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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12
REFORM LEGISLATION.

Probably no legislature in the
history Of any state in the Union
ever enacted 20 many, reform meas
ures as did the recent session Of
Nebraska law makers. The word
reform was the battle-cry OF the
members during the entire session,
and although there was some vigor-
GUS lobbying done not a single pro-
posed reform measure was defeated.
The following shows the more I'M
portant reform laws enacted by that
body:
A 9.cent passenger fare law.
The creation of state railway
commission.
An anti pass law.
A maximum freight rate law.
A terminal taxation law.
An anti-lobby law.
A reciprocal demurrage law.
A maximum oil rate law.
A fellow.servant law.
A law reducing charges made by
commission merchants At stock
yards.
A direct primary law.
A pure food law.
A child labor law.
A law prohibiting railway com.
panies from employing night oper
ators or towermen under the age Of
81 years.
A law aboIishing bucket shops.
A law putting breweries out O
the saloon business.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12

IE A. Burrell, Cashier of the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment Ii true 10 the best az my knowledge and
belief. E. A, BURRELL, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me this 9Th
dav az April. 1907. CHAS. e. HARRIS,
seal Notary Public.
My commission expires March 10. 1908
TIM KINNEY,
L. b. LEWERICH,
III. A. GILL.
Directors.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12

power to the commissioners IN re-
gard to road work and we sincerely
hope that our board of commission
ers will exercise their authority to
the full extent and see TO it that the
road fund is expended in the most
judicious manner possible. II dur
ing. their term they can make
material improvement in our roads
the people win sing praises unto
their names.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12
Notice to Contractors.

Office OF the Montpelier Irrigation
District. Montpelier, Bear Lake county,
Idaho, April 10th. 1907.
Sealed proposals will be received at
this office until . o'clock p. m, Satur-
day. the 18th day OF May, 1907, at
which time and place said proposals
will be publicly opened and read aloud
for furnishing the materials and labor
Of all kinds necessary for the construc
ton and completion Of all excavation.
grading, masonry. fumes, bridges,
waste gates and head OF the Montpelier
Irrigation Canal In Bear Lake County
Idaho, aaid canal being about twenty,
five miles long. Plans, specifications.
forms Of proposal and all other inform
alton may be obtained on application to
this Office ON and after the goth day OF
APRIL. 1907. The contract FOR this work
will be awarded to the lowest respons-
ible bidder. The Board of Directors re-
serve the right to award said contract
In portions or as 0 whole as may BE-
most beneficial TO said district, and to
reject any and OIL bids and TO waive
any defects
Montpelier Irrigation District.
BY w. J. HUNTER. Pres
Attest: A. B. GoUGH, Sec.
WASHINGTON JENKINS, Engineer.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12
NOT swAYED az SENTIMENT.
Humble Proofreader Saw lnconsist.
ency In differing Rhetoric.

The Waterbury American gives the
following amusing illustration OF
clever and alert proofreading, and OF
tact In making call down sugges
items to learned speakers or editors
absorbed In sentiment and eloqueEce.
The young lady referred to is now
proofreader for the press of G. M.
Gaines.
Amos Wilder's speech at the Yale
alumni dinner in New York was so
good that the Alumni Weekly pub
lished 1t In full, and everybody en-
Unused over 1t. A certain Yale editor.
in another part of the country. found
In the speech one sentence which ne
thought just the thing to quote In an
editorial he was writing on the need
of care in framing insurance legisla-
tion. This was the sentence: THE In
surance agent who sees In placing a
policy not only the premium for his
own needs and desires, but protection
| for q sobbing widow and frightened
children as for the first time they see
their father helpless In death and the
lips, once SO rich In endearments, now
set in the terrible marble OF great
mystery-that agent looks his man In
the eye and speaks in the language o.
another world" The editor was mas
tered by the sentiment and the rhet
oric. but not SO the humble proof
reader, who had no college diplomi
and never attended an alumni ban
quet. She quietly drew line aroun'
the words for the flrst time" put
question mark on the margin and sen
the proof up to the editor.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12

IL there ever was time when the
need of better roads in this county
was brought forcibly to the atten-
ton of our citizens, that time has
been during the past month. A por-
tion of that time the road between
here and Paris has been such that il
was about all a team could do to get
through with light wagon. The
escnt-off" between here and Ovid, on
which much money has been ex-
pended, has been abandoned and
travel has gone over the old road.
Are the taxpayers of The county
going TO forever remain content in
letting their money be expended in
. hap-hazard way on The roads, or
are they going to rise en- masse and
demand that some systematic meth
cd be employed in working the
roads. It seems to us that no cues.
ton is OF greater Importance to the
farmers than that of good roads.
Some effort was made by the last
Legislature at improving the road
laws but what virtue there is in the
new law remains 70 be seen. We
belieye that the law gives more
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12
Notice for Bids.

Sealed bids for the construction Of
bank building TO be erected by the First
National Bank of Montpelier, Idaho, on
its lots In said city of Montpelier, will
be received at its Office any time PRIOR
to the first day of May, 1907. Said
building to be constructed per plans and
specifications on file at their Office and
which may be seen and examined npon
application TO e. A. Burrell, Cashier.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12
Dolna Business AaoIn.

Awhen my friends Thought vas about
to take leave Of this world, on account
OF indigestion, nervousness and general
debility writes A. A. Chisholm, Tread
well, N. Y, land when Il looked as Il
there was no hope left, was persuaded
to try Electric Bittera. and rejoice TO
gay that they are curing mo. Bm now
doing business again ~ Of old and am
gaining daily Heat tonic medicine on
earth. Guaranteed by Ritter Bros. Drug
Co. zoe.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12

The friends of Senator Hepburn
will be panied to learn that he is
again seriously i'll. He was taken
sick at Philadelphia last week and il
is believed that he has another at
tack of appendicitis. It 10 very
doubtful if he could withstand an
other attack as severe as the one he
had last summer.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12

That was big sigh of relief that
went up from several million people
last Friday, when il was announced
from Chicago that there would be no
strike Of the trainmen on the west
ern reads. While the employees
are entitled to more than they got
in the way of increase in wages, yet
they will doubtless be better off IN
the end than had they went on a
strike and gained more, after weeks
of idleness. Had the men gone on
. strike and won 1t 10 hardly TO be
expected that they could have gained
all they were asking for. A half
], loaf without q strike, is better than
two-thirds of q loaf would be TO
them after strike.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Montpelier, Idaho, April Il, 1907

The ia i that lumber has gone up
IN price will keep good deal Of
lumber from "going up in build
ings. The question Of building
material is serious one in many
western towns, and Montpelier is
one of them.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-04-12
Fallare Of a Trlple Alliane.

Pluto was boastIng OF his three.
headed dog.
Well. 1t viii get left answered bis
daughters sutton. Il have only one
pair of pants
Seeing that there was not enough
work to so round. the old man
stopped bragging.-N. Y. Sun.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
FOR TELEPHONE COMPETITION.

If the decision by a federal judge in
Montana is sustained telephone compe-
tition will be immensely benefited. The
Judge decides that a telephone company
may not withhold the use of its lines
from connecting companies that happen
also to be competitors. If the decision
shall be upheld 1t will mean a great
victory for independent ines all over
the country, as well as increased facili-
ties to users Of the telephone, for the
reason hat communications by sub
scribers to n company would not be
confined to the localities served by that
company. Once an independent COM
pany gets a franchise covering territory
served by a trust concern. it can offer
to its subscribers, by arranging for the
joint rate, all the connections of the
company already in the field, thus
avoiding for the subscribers the dupli-
cation of telephones.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
A SUGGESTION.
to indict

When Governor Albeit had procured
an option on the land at Sea Girt now
used as a State encampment ground
and was embarrassed by lack of an
appropriation, several citizens of the
State. among them George A, Halsey,
of Newark. advanced the money, trust
ing to the Legislature to reimburse
them. Thanks to that accommodation
the State made a good bargain in real
estate.
There Is a $40. 200 silver service in a
vault of the State capital, and there is
no appropriation to pay the expense of
a formal presentation by the State to
the battleship New Jersey. for which
the silver service was designed. The
battleship is soon to go to the Pacific
and is likely to sail before the Legisla-
ture convenes in session in September.
We recall the incident of the purchase
of the Sea Girt encampment grounds as
a suggestion of what may he done by
any one of some thousands of New
Jersey citizens. The outlay in this cas-
would not exceed / 900, and the donor
would lose nothing but the interest on
the sum for a short period.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
LAKE PASSAGE

An editorial article in the Tribune,
discussing the project of establishing
a "Lake Passaic' in the upper Passaic
Valley, says cit will be purely or
chiefly for public utility or for the pri-
vate profit of some corporation" The
impression is growing in New Jersey
that the principal object of the enter
prise is private profit. The Tribune
makes the further suggestion whether
It would not be a better plan to estab-
fish a series OF smaller reservoirs.
Such a series of dams from Little
Falls to Wilmington. the Tribune says,
would give enormous storage capacity
by simply filing and keeping full the
normal bed OF the river without sub
merging any considerable area of land.
In that way the river might be made
i've or six feet deeper than it is for
D distance of forty or fifty miles, and
h half billion gallons could be stored
without taking any riparian lands or
causing any damage to them.'
The two plans submitted. calling for
IN immense storage reservoir at Little
Falls or Mountain View. are simply
engineering plans. The consensus of
public opinion has not been taken and
HE Legislature enacted the State Com
mission law during a confused and
nuch-mixed session, in which little
attention was given to details. The
members of the Legislature did not
lake enough interest in the bill they
Foted on to see he extraordinary char
lcter Of the enterprise it involved.
During their summer vacation they
lhould study the provisions of the new
aw and get a clear understanding of
he same so as TO be prepared to legis-
hte inteliigently when the Legislature
meets in September.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
Temperance TaIk.

All" said Eddie Foy, wiping the
Precipitation from his brow and point
ing to a religious meeting on a corner
of Longacre Square, Il just stopped
over there a minute and heard a most
touching tale from a reformed whlskey
drummer. He said:
Fellow Christians and brothers., l
stand before you a reformed
Years & l began drinking Skunkem's
whiskey, and gradually became a
complete slave to It. without 1t life
was a dark tragedy; with it a long
dream of pleasure. 1 drank all kinds
of ~intoxicants, but gradually came TO
rely on Skunkem's poison; for, strange
as it may seem, / found out nat othef
whiskey did not produce che same last
ing pleasure as Skunkem's. Thank
God. however, 1--WE years ago, at a re-
vival meeting similar to this. | fell
under conviction and got saved. Since
that time, / must confess, however, L
have fallen from grace time and again.
Men who have not tasted Skunkem's
whiskey cannot form any ide OF the
temptation to which / am subjected,
I rise tonight to ask your prayers that
I fall not again, that l be not led into
temptation, as even now / can feel the
Inspiration of the devil to rush out and
procure a drink of Skunkemis whiskey.'
And then" said Eddie Foy, the
meeting broke up in a wild rush for
the nearest dispenser's"--Young's Mag
azine.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
THE SUPPRESSED JUDICIARY AMEND
MENTS.

II the proposed constitutional amend
ment providing for the election of As
semblymen by districts shall be sub
mitted alone to the next Legislature,
the way will be barred for five years
for n other amendments 20 the Con-
stitution. That is evidently the object
of the opponents to the judicial amend
ments prepared with such care by a
special commission last year and intro
duced in the present Legislature.
The need for a reform of the judicial
system of the State has long been felt
nj acknowledged. The State Bar AS
ISOLATION and leading members of the
bar have discussed changes from time
to time. In 1894 a constitutional COM
mission was appointed ito report
amendments of the system of juris-
prudence of this State" and 1t had
upon 1t such men as John p. Stockton,
William Walter Phelps, Edward d.
Stokes, George c. Ludlow, Judge Fort,
Frederick Frelinghuysen, Edwin A.
Stevens and Joseph D. Bedle.
The conservative scheme of a new
judiciary reported by the commission
was displaced by more radical amend
ments introduced by Senator Voorhees,,
which were passed by one Legislature
and defeated In the Assembly the
following year, after the Senate had
passed the concurrent resolution. The
Voorhees, amendments resulted in those
introduced in the present Legislature.
Subsequently, in 1903, some judiciary
amendments thai were barren of re-
form were defeated at the polls. The
people wanted bread, not a stone. The
amendments drafted by the commits
sion last year represent real reform,
and that is why they are covertly an
tagonized by selfish influences thai
dare not declare themselves, for they
exist largely in the judiciary itself.
But an emphatic expression of public
opinion would rout these influences and
force the amendments through the
Legislature before it adjourns.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
WHERE MIseovERNMENr IS LOVED.

Philadelphia got weary of its short
itself again under the yoke of the cor
rupt political gang that prostituted the
ballot-box and robbed the city of mill
lions. The disclosures showing nine
millions Of graft in the building and
furnishing of the State capitol at Har-
risburg have only a languid interest for
the people of Philadelphia. They are
too well used to that sort of thing to
make any fuss.
And now, as If to "rub it in on the
placid Philadelphia taxpayers, the firm
of political contractors who were shown
to have ~plundered the city in it's con-
tracts for a twenty million dollar filter
ing plant. is awarded. by a complaisant
judicial referee, more than two millions,
which the city will have to pay These
contractors were charged with having
defrauded the city out of five millions.
One of the members of the contracting
firm is the political boss of Philadel-
phia. When a Newark citizen begins
to feel that there is bad local govern
ment, let him look to Philadelphia and
its political mire and see by comparison
that Newark's government is as pure
as the driven snow"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
Shaping Back at the ministers.

SiappinS Back at the Ministers.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Permit me the use Of your esteemed
paper to answer some of the arguments
raised by the Newark clergy in reference
to the open Sunday question. In the first
place. the question Is proper to ask IL the
gentlemen who insist upon saloons being
closed on Sundays are Newarkers? Have
they the interest Of our city at, heart?
Are they for the benefit OF our industries?
Are they for the innocent pleasure of the
working man? Are they contributors to
our city's welfare? Do they pay taxes?
Did they live here all their lives and help
build up our factories, schools, etc.? Did
they make Newark the city of a thou
sand different kinds of industries, or are
they strangers just come here because it's
good to stay here a few years, draw big
salaries. and have a fine living while 1t
lasts, then go somewhere else to repeat
the same thing? Are they the people who
have the interest Of our city more at
heart than all the Newarkers put together2
Every citizen knows that the ministers
In general have but one object in view
when they come here, and that is getting
a good salary; and, If it is not coming
the way they like, the Lord will call them
to another field. Nobody objects to their
getting a good salary, but they are en-
gagged to preach the gospel, not politics.
They are engaged to teach us righteous
ness and love, not hatred and jealousy.
They are engaged to bring happiness and
peace, not disturbance and war.
Our city has grown to such an extent
that the mere thought Of obeying the old
Puritan blue laws would be absolutely
impossible. The minister admits that. too.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
VOLUME LxxvI.-No. ia.
THE CRIME IN THE STATE HOSPITAL.

Eighty cases of typhoid fever and
twelve deaths from the disease is the
gruesome record. within a brief period,
OF the New Jersey State Hospital for
the Insane. The cause of this shocking
state of affairs in a curative institution
supported at a great expense by the
people of the State was official neglect.
That was the primary cause. without
which there would have been no other
causes.
A neglect that converts a curative
institution into a pesthouse. a neglect
that strikes down eighty people and
kills twelve, is criminal neglect and
should be punished criminally. An Of
Tense 30 heinous admits Of no defense.
It is not enough to dismiss the men
whose gross negligence has cost twelve
lives and so much suffering. They
should be made examples of by the
criminal law.
New Jersey has other State institu-
lions. II the crime at the Trenton hos
pital shall be condoned, what need we
expect but the same practises in these
institutions, too. If nobody is punished
for such things, nobody in authority
cares. After the Assembly committee
shall have brought gut all the facts the
Mercer Grand Jury can be appealed to
to act. There ought to be enough hu-
manity and sense of justice, If not of
State pride, in the Mercer grand inquest
to indict.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24

Expert British judgment in an official
document holds that the United States
has the most thoroughly efficient and
up-to-date of modern navies. This is
the real meaning of the declaration
that only four of our present battle-
ships can be considered as obsolete,
while eighteen of the British armor-
clads are summarily marked off the
effective" list, with six of the ships of
France and no fewer than eleven of
those of Germany.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24

giving orders instead Of receiving or
ders. and doing their business in ways
that suited themselves. that it viii be
hard to conform to the new statutory
order of things. even If the commission
can exercise any authority to compel
them to. But the virtue of the Railroad
Commission law, If 1t is not displaced
by a public utilities law, will soon be
practically tested.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24

Some time since an absent-minded
man went into a restaurant, and, or
dering a meal. proceeded to eat it,
neither looking to the right nor to the
left. or paying the least attention to
what was going on about him. Fin
ally a land was held out, and the man
put a dollar bill into it without taking
his eyes from the plate. When he had
finished his lash he cast a searchful
eye on the table, and then called the
waiter.
waiter" said he, as that worthy
approached, Il gave you a dollar a
few minutes ago, and the check only
comes to rs cents. Why haven't you
brought me my changer"
You didn't give me any money, sir"
answered the waiter. THE man to
whom you handed that dollar was the
organ grinder that was playing out
Observation-Disclosures Telegraph.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24

cally amended the commission should
properly wait until the Legislature has
had opportunity to act. And the best
thing the Legislature can do is 10 re-
peal the present law and enact a new
one to give the Governor the oppor-
tunity to appoint a new commission
minus Commissioner VOORHEES,, whose
stock interest in q private water com
pany incapacltatep him fer the duties
OF commissioner
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24

There was quick and creditable work
by the police of Millburn and South
Orange, in apprehending the three
Italian highwaymen who robbed a
compatriot in Wyoming yesterday.
Three hours after the robbery the
bandits were under lock and key, and
the court will not fail to make a
salutary example OF them. One is
needed.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24

ut is a great misfortune that the large manufacturing in
terests and public utilities of Paterson are passing into the
hands of outsiders who have no personal interest in the city
and lack that regard for it which long association always
brings. "-Paterson Evening News.
It's a pity, but what can be done about ite In the
course of the next decade it will very likely be the same story
in Newark. At present we have, fortunately, still with us
many of the men who built up the principal industries of the
city and they are holding on to them, not through personal
gain, but for reasons of sentiment and pride. There is hardly
a prosperous manufacturer in Newark who could not dispose of
his business to a syndicate or trust lat a handsome profit on
his present income from it, besides relieving him from The work
and worry of supervision. For instance, Franklin Murphy
could have turned over his factory years ago to the Vafnsh
Trust at his own price, but he had started and developed it
from a one-keule affair. until it is now one of the greatest in
the world. Those of the second and third generations are
likely to treat the matter by selling or merging this n that
industry as a business proposition pure and simple.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-24
No Unalterable Prejudice.

rs there any possibility of your ever
allying yourself with the prohibition
party? 2"
There are no impossihilities," an
swered Senator Sorghum; "if by any
chance the prohibition party should be-
come strong enough to sway elections
and dictate patronage I should be right
with t."-Washington Star,