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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

President Roosevelt shows his
deep interest in child labor reform
by contributing to the January num-
Der of the Woman's Home Compan-
ion an authoritative statement Civ
ing his attitude on this important
social question. In contributing a
signed statement to magazine
while in office and on a topic
directly connected with national
legislation the President skaters
another precedent. He was asked
by Arthur 7. Vance, editor of the
Wornan's Home Companion and Sec
rotary Lindsay of the National Child
Labor Committee to make plain to
I the people of the nation Just what
his position is on this grave ma
tional problem and responded with
this ring ing declaration 1 am glad
to have you give the widest pub
licity to my previous utterances OF
child labor. l am pleased to go or
/ record in the strongest possible
terms as in favor of stringent legis-
lation by both state and national
legislatures, for the purpose Of
doing away with the evils of chile
labor. l believe that the recent &C.
ton of the legislature of Georgia, 8
state which leads the new south
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17
TALK OF THE TOWN


mess trip to Boise Tuesday.
Mrs. ]. w. Hice of Camas Creek
came to town Saturday and is visit
ing friends. She brought with
her Baby Harold, five months old.
Trainmen on the Oregon Short
Line are refusing to take trains ont
of Ogden until their families are
supplied with coal enough to last
during their absence.
The National Dry Farming Assoc
citation will meet at Denver Janu-
airy "a and IS. W. j. Turner has
ing as a delegate
Miss S. Belle Chamberlain, state
school superintendent, has called a
meeting of the county superintend-
ents at her office in Boise next
Monday at ten O'Clock.
Bob McNeeley, better known as
''Cat Creek Bob,'' will hibernate
here this winter. La Grippe hos
laid it's villianous hands upon him
and he is quite i'll at present
At cost of $4,000 the Fair
banks-Morsc people will install for
Mr.. Turner on his ranch near
Mcdbury, a modern, up to date
pumping plant
Mrs. r. A. Wilcox and son Will
lard, who have been visiting her
parents at Saginaw, Michigan for
several months, returned to Noun
tain Home Saturday night
o. r. Hurt, who is employed al
the Pence livery barn, had the mis-
fortune to step through detective
board IN the barn floor Monday and
quite severely injured his lower lip.
DR.. Hancr dressed the wound.
Those of the many friends of Sen.
ator MANI and Representative
Weaver and wife who may desire
to speak to them can do SO by call
ing up 639L, Boise. A letter will
find them at 1915 Jackson street
c. F. Waller, for the past TIVE
months night clerk at the Turncl
House, severed his connection will
that establishment Tuesday morn
ing and yesterday left for his hom,
near McODury, Wncrc ne owns LOT
acres of fine farming land, upoI
which water will De turned thu
coming season.
The second biennial report of tn
State Dairy, Food and Oil commits
sion and the fifth biennial report o
the State Board of horticultural In
spection have been received at thi
office, and makes very interesting
and instructive reading. Extract
from both will be published in tn
Maverick in coming issues
c. c. Draper and family, Z. Ten
ny and W. Funk, who are travclin
overland from Twin Falls to Nam
pa, passed through town this week
carrying with them household cf
fects and twenty-five head of hors
cs. Mr.. Draper is a contractin
grader and has until recently bee
employed on the canal at Twi
Falls He says they average sixtee
miles day
G.. B. Thomas, the Boise real es
) tate hustler, is in town this wecl
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

United States Senator Pettus
must have felt awfully lonesome the
other day when he discovered that
out of seventy-one senators voting
or the bill providing that railway
employees engaged in handling trains
shall not work more than sixteen
consecutive hours, to be followed
by ten hours off duty he was the
only one voting in the negative. 1t
would be curious to hear the sem
ator's explanation of his action.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

The Methodists of Denver, Colo
RADIO, made grievous mistake when
they permitted the inauguration of
Governor Buchtei to take place
within the sacred precincts of Trim
ity Methodist Episcopal church.
Years ago the separation of the
church and state was accomplished
in this country. France is today
passing through severe ordeal in
an endeavor to accomplish like
separ alton. The celebration of a
political partisan victory is not cal
culated to enhance the sanctity of
an edificc devoted to the worship of
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

To enforce the test oath as recon-
rnended by Governor Gooding would
be to practically bar every decent,
self respecting woman in Idaho from
voting. 1t ought not to be neces-
sary, in order to get to the bottom
of the Mormon issue, to insult our
mothers, sisters, sweethearts or
wives! Try again, Mr.. Gooding.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

The ragged newsboy, devouring
with relish the coarsest food, is
more to be envied than the PAM
pered child of fortune whose DEL
icate stomach refuses to retain the
rich viands thrust upon it.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

Did you ever notice that all hob
bies are foolish to everybody except
the people who ride them?
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-17

Entered as second class matter
May "a, 1905, at the postoffioe at
Mountain Hons, Idaho, under the
act Of congress Of March 3. 1879.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28
Anent the GOVernOrShip,

Already the contest between NAL
colin r. Patterson and Edward w. Gar.
mack for the democratic nomination
for governor is beginning to attract at
tention. A short time ago Memphis
had to elect / out of fire and police
commissioners and three out of ten
members of the board of public works.
Under ordinary circumstances an cleo.
ton of this kind would have possessed
none other than local significance; but
Gov. Patterson was known to favor the
election of the candidates chosen in the
Democratic .legalized primary, while
Mr.. Carmack was identified, as usual,
with the independent ticket. Several
days before the election Gov. Patter.
son visited his home for . purpose Of
no more political significance than buy
ing . pair of pants. MIR. Williams, al
the head of the democratic ticket, did
not know that the governor was here
until he saw the announcement in the
papers. Yet ii was given ont that Viii
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

This cry for primary comes only
from those who hope one will defeat
Gov. Patterson for denomination. If
absolute fairness only was wanted they
would urge the executive committee to
authorize each county to hold delegat-
cd conventions on uniform date. In
this way il candidate has any friends
in q civil district, they attend the con-
vention and let majority decide. In
Aprimary men who have no choice of
candidates are brought to the polls and
voted by the candidate having the most
influential arguments at the polling
place or the most metallic ring in his
voice. With uniform date for con-
ventions there will be few, if any. con-
testing delegations and none for the
purpose Of fraudulently carrying the
state convention because no candidate
will know how many votes to hold up.
It's inexpensive, it's fair and it's dem
ocratic.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

The Anti.Saloon League ought to be
very thankful Gov. Patterson was
elected. Otherwise 1t never would have
had the Pendleton bill. This measure
Wss passed by the hypocritical temper
ance members OF both houses believing
the governor would veto 1t. They new
or intended that II should become q
law. 1t was put up to the governor
with the hope OF iniuring him. In fact
that was the motive that controlled q
bunch in that legislature from start to
finish. Bills were passed or killed
with that one object in view, the polit-
ical destruction OF Gov. Patterson.
The best evidence in the world that this
10 true is found in the fact that these
same fellows refused to allow the bill
extending the Adams law to the entire
state TO reach Gov. Frazier. All meas
ures that were likely to embarrass eth
or Gov. Frazier or Cox were killed in
the committee rooms by the power be.
hind the throne.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

yourselves, taking the position that
the south ought not to be treated as q
province of the American Union, that
while she was physically in the Union,
politically she was out of the Union.
81 think all of us-at least those of
us who think upon the subject at all
feel little chagrined that the position
of the south now is not the position of
the south in former days, aud that the
south in great measure has lost that
power which was once hers. The rea-
son for this is not hard to discover.
There may be said to be two reasons,
one growing out of the other. Before
the war southern craftsmanship flower
ed and fruited in magnificent fashion.
We had leisure class who could give
their attention and their time to the
study of important questions aud could
address themselves to the arts of states
manship. Our condition was entirely
different. After the war oil this was
changed, 1t grew out of that stormy
act Of passion, of feeling, of blind ret
ribution, when the southern people
were chained to the corpse Of unive'-
sal negro suf1'rare. 1t came as blight
upon the fair tree of the south 1t has
been nothing but q cnrse to both sec
tons, north and south, 1t has dwin-
died, it has dwarfed our craftsmanship
and the quality and the fitness OF our
great men. With all the negroes in
one political party, it became necessary
for all the hite men who love their
homes and their civilization to Join in
another party. And SO it was that we
found, and find today, white men in
the south who vote constantly the dem
ocratic ticket without knowing exactly
why they do it, except for the possible
dread OF negro domination.
''This has caused us to sacrifice eve
rythiug, in order TO save the home OF
the white man for tue white man and
the white mans civilization. There
fore since the war we have been con-
tent to let other portions of the Union
name our candidates for president and
] ice-president, and it is fact that up
to the present time no man in the south
, has seriously been named either for
president or vice president of the Unit.
ed States. The fear now, gentlemen,
of negro domination has passed away.
tt is fruitless todiscuss the negro ques.
ton any longer in Tennessee, or any.
where else in the south, becsuse north
/ and south good men, right-thinking
men, intelligent men and patriotic men
know that the south is right upon tha
] question and do not want to disturb us
in any way. | believe the time la!
now come when the south ought to as
sert her political in dependence-no al
the south, but because the south has
: men In her borders that are capable
under certain conditions of coping
with the best intellccts of this country
I do not believe any man should bt
nominated as the democratic caudidat,
for president of the United States be
cause he is from the south. l do no
believe be ought to be nominated be
cause he is from the east or the north
or the west. think the question o
availability and the question of meri
, alone should determine the choice O
/ the democratic party as It's candidate
, for president of the United States
, (Applause)
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

Have you ever noticed who it is that
is making such O noise for a primary :?
II 10 the Carmack papers and his fol-
towers. The plain people, the genuine
old democrats, are not bothering their
heads about the matter and are not say
ing word and yet some of the papers
announce in every issue that the peo-
pie ere unanimously in favor Of o pri-
mary. The democracy OF Tennessee
has been making nominations for gov
ernor in conventions since it has been
astate and there has never been any
question rs to their fairness until q
small crowd Of fellows are not permit
ted to control one by parliamentary
robbery. Having made one conven-
tion odious by number OF foolish and
fictitious contests Jno. I. Cox and his
followers, who are now for Carmack,
are crying for primary and condemn
Ing the convention plan that has been
making governors for years before they
were born. II that plan was good
enough for IshAm g. Harris, Jas. d.
Porter, w. B. Bate and other good
men Of whom Tennessee is justly proud
why 10 IL not good enough for E. W.
CarmrskP This talk about q primary
being the fairest way to nominate q
candidate lie sheer nonsense. It is the
greatest source Of corruption known to
politics, It means that you must buy,
buy. buy or not get the voters out, and
1t is surprising TO SEQ the number Of
well.to.do men who must be paid fol
their time before they will go TO The
polls. A gubernatorial primary viii
cost over S10O,OO6. Who is going tC
put mp the money! Not these papers
who are Clamoring for it. you may resi-
assured. Doctors do not discard Gallo
mel bsCanss one man gets salivatst
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

"Growing out of this question has
been fashion among US of treating
ourselves as not polital factor in this
country. We have gone every four
years to national conventions with the
balance of power, and we have given
out votes without question to the north
or to the west as the case may be. The
question OF who is going to be q demo-
cratic president or candidate for presi-
dent of the democratic party is small
compared to that other question Of
whether the south will go that conven.
tioD, be bound to tue chariot wheels of
any Organization north or south, or be
Independent and be no longer a mere
newer of wood or drawer of water to
the north or the east or the west or
any other section. (Cheers.)
Now with that sentiment l am only
in thorough accord, but believe that
it is the best interest of the south
and of the whole country. I believe
another thing: I do not think that
votes would be lost to the democratic
party if a southern man we're nominal
ed by the next convention.
81 do not believe that now there is
any sentiment against the south or
against the men of the south or against
the institutions of the south. 1 be-
lieye that a strong, brave, high-mind-
ed, broad. gagged, patriotic American
from the south can get as many votes
In the United States as man from
New York or Ohio can get. (Applause)
"And finally, want to see that day
come when the young boys at the
schools aud the colleges, receiving
their education, may know and under
stand that they can aspire to the high
est office in the gift of the people 4 that
they are not cut off, that they are not
ostracized po iticallv because they hap.
pan to be from the south, aud any
NOV ement that will give this direction
and impetus is movement not for the
e1etit Of the south alone, but for the
benefit of all the country, of which the
south has ever been a conspicuous and
honorable part" (Applause
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28
Wrestling Match.

Wednesday evening, Dec 18th, al
the Hippndrome skating rink wrest
ling match will take plac" between Wal.
ter Evans against Bill Edwards, cham
pion middlew eight of Indiana. The
contest is for the best two out of three
falls, catch as catch can. This will
doubtless be one of the most exciting
wrestling matches ever held in John
son City.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

The Chattanooga Times is still harp
ing upon the opinion that Cox should
have had second term as governor,
but the people are just as insistent
that he should not have had one term.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

The Chattanooga Times is mistake l..
No one is trying to keep MIR. Csrmack
out Of the gubernatorial race, but
when the time comes they'll put him
out.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

The democrats will not occupy the
political stage all the time next season.
The Brownlow- Evans vaudeville COM
pany will do q stunt or two.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

A. M. Tillmsn. U. s. District At
torney, has announced for Hale for
national committeeman and for "peace
and harmony, not war and discord. P"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

Cy Lyle is wrong about it. Ala
bama isn't to have temperance; it's
only prohibition.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28

Somebody will have to return thanks
for Ed Butler and Ernest Caldwell
they're too busy.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28
GOV. PATTERsoN's VIEWS.

"I share fully in the general septi-
ment Of your organization. Some two
or three years ago made an addess to
a confedate reunion, in Haywood coun-
ty, in which expressed the opion that
the south should reassert her political
Independence. As member of con-
gress I made . speech upon the sub
jeet to which ron are now addressing
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-11-28
Southern Man for President.

1t has been asserted that Gov. Pats
terson declared for Southern ma. for
president in his speech at the meeting
in Nashville last week. This is what
he said:
At the conclusion of Gen. Browns
address, the governor having entered
in the meantime, he was called to the
rostrum and introduced by ex.Govern-
or Porter. His appearance was loudly
applauded. and each step of his ad.
vance to the platform was the signal for
renewed outbreak Gov. Patterson
said:
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-11-23
Seed Pea Prize Awarded

Fort Collins.-Prof w. II. Olin, in
charge of the department of aGronomy
at the State Agricultural College, has
finished his awards on the first seed
pea growing contest held in the San
Luis valley, and young woman, Han
nah Heersink of Alamosa, is the win
ner with her brother. Adolph Heer-
sink, getting the second prize.
Professor Olin started this idea OF
a seed growing contest last year with
the idea of improving by breeding and
selecting the seed peas used in the
San Luis valley, and this greatly in
creased the value of the field pea
crop of the valley. The communities
around Monte Vista. Alamosa. La
lara Manassa and Romeo subscribed
to a prize fund and $50 was raised
in this way. The money was divided
into first, second, third and fourth
prizes of respectively, 500, SIS, $40
and s..
The conditions of the contest al
lowed only boys and girls under
eighteen years of age to enter, and
over 200 took advantage of the oppor-
tunity during the first year Profes-
sor Olin sent each contestant $50
hand selected peas of the Colorado
White Field variety. The contestants
were required to plant 100 hills. each
hill being three feet apart and two
peas to the hill to insure getting a
vigorous plant.
When the peas were grown and
matured vines and all were pulled,
dried in the shade and sent to Pro
fessor Olin at Alamosa where the
judging took place. Each contestant
was urged to save early maturing
peas from the sturdest vines for next
years seed, hoping in this way to de
velop strains ripening earlier and
more uniformly and at the same time
seek to gain a greater number of peas
to the pod.
This contest will be continued for
three years, and at the end of that
time the young woman or young man
having the best three-year average
will be awarded gold medal costing
not less than $50.
The winner of first prize, Miss Heer-
sink, is the daughter of S. A. Heer-
sink, prosperous farmer living near
Alamosa AS a result of their success
in developing unimproved varieties of
peas, both she and her brother are
taking great interest in agriculture
and in agricultural education.
The value of this work in breeding
and improving the field pea can easily
be seen in calculating the improve
ment possible. The yearly acreage of
peas in the San Luis valley is approx
imately 100000. The average yield is
22R bushels an acre or a total of q
250,000 bushels worth three cents a
pound or $4,050,000 Experts estimate
that this average yield can be easily
raised to thirty-five bushels an acre
or gain of 12k bushels an acre
worth $2,250,O00. This amount of
money produced in the valley yearly
in excess would mean much to the
people
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-11-23
Murder in Second Decree.

Glenwood Springs.-Charles Kurles,
charged with the murder OF Frank
Scripter, was convicted Tuesday OF
murder in the second degree The
trial lasted two days.
The crime was committed on June
1S, 1907, at the Colorado Midland rail
way section house, at Sunlight.
Kurles had been employed as a sec
tion hand, and went from the bunk,
house to the section foreman's resi-.
dence to demand his time from
Scripter, who was foreman. A quar-,
rel ensued over the amount of the
check, and it was claimed by Kurles
that Scripter struck him over the head
with a pick handle. The evidence,
however, showed that Scripter had
not attacked kurles until the latter
had threatened him. After Scripter
had struck him kurles drew a knife
and stabbed the foreman. He died
within few hours.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-11-23
SHIPPING LIONS TO DENVER.
Numerous Liens and Bears Caught
Along the Moffat Road.

DenVer.-The mountain lion season
has opened in the m uutains along the
Mofat road and the express messen-
gers have TO watch carefully a box OF
lion cubs nearly every day as well as
look after the rest of the parcels OF
their cars. says the Denver Republican.
l. 5. Horne. who makes frequent trips
into the mountains along the Moffat
road in quest of mountain lions. is the
particular dread of the express agents.
as he always brings his game home
alive. He caught several mountain
lions recently for the City park zoo IN
Denver and yesterday brought in an
other one that will also be placed in
City park.
The settlers in Middle park and in
the neighborheod OF the Gore range
complain that the bear and mountain
lions are so numerous in that vicinity
that the live stock is being killed by
them in larger numbers than ever be-
fore in the history of the country. Par
ties have gone out of Denver to hunt
these wild animals and are meeting
with great success. Several parties
have captured bear cubs and noun
tain lion cubs alive. as we'll as brought
in the older animals dead.
road this year will be a particularly
long one. The fine weather of the
opening months of winter has attract
ed the bears to the sunshine and they
will not hibernate for the winter until
the first severe cold snap comes. They
have been preying upon settlers cat
tie and other live stock until they are
so fat and sleek that there is small
danger of their suffering, no matter
how long and cold the winter may be.
The mountain lions arc so numerous
in the mountains along the road that
they are seen nearly every day from
the trains. They hunt in pair and are
frequently able to kill yearling cattle
from the herds of the rangers. One
pair of these lions, half grown, was re-
Gently captured alive and netted the
fortunate hunters $500, the purchasers
being the Denver City park board.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-11-23
Wants Parcels Post.

Norfolk, Na.-The American Fedora
ton of Labor Friday adopted resoIu-
tions as follows:
Directing its executive committee to
use every influence to bring about ac-
ticn by Congress increasing postoffice
clerks pay.
Starting action to expedite and sys-
tematize the regulation of convict la
cor.
Calling upon Congress for small
parcels post law as relief from the
express monopoly"
Authorizing the executive council to
deal with the GU stiuns of appointing
organizers to teach immigrants in their
own language the ideas of unionism.
and asking that the theatrical syndi-
Gates" be included as amenable under
the antitrust '2ws "in restraint Of
trade"