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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
Rising from tbe Grove.

A prominent manufacturer, VIM. A.
Fertwell, OF Lucama, N. c., relates most
remarkable experience. He says: "After
taking less than three bottles OF Electric
Bitters, feel like one rising from the
grave. My trouble is Brlght's disease In
the Diabetes stage. fully believe Electric
Bitters will cure me permanently, for 1t
has already stopped the liver and bladder
complications which have troubled me
for years." Guaranteed at Ritter Bros.
Drug Co. Price only soc.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
The Commercial Club.

At meeting of the Commercial
Club, held Tuesday night, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
Presldent-J. A. Barrett.
Vice President-J. f. O'Connor.
Secretary-A. B. Mattson.
Treasurer-Geo. E. Gardner.
These officers, together with A.
B. Cough, G. c. Gray and c. E.
Wright, will constitute the board of
directors.
The club voted to remove from
its present quarters to rooms in the
Brennan q Davis block In order to
obtain the convenience Of steam
heat.
While the active membership OF
the club is not very large at this
time, yet there is a determination
upon the part of those belonging to
work in hearty unison for the ad-
vancement and upbuilding of our
city. The feeling was expressed by
each one present Tuesday that he
would like to see every business
man in the city enrolled as member.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
Wedding Bells.
OLSON-JONELY

At the residence of VIM. lonely
in this city Saturday morning, Feb.
2, at eight o'clock Bishop Lindsay
Of Ovid, united in marriage Mr..
John Olsen of Ovid, and Miss
Martha lonely of this city. The
wedding was a quiet one, only few
immediate relatives being present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Olsen left on Sun
dag morning for two weeks trip
to Boise, Emmett add other points
in western Idaho.
Mr.. Olsen is one of the progress
slve and well-to-do farmers of Bear
Lake county. He Is deeply interest
ed In the advancement of our farm
ing and stock-raising industries.
He has a commodious and nicely
furnished home on his ranch at Ovid
in which to take the lady whom he
has chosen for his life companion,
and who IS one of Montpelier's we'll
known and highly esteemed young
ladies'.
The Examiner joins with the
numerous friends OF this worthy
couple in wishing them life of un-
alloyed happiness.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
FOSSIL FIELDS OF WYOMING,
Some Mammoth Creatures Grew In
That State Long Ago.

"Wyoming and Its Attractions"
booklet recently issued by the
Union Pacific Railroad company,
has the following to say of the
Wyoming fossil fields:
"But few people have any idea,
as they are whirled over the noun
tain ranges, the deep canons, fertile
plains and great deserts of Wyo-
ming, that they are in the very midst
of one of the greatest treasure-locked
regions of the entire world. What
are these treasures? They are the
remains of huge reptiles, SO large
that only those with vivid imagin-
alton can form any adequate idea of
their size; huge mammals of ele-
phantine dimensions, mingled with
numerous orders Of large ANIMALS
that have long been extinct; besides
such as camels, rhinoceroses, dogs,
cats, elephants and monkeys; great
sea monsters that were truly sea
serpents; fish that compare favor.
ably with the finny tribe of our
great lakes; shell fish almost innum
erable, and fossil leaves tnat prove
conclusively that in early ages Wyo-
ming was densely clothed with trees
of tropical and semi-tropical yerdnre.
Wyoming is the geological wonder
land OF the world. Within the con-
fines of the big western state are the
most extensive and fertile fossil
fields known. Its sagebrush plains
are, indeed, one vast prehistoric
burying ground, and science has
summoned them to give up their
dead. Wyoming is the resting place
of the petrified bones of the largest
land animals that ever lived. After
already bequeathing to geological
science the rarest OF fossil treasures,
the state is again writing strange
chapter in the worlds. geological
history by unearthing the petrlfed
bones of the most colossal animal
ever taken from the earth's strata.
W ork of collecting from this
geological wonderland commenced
in the '40s, and, during the years
since, Wyoming has been favored
collecting ground for the leading
geologists and paleontologists of
the entire country. The early ex.
peditions encountered the treacher-
GUS Sioux, but were not baff1ed,
though they had to "outfit" on the
Missouri river and travel 600 miles
or more by team, before entering the
field. The advent of the Union
Pacific railroad added vigor to the
research work, and from that day &c
this not season has passed but
several expeditions have spent tht
summer in the Wyoming fields"
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
Hunting for Trouble.

.I've lived in California 20 years, and
am still hunting for trouble In the way OF
burns, sores, wounds, boils, cuts, spralns,
or case OF piles that Bucklen's Arnica
Salve won't quickly cure,' writes Charles
Walters, OF Allegheny, Sierra Co. No use
hunting, Mr.. Walters; it cures every case
Guaranteed by Ritter Bros. Drug Co. 25c.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
A Valuable Lesson.

"Six years ago ] learned valuable
lesson," writes John Pleasant, OF Mag
nolia, Ind. 81 then began taking DIR.
Kings New Life Pills, and the longer
take them the better find them." They
please every body. Guaranteed at Ritter
Bros. Drug Co. 25c.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
Law Is Constitutional.

Last Monday the supreme court
of the United States handed down
an opinion, affirming the Idaho su-
preme court, in the case of o. F.
Bacon VI. Paul II. Walker ct al.
The aboSe is the famous two-mile
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08

Have you been betrayed by promises
OF quacks, swallowed pills and bottled
medicine without results except q dam-
aged stomach. To those we offer Hol-
,lster's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents
Ask your druggist.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
Pension for "Rube" Robbins. .

Senator Hey yburn has introduced
bill in the senate granting pen
sion to Orlando, better known as
s.Rube" Robbins, Of Boise. On
account OF the fact that Mr.. Robbins
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
NEWS OF THE STATE
Review Of the Weeks Happenings
In Idaho
AS CLEANED FROM EXCHANGES
Tales from Mountain and Vale Briefly
Told for Benefit Of the Examin
er's Readers.

er's Readers.
The National Guard of Idaho
now consists of IL companies of 80
men each.
Bellevue had $4,000 fire last
week, a saloon, restaurant and dance
hall being destroyed.
Hundreds of head Of cattle have
frozen to death on the upper Salmon
river country in Idaho county.
At the close Of business on Jan.
26, the First National Bank of Wal
lace had on deposit 81, ,s57, $50. SO. =,
The Payette Independent sayS
that at least 100 acres will be plaAt-
ed to cantaloupes- in that vicinity
this year. -
The J. ID. Wood Live Stock com.
pany has contracted its seasons
wool clip of about 700, 900 pounds
for little over % cents a pound.
G. B. Hudson, a prominent ranch
er near Soda Springs, committed
suicide Monday night by hanging
himself in his stable. He was an
old bachelor.
Mrs. Hasbrouck, widow of the
late Sol Hasbrouck, died in Boise
last Friday. Deceased was 70 years
of age and had been a resident of
Boise since 1868.
The Moscow Post says that the
snowfall there last week was, con-
sidered by many old timers to have
been the heaviest known IN that
section at one time.
Most of the plowing on Camas
Prairie, Blaine county, will be done
by steam this year, two steam plows
having been ordered, each capable
of blowing 40 acres day.
j. G. Granger, a Twin Falls
jeweler, has IN his possession a
clock, which Is said to be over goo
years old. 1t is made entirely of
wood and the mechanism is very
rude.
Before the district court, now in
session at Wallace, there are two
murder cases to be tried and two
cases in which the defendants are
charged with assault with intent to
commit murder.
Last week Geo. V. Leighton of
Canyon county, sold all of his sheer,
about 1000 head, and 1920 acre
ranch for $50, 900. The purchasers
were A. E. Van Slcklin and Charles
Bolton of Weiser.
Solon Mccoy, one of the veteran
ranchers of Elmore county, is turn
ing his attention to the raising. Of
Angora goats. He now has herd
of 30. They are easily kept and the
product from their backs sells for a
good price.
The Odd Fellows Home at Idaho
Falls has been sold for SO, 200. The
building was erected In 1892 at a
cost of about 1890 1t was in
tended as home for orphans of
Odd Fellows, but has never been
used for that purpose.
| Martin Garn of st. Anthony, has
been appointed by President Roose-
velt as member of the committee
of stock men to confer with the
public land commissioner as to the
most equitable and effective method
of controlling, protecting and inn
proving the public range.
Three years ago the place where
the town of Notus, in Canyon coun-
ty, now stands, was known as being
the residence of one of the section
bosses on the Short Line. Today it
is thriving village of several
hundred inhabitants and is rapidly
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-02-08
Not Alone In its Glory.

The Times serves notice on Mont
peller that that burg is not the only
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFF
FERENCE.

In Mississippi there was a colored
preacher noted in those parts for the
extreme frankness and candor of his
eXhortations to his wicked brethren
to reform, says Harper's Weekly. On
one occasion, relates Representative
John Sharp Williams, the divine was
holding forth on the sin Of theft
Among other things, he said:
81 see befo' me ten chicken thieves,
includin' Dan Samson"
This bald statement of fact rather
aroused the resentment Of the afore-
said Samson, and he threatened the
minister with personal violence. The
latter's friends persuaded the divine
to withdraw the accusation If Samson
would promise not to offer the minis
ter any hurt The question seemed
about to be adjusted, it being settled
that the clergyman should, on the fol-
lowing Sunday, publicly retract his
statement as to the honesty of Mr..
Samson.
Therefore, rising in the pulpit, on
the day appointed, the minister said
''It pears dat a remark of mine. in
de sermon of last Sunday, has been
de cause Of offense, an I derefore
amends it. What l should have said
was dis: I see befo' me ten chicken
thieves, not includin' Dan Samson
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
QUALITIES OF THE OYSTER.

A San Franciscan has discovered a
new method Of cutting short recitals
that promise to become too long
winded, says The New York Times.
An acquaintance Of his, who has
local reputation as a bore, was one
day holding forth at some length when
the Californian interrupted him with:
"By the way, did l ever tell you the
story of the oyster?"
On receiving a negative reply, he
continued:
1T seems that when oysters are
taken from the sea they often open
their shells so that the juice or liquid
runs out. AS this is undesirable, the
experienced oyster gatherer has tub
of water close at hand into which the
oyster is plunged a ssOon as it begins
to open it's she'll"
We'll, and what then?' asked the
other as the narrator paused
The San Franciscan paused.
"Oh, after while the oyster learns
to keep it's mouth shut" he remarked
quietly.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
Facts and Fancies for the Fireside

Union are recalled to show that Sc
cession was not always regarded by
Northerners as synonymous with po-
litical turpitude; and the gloomy view
is taken that the military victory Of
the Federal government ended forever
the reign of Jeffersonian principles in
the republic. Despondently, he asks:
did Yancey see this? Did Lincoln
see it? Did the Stewards and the
Beechers, the Garrisons and the Ger
rit Smiths, the Whittiers and the Sum-
ners, realize that in their blind meth
DDS of striking the shackles off the
slave they would rivet the chains upon
unborn millions of the white race,
change the very nature Of the repub
lie, put the scepter into the hands Of
the militant, law-defying Hamiltonian-
ism, and hurl our government by re-
sistless evolution toward that old, old
gulf which has swallowed up every re-
public known to history-centralism
with it's class-law, it's despotism of
the few, it's subOrdination of the vivil
ian to the soldier?"
The love story in the book has the
merit Of simplicity; and it is proper
ly conceivable that it is all "just as
it happened" in real life, as the au-
thor affirms in the preface. Uncle
Ralph" leaves the sowing of his wild
oats to go to the defense Of Southern
rights; and Nellie Roberts withhOlds
the confession Of her love for him un-
til he shall prove himself worthy Of
her RueI Wade, brilliant but indO-
lent young preacher-a character, by
the way, that is remarkably we'll
drawn-comes into the lovely girls
life; and Misunderstanding aided and
abetted by Gossip and Slander, causes
an estrangement between her and her
absent lover. Then the youth, sick in
body and soul, comes home to die, and
to the surprise Of the reader he is
allowed by the author to do so; the
maiden dies also-nOt Of broken
heart, but from typhoid fever; and the
romance ends.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
NOTES ON LIVING.

No matter what troubles befall,
The luck will improve before long,
If you'll only be ready and hopeful and
steady.
And go to your work with a song.
Some millions are living like you
And millions have lived in the past,
But the same rule applies and the
man who is wise
Will hold up his head to the last!
Paul Cook.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
THE EDITOR AND THE ADvER-

THE EDITOR AND THE ADVER-
TISER.
Once on time I knew man
Who said it didn't pay
To advertise the goods he had
To sell or trade away.
To prove that he was off his base
And make him clearly see,
] gave him half page Of space
And let him have it free.
1t almost scared him into fits
To see himself displayed
AS | displayed him, but he felt
Its influence on his trade
| kept it up, his business doomed,
The customers swooped down
Upon his store until he had
The biggest rush in town.
One day l went around to call
And found him on the run.
With people waiting for their turn
When those ahead were done.
We'll, WELL" 1 cried in great delight
To see things boom that way,
Don't advertising pay, old man?
What have you got to say?"
| thought he'd like my work SO much,
And think my plan so nice.
That he'd not only paise my wares,
But pay me double price.
And did he do it? Listen, please,
thought that I'd drop dead
When angrily he turned on me
And vigorously said:
Take out that advertisement, quick;
Goldern yer pesky skin!
I'll never git chance to rest
Ez long ez it stays in"
New York Sun
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
VALUE OF IMMIGRATION LAWS.

(The Indianapolis News.)
The breaking of the imm ;gration
record every month nowadays rather
makes ora wonder what would have
been doing if congress had passed
no restrictive laws.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
cox REDIVIVUS.
(The Columbus Press-Post. }

THE Columbus Press-Post.)
When George B. Cox "perished" in
political contest, the Democrats and
other good citizens of Ohio neglected
to use embalming fluid on the re-
mains.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-05-23
AN ANTE-BELLUM PICTURE OF
THE SOUTH WITH REFLEC-
TIONS.

Bethany, A Story of the Old South"
By Thomas E. Watson. Cloth, 383
PIP. Price, $3.50. d. Appleton & Co.
This is a historical novel possess
ing the unique characteristic Of hav-
ing all the history in one part and all
the novel in another-an arrangement
that will be much appreciated by those
readers of the book who prefer to take
these two brands of literature
straight"
The authors aims seems to have
been to present picture Of the South
before the war, together with some
discussion Of the causes and conse-
quences of the great struggle; and by
the use of very simple literary meth
ods-there Is scarcely trace Of a plot
in the book-he has been remarkably
successful in accomplishing his pur-
pose. The indictment he draws
against the fire-eating, blood-drinking
secessiOnists and abolitionists of the
South and North, and the politicians
Of the two sections, who so eagerly
touched off a national confagration
that consumed million lives, should
do much to place the blame for that
great holocaust where it belongs. In
deed, it is not too much to say that
our historical literature has been per-
manently enriched by his lucid ac-
count of the real attitudes and activi-
ties of that famous Georgia group of
Southern leaders in those crucial Sc
cession days. 1t was the fiery, half
mad Bob" Toombs, going about the
South emitting Iurid oratory and de-
claring that he would drink all the
blood that should be spilled, who prob
ably did more than any other man to
spread the gospel Of secession; and
it was the wise and brave ALEC"
Stephens who sought to counteract
the evil influence of Toombs by coun-
selling moderation and delay. Then
there was the magnetic William L.
Yancey, adroit apologist for slavery
and impassioned champion Of South
ern rights; and On the other side
were Ben Hill and Herschel V. John
son, who fought so heroically to hold
Georgia in the Union when the action
of "The Empire State Of the South"
might turn the tide of secession and
avert the war.
The book is frankly Southern, how
ever, and strongly Democratic. New
England's various threats to leave the
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-30
CORONER FILES VERC|CT
FIXES BLAME FOR WRECK
Held Responsible for MillviIIe Disas-
Life

New Castle, Ind, Jan. 30. (SpL)-
County Coroner Hiatt has returned his
finding in the Pennsylvania freight
wreck at MiIlville, which caused the
death Of Brakeman Samuel Lingenfelt-
er and the serious injury of Engineer.
John Shea. The first words by En-
gineer Shea after the wreck were
What was that train doing on the
main track" and this is the story in
corporated in the verdict of the coro-
ner, who spent ten days investigating
the causes leading to the wreck, AMI
who examined great number of wit
nesses. Lingenfelter was on the
train going west, as was also Engin-
eer Shea, and the coroner holds that
the blame for the accident rests on
the crew of the east-bound train, and
charges negligence in that it failed to
send fiagman ahead until it was as
certained the other train was ap-
preaching. This finding ends the
matter so far as the coroner is con-
cerned; and it now rests with the au-
thorities to take action relative to the
death of Lingenfelter.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-30
Terrific Explosion Causes Vir-
ginia Mine to Cave in Kill
ing Seventy-Nine.
RESCUE WORK PREVENTED
HEAT AND SMOKE BEAT BACK
THE INSPECTORS WHO TRY TO
LOWER A CAGE TO THOSE WHO
MAY BE ALIVE.
puhliehers' press


Tnurmond, W. Va. Jan 29.--r.v the
explosion which occurred in the Stew
art mine on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, five miles from here this af
ternoon, at O'Clock. it now seems
certain that at least seventy-nine min
ers have lost their lives.
So far there has been no theory as
to what caused the EXPLOSION. which
was terrific. denolishing the mine
cage and no doubt breaking the ~
bers in the mine and causing the roof
to fall.
The men were working several hun
dred feet from the bottom of the shaft
which is $50 feet deep, and it will be
difficult matter to reach them. Be
fore anything can be done, new mine
cage will have to be built, and Ii is
not probable that it can be lowered
into the mine until repairs are made
will no doubt be found to blocked
with wre ckage. which will have to be
reno owed before the rescuers can get
beck into the mine The air courses
VIII have to be closed and air forced
into the rooms, and as the situation
now looks. it will require several days
to remove the men. There would Le
bare possibility of taking out some
alive if they could be reached imme-
diately, but this is impossible.
The mine is owned by Samuel Dixon
and his associates. and is located two
miles from Parrill mine, in which an
explosion occurred February s, 1906,
resulting IN the death OF IS nsen.
The mine is located on the branch
of the Chesaneake ard Ohio railroad,
six miles from Thurmond This is the
second shaft mine explosion in this
field.
The mine has been considered per-
fectly safe and has only been in onera-
ton about one year. 1t is one of the
finest equipped mines in the field and
every precaution has been taken to
prevent accidents.
Among the missing are: Otto Glen
DENIM, Frank Light, Charles Johnson,
three Leving brothers, Norman and
Cecil Grouse, Walter Johnson and
Walter Blake.
One hundred and twelve miners
went into the mine this morning and
during the day 33 came out by actual
IA IL
Heat and smoke prevents all at
-empts at lowering temporary cage,
and the mine inspectors now on the
ground declare there is no hope that
any of those entombed, can be alive.
The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-30
OHIO-Snow in north: rain or snow
in south portion Wednesday,: Thurs
day fair except snow in northeast
portion, colder.
SOBBED HIS CONFESSION
ELMER GRIFFIN PUNISHED
Younysrer Although ne Aomirred
Many Infractions of the Law
Thought he was as Good as Some
Boys who Were Let go.

Little Elmer Griffin wepr coolously
as he sat huddled up in a chair in
the circuit court room yesterday
morning and confessed to numerous
infractions of the laws of this big
commonwealth
But at that" sobbed Elmer. II
amt as bad as some of them boys
that was let go last week.
Elmer has a sweet tooth, and ad
mitted that he had Durloined honey
and chewing gum. Elmer, who is the
son of James Griffin of Main street
is but 13 years of age. His parents
disliked very much the idea of his
being sent to Plainffeld but admit
ed that il was probably for his own
good.
The mother of Charles Lotus made
strong plea for leniency for her
son, who despite his tender years was
an intoxicated condition after having
"swiped" bottle of whisky from
local saloon judge Fox finally pIac-
ed him on probation with orders to
report at frequent intervals He wae
given to understand that his firs-
overt act would mean his transfer
to Plainfield and left the court pro-
fuse in his promises to walk in the
narrow path.