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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-06

The following clippings were en-
closed in Mrs. Butterfield's letter of
last week, and referred to by her in
her greeting to the clubs of the
state:
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-09-04

Urinary.
Holden has just completed a
1900 foot concrete walk from the
town to the cemetery.
Last Saturday was the ami
yersary ofthe Lone Jack battle
and the picnic was held.
Maryville now has a population
of 6,200 according to the states
red book. There ere few better
town in the state,
A Kirksville couple were mar
ried q whole month before it be-
came known and one of the pair
was Of course, woman,
Miss IvyHicks, near Rockbridge
last May, was acquitted OF the
charge Of murder in the Ozark
county circuit court at GAINESVILLE
last week.
Butler enjoys, orratherlaments,
the distinction of being probably
the only city Of 1900 population
In the state that is without an
automobile.
A party Of Trentonites have
organized an oil and gas pros
pecting company TO ascertain
What there is in the under aruGdy
county soil. Al u
1t is said that watermelons are.
selling for S15 car in the melon
country. AS there are about a
thousand melons in a car the
price is cheap.
Maryville people are at last
:'taking to the automobile fad"
and recently the number of mo-
tor cars there has increased from
fifteen to eighteen.
The busiest woman in Missouri
lives in Paris. She went to a
funeral a short time ago and
took few gooseberries with her
to stem on the way.
James Kemp, Mexico police
man, let his revolver drop and it
was discharged. The ball made
two wounds, passing through his
right hand and lodging in his
cheek.
And now 1t is claimed that the
body of Daniel Boone was not
taken to Kentucky in 1854, as
generally supposed, but still re-
poses where first buried in War
rem county.
When the cashier Of the Noel
bank went to lunch, one day last
week, he merely latched the
screen door, A fourteen-year-
old boy turned robber and secur-
ed ninety dollars.
Hannibal has two ice manu-
featuring plants and keeps them
busy to supplythe home demand.
They claim to furnish ice to the
consumers for less money than
any other town in Missouri.
In sinking q well in Butler a
pretty good vein of coal was
struck at q depth of thirty six
feet. About seventy I'VE bushels
Of good coal has been taken out
and win be used at the light
plant.
For lack Of something better to
do . Harrisburg boy wrote HE
name and address on an egg
which found its way TO Maine,
where girl working in . provis-
ion house found It. The am
nouncement OF their marriage
FiH Be looked for next and them
Florida only 3 few miles north
pf Hannibal in Monroe county,
nov announces that ishs home
p - oldest living stage driver
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-09-04

melon to keep all the darkies in
half a dozen Southern States
celebrating Emancipation Day
from the beginning until the close
OF the watermelon season.
Charleston Courier.
-Sikeston Herald: On account
of entirely too much Republican
prosperity the watermelon grow
ers of Scott county are not now
realizing much out of their
crop. The first few carloads on
the market, and during the open
ing weekof shipments, prices were
very good, but all this week the
farmers have been unable to sell
their melons on the track at rea-
sonable prices. One or two buy
ers offered as low as $50 and S35
per car for good melons. The
melon men who have had 20
years experience in peddling
them along good routes say that
people haven't got enough spare
money to buy this luscious fruit
freely as heretofore.
The Malone brothers received
anengine from Charles City, Iowa,
this week which is to be used to
run eight large plows, taking the
place of "a mules and eight men.
The engine burns oil and does
not use any water. The machin-
cry is cooled by oil. 1t is said
that it can be run at least one
third cheaper with oil than with
coal or wood and does away with
the use of water. 1t requires the
work of only two men to operate
| it and will do twice the amount OF
work that can be performed by
mule-s as there is no stopping fol
rest-Charleston Courier.
Nathan Wilkerson died at his
home in Cape Girardeau county
on the End, aged 70 years. He
had been greatly afflicted during
his life. In 1879 he was thrown
from a mule, which caused con-
cussion OF the brain and he was
unconscious for four months.
In 1893 he was struck by light
ming, which burnt all the hair
from his head and partly para
lyzed him. In 1903 he fell and
broke his leg, and he has been
a helpless invalid for years. He
leaves a wife and eight children
Med Bond of Lowery City. was
struck by lightning last week.
Since then a wonderful thought
has come to him and he says he
is just like a live wire now and
the slightest touch of another
person will causa a severe shock
to the latter. But a friend has
"given him away" and says the
object of his story is to keep from
being robbed.
1t pays to advertise. Last
week a Milton man advertised
for pair of glasses and found
them at home on the wood pile.
A few years ago a Memphis man
lost bunch Of keys. He adver-
tised them in The Democrat, and
when he went home his wife had
found them behind the bed.
The bond proposition voted on
in Nodaway county Tuesday fol
roads and bridges to the amount
of $751; was overwhelming de.
ieated by at least three to one
Tn. vote in Parnell precinct wa:
10 against and twelve for. Ir
Jackson township it was 19s
against and thirty-one for.
While travelling on q Wabast
train between LaPlatte and
Atlanta Thursday, Mrs. Roy
Union Of st. Louis gave birth tc
q baby boy. The passengers
contributed q purse Of coins te
the baby, which viii be named
| Wabash. Mrs. Union is now In
LaPlatta with friends.
Nova ]. Winters Of Milan, who
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-09-04
Mr.. watterson on Bryan.

Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, has
never heretofore supported, Bry-
an in his presidential contests.
In a recent article he tells how
he met Mr.. Bryan, was conquer
ed by him, and why he is now
working harder than he ever
worked before, for the success of
a presidential candidate. The
following article is taken from
the st. Louis Republic of last
Saturday:
During ten years, from 1896 to
1905, no one rejected Mr.. Bryan
for a leader more resolutely than
myself. If could finally reach
him and accept HIM, any good
Democrat can. 1t may help the
yet undecided if relate how |
did.
In the early part of 1907 be-
gan a discussion having for its
purpose some agreement among
the Bryan men and the anti
Bryan men touching a president
ial nominee other than Mr.. Bryan
During ten months this encount-
} cred from the anti-Bryan men
either Indifference or detraction.
! got no second to my motion.
Emu!ating the frontier presiding
officer who said, "Second your
own motion, you son of a gum"
} they would none of it. So l
went to Florida, leaving them to
go to thunder, or words to that
} effect, and the entire winter pass
ed, the nomination of Mr.. Bryan
being either openly accepted or
: silently conceded by every pub
lie man suggested as an alt6sna-
tive. Finally, in the early spring
two facts, sufficiently asoertained
to be conclusive, decided me
first, that an overwhelming mai
ority OF the Democrats of the
South and West were for Mr.,
Bryan, in spite of the argument
had made against his available
kity as a candidate; and second,
that the belatei movement to de-
feat his nomination appeared un.
der equivocal patronage and in
volved the use of money which
emanated from doubtful sources.
This latter, boding party disrup-
ton, impelled me actively to take
a hand, urging a refusal to re-
main silent whilst scheme, dan
gerous and unworthy in oharac-
ter, percolated beneath the sur
face.
The result was a friendly con-
ference with Mr.. Bryan. Intel
ligent people will not need to be
told that there is all the differ
ence in the world between SYM
pathy and agreement-though
tentative-and opposition and
antagonism, though resting up
on questions only of expedienoy.
There was, of course, a reverse
side OF the shield. Mr.. Bryan
! had his story to tell, and this en-
braced very strong case, What
! authorization had he to name q
successor in case he stepped
asideP What power had he, con-
ceding the will, to transfer his
; following to another? Not one
but half a dozen, aspirants would
take the field Immediately ON his
withdrawal. # a majority of the
, party was for him, what had
made it SOP Surely neither or
, gsnization nor money, nor other
efforts Of his than the constant
preaching Of Democratic gospels,
II he agreed to stand down and
out, designating an heir-appar-
ent, would he not become a dio-
tator, an autocrat, and what diff
ference would there be in bis
naming successor and attempt
ing to foist him upon the party,
and Rooseyelt's naming, and
forcing Taft upon the Republic
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-09-04

'ROUNDABOUTTHES STATE.
Cleaned from Exchanges--M Made by the Shears,
the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal. Some Credited. and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.


in the United States. Isaac
Greening enjoys the distinction of
being the Oldest stage driver, his
first contract with the govern
ment having been signed in 1848.
II drove Uncle Sans big coaches
and handled his mails on every
section of the route between
Hannibal and st. Joseph" he
said recently. 81 begun work in
1S4S and during the next twenty
years drove a total of 10000
miles or nearly five times around
the world. Fifty to sixty miles a
day was a good days travelling"
Joseph Hardin formerly presi-
dent of the Bank of Conception
of Clyde, was arraigned in JUS
tice Growney's court at Maryville
Thursday for a preliminary hear
ing on a charge of embezzlement.
He took change of venue and
the preliminary hearing will be
held later in Justice Johnson's
court' Hardin is charged with
the embezzlement of $1,000 be-
longing to the estate of Helen
Corcoran, John ]. Corcoran Mary
Coreoran and John Corcoran. II
was while Hardin was president
of ths bank in 1908 that he is
charged with misapplying the
madey belonging to the estate Of
which he was trustee.
D. D. Sell, who lives just north
lof Plattsburg, met with an acci-
dent Wednesday that came very
near being serious. He was up
in tree. The women folks were
doing the family wash ing under
the tree. They had just put
some steaming hot clothes into a
tub, when the limb on which Mr..
Sell was standing broke, letting
him fail and striking the tub, up
set it, throwing the hot clothes
over his head and face, soalding
and burning his face and neck.
In falling he hit the tub with
the back of his neck. Soothing
lotions were Immediately applied
to the injured parts and he is do
ing well.
The imprints of a wooden leg
which Chas Dukes wears were
the cause ofhis being convicted
of a burglary charge in the
criminal court in Springfield Sat-
urday. He was given three
years in states prison. Follow
ing the robbery of a store there,
Dukes became active in aiding
the police to run down the rob-
bers. Detectives caught a
glimpse OF the imprints of his
wooden leg and arrested him; !;
then he confessed.
The cost OF the state election,
such as the primary and the Nov-
ember election, is said to be
$3.50, 900. This will make a Of bill
$500, 900 for state elections this
year. Heretofore the county
primary cost was paid by the
candidates, but this year the tax.
payers meet the expenses.
| May Williams one Of the most
beautiful girls in Missouriis dead
at Kansas City by her own hand,
she committed suicide by taking
Icarbolic acid after her parents
had declined to withdraw their
lobjsctions to her marriage to the
young man with whom she was in
Hove.
/ A Clearmont boy became gay
and kicked . coal oillamp, which
Ehad been thrown into the street
when about to explode. He thus
threw 4 against ; child who was
saved from burning to death by /
man, who severely burned biz
hands = sxhng uishing he ilsms
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1908-09-04

Luther Brown of the VALLEY
Forrest neighborhood, Platts
county, lost 15head of sheep kill.
ed by lightning this week
They were all under one tree.
Sheriff Meek Of DeKslb county
is not a meek sheriff. Seven
tough characters who grew
troublesome near Marysville not
only failed to terrify him but had
to cool off in the cooler,
Whenever Johnson county
farmers have nothing else to do
they discover coal on their land.
Coal in paying quantities has
been found recently at Warrens-
burg, Chilhowee, Rristle Ridge,
Sutherland and Bowen.
A large gray wolf was run
down and captured alive in the
neighborhood of Young's Chapel
in jackson county, last Friday
night. Quite a number of men
participated in the chase and the
wolf will be kept as a trophy.
Bigelew is coming right to the
'front.' in the way of cleaning up
her streets, and putting in grant
told sidewalks. They now have
completed 10000 square feet ol
these walks on the main business
streets, and are now putting in
1, 800 more square feet.
Fount Donan Of Mound City
has in his garden a sunflower
that stands eleven feet high and
has fifty-three blossoms. An.
other one stands twelve feet high
and has one blossom on top thai
is ten inches across, and what's
more he guarantees the weeds tc
be free from chiggars.
While Fred Arnold and Arthur
O'Farrell, two Pettis county far
mers, were putting up their teams
lightning struck the born knock
ing both insensible. Their wives
rushed to the burning barn and
dragged the two men out, their
clothes being almost burned off,
All were seriously burned, Arnold
dying from his injuries two days
later.
1t is remarkable that not a sin
gle paper of any party has had
a word to say against Mr.. Cow
herds good name. Even the
Post Dispatch says: "Mr. Cow
herd, the democratic nominee, a.
prosecuting officer and Mayor OF
Kansas City and as congressman
has an excellent record. Neither
his capacity nor his personal in
tegrity is questioned"
James Hall and H. G. Mounct
of Pee Dee last spring planted
seven acres of early potatoes
that netted them fourhundred dol
lars. They have a crop of sweet
corn that's ready to market or
the same ground, and now hav,
the land sowed in turnips and are
delivering the corn to the canning
factory. After the corn is all
marketed they will cut the fod-
der tor their stock. They sa,
the turnips will be marketed il
time to raise rye for a pasture
thus making five crops on on,
piece Of ground in one year.
Dunklin Herald.
Scott county doubtless will re-
ceive first prize for having mark
eted the greatest number of mel
ons the past year, although Mis-
sissippi viii be be close second
The extra number OF meloni
Scott county sent to the marke
was 2.6ls,300. Some idea o
what the producers receive fol
this luscious fruitin comparison
with what customers have 10 pc,
can be obtained from the fac
= -.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
A FRIEND ON GUARD,

Carry the good news to Jonathan
Bourne. A way has been found to
bring Theodore Roosevelt to time. a
Chicago lawyer rejoicing in the APP
propriate name of Wiles has discov-
cred that Il writ of mandamus may be
obtained on the application of iona
than Bourne, or any other free born
American citizen, compelling Theo-
dore Roosevelt to act as President of
the United States if he is reelected to
that Office, whether he wishes to per-
form the duties or not. Lawyer Wiles
finds his precedent in the case Of a
town clerk-elect, at Mount Morris, H.,
who stubbornly refused to fill the of.
flee to which he had been exalted by
the votes OF his countrymen. No other
person could be found who would take
the Office. Suit was thereupOn brought
against the recalcitrant officer, and
after Il brilliant and vigorous contest
the supreme court of Illinois issued a
manda ate requiring him to assume the
duties of the Office to which he had
been elected.
If the people Of Mount Morris can
have their will, arc the people Of the
United States to be thwartcd? Not
while Jonathan Bourne is on guard.
Mr.. Roosevelt knows exactly what is
ahead of him. He has been told very
plainly by Jonathan Bourne that he
must prepare to serve IA second cleo
tive term Mr.. Bourne will not be
denied or intimid ated. He has be-
come the representative Of that grea,
dore Roosevelt and are determined &c
have him. Time vas when Joseph b,
Foraker Of Ohio, was the original
R]ooseveltian. But times have changed
and Jonathan Bourne has the floor
Jonathan Bourne yearns for Roose'
welt as q heart yearns for the water
brooks, and will not be comforted
He will not listen to nay, nay: No
only is he deaf to the dissuadins
tongue, but there is Q menacing not,
in his o%vertures that is nothing shor
OF b~lood.curdling. His passion is thu
passion of Jose, and If his GARNER
hout him there will be q tragedy. HI
will let slip the dogs OF law, and draw
a mandamus on the recreant one.
No man has ever refused to run fOI
president when his party has ealles
him to the front. And Jonathal
Bourne will see that no mar elected t,
the presidency shall shirk the dutie
of that great Office. 1t is a comfort
in these costermonger times, to hav
q public friend like Jonathan Bourne
So long as he is on guard the prcsi
dency is sure to be iilled.-W ashins
ton Post.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
Thousands Will Get Work.

PlTTSBWRG, Dec. 24.--Christmas in
l'ittsburg and vicinity vas made
doudly joyful today by the announce
ment that, by January &, all of the
thousands of wheels of industry in the
mills of Mckeesport, Glasspcrt,
Duquesne and allied plants in the
Moncaghela valley would be in opera.
ton. Over 10, 900 men who have been
idle for several weeks will return to
work
1t is also said the other mills in The
district will also resume in full short
ly asser the first of the year, p:ac.
tica,!y doubling the number of work.
men employed within so miles OF
Pittsburg during the past few weeks.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
Christmas Prairie Fires.

BoULntR, Colo, Dec. 24.-Prairis
fires are burning in several places in
the outskirts of this city and the sur
rounding country, and r spreading
rapidly before the high winds,
Already II buildings in Boulder have
been burned.
1t is feared that q fire which started
late this afternoon on Flagstaff noun
tain will sweep over Universit.
hill, through the best residence par
of the city, and the state %universit,
campus. Many volunteers are fight
ing the flames, but are hampered il
their efforts by lack of water.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
Livestock Float Adrift.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Nearly 200
cattle and 1000 sheep are floating
around New York bay and out in the
Atlantic ocean. A cattle float, loaded
365 head of cattle and 1,600 sheep on
the way from Jersey city to Brooklyn,
sprang a leak and sank soon after il
reached the dock.
In the meantime Loco Of the sheep
and az but n%inety.twc of the cattle had
either been washed from the sinkins
float or were drowned in the hold otit
filled with water.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
A Sensational Suicide.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Hundreds OF
persons during the busiest hours this
morning saw Ernest w. Stedman, a
lawyer, jump in front of a subway
train at the express station at Four.
teenth street. His body vas ground to
pieces. The sickenins sight caused
several women to faint.
1t is believed that financial Difficult
ties affected the mans mind. He was
vice president aud treasurer Of the Ly'
ons Building and Operating company
which vas recently sued in bank
ruptcy. The company owns property
to the extent of s., 200. 900. but il could
not raise sufficient cash TO meet it:
current obligations.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
COAL MINE DISASTERS.

Within the past four weeks more
than a thousand human lives have
been snuffed out 10 the coal mine dis.
asters of Pennsylvania and West Vir-
GINA. They are all poor men and
poor boys, wage whose lives
were being spent in the darkness and
dismal accomplishments Of under.
ground toll.
The whole list of fatalities during
the much proclaimed war between
Spain and the United States did not
equal in disaster the death list shown
within a month by the nine explo-
sions, says the Helena Independent.
Most of the victims we're peace-loving.
law.abiding men of family. They had
no quarrel: no selfish purpose, neither
had they the pageantry Of battle nor
the glory of flags and drums. They
suffocated in living tombs, or choked
in piles without hope, or honor or a
chance for heroism.
We have had limitations that the
millionaire owners of the coal mines
are divinely appointed agents, men of
great foresight, Of nurtured p%rescience
and OF a responsibility that must not
be questioned or disturbed by common
mortals. 1t would be interesting to
know whether the owners of these ex.
plOding mines have ever taken, OF
now will take, precautionary steps for
the Safeguarding Of the lives of their
men. There is no. indication that
these dangerous diggings were ever
properly inspected. Hundreds of men
have been permitted to 60 10 sudden
death in shafts and tunnels where
deadly gases had been accumul atiug.
Pennsylvania has a long and we'll
paid list OF mine inspectors. 1t would
be we'll ii the newspapers and the
authorities would join hands in an ef-
fort to show whether they inspect the
mines or whether their positions are
mere sinecures for which the public
pays with money and for which the en-
tombed miners have paid with their
lives. Something is rotten in the CON
duct OF aft airs in these coal mines
and the authorities at Washington
may do a good and famous service if
they will exploit and correct the err
rOrS,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
INDIAN HORSE FARM.
Senator Dixon Has Bill To lncornor
ate Grow Horse Company.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator
Dixon has introduced a bill to incor-
porate a company for breeding horses
on the Grow Indian reserv alton in
Montana. Upon the subscription of
100 shares of stock by members of the
Grow tribe, a corporation is to be
created, to be known as "The Crow
Horse company" for the purpose of
breeding and selling horses.
The capital stock is to be $500, 600,
divided into 1900 shares of $50 each.
Three'fourths shall be preferred stock,
the remainder common. The stock
may be increased to a limit of 81, OOO,.
600. The preferred stock shall be is
sued to the Crow tribe of Indians only,
to be held in trust by the United States
until the tribe no longer exists and
then divided among the members pro
rata, or congress shall later prescribe
for its distribution among the Indians
before final tribal dissolution. Such
stock is to be paid for with tribal
money at par and in tribal lands at
81 an acre. The common stock shall
be issued to individual Crow Indians
only and paid for in kind or money,
as the Indians subscribing may elect.
The transfer, sale, pledging, assign.
ment or incumbrance Of any stock so
issued is to be void until approved by
the secretary OF the interior, and it
shall be non-taxable for Is years.
The company may begin business
when a majority of the male adults of
the tribe agree to the use of so much
of their lands as may be recess airy FOR
establishing and maintaining a horse
breeding farm, not exceeding $50, 600
| acres.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
Train Blow, From Track.

DENVER, Dec. pa tornado blew a
local passenger train off the track one
mile north of Marshall, COL, on the
Colorado * Southern railway, shortly
before moor today. Eaggagemar
Chiles of Denver was killed and eight
or ten trainmen and passengers iniur.
ed. All wires in that direction are
down and 40 details regarding the
accident haze been received. A wreck
ing train has been sent to the scene O.
the accident.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
a Unique Christmas Present.

1lCHMOND, Dec. 24.-The Christ
mas present of Mrs. William Luck of
Roanoke to her husband today, says
a special to The News.Leader, was
two boys and two girls at q birth.
A.i are doing we'll.