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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-28
Local Mention

Ray Tobias returned Sunday
from Kooskia.
Mrs. John Shissler and little
daughter of Newsome are visit
ing at the A. N. Ingram home.
The, case at law between Mrs.
Campbell and Stanley Litchfeld,
over ownership of ground. was
settled in Mrs. Campbell's favor.
DR.. j. D. Shinnick was called
to Orogrande Christmas day to
make some repairs on man who
was mistaken by another fellow
for Christmas turkey.
A. S. Johnson, of Orogrande,
who has charge of the work on
the Orogrande-Harpste trail,
was a business caller in Elk City
the latter part of last week. The
work is now finished for adist-
ance of 20 miles, and operations
have been suspended until spring.
Mining News is in receipt of a
little folder Of printed views of
places in and about Kooskia,
compliment of Bro. H. E. O'Don-
nelPs Idaho Mountaineer. The
printing is very neatly done, and
from the standpoint of enter
prise it is valuable supplement
to the great good Mr.. O'Donnell
and his newspaper are doing to
build up Kooskia and the country
around it.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-28
Personal
and
Otherwise

VIM. Meyers returned Tuesday
from Dixie and the Salmon river
country.
A leap year dance is to be
given in Odd Fellows hall New
Year night.
Walter Murphy is cooking at
the Elk hotel while Miss Matte
Wilkins is taking a rest.
Mrs. w. H: Benedict arrived
Thursday of last week from an
extended visit in Los Angeles.
C. H. Prescott of Dixie writes
Mining News that he will winter
in Ballard, Washington, where
he is employed in a newspaper
office.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-28
Put Your Money
Into the Best Fruit Land
that is in
Lswiston-Clarkston valley.


And bank furries will worry you. The first full crop
will pay for the entire investment Net average profits
for long of years in orchards and vineyards
have been $500 $500 per acre per year all expenses
Experienced judges insist that these lands will be thought
cheap in very few years three times the present value
aside from the increasing value Of good fruit
We plant and care for the orchards if desired until you
want to live on it. Living fruit tract in the Lewis
ton-Clarkston valley coseness of neghbors, two
good towns only to miles away, good schools;
churches telephones electric lights water under
for all uses the daily paper and theatres for
those who want them Railroads built and building, and
manufacturing and other industries, will make these
very valuable in the future aside from their
investment value as orchards.
Better come down while the good weather lasts. Call
the Company office in Charleston the office of Lew
iston Orchards in the Kjos building at the Office of
Charleston Heights ALP Main street. Lewiston and get
free automobile ride the two irrigated tracts Or
drop line the Development League in either and
get the handsome pamphlets free.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-28
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, Land Office
at Lewiston, Idaho, Dec. 3, 1907
Notice is hereby given that Oscar A.
Maxwell, of Elk City, Idaho, has filed
notice of his intention to make final five
year proof in support of his claim, viz:
Homestead Entry No. 12483, made Dec.
2, 1907, for the Sc IA se1-4, sec. 9 sw
Ia sw IA, sec. 10, Lot 2, and NV Ia
my Ia, sec. Is, township 20 NJ, range
8 E., B. M, and that said proof will be
made before C. M. Butler, us. Com
missioner, at Sites, Idaho, on January
II, 1908
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation of, the land, viz:
Ulysses G. Kinkaid, Warren R. Bull
lock, James Smith, all of Elk City,
Idaho; Clarence 0. Pell of Sites, Idaho.
T. H. BARTLETT,
Register.
dec Ia
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-28
The 0. lap Co., Ltd.


Assaying, properly done, saves
money. John H. Jones of Lew
iston, has been treating central
Idaho ore for four years. Try
him.
A Chicago woman found a baby
wrapped in a newspaper and ly-
ing on her front door step'the
other morning. She took the
youngster in the house with the
remark that the incident was
nothing extraordinary she was
never surprised at anything she
saw in the newspapers any more.
We are unloading car Of gen
uine Keystone smithing Goals in
sacks, direct from the Lille coal
mine Pancifanian. Send in your
orders. Don't pay freight on
rocks and other worthless trash.
If you don't know these Goals
try a sack. Your money back if
they are not better than any
other on the market.
Red, White and Blue and Plan
sitter highest patent flour. In
car lots from the Spokane Flour
Mills, and G & c Mills. We al
so carry the Four Ace and
cheaper Spokane -four.
Don't forget that we handle
the Hamilton-Brown shoes. No
other brands as good,
Yours truly,
Greving's Department Store.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-28
Read Strecker's adv.

Guaranteed high grade, jewelry
and notions from G.. A. Soden &
Co., of Chicago, the kind that
has been handled here for sew
eral years, by our predecessors,
and full line Clothing Samples
from Ed. V. Price & Co., Fit
guaranteed. The 0. c.. Laplp
Co.. Ltd.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-28
Greving's Department Store.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.


Department of the Interior, Land Office
at Lewiston, idaho, Nov. %, 1907.
Notice is hereby given that John c..
Litchfield of Elk City, Idaho, has filed
notice of his intention to make final five
year proof in support of his claim, viz:
Homestead Entry No. 1214o made Oct.
25, 1907, for the W IL NV Ia, IL
ne Ia NV IA, ne IA ne 1-4nw IA, Sec.
%, and Sc IA sw Ia, Sec. II, township
20, NJ, Range E., B. NJ, and that
said proof will be made before C. M.
Butler, u. S. Commissioner, at Sites,
Idaho, on January 10, 1903.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation OF, the land, viz, Samuel w.
Smith, Elk City, Idaho; Nathaniel B.
Pettibone, Sites, Idaho; John M. And
erson, Elk City, Idaho; Oliver c.. Lapp,
Sites, Idaho.
T. H. BARTLETT,
dec7-jan4 Register.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
SOME FINE BERRIES
The Equal of Any-Raised on DelRs
Land

We were presented with box o.
hae strawberries last Tuesday by Mr
w. N. Day, who is truck farming or
DR.. J. d. Smythe's plantation near
this city. The berries were large anC
OF fine flavor and equal to those
grown in any state. Mr.. Day, whsr
asked about growing berries in thl
Delta. said the Delta lands produced
the finest of berries and as early a.
most truck sections farther south
He said it was a paying crop and h,
expected to set ont several acres next
year
Mr. Day came here from Crysta'
Springs, and is a good gardener HI
had tomatoes on the vines the size
of dime when the cold spell came
and cabbage starting to head up, but
like everything else, the cold snar
set them back several days
Greenvlle could locate hundreds %
gardeners around the city if they vii
come and like Mr.. Day, go into th'
business for the money there is II
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
PROMINENT
R. R. OFFICIALS
TRAVELLING ON SPECIAL CARS
LOADED ON TRANSPORT
Reached Greenville Yesterday On
Trip From Chicago to New CT
leans-Made Short Stop Here
Only

A party of railroad officials an0
capitalists from Chicago, who are on
a trip TO New Orleans, arrived in this
city yesterday afternoon aboard ths
transport T. Fl. Davis. The parey
left Chicago Sunday morning goine
as far as Joppa. ILL.,, by rail- where
they boarded the transport Two
special cars and three large touring
cars are carried. The special coaches
are used to live in on the trip and thr
automobiles are used in sightseeing
in the different cities along the route
Fishing and hunting is enjoyed by the
members of the party, and today
stop was made at Sunnyside, Ark,
for a few hours fishing on Lake Chi
cot Messrs. o. B. Crittenden & Co,
lessces of the Sunnyside plantation.
extended the invitation to the party
to visit this place and spend a few
hours sightseeing and fishing
In the party are Henry l. Miller,
president of the Chicago and Eastern
ll4liloiS irtAii ONd, anu wi NllilNA
K Kavanaugh, of Chicago, president
of the Lakes to Gulf Deep Water
ways Association, and Mrs. KaVa-
naugh; H. d. Miller, of Chicago, for
many years an official of the Penn
sylvania railroad; Mr.. and Mrs. R. ].
Jackson, of Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs.
r r Hammond of Chicago: Mr.. ana
Mrs. J. K. Dering, of Chicago, and
Miss Middleton, of Louisville, KY.
Messrs. Hammond and Dering are
connected with the Dering Coal Com
pany.
The trip is being made in the inter
est OF the deep water channel from
the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mex
leo. Mr.. Miller, as president of the
Deep Waterways Association. Is
deeply interested in the project.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20

| ment The liquor business is every
| where in politics. therefore it is I
menace to good government.
Not many weeks ago the daily pa
/ pers had a headline, sTake off your
hat to beer wgaon" There follow
| ed an account of political conven-
| tion in St. Louis which was captured
| by liquor men. In the course of the
proceeding motion was made that
every man take off his hat whenever
a beer wagon passed. Whether in
jest earnest, it indicates the political
methods of the liquor business.
Lawiessness in the form of mobs
is recognized and condemned. Law
| lessness in other forms is not so
quickly seen and condemned, but all
forms of lawlessness are treason to
free country Liberty even i'll a
free country is not license No man
may do just as he pleases without re-
gard to his fellowmen. The common
good is above individual gain Any
form of lawlessness, openly permit
ted, strikes blow at the very foun-
dations of our government. Without
indulging in wholesale condemnation.
it is yet beyond all question that
some saloons in this community have
been permitted to openly violate the
law. Such thing, must of necessity
be a source of moral degradation to
any community in which it exists.
The London Globe, commenting on
the Thaw trial, calls attention to the
effect on millions of citizens who will
believe those characters to be true
representatives of the wealthy. The
Globe says: "a similar belief, found
ed perhaps on no surer basis, was
the chief cause of the French revolu-
ton, which deluged the land in
blood
Class distinctions, favoritism before
the law, letting the rich law-breaker
go free while the poor one is punish
ed, all of these are contrary to the
principles of our government. If
long continued, they will produce
discomfort, hatred and finally open
violence.
The attitude of the state toward
the saloon being such as it is, that
business can not fail TO be source
of lawlessness, of corrupt politics and
of moral degradation upon the voters
The logical conclusion OF the matter
is prohibition and the laws seem to
have that end in view.
A MOTHER.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
A Calm Discussion

Many good people may consider
the liquor business perfectly legiti-
mate, safe and honorable, but that
question is not an open one in the
state of Mississippi. 1t has been de-
cided in the negative. This is proven
by the burdensome restriction and
severe penalties imposed upon that
business, thereby separating and diff
fenentiating it from all other forms
of business.
Such being the attitude of the state
toward the saloon business, the sa-
loonkeeper is driven into politics in
self-defense. The saloonkeeper must
have his petition signed by majority
of voters. To secure signatures he
pays poll taxes for numbers of voters.
Having paid the poll taxes, the sa-
loon man expects to control the vot-
ers.
The next step is that the liquor in
terests in self-prote ction, seek to i'm
fiuence and control such official
boards as have jurisdiction over that
business. On the other hand, such
boards, not in scif-interest, but look
ing to questions OF revenue, will be in
sympathy with the man who pays a
large sum into the treasury and will
wink at violation of law.
Suppose saloonkeeper dies before
his license expire, it seems hard
ship to his family or TO his creditors
to close up his business. So. through
kind motives, the saloon is permitted
to 60 on, though il be violation of
law
Now to what conclusion does this
lead? Il is sound proposition that
any business which must and does go
into pe1lics for its own selfish pur-
poses Is menace to good govern
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
SALOONS AND TAXES
Pat Sharkey Draws Conclusions from
Comparison

EultOI
Are taxes higher in prohibition
towns than in towns where there are
licensed saloons? / answer that they
at least are not in Yazoo City. The
Mississippi Cotton Oil Co. owns a
plant in Yazoo City, prohibition
town, with a capacity for crushing
Ia5 tons of seed per day, and in con-
nection with it an eight-stand gin out
fit. Their municipal taxes for 1906
amounted to SLIGO so. This same
company owns and operates plant
in Greenville. Miss, with capacity
for crushing 90 tons per day, in con-
nection with which they operate a
six-stand gin outfit on which they
paid municipal taxes amounting to
ST, LAOS 90, which does not include the
special tax they paid for sidewalk in
front of their property. The plant at
Yazoo City does volume of BUSH
ness from rs per cent. to IS per cent.
more than the Grcenvilfe plant
My information IS that Yaxoo City
is smaller town in population than
Greenvlle and has everything in the
way of municipal improvements that
Greenville has, with the exception
that their sidewalks are possibly not
quite so good as those Grecnville pro-
perty owners are paying for by spe-
cia1 taxation
Do not be deceived when you are
told that the tax rate IS higher in one
town than smother; the tax rate has
no significance wl1atever unless TAX
len IN conpection with the method
pcrsned for assessing the valuation
Of property
PAT s1ARKEY
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20

boys, like that and there will be only
standing room.
The Ist Monday, the 9th Of ak=y,
the Noble Order of Bailiffs will hold
their first love feast. at the Cotton
Exchange Cafe. The pass word will
entitle you to admittance at the ban
quct. It's up to YOU
We have had grudge .tagi'n' Bro.
H. L. Wells and Judge H. III. O'Ban-
non for long time and if they ever
join the Noble Order of Bailiffs, we'll
sure get even with them
Freei Freel Freel Did you say
that you were looking for trouble? If
so, JOIN the Noble Order of Bailiffs.
It's cyclone of laughter, a whirl-
wind of fun. Laugh, and the world
laughs with you, weep. and you weep
alone It's enjoyed as much by the
candidates as the members 1t is a
sure cure for the blues, and good
dope for the stay-af-homes. If you
can't laugh, don't join. Get in the
band wagon and apply at once to the
bureau of information, For Pythians
only. c. E. COUTY, Sec
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
H. H. Davis to Make a Change

Mr.. H. H. Davis, the competent and
accommodating freight agent Of the
Y. & M. V. railroad, of this city, has
rendered his resignation to accept hts
former position as agent of the road
at Roseda1e.
If it is true that Mr. Davis resig-
nation is on account of salary, the
road will, in our opinion, make mis-
take if they do notA raise it and hole
him here, for he is the best agent the
road has had here since our locating
here seven years ago.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
BUSINESS MEMS LEAGUE
NoMINATES OFFICERS
On Red and Blue Ticket-Good Men
on Both Sides of the Controversy
Election to be Held at Early Date

| This year can be justly termed cleo
! ton year for Greenville, for, besides
the regular election for the state. and
county officers. there will also be an
election in December for city officers
and from reports, IN June an election
| for prohibition. But this is not all.
there will be still another election
and from the interest SO early mani
tested it will eclipse all the rest and
prove a battle royal between the op
posing sides. This election, which
has been already set for the I4th of
May is fight between two opposing
tickets of officers for the Business
Mems League, known as the Red and
Blue tickets. The names of the gem
tlmen which appear on each ticket
were selected by two nominating com
mfttees appointed by the present pres
ident of the League, Mr.. T. c. Holmes
of which, Mr.. l. Pink Smith was
made Chairman of the Blue ticket
and H. T. Crosby of the Red ticket
the other members etc :. :. add .
Great care was exercised in the se
lection of the officers by the commit
teemen of the Red ticket as can be
seen from glance at the list and all
are men, who, if elected, which no
doubt they will be, will bring to the
CITY wealths enterprises and popula-
Il
an early date the formal acceptance
of these nominees on both tickets
will be received at a public meeting,
held at the Central School Auditor
ium
The Times hopes to see all the
members of the league rally to the
support of the Red ticket nominees.
Next week The Times will give
short biographical sketch of the men
who are expected to plan and build
future Grecnville.
Below we publish the two tickets:
Red Ticket
Will Isenberg, president.
E. L. Sharkey, first vice president.
R. Taylor HARRISON, second vice
president.
VIM. Ray Toombs, secretary.
Frank N. Robertshaw. treasurer.
Directors
Chas Halter.
N L. Riteman.
Henry w. Startling
E. E. Klingman.
J. Albert Lake
Eugene g. Ham.
Maurice A. Bergman
J. A. Hunt
T. p Reynolds
Blue Ticket
NJ A. Robertshaw, president.
J. M. Anderson, first vice president.
Charles Halter, second vice pres,
dent
VIM. Ray Toonlbs, secretary
Frank N. Robertshaw, treasurer.
Directors
T. C. Holmes.
J. B. HARRISON
H. N. Alexander.
Henry Crittenden.
Saul Klein.
R. NJ Hamblen.
Jack Wyche
w. H. Negus.
Leroy Percy.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
WOMAN'S CIVIC LEAGUE
Mrs. Lucy G. Yerger's Contribution
to the News-Scimitar

Woman's latest work IN Greenville
is in the interest of uplifting the twon
in a moral sense. In the fullness of
their hearts they met ID co-operat~
with our city officials in a joint eff
fort towards the general betterment
of city affairs.
Surely woman could not better em-
ploy her talents than by full reali-
zation of joint trusteeship for the
protection and expansion of that
good condition, SO devoutly hoped
for, WHICH carries III its development
the hope of future peace and welfare;
ideals which go to making of our
sons, our husbands and our friends
sons and husbands, God-loving and
law-abiding citizens, alike an honor
to their God, in whose image they
are made, and glory to the town in
whose domain they make their home.
To win these much prayed for re-
suits, these true women, mothers,
wives, sisters and friends of the men
they love and pray for. are wise III
their method in the effort Of turning
public sentiment in this broad and
safe channel.
We hear it always said, "Vox po-
pull, vox Dell" Alas, how often the
voice of the people is not the voice
81 sS&1 Al. ~f,O
is ever "the voice of God" it is be-
cause some prophet has labored with
the people with Christian zeal,
which even the hardest-hearted, most
ignorant and most greedy of gain
could not withstand
Let us hope then thatthe prophetic
voice which is to be heard in this
labor with the people shall come
from within this band of women
great and true, and that their hearts
efforts may triumph signally over the
zaton be a permanent one, for every
year the governmental waters are
liable to become troubled, then let
the right man step down and after
first becoming healed of his own in
firmities, and getting the beam out
of his own eye he can see clearly to
cast out the mote from his brother S
eye
Then let him say to this band of
earnest workers, who know a spirit
of unrest and discomfort is abroad N
the land, that though '4the time is
out of joint" the city fathers with
necessary and proper backing by the
public, stand ready armed "cap 4
pie" ito set Alright" say also to them
to avoid blind guides, who strain at
gnat and swallow a came1p And
again, Beware of the scribes, which
desire to walk in long robes, and love
greetings in the markets, and the
highest seats in the synagogues, and
the chief rooms at feasts-"
This order of women ''civic leag
ues' will be less hampered and hand
icapped in their noble work if they
could persuade all prominent and in
fluentia1 men and women to cease
ill-advised criticism, and speak with
knowledge of all things pertaining to
their town and its government.
With my whole heart, | say God
speed these noble women who work
together in The Womanss Civic
League" of Greenville, Miss.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
Early Morning Fire

About 3:I5 this morning fire was
discovered in the home of Henry Ell
lott, colored, on the corner of Pecan
and DeLesseps streets, the origin of
which is not known. The house was
totally destroyed besides several ne
gro cabins in the rear. Elliott is a
hard working, Industrious negro, and
his loss is hard for him to bear.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20

The Board of Levce Commissions
ers will meet next Tuesday TO receive
bids on construction work o. the Du.
vail levee The work calls for I6o.-
600 cubic yards of dirt and il is ex.
pected that large numbcrsof bidders
will be on hand At the meeting.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20

nent planters in Washington county
today who are keeping their families
in the hills because they do not wish
to bring their boys into town that
has saloons. The dram-shop is not
a financial blessing, but financial
curse. Those who desire to promote
the material prosperity Of Greenvilie
can not do a wiser thing than to aid
in striking down the liquor traffic.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20
For Rent

House of six rooms and bath. on<
block from the business paft of the
city House has been newly plas-
tered, papered and painted. Apply to
Esnery Realty Co. Times Bni1dine
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20

The question before the people Of
Washington county today is not one
of choosing between the saloon and
blind tiger, as those who favor the
dram-shop would have them believe.
If our whiskey friends who seem so
much opposed to blind tigers would
only be consistent enough to con-
tinue their opposition to them after
the county has gone dry, it would be
we'll nigh impossible for them to ex-
ist. If they only help us to suppress
the blind sigers, which they say are
so pernicious, we will not have any
But after all, as we see it, the blind
tiger is vastly preferable to the sa-
loon. The old topper may find his
way into it, but it will not stand up
on the most prominent corner, with
brilliant lights and free lunches, to
lure our young men to destructloD
1t will have to hide in the remote
alley and dark cellar. 1t can wear no
air of respectability. The stamp Of
public disapprobation will be upon it.
1t will be out-lawed and utterly dis
credited. 1t may deal out its poison
Gus draughts for few votaries who
stagger uneasiIy into its dingy lair,
but it will not be able to ship whis-
kew on the trains, or demoralize the
labor of this favored section by max
ing nearly every depot distributing
point for its deadly beverages. All
the glare and glitter will be gone,
and its very responsiveness will tend
to destroy it. All! yes; we will take
the blind tiger every time in prefer
ence to the saloon.
r. A. MEEK.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-04-20

The Greenville Democrat lately OBJ
served that some very fine young
men have been reared in Greenv;l1e
within recent years. This we readily
admit, but the saloons had no parr
in their rearing. They came from
them to shun the dram-shop as a
place of danger and death, and most
of them are today active and ardent
prohibitionists We are proud of the
attitude of our young men in the
pending local option contest.