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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-10
tntre Nous Club fntertainS.

At the residence OF Mr.. and Mrs.
7. M. Cowen on last Thursday
evening, the members of the Entire
Nous club entertained their worse
halves.' High five" was the prin-
cipal diversion, and delicious
luncheon was served at midnight.
The ladies' first prize, a bouquet
of handsome La France roses, was
won by Mrs. Prof. Warner. Mr..
Cowen, through his ability to play
the entire evening without losing a
single game, won the gentleman's
first prize, an artistic paper weight.
The ladies' consolation prize, a
pretty dish, was won by Mrs.
Watts, and Professor Warner Sc
cured a deck of cards, the gentle
mans consolation prize. The rooms
were handsomely decorated and al
who attended are lavish in theii
prsisee of the ladies having The
affair in charge. Those attend
ing were Mr.. and Mrs. Beach
Mather, Helfrich, Hien, Siffert
Shelter, RoseDheim, Green, Wertz
Watts, Wilbur, Cowen, Weaver
PAYNE, Prof. and Mrs. Warner
Mrs. Hall, Prof. and Mrs. Simpich
Glenns Ferry, Mrs. Bertha Black
HALEY, Mrs. Stull, Lincoln, Ne
braska.
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$3.50 TN GOLD AS PRIZES
~ For Best Kept Residence Property K

size or architecture of your home
will not be taken into consideration.
An adobe house neatly kept and
pleasantly surrounded will be judged
as impartially as its more preten-
tious neighbors. 1t will make no
difference whether your premises
are fenced or not Lawns, trees
and flowers are what will count.
The fact that your trees have only
just been set out will be a point in
your favor.
All those desiring to compete
are requested to give their name
and the location of their home
prior to March IS, 1907. A book
containing the names and location
of all contestants will be open for
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D. P. kttFtR. SEXTON,
MAKES ANNUAL REPORT

Only IS deaths occurred in Noun
tain Home during the year 1906,
the lowest death rate for eight
years past. In 1899 and 1904 there
were % deaths each year. In 1908
there were only 10 deaths. During
1906 two of our oldest pioneer
ladies were called to their eternal
home; two under 10 days; five
under 10 years; one under 21 years
two men, old-timers; two non-res-
idents, one supposed to have been
murdered.
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In order to create spirit of COM
mendable pride and friendly and
helpful competition, the Maverick
has decided to offer $50 in gold
to those citizens of Mountain
Home and vicinity whose homes
present the cleanest and neatcst
appearance during the year 1907.
One hundred dollars will be di-
vided as follows:
For those having residences, but
no lawns, flowers or shrubbery,
the first prize will be $40; the sec
ond, $50; the third, $40; the
fourth, $40. All prizes to be paid
in gold at Maverick office July 20,
1907.
The following ladies will be ask
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-10

inspection at all times at this
office.
An additional prize of $50 will
be paid for the best kept lawn in
Mountain Home OF vicinity. This
applies to homes already improved
only.
The judges in this contest will
be w. ]. Turner, E. c. Helfrich,
w. T. Montgomery and John Cald-
we'll.
No notices from contestants for
this prize will be necessary, but
otherwise the rules governing the
500 prize will apply. The names
of contestants and news matter con-
cerning the contest will be publish
ed from time to time.
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ABSC0ND|NG EMBfZHER
LOCATED AT PORTLAND
1hieI Detective Agency Secures Former
Manager of Local Electric
Light Plant.

Commercial Clubs, at its meeting
recently held in Twin Falls, de-
clared itself in favor of the creation
Of a railroad commission, and the
local club, through its secretary, ].
A. Siffert, has been asked to ex-
press it's individual opinion, and
in accordance with this request a
meeting is called for Friday Ito
morrow to thoroughly discuss this
important matter and every MEM
Der is asked to be present.
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ed to act on this committee:
Mrs. L. T. Wilcox, Mrs. John
Pence, Mrs. John Wilkins, Mrs.
w. c. Howie, Mrs. ]. H. Garrett,
Mrs. F. B. Daniels and Mrs. w.
j. Truuer.
In awarding the prizes points
will be taken into consideration as
follows:
First-Lawn.
Second-General exterior condi-
tion and appearance of house.
Third-Trees, shrubbery and
flowers.
Fourth-Fence, sidewalks and
general appearance and conditions
of entire premises.
Everybody can compete. The
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Birthday Party.

In honor of her fourth birthday,
Little Miss Virginia Estelle King
entertained a number of her young
friends yesterday afternoon from
two to five O'Clock. Ice cream and
cake were served, games were
played, and favors in the form Of
little dolls were given the girls,
while the boys received boxes of
crayon. The children enjoyed them
selves immensely. Those present
were Elville Wilkins, Bernice
Hays, Carvel Garrett, Harold Whit
son, Atherton Smith, Helen Smith,
Elva Clays, Dorothy McWilliams,
Margaret Mather.
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OREGON SHORT LINE TIME
TABLE
TIME

West Bound-No. S, l2:s5 p. m.
No. 1, ID 40 a. m
East Bound-No. 9, 700 p. m.
No. 2, 6 6:25 a. m
F. e Austin, Agent.
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w. ]. Turner is a Boise visit
or today.
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Attention.

The Southern Idaho League of
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Our telephone number is 118.
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Subscribe for the Maverick.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-04
THE TALK OF THE DAY

Or E T" devotes considerable space in the
"Frankfurter Zeitung 10 the discussion of the
question. Did Raphael put six fingers on the right
hand OF the Pope in his work known as The Sis
tine Madonna The contention was made by Dr.
Hoche OF Freiburg and the letters which have
been written on the subject nearly all dwell upon
the point the OF the artist is forgotten
when one considers that one OF the thousands
OF people who have seen tho painting at Dresden
has spoken OF the monstrosity. II appears, how
ever that tho learned Freiburg professor "discov-
cred something that did not exist. Al a distance
the outstretched hand OF the kneeling Pope looks
as though there were two ffth little fingers. but
a closer inspection shows that Raphaels knowledge
OF human anatomy not at fault. for the add-
tional. superhuous finger is merely shadow.
Percy-Yes, it's rather a neat tie. Who gave you
C Choiiy-Nobody got 1t of my. own head.
Chicago Tribune
An interesting series Of wax producing insects
from India China and elsewhere has been placed IN
the British Natural History Museum at South Ken
sngton From the secretions OF one species Of
these little creatures-found in profusion on the
bark OF fig and other number of articles OF
commercial value produced. Among these are
sealing wax, shellac seedac and butteriac, spec-
mems of which exhibited At the museum side by
side with the wax in its original form
What is your idea of classical music"
We'll" answered Mr. Cumrox. ,as understand
TO play written by somebody whose name is very
hard TO unce"-Washington Star.
How to warn off trespassers without spring guns
has been discovered by a canny peasant In the
South of France. His woods invaded by nut
pickers He asked a botanical friend the Latin
name for the hazel nut. and put up the following
notice "Cauton.-AH persons entering this wood
do so at their own risk. Tho Corylus Avellana
abounds here. as well other equally venomous
snakes" Not trespasser has ventured into the
wood since.
Mr.. Gailey-somebody's stolen dog again.
Mrs Galley chastity interrupting)-George
George! don't swear about IL.
Mr. Gailey-Who's swearing? I Just going
10 say it's a dog-gone big relief.-Phlladelpha
Press
''Meva. the of Nature who is an ardent
apostle OF the simple life fined recently in
Paris for selling picture postcards in the streets
without q license. Owing to the singular garb he
wears he taken before the court on a second
charge of masquerading. But the court held that
the law against incorporating applied only to the
wearing of mems clothes by women and women's
clothes by men. and Meva was acquitted Meva
goes about the streets wearing only one garment
a long white flannel dressing gown tied round
him by cord. He wears sandals and Is hare
headed. His hair. which falls on his shoulders Is
tied back with a bit OF ribbon. His beard flows
halfway down to his waist. and he carries a long
staff. He lives on nuts. fruits and raw vegetables
Church, see the Public Service Commission has
recommended side doors on the railroad cars
Family Entrance over them?-Yonkers States.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-04
THE EPISCOPAL TER-CENTENARY.

II is fitting that the ter-centenary of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in America should
be commemorated in the state which is the sue
cessor of the old Cavalier Dominion In which
that Church was originally planted on these
shores Virginia was as much an Episcopal col
ony as Massachusetts was Puritan, and scarcely
less intolerant in its jealous support of the
Establishment, though it was not there that the
first movements were made toward a national
organization of that Church independent of the
Mother Church in the mother country. 1t was
at New Brunswick, y. J., that the first step
toward general convention was taken, in 1874,
which led to the first General Convention at
Philadelphia, in 1855. Even then the Church
as we'll as Of faith. with the English Establish
ment and it was not until 1889 that il became
an entirely separate ecclesiastical organism
The growth of that Church since the
Revolution has been an interesting study in
ecclesiastical, political and social influences.
One of the great historic churches. with
exceptional prestige in Colonial times. it suf-
fered much in the Revolution and for years
afterward from the largely unmerited i'm
putation of being politically well as &c
Realistically affiliated with England, and there
fore not truly in sympathy with American
independence-this in spite of the fact that
many OF ltS clergy ana laymen were con
spicuous patriots in both peace and war It's
restrained and ordered forms of service, too,
were not altogether acceptable TO the sometimes
rudely enthusiastic spirit Of the earlier genera
tons of Americans. to whom a more emotional
and eiaculatory style of worship made stronger
appeal. In consequence. the growth of the
Episcopal Church was at first comparatively
slow. and it was far outstripped in numbers, as
indeed il still is by several other denominations
AS late as 1920 ii was not yet organized in all
the states. In 1850 it had only 1859 places of
worship in this country. The next twenty
years saw that number just about doubled its
growth being increasingly rapid, and since then
it has made still more marked progress, having
now nearly 200 churches and $500 commu-
nicants
Partly because of its traditions, partly he
cause Of its insistence upon educated and
disciplined clergy, and partly for other credit
able causes this Church has generally exerted
an influence proportionately much greater than
its numbers. 1t has shown itself exceptionally
flexible III its self-adaptation to social and DO
litical conditions, and energet~ ~ its devotion
10 educational and philanthropic causes There
may on the one hand be room for interesting
speculation on the causes of the slowness of
its growth in comparison with other churches
of much more narrow creed and exacting
diScpne and. on the other hand il NAV he
instructive and encouraging to contrast its
progress and status here as an independent or
ganization with those of the politically estab.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-04
DIFFERING VIEWS OF AlLORY.

1t cannot escape public attention that Mr..
Quigg and District Attorney Jerome formed
very different opinions Of Mr. William y.
AmOry, who used to fill the newspapers with
stories of traction corruption, dishonesty and
mismanagement and who tried to interest the
District Attorney in his complaints. Mr.. Quigg
testified Wednesday that he regarded Mr..
AmOry the most persistent and able enemy
of the Metropolitan traction interests. Mr.. Amory
seems to have impressed the District Attor-
ney as a harmless creature with an ant-trac
tion monomana~ a sort of Ancient Mariner who
stopped all he met to tell his tale of woe Mr..
Quigg had detectives constantly upon the trail
of Mr.. AmOry. and he testified that bills amount
ing TO 81 600 every two or three months were
for the services of men to keep him informed
upon every step taken by his Company's most
persistent and able enemy" Mr.. Qulgg
thought that Mr. AmOry's actions i'm
portant that II was worth while spending large
sums TO watch them Mr. Jerome dismissed
Mr. Amory's charges as not being worth the
cost of investigating. although they alleged
serious crimes and although ii Is the custom of
this city and county to expend money freely
for the apprehension and conviction Of Grim
inas.
No one viii doubt that Mr.. Jerome did his
duty as he saw it and that he honestly
mistaken in supposnc that Mr.. Amory was
mere sensationalist or crank The District At
tOrney had heard the cry of Wolf 50 often
in regard to the traction company that when
Mr. Amory cried ''Wolfr' too. he was prob
ably nredisposed TO think there was nothing in
il. That is an extremely common and human
attitude. There is an unreadiness TO believe
ancient and improved charges against estab-
ished institutions. They dismissed as IAN
old story" The present Investigation will prob
ably disclose why the traction company
thought Mr. Amory so able an enemy that It
kept swarm Of detectives his track. II
has already gone far enough To show that Mr..
Jerome made a grave mistake and lost the
great opportunity of his administration in not
pursuing further his inquiry into the Amory
charges. To have elected the story that Is
now coming out would have been the chance
of the District Attorneys life
The traction trust has had many victims. To
say nothing of the ordinary run Of passengers.
there were the persons who were accelerated"
by the ingenious Mr.. Quigg TO help in his
traOrdinary scheme of producing uprising
of New York public opinion in favor of the
Metropolitan companys big bluff. And there
were those keen persons of more than common
insight and average intelligence who were su-
perior to vulgar creduity and who dismissed
a priOri the charges against the Metropolitan
as incredible, Just the kind of stuff you al
ways hear about every big company" And the
last class Of victims have not even the excuse
or comfort Of having been accelerated" by
Quigg They were humbugged by their own
superior knowledge of the WORLD!
New-York tribune., 1907-10-04
THRILLING AT TRENTON.

Governor Stokes's message TO the New Jersey
Legislature is timely and should be needed The
way in which that body has been acting this
year is nothing short OF scandalous. Last win
ter at its regular session ii gave itself I'D to
playing politics instead of attending TO business
and a result had to be called together again
to do some Of the things which il had left I'M
done and TO undo some of the things which it
had done. 1t has been in session off and on for
weeks and bids fair to continue meeting fitfuly
until Christmas. but II continues TO play politics
and 10 trihe with the public business. and the
outlook is that this protracted special session
will be little more profitable than that of last
winter
Note. for example, the public utilities bill
which is one of the most important measures
before the Legislature After inexcusable delay
a bill was reported in the Senate and passed
which, while ii contained some excellent feat
ures. was weak and faulty in several vital par
tculars. On reaching the House il was
promptly amended. some of the changes being
admirable, but others being decidedly objection
able Ii is probably a good thing to give the
proposed commission power 10 fix rates. and 1t
is certainly good thing-we might say an in
dispensable thing-to make it supersede the pres
ent worthless Railroad Commission and invest
Il with effective powers over railroads but the
proposal 10 make it elective body seems
wholly indefensble. The great complaint in
Aew Jersey has long been that the railroads and
other public service corporations are too much
in politics" To make this commission elective
would insure their being in politics all the time
10 the fullest and most perniciOus extent
Now IL is pretty plainly intimated that the
senate VIII refuse 10 accept the House amend
menis and that the bill vii! thus fail or that II
VIII he permitted TO pass only in an uuconsti
tutional form, So that the courts will be certain
at once TO annul t-just as the Railroad Conn
mission Dill WAS not permitted to get r,pon the
statute book until 1t had been so muddled and
eanasculated that it required mind reader TO
tell what Il meant. and that when II finally was
interpreted it was found 10 mean that the com,
mission 'nght 20 spying and smelling around ~
'ts hearts content and might listen to complaints
nntl iis ears grew weary. but could do prac-
ucaly nothing after all but TO make reeommen.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-04
DEUTSCAES THEATRE.
"coULIssENzAUsER."

me new MANAGEMENT at the German T,sa+r.
produced last night comedy farce with sor,a
sparkle In 1t, but Of very light texture entitled
CouIlssenzauber' ('-rhe Glamour Of the Stsxa-,
The authors are Ernst Gettke and Alexander
EnseL They have taken the familiar material ~
NE oehind the curtain 10 work with and bsv.
used some of the usual contrasts between The
starved beginnings OF undiscovered talent and its
later complaceut successes 10 give point % their
rather loose and nl-jointed sketch of stag man
ners and vicissitudes- The farce discovers IN the
first act much unbaked talent in a theat-t-a!
boarding house. in the second exhibits the huraors
of an opening night back Of the scenes and IN the
last provides pleasant little comedy situation for
the ugly ducllins OF the prelude. developed into
full fedged and piquant actress
II cannot be said that Nessrs Ciettks and Engei
have devised any really comic dramatic situations
or uncovered any vein Of true hUnor. But then
piece is vivaCious and interesting. an1 is Iaudabiy
free from the horSeplay, extravaEauce and ab-
surdity Of what often passes for farce-couledy.
Frauetn Ella Hofer, the new leading lady OF the
company. appeared in the role OF the ugly stage
ducklng transformed into the bewitching star. She
has an attractive stage appearance. and exhibited
much charm. but had little chance 70 do any Eenu-
inc acting. Eugene Burg and Frau Georgine Nsuen-
dOrff were excellent IN their parts
New-York tribune., 1907-10-04
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
TFrom The Tribune RureaI,


Washington. Oct S-Mrs. Straus, wife of the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, has returned
TO her home here after a days visit to New
York
Mrs. Francis G. Newlands. wife of Senator New
lands, of Nevada and Mrs. Charles II. L. Johnson.
her daughter. have taken possession of their sub
urban home, Woodley. which occupied in the
summer by the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs Beekman Winthrop Senator Newlands
will join his family here in the future. Mrs.
Beekman Winthrop has Joined Mr.. Winthrop here.
and they In the house 18th street and Massa-
chusetts avenue, which they have leased for the
winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Legare have opened their
house in Massachusetts avenue
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Thoron who spent the sum-
mer in Europe again at their Washington
home. Mrs. b. II. Warder and Miss Warder.
mother and sister Of Mrs. Thoron. are still in
Connecticut. and will open their X street house
before November l.
The Rev. Roland Cotton Smith performed the
ceremony at St. Johns Church. at noon to-day,
which united in marriage Miss Matde Duncan
Hannegan daughter of the late Colonel and Mrs.
Selman Key Hannegan. Of Kentucky and Wash
ington. TO Captain Goland V. Clarke of the 18th
Hussars British army. Only few friends and
relatives witnessed the ceremony. which was fol-
lowed by wedding breakfast at the Shoreham.
Captain Clarke had as best man Mr.. Brancker, Of
London. and the brides only escort was her
brother. Duncan Hannegan
New-York tribune., 1907-10-04
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IN TARRYToWN
Arrives from Cleveland-Looks Well and
Says He's Glad to Get Back

John d. Rockefeller. accompanied by Mrs.
Rockefeller and his family servants. arrived at
Tarrytown yesterday morning on the o'clock
express from Cleveland. which stopped especial
ly for the Rockefeller party John D Rookie
feller jr, the station with three car
riages TO greet his father and mother.
Mr.. Rockefeller seemed in perfect health He
walked with brisk step through the station to
the carriage on the platform he met Farchild.
the baggage master. shook hands with him and
said he was glad to be back The party then
drove to PoCantico Hills
Although it was early several friends passed
Mr.. Rockefellers carriage on the way He
waved his hand 10 them cordially. Breakfast
was served at his home. and then Mr. Rookie
feller went out to oversee the work on his new
home on the hill. which is nearing completion
and the other improvements about his estate
In the afternoon he PLAYED golf