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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
The Trusts

The Trusts
Henry Clews, the mouth piece OF
Wall street, in discussing present
conditions, says: "Probably no in
dustry is more depressed at the
moment than the steel trade, which
for long period has persisteatly
refused to lower it's prices in man
ner that would facilitate and pro-
mote revival"
That is the trouble with all
trusts. They are organized for the
purpose of keeping prices up and
wages down. When demand falls
off they just shorten the supply by
shutting down the mills and dis
charging the workmen. The gen.
eral rule in such cases is to sell the
product at less price. The trust
however never recognizes this great
law of trade. Its sole purpose is
to maintain things as they are. 1t
takes no account of altered condi-
tions. Trade in its natural condi-
tions seeks to produce an article
at an ever lessening price. The
trusts fly in the face of this law
and insist upon the very opposite
condition. When it is first organ
lied it succeeds but the longer it
exists the more it is opposed to
progress, the harder it finds it's
course in r6pressing invention and
in fighting advancement and at
last it collapses, because it is found
ed upon false basis. 1t never
could live were it not bolstered up
by special laws and here is where
the tariff finally becomes burden
and q nuisance. 1t refuses to
recognize any changes in society or
in trade. The steel trust for in
stance, is now trying to maintain
the old rate for structural
steel. The result of it is that
building operations have in a
measure been checked. The rail
road brought face to face with the
results Of the panic and sorely Grip
pied by the rivalry of the interur'
bans which have taken the local
trade are unable to purchase steel
at the present high rates and there
fore the demand has fallen of. II
does not take one half an eye to
see that the FIRST requisite in re.
covering from the depression Of tn,
panic is to kill the trusts. Their,
is no use in talking about regulat
ing the trusts, the proper way is tt
legislate them out of existence. Re
peal every tariff act upon which {
trust is based and the trust struc.
ture will fall.
|, B. P. Duffy,
Cottonwood, Idaho.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
FERDINAND

Anton Schinalzbauer is some
better at this writing.
Emma Hussman has returned
to her home at Keuterville after Q
five months stay in Ferdinand.
M. I. Sharp is moving his fam
lily onto his ranch near Peck.
Glenn Fri made q trip to Voll.
mer last Monday.
E. ]. Wau Il Co. are erecting q
fine new harness shop, greatly to
the Improvement of our thrivin 6
little town.
Misses Nellie Blake and Edna
McMicheal were over from Keu-
terville Sunday.
John Robertson and wife oil
Green Creek were doing business
in our town Monday, also Jos
Arrizen, Jr.. from the same place.
Miss Bertha Riee has accepted .
position as waitress at the Ferdi
nand hotel.
Rose Hanses left for her home al
Cottonwood Sunday.
Bert Jones left for Reno, Nevada
and other points, Saturday.
Mrs Jones leased the hotel Il
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Eastman.
Change. took effect last Monday
While we sincerely regret Mrs
Jones departure, we most hearth,
welcome Mr.. and Mrs. Eastman &C
their new home.
The local ball nine wiped th,
earth with the once famous West
ern Star team Of Keuterville q
this place Sunday. Score 2 to IA
in favor of Ferdinand.
| A deputy game warden fron
Grangeville made q trip to Law
yers Canyon, to see whether som
Of our sportsmen have licenses.
i Emile Swanson and family lei
for Bellings, Mont. Mr.. Swanso
has accepted position as roa
loverseer.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07

Tw o good bath tubs at Hogan's
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
Saturday Night Sale
From 7 to 8 o'clock

TTOlIl 10 Q U CLOCK
Ladies' Waists just in by express ........... IA off
Huck Towels large size, heavy, worth 5c.......1sc
Mems New Hats, sold up $2 so choice each. $1so
Infants Hose, Isle thread pink, blue and black. .1sc
Shoes, get them now, Ladies' and Chidrens 60 Il off
Corsets, the famous & G, entire stock at. ...H off
Handkerchiefs, worth 2sc, embroidered, hem
stitched, each. II SC
Gloves white silk, 5o.center, pair. .........3
Saturday Night Sale
From 8 to 9 o'clock
Mennen's Borated Talcum Powder, scented ....r5c
Mems reversible four.inhand or hook.on ties .2sc
Tennis Flannel English production, great value yd
French dress crepes, SOFT sheer weave very
special, yard .........................6 .6oc
Shoes for men and boys, entire stock at. Il off
Chambray Ginghams styles, best colorngs yd..1
Pongee Silk, American make good colors, yd .48c
Lace Curtains meshes, Arabian white. Il off
And the greatest array of nicknacks groceries, mems
Shirts stationery and hosiery ridcuously low prices
The Big Buffalo
Grangevilles Greatest Store
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Crowds at Big Sale

Talk about q bargain sale and
the thrifty shoppers, you should
have been at the Bargain Store
since the big liquidation sale has
been on. Saturday the writer drop.
ped in and noticed the twelve sales
people now employed by that store,
couldn't begin to wait on the trade.
We counted over 30 in the store, a
little after 3 in the afternoon. There
are two reasons for the big crowd
Of economical buyers, first the store
is giving genuine bargains. Finding
it necessary to dispose of the big
stock in order to liquidate, the
management cut the profit off and
even went below cost; second, they
let the people know Of what they
proposed to do by liberal advertis-
ing. Business honesty and legiti-
mate advertising, spell success.
Remember the sale continues. 1t
costs you nothing to drop in and
see the proof of the low prices.
Soda season is now open at the
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
m adame Okey In the Lime
Light

Madame Okey, who put on sew
eral homo talent plays in this city
several years ago, is having her
share OF trouble as the following
clipping indicates:
North Yakima, 80. Jerry Okey
whose wife, Madame Okey, has
responded to the lure of the stage
several times after q career among
cities in the northwest, stageing
home talent plays, returned from
Minneapolis today bringing with
him the thirteen year old daugh-
ter who had been taken away by
the mother when she left Lewiston,
Idaho for that city. The child
had been located in q convent by
the mother. Madame Okey is now
in Alberta. Mr.. Okey will institute
divorce proceedings Immediately,
the decree secured in Wallace, Ida.
no, courts being void.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
Got the Wagon

Black beans, red beans, navy
beans, butter beans and beans.
That's what the jar at the Grange
vile Implement Co.'s store con-
tanned, but how many?
For the past thirty days the
people of Idaho county have been
figuring, measuring, weighing and
finally guessing. Friday was the
last day Of the contest and when
the count was made by the COM
mittee consisting Of Messrs. Wsg-
ner, Leonard and Norwood.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
Won Big Bear

Little Francis Brown got the big
Teddy bear given away recently by
the A. 4 F. people. It's a prize
that the recipient will appreciate
and as evidence Of this fact, the
sight OF it's proud possessor wheel
ing "Teddy B" around town is
sufficient proof. Honors were
equally divided between the bear
and the "Studebaker Jr.' given
away by the Grangeville Imple-
ment Co., and drawn by Everett
Rambo.
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Assistant Principal.

Fred E. Lukens who will grad.
nate in June from the university '
with tho degree Of B. A. has been
elected assistant principal Of the
Grangeville schools for the ensuing
wear. Mr.. Lukes has been q prom
inent student at the university for
several years. He has always tax.
en- an active part in literary circles
This spring he was member Of the
debate team which defeated the
university of Washington. He i,
a member Of the Theta Mu Epsilon
fraternity. He is . son Of Probatt
Judge Charles N. Lukens. Mos
COW Mirror.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07

Soda! Soda! at the News Stand.
40.2
For No. / hand made harness
and saddlery we excell them all
Big Buffalo Cash store 40.4
For these warm summer days
soda ct the News Stand. 49-2
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07
COUNCIL MEETING
Held Monday Night-$l, 800 to
Redemption Fund
PREPARED The ESTIMATE
Salary andlmprovementFunds
are Increased

The city council met Monday
evening in regular session and pre-
pared the estimates Of the several
amounts required to carry ON the
city government for the next fiscal
year. The appropriation for the
salary fund is increased from $500
to s45OO in the expectation that
additional policemen will be re-
quired with the advent of the rail-
road. The Public improvement
fund has also been increased to
$4,000 in the expectation Of grad
ing the streets, laying crosswalks
ETC., during the next year. One
feature of the past year grati6es
the councilmen very much and
that is the fact that at the close of
the fiscal year every fund showed
substantial sums to its credit and
over $1,000 of these funds was duly
transferred to the redemption fund
for the redemption of out standing
warrants, thereby reducing the
amount of Indebtedness and stop
ping the interest drain of ten dol
lers per month. Bills were allowed
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BOTH PHONES-MAIN 37I
ANOTHER SATURDAY
NIGHT OF MARVELLOUS
Hourly Bargains

Be on time, the merry crowd will be here,
makes shopping pleasure, at the same
time you will be buying things you must
have, at the biggest kind of saving. Don't
believe it? Then read on. :: :: ::
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1908-05-07

Soda season is now open at tn
News Stand, 49-2
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Deer Breeding Profitable.

"The business of raising deer as q
matter of profit may sound strange,
but there are a number of people in
various parts of the country who get
lucrative returns from their herds"
said w. G. Adams, Of Washington,
d. G..
"a friend of mine began raising
deer in the District of Columbia over
thirty years ago and has made money
in their propagation. For his bucks
he gets $50 each and the does bring
SIS. Deer will eat almost any kind
of grain or grass. ever preferring the
rankest weeds to the choicest hay.
They should always have an abund-
ant supply OF clear. running water.
About the greatest item of expense
connected with deer is the cost of
fencing. The fawns are usually born
in the spring or early summer. Does,
as a rule, have but n faWn at first,
but subseq uently twins are born, and
in arr cases triplets." Baltimore
American.
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Drink Slavery.

The drink habit is the pestilence
that walketh in darkness, the destruc.
ton that wasteth at MONDAY. What
man is there that hath not seen the
red ruin in it's path-wrecked lives
and homes ard hopes and hearts, and
shame and sin withal too deep for
words? What community does not
remember some once brilliant son, the
rose and expectancy of its citizenship,
by strong drink brought down to rags
and to the gutter? What country
graveyard whispers not its melan-
choly tale Of some once strong VIC
tim brought low by it's awful power?.
What man Is there among my readers
whose heart has not ached for some
one in his W. family, bone Of his
bone, blood of his blood. the knowl-
edge of whose shameful drink-slavery
has burned like a white-hot brand?
And in every neighbcrhood, more
over, we know also the cruelty mis-
treated wife whom the drunkard had
vowed to love and protect, the ragged
children with lives blighted by a
drunken fathers neglect, and even
the midnight tears Of some gray
haired mother with lamentations like
hose of another Rachel for some once
promising son slain by the. monster
evil against which we now go forth
to battle.
Small wonder that it's allies have
40 word to say in its behalf, and must
shield themselves behind the glitter
ing generalities of personal liberty"
and "local self-government."
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The Amiable Spider.

The spider is not usually credited
with amiability of temper, and sc the
proofs brought forward by M. A. Lee
Gallon in La Nature of its maternal
affections are the more interesting.
The species concerned is one which
makes its nest and web in the ears OF
oats. The nest of mi was broken
open, the mother taken out, and an.
other female spider put in. The lat
ter on entering looked around and at
once began to close the entrance.
When the mother spider is brought
back the usurper tries to defend her
self, and they exchange blows
through the opening. Then the
mother goes round the nest to find
another entrance. She is forced, how
ever, by the other to retire again into
the nest. Making a third attempt
while the mother is absent again, the
usurper escapes, though holly pur.
sued. Assuring herself that her en-
envy has really gone the mother en-.
tiers her nest, and after a while begins
to close the opening. The usurper Is
then placed on the nest three times.
but always retreats in haste: A spi-
der, it thus appears, will readily
adopt another nest, but will not de.
fend it as she would her own. If,
however, the usurper has had posses.
session of the nest for twenty-four
hours, she will not leave it voluntar-
lily, and will defend it vigorously
against it's true owner. A spider kept
from her own nest for eight days does
not try to recover it nor show any in
terest in it.-London Globe.
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Widening the Problem.

The increase in the number and
quantity Of drugs which may be used
% prevent pain, quiet the nerves, and
produce effects similar to those
gained by the use Of alcohol widens
The temperance problem. Nothing is
gained and something may be lost
beyond recall when a family drops
The use of beer and begins to take
loses of cocaine. From all quarters
come reports of the increased use OF
this pernicious drug which, with
morphine and other narcotics, may
easily be substituted for the more
evident and grosser form of intoxi-
cation. Men and women throughout
the South are said to be secretly in.
Producing among the negroes and
poor whites drugs which, habitually
taken. destroy both body and soul.
Recovery from the pestilent in1u.
ence of these drugs is even more dit.
fcult than that from the degreda-
ton caused by alcohol.
Register.
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Embarrassing.

Some little while ago a popular
writer visited a Jail in order to take
notes for a magazine article on pris-
on life. On returning homo he de-
scriGed the horrors he had seen, and
his description made a deep impress
sion on the mind Of his little dauSh-
ter Mary. The writer and his Off
spring, a week later, were i'll a tram
together, which stopped at a station
near a gloomy building. A man
asked:
What place is that?"
"The county JAIL" another an
swered promptly.
W]hereupon Mary embarrassed her
father and aroused the suspicion or
the other occupants Of the carriage
b. asking, in q loud, shrill voice:
SIS that the jail you were H.
fa*sher?"-Judge's Library.
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Maintaining DiScinlinc.

It is evident, by an anecdote taken
from the London Mirror, that there
are some persons who regard discip-
line as an end and not as a means.
Not even the seed Of characterization
had a chance under the eye of Scr
gcant Day.
"'Tcntion!" he cried to his squad.
"Quick March,, Left wheel: Halt!
Take Murphy's name for talking in
the ranks"
"But he wasn't talking protested
a corporal, who was standing near.
"Wasn't he?o" roared Sergeant Day.
Then cross it out and put him in tue
guard-room for dccciring me.
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.Rv This Shall All Men Know"

How are you going to tell whetner
you are a Christian or not? NOT by
the fact that you are a Catholic or a
Protestant, not that you subscribe TO
some creed that man has drawn up.
We must have something better than
that. 49,.
What did Christ say? "By this
shall all men know that We are My
disciples, if we have love one to an
other" l used to wish when ! was
first converted that every Christian
had to wear a badge, because l would
like to know them; my heart went
out toward the household OF faitn.
But I have got over that. Every ny.
pocrite would have a badge inside OF
thirty days should Christianity be.
come popular. No badge outside. but
God gives us a badge in the heart:
The religion that hasn't any owe
in it l don't want; it's human. The
man whose creed hasn't any. love IN
It may let it go to the winds. by
this shall all men know that We are
My disciples, if we have love n to
another" That is the fruit OF the
Spirit.-D. L. Moody.
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THE I T OF GOD.

a city throned upon the height behold,
Wherein no foot of man as vet has trod.
The city of mans life fulfilled in God;
Bathed in all light, with open gates of gold
Perfect the city is in tower and street..
And there a palace for each mortal waits
Complete and perfect, at whose outer
gates
An angel stands its occupant to greet.
Still shine. o patient city on the height!
The while our race in hut and hovel
dwells.
Tt hears the music of thy heavenly bells.
And its dull soul is haunted by thy light.
Lo, once the Son of Man hath heard thy
call.
And the dear Christ hath claimed thee fol-
us all.
Phillips Brooks.
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"Thank you" was all she said, but
the words were a real expression OF
gratitude. What she thought, how
ever, was: "He shouldn't tell stories.
He doesn't do it at all we'll. 1t is my
business that is his business, I know;
and he knows 1 know it, SO where is
the use? I suppose, though, I should
have refused to let him come if he
had put it in any other way. Well,
his delicacy, at all events, makes up
for his little fb."
The two gentlemen rose, and as
they did so the horror of being left
alone occurred to her.
"Oh, do not leave mel" she said,
so earnestly that they h%esitated; at
least-I mean," she faltered-"if
you have nothing better to do, will
you stay and dine with me?"
And she wrung her hands. and
then she laughed; it was such a fun
ny way to ask any one to dinner.
"You must think me very weak
minded" she explained. II can't
help it; I am afraid to be alone. If l
have leisure to think I shall break
down before the servants, and then
they will know that something must
be wrong"
There was now an end of all cere-
mony between them. DR.. Mansell
sent a boat off to the yacht with
orders to send what Lord Wartle-
bury required to meet him at the sta
ton, and then the three spent the
evening together-a quiet evening
certainly, but not unpleasant for the
gentlemen, for their brave little
hostess put off her sadness as a duty
and talked enough to have deceived
them, let alone the servants, had they
not known of the cruel anxiety which
was gnawing at her heart.
And even they never suspected the
sharp physical pain caused by those
cutting cords and her frantic strug-
giles, which was adding the fear OF
being disabled to her other miseries,
though she strove not to admit the
possibility of such a thing even to
herself. Her wounded arms might
burn and her wretched body might
stiffen, but be with her husband be-
fore morning she would, if she kept
her consciousness at all.
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Fortunes Made From Gees.

The output Of honey in Texas last
year was 4.96S.000 pounds. Cali
fornia came next, with an output of
3,6G7,00 pounds, and New York
third, with an output of 3,422,000
pounds. Missouri was fourth, with
an output of 3.01S,929 pounds. Texas
also stands first in the number of coll
nnies of bees, the number being 417,-
900. The honey crop of Texas brings
All annual revenue of S500,000, the
price for which it sells ranging from
eight to ten cents a pound. I'm addi-
tion the ~beekeepers sell many thou
sand dollars worth of bees each e
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A CroWdc1 Universe.

In New Haven the committee Of q
graduating class once went to a local
jeweler with a commission for a large
badge. They had in view a design
representing a youthful graduate sur
reying the universe.
About how large would you like
the figure?" the jeweler asked.
We'll" said the spokesman, 1--WE
thought the graduate ought to v
about three-quartersof the badge and
the universe the rest. success Mag
aZine.
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imagination the Fairy Powder
BY BLACK.

A little girl I know came running
in from the garden the other day.
She had two great, Tapping catalpa
See, mamma" she said; look ct
my lovely wings; now if I only could
find some fairy powder to shake on
them 1 could fly, couldn't -"
"Yes, honey" said I to the little
girl l know. eff you could find some
fairy powder and sprinkle it on Those
wings you could really fly"
The little girl l know looked at me
with large, trustful eyes. Her chin
began to culver.
Its too bad" she said, tremu-
lousy, dat I cant find de fairy pow
der when 1 have such a lovely pair Of
wings, isn't it,"
And I comforted the little girl I
know and kissed her, and then We
went out to hunt for a fairy ring in
the grass and to see if we couldn't
find a toadstool where the old grass
hopper who plays for the fairies to
dance sits when he is tuning his
fiddle.
That evening I dined with the rich
and great. After dinner we sat on
the veranda and watched the stars
come laughing down the sky, and the
crickets chirped and the scent of the
growing grass was sweet in the nos
trils.
Lets go to the theatre" said one
of the rich and great, and in less
than five minutes we were whiZzing
out of the green and the perfume and
the starlight, down to the noisy, ILL
smelling town. 1t was hot in the
theatre and we sat in the middle of a
row of seats. The play was inane,
the actors were bad, the air was sti-
fling, and we sat and were bored until
it was all I could do to keep from
rushing out into the clean night air
again.
And all the time at the very gate
of the sitting horror We sat in was a
nice, roomy automobile, and In five
minutes we could have been on our
way to the starlight and the sweet
winds and the sparkling heavens
again..
1 looked at the rich and the great,
and wondered. Then all at once it
came to me-"They have the WINGS"
| said to myself, 1.-The great, strong,
untiring wings that money buys-but
they have not found the fairy powder
that's the reason they cannot fly"
A friend told me a little story this
morning. Yesterday" said my
friend, II supped with a millionaire;
he told me about a magnificent house
he is building in a faraway city.
I'm spending a million and a
quarter on it, he said. 1T is a pal
ace, but all my friends are here, and
this is the only place in which I really
want to live. However, and the mil
lionaire sighed a deep and mournful
sigh, 'beggars can't be choosers.'
looked at my friend and smiled.
HE has the wings, all right, you
see," 1 said. Call he lacks is the
fairy powder"
The fairy powder! How poor he
is that lacks it. Imagination, the
love of simple things, the love of
beauty, the love Of outdoors, Of little
children and of the singing Of the
waters in a free stream-he who has
not found any of these fairy powders
can never, never ly.-From the New
York American.