give so per cent of the
amount due, (when collectcd) to
any man who can get him to tell
the same story twice, at intervals
of two hours, after 10 a. m. any
day, as to why he refuses to pay
the bill. 1t is but fair to inform
prospective buyers that this claim
is now in the courts for adjudica-
ton; but that judgment will
finally be rendered in favor of the
plaintiff, there is no doubt, with
the single contingent that a jury
can be secured, the members OF
which are not stoop shouldered
from wearing fraternal order
badges, prominently displayed on
the lapels of their coats. If this
handicap is not eliminated, all
/ trades will be declared off. Can
you ask for a fairer proposition
] For furher information, apply.at the
counting room, MAVERICK, Noun
tain Home, Idaho.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
COURT DECISION WILL CAUSE
ABANDONMENT OF EMMETT BENCH

In the application of the Boise
Payette Electric Light and Power
company versus the Canyon Canal
company for mandatory writ to
compel the latter to lower its dam
in the Payette river, Judge Stewart
has handed down an opinion grant
ing the writ, which requires that
the dam be lowered five feet.
The court, if agreeable to counsel,
will appoint three competent en-
gineers to make thorough investi-
CATION of conditions at the dam and
power house, at the request of coun-
sci for the defendant, and may, up
on their report, if better adjust
ment is found, modify the decree.
The Boise-Payette Electric Light
& Power company secured its initial
rights on the Payette river hear
Horseshoe Bend, July 5 1901, from
the state engineer. The Canyon
Canal company secured its rights
to build a dam and raise water from
the river in 1908. After the COM
pletion of the power plant the canal
dam was erected, and the contention
up two feet into the power house
to its great damage. The case
was tried before Judge Stewart q
few days ago, and submitted. In
handing down a decision, Judge
Stewart went into the merits of the
case, quoting literally from the
testimony and citing Oregon ane
Idaho authorities that were appli
cable to the case at bar. Th,
! court said a decision either wa,
meant great damage to the losinl
party, estimated at from $50, oo
to 5000, 900.
The court held that the plaintiff
= had not been guilty OF laches Il
u bringing its action, as defcnda Mt
> had been notified when construc
ton of the dam was begun, an
u again later on not to build it at ths
point. The court said that the test
rnony of defendants engineer, MI
Forshay, showed that the dar
4
river 10 feet was cut to twelve fee
/, and that after it was completed til
u water was backed up into the plair
\ tiff's power house fully two feet.
AS plaintiff had the prior righ
the court found from the cvidcne
that it would be necessary to low
the dam five feet. At this poil
v attorney for defendant, S. II. Hay
> said tha would ruin the projec
and that the Emmett bench wou
have to be abandoned, as wat
could not be placed on the bench
the dam was lowered. Judt
Stewart tsatcd that he desired
arrive at point which wou
damage both parties the least, al
if a commission of three cngince
could arrive at a more equitat
=. arrangement, he would modify I
decree accordingly. If there e
no objections entered, he will q
point the commission of enginet
- this evening.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
GOVERNOR GOODING INSTITUTES
LIBEL SUIT AGAINST CAPITAL NEWS

On complaint of Governor Frank
r. Gooding, r. S. Sheridan, editor
and manager of the Boise Capital
News, was arrested Monday charged
with criminal libel. He was re-
leased until today on his own rccog-
nizance. The alleged libel is con-
tanned in an editorial published by
the Capital News, July 1S, in which
''Gooding' and ''Graft" are spoken
of as synonymous terms.
The Capital News carried on a
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27

doors, and which to men is what an
oxygen blast is to molten iron
which converts it into steel, SO that
they can work long hours, so that
their brains are always kept
strong, so that they cannot help
but be a brave race and generous
hearts always attach to brave men.
We congratulate our northern
neighbor and wish for her contin-
uous prosperity and all generous
Christmas greetings. -Goodwins
| Weekly.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27

Eighteen teachers from this
county, including all engaged in
the Mountain Home schools, left
Wednesday afternoon for Boise, to
attend the annual state teachers
institute, which continues until
Saturday. Professors Warner and
Culver have prominent places on
the program, reading papers OF
interest to the profession.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27

bitter campaign against the govern
or during a period of a year or more
before election, and on numerous
occasions published statements
which were claimed to be libelous.
These were of the char actcr of the
one in connection with which the
case has been started, insinuating
that the governor was in some man
ner connected with grating.
1t is the understanding that he is
likely to proceed against some other
papers in the same manner.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
HENRY HEWtTT CUSStS But
GIVES $4,000 TO Y. NJ. G. A.

Henry Hewitt, Jr., who has
much money invested in Mountai n
Home and vicinity, recently not
only pledged $40, 600 himself for
the Tacoma Y. M. c. A. building,
but induced his partner, Colonel
Griggs, to contribute as much, and
then he went out with committees
and hustled until the required sum
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
SELF INFLICTED RAZOR
GAShES ACROSS BREAST
Dope Fiend, Deprived of Drug. Decides Life
is not Worth Living and At
tempts Suicide.

A man named Z. L. Shirley,
dope fiend, who arrived in town
few days since, attempted to COM
nit suicide Monday, out on the
prairies north of town, by slashing
himself across the breast with
razor. His intention was evidently /
to get through the ribs, but his
hand was too nervous to accurately |
guide the blade, SO he succeeded in
making a flesh wound five or six
inches in length, which will not
prove fatal. He was brought to
DIR. Mather's office, where his
wound was dressed and he was
then taken to the county hospital,
where he now is, recovering.
The man was around town Sun
day trying to borrow shall
amounts, and in the afternoon {.
E. Hart met him on the railroad
track a mile and a halt north OF
town. He told a rambling story
of himself; said that the Givens
brothers who own the hot springs
west of here, are relatives OF his,
and that they threw him out some
days since. He also insisted on
reading an article which he
claimed to have written on irriga-
ton, to escape which ordeal Hart
produced the coin pleaded for.
Later he went into DR.. Mathers'
office and made a similar maudlin
talk, had lot to say about the
Eagles doing him great injury,
said he belonged to no fraternal
order, and asked for money. The
doctor told him to cut out morphine
and he would see what he could dc
for him.
Monday he called at the drug
stores and tried to get needle foi
his hypodermic syringe, but wal
refused. He returned to the Keene
drug store and handed Miss Kcene
note, asking her to have it sen
to some woman, either wife or sis
ter, it was supposed. After he lett
thinking something was wrong, tn
note being unsealed, she read 1t
1t was addressed to no name, bad
a long FAREWELL to who ever 1T wa
intended for, referred to this fan
cied wrong done to him by tn
Eagles, and asked that his orphan
be cared tor. The police were e
once notified, who followed an
found him on the gronud quartz
of a mile beyond the northern col
porate limit, just after the woun
had been inflicted. He had run hi
hand under his shirt to make tn
cut. as none of his clothes wei
injured.
1t has developed that the need
to his syringe was stopped up, ar
II is thought that his hand shook
that he couldn't get wire in
clean it out, and being deprive
of the drug, his mind gave wa
He had two bottles of morphil
on his person when found
When taken to the hospital al
searched two sealed letters we
found, addressed to Mrs. Gus Van
Enterprise, Idaho, who he says
his sister. They we're written
Hotel Turner stationery and a
now in possession of Marshal Boy
he thinking it best not to mi
them. Mrs. Hall, of the hospit'
has written to the lady, but has I
vet received reply. Night Wato
man George says the man is M
in fairly clear mental conditiS
his needle having been cleaned
and he is reveling in dope, whi
he administers to himself. VIII
soliciting loans Monday. he claim
to have peen robbed at Glcnn's F
nv. but that is thought to have b'
a s'dream.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27

]. M. COWEN & co. IS FURNI-
TURE STORE is the place to buy
Xmas presents; china closets, side
boards, rockers, ladies' desks, music
cabinets, pictures, etc.