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Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12

remedy for the evil which is be,nk
done, and one which is not dependent
on Canadian cooperation. his
remedy could be accomplished by New
York State alone, and would be to so
deepen the river channel south of
Goat Island, between that island and
the New York State bank, that thu
American Falls would divide with the
Horseshoe whatever water was nor
diverted from its natural bed. The
Treaty of Client places the American
boundary at a point we'll out into the
deep part of the river channel and
affords ample opportunity to make
necessary excavations.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12
Diversion.

beauty of Niagara Falls little can he
accomplished, and from past experI-
ence it seems more than doubtful that
such will be the case. In the matter
of the II International boundary aud The
seal controversy, Canada certainly did
not show an over friendly spirit and
there is no reason to assume that her
attitude has changed In the least. but
it would seem probable that she will
use all her great influence with the
mother country to defeat any friendly
agreement that might be proposed.
This conclusion of Canada's probable
attitude Is not reached entirely on ac-
count of any u%nfriendly feeling, but
because of two very important facts:
one of these is the greater width ana
depth of the channel on the Canadian
side. which would insure n splendid
flow over the Horseshoe Falls after
the American side is entirely dry.
1t is asserted that Ontario Province
now receives from the Commissioners
of Queen Victoria Niagara Park, h
minimum annual rental of 100000 for
the water rights granted there, and
when the plants for which these
grants were made are in full operation,
the annual rentals to the government
will amount to owe 100000.
1t is further asserted that additional
water could he granted by Canada
which would produce al annual rental
of another $500, 900, and still not seri-
ously affect the Canadian side or the
Falls, while the American Falls would
be entirely drained long before this
anormous rental was due.
There would seem, however, 10 be a
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12
NIAGARA FALLS IN DANGER.
Joint Resolution in Congress For
Their Preservation.
Proposal to Unite With Canada in
an Effort to Stop Further Depre"
datlOns Which Will Destroy the

AT last the national lawmakers
have come to a realizing OF the
danger which threatens Niagara rails,
the most beautiful of all the worlds
natural wonders.
BY a joint resolution of the Senate
and House of Representatives the
International Commission, created I'M
der the River and Harbor Act of 1902,
was requested to report to Congress-,
at an early day, what action was, In
their Judgment, necessary II desir-
able to prevent the further depletion
of water flowing owe Niagara Falls
and were further directed to exert,
in conjunction with the members OF
said Commission representing the
Dominion of Canada, il practicable,
all possible efforts for the preserya-
ton of the falls in their natural con-
dltlOn.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12

in official life than any other member
of her sex, yet never so much is nee
has she let her tongue slip when
mum was the word, and this is more
than can be said of some men of exalt-
ed position.
Moreover, Speaker Cannon's conf
dence in his daughters discretion and
common sense is shared by the leaders
in the lower house of Congress who
have occasion to confer frequently
with the presiding officer. Many of
these confidential confabs are held at
the unpretentious uncovered brick
house which constitutes Speaker Can
mons Washington home, and many
times a newcomer at such a conference
has been surprised to see the wheel
horses of our national legislature freely
telling state secrets before the hostess.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12
MISS HELEN CANNON.
DAUGHTER OF THE SPEAKER or THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

gard it IN that light too, but the fact
remains that the enforcement of such
recognition is due the dignity of her
fathers position, and she is too good
a politician not to insist upon the
Speaker Of the House enjoying all the
prestige which is due him. Should Mr.,
Cannon one day be President of the
United States, as is by no means i'm
possible, his daughter will by reason
of her kindness and democracy, make
an ideal First Lady of the Land.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12

When Congress is not in session,
Miss Cannon is mistress of her fathers
home at Danville, Illinois. There, as
in Washington, she is always prepared
for company, for the Speakers married
daughter with her children, spends
much time at the Cannon home, and
relatives and friends always feel free
to drop in" at almost any time.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12
JOYS of Good Cooking.

incidentally it may be noted that
Miss Cannon is largely responsible for
so many of these political star cham
Der sessions being held at the Cannon
residence instead of in the Speakers
private Office at the Capitol or some
where else. Few readers of this need
be told that the average mar sets
great store by good cooking, and the
popularity won by Senator Hanna's
famous "hash breakfasts goes to
prove that the President and other
high officials of the nation are no eX-
ception to the masculine rule.
Well, just here one has a hint as to
the magnet which helps to draw many
men of affairs to the Speakers home
instead of to his office. Miss Cannon
is a splendid housekeeper, and is an eX-
pert in preparing or experimenting
the preparation of those plain. whole
some dishes which never fail to make
a hit with men who are weary of hotel
cooking. In things to eat, as in dress,
Speaker Cannon does not go in for
much in the way of %"frills". but nc man
who knows what is in store for him
ever declines an invitation to dine at
his house.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12

If anything is to be accomplished
In the matter it is necessary to act
at once. for if more corporations oh
tain control Of the water rights 1t
will be impossible for either the nation
or New York State TO repurchase them
without an absolutely enormous ex-
penditure of money.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-05-12
Dependent on Canada.

1t will be noted that unless the
British government unitcs with this
country in it's effort to save the natural
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

1t IS not surprising that people who have studied
these phenomena for a lifetime should be able 10
toretell their movements according TO temperature
and other conditions The very avalanche / have
described menaCed one of the mountain railroads
for which Switzerland is famous; and as It's advent
was expected sooner or later a small engine and
freight sent TO a signal house to take awav
a minor official with his wife and three children
The man ordered to place all his belongings
on the car and return forthwith TO a station down
the line. He disregarded the warning The engine
went back again for further orders; and on us
return the driver found the signal house entirely
carried away. The five bodies were discovered a
week later, one OF those plantations of young
trees which Alpine railroad people established ex-
pressly to impede the avalanche
This brings me TO the subject of scientific ava
lanche fighting. In Tyrol regular forts, or earth
redOubts, built at certain strategic points for
the purpose of holding up dissipatng the falling
masses For besides their terrible destruCtivenesS
to human life, they plow through fertile pasture
sweeping away whole herds of cattle; and hundreds
of of rich soil in their wake are denuded 10 the
rock and rendered absolutely sterile. The hill folk
IN some sections try TO escape danger by building
the backs of their chaets right into the mountain
side, that the white terror may shoot harmlessIy
over them. Other villages are established near a
series of caves to which recourse can be had when
the ever vigilant people think an avalanche IS
about to fall.
In the Engadine the Alpine farmers protect
their barns and homes with huge hiIlocks Of earth
and stone such one sees between the danger
houses" in factories where gunpOwder and dvna-
mite are made. We have seen that churches are
built in the most dangerous places, with ramIle
bows; and behind them huddle the Chalets and
homes of the village, their occupants pathetica.'v
confident that they are under the protection #
the Church in a very literal sense.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
SOME FREAK EXTR RAVAGANCE

T0HAT eXtravaganCes involving fortunes are not
the sole prerOgatives of the modern ultra
fashiOnables is proved by numerous histor-
ICally chrOniCed events wherein those of Europe's
royal blood have OutdOne anything yet attempted
by ambitious fad loving American millionares
Perhaps one of the most worthy instances is that
in which the eccentric Charles de ROhan, tired of
lavishing money royal and titled danes, collected
ten beggars from the highways and lanes adjacent
70 his estate, and entertained them for ten DAYS at
his castle of ROhitsCh. During the whole of this
time they Jared sumptuOusly, and were clothed each
morning in different and costly habiliments. \
series of masques tournaments and other revels fol-
lowed one another in quick succession in their honor
AT the end OF their visit his guests were dismissed
with money gift of about three thousand dollars
and also bore away the whole of the valuable cos
tunes which they had been wearing As some of
these were adorned with ieweled buckles and but
tons, their worth considerable. The cost to de
Rohan colossal, but it made him the most
talked of man in Europe for the time being, and
this, he declared, more than repaid the outlay.
1t was Prince Potemkin who while travelling with
Empress Catherine of Russia in the Crimea startled
European royalty by serving the last course of a
banquet which he gave in honor of the Empress
a dishful of what appeared to be small yellow
and white plums. Each guest as the dish was
handed about, helped himself with spoon of
large size. The plurns then discovered 10 be
pearls.
The Comte d'Artois made himself famous by ex-
pending twelve million francs in entertaining the
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
Forests as Protection

THE cantOnal governments well as the fede-1
authorities at Bern are constantly planting f.--
ests on slopes menaced by avalanches, and also u
the entrance TO preCipitOus ravines IN which small
towns are established. On some mountain roads
avalanChes Fall with clockwork regularity and may
contain five million cubic yards OF ice and snow.
In such the Alpine troops are ordered out -1-
gether with village volunteers and regular tunnels
driven through the immense mass, So that The
post wagons may get through safely.
Quite a common sight IN the echoing Alpine
heights in spring is a party of Alpine engineers
signaling with white hexagonal disks the probable
fall of an avalanche near some busy village. whose
peaceful people thus rudelv interrupted in their
idylEc labors producing milk and honey. fr,u- and
wine, for the hundreds of thousands Of visitors.
An almost equally common sight IS q sad lIe oi
wounded soldiers and civilians fallen in the fight
with Natures giant forces, and carried Uickabac1
on ingenious stretchers by the Alpine troops Each
burden bearer picks his way with the unerr.rg feet
of a chamOs through wilderness Of rock. linking
only of the injured man he carries on the curious
ambulance at his back
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

powder, which he used to dry The ink Of the r. re e
wrote her the subject.
During this same period the great Du1e e
buckingham delighted in covering himself from
head to foot with diamonds and other precious
gems. These ne Wore loosely, SO that in dl-l.r-,
they frequently became detached and rolled upon
the floor, there 10 be scrambled for by The CAV
women who thrOnged his court.
The immensely wealthy William Beckiord famed
as the author of Vathek, a later date made he
smart set of his generation mad with envy tv
plng extravaganza upon extravaganza. culul.u.-.rE
them all in his bizarre attempt TO build upon is
FOnthiI estates duplicate of what he imagined
AladdlnS palace, described in The A-.l--n
Nights to have looked like. Marble por- al-v,
Jade, lapis lazuh gold, silver, IVORY ebony every
thing, IN fact that IS most costly IN building md
decorative material, went TO the erection o- -h.S
gorgeous specimen of freak architecture. Wild -4.eS
told of the barbaric SplenCor of its inferno %
nlShIngs and fittings; but Beckford kept curiosity
keenly alive by denying admission 10 every
BODY
When at last the public grew weary of the sub
Ject, its owner set all the fashionable world -og
again by announcing its sale by auction. Iht
thousand catalogues at guinea apiece Ver, 3D.
Over one hundred thousand people ATTENDED he
auction, most of them being obliged TO camp -- n
tents there was no accommodation an. mere
near for such large number. The gross sum real
lzed for the building and its contents v-> -c-ee
hundred and thirty thousand pounds, abyu- ne
third OF what IL cost.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
His Majesty the Offender

ON this latter occasion it was the King himself
~ who the offender. Il hear said His
Majesty to his host who owed millions, that You
in debt"
The Prince frowned, yawned ostentatious1y, and
after lapse OF several seconds degned TO reply:
Il shall inquire of my steward and inform Your
Majesty.
At another fete given about the same time by
the pleasure loving Prince de Cont, woman won a
ring IN danSe deS danes. Knowing her hosts
OF scandal against her fair fame, she stipu-
lated that it should not be jeweled. The Prince
promised but while keeping to the letter of his
pledge broke II IN spirit, for he caused be mounted
in the ring a miniature portrait of himself over
which, in place OF ordinary glass was large dia-
mond ground thin. This the woman promptly re-
turned; whereupon the Prince had 1t ground TO
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

Queen for single week at his chateau of Bagatee.
More than half of this great spent IN
fitting the apartments which assigned 70 the
Queen and her suite.
The king of all spendthrifts the Prince de Soubise
tbrouohoIf his whole caraer ;,eie+ad oC;star,tT,,
that so vulgar a thing money should never be
mentioned to him in his presence. He engaged
in the quarrel OF his life with one of his most intimate
friends for dsregarding his wishes in this respect.
Vet he lavished no less than six million francs
on single ftte, and at another time laid out
two million francs entertaining Louis Nv. one day
and over night in his country house near Versailles
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

feet by the spotess kissing mass from which nothing
emerged when all still save the church steeple.
As usual, hundreds of strong, willing hands were
soon at work to rescue such as might be living be-
low, and tunnels were dug through which four or
five men and women rescued; for the porous
snow will permit to breathe for many hours and
days, of burial
The most amazing record of this kind comes from
the hamlet of Burgoletto in the Upper Strura Valley
at the foot of the Piedmontese Alps 1t had been
terrible season for avalanches They began when
Suddenly the began to move. 1t seemed the
whole world moving The terrified children
were carried down the crest of snow waves, that
racked and curled In the valley below a wedding
procession joyous course, with tinking sleigh
bells and cries of JOY Bride and groom with sixteen
relatives utterly overwhelmed by the avalanche,
and their bodies found only when the
melted the in the spring.
Next day, in sinister silence, the village of Tauetsch
buried at dawn by mountain of powdery
snow, wind blown and porous Out of one hundred
and thirty persons who wondering why the
morning did not break, fifty-fve got out unhurt
But in Burgoetto five long weeks elapsed before
the roofs of the houses could be reached by
walking high up the frozen mass, and boring for
the housetops with great iron rods seventy feet long
There seemed no hope until the warm winds began
two months later. And yet when, after five weeks
work. perpendicular tunnel reached the house of
a shepherd named RaCCia, and rescuers lowered
themselves, as down chimney, RaCCia'S wife and
sister in law, with his little boy and GIRL found
alive. The stout oak props of an clubhouse had kept
the great from crushing them to death,
while they had lived upon goat, some fowls, and
the freshly made weeks bread.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30
Varieties of Avalanche

THE avalanche is of three varieties First come
the gigantic ice masses detached from glacier
perhaps thirteen thousand feet high on the noun
tain side; then the dust avalanche of powdery
snow. famous for the terrific gust preceding it.
which is often more destructive than the kissing
ocean behind. Last of all comes the compact ava
lanche of snow, earth, rocks trees, and a hundred
other things which the hurting mass picks up in
its descent.
Slight indeed is the cause that will start of
these Alpine terrors. 1t seems strange to hear of
gun being fired in some lonely valley to bring down
some monstrous pendant mass at the right time
when the people are prepared. Stranger still is it
10 hear of avalanches being started by bird alight
ing, sleigh church bells ringing. Again spring
zephyr, the ncautiOus tread of fox chanois will
start a few preliminary flakes, just tiny hole,
drawing a t1ickle from a Dutch dixie, may be the
forerunner of a that may engulf province.
Once started, never slightly the snow begins
its insidious slide, gathering speed and volume,
until its hiss and thunder be heard for miles,
echoing and reverberating from peak to peak-the
dread sound so we'll known in Alpine soltudes \
pitess Niagara, carrying with it entire forests-and
yet turned from its nurderous course by some SIM
New-York tribune., 1906-12-30

pie device like the ice breaker church at Davos
Patz in the Engadine, with its shaped end like
the ram of battle ship, which has diverted from
the valley SO many roaring and otherwise destruc
tive
What Swiss does not remember the terrific ava
lanChe that fell from the twelve thousand foot
Altels on September II, 1895! The upper part of
the west face of this sky piercing pyramid covered
with eternal snow and glacial ice One great glacier
suddenly ceases to spread, and IS confined within
tremendous walls Below it is a channel cut by
avalanches from immemoral time. On that memO-
rable morning, an entire river of ice three
quarters of a mile wide and seventy feet high, began
to slde-an inCOnCeivabe glissade of four thousand
feet-whiCh swept it down into the valley. where
as though it had been liquid, it mounted neighbOr
peak to a height of six hundred feet. Thousands of
forest trees were brushed away like much grass.
Chalets hundred years old We're blown like chill
drenS toys, not by the mass, but by the iii istble
gust of air which it displaced Houses, CATTLE crops,
and granareS were carried away.
Soldiers to the Rescue
THE far famed Compagnie Alpine of the Swiss
army were on the spot within two hours of the
disaster They devoted their efforts to getting
house in which entire family had been buried.
There old woman of seventy, her two
daughters four neCes and infant of four months.
The soldiers dug and blasted huge galleries in the ice
and snow masses, and actually brought all out alive.
Often enough innocent hunting party will
start an avalanche in which they find their own
graves. a case in point comes from the fateful
Haut de Cry. One day last winter a StOrekeeper
named Bolssonnet, with a guide named Bennen
and some pOrters were ascending the mountain in
search of ChamOis. They came to CoulOir, snow
filled gulley and Bennen did not like the look of it.
He asked local man whether avalanches ever came
down, but was told his party safe enough.
They began TO cross the snow rOped together.
All at the two leaders sank above their waists.
Bennen tightened the rope. The snow was too deep
to do more than advance few steps. Hard snow
was reached after minute or two, and the
climbed out. Suddenly deep, rending sound was
heard above; the great snow field had split in two
fifteen feet higher up. The cleft at first not
more than foot broad, The awed silence that fol
lowed was broken by Bennens voice. We are all
lost!' he said slowly and sOlemnly. They We're his
last words He was seen TO turn, face the valley,
and stretch out his if in blessing The
ground began to move beneath their feet with ever
increasing speed. The men sank helplesSly in the
roaring and Kissing snOw terrorized by the thunder
of the foremost part of the avalanche. One man
saved. The rest We're buried in a torrent of
snow more than hundred feet deep.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-02-13

TERMS OF SALE are as follows On all
lands selling for s25 an acre or less. lilo of the
purchase price and first years interest on de-
ferred payments cash on day of sale, balance
in IS annual installments at per cent in
terest on all lands selling for more than s25
per acre, 2-1O of the purchase price cash on day
of sale, balance in 16 annual installments at
per cent interest. No lands will be sold for
less than the appraised value.
Water rights for the above land can be had
upon the following terms: Price to be $3.50 per
acre. terms per acre on forty acre tracts or less,
So. 90 cash on day OF sale and 800 annually for
seven payments, and $3.50 per acre for last pay.
ment. For more than forty acre tracts, $500
cash on day of sale, $500 for two consecutive
years and $500 per acre for fourth payment,
and $3.50 for the last payment Interest per
cent from March 8, 1906
Further information may be obtained from
the County Treasurer, or from the State Land
Department,
By order of the State Board Of Land Commits.
sioners.
c. MCCONNELL, Register.
Dated January 80, 1905. lf6-27-4t
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-02-13
TRIES EXPERIMENT
Country Merchant Proves Value OF
Advertising.

A merchant who had two stores
in small towns tried an expert.
ment. He put a bargain counter
in each store containing the same
articles at the same price. In the
newspaper OF one village he adver-
tised his special sale counters. In
the paper of the other he did not,
In one month in the village where
he did not advertise be sold 1884
worth Of goods. In the store where
he did advertise be sold the same
goods amounting to $1724. In
commenting on the result of the
experiment the merchant said:
"People who got the paper with
the advertisement would pass by
one store and drive for miles to the
other one for what they could have
gotten at the same price in my
store at their doors, but they did
not know it was there"
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-02-13

Ar Victoria, Texas, December Is.
1905, Mat Porter, 70 years old,
was convicted of cattle stealing
and sentenced to the penitentiary
for 1000 years.
Those Texas Courts seem to be
so insistent in arranging things so
that man is induced to devote
about all of his time to the inter.
ests of the commonwealth, leaving
scarcely any extra moments for
the indulgence of afternoon matt
nees, popcorn, pink lemonade and
things.
The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-02-13
Brotherhood Is Woman'S Business.

Mofherhood Is Woman's Business.
The accumulated force of all
nature for all time is not going to
be baked by expression in this
eliminating species. Motherhood
If anything-is woman's bus
mess. That business has been for.
ever interfered with by man
made world; by warfare and ship
wreck, by accident and injustice,
by vice and excesses-all on the
fathers side.
While drink and war and crime
kill thousands and hundreds of
thousands, while our railroads
alone destroy more men each year
than many battlefield, it does
seem somewhat absurd to turn
about and cry to patient mother
hood for more children. Napoleon
was frank and consistent, saying
women were only to be valued for