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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-08

to $3.50 on account OF destruction by
fire.
BY order OF the board taxes
against the property of the Sub
Rosa Gymnasium club were can
ccllcd..
Taxes against the property OF the
Library Gymnasium Association
stands as assessed tor reason OF be-
ing property OF L 1 Wilcox on
second Monday OF January 1907,
and at time property was assessed.
Property OF A G and ] II Garrett
known as park a OF school house
Mountain Home reduced back to
or iginal assessment $500.
Description of real estate proper
ty OF Wiley Nj Daniels raised in
value from 1924 to $1,000 changed
to read sw / of sc and Sc of wv
/ and c OF NV all in township
4 south range 8 east.
w c HOWE appeared for S Jacob
son with a complaint of C val
ue on merchandise Glenns Ferry.
The complaint vas accompanied by
an affidavit setting forth the actual
valuation of merchandise to be not
more than $4,000. Whereupon after
due consideration the board reduced
the valuation from $1,000 to $4,000.
Having heard and acted on all
complaints on motion the board of
equalization adjourned sine die.
FP AXE, Chairman.
Attest: F c SMITH, Clerk.
Mountain Home, Idaho, July 80,
1907.
Pursuant to adjournment of July
goth, 1907, on this the 3oth day of
July 1907 the board of county com
missioners met in regular session.
Members present: AXE, ] J
MEG inniss. H F Shelton. F c
Smith, clerk.
Whereupon the following proceed
ings were had towit:
Road contract bill OF Andrew
Baker for road work in load district
No. 5 from May 18th 1907 [ July
18th, 1907 was examined and al
lowed and the clerk instructed to
issue warrant payable u Of road
fund of 1907 for Slo7.55 in payment
of same.
On motion the board adjourned
until August 18th, 1907 for the pur-
-@cA rf A,e.Iar,nn prnnnCnIc a.d
bids for road work as per published
notice of July d, 1907 and any other
business that may come before the
board.
Fl AXE, Chairman.
Attest: F C SMITH,, Clerk.
w w Fountain first being sworn
testified that the number of cattle
1874 assessed as being owned by
him is an error and that the actual
number owned by him OF the End
Monday of January 1907 was IS
head. Whereupon the board reduced
the number from 1874 to IS and the
value of same from $1608 to 5000.
CHI Burns lots 10 and DO in block
10 of Glenns Ferry reduced from
valuation of SIS to $50
Ray L. Corbus having made affi-
davit of the actua; number of sheep
owned by him in Elmore county
since January LIST, 1907 the board
reduced the number from $500
head to $500 head and valuation of
same from $4,000 to $500
Thomas Meilen real estate block
II Dodge addition to Mountain
Home reduced from $500 to 5000.
H D Wilbur assessment on furni-
ture reduced from $3.50 to $1oo.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-08
OTICE TO CREDI TORS.

Estate of Albert B. Armstrong
deceased:
Notice is hereby given by the I'M
dersigued, executors Of the last will
of Albert B. Armstrong deceased,
to the creditors Of, and all persons
having claims against the said de-
ceased, to exhibit them, with the
necessary vouchers, with ten
months after the first publication
of this notice to w. c. Howie at
rorney for the said executors at the
office of w. c. Howie in Mountain
Home in the county of Elmore.
Dated at Mountain Home, Idaho,
July %, 1907.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-08
Ten Years in Bed.

For ten years / was confined to
my bed with disease of my kid
neys," writes r. A. Gray, J.. P. of
Oakville, Ind. 1T was so severe
that | could not move part of the
time. | consulted the very best
medical skill available, but could
get no relief until Foley's Kidney
Cure was recommended to me 1t
has been a Godsend to me-"
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-08

Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is
sold under a positive guarantee to
cure constipation, sick headache,
stomach trouble, or sny form of in
digestion. If it fails, the manu-
facturers refund your money. What
more can any one do. Roscoe Smith.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-08-08
A. BESCANAN,
MARY ARMSTRONG

Executors of the last will of AL
bert B. Armstrong deceased. 1915
BY w. c. HOWE, their attorney.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
AttOrney.General Advises PreSi- ident That He Thinks HOyt
 Report Is Unjust.
GIVES SUPPORT TO INCUMBENT
Belief in National Capital that Tanana Judge Will Be Re-
 appointed by Roosevelt.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.

Washington, DC, Feb. 7-AttOrney- General Bonaparte has finished his re- view of the Hoyt report on Judge Wickersham and after a conference today with three new arrivals from Fairbanks advises the president that he believes the Nome district attorneys statement is unjust to Wickershsm. Bonaparte upholds Wickersham and urges his reappointment.
 It is believed now that Roosevelt will withhold any nomination he may decide to make for Wickersham's place until near the end ef the present session. If Wickersham is reappoint- ed Nelson and McCumber will prevent his confirmation, but it is generally accepted here that Wickersham will receive a recess appointment after the senate adjourns and will remain on the Alaska bench until the end of Roosevelt'S term.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
Northern Pacific WithdrawS 7L.2 Cent Tariff on Alaska
 Shipments.
STEAMERS REFUSED TO ABSORB
Object Was to Give Oregon MctrOp- OIiS Even Break With Seattle
 on Northern Trade.
By Cable co The Daily Gateway.

Olympia, Wash, Feb. S. The North ern Pacific today notified the state rail- way commission that it has withdrawn the T cent rate on freight shipments from Portland to Tacoma, destined for Alaska, which the steamship companies were expected to absorb. This was to give Portland an even break on Alaska business with the Sound cities.
 Seattle made fierce attack upon the special rate and as all the Alaska steamship companies lead out of Seat tie they refused to absorb the railroad rate or to accept Portland freight at Tacoma. Merchants also filed de mand for the same rate on local ship ments and the experiment proved a failure.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
HIGH WATER
 IN PORTLAND
Willamette River Rises Seventeen Feet and Still Moving
 Up Town.
pn c.bl. to rhs pailz as,sray.

Portland, Ore, Feb. 6-The Villa mette river is now seventeen feet above normal high water mark and the weather bureau says it will con- tinue to rise two inches an hour for at least twenty-four hours. In that case it will inundate the entire business district from Front and Madison street to Third and Irving. Portions Of Front and adjacent streets are already flooded and wholesale merchants are paying drsys s1 an hour to move goods to higher ground.
 The extraordinary rise in the river is caused by chinook winds which have melted enormous quantities ot snow in the mountains. A large area in the Columbia bottoms is flooded on both sides of the river and work has been abandoned on the now Seattle x Portland railroad because of high water.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
WATSON-SNOW
 TO BEGIN SOON
Railroad Men Will Arrive Before End of February to Start
 Operations.

Private advices from Seattle confirm the statement previously wired to the Gateway that the contract to complete the railroad grade to mile 75 was let to Watson & Snow, the bridge con- tractors, and that they will be in Seward before the end of February to begin work. Frank L. Ballaine writes that Watson & Snow will probably have an additional contract beyond 70.
 Mai. Ballaine writes that when he left Chicago President Frost was plan hing to have all the work as far as Knik let to sub-contractors within a short time, the intention being to push completion of the line to the coal fields as fast as men can do it. The great demand for railroad laborers all through the northwest is handicap but it is hoped by letting the work to numerous sub-contractors, who in turn will farm most of it out to station men, to obtain the necessary force within few months. During the summer, when it is daylight nearly all the time, two shifts can be worked.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
That Is Said to Be Policy of the Guggenheim.MOrgan Syndi'
 cate in Alaska.
TO CORNER COAL AND COPPER
Understood in fast That 1t Will Make Bluff at Construction
 to Discourage Rivals.
uy casi. so The Daily Gateway.

Chicago, Feb. 9-The talk in railroad circles in this city and New York is that the Guggenheim-Morgan syndi- cate does not intend to build it's Cop per river railroad for several years but will make a bluff of building from every available port in order to con rrol terminals and discourage rival projects. In pursuance of this policy it is stated by men in position to know that tho syndicate will do sore construction this summer both from Kstslla and Cordova, and probably have a small number of men working from Valdez also.
 The charge made by rival interests that the Guggenheims are trying to annex the territory of Alaska is gener- ally credited here. In order to do this 10 is important to hold back develop ment ss far as possible. The syndicate seeks to control the coal and copper deposits of the entire territory and to do that it will be necessary to control the railroads also. If it can prevent railroad construction for several years it may force nearly all the coal and copper owners to sell U it at low figures.
 It is stated, however, by engineers employed on the surveys that Katalla has been definitely fixed as the termi- nus Of the Guggenheim railroad, when ever it is built. This is because of it's proximity to the Kayak coal field and because it offers an easier and shorter route to the Bonanza district.
 It is reported also that Close Brothers, who own the White Pass road, in selling their Cordova line to the Guggeuheims stipulated that the latter should not build into the Klon- dike.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
WILL ERECT
 STAMP MILL
Skeen & Lechner Will Work Falls Creek Mine on Larger
 Scale This Year.

Skeen & Lechner will erect Istamp' mill with five or ten stamps, on their Falls creek quartz gold property this summer. This news came in a private letter from Frank Skeen to l.. F. Shaw this week. The work done last season showed such good results that the owners have absolute faith in the per manence of the mine. With a crude arastra they took enough gold out of the ore mined from the development tunnel last year to enable both of them to travel this winter. AS is we'll known the ore is high grade and free milling.
 MT. Sksen has spent the winter in Nevada and writes that it is hard to exaggerate the legitimate possibilities of the new bonanza camps there and as consequence the sale of mining stocks has swollen to marvellous b1b- ble. He is satisfied to return to Alaska.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
Al Legislation for Territory Threatened by Fight Over
 SeIf.gOVerHment.
HOGGATT LEADING OPPOSITION
Raskey Says GuSgcnheim Crowd Tried to Make Deal With Him
 at Beginning of ScsSiOH.
sy Gable to The DAny Gateway.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 5-All Alaska legislation is threatened on account of the fierce fight now being uaged between the advocates and op- ponents of territorial government. The Guggenheim-M Morgan syndicate IS alleged to be backing the opposition. Gov. Hoggatt is leading the fight against seli-government and insists that the real business men of Alaska do not want territorial government.
 Delegate WaSkey asserts that repre- Senatiyes of the Guggenheims came to him st the beginning of the congress sional session and told him that if he would work with the right people his legislative path would be smooth but that if he acted independently Of them he would have a rocky road to travel.
 All the opponents of territorial gov ernment declare that its advocates do not represent the real business inter eSts of the territory.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
HOGGATT BUSY
 AT LOBBY JOBS
Governor Told If He DOGS Not SubSide He Will Be Attack
 ed on House Floor.
D, o.sls to rhs Daily aassway.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 5-lt is cur rently reported that Gov. Hoggatt has been warned that unless he ceases lob- bying for certain Alaska bills he will be made the subjec. of criticism on the door of the house.
 This notice to the governor is said to be responsible for the appearance of Former Senator Jones of Arkansas as . lobbyist before house committees against the bills allowing an extension of time for the completion of certain Alaska railroads. It is thought that the governor decided that it would be indiscreet for him to advocate the mea- sure.
 Before the house judiciary commit tee today Senator Nelson in discussing the Alaska judiciary bill declared that he had nothing but contempt for Capt, Jarvis. He asserted that Jarvis Is nothing but lobbyist for certain Alaska interests.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
River Ceases Rising

Portland, Ore, Feb. 7-Flood condi- tions in this city and along the Colum- bia have improved in the past twenty four hours. The Willamette river is now stationary and only small DOT tion of the waterfront is submerged. The damage by water was compara- lively small but the wholesale houses incurred great expense in moving their stocks from warehouses on lower streets to high ground.
 Reports indicate that the greatest volume of water in the mountains has passed. The snow is not melting as rapidly as it was earlier in the week and the streams in the mountains are falling.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
COURT TERM AT VALDEZ
 CALLED FOR MARCH 4

Private advices from Valdez state that somebody has called term of court for the Third judicial division to convene at Valdez March but it is not stated who will preside. It is an nounced also that It will be jury term and it is puzzling Seward lawyers to understand how the term can be held legally when the law requires thirty days notice to men summoned to serve on the jury. No Seward men have been summoned, but possibly it has been decided that nobody on Kenai peninsula is qualified.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
LOCATE COAL AND OIL
 AT KACHEMAK BAY
Finnish COIonlsts Take SeVenty-six Claims for Fuel Property on
 Cook Inlet.

Sixty-fve oil placer locations, two coal and nine placer gold were filed in a lump this week with Judge Howlett as recorder of Kenai precinct, by Fin flanders interested in the Finnish colony which is to be established in the vicinity of Aurora, on Cook inlet.
 The oil and coal locations and seven of the nine gold locations were made by the following: Naderchda Horn borg, Elsa Hornborg, E. Anten, Anna Anten, Werner Nygrist, E. A. He'd man, Fl. P. Keith, R. Honey. The other two gold claims were taken by R, Honey, Nederchda Hornborg, Elsa Hornborg, E. Anten, Anna Anten.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
'C. F. YEATON'S STORE AT
 SUNRISE BURNS TO GROUND
Loss In Building and Stock Nearly S7OOO, but Firm Opens Business
 In New Place

Sunrise, Jan. 27.-C. F. Yeaton & Company's general store burned to the ground this afternoon, entailing loss of $517S in goods burned and destroyed in other ways, and the total loss of the building, which was valued at $500. The loss was partially covered by in- surance. The goods in the store were nearly all saved but practically every thing in the rear room and on the second floor was lost.
 The stock saved was moved to the old brewery building formerly. used as hotel, and the firm continues business.
 The fire was caused by break in the chimney directly under the roof, the effect of high wind. It started at 5:3O p. m.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
COVERED
 IN SNOW SLIDE
Great Northern Cars Buried and 700 Men Digging Out but
 Nobody Hurt.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.

Seattle, Feb. "A Great Northern overland passenger train was buried in snowslide last night near Gaynor and 700 men are employed today in shoveling snow from the cars to dig the train out. The passengers are safe and have plenty Of food in the dining car. No one was injured by the slide.
 Seven passenger trains on the Great Northern and Northern Pacific are now stalled by deep snow and none has come through from the east since Feb ruary ?. Four locomotives and two rotary blows are now buried in snow slides in the Cascades.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
Interstate Commerce Commission Claims Jurisdiction Over
 Railway Lines.
READY TO HEAR COMPLAINTS
If Courts Decide Territory Is a District Its Authority Cam
 not Be Asserted.
B, o.b,. to rhs psilz aa.sway.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 4-The in' terstate commerce commission annonn' ces that it will claim jurisdiction over Alaska railroads, taking the position that Alaska is a territory. It will hear complaints of through rates by steamer and rail for Alaska destina' tion.
 An order will be issued at once re- ouiring Alaska railroads to file rate sheets of freight and passenger rates.
 It is expected that the ruling will very soon be taken into the courts by some corporation and it is admitted that if the courts decide that Alaska is not a territory but district the com mission has no jurisdiction.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
STEAMSHIP RATES GO UP
 FROM SEATTLE TO NORTH

Steamship passenger rates from Seat tie to all Southern Alaska ports west of Katalla advanced February l. The first-class rate from Seattle to Seward now is s45, an advance of S5. The in- crease in the wages of nearly all boat employees is held accountable by the steamship companies for the rise. The increased price of coal is said to be a small factor.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
MAY EXTEND
 ALASKA WIRES
House Committee Agrees on Alp. prOpriation of $l9O,OOO for
 New Land Lines.
By cabl. to Tn. Daily Gateway.

Washington, D. C., Feb. g. The house committee on appropriations made a favorable report today on the item in the army appropriation bill allowing sI9O,0OO to add an additional wire to the land telegraph line from from Valdez to Fairbanks and to build a line to Circle City from Eagle.
 No opposition to this appropriation has developed in either house and it is believed that it will go through. The amount asked for is merely the earn ings of the Alaska cable and telegraph in the past year.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
APPROVES PLAN
 FOR SHELTER (. G. Hubbard Thinks Seward an Ideal Location for Copper
 Reduction Plant.
PREDICTS BIG SOUND OUTPUT
Manager of Knight Island Company Says Announced BaCkerS of Pro-
 feet Can Make It Go.

That Seward is situated to become the most important smelting town in Alaska and that the industry once created here would soon have indefn- ite expansion is the opinion of c. C.. Hubbard, general manager of the Huhbard-Elliott and Knights Island Copper Companies.
 Mir. Hubbard passed through Seward this week on the steamer Portland and while in town was informed of the an nouncement recently wired to the Gateway that a company has been formed to build a large shelter at Seward and that the Hubbard-Elliott companies were interested. He said it was the first information he had re- ceived of the enterprise but he had no no doubt that his associates would gladly take an interest in such an in- dustry to be located within short dis tance of their extensive properties on Knight island.
 Mir. Hubbard said also that he was well acquainted with George H. Heis' ing of Minneapolis, named as vice president and a heavy stockholder in the smelling company, and that if Mir. Heising were actively identified with the project that fact alone would in- sure it's success. As stated in the message to the Gateway Mir. Heising is a large stockholder in the Hubbard Elliott companies and is interested in copper mining and smelling else where.
 Offers UnequaIed Site
 Stewards advantages as smelter town Mir. Hubbard conceded to be un- equaled in the vicinity of Prince Will liam sound, where the copper develop ments recently have been so enormous
 Continued on page ?
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
GUGGENHEIMS IN
 ON WHITE PASS
Report Says Copper Syndicate Has Control of Railroad
 and Steamers.
sy Cable to Tho Daily Gateway.

Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 6-Advices from Whuehorse state that the Gug- genheim syndicate has secured con- trol of the White Pass & Yukon rail- road and steamship lines and will operate steamers from Vancouver to Sksgway.
 The belief here is that the White Pass interests, both railroad and steamship, have been consolidated with the Northwestern and that the Gug- genheims are trying to secure control of all transportation interests in and to Alaska and the British Yukon.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
REPORTS FOR
 HATCHERY BILL
Recommended Law Gives Free Sites and Partial Exemption
 From Taxation.
sy Cable to The Daily Gateway.

Washington, D. C., Feb. - Con- gressmsn Humphreys bill for the en- couragement of salmon hatcheries in Alaska was favorably reported today by the house committee on merchant marine and fsherise. It gives a free site of forty acres to each private hatchery, the use of building material on the public lands, and partial exemP- tion from taxes.
 It is claimed that the bill is in the special interest of the Alaska Packers Association, but its provisions are open to everybody. Some opposi- tion to the measure is expected.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
Northern Pacific Trains Move

Spokane, Feb. 9-The Northern Pacific today began the movement of passenger trains from North Yakima. East-bounG trains there are still blocked. Great Northern trains from this city to the coast are still com nletelY tied up.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

Northern lights were exceptionally conspicuous last night and the result ing earth currents put the cable out of tune this morning. For while the marker refused to stay on the tape.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
Coast Trains Still Blocked

Spokane, Feb. S-All trains are still blocked between this city and the coast by heavy slides in the Cascade mountains. Floods at North Yakima have demoralized Northern Pacific traffic there by washouts.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09
Mercury Goes Down to 8

Seattle, Feb. 4-The thermometer was down to IS degrees above zero this morning and the weather bureau pre- diets continued low temperature.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

The miners on Murphy creek in the Panama have enacted miners law that claim-jumping is barred in that district and the jumper is hurried out in a rush.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

Five men have staked twenty miles of claims on Birch creek, which they recently discovered. One of them arrived in Fairbanks and spologized, saving that he was opposed to power of attorney stalking but as long as the law permits hOgging he could go as far as anybody.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

The Guggenheims have just paid several million dollars for 140 claims on Bonanza creek and the adjacent hills, in the Klondike.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

Juneau high school students publish @ very entertaining magazine called the Totem from time to time. They turned out a handsome Christmas edition.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

The gold commissioner of the Yukon territory has decided that the Klon- dike river is a creek above North fork. This was necessary to make creek locations legal.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

A new strike in the Chatsnika flats in the Panama is distinguished by pans as high as SIS, with frequent s5 pans.
Seward weekly gateway., 1907-02-09

Lake copper reached the high quo tation of O25.25 on January 3l.