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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25

felt assured that 1t was merely an
other of the many attacks Mr..
Clevelandh had suffered and she
informed those who inquired thst
Mr.. ~Clcveland's condition was not
serious.
Mr.. Cleveland became worse
during the night, and Mrs. Cleve-
land was called to the bedside Of
her husband. The distinguished
patient sank into unconsciousness
from which he recovered at times
only to suffer relapse. This
continued throug hout the night and
early morning. The last time he
became unconscious was about two
hours before he died. Death was
peaceful. Just before he died Mr..
Cleveland sought to say so ncthing
but his words were inaudible.
The text of the official statement
given out short time after Mr..
Cl-veland's death vas as follows:
"Mr. Clcvcland for many years
had suffered from repeated attacks
of gastric intestinal origin. Also
he had long standing organic dis
case of the heart and kidneys.
Heart failure complicated with
pulmonary thrombosis and oedcma
were the Immediate cause Of his
death. M
Some two or three hours later
DR., Bryant, in answer to ques-
zion, said that ''tho heart failure
which occasioned death was in
duccd within "a hours Of the end
and death was finally due to that. =
Thus corroborating the unofficial
information that Mr.. Cleveland be-
gan TO grow worse yesterday after
noon.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25
MOUNTAIN HOME IDAHO JUNK 25. 1908.

value. The singing was very
good and altogether the convention
was one CT the best ever held in the
state.
1t was decided to hold the con-
ventiou next year at Boise. The
following officers were elected TO
serve for the coming year:
President, j. M. Owen, Noun
tain Home.
1st vice pres, Edgar c. Smith,
Pocstello.
2nd vice pres. Chas. L. Chalfant,
Boise.
Sec, Miss Winifred MCGUIRE,
Mcr idian.
Treas. Miss Edna Anderson,
Boise.
Junior Supt., Miss Ella Miller,
Idaho Falls.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25

and monaI chs have advanced those
to whom they took liking, but
this is the first time IN the United
States that a president has been
permitted by any political party to
name the man who should be Sc
lected to succeed him.
In years gone by there was an
Unborn feeling in the citizens of
this country that every man should
stand upon his own base, and it
was the boast that the gaunt rail-
splitter and the humble canal boy
had by their own perseverance
won the highest honor at the dis
posal of the people.
The theory was that man had
to work for the recognition he
gained and that others could not
win this recognition for him.
Mr.. Taft and President Roosevelt
have introduced the American peo-
pie to a new phase, under which
an executive is allowed to decide
who shall be the candidate of his
party to succeed him in the White
| House.
1t is for them to decide this ia |
| fall whether they desire to ap-
prove of allowing men to reach the
executive mansion by cutting across
lots or whether they still believe
that those who aspire to be the
heads Of this nation shall travel
and toll along the old beaten ROAD
that all other presidents have had to
traverse before reachicg this great
goal.
Is the youth of the United S ates
to be taught that in future the
surest way tC secure positions OF
honor is not by hard and faithful
work, but by cuvrying favor with
the executive of the nation2
Most persons in this country
have held to the old saying that
every tub must stand upon its own
bottom, aud the Miner for one is
willing believe that their views
have changed or that they now be-
lieve president has right to
transfer his position of honor and
trust to a courtier or favorite.
In the campaign for the Republi-
can presidential nomination which
ended in Chica Thursday after
noon, Mr.. Taft did not stand upon
his own merit, for if be had he
would have been one of the lowest
men in the rae, If not tte west,
but all the influence which pop
ular president could exert was
called into requisiticn for him,
and all the power which an ad-
I ministration has over its office
/ holders was used in his behalf.
From a personal standpoint there
appears to be nothing urged against
the secretary of war, for those who
know him say that, like most ex-
ccssively fat men, he is amiable
and good natured in the extreme,
bur he had thrust upon him die
nifty which he has not earned by
his own effort and one which he
never would have obtained at this
time if he had been obliged to rely
upon himself and his own re-
sources.
This is the distastcful feature ol
his nomination to those who be-
lieve in every mau fighting his
own battles in fair field without
favor.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25
Wool Sale Tomorrow

Possibly the lar e. est and the last
bid sale to be he Id this year will
occur tomorrow, June 10th, when
225O bags amounting TO $50, 600
pounds will be offered for, sale.
Buyers are expected to come in q
private car and. there will be at
least twenty Of them A gopd at
tendance Of bothsbuysrs ssd Sellara
~ expected.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25
OWEN MADE
PRFSIl FNT
Very Profitable Session OF State
G. {. Societies Closes Late
Last Night.

Tne Sixteenth Annual State
Christian Endcavor convention
came to a close late last night after
a very profitable three days scs-
sion. Prominent speakers were
prese-t from abroad and several
from different parts of the state.
DR.. Roberts Of st. Paul was the
leading speaker 10 ntpe convention
and delivered seveFai very stfonC
lSddronssd which were 81 especial
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25
TAFT UNPOPULAR WITH
THE DELEGATES
Republican Candidate for President ACCep-
ted Only Because of RooseveIt's
Determination.

The way in which a great many
Americans regard the nomination
of Taft is thus forcibly set forth by
the Butte Miner:
Mr.. Roosevelt scored the greatest
victory of his life in Chicago when
he forced his party TO accept it's
presidential nominee man whom
it did not want.
It is no mean accomplishment
for a person to secure this high
honor for himself, but it is far
creator one for an individual to
COMPEL powerful political organi-
zation to set aside its o wn choice
and accept the selection made for
it by him.
Hon. William H. Taft was nom
mated Thursday, but before he was
named, he suffered about the most
severe humiliation that any man
who has become the nominee of a
great party has ever been called
upon to bear.
The convention seems to have de-
tcrmi ned that Mr.. Taft should be
made to understand that it did not
want him for its candidate and that
it did not name him on his own
account or as reward for anything
which he has done emitting him
to such honor, but it simply Sc
lected him because it could not get
Mr. Roosevelt and for the reason
the executive asked it to support
the secretary of war.
To man of pride humiliation
would not be sufficiently strong
word to fittingly describe what Mr..
Taft passed through during the
past few weeks, and in Justice to
the gentleman it is only fair to sup
pose that lie has some of the finer
feelings with which the majority OF
humanity is blessed SO that it goes
witho saying that he must have
keenly felt the POSITION in which
he h IS been placed.
Mr.. Taft did not win his sec
ond hand nomination by his own
effort, for if he had had to rely
upon that it is no secret that he
could not have carried the delega-
tion from Ohio, and 1t is probable
that he would have received fewer
votes than any man whose name
was placed in nomination at CHI
cago.
He stands before the world as
the Republican nominee today be-
cause President Roosevelt insisted
that the party should SO honor him.
Mr.. Taft finds himself in the
unique position of never before
having submitted himself to the
sufferages of the people, for in his
whole career, this will be the first
time be has ever run for an elective
office.
All the positions he has held in
the past have come to him by ap-
pointment, and he has been actual
ly political aristocrat, who has
never condescended before to ask
the voters to pass upon his gu lifi-
catious for any office,
The pages Of American history
can be searched in vain to find his
equal as successful courtier,
dancing attendance at the white
house for in the old days and until
very recently courtiers were no
known to our form Of government.
Kings and nperors have had theil
favorites from the earliest times
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25
NOTICE
State of Idaho
County of Elmore

County OF Elmorc
Notice is hereby given that in
the cause of the Mountain Home
Lumber Company. corporation
Plaintiff, VS. John H. Garrett, de-
fedant, an at achment has been is
sued out of fhc district court of the
fourth judicial district in and for
the count of EImorc and state of
Idaho, against the property of the
said defendant
Dated at Mountain Home, Idaho,
this 18th day of June A. D.,
1908. - 8
F.:c- SAITH.
.Llerk Of the district court
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25
Thanks!

! wish to thank all my friends
who SO kindly assisted me in win
uirg the piano in the Capital News
contest. ] appreciate very much
all they did for me. Sincerely,
MARIE EVANS.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-25
FOR Sale

A second hand Esty organ for
sale. In good shape and looks as
good as new. Cost $110 and will
sell for 35. w. L. Thompson Furn-
iture Co.
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
WAS NOT THE NEGRO
 GREEN AT TExARkANA
The Negro Who Murdered Marshall Hamilton at Hope
 Remains Uncaptured

Hope, Aug. 31. News reached here yesterday that the negro Will Green, who murdered in cold blood, John T. Hamilton in this city last January, had been ar rested, or a negro answering his description, and was in the hands of the officers in Texarkana. Whereupon, Messrs. Chris Dea- son and Dan Malone, whom it was supposed best competent to identify the negro, were sent to Texarkana for that purpose. Upon their arrival there they were shown the prisoner in ques- tion, and they at once recogniz- ed no resemblance to the negro wanted. And upon their decis- ion the prisoner was released. Marshall Black who was in Tex arkana yesterday went to see the negro, and he also says they had the wrong negro.
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
EAGLE CONVENTION
 ON WITH A RUSH
Thousands Came in During the Night and a Big
 Time Expected

Little Rock, Sept. 1.-Several thousand Eagles, from other sections of the State, arrived dur ing the night and when dawn broke today, the three days fes- tivities began with a booming of cannon, followed by the filling of the streets, all of which are gaily decorated in the national colors, with thousands of people. Bands are playing everywhere, which adds to the festivity. At 10 o'clock this morning Gov. X. o. Pindall deliver d the address of welcome to the visiting Eagles, followed by an address in behalf of the city by Mayor w. R. Dull ey, and a response by Gus Fulk, master of ceremonies. This af- ternoon a class of 150 candidates was initiated into the secrets of the order. Tonight the Mardi Gras parade will take place, after which the Argenta aerie will take charge of the visitors, and enter tain them until morning. Tomor- row afternoon the industrial pa rade win take place.
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
YOUNGEST OPERATOR
 IN THE UNITED STATES
Is Bee Burks, a Young Boy, Who Formerly Lived
 In Prescott.

Fort Worth, Texas, August 30. Ten years old and weighing 45 pounds, Bee Burks is proba- bly, the youngest telegeaph oper- ator in the world in the regular employ of a railroad. He is day operator at Dublin. Tex, on the Texas Central Railroad. His ap- pearance as he sits at the key on a high stool, bare footed and in short trousers, amazes strangers
 He handles a typewriter with the speed and accuracy of a vet eran and code is his delight. This youthful genius has attracted at tention from the highest officials down and has given them vari- ous demonstrations of his work.
 He first began studying teleg- raphy under his brother, Orbie Burks. then agent at Dublin. His mastery of the keys was so thor ough in short time and his work so accurate that he was taken to the main offices at Waco to demonstrate. Veteran keymen gathered around and every test was applied to him.
 He withstood the ordeal to the astonishment of all and was not in the least embarrassed by the experts who gathered at the ta- ble where he worked. As a re- suit of this demonstration in the office of Superintendent R. M. Cox he was given the position he now holds.
 In a number of instances he has been sent up and down the Texas Central road to relieve grown men, operators who wish. ed to lay off for day or so and
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01

tery.
 The story of Lucius Battles strange career is scarcely sur passed in the realms of fiction. He was in the Louisville wreck and was injured, subsequently,, he recovered and migrated to South America, where he engag- ed in railroad building. There was no reason why he should not have communicated with his family, but in some unaccount. able way he never found just the opportunity or the inclination. He did not know that he was supposed to be dead, or doubt less he would have relieved the anxiety of his relatives, and be- ing a very busy man the years slid away withIno communication
 
 with home folks. He became a famous civil engineer and rail- road builder, operating in all the the cities ofColumbia he commun. icated to large number of resi- dent Americans, but never with his home folks. He decided to return home about ten months ago, and was i'll when he arriv- ed in New York and found it inn possible to come on and told his nurse of his Arkansas relations, and asked that they be notified. He never married but had a strong personality, but was rather retired in his habits.
 When Justice Battle entered his experiments in New York the sick man was stirred with great emotion. The two broth CTS were the last of their race, clasped hands feelingly and tho time had touched each with his finger, the years were swept aside, and they loved each other as in the days of boyhood.
 And what of the years when with hard work and close appli- cation Lucius Battle won renown and fortune in a country remote from his nativity, when other brothers and relatives passed away?
 He wanted to tell his brother in his last illness but there was so little life left that the story remained untold.
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
CHURCHES and PASTORS
METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

School conducted next Sunday by C. B. Andrews. Practi- cal application of the lesson by Alex Vaughan. Hymns no, 40, 29, 40. 121. The officers and teach CTS should be in their places by five minutes before the time for opening. This is important. Choir practice Friday night 7::3O.
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
LITTLE ROCK
 NEWS BUDGET
Items Gathered at the State Capital By the Picayune's
 Representative

Bruce Bullion. secretary of the state Democratic committee, is having his hands full with filling dates which speakers previously arranged for cannot reach. Two dates from the list of Judge Fal- coner, had to be cut off, G. B. Cook Supt. of Public 1nstruc- tion, had to be pressed into ser vice for two speeches in Mont gomery, and Secretary Bulllon is now hunting a strong speaker to send to Denning for Labor Day,
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01

has filled in various vacancies which have occurred unexpect- edly. His mother, Mrs. Callie Burks, is a widow and very proud of her remarkable son.
 Bee is brother to Mrs. H. B. Scott of this city, and with his mother lived here for several years, leaving here 8 or 4 years ago.
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
1uoUGHT DEAD FOR
 MANY YEARS
Eor the Past IS Years Has Been Chief Civil Engin-
 ger of Railway.

Little Rock, Sept. l.-Lucius Rattle. aged about 50 years, h,other of Associate Justice B. R Rattle of the Supreme court, died at the Judson Hotel, New York City, Aug. 28. and Justice Battle arrived here last night with the remains. He left his entire fortune to Justice Battle whom he sent for on his death he'd. For Is years Justice Bat tle and the entire family had molrned Lucius Battle as dead. Ais death was supposed to have occured near Louisville, Ky, in T railroad wreck. The particu- lars of the wreck were reported in the dispatches and the name of Lueius Battle appeared among the names of those who were killed. His papers and effects were found ip the wreck and his body was recognized before in- torment. The family grieved over the untimely death of their relative and during all these years no one ever dreamed that he was not only alive but a prom inent factor in the industrial de- yelopment of another country.
 A few weeks ago Justice Bat tie received letter from a pro- fessional muse in New York City informing him that his brother, Lucius Battle was ill at the Judson Hotel with acute heart disease and that if he wish ed to see him to hasten to his bedside It is needless to say Justice Battle was beset with with doubt, and the letter caus- ed excitement in the family cir cle. Justice Battle replied to the nurse asking if any financial aid was desired to which letter he received a prompt response that the sick man had ample means and that all his bills were paid. Justice Battle had then realized the possibility of some terrible mistake having been made and decided to visit the sick man. lie did so, and though Lucius Battle had grown thin and emac- lated from long spell of illness, though much changed from the Byears of separation, the broth CTS immediately recognized each other, and for six weeks Justice Battle has remained faithfully, at the bedside of the brother he had mourn5d dead for eighseel
 Years. Death at last relieved the tentsion, and the strange traveller who has been absent from his home and mourned by and mourned as dead for so long
 tune, is brought home at last to sleep quietly in the old ceme-
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.

Notice is hereby given that there will be an election held in Nevada County. Arkansas, on the 14th day of September. 1908, at the places hereinafter designat- ed, for the purpose of electing the following officials:
 One Governor,
 One Secretary of State, One Treasurer of State, One Auditor of State.
 Two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, one to succeed J. E. Riddick, deceased, and one for full term to succeed Carroll D. Wood,
 One Attorney General,
 One State Land Commissioner, One Superintendent of Public Instruction,
 One Commissioner of Mines, Manufacture and Agriculture, One Railroad Commissioner, One Prosecuting Attorney, One Representative in the Leg islature.
 One Sheriff,
 One County Judge,
 One County Clerk,
 One Circuit Clerk,
 One County Treasurer,
 One Tax Assessor,
 One Surveyor,
 One Coroner,
 One Public Weigher.
 One Road Overseer,
 Two Justices of the Peace in all townships except Missouri, and three in Missouri township. One Constable.
 For or against Amendment No 9.
 For or against Amendment Nc
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01
Advertised Letters!

The following is the list of letters re- maining unclaimed in this office for the week ending August 31, 1908, and if not called for by Sept. IA, 1908, will be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office.
 GENTLEMEN. LADIES. Walter Bradshaw Miss Lula Anderson A w Dickerson Sallie Mitchell Will Davis ''Claudy Mullicay k Foster Annie Sermon w J Hale Gertrude Smith Isaac Luster Mrs Sarah Deat0n A D McGill Celia Gibner Frank Meirs Sally Johnson l. Scott Zeakle Johnson Frank Wilson |" Molly Young
 When calling for the above, please say advertised.
 JACK CRIMSON. P. M.
Daily picayune., 1908-09-01

10.
 For or against Road Tax. For or against License, For or against Sale of Wine, Said election to be held at the following places, toWit:: Alabama township at Falcon. Albany No. l at Laneburg. Albany No. 2 at Sutton. Boughton at Boughton. Caney No. l at Rosston. Caney No. 2 at Gale.
 Emmet at Emmet.
 Georgia at Morris.
 Jackson at Hatley's Store. Leake at Glenville.
 Missouri No. at Court house. Missouri No. 2 at K. r. Hall. Parker No. at Bodcaw. Parker No. 2 at Brisbane. Redland No. at Lackland Redland No. 2 at Wire Road School House.
 Taylor No. at Willisville. Taylor No. 2 at Pleasant Hill. Union at Bluff City.
 Subscribed this 20th day of August, 1908. ED HOOD, Sheriff.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-27
Carried Out instructions.

Every sailor has his story OF the
mistakes which landlubbers make over
the names Of things at sea, which
always seem to be exactly the oppo-
site of what they are on land.
A new boy had gone on board q
West India ship. upon which painter
had also been employed to paint the
ships side. The painter was at work
upon staging suspended under the
ships stern.
The captain, who had just got into
a boat alongside, called out to the
new boy, who stood leaning over the
rail, LET go the painter"
Everybody should know that a
boats painter is the rope which makes
it fast, but this boy did not know 1t.
He ran aft and let 60 the ropes by
which the painters staging was held.
Meantime the captain was wearied
with waiting to be cast or.
"You rascalg he called. why don't
you let 60 the painterT
Hes gone, SIR" said the boy brisk
ly. Hes concepts, brushes and ALL"
London Standard.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-27
sh. Wanted to Know.

A little woman with wilton carpet
floral designs on her hat came into the
uptown Pennsylvania ticket Office the
other day and bought a ticket for a
point down the state.
She gathered up her ticket and asked
for q little folder because It had pic
ture on 1t in colors Of girl waving
goodby to somebody from the end OF a
train. Then she placed her ticket In
side her purse and the purse inside a
little satchel and put the satchel inside
her shopping bag, which she carried
In a small alligator travelling bag. Just
before she started out she inquired OF
City Passenger Agent Dillon, who had
been waiting on her, How long be-
fore my train startsT
you'll Just about have time to make
It." Dillon told her at leaves the
Union station in about seventeen min
utes."
Seventeen minutes" she repeated,
land is that by central time or eastern
time -Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1908-07-27
AIfxan6ria Gazette.
MONDAY EWING. JULY q. 1903
e.n,nes For piseourtssy.

Nicholas l.. car of Russia, was the
type of an absolute sristocrat. The
succession of terrible wars which
clouded his reign did not tend TO soften
his disposition or to render him less
imperious. But, rough and harsh as
he was, Nicholas had a measure OF
chiyalry IN his disposition. He Wonlo
not tolerate under any circumstances
an insult offered to woman. As the
car was driving through the streets
of ST. Petersburg he caught sight OF
an officer Of bis household In the act
of upsetting an old beggar woman
whose hands were raise 10 prayer
for aims. The official was quite IN
mindful Of the august witness OF his
act and was rather pleased when, a
few hours later, he was summoned to
the imperial presence. Nicholas soon
undeceived him and in the presence OF
a dozen cOurtiers cut him to the quick
with his indignant reproof.
Enough" said Nicholas finally.
'You will walk up and down that cor
rldor all night, and every time you
turn you will say In loud voice: I
am a puppy ! am a puppy"