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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
NEW SURVEY
ON SNAKE RIVER
Party of Surveyors Busy Along The
Snake River in Vicinity of
Grand View.

An unusual amount of activity
seems to be in progress along the
Snake river over in the Bruneau
and Grand View countries. Reports
are coming in regarding surveying
parties that seem to be engaged in
finding grades and routes for rail-
roads through the southern part of
the state.
1t is generally known that the
Oregon Short Line has a party on
the ground working route for that
line through the south, whereby
they hope to escape the long heavy
pull occasioned by the King Hill
and Medbury grades. Not only will
they find way to send their heavy
freights in order to escape this long
hard pull, but they will find beau
tiful stretch of country waiting for
the approach of the cars for an
a wakening.
A second party is surveying a
line through to Nevada for the Hol-
lister & Perrin Power company OF
Twin Falls, which, it is under
stood, is conveying its power
through to Ely, New, and also an
electric line which the company in
tends to put through in the near
future.
1t is not known what the third
party is doing as they are partie eular
to keep their intention and object
from general knowledge and pub
1.cation. But at any event, it is
generally supposed the party ha:
been sent out by one of the larger
trunk lines to find a way across the
state to the coast
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
A Home Industry.

The business men of Mountain
Home do not seem to realize that
we have steam laundry here in
Mountain Home Should all the
stock holders of the company send
to Montgomery Ward & Co., for
their merchandise you would hear
great howl from the merchants
who are now sending their laundry
to Boise. Come, patronize your
patrons and home industry, and
we will guarantee you as good
work, if not better, and as reason
able as you get in Boise.
C..-L. BLANCHARD,
Manager Of Mountain Home Steam
Laundry Company, Ltd.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
Professor Warner Endorsed.

At meeting of the school board
last Tuesday afternoon it was de-
cided to tender to Prof. Warner
the position of superintendent OF the
city schools for another year. At
the present time Prof. Warner has
not accepted but all are in hopes
that he will see his way clear to
remain.
This offer, coming at such an
early date is splendid recognition
of the ability of the man that has
done So much for our schools and
placed them in the fore rank among
the schools of the state.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
PROMINENT MEN
COMING WEST
Large Number from Wisconsin Arc
Pleased With Sunny
Idaho.

II is evident that Racine, Wis,
is to lose many of its best business
men, states a leading paper Of that
city in a recent issue. Opportuni-
ties have presented themselves in
the state of Idaho; land has or will
be purchased and the parties expect
to be located before next fall.
Recently Frank Ticknor, Joseph
Dietrich, George Klinkert, James
Armstrong and Bert Bullock went
to Mountain Home Idaho, to invest
igate. Letters received from Mr..
Ticknor states that they are de-
lighted with tile country and will
buy tracts of land. Mr.. Ticknor
will close out his entire business
and remove to the west and all the
others will leave the city eventually
and take up land. There are others
who will follow and it is saiS =
say that within a year there viii
be a small colony of Racine people
in that far western country.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
Hi Henry Finds Coal.

A Splendid vein of coal has been
opened at Horseshoe Bend and coal
is being put on the market. Accord
ing to Hi Henry, who is develop
ing the field, there will be no more
coal famines IN this valley as the
deposits are almost inexhaustible.
A monster road engine has been
purchased and it is claimed 40 tons
a day can be delivered i'll Emme'
at small cost. The coal is a semi
anthracite, black, sglossy and g
splendid heat producer. Emmett
Index.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
NARROW ESCAPE
FROM BAD FIRE
Maverick Grateful to Fire Department
For Its Quick aid Eff
Cirnt Work.

What might have been a most
disastrous fire was narrowly
avertcd last Tuesday afternoon
through the prompt and efficient
action of the local fire department.
A sixty gallon barrel of gasoline
was being emptied into storage
tank at the rear of this office when
in some unaccountable manner it be-
came ignited and spread very rap
idly, and soon the entire rear end
of the building was enveloped in
flame.
The fire department was called
and through the agency of the
chemical engine, which clearly
demonstrates its value as a fire
extlngu1sher, the flames were coon
checked and gotten under control
by the firemen.
No serious damage was doue by
the fire aside from burned hands,
the tin siding on the rear of the
building badly scorched and the
loss of the gasoline.
This office especially wishes to
thank the fire department for its
promptness in responding to the
call and the very efficient work in
extinguishing the flame before any
damage was done.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
FIGURING UPON VOTE
OF ELECTORAL COLLEGE
President of Bryan Democratic League of
New York Gives Ont Some
Information.

The following makes interesting
reading at the present time. With
the number of states that will be in
the doubtful columns this year, the
situation is one of decided interest
The president of the Bryan DEM
oucratic league of New York, AL
bert S. Dulin, has prepared some
interesting figures on the electoral
vote OF each state and the standing
OF the two great parties. In the
iirst table will be found listed the
states that are practically conceded
to the democrats. In the second ta-
Bile the list of the states that he be-
lieves are reasonably sure to 60 re-
publican, while III the third table
are listed the states wherein the
great battles of the campaign will
be fought, the doubtful states.
Thcrca re 48 electoral votes and 242
are necessary to elect the president
and vice-presidcnt
DEMOCRATIC VOTE.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
Mountain Home, Idaho, Feb. 27

Mountain Home, Idaho, Feb. 27,
1908.
To Whom 1t May Concern:
AS president and secretary OF the
Elnore county fair association we
desire to state that a report of the
receipts and disbursements for the
fair Of 1907, will be submitted at
meeting to be held at the CONNER
clai club rooms on Friday evening,
Feb. %, and the same will later
be published in the local newspap-
ers. This report should have been
published long since, but owing
TO the fact that at the close of the
fair the accounts payable exceeded
by $1,000 the total receipts from
all sources, we preferred to with
hold the statement until such time
as some arrangements could be
made for liquidating outstanding
claims. All amounts due for
purses and premiums were paid in
full; the accounts now payable be-
ing due to both the Republican
and Maverick newspapers of Noun
tain Home and 70 some lithograph-
ing houses in the east.
Our report in conjunction with
this letter, will inform the public
concerning the exact status of the
fair; what was taken in and wha
the amount exbpended. We have
issued cali to all citizens in Ell.
more and Owvhee counties interest.
edi havinga at Mountain Home
this year to meet at the Commercial
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
SHALL ELMORE COUNTY
HOLD AFFAIR THIS FALL?
Citizens of EImOre and Owyhee Counties to
Meet on February 18th and
Discuss Question.

club Feb. % for the purpose Of
discussing and determining wheth-
er or not a fair will be held in
Mountain Home this fall. There
appears to be some diversity of opin-
ion as to whether or not a fair
should be attempted for 1908. The
cause.-the reason of this dissen-
ton, small as it really it is, we are
unable to detrmine. Mr.. Purtill,
the secretary, devoted three months
of his undivided time and attention
in promoting the interests of the
fair for which he never received
S1.OO from the fair proper or from
the association and very little from
any other source. The day the fair
closed there was $1,000 Indebtedness
over and above all the receipts.
MIR. Garrett has personally paid
about $500 of this and has as
suned the balance to be paid ir
the near future. In addition tc
this, it will observed that Mr..
Garrett paid out about $1,000 foI
lumber and other expenses direct
ly beneficial to the fair, such {
building a high board fence, erect.
ing the small exhibit building
caring for the track and numerous
other expenses.
The Boise, Caldwell and Bake
City fair dates for 1903 have al
ready been announced and If W
intend TO hold fair in Mouutaii
Home this fall, it is necessary tha
lcnn,inluued ON Pace Il
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27

H. c. Bleasdale, an expert record
searcher, arrived in Mountain
Home this morning and will assist
B. F. Griffith, proprietor of the
psny, in completing a set of abb
strsct books. Mr.. aBleasdale comes
highly recommended from abstract
offices that have employed him to
search records at Salt Lake, Seattle
and Boise and other places and will
be valuable to the company in COM
pleting an ABSOLUTELY reliable and
complete set of abstract looks.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27

c. B. Faraday has returned from
his trip through the west. He
has been away about three weeks
and returns more convinced than
ever that this is the best section of
the great west to live in. He
stated that from the time that he
left Mountain Home until he struck
Baker City on his return, he never
saw the sun shine.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27
Correction, Greatest Lumber Cut.

Through an error in the copy
mailed the Maverick from Washing
ton, D. c., the number of board feet
cut in 1906 was given as 81, $50, =
736. 1t should have been 81, $50, =
736, 900 board feet.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27

The little daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. p. X. Sitton, who vas taken
to Boise the last of the week for
an operation, made necessary tiom
a long illness of pneumonia, is re-
ported to have passed through the
operation nicely, but there have
been no later reports.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Frick of
King Hill were in town Monday
attending to matters of business
and calling on old friends. Mr.
Frick is one of the substantial
ranchers of that valley.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-27

Continued on Page sl
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27
MORSE TANGLED
Up ACCOUNTS
Securities Looked Good,
But Fell Short of
Face Value.

NEW YORK. Oct. a. Morse al
ways kept ample collateral in the
bank said Edward y. Wire. for
mcF cashier of the deYunct Bank Of
North America on the witness
stand today. hut while the aeuuTi-
ties were all right as 10 quantity.
their quality left much 20 DO destr-
cd" he added
The testimony followed that Of
other officials Of the bank IN which
Il WAS shown that while the nominal
values ~ stocks and bonds given as
security on loans by Morse tailed
with tho amounts of the loans. their
negotiable values on the market
were much below their face values.
Part 81 this testimony was ordered
stricken out by the court. how
over. on objection % counsel that Il
would be impossible Tor the bank
officials 10 ten what was the actual
value of the securities.
The defcpse Of Chas W Morse.
the accused ice king. and President
Alfred H. Curtis 81 the bank. hts
| business associate. began today
/ Zach will conduct q separate de-
Tense and the counsel for each viii
sum up separately
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

The last q the Nome fleet viii
make port Tits week. probably IN
the following order. Frelghters.
Mackinnw and Corwin tomorrow
passenger boats. Senator Friday and
Northwestern Saturday. The North
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

japanese liner RaEa Maru left fpr
the orient this morning she VIII
touch al Victoria 10 pick up Chinese
steeraee passengers.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

IN all parts u the United States and
Throughout the world On the eve
~ his retirement from the highest
office IN the nations gift, the pfenl-
dent ala not vary his routine of work
10 enjoy IN relaxation The last birth
day he will enjoy IN the White
House.
A profualon of flowers. cards ana
telegra phic messages were received
from personal and political friendly
Among the souvenirs WAS floral
tribute from Captain Poole ana the
employees ~ the departments. public
buildings ana aroug.s
Today ~ also the anniyef-
aary 81 the presidents first
marriage with Alice Hthaway.
on Oct ~. 1850, who was the
mother u Alice Lee Roosevelt, now
Mrs Nicholas tsoueworth. The
presidents aeconS marriage with
Edith Kermit took place on Dec, 2.
1855. and five children, four of them
boys. hRye resulted from the union.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27
ROOSEVELT
RECEIVES
TOKENS
Remembered by Friends
Throughout World on
His Birthday.

WASHINGTON. oct "a rreei.
dent Theodore Roosevelt 90 years
~ age today, received hundreds ~
tokens from friends and admirers
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27
ON THE FRONT

Steamer Umafiila arrived IN San
Francisco at ? o'clock this morn
ing
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

western is ,hs las, to leave Nome or
the horne trip.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27
PRINCE GOES UP
I'M AIRSHIP

FRIEDRICHAFON, oct al
Prince Henry u Prussia today
made an ascension IN the recon.
structed Zeppelin airshIp. The count
saya that the new diriRible ia much
better than the one that WAS lost
during the attempt 10 make flight
lasting 20 hours. a great crowd
gathered 90 see the air monster rise
with the prince aboard. The ascen-
sion was entirely Hucceesful and the
balloon, with Captain Mische 40
berliuFpu
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

Funny thing happened In Boston
the other day They arrested a
grass widow in eheaf gown. who
reapcd a harvest from a hayseed
while he was sowing his wild oats.
bat she was baled ont on straw
bond By a rake. aud the matter can.
not BE- thrAfhed out la court.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

San iNANCtHcU. oct 27--nsp.
rsnentatiYee ~ the leading banks Of
the state began signing the roll to-
day u mcfnuefsHip ia a new CaiifoF-
MA state clearing house. The eb-
frcte are 90 Improve and strengthen
The banking system Of the state
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

British steamer strathord left san
Francisco sunday ~ soon as she
arrives on the sound SHE will 60
into drydock for repairs 81 injuries
received b. grounding near Caiiao In
a storm a few months ago.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

NEW YORK, oct 2f.--The demo-
cratic national platform was likau-
cd 20 a Mother Hubbard dress. which
covers n whole lot but touches
nothing. by Eugene w ghafin. the
prohibition candidate for president,
Ia an address here
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27
AN ECONOMICAL FEATURE.

niffhns What are you going "a
name your new bahy7
Thudhins! salome.
nlffkiua; What's the object Of
thatf
Thudkinai So Il won't need
much % dress her.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

Population Of five principal cit.
les In 1890 wass New York. "a
49, Philadelphia. 1889. Boston.
1905. Charleston. 1889; HAltl.
more. la.h03.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

Mrs. kewiy1ed--Cook has burn.
ed all The bacon dear aud youli
have 10 be satisfied with a kiss Tor
breakfast
Newiywed--An right. call her IN.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-10-27

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-03

an immense help, and gave him new
courage. Then followed an illness of
I five months, but nothing could queneh
his dauntIess zeal. With the help Of a
native amanuensis, and obedience to his
physician s restrictions of mo letter
writing, no visiting, not much talking
or walking, but much lying down. he
resumed translation, sometimes on the
bed, sometimes at table. His health
steadily improved, his eyesight grew
stronger. Then with buoyant hope and
increased courage he entered upon the
home stretch.
One morning in the spring of 1898,
after an absence of nearly thirty years
from the United States, he and his
wife, with small group of friends,
stood in the Bible House in New York,
watching the last verse of Revelation
being put into type. A proof was taken
and DR.. Bingham read the words aloud
in Gilbertese, his voice trembling with
emotion. The little company adjourned
to the big press room, the type was
placed in form, the wheels revolved, and
the last page of the first Bible in Gil
bertese was printed. A prayer of
and the singing of the
Doxology followed. Booming of can
non, music, oratory, banners, and flow
ars often accompany the launching Of |
4 battleship or the opening of new /
ANAL. Yet conquest of material forces
inks into insignifeance in comparison
With the victory Of faith which lifts
race from barbarism TO the level Of
civilized human beings.
His latest literary effort has been
he preparation of a Gilbertese dietion-
ny This work was made ready for
and the manuscript loan
4 to an Engiishman, through whose |
it was irretrievably lost. !
tut like Carlyle, after the manuscript
f the first volume Of his d" French Rev
luton" was burned by an ignorant
CRYING maid, Dr.. Bingham began the
FORK over again.
1t took him ten years, and the monu-
rental task was only just completed ,
o far as known, he was the only man Z
no has reduced language 70 writ
e, translated the whole Bible into
rat language, and supervised the
rinting Of the volume. He had sup
lied other means Of education and Z
hristian culture by preparing this die +
onary, hyme-books and miscellaneous :
terature. He suffered from repeated :
lness, due to a tropical climate and {
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n
I Islands. The group lies nearly on the
equator, where the mercury never drops
below 76. Thei house, 24x16, received
the significant name of Happy Home
Their food was almost as meager as
John the Baptist s, consisting of fish
eoeoanuts and pandanus lruit. Once a
year the Morning Star brought other
supplies, but her most precious cargo
was the mailbag.
fIt was pretty hard, - said DIR.
Bingham, in an photographed sketch,
'Fto have our first mail appropriated by
the natives, who thought it was some
kind of new food AS we visited their
huts, we found fragments of letters,
which we purchased with fsh-hook or
some trife equally dear to the savage
heart, either hopelessly mutilated or
lost. +"
There in the tropics, the only white
man on the island, amid uneongenial
surroundings, he began TO edo some
thing At his ordination his father
said to him: FtMake yourself master
of their language Translate and
publish the Scriptures . The difficult
ties were stupendous. The climate was
enervating, his evesight poor, and after
a few years he was compelled by Ill
health to remove to Honolulu. But,
by his wife, who was fine
linguist, he entered upon the task of
actually making a language.
He had to collect his own vocabulary
and construct his own grammar This
achievement has not been paralleled
since John Eliot prepared his Bible for
the Indians. Some Iudicrous mistakes
occurred, as in trying to find Gilbert
sse equivalent for prayer The
word used meant ''to practise mean
ations,' precisely what they were ex-
'eeted not to do! At length, in the /
ummer of 1873, they sailed with glad .
iearts back TO Apaiang, taking with
hem the New Testament in the native
ongue. Before leaving there was a
ongratulatory gathering at their home
D Honolulu at which the King was :
resent.
Ten years later, at the instigation Of
[rs. Bingham. the second task Of trans
lting the Old Testament, was begun,
nd DR.. Bingham, then man nearly
fly years old, undertook the task. The
.anslation must be made from the He
rev, which he had neglected for TWEEN Z
five years, having given his whole {
.tention to GiIbertese, Hawaiian and :
reek. The examination of the Hebrew !
oints was most trying for his weak
res. But under the inspiration Of his 7
ife s words, backed by the wish Of
e Hawaiian Board Of Missions, he '
ok his old Hebrew grammar from the
elf and buekIed down TO hard study. !,
On his ffty-second birthday he was !
ady to begin translation. When about {
If through. visitor brought him a :
py Of the Revision of 1881. This was !;
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-03

lack of nourishing food. Once he was
so weak that he was carried on a lit
| ter on board the Morning Star, on
which there was a COW, whose milk
| was the means of saving his life.
| When asked if long periods of iso-
| lation from his fellow mon was not the
chief trial in his missionary career, he
| answered: "That twenty-seven years
between two of my three furloughs
was a pretty long stretch. Rlt, after
| all. my greatest trial has been in see
| ing some Of the native converts lapse
| from the faith. Tropical character IS
apt to have a slim foundation of ethics.
You know people there viii lie. -
Visitors to the Gilbert Islands today
listen specifically to stories Of their
former savage condition and the dan
ger to life which beset travellers in
earlier times. IT is a safe place now,
because this modest, scholarly servant
Of Christ and his devoted wife count
ed not their lives dear, but gave
them unreservedly to those degraded
heather. Scholars all over the world
recognize the magnitude of their ser
vice to humanity. Prof. Edward 4.
Moore of Harvard said recently-thus
indorsing Professor Thayer's earlier
estimate of Dr.. Bingham as man who
has 'fdone something -: When
think of what he has done during
these fifty wears IN the Gilbert Is
lands. anything that the rest Of US do
appears too small to mention. seem
struck dumb in his presence. "
DR.. Bingham was Ill before he left
Honolulu for the mainland. He went
Fast 70 correct proof on his new Gil
bertese dictionary, and he therefore
died on duty.
p G. Jones said yesterday that 1t |
was astonishing that Honolulu was not |
notified of DR.. Bingham s death, and /
vet be is satisfied that the published |
is correct. He heard DE-. /
BINGHAM make an address two weeks /
7ya Sunday In Dr. Simpson 8 church "a /
New York. Mr. Jones says that Dr.
was IL Of pneumonia IN the
Fast and when Mr.. Jones was IN New
York. Or. Bingham was in an outlying
town. He was then removed to the
.Ifv and placed IN a hospital.
DR.. Bingham married Minerva Gar
SEA brewster Of Northampton. Mass,
N November IS. 1856. She died IN
Foralnlu few years ago. Their son,
Tram Bingham Ill, Is q professor IN
Harvard University. DR.. Bingham
lister. Mrs. lydia Coan, has been his
o,s+ar+ COMPANION for years and has
ssisted him in his work. Mrs Coan
ecompsnied her brother on TINS, has
asst. trip to the mainland. Il
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-03

Isn't it better TO have your estate
managed by a company of responsible
men. experts in the law. real estate
values and investments, than by any
single individuaIf Hawaiian Trust
Co. Ltd.