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Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
Geo. saad.
Bear Creek.

Bear Creek.
A ten pound girl was born to c. w.
Asplund and wife Oct. IL.
Filing Gullingsreude has just finished
haying on boulder Creek.
Nels Nelson Of Park has struck some
very good ore in his IS foot tunnel on
his mining claim. He is quite excited
owed his strike and will soon send to
Chicago for gasoline engine.
A meeting OF the Troy fire company
has been called for Tuesday evening
in Botten's store.
Lost between Troy and Moscow
fur Scarf Finder please leave at News
Office and receive reward Harry To-
biason. ) times
The commissioners, now in session,
have voted $500 for the new roar from
Big Bear ridge to Deary. They also
levied an additional half mill tax for
state purposes.
Frank Gates is filling in his lot In the
rear of his store and preparing to en-
close his realestate with a substantial
fence.
Work on the tar plant is about COM
pleted and the making of tar started in
earnest. To meet the expense five
cent assessment has been levieds There
is every confidence in the success Of
enterprise and even the assessment will
not cause those holding shares TO I'M
load. The only stock on the market
is bunch at so cents, showing the
confidence that prevails.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
A Curious Bird Mistake.

Many birds frequenting flowers for
honey or insects are thus liable to get
their heads covered with pollen. And
since the pollen of different flowers
varies in color, a bird may become yel-
low headed, red headed, blue headed.
etc. says the London Globe. This led
TO a curious mistake In the case OF a
New Zealand bird This bird was a
honey sucker and a haunter of flowers.
Now. I'm the early summer 1t visited
most frequently the flowers Of the ma
five fax and later In the year fed chief
ly on the fuchsia. The pollen of the
former is red and of the latter blue;
hence in the early summer the bird APP
reared with a red head and was nam
ed the red headed honey sucker. But
when later in the year it went to the
fuchsia its head was stained blue, and
II was called the blue headed honey
sucker. Thus for a long time this bird
was thought to be two distinct species
and only recently was 1t found that the
red headed and the blue headed were
one and the same and that the real
color of the head was blackish brown
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
Notice of Assessment.

Troy Chemical Co., Limited Location of
principal place of business at Troy, Latah Co.
ate of Idaho N,.tice is hereby given that at
a meeting OF the directors held on the 18th day
OF October, 1897 an assessment of five (5ci cents
p share was levied upon the capital stock of
the corporation, payable on or before the 18th
day of November, 1907, to S. Anderson, treas
urer OF said corporation, at his Office in tho
First Bank of Troy, Troy, Idaho. Any stock
upon which this assessment remains unpaid on
u 18th day of November, 1907, will be delin
cuent and advertised for sale at public auc-
tion and unless payment is made before, will
be sold on the 18th day of December, 1907, to pay
one ~ assessnenS loge1her WIN the
S. A. ANDERSON,
Secretary of he Corporation, location OF Of
flee at First Bank of Troy, Troy, Idaho.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
poubtIess be Did So.

certain young preacher was much
disliked by his congregation for his
foolishness and conceit. He considered
himself greatly prosecuted and, meet
ing an old German friend of his on the
street one day, began to tell his woes
ending up by saying: sand Mr.. Brown
the church warden, actually called me
a perfect ass My cloth prevents me
from resenting insults. but l think |
should refer to 1t In the pulpit next
Sunday. What would you adviser
''Mein friendt," said the old German
with twinkle In his eye, 81 know not,
but l t'Ink dat all you can do viii pc
youst to bray for dem as usualF'-Lip-
pincott's.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
A HEALTHY ( HERD.
The Successful pairymsn Weeds Out
tho Improbable Cows.

Many dairymen are losing their
rightful profits because they have
some cows that are costing more than
they produce. and these eat up the
profits of others. Too much cannot be
said about the Importance Of wedding
out Improbable cows, but too often we
overlook the fact that they are unprof
table because they are not we'll fed
and cared for With high priced feeds
and labor short sighted man is liable
to cut down these expenses beyond
economy.
1t Is no exaggeration to say that
there are thousands of cows now main
tained at loss that would be giving a
profit II allowed a fair chance. Pro.
fessor Wing and Mr.. Foord of the
Cornell experiment station have clearly
Illustrated this point Ten cows owned
by dairyman living near the station
were included In an experiment which
lasted for a period of four years. The
first year the herd was visited regular
ly on It's home farm, and careful rec
ords were made of food consumed and
milk fat produced. The cows were
then taken to the university farm and
given good care and abundant and
good feed.
Increase Shown.
This treatment continued two years,
when the cows were returned to their
old home and again received the care
and feed that they had had before
coming to the university farm. The
first year at the university showed an
average increase of 46 per cent in
milk yield, or 80 per cent in fat yield.
The large production was continued
throughout the second year at the uni
verslty, but 1t fell back to about the
original amount when the cows were
returned to their former home, care
and feed After the cows had become
accustomed to fair treatment at the
university they gave milk and fat at
lower feed cost than they had done be-
fore, when the total cost of feed was
less In other words, the average food
cost of a pound of fat fell from II
the university. In the case of one COW
IL fell from IA cents TO y cents.
These ten cows were not selected
but were taken at random, and a study
of their individual records shows a
surprising uniformity of gain due tc
good treatment. The experiment points
the way by which many dairymen
could change losses to gains. Similar
experiments have been performed by
Professor Smith of Michigan and 9th
ers, and similar results have been OBJ
tanned. 1t is not intended to claim tina
any and every COW would be profitable
even if given the best chance. There Il
great difference, and this is showr
only by keeping individual records. F.
r. A. Pearson, NJ. S., Professor of Dai
ry Industry, Cornell University II
Kimball's Dairy Farmer.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
Men and Teams Wanted.

Wanted, three six horse freight
team for freighting at Pasco Wash. Al
SO teams for wheeler and fresno work.
No rain, no mud, steady employment
all winter. Free transportation.
Address, Wren and Greenough,
Anderson Idaho.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
A Snap.

80 acres one and a half miles from
Troy. Timber enough to pay for place
and the land is rich and lays good.
All can be cultivated. Good spring
and land all fenced. $140O gets it
with time on part. Quick or you
loose il.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
Is il Cows You Want?

That's easy. We can supply a car
load of tested dairy COWS if necessary.
Sam Peterson, Troy Creamery.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
Good Harness

Depends on two things-QUALITY of
leather used and the WORKMANSHIP
that the manufacturer puts into his har-
ness. That is all there is to harness,
and that is why my harness stand the
test of time.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18
Wanted.

Girl for general house work. Call at
Otto S. Olsons sawmill, Trey, Idaho.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18

All the leading brands of -four ON HAND
and for sale by w. NJ. Duthie.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-10-18

Farm for rent in the Gcnesee country.
Inquire at this office.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04

held out promise of ultimate immu.
nifty every man jack Of them was will
ing 10 squeal.
II looked easy All things are easy
TO those who know how. Burns has
not been doing detective work for
nothing these 20 years.
Tricks Of the Profession.
But how about the tricks of the
profession that one hears so much
about?'' ] asked.
ooh, yes. there are tricks. l can
let you seal letter with your seal,
and will take It out of the envelope,
read II, and put 1t back. and you can
not tell that It has been opened.
In the famous hundred dollar bill'
case In Philadelphia | Intercepted a
letlei to Taylor and Briddeh. the en-
gravers who had spent 100000 In
copying the paper on whioh the soy
eminent money II printed. They had
begun by counterfelting cigar revenue
stamps. they made tssO. .ooo q that,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04
TOWN BOOMING HINTS.

One of tho surest ways TO stunt tho
growth OF your town is to sit around
on other peoples dry goods boxes and
knock the community.
No town ever grows beyond certain
limit unless somebody strikes gold
there locates big factory or does
something else to call attention to the
place. AS n rule, nobody on tile outside
10 going to do either of these things. 1t
10 up to the residents.
Now and then we see a certain town
bounding forward like looping jack
rabbit cn an Oklahoma prairie. But
the town IL not going forward Just Tor
fun. any more than the Jack rabbit. IN
each case somebody has put q perssAi-
Or In action, and invariably Il is some
body who has an interest IN seeinp
things move.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04

San Francisco.--William !. Burns,
the United States secret service agent
who trapped every member of San
Francisco's corrupt board of supervis-
ors into a full confession Of their
guilt, is called "the king of detec-
tives."
Although Burns has this interna-
tional reputation as a detective, II Is
hard for his intimates to remember
always that Burns is a detective.
Thus Francis j. Heney. tho prosecu-
tor with whom Burns has worked
through the land fraud cases in Ore
Son and in the San Francisco Doodle
cases, finds his associate a source of
continual surprise.
Burns amuses me- said lleney
one day recently, as he looked out the
window of his Office In the unburnt
Western Addition" of San Francisco,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04
Th. influence Of rrsss.

A writer in the Minnesota HOrtlcul.
turist says: "There are but few people
in the world who do not admire noble
trees on streets or country roads, and
wherever they are found such thor
oughfares are the favorite drives. The
man who plants trees is not only u
public benefactor; lie, besides. minis.
ters to his own we'll being. physical,
mental and spiritual. He deserves
credit for altruistic work. and he dis
plays good judgment in securing con
tentment for himself, thereby afford
ing double motive for his endeavOrs.
Honor and happiness will be his re-
ward"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04

while Burns was whirling by in his
automobile.
'Laok at him!" he exclaimed "He
Is as placid and dignified as lord
I'm his carriage"
Burns was leaning back at his ease
in the rear seat of the big tonneau,
Immediately groomed, with "A look
of imperturbable boredom on his face.
The lawyers associated with Heney
in the prosecution of Abe Ruef and
Mayor Schmitz were in the room at
the time, and they fell into a discus.
sion Of the man.
Msthodicai in Everything.
what interests me most about
Burns Is that he never misses "A
meal" said Cobb, Ileney's partner.
Il never saw him in too much of a
hurry to take his hour for dinner at
in everything. II is all in a days
work with Burns, and when he turns
in at night he sleeps like top
yet he never procrastinates," put
in District Attorney Langdons II
asked him the other night If ne
thought he could get man we want
ed and bring him to the Office in the
morning"
whats the matter with getting
him now?' said Burns. Taking down
the receiver from the phone he call
ed up n saloon. His man was there
Burns told him II would be better fol
his health to surrender himself al
our Office without delay. The man
came at once"
What interests me about Burns,
put In j. Dwyer, another of the at
torneys of the graft prosecution, "is
his personality. He gets the men he
is after to like him. Ruef likes him
now better than any of his own men
Those two swap stories to each Other
until you cant believe Burns Is work
ing all the time to land Ruef in SaI
Quentin prison.
HE can mimic a Frenchman, al
Englishman, Dutchman to perfec
( tipn, and the stories he tells souut
like good fiction. I believe ii is hiI
magnetism as much as his persist
ence that wins for him"
His First important Case.
This is the story of Burns frs
important case, as told by himself
1T was In 1890. in st. Louis. A mum
bcr OF arebugs had been burning
down houses for insurance money
They rented these houses; then the!
put, In velvet carpets. elegant fu,nl
ture, pianos and SO forth. which the!
Insured Az soon an they had thei
policies. they would move out tn
tyniturs' Then they would light
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04

and then branChed out into MAKING
hundred dollar bills.
''In the letter opened found three
of the bills which were being sent to
Taylor and Briddell by Kendig 4
Jacobs. cigar merchants In Lancas-
ter, Pa, with whom they operated. ]
marked the bills, replaced them In
the envelopes and remailed the let
ter.
Later, when Chief Wilkie and
went to search Tayler and Biddelrs
place and put them under arrest l
pried open q drawer in their desk.
found two of the three bills had
taken from the letter and marked.
"Wilkie was standing beside me
at the time, and ] said to him, loud
enough for the two men under arrest
| to hear:
That's funny. Jacobs told us
there we're three of these bills
"Briddell bit at the bait.
BURNS he said, how many men
have you got under arrest in this
case?
81 named every man who was con-
nected with the case. None Of them
was under arrest at the time.
That's enough for me- said Bird.
dell. We don't make any more trou-
bic for you.
HE gave me his full confession on
the spot. It was opening the letter
that did che trick. OF course Jacobs
/ had told us uothipUv
Counterfeiters Caught.
An Illustration of careful detective
work is Burns method in running
down two counterfeiters from Cen
trail America. They were Gen. Freder.
leo Mora and Ricardo de ReQuisens
These two men had been making
counterfeits in the United States OF
the 100 peso notes of Costa Rico. Oui
government was asked to apprehend
the counterfeiters, and Burns was en-
trusted with the job. Others had
worked at it before, but all Burns had
| to start with was sofa wrapped III
in burlap in which $3,O00,000 of the
counterfeit notes had been stuffed for
shipment to Costa Rica. On the bur
lap was the mark. INK 1894"
Starting from this. Burns found that
the burlap had been originally used
| in packing a shipment of overalls from
a factory in Newburg. It was the
shipping number. In Newburg Burns
went over the books of the factory
and found that those particular over
alls had been shipped to dry goods
store in Long Island City. There they
told him that they had recently sold
a piece of burlap to an old lady by
the name of Mrs. Chevins 1t did no,
look promising.
But, when Burns learned that Mrs
Chevins had a son-in-law, one Ricar
do de Requisens, who hailed from Cos
Ia Rica, he thought the trail was get
ting warm.
De Requisens was living with 9
young widow from Pittsburg at the
house of his mother, Mrs. Chevins
Burns placed De Requisens and the
widow under arrest. Then he SEN
one of his men to the jail with an al
legged message to the effect that II hi
would produce the plates of the coun
terfeit notes the government woult
abandon his prosecution.
After the messenger left, De Requis
ems was visited by his mother-in-law
When she left him Burns followed hel
to her home in Long Island City
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04

disguised in false whiskers and wear
ing blue goggles. never use dis
guise. except a change Of clothes. But
can take one Of my men and let
YOU talk with him; then bring him in
Tomorrow and let you see him and
you would not believe him the same
man. Here in San Francisco every
one knows meat least all the graft
ers do--so 1t would be useless to
try disguise"
Burns methods all through the
Ruef case have been surprisingly open.
When he started out to capture Ruef
after his friends, the sheriff and the
coroner, had been pretending to
search for him in vain for a week,
Burns assembled his posse in half a
dozen automobiles In front OF Heney's
Office; with Ruefs lawyers offices but
half block away. He had ten men
with him, but the open way with
which he went about the job made
the attorneys for the CRATER think 1t
must be all r,Ise. and no effort was
made to follow the party. They went
straight to the resort at the Troca.
dero in the outskirts Of San Francis
co, where Burns knew that Ruef was
in hiding. Burns had the house sur
rounded then he walked in and sur.
prised Ruef at dinner He had his
man back at Heney's Office within
three hours.
G., Rri -TaLar
or his present work Burns himself
says: This San Francisco case is one
of the most interesting ! have ever
had. OF course municipal graft cases
are all somewhat alike. You know
who the men are who have got official
favors. The first thing to do is to
single out the official who you think
will accept n bribe. and then get
at him by inducing him to accept what
he thinks is a bribe. OF course your
money is marked Then you surprise
him in the act After that you have
him cold. Through him you get at the
bribc-givers.
When ! started in on this work
in San Francisco I expected to get
after each of the supervisors singly,
of 1t and published the story how we
were working on one man. That spoil.
ed things for us, and had to resort
to other methods"
What Burns had done was to induce
the proprietor of skating rink who
had fallen out with Mayor Schmitz tC
have an ordinance In his favor intro
duced In the board Of supervisors
Then he arranged to buy the vote OF
one Of them-Lonergan by name--for
$500. Burns was concealed In the
room when the marked money was
passed. He pounced forth at the psy
Geological moment when Lonergan
was taking the brfbe.
"Take the money" said the trap
ped boodler pale as sheet. Il an
done for"
"Tll take the money, and I'll take
you too" said Burns. With that ht
scared his man into complete con
fession. Previous to this he had Sc
, cured another confession from one o.
Lonergan's colleagues who was Ill an(
thought he was about to die.
A Boodler Trapped.
With the inside information OF these
two confessions Burns got to work OF
all the other supervisors. They wer,
so scared that the whole IS cam,
through with rush. When Hene,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04


TINT fence painted with chalk and kero-
sene oil. want the best material, and
I want the exercise, and I shall do the
painting with my own hands,"
Started to Paint Fence.
When he had changed into an old
suit he began to look around for
brushes and paint He found two or
three brushes and two or three old
cans, and after throwing out hints that
Mrs. Bowser had thrown away $40
worth of material to spite him he
started Off and bought new supply.
1t was 10 o'clock before he was ready
for work, and he had only put on a
brushful of paint when three men
came along and halted, and one of
them brusQuely demanded II he was
the kind of man to take bread out Of
other mems mouths. In other words,
did he propose to paint his own fence
while members of the Painters union
were walking about In state OF star
walton? The way the question was put
to Mr. Bowser nettled him. aud he an
swcred that he would paint his own
fence II twenty members Of the union
| dropped dead Of starvation. Thereup-
on one Of the men called him names, n
second knocked his hat off. and n third
kicked over his pail OF paint, and all
ran away.
"If you will let me get regular
painter will pay for It out of my own
pin money" said Mrs. Bowser as she
came out Of the house.
Never on the face Of this earth!"
shouted Mr.. Bowser ns he jumped up
be bulldozed After what's happened
I'd paint this fence II the painters shot
me for It,"
Would Call Her When Wanted.
| "But don't you see''-
II see nothing. When l want you
out here III call you. The fence is
going TO be painted, ana I'm going to
paint It,"
| Mrs. Bowser rc-entered tlje house
and he mixed Il new supply Of paint
He had painted the gate when wo'
man came along looking at the mum
bers on the houses and halted to say
81 don't see 81 along here. was told
that there was a woman there who
went out washing"
"This IN 81" shouted Mr.. Bowser a:
he pointed over his shoulder at his owl
house. Does this house look as IL d
washerwoman lived herc?"
"But thought from the looks OF
you
'The looks OF me! Can't Il man put
on an old suit Of clothes and paint bis
| own fence without being taken fol
some scrub? There you go-leaninl
right up against the fresh paintv
"you are a--a bad mana very bnt
man, and I'll never get all this pain
on In the world, and"- And the wo
man fed up the street, and Mrs. Bow
] ser came out Of the house to say:
"Mr. Bowser, | wouldn't have hnt
/ that happen for hundred dollars
That's a lady that met ut tho euclir'
club last week. and was going to cal
on her tomorrow
but she took you for washerwo
man. ,v M
''rhat was simply a mistake"
"rhen she ought TO have kept Off th'
fence. I've got to do all that worl
over again. Didn't say that woul'
| call you IL wnnted you:''
Il The gqte had been flnishsd On IL
outside and Mr. HOwscr VIVA hrnshinl
ut the INSIDE whsp hs 0sard q hsev|
| ~
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04
MAN WHO TRAPPED
FRISCO BOODLERS
HAS FINE RECORD
CALLED KING OF DETECTIVES

William, j. Burns, Most Ceuer of the Secret Service
!. Agents Employed by Uncle Sam. Has Earned Proud
Title by His Many Successes in Running Down Often
! ders Against the Law-His Methods Are Shrewd, Di
rect and Straight ForDard and He Has Yet to Record
Failure in Any Case in Which He Has Been Employed
Land Grabbers, Boodiers or Counterfeiters All One
to Him,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-04
RPAINTSFENCE
Many Things Happen to Interfere
With Plan to eeautify Home.
FINALLY GIVES UP THE JOB.
Old Fellow elares HE Wife For che
Misfortunes That 6efaI Him on This
Occasion and Acts Like One Whose
Sufferings Are Many.

sufferinss Are Many.
copyright. 1907, by q. ID. Daniels.1
When breakfast was finished the 9TH
er morning Mr.. Bowser did not shove
back and rush upstairs and grab his
hat and overcoat and hurry on with the
declaration that he was fifteen min
utes late and that his was the worst
run house in America, according to
his usual programme. On the con-
trary. be dallied around until Mrs.
Bowscr's curiosity got the better OF
her, and she asked IL he thought 1t
was Sunday.
81 am not going to the office this
morning." he replied. in fact. l am
going TO take the day Off l want to
give the front fence a coat OF paint
and brighten things up bit"
IL know of painter who VIII he
glad to do the work and do 1t well and
cheap" she said.
80 do l. but he won't get chance
to swlndle me. l don't propose to have