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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
Rorp Not Worn

Little Margaret's grandmother had
written for photograph of her name
sake, the baby" For material rea-
sons it was advisable that the little
girl should appear as well dressed as
possible, and cousins new open-work
dress was borrowed for the occasion.
On being arrayed for the picture Mar
garet rushed to her father, crying:
ooh, father, just look! These amt
worn holes; they is born holes. "-Har-
per's.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
OF No Importance.

Younghub Eat the lawn fete)-Who
is that young man you have been chat
ting with all the evening, my dear?
Mrs. Younghub-Oh. he isn't any
body of any nsequence-merely one
of the fellows l used to be engaged
to.-Chicago News.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
a Treat. Indeed.

One little girl had been to . party
on two consecutive Gays. "Oh, mann
ma" she cried, enthusiastically, on
her second return from the second.
lust think, I've had ice cream twice
in congestioni"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
An Easy Place to Live.

AS the fashions in women's clothes
in Japan have not changed during g.
500 years there is no reason why the
men of that country should not have
the most serene countenances known
among civilized people,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19

nation. His swimming feat was con.
sidered wonderful and he asserts that
had he any other money he would
not have risked his life to recover the
hat.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
Faith Shattered.

4 don't believe in that doctor"
.Why?"
"Pa didn't tell me everything /
wanted to eat was bad for e."-Chi-
cago Record Herald
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
TURKEY OUR NosLEsr BIRD.
Crossing with the Wild Species to
Improve Market Product.


The most notable American bird In
the farm category is the turkey, grow
ing as he does to the great weight of
80 and even 40 pounds, and losing
nothing in flavor and toothsomeness.
Likewise, the most regal of our re-
naming game girds is his blood BROTH
er, the wild turkey. from which he has
descended.
There is perhaps no instance where
domestication has scored so little in
improvement as with the turkey. In
fact, in some respects the tanning and
breeding have hurt instead of helped
the species.
No prize domestic gobbler is ever
so beautifully marked or so resplend-
ent with feathers of black shaded with
rich bronze and Illuminated. with a
lustrous finish of FURNISHED copper as
is the typical wild turkey, while the
vigor and vitality of the wild bird is
such that to this day we strengthen
the most virile of our bronze turkeys
by an infusion of the wild blood.
Rhode Island stands for the best
in turkey production. The last cen
sus shows less than 100000 turkeys
in the United States and only about
5000 produced annually in Rhode Is
land, yet, according to a turkey ex-
pert, If all the turkeys of the coun-
try were of such good quality as
Rhode Islands, their total value would
be doubled.
According to the department of ag-
riculture, the growing of turkeys has
greatly improved during the last few
years as result of determined eff
fort ON the part of producers of
standard bred" stock to demonstrate
that it is much more profitable to use
pure breeding stock than the smaller
and less vigorous stock of times
past.
The wild turkey is also being used
to instill further new vigorous blood
into the bronze flocks. Inbreeding is
the fatal defect among the practice
of many turkey growers.
The fact that turkeys will from the
time that they are six weeks old I'M
til winter gain the greater part of
their entire living from bugs, insects,
grasshoppers and waste grain assures
their existence during this period at
little or no cost to the grower where
there is a sufficient range for the
birds
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
What a Dukes Son looks Like.

The Duke of Devonshire, as all the
world knows never went in much
for dress, consequently his presence
as pedestrian in the West End was
hardly ever noticed. When Marquis
of Harrington it was his daily prac-
tice to walk from the house, up Water
loo Place, down Piccadilly to Devon
shire House. taking mental note of
the people he passed and always be-
ing interested in the shop windows
He generally stood for some time
looking at the photos shown at the
stationers. One day man and a
woman were looking at the same pho
tos. Look, Mary" said the man,
this ones the Marquis of Harrington,
son of the Duke of Devonshire" "Oh
john said the woman, u may be
ignorant, but 1 amt no fool That
kind of looking chap the son of a
Duke! No nonsense for me- Come
on" The duke must have thought
of the proverb about listeners.-Lon-
don P. T. o.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
Australian old Age Pensions.

The Australian government gives
her aged pension of nearly $3.50 a
week
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19

er east side,zon in Chrystie street,
one in Forsyth street, one in First
street, few doors off the Bowery. In
each instance the victim was shot
through window and likewise
through the head. All three jobs bore
the workmanship of the same practic-
ed hand, or set of hands. Said the po-
lice, BLACK Hand which is a blanket
expression, covering for them a multi
tude of sins.
Not Work of "BIack Hand"
1t didn't look in the least like the
work of the Black Hand, for the Black
Handlers in the main are a lot of crude
coarse performers who customarily
enforce their demands for tribute by
blowing in the front of a grocery with
dynamite or stabbing some stubborn
tradesman between the shoulders.
Eventually it came out in a round
about fashion that the three dead men
had all been members of the genuine
article, the High Malta, in the Old
country, and although they have new
er been able to prove it the detectives
of the Italian bureau are morally GER
tain that two chosen instruments of
the mother organization-broth as
it happened, and both of them dead
shots-were sent all the way here
from Sicily to kill off the luckless
three for the unforgivable crime of be-
traying the society to the authorities
before they took themselves out of the
province. Similarly some blood vendet-
ia which had its beginning SO or rs
years ago in Palermo or Calabria is
liable to prove fatal to a prosperous
padrone in Mulberry Bend tomorrow.
What has been known as the Orient
al quarter, where the Arabs and Syri-
| ans live-down on Washington street,
| in stuffy old-time houses that squat al
most in the shadow of the tallest of
the skyscrapers an out
break for no apparent reason occasion
ally. Generally no lives are lost, for
the Syrian is VIGOROUSLY bad shot,
but there is always heap of indis-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19

tongues of these conspirators and who
will join their societies, share their
intrigues, help them plot their black
mailings and murderings and then at
the proper time betray them to the
police
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19
Feuds Hard to Understand.

| TCdOS rldTu 10 OHOGTSIdno.
Before them rises the barriers of
foreign secretiveness, fear and
strangeness of anguage-barriers
which effectually preclude the punish
ment for the shooting or stabbing or
! dynamiting, as the case may be, al
though sometimes the tool who pulled
| the trigger or sank the blade is made
to suffer. The penance which New
York pays for being an asylum and
refuge for all people of the world is
written in red letters. For with the
new blood and the good blood we get
in nearly every immigrant ship that
touches these shores some of the
seeds of legacy of hate which dates
back perhaps a hundred years to an
ancient political or religious quarrel
that we cannot fathom or understand.
In the old days a crime which had
about it the signs of generalization
had also, generally speaking, the ear
marks of some gang leader and his
merry men. There were policemen
who could tell at glance whether the
credit for a sordid slum tragedy prop
| CITY OclOASSO, say W Tie lOllOWSIS VI
Humpy Jackson, that talented gun
fighter who toted his hardware in his
hat, or whether it should be added to
the tally of the clan of the ambidex-
trous and ambitious Nine-Eyed Donni-
gan. But since Eat-Em-Up Jack Nc
Manus started down the Bowery one
night over two years ago and came
back in an ambulance with his skull
caved in by a gas pipe there has not
been a gang murder which showed evil
J dence of having been worked out be-
forehand.
Ended Chinatown Trouble.
These times that's all changed and
done away with. 1t 5 the intricate
feuds of the foreign-Dorn that are
cooked up on embers with which this
country has no part or parcel which
beget the bulk of the unexplained and
unpublished crimes of the tenement
districts and the quarters where the
aliens of the community make their
homes. For three years desperate
quarrel ragged in Chinatown. 1t cost the
lives of between Is and 20 Cinnamon.
Three were killed in one night at the
Chinese theater in Doyer street. Sud
denly it ended short off and there
were no more killings.
The police took the credit for max
ing Chinatown once more safe for the
tourist of the rubberneck hack and the
curio buyer. AS a matter of fact they
had nothing to do with it. Moved by
the prayers of the Chinese merchants
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-19

New York's crime records Old World
feuds and vendettas have been trans
planted here, and, seemingly, the soil
of the new country has proved amaz-
ingly fertile to their growth. Every
few days or weeks brings an assassin
alton or an outbreak which can be
traced in a way to Old World infiu-
ences. Very often the police are able
to show that the thing was plotted in
some out-of-the-way elbow of Europe
or Asia, although what the motives
and what the immediate influences
which prompted the crime are things
that the keenest of the detectives and
the cleverest of the newspaper men
can never exactly find out.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
Snow Charged With Embezzlement.

George M. Snow of Nampa, gen
eral manager and superintendent of
the Trappers' Flat Mining Co., has
been arrested on the charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 belonging to the com
pany. The complaint was sworn to
by C. Layton Ford of New York,
treasurer of the company, who has
been in this section several weeks in
vestigating conditions for the COM
pany. He was taken to Caldwell
where he appeared before the county
judge. Hearing was set for Janu-
ary 10 and Mr.. Snow was allowed to
go on his giving a bond in the sum
of S2500, which requirement was
complied with. The complaint
charges that at different times Mr..
Snow appropriated money for his
own use by drawing checks in his
own favor and also in favor of his
son. He has handled the funds for
the company since its organization
four years ago and has handled
abont S150,000. Last July an audit
ing committee from New York ex-
amined the books and found a short
age of $4,000.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
LEGISLATIVE DO|NGS.
]. Frank Hunt Elected
Speaker of the House.

The Ninth session of the Idaho
legislature convened Monday noon.
j. Frank Hunt was elected speaker
of the house and Avery Moore chief
clerk.
On Tuesday Governor Gooding's
message was read at a joint session
of the house and senate. 1t is a good
one. Among the most important
recommendations are:
A direct primary law.
An anti-pass law.
Antitrust legislation.
Stricter control of liquor traffic.
Creation of railroad commission
with power to fix rates to be charg-
ed and to correct abuses and dis
ordinations in freight and passeng-
er traffics. Authority should be
vested in the commission to require
railroad companies, upon reasonable
notice, to furnish all the cars re-
quisite to accommodate shippers,
and a provision should be made
whereby demurrage charges for
cars ordered should be reciprocal
the shipper paying for the use of
cars delivered and unused, and the
transportation company paying for
non-delivery, within a reasonable
time, of cars ordered.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
ANNUAL MINSTREL SHOW.
Commercial Club Minstrels VIII Appear
Next Month

Say, yo' white folks, yo' had
bettah be savin' you nickels for the
second annual performance of the
Commercial Club minstrels next
month.
The boys are planning to far
eclipse their efforts of last year.
New songs, new dances, new sketches
and new specialties have been secur-
ed. The performers have been in
creased to Is, and a splendid orches-
ira is being trained. Among the
new faces is a Scotchman of African
descent, and a Swedenborgian who
traces his ancestry back to Ham him
self.
RehearSals will begin in about
10 days, and no one should be
frightened if they hear any ''Hark
from the grave" sounds floating on
the night air.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
ANOTHER ARC LIGHT.
Long Needed Light Ordered to be Placed
at Faris & kesl Warehouse.

The city council filled long felt
want Monday night when an arc
light was ordered to be placed at the
railroad crossing near the Faris &
Kesl warehouse. The bridge span
ming the ditch at that point has been
a dangerous spot for vehicles on
dark nights. Those who live in the
north part of the city will also ap-
preciate the light.
The presentation of bills in the
amount of $196 brought to light the
cost to the city of the recent raid of
the tenderloin district. The council
is in favor of keeping the places
closed.
Last years taxes on property in
the Degan addition was ordered re-
mitted. When the tax was levied
that addition had not been taken
into the city.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
TWAS A FAST GAME.
Parma Basketball Team Defeated by the
Emmett Lads.

Boys Team-Parma, 81; Emmett, 62.
Girls Team-Parma, %; Emmett, 6.
Ina game that was fast and furious
and full of sensational and spectacu-
lar plays, the Emmett basketball
team defeated Parma by a score of
62 to 81, Saturday night. Orrie Critics
was the bright particular star of the
locals and his support was of the
gilt-edged class. The Parma boys
put up strong game, but they were
simply outclassed, and most of their
points were made from the foul
line.
Considering that this was the first
public appearance of the Emmett
girls team, and that their opponents
are players of several seasons ex-
perience, they made good show
ing.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
MUST Be LOWERED.
Canyon Canal Dam Ordered
to be Lowered Three
Feet.

The suit of the Boise-Payette Elec-
tric Power company against the Can
yon canal company has been settled
at last. The order of the court was
that the dam must be lowered three
feet.
This was the last official act of
Judge Stewart before he retired
from the district court bench and
donned the ermine of the Supreme
court. The decree was based on the
report of the three engineers who,
at the orders of the judge made an
investigation last week of conditions
at the power company's plant. Their
report was made Saturday and the
decision followed Immediately after.
Judge Stewart DEGREES that the
defendant company must not main
tain their dam or any part of it at
height exceedingly III feet above
the low water level of the river nor
without constructing, maintaining
and providing suitable waste gates
of sizes sufficient to carry away all
debris and silt that may accumulate
from time to time. Within 80 days
the defendant company must alter
the dam to conform to these require
hof ha n 1ofl
be lowered three feet from its pres
ent height. In his findings Judge
Stewart finds.
THAT maintenance Of said dam |
at its present height or at any height |
greater than III feet above low
water level is not required or neces-
sary in order to irrigate the land in
tended to be irrigated therefrom,
but such land and the whole thereof,
can be irrigated through the said
canal system by lowering the upper
part of the canal gradually for dis
tance of about fiue miles and by re-
ducing the height of the dam so that
the crest thereof will not stand to
exceed lit feet above how water
level"
Ninety days time is given in
which to make the required altera-
tinns at the dam. That will mean
April 6. The canal will have to be
widened and lowered for distance
of probably four miles, which will
doubtless be done before the work
on the dam is completed. so that
water for the bench farmer will be
available not later than April Is, in
plenty of time for crops, unless the
spring should be an unusually dry
one, which is not at all likely.
The final settlement of this suit,
which has been pending since last +
May and which has made the de-
livery of water on the bench uncer- +
tain, will mean the rapid develop :
ment of that large tract of choice {
land. Landowners may now put in 9
their crops and trees with the assur- t
ance that water will be available to
nourish them. 1t is good news for i
the bench farmers, though bad news
for the canal company.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
A Mass Meeting.

Every citizen who is interested in
the future growth of this city should
be present at the mass meeting al
the hall Monday night to discuss
waterworks and electric lights. The
Commercial club desires to have an
expression from the taxpayers as to
the wisdom of municipalizing one or
both systems, and full discussion
is desired.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
George Stewart Improving.

Miss Nellie Stewart, who had been
at the bedside of her father in Boise,
since he was injured by falling over
cliff, returned home Monday. Mr..
Stewart is slowly improving and
hopes are entertained for his recov-
cry. A surgical operation was per-
formed on him and the bones of his
skull which were pressing on his
brain were lifted.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
Excursion to Boise.

The boys and girls basketball
teams will go to Boise Saturday for
games. The former will play the
crack Y. M. c. A. team and the
latter, the High school girls. An
excursion has been arranged, leav-
ing here on the regular train in the
morning and returning Sunday
afternoon. The round trip rate is
81. 80.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
C. A. r. and Relief Corps Install.

The newly-elected officers of the
G. A. R. and w. R. C. were jointly
installed in the post rooms Friday
night. John Daily was the installing
officer for the Grand Army and Mrs.
Waring for the Relief Corps. A
pleasing feature of the occasion was
the presentation to Mrs. Zimmer-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the
partnership of Hunt & Herold in
the Star Billiard Hall was on Janu-
airy l, 1907, dissolved by mutual con-
sent, A. C. Hunt retiring. All
accounts due A. C. Hunt should be
paid to him. The firm accounts of
Hunt & Herold are to be paid to its
Herold e Strickland.
HUNT e HERoLD
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
Sand Hollow Ditch Company.

The stockholders of the Sand
Hollow Ditch Company held their
annual meeting last Saturday and
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: John Hoover, presi-
dent; John B. Davis, secretary; Bert
Burcham, treasurer. These with T.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10

B. Moore and Herman Werle con-
stitute the board of directors. Those
who have subscribed for stock in the
company but have not received their
certificates, can secure same by ap-
plying to the secretary.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
Card of Thanks.

We desire to extend our heartfelt
thanks for the assistance and kind
ness of neighbors and friends during
the sickness and death of j. Seitz.
Mrs. j. Seitz. Louis Seitz and the
Wilhelm family.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
Notice.

Owing to the discontinuance of
electric lights. the undersigned will
keep their barber shops open from
8 to $50 on week days and s to u
on Sundays.
C. L. GAMAGE,
EATON & KELLY
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10

man, the retiring president Of the
Corps. of Chocolate set in recogni-
tion of her services during the past
year. AT the close of the installation
ceremonies, short program was
rendered and an oyster supper
served.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10

al discharge of shotgun in the
hands of Ellis Walters, while hunt
ing. Thirty of the shots took effect
and his wounds are painful, but no
serious results are anticipated.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
GEORGE A. SPRAGUE,
Observer u. S. Weather Dept.

DR.. Smith of Mountainhome was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Rundstrom
the first of the week.
Mike Gilbride has bought 25-foot
lot adjoining his residence property
from w. B. Banks.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
Weather Report.

Government weather report at
Emmett for week ending January
z 1907.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
DR.. Walker Accidentally Shot.

DR.. E. w. Walker was shot in the
hand few days ago by the accident
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1907-01-10
January II to February 2

We have large stock in all lines
that will
the list carefully
that can't be duplicated
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-11-17

same quarter for the crop OF 1907:
Little Rock, Ark, Oct. e8.-The
rice crop of Lonoke county will be
25 per cent. better than was expect
ed. One OF the largest growers has
harvested a 10 acre field that yields
100 bushels to the acre He has 20
acres in cultivation. Prise about 81
a bushel. Cost of production Is about
one-third OF the gross proceeds, and
his profits will be about $1,000. There
are about 5000 acres IN Lonoke coun-
~ and the yield will be fully 100000
bushels. This IS the third year rice
has been grown in the county, aud
there IS likely to be decided IN
crease in acreage next year; also in
Prairie, Jefferson and other low-lying
counties-E B. I.
Washington county has thousands
OF acres OF land adapted to the
raising Of rice, and the owners, if
they should turn it into this crop
would find the returns as profitable
a. It IS in Arkansas.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-11-17
FIVE HUNDRED
FOLLOW HOUNDS
Second Days Fox Chase Furnishes
Exciting Sport-W. F. Sirnrns,
Meets With Accident.

Morning Times Special.
Beardstown, KY. Nov. I5-The
second day of the meet of the Ma
sional Fox Hunters Association operl
ed cool and dusty, and with renewed
interest upon the part of the hunt
ers. The party numbered about five
hundred, and was led by Judge Nat
w. Halstead, who is master OF
hounds.
A fox was started just outside the
limits OF Beardstown. and interesting
chase followed The second chase
started on the farm OF Esquire A. IT.
Miller, on the Gilkey Run pike, about
two miles south of Beardstown, and
lasted about an hour. Reynard was
led a merry pace over the hills and
valleys, ending at the Beech Fork
river about two miles away, where
he eluded further pursuit of the dogs
by taking refuge under a cliff.
The women were greatly in epi
ience ON the hunt. many of them dis
playing the greatest kind Of skin ii
riding.