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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
AN ERIroR,s COMMENT.

Clarence A. Lucas, managing editor
of the daily and weekly Tribune Of
Fremont, Nebraska, who has been TAX
ing notice of our improved news SER
vice since we established the school of
journalism, writes, THAT Is quite a
novel plan you have for training your
writers and educating them in the
specialties of newspaper work. We have
a lot of country correspondents who
would be greatly improved by such a
plan, and while it has been a worry
to us, we never thought of meeting
the trouble in this way. We have sent
out printed instructions sometimes,
that helped some, but your plan seems
to meet the exact needs of the writers.
Few editors would be willing to under
take the amount of work 1t places upon
you, but what impresses me is that
you get the desired results"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
FORTUNES IN THE DESERT.

J. M. Tilden was in town Monday and
reported that he has planted five acres
of potatoes, onions and 4urnIps on a
fine tract of land in the plains near
one of the buttes where the soil is
very much better than any among the
old farms already settled. He is near
the railroad and can ship his produce
easily, and will have a very much
warmer climate than we have along
the river and near the hills, for it is
well known, the central part of the
plain is hot when it is only warm
along the river.
Mr.. Tilden says that when people
realize the value of the great tracts
lying open to settlement In the plains
between the Snake and Lost rivers
and the opportunities for storing snow
water in the basins and the chances for
operating pumping plants. there will
be stampede for land that will make
the connecting link between the two
valleys.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
LETTER FROM HONOLULU.

The people of Honolulu do not APP
preciate what the conditions are at the
volcano of Kilauea. II they did, the
steamers running to Hawaii would not
be large enough to carry the passen-
gers gong to see the stupendous sight
now visible there.
Within the last few weeks the cen
trail pit has filled up by the rising of
molten lava within it's walls until its
floor is now only about 200 feet below
the floor of the main crater.
At this level, 200 feet below the spec
tator there is a lake of molten lava.
In the shape of the figure eight. ap-
proximately 500 feet long by 400 feet
wide. Near the center Of the northern
lobe of the lake is an island some rs
feet in length, in the shape of half
moon. Within the little bay formed by
the points of this island there Is an al
most constant boiling Of the molten Ia
va, with explosive bursts of gas every
minute or so, which throws masses Of
the molten fluid into the air some 30
to 40 feet, and scatters 1t over an area
of approximately 100 feet In diameter.
Immediately after each outburst of gas
tremendous suction draws the lava
from radius of 100 feet of the bay
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
/. REMARKABLE SHOWING.

Prohibition for twenty-five days
from May l., 1908, in Worcester, Mass.
makes remarkable showing. The to-
tai number of arrests for drunkenness
in this city of 100000 for the twenty
five days May to 25, 1907, under H.
cense was 356. For the twenty-five
days under prohibition, May 1 to 25
1908, the arrests for drunkenness were
70. The arrests for individual days
have already frequently shown still
more astonishing variations. For the
twenty-four hours ending Tuesday
May 26, 1908, at 1 a. M, there was only
one arrest for drunkenness recorded,
as compared with twenty-five arrests
for drunkenness last year during the
same twenty-four hours under license.
-EX.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19

give way and torrents of lava flow out
into the surrounding territory In the pit
until that portion OF the pit is raised
to level which stems the flood.
This action has been going on for
several weeks. the lake constantly en-
larglng and the floor of the pit being
raised by the overflows of lava.
The brilliancy of the action can be
judged from the fact that a lantern is
not needed in crossing the rough floor
of the crater, the light from the lake
being more than sufficient to show the
trail In its details. The glare of the
lake can also be seen any clear night
from Hilo and Honuapo at distances OF
81 and IS miles.
There has been no such grand ex-
hibition of volcanic action at Kilauea
since 1894, when the bottom of the lake
dropped out, forming the present pit.
If the present rate of filing the pit
goes on, 1t should be filled and running
over by the end of the present year.
There can be no certainty, however,
that the action will continue on it's
present magnificent scale, and anyone
who wishes to see one of the grandest
natural phenomena now visible on the
face of the earth should lose no time
In going to see the volcano.
Number 33.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
to a vortex like that OF a maiestrom

into a vortex like that OF a malestrom
great cakes of lava 10 or 20 feet In dia-
meter being turned up on edge. sucked
in, and disappearing like chips of wood
down a whirlpool.
Immediately north OF the island, at a
distance of not more than 100 feet
therefrom, there Is a gigantic outpour-
ing of lava from beneath, without any
bubbles or explosions. 1t looks like an
enormous spring, the lava simply we'll
ing up and flowing off In all directions.
The current is so rapid that the surface
of the lake does not have time to COOL
except in spots, and these spots are at
frequent intervals upheaved by lava
commissions from beneath, and the
black crust engulfed in the liquid lava
beneath. The crusts striking the banks
of the lake, which are from four to six
feet high are either showed bodily up
on the banks, like cakes of ice in the
Attic, or upturned on edge and swal-
lowed up in the fiery depths below.
At intervals boiling spots appear at
various points on the lake, engulfing
the black cakes of lava floating there
on. The outpouring of the lava from
the great spring Is so great that the
level of the liquid lava is raised faster
than the surrounding banks can retain
it, and at frequent intervals the banks
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
TEMPERANCE FACTS FOR UNBE-
LEVERS,

American + alls Press. One of the
best series of temperance lectures de-
livered here this spring was that Of J..
M. Glass of Pasadena, Cal, Thursday
night. Mr.. Glass is not a dramatic
speaker, but his talks bristle with ORR
ginality and abound with terse force
full expressions, keen edged and cut
ting, because their truth is beyond
question. He is not abusive in any
sense, and his audiences are surprised
when he announces that his hour is up.
Mr.. Glass talks very rapidly, his
words apparently falling over each
other, and in the course of an hour he
says many things. He is probably the
best posted of any of the speakers that
have been here, and could easily occu-
Ply an hour stating nothing but terse
truths-statistics of the evils of the
liquor traffic. and the benfits, moral and
material, following prohibition.
Following are a few of his state
ments:
In every 100, families in New York
city, with her $4,000 saloons, only sew
enteen families own homes; in the
state of Massachusetts, eighteen in ev-
cry 100; in Connecticut, nineteen in
every 100, while in old Maine forty
nine families in every 100 own homes.
Taxes are fifty to one hundred per
cent. less in prohibition towns and
states. In Maine taxes to run the state
government are only rs cents on the
800; California, SO cents, Nebraska,
70 cents.
Taxes to run the city government of
beautiful Pasadena California, are only
81 on the 500, and not a saloon in 20
years The city has a population of
10000. There were but forty-seven ar
rests in one year for drppkenness and
mia, has the same number of inhabi-
tants. 1t also has ninety saloons, and
the tax rate is 50 per 500, while the
number of arrests in the same year
was 1912 for the same offenses.
Savings bank deposits in old Maine
are Sis per capita; in Kansas, $1O2; in
Illinois, $35; Pennsylvania, $23; Ohio,
only $12.
Maine, with a population of 100000,
has 276 convicts in it's penitentiary;
Kansas, 100000 population has 500
conVicts; California, with about the
same population and 10000 saloons, has
two penitentiaries with $500 inmates.
Kansas has forty counties without
criminal or pauper. The jails are emp
ty and the poor farms leased and are
bringing a revenue to the county.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
WORKERS WANTED.

Pocatello Tribune: 1t is somewhat
remarkable, at time when the large
cities are crowded with unemployed,
when bread riots are not uncommon
and authorities on economics are tell
ing us that our industrial system is a
failure, to hear that there is a labor
famine in an agricultural state, whose
citizens complain that 1t Is absolutely
impossible to find enough willing, in
dustrious hands to perform the simple
duties of the farm. This is the COM
plant that comes from Kansas.
Concerning the situation the Topeka
Capital says: "In the absence of a
Kansas immigration bureau the states
employment agency might act in this
capacity, either alone or in co-opera-
ton with voluntary association Of
land owners. At the wheat harvest we
have an indiscriminate horde Of labor
ers thrust into the state. mostly shift
ing class of people who come and go
again, nobody knows where and not
skilled in farm work. There Is room
In Kansas for competent, well-behaved
farm workers and tenants, prospective
small land holders, a selected class, IL
there were an organization here to
pick them out through agents and To-
cate them where they are In demand.
other states. as South Carolina and
Maryland, send commissioners to Eu-
rope and pick out immigrants there.
The panic in the east offers an oppor-
tunity for selection from real workers,
not tramps. II working association
could be formed among interested land
holders in Kansas to cooperate in this
immigrat ton work temporarily, a state
bureau could later be created to carry
1t on permanently"
1t is the old evil Of the unequal dis
tribution of our population! there are
hundreds of thousands of suffering
poor in the large cities who would be
willing and glad to work in the Kan
sas harvest fields, but how to get to
Kansas. there's the rub. The aff1uent
philanthropist looking for an oppor-
tupity to exercise his philanthropic
bent has awider field nthis direction
than in any other that can be pointed
out
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
CANADA LETTER. v
June a 1908.
Mr.. J. T. Carruth,


Mr.. J. Il. Carruth,
Blackfoot Idaho.
Dear Sir:
Your kind letter of the 3Oth to hand
and contents carefully noted. I am
sorry to hear how bad the weather
has been. We had nice weather until
about the time the crops were all in
when the rains begun and it has been
rainy the most of the time since.
The ground is thoroughly soaked
now so I think it would make good
entirely but we are likely to have
showery weather all the remainder of
this month and some in July.
They nearly always have dry wealth
err after that time of year when 1t is
needed for haying and harvest.
From the way the papers report the
weather conditions in Montana, Wyom-
ing, Idaho and even in Utah we have
had much nicer spring than any
of those states and much warmer
weather of late
Mr.. White and j. Ramsour got my
crop all in In good time and have their
breaking pretty well done.
I have bought another half section
of fine land and the boys will begin
breaking on that next week.
have sold over eight sections of
land since I left Blackfoot
When are you going to come up and
see the country?
"The more we see of it the better we
like IT," is what every one saws and
that is certainly true with me.
With kindest regards for yourself
and family, remain,
Yours truly
w. d. TREGO.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
BUSY, PROSPEROUS YEAR AT HAND.
Three Hundred Freight Horses VIII
Soon BE ON the Road Between
Here and Loon Creek--Utah
Construction Outfit on Way.

Mackay Miner Freight for the up
per country, which all comes by way
of Mackay, has commenced to arrive
and is accommodating at the warehouses
awaiting the season for loading. 1t Is
estimated that three hundred freight
teams will be kept very busy all sum-
mer handling the freight for Challis,
Robinson Bar, Bayhorse, Clayton, Bon
ANA, Custer, Loon Creek and Stanley
Basin. The Utah Construction COM
pany viii lopreate sixty horse outfit
between here and the Lost Packer mine
all summer. The outfit has left SPRING
field, Utah. and is expected to arrive
and be loaded by the Goth Of this
month These facts tell the story Of
the progress of the country a little
palmer than any other way The coun-
try is forging ahead as 1t never has
before and this is to be the best sea-
son in the history of the country.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
SALOONS MUST GO.
Malad People Determined to Do Away
With Them.

With Them.
There is now a strong, overwhelm-
ing sentiment in Malad in favor of pro-
hibition no one can question. The peo-
pie of this town who have certainly
had good opportunity to study the
evils of the liquor traffic, have con-
cluded that the saloons must, go. The
will of the people is supreme and they
have so willed. Undoubtedly at the
municipal election year from this
date the question will be saloons or no
saloons and the latter will carry with
an overwhelming majority, unless In
the meantime the state has passed a
prohibition law closing all the saloons
in Idaho The men and women ofsMa-
lad who have seen their sons frequent
saloons and acquire the drink habit
have concluded that it is time to re-
move that temptation from them. The
women who have seen money squan-
dered in saloons that should have been
used to buy bread, have at last awaken
ed to a realization of the fact that they
have some means of preventing such
occurrences and are going to use them
The men themselves who have been lo1-
tering away their time and spending
money which they could i'll afford to
spare have also arrived at the conclu-
sion that it is time to remove the sa-
looms. The people have considered the
matter thoroughly, and there Is no
question as to the action they will
take-Malad Enterprise.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
ALTA PEOPLE LIKE COUNTRY.
Work VIII Be Commenced on Their
Group of Claims.

Mackay Miner: Messrs. Ernest R..
Wooley, N. A. Just and HI. c. Packer,
the mining expert came in Monday
from the Alto mining district at the
head of Lost River where the Alta Cop
per Mining company own some very
choice ground. The party had been
there for the purpose of looking over
the group to decide on development
work. Mr.. e. hampton will larrive in a
few days to superintend the business
of the company at this end. Consider
able shaft and tunnel work is to be
done, mostly by contract. Mr.. Wooley
and some other members of the COM
pany will be with us. again in about
thirty days.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19

i. I. X /. /. I. i + !. !. !. J. + + I. + !
4 (Articles under this heading +
hare nearly all contributed in l.
i. response to our invitation to !
+ the public to discuss the sub 4
i. ject with the view of helping +
!. to solve the liquor problem, i
i. rather than keep up an argu- !.
+ ment. Some of the writer's are +
+ willing their names should be !.
i used with their articles, while +
i others prefer that they should +
i not-not because they are X
i ashamed of their views, but be- +
i cause they do not care to be +
+ in the lime light.-Editor.) +
j. i i. 4 + !. i. i. i. i. + !. i. !. i. 1. !.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
SLIPPED A COG.

A linotype machine sometimes beats
itself in shutting molds to cast line
Of type, and II the proof reader reads
1t on the run 1t may land nice
thought In a tangle.
The Rexburg Standard last week
printed number of letters from edi-
tors explaining that they will be on the
Park Special Sunday morning to make
the run to the park and attend the
June meeting of the club. One Of the
letters said something nice no doubt,
but the machine made 1t read this way:
ShOne journal.
SHOSHONE, Idaho, June 7.-Will be
there!!! Our party Is expected to con-
sist OF Mr. and Mrs. Isle and small
son, and Mr.. Barber and daughter.
anticipate the most delightful
ter. We anticipate the most delightful
ism, thanks to your abundant hos
pitality. c. J. Isle.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
BIG BONUS FOR FLOUR MILL.

Mackay Miner: The proposition of
a flour mill for the Lost River Valley
has been up for discussion so many
times with no definite results that HI.
W. Weller started out the first of the
week to do a little missionary work"
towards securing flour mill for Lost
River Valley and at this time the prop
osition of locating fluor mill here is
most favorable, to say the least that
u.s. if big cash donation is an induce
ment Mr.. Weller has solicited $500
already and intends to bring the
amount up to $4,000 before the ned of
the present month. This sum is to be
given to any competent man who will
argued, and with much reason, that
such an amount of money, raised by
popular subscription will convince any
mill man that there is an earnest de-
mand for a mill in this valley, also
that the country must be in favored
spot for the raising of winter wheat.
The Burnett Land and Water company
are SO confident that a mill will be Sc
cured that they have arranged to plant
about 800 acres of fall wheat This
variety Of wheat gives abundant crops
here and others are sure to follow the
policy of the land company and sow
many acres. When the ranchers of
the valley are assured of a mill, and
they surely will be convinced that we
are after a mill, in dead earnest, much
wheat will be grown, not only here, but
on Little Lost and Pahsimeroi. If you
have not been approached with the
paper make up your mind to make a
good liberal donation when you are
presented and the flour mill will soon
be a reality. There are lots of ex-
perienced men who will jump at such
a chance.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
MOSCOW GIRL USES REMOVER.

Moscow, June 12.-Whipping out a
bulldog revolver from the bosom of
her dress. the pretty 16-year-old daugh-
ter of w. L. Baker. owner Of a NOV
ing picture show, shot twice at Will
liam Martinson and Ira Morgridge two
young "dandies," who sought to make
an appointment with the plucky girl
and her young sister. The girls say
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
Forced Into Politics.
SOONER THAN THAT.

Prohibition in spots and spreading
wet" folks herding in the interstices
and dying off; children growing up
where Public Opinion teaches them to
avoid wet" places and habits. See ?
Another generation or two and the
trick is done. No wet places left ex-
cept in the slums Of great cities, where
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
Discussing the Liquor Question


boozers will be at home for some time
to come.-The Nautilus.
Only the trick will be done before
the present generation is passed!-Ex.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19
THE PROHIBITION STATES.

Maine, Kansas, North Dakota and Ok
lahoma have constitutional prohibit
ton; Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi
and North Carolina have statutory pro-
hibition. In the three last named the
law will go into effect January /, 1909
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-06-19

Nebraska white ribboners adorn
their envelopes with the slogan, NE
braska's Going Dry"
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-07
DELICIOUS BANANA CREAM

This recipe is highly recommended
by one Of our correspondents; try it
for desert tomorrow
Peel five bananas, rub smooth with
five teaspoonfuls Of sugar Add one
teacup sweet cream beaten to a stiff
froth, then add one l0c. package Of
Lemon JELL-O dissolved in l. tea
cups boiling water, Pour into mold
and when cold garnish with candied
cherries. Serve with whipped cream,
or any good pudding sauce. JELL-O
is sold by all Grocers at l0c per
package,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-07
THORNLESS CACTUS
Vegetable That Also Bears Fruit
on the Side
WONDERFUL PLANT INDEED
Burbank's Latest Marvel and All 1t
Signifies to Mankind-company is
Formed to Handle il Commercially
Interesting Facts.

Los ANGELES, July 6,-Wher
Luther Burbank first announced ia
the world that he had produced a new
fodder plant which would revolution.
ize stock-raising and create a new
era in agriculture, an interested
believeing thoroughly in Bur
bank and his work--listened for a
moment, praised tthe Wizard for the
thousandth time, and then forgot,
But only for day, The wonders OF
the Burbank Thornless Cactus had
not been half told; and the intelligent
Ire OF the country-dailies, weeklies
and Monthly magazines up
the story with accustomed zeal and
enterprise and are still telling it to,
day.
No wonder the improved Thorn
less Cactus is dubbed Burbank's
Greatest Triumph, This new crea-
tfon in plant life means more to the
farmer and stock-raiser than any
production Of the past century A
fodder which will grow without IT.
rigalion and which hourishes like the
green hay tree when given a modi-
cum Of water, which will yield four
to eight times as much in feeding
value per acre as alfalfa, which is
superior to alfalfa in many respects
and which may be cut grecu the year
around nay we'll excite the deepest
and most abiding interest among the
prat ranchers OF the Great West.
4 vegetable that bears fruit, il is,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-07

green again, budded 4. reproduced
Plants accideutly blown over, mutil-
atcd or uprooted showed no concern
nor injury whatever, no arrest oi
growth nor deterioration in quality
One slab was cut up into strips and
the strips planted separately. Each
section OF this leaf went ahead grow
ing and prospering Several hundred
OF the leaves were set out in the sun
baked soil and left alone for ten
weeks without drop OF water. They
all budded and reproduced just the
samel
These facts have established all OF
Luther Burbank's claims for his
Thornless Cactus and have convinced
agricultural experts that the cactus
is indeed destined to produce new
era in stock-raising over wide area
Of the now cultivated lands of the
United States and Mexico and to re-
claim millions upon millions OF acres
of now unproductiye soil
The Thornless Cactus Farming
Company is now preparing for its
irst distribution OF plants next spring
Orders are being taken from every
come from England, France and Rus
sia; from Cape Colony, New Zea-
land and the Canary Islands; from
Minnesota, Mexico, Texas, California
and Oregon Scarcely State in the
Union but has already been enrolled
upon the Cactus Roll of Honor,
One Government expert told Dr.
Frank N. Doud, Vice President and
Manager Of the Thornless Cactus
Farming Company, the other day
that the company and the United
States Government together could
not grow enough Of the Burbank
Thornless Cactus TO satisfy the de-
mand for the next ten years. Verify,
a new area has begun,