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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-24
A NATURAL RESERVOIR.

Back in the hills on the other side
OF the mountains in the Pass Creek
country there is a little lake, which
the ranchers have named Mud lake,
on account of it's muddy bottom. The
lake covers an area of about five
acres and has an average depth Of
about six feet. Henry Diers and
Frank Chapple, who have recently
taken up land on Lost river near
Pass creek have filed on the water
and the lake as ereservoir and will
drive a $50 foot tunnel through the
mountain to tap the lake and let the
water down into Pass creek as they
need it for their ranches. This as
sures, them plenty of water for their
land and is the means of making a
few hundred acres more of sage
brush give way to fields Of grain and
hay-Miner.
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Veighborhood Notes.
Additional Correspondence ON Page 8

appears there were several men on
top Of the train, and upon arriving
here the brakeman climbed on top Of
the cars and told the men to give
him so cents each or get off.
They had no money and all of
them commenced to climb down. Ja-
cobson, who was a new hand in the
business of beating his way, was the
last to obey the order, just as the
train started and in doing so, he fell
under the last car, six wheels passing
over his right foot and he received
internal injuries. He claimed that
Flagman Nichols kicked him and
pushed him off the train.
He fingered until Monday morning
when he expired, Notwithstanding
the best of care given by DR.. Pogue
the Q. 8. L. surgeon.
His brother arrived from Portland
and was at his bedside when he pass
ed away. III IA Y
Coroner Payne held an inuqest
over the remains and the jury found
that Jacobson came to his death by
his own negligence and exonerated
Flagman Nichols from all blame. The
body of Jacobson was Inferred in
the Ontario cemetery.
The prettiest and fastest game OF
the season was played on the Ontario
diamond Sunday when New Ply
mouth defeated the home players by
score of to 0.
| Draper, who was in the box fol
the locals, was very effective, strik.
ing out eleven men and allowing
| only two safe hits. Lolita.
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ON CAREY LANDS.

e. O. Church, the engineer for the
..4erican Falls Canal e Power COM
pany, came in from Aberdeen Mon
day and reports that the construc-
ton work is practically completed
on the big ditch. Construction was
commenced about fifteen years ago,
and has been pushed with great Wig
or for the past five or six years.
Mr.. Church states that they have
had several bad breaks in the big
bikes the past month, some of them
being due to settling in spots where
frozen earth was put in last fall
and covered deep with dry earth that
held the frost until the bank was sat
urated by irrigation. One break just
completed was in a levee eighteen
feet high, and very large gap wash
ed out
Some of the settlers have excel
lent crops while others have farmed
too large tracts and neglected to
make the laterals until the time they
should have been irriga ting. and have
allowed large fields to remain dry
and are now parched. Several thous-
and acres are being properly watered.
At the last two meetings of the
county commissioners the settlers
made application to have a herd dis
trict established to keep the cattle
off of their crops and the canal
banks, representing that they did
great damage, but the herd district
was denied. A short time ago a
break in one of the large leyees
stampeded the cattle in the round
up, and there was much confusion
and damage from both the water and
the stampede.
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TILDEN


Miss Minnie Edwards proved a
charming entertainer Thursday eve
ming when she entertained about 20
of her friends at her home. Games
and contests were played throughout
the evening In guessing contest
Earl Fraker carried off first prize,
Mary Tanner and Hazel Gibson sec
ond prizes. After a light refreshment
of Strawberries and cake, the guests
departed to their homes in the wee
hours of morning. Those present:
Lymon and Mary Tanner, Hazel and
Edna Gibson, Henry Berg, Earl Frak-
err, L. Montt Rich, Matte Easley,
Vero Chandler, Earnest Heber, and
Myrtle Wells, Eddie and Walter Ed
wards, Don, Orpha, George and Cora
Shelman
Clemmie and Ida Edwards visited
Susie Shelman Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Cutting of
Yuma were visiting in Tilden Sunday.
Miss Minnie Edwards made a trip
to Blackfoot Saturday,
The Misses Laura Rice and Myrtle
Wells were visiting Miss Bessie
Cooper Sunday,
l.. j. Rich took his boat up to
Danilson Springs lake Sunday and a
number of the young folks spent a
very enjoyable evening there, boat
riding. Bae.
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love of fair play. hunted up the dude
with long hair and demanded to
know the reason for the assault upon
the urchin of the plains. Not receiv-
ing satisfactory reply the dude was
thrown down and held fast while the
Swiss cut his long curly locks and
scattered them about in the sage
brush. He cut some of them short
and some long, leaving him also in
the mode of la tattoo.
The Swiss barber is member OF
Sunday school that was recently
established on THE River" and the
old settlers are rejoicing at this
phase Of Spartan justice. The old
men and women are planning to at.
tend Sunday school to see what fur
Their good can come from such 9
source, and it is expected that young
toughs who have been practicine
| rough jokes such as lassoing men fol
practice, and dragging them by the
| hind leg as they would a steer, max
ing rider dismount far back on thu
range to be hobbled and left to hob
BILE to the settlement or starve as HI
chose, making fellows appear II
kangaroo court to receive sentence
| to walk mile in the snow barefoot
ed, and other similar pranks to sui
| the whims of the court, will be deal
with in different manner hereafter
and the new settlers are already re
garded as welcome factor in affairs
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City Directory

M. w. A., l50.-First and third
Mondays; e. T. Peck and J. F. Kin
ney. 121 Members.
w. o. W., 86-Second and fourth
Mondays; John Neider, G. w. Clan
vile.
FEDERATION OF WOMEN's
CLUBS.
Current Event Club. 4o-For Lad
ies-Mrs. G. H. Holbrook. president;
president of departments; Mrs. B. W.
Holbrook. history and literature;
Mrs. C. A. Hoover. economics and
Kensington. and Mrs. Byrd Trege
Parliamentary Law.
WOMEN OF WOoDCRAFT.
Guardian Neighbor, Mrs. T. R.
Jones.
Past Guardian Neighbor-Mrs.
Frank De Kay.
Advisor, Mrs. c. D. Trego.
Magician, Mrs. James Ketchum.
Village Improvement Society
Mrs. Geo. Gagon, president; Mrs. r.
N. West, LIST vice president; Mrs. VIII
Younie, I'd vice president; Mrs. J. B.
Davis, secretary; Mrs. Neil Boyle.
treasurer.
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.
Operators on duty day and night.
VISITORS HOURS AT ASYLUM.
Visitors are shown through the
building from 10. a. m. till II n.
and from 2 to 4 p. m. on Tuesdays
and Thursdays.
Persons from . distance wishing
to visit relatives or friends confined
In the institution, are free to call ct
any time.
Northbound-N z, 8:45 p. m. No.
9, sos a. m. .5.t
Southbound-No. 8, 1922 a. m.
! No. 10, 1898 a. m.
| The Ping Pong has no schedule but
operates as special between P0ca-
tello and Idaho Falls.
MACKAY TRAIN.
I'll mo. ~ l0dF0S DldCAlOOL dI osSV
a. m. daily except Sunday. Returns
same day at 1880 p. m.
SHIPPERS NOTICE.
Freight for Mackay branch must
be delivered the day before. Train
leaves at $3.50 daily.
i Freight going north must be bill
ed the day before. Freight for the
south received till II a. m. for ship
mentment the same day.
! POSTOFFICE HOURS.
| Week days, from a. m. till $3.50
p. m.
! Money orders from 3 till $3.50.
! Sunday mails are handled as US
ual. Delivery windows open from
10 to II a. m.
/ Express Office hours: 1880 to $3.50.
Shipments north must be delivered
the day before.
] Freight Office hours from a. m.
until p. m.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-24
CANADA LETTER.
Calgary, Canada, July is, 1908.
Mr.. B. A. Trego,

Calgary, Canada, July is, 1908.
Mr.. B, A. Trego,
Blackfoot, Idaho.
Dear Brother:
| was out to the farm yesterday for
the first time for more than a month
and was certainly surprised to see
how fine the crops are looking My
wheat, oats and barley are all just
as near perfect heighth as they
could be and just as thick as sthey
can stand and perfect color. The
rains have come just about as they
were needed and we will not need
any more to make perfect grain
crop except for very late seeding.
Mr.. White and j. Ramsour will fin
ish breaking at noon today making
365 acres which they have broke
while the crops were growing. We
are summerfallowing about, 20 acres
for potatoes next year which they
will give the second plow1ng next
week and cut some hay and win then
disc sod and seed fall wheat until
harvest begins We hope to get In
about $50 acres of fall wheat. We
have In 225 of wheat, oats and bar
ley besides ) acres of potatoes and
the two men have done all the work
up to the present time They will
have one extra man from now on
until threshing Is completed when
they will put all the stock on two
disc gang plows and turn the stuble
under and be ready for another crop
in tie spring, when we. will seed the
crops and repeat the breaking opera
tion again. This is the most ideal
coun. ry to farm yna, have heard
OF yet.
! hope to report yield that will
make you your eyes open.
We are all well and enjoying the
sunshine. Yours as ever, M
w. D. TREGo.
1924 Sth Ave. East.
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GOT THEIR HAIR CUT,
Tit for Tat on Lost River-Rude
Courtesies Exchanged With Scis-
sors while Riding Astride.

Word comes from the Sinks of
Little Lost river that some dudish
fellow from Idaho Falls has been
visiting In the settlement and sud-
denly became a barber by trade. He
caught lite boy and forcibly de-
tanned him in wrestling match and
then cut his hair, leaving him look
ing like tatooed Polynesian, the
locks being cut close to the head in
some places and long enough to re-
sist mosquitoes in others. No expla-
nation was given for the strange con-
duct, and young Swiss gentleman
from Wickham's reservoir camp with
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-24
DO YOU SUFFER

From headaches, dizziness, sleepless-
ness, pains in eyes and back of head?
Then most likely, If you do, you have
overlooked the real CAUSE Of your
trouble, which is eye-strain. Drugs
canont remove the cause if your eyes
are at fault; drugs will only deaden
the sense of pain, and to do this it
weakens your system and leaves you
in condition worse than before you
took them. BY having all strain,
conscious and unconscious, removed
from your eyes by properly fitted
glasses you will remove the CAUSE
of your trouble and benefit your en-
tire nervous system. Streaming eyes
sap the body of strength and weaken
you so that you are not in a condi-
ton to resist disease. 1t is mis-
take to neglect the eyes; you not only
pay with your health, but your eyes
become weaker and more complicated
to put In a normal condition and
blindness is the result to some. Be
among the wise and have your eyes
attended early by
DIR. SCARBOROUGH,
The Expert Eyesight Specialist.
100 and110, Grow and Changnon
building, on second floor, side en-
trance, Idaho Falls.
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CITY DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES

CHURCHES
Methodist Church: Morning SER
vice, IL; Sunday School, 10; Junior
League. 4; Epworth League, z; eve
ming service, 1880; Ladies Aid, We'd
nesday afternoon. c. A. Edwards,
Pastor.
Baptist Church: Sunday School 10
B. Y. p. U. of G. E., p. M; evening
service, s; and followed by teacner's
meeting; Ladies Aid, Wednesday
afternoon.
The L. D. s. Church will hold
meetings every Sunday during the
following hours: Sunday School from
10 to 11:45 a. M; Afternoon ser.
vice from 2 to $3.50; evening service
will commence at 1880. A general
invitation is extended to all. We have
no charges connected with our SER
vices. Bishop Frank c. Parkinson
OSuOuu DuCududuS Jdo. DuIIS"AO
Bishopric Of Ward.
Catholic Church: Services are hello
at the Catholic Church by Father
Fuchs of Idaho Falls on the LIST ant
3rd Sundays Of each month. at II
.. m.
St. Paups Episcopal Church: Ser
vices are held every LIST and Srd Sun
day OF each month at II q. n. ant
1880 p. m. Sunday school every Sun
day morning at 10 q. m. Evening
prayer and Bible Glass every Fri
day evening at 1880. Ladies' GUILE
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Alwart
Chamberlain pastor In charge.
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construction on such dam, for It is
necessary to its strength that such
foundation should be reached. Con-
seauently this important feature was
given first consideration by the Pa
cific Construction company, who are
at work on their contract to con-
struct the dam, and soon after their
camp was established they began to
prospect the site for bed rock. The
first hole was sunk well to the up
per end of the site, where the sub
stance was reached at depth OF Ia
feet. The next hole was drilled with
| in few feet of the river, Just to the
north of the stream, and here bed
rock was encountered at a depth Of
thirty feet. OVERLAPPING the bed rock
at this point twenty feet OF the dis
lance was through very hard for
nation. The depth is to be further
determined by sinking another hole
on the south side OF the river, where
1T is expected the much desired GUAM
tity will be reached at about Is feet.
In prospecting the dam site some
OF the men employed who have had
turn at mining PANIED the drillings
from the holes and the result show
ed nice strings of gold in almost ev-
cry prospect.
Since the location of bed rock has
been definitely ascertained the con-
TRACTORS can figure with great de-
Igree of certainty as to the amount OF
material necessary for the construc-
ton of the great dam. Mr.. Owen ia
i vored us with a few figures which
lare given below: From $4,000 to
$4,000 barrels, or 100 to $50 cars
of cement will be consumed in the
construction. This product comes
from Devils Slide. Utah, and ship
ments are arriving as it is needed,
several cars being already placed on
the ground.
The amount of concrete, as prev
iously explained, has been lessened
) by the use of the interlocking sheet
steel piling. OF this material about
l25 carloads, or in the neighborhood
OF 900 tons. The piling is manufac-
tured in Pittsburg, Pa, and the first
shipment of five cars is ordered SO
as to arrive here by the first of Sep
TENDER. The piling is to be driven
into bed rock clear across the length
of the dam, distance of 1900 feet,
and several feet will protrude above
the surface of the excavation, which
i will serve as an anchor for the con-
crete core. The core is to be five
feet wide at the base and run to a
height of perhaps fifty feet, the ex-
j act measurements are yet to be de-
termined by the company and the
state engineer. The filing on each
side OF the concrete core will make
the base of the dam measure 600
feet in width and two hundred feet
in width at the top, and will be 100
feet above the present water level.
The excavation for the concrete
tunnels is almost completed and work
is soon to commence on their con-
struction. The point OF rocks on the
south of the river is being blasted
away in order to get the solid rock
formation on which to tie the lower
end of the dam. This work will also
serve as a spill-way for surplus wat
er after the structure is completed.
The work is progressing very salts
factory, each week making big in
roads in the progress of the task
Miner.
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BROKE HIS LEG.

Yesterday morning Bob Miller's
son, George, had the misfortune to
break his leg while working with the
horses. He was brought to town
and the fractured member was set
by DR.. Poole. The boy is being cared
for at Hotel Mackay. Miner
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-24
Excursion to Canada, August 4th

Via Oregon Short Line. Greatly
reduced rates to Lethbridge, Stirling
Raymond, Magrath, Cardston. Tick.
cts limited to 80 days. Excursion
train will leave Salt Lake 11:45 p,
m, August 4th, passing through
northern Utah and Idaho August s.
See agents for rates and further par
ticulars. 4-3
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Coming Events.

Republican state nominating con-
vention at Boise, September /.
Democratic state nominating con-
vention at Wallace August 4.
Bingham County Republican pri.
maries, August "a,
Bingham County Republican con.
vention Sept. 10th at Blackfoot.
Blackfoot Fair, Sept 80 to Is inclu-
sive.
Boise Fair, Oct. IS to "a inclusive.
Ogden Fair. Sept. 80 to Oct. In
elusive.
Election, Tuesday, November 3.
Blackfoot Fair, Sept. 2a-25.
Anti-Dubois county convention at
Shelley, July "a.
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THE MACKAY DAM.

Ever since the reservoir project at
the narrows was conceived there has
been much speculation as to the
depth of bed rock, a proposition
which figures largely in the cost of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-07-24
ONTARIO, OREGON.

John Jacobson Of Portland, aged
rs years, while beating his way on
top Of a sleeper on train No. 2, early
Saturday morning, lost his life. 1t
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-15
TRAVEL IN THE EARLY DAYS.
DsnUer Field and Farm.


DenUer Field and Farm
The wigwam Indians who came out to Denver
last week from Tammany Hall, travelling on five
special trains, grouched good deal about the
-hardships of the journey, but they knew moth
ing about the meaning of such things as COM
pared with the tribulations of our old pioneers
The modern pilgrim is fat and pudgy from
luxurious living while the old boy was as lean
as Cassius and as hungry as a coyote In the
sixties it cost more for meals between the Mis-
souri, river and Denver than is now charged for
railroad fare and meals added. The run to Dem
yer is now made in something like Is hours as
against six days in the stage coach period. At
one time the fare from the river to Denver was
$l75, while now it is only SIS. The quickest
time ever made by stage between Atchison and
Denver was four and half days.
Ben Holiday, owner of the line, once travelled
by special coaches from Placerville, CAL, to the
Missouri, 1900 miles, in IL days and 2 hours,
beating the regular daily schedule by five days
This feat cost Holiday $4,000, but it was great
advertisement for his line. The stages, when
crowded, carried Is persons, besides great guam
titles ofmail and express.
One of the coaches used on the Overland Line
is now in the Smithsonian Institution at Wash
ington, and two or three of them still linger in
Denver as relics of the splendiferous past. After
leaving this route they were operated on the
Deadwood Line, and were several times captured
by Indians and outlaws. Once, when captured
by outlaws one of the coaches carried $4,000 in
gold. In this attack three guards were killed.
Buffalo Bill heard that the old coach had been
abandoned and went after it, used it for years
in his Wild, West show. In London it carried
the Prince of Wales, and all the notables of Eu-
rope examined it with interest. On the Fourth
of July, 1895, this famous old coach was exhibit
ed with the Wild West show at Concord N. H.,
where it was made. The owner and employees of
the stage coach factory gave the historic old
stage great deal of attention, and in the parade
it bore the sign: "1S63-Home Again-1S95."
There were 1853 stations on the old Overland Line,
from the river to California, the longest in ex-
istence-1,913 miles. The fare was S225, or about
IL cents mile, which was not considered Excess
sive in those days.
American Horses In Australia.
Country Gentleman.
William B. Veirs, of Montgo merry county, Md.
is making great success as breeder of fast
horses in Australia. Until Mr.. Ve!rs imported
from America standard bred horses, there was
not a fast harness horse in the country; now
there are several hundred, and. their number is
fast increasing. In Dixie Alto, full brotherto
the famous Arion, Mr.. Veirs has the fastest
horse in Australia. He can go in 2;lO He has
recently imported from America four brood
mares that are bred in the purple.
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u L. PAINTER,
lie ATTORNEY AT LAW,
3Ol st. Paul Street, Baltimore. Also, OwinRs'
Mills till $50 A. III. daily.
City and county practice. Both Phones.
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Workshop Northern Lights-Forecasting
Earthquakes and Exploeions-The Pow
or Station Engine-Voice Writing-Gas
Engines for Canals-5harp Electrotypes
Our White Coal-Blood Tells.
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Speech having been registered by telephone
Impressions so as to be Ineligible, the different
words being distinguishable by sight. D. Char
bonnet, the French engineer who perfected the
apparatus, is seeking practical means Of max
ing telephone receiver give an automatic re-
port of itself on travelling film or sensitized
band. taking down any message that may come
in the absence of the proprietor of the office.
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.JudQes-Chief Judge, Hon. N. Charles Burke:
Associate Judges, Hon. Frank 1. Duncan and
Hon. George L. Van Bibber.
States Att0rnev-Robert H. Bussey.
Audit0r-William Grason.
Commissioners TO take TestiDs0ny and Examiners
In EQuity-A. A. Piper, W. George Marley, Caleb
V. Cherbonnier.
Crier-George W. Seipp.
I1sterpreter and BGilif-Julius Rudiger.
Baigffs-Tobias G. Linzey, Jacob b. Wilhelm.
StenO0rdpher-J. Maurice Watkins Jr
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For propelling canal barges r. w. Thorn, of
Southport, Eng, woulduse internal combustion
engines fed with coal gas carried compressed in
cylinders. Tests have shown numerous advan-
tages, and the engines and storage cylinders are
only half as heavy as steam engines of like pow
er. and occupy much less space.
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All Goods Found in a First-Class Store
June 20-3m
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A PPLEGAKTH, HERMAN
IA & REIFSNIDER,
ATTORNEYS q COUNSELOkS AT LAW.
BaltimoreC County Office PiperBuilding, Towson.
Baltimore City Ofiice-l0 e. Lexington Street.
Long Distance C. & p. Telephone.
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TOHN H. RICHARDSON,
q ATTORNEY AT LAW,
622- 623 CAFES Law Building, CORTLAND Street,
near Lexington, Baltimore, and Towson.
Residence-E Eastern Ave-, HighlandtOwn.
G. & p. Phone.
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Special Low Prices
on IL, 20. 30 and N-Qt.
Iron Clad Cans, with
name in large letters
and heavy chains.
Your own private
mark stamped on all
cans to prevent being
lost or stolen.