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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-12-11
Notice Of Dissolution of CO-Part
nerShin.

Gooding. Idaho, Nov. 6, 1908.
Notice is hereby given that the firm
of Jordan-M eDougall Drug Company.
doing business at Gooding. Idaho. is
this day dissolved, H. S. McDougall re-
firing from the firm and Fred w. Jor-
dan will continue the business, assume
all liabilities and collect all accounts
due the firm.
FRED W. JORDAN.
H. S. MCDOUGALL.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-12-11

administration Of political power II
scattered among variety Of men who
work In secret, whose very names are
unknown 10 the common people. 1t is
not in peril from any man who derives
authority from the people. who exer
eises 1t in sight Of the people and who
Is from time to time compelled to give
an account Of its exercise to the peo-
ME
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-12-11

Whereup0n JAS. r Boutwell,, appear
ing for Faley & Black, and Paul S.
Haddock as counsel for petitioners, to-
gether with J. A. Green and others,
residents of Richfeld, appearing before
the board; thereupon JAS. R. Boutwell,
request that said application of Faley
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-12-11

A large line of Christmas tree orni-
ments, tinsel, candles and holders as
Starrh 5.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
White Honss Conference,

washington Dispatch to Brook
Eagle).--It is significant that at
this time there is no great movement
in which all the political parties are
willing to cooperate-the movement
for the preservation of the country's
natural resources. Forty-three of
the 46 state governors have now ac-
cepted the invitation to attend a
conference at the White house, May
l3, IA and Is. to futher this move-
ment. Democratic governors were
as quick to respond as were the
governors of Republican states.
Each governor will bring with
him two or three distinguished
citizens of his state chosen without
regard to political affiliations. The
one one living ex-president, Grover
Cleveland, has written to Preslden
Roosevelt that the only thing tina
will keep him away is word iron
his physician that he is not physi
cally able to come. That is shoult
be possible to hold such a confer
ence on great, national probler
on the eve of a presidential election
: when every man in public life
looking for some political advantag
is regarded as the best evidene
that the movement is one which al
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
circumstantial Evidence.

During discussion in regard to cir
cumstantail evidence lawyer told
of a remarkable case which, he said,
appears in the Virginia reports. 1t
was this.
A man was discovered drawing a
knife from the protrate form Of an
other man near roadside. The
witnesses rushed upon him and took
the weapon from him. 1t was still
dripping with blood of the victim.
He was accused of the murder but
asserted his innocence. He claimed
that he happened along the road
but few moments before and saw
his alleged victim struggling with
another man. Before he could come
up the unknown had driven his knife
home and had fed into some brush
close by. Seeing the knife still in
the fallen man, he stopped over to
draw it forth just as his accusers
came on the scene. That was his
story. The knife being Unidentified
as the property Of the accused, no
credence whatever was placed in
his tale. He was tried, convicted
and hanged.
& A year later the man who had real
Aly committed the crime while on his
.deathbed confessed that he was the
murderer and told how he had stolen
the knife from the innocent man
who had been sent to the gallows.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22

any statute ever enacted. Prisons
were hot-beds of disease, dangerous
not only to the inmates but to the
outside public. The character OF
food ana the way Of serving it were
revolving and demoralizing. Over
crowding was frightful evil. In
Birmingham, Ala, 24O men were
found in ~ cells and % women in
10 cells. In Los Angeles l35 men
were found in SO cells. One person
in cell, the prison associations says,
is all that should be allowed,a
"It is strong temptatiopS says
the report, to specify particular
cities where nameless abuses, exist;
where little children are Kept in
rooms with polluted and diseased
adults; where poor insane victim
of brain disorder howls all night in
company with ruffians: where an
honest fellow, unable to pay fine
for spree, is locked in with thieves.
These are not pictures from novels;
they are bald prosaic facts set down
by honest eye-witnesses il answer
to printed questions.
Imprisonment without occupation
the report declares, is a straight
path to insanity. In I43 jails the
men prisoners have no occupation,
while in l55 the women prisoners
have nothing to do.
The association is strongly in
favor Of labor colonies where persons
may be taught in an intelligent way
to lead better and useful lives. 1t
favors keeping prisoners until
their reform is reasonably assured,
but it is insistent that where no ef-
fort at reform is made, the whole
influence of jails is debasing.. In
many jails influences for good are
meager, if not wholly lacking.
Twenty-Five jails do not provide
any reading matter for prisoners.
In SS no religious services Of any
kind are ever held.
Undoubtedly American prisons
need investigation and reform ss
badly as any institution in the
country.-Des Moines News.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
Meat Combine Hits Country.

Yes,beef is up, pork is up, Lamb
is up.
That isn't all they'll be even
higher before long, unless some
thing unforeseen happens. And the
packers are hoping that it won't
happen.
Yet this season of 1907-S has
been the most prosperous and prof
table the packing industry has ev-
or known. Where they made sub
stantual profit they are making &
great profit this season. Where
they cleared many millions of dol
lars during other seasons, when
there was no tight money and M
panic and no hard, times, this sea
son they are carrying away the SAM
number of millions and a few addi
tional.
Every wise man arond the Chica
go stock yards knows that for gen
eral profit this season has any sea
son that preceded it lashed TO th
mast.
Why?
Why is meat 25 per cent highe
today on foot and refrigerated tha
it was six months ago?
WHY'S it still going higher?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22

You need not go to the packer
himself for this information. The
first duty of the packer is to sell
meat. You are only the buyer. He
fixes the price: you take it or leave
it.
But when the newspaper reporter
goes to j. Ogden Armour and asks
why meat is high, why it has gone
up, he says, Because cattle are high
Ell" with plying look as if you
should be ashamed Of yourself not
to know that. "And cattle are high
because corn is high, for example.
When the price of meat goes up
there are always reasons. Good
morning.
1t is true that the supply of spring
cattle is short just now. Any man
in the stock yards will tell you that
too. Two months ago the stock rails
er found that it was costing him SO
much to feed his cattle that he had
little prospect Of making any decent
profit out of them. He threw them
on the market for what they would
bring, he didn't even wait to fatten
them. He sold them thin.
Today the cattle that should be
coming in during April are not there
They have been sold ahead of time
at low prices.
During last fall and winter prices
to the packer were low on account Of
the general financial depression.
All this should seem to argue that
meat should be low today.
But it isn't.
Today you are paying the profits
on the price that same meat and its
by products would cost if the pack
er had to buy it at present shortage
figures.
What Go you suppose the packer
was doing during all those months
of low prices?
He was buying and slaughtering
and preparing his products for mar.
ket-and putting them away. He
bought hogs in November at from
1915 to S4.25 and in January al
from $4.25 to So and $5.25. He
was quite willing that the market
should stay down-then.
He filled every warehouse in the
country with meat products and KEEP
on buying at rediculously low price.
SO that he might sell later on at higl
prices.
1t is the game at Packington.
Today cattle show an advance o
$I.25 to $l.5O since February &c
Pork loins were selling recently a
liz; four weeks before they sold a
7c. Tenderloin sold recently at 2l
month before it was TIC.
This doesn't mean that the onl
meat the packers can sell you toda
is meat for which they have pal
these higher prices, though it is pal
of the game to make you beliey
!, , that, and that no fresh meat is II
frigerated for any length of time.
> For, just the same, geat deal {
: the product that the packers are So
, ling you at todays high prices, an
that they will be glad to sell to yc
: at tomorrows higher prices-that
the same product which they bougl
8 at last winters low prices.
# Last winter the low market d
% lighted them; this spring the hie
>, market delights them even more b
i cause it helps to fool you.-Stewa
q Mclean.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
Advice to Farmers.

A. B. Funk's California Cores
pondence: After a wide range of in.
vestigation, would be 10th to as
sumo the responsibility Of advising
a man owning an Iowa farm to leave
it for any place on earth in the hopes
of bettering his financial condition.
1t would mean the Fleeing from ills
he knows to others he knows not OF"
with strong, very strong probabil-
ity OF sad realization of the fact he
did not know when he was well off.
Even if there were certain rich re-
suits attending the proper growing
of fruits and other products under
tropical conditions an Iowa farmer
is no better fitted for this work than
is a theological graduate, city born
and bred to run an Iowa farm. At
ter farming twenty years in Iowa, a
man would need to forget all he ev-
er knew about the business and take
on a range of education and expert
ence through years of experience
and sacrifice before he would be
able to make the best of conditions,
and then his efforts would be inyolv.
ed in just as much Of uncertainty
and he would need to take bigger
chances than he did in the old home
state. The path Of the Iowa farmer
is not strewn with roses, but if HI
wants to learn just how much worse
off he can be, just let him sell ou
and try his hand in country wher
he must begin in the kindergarten
class to learn about soils and irriga
ton and cultivation and product
new and strange to his experience
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22

You need not go to the packer
himself for this information. The
first duty of the packer is to sell
meat. You are only the buyer. He
fixes the price: you take it or leave
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
And History Will Repeat.

The Sioux City (Iowa) Journal, re-
publican, seems to be fearful lest
the tariff barons obtain by the i'm
preston that they have something
to fear by reason of the tar
iff revision promises of reprb-
lican leaders. The Journal says
that the Ohio.lowa republican tariff
plank of 1908 is in no sense a depart
ure from the republican practice.
1t adds:
in 1884 the Chicago platform
pledged the party to correct the in
qualities of the tariff, and its prom
Use was to do this by such methods
as will relieve the taxpayer withou
injuring the laborer or the great
productive interests of the country.
That is what will be done next year
if the republican party is continued
in commission"
Since 1884 the republican party
has revised the tariff twice and in
both instances it was revision that
benefited the tariff barons rather
than the consumers. In its day the
Mckinley bill was regarded as Q
very high measure of the protective
tariff but it was not to be compared
with the Dingley law enacted seven
years later.
All the world knows or ought t.
know, that at the very time the re
publican party was promising st
correct the inequalities of the tariff
or do something that will reliev
the taxpayer" that party was deri,
ling its campaign funds frcm tn
men wholhave grown rich throug.
the high tariff fostered by thereput
llcan party.
Devotedly the republican leader
have protected the tariff barons afte
the election and, borrowing IL
Sioux City Journals languag
that is what will be done next yes
if the republican party ia continue
in commission" The Commone
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
FATHER


My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run:
He tsils III children every d y
Just " hat should now be done.
BE knows the way to fix the rusts.
He has simple plan;
But II N, furnace needs repairs
Wehave to hire a MN.
Myfather. In aiay or two.
Cou'i Land big thieves In jsll;
There's nothing that he csrrc, 10.
He knows no word like fan"
"Our conflde. ca" he cou d restore.
OF that there is 20 d,ubt;
But II there Is eli ,ir to me
We havs to nd 1t out,
All public questions that atlse.
He settles on tn ,spot;
He waits not Il tho iamu't dies.
But grabs 1t while IL, hot.
In matte s Of tinAn c lie can
Tell Teddy villa! 10 do;
But. o. he finds /. hard to meet
His bills as they III due
1t almost makes him sick to read
The things lawmakers say;
Why, fathers just the n al they need.
He never CUES astray.
All wars he'd very quickly end.
AS fast as can write 1t;
But when neighbor itarts fuss.
IT'S mother has TO fight 1t.
In conversation father can
Do many wondrous things;
Hes butt upon wiser plan
Than president or kings.
He knows the ins and outs OF each
And every deep transaction;
We look to him for theories.
Bat 10 k to ma for action.
Detroit Free Press
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22

James r Day Chancellar of the
Syracuse New York university in a
recent address to members of a
young mems Christian Association
said: you've heard that sublime,
stupid nonsense about half dozen
men putting the world in their pock-
cts and not letting anybody else get
any. Why you may be one of
those half dozen some day. These
men get rich and then get fat, and
get dyspepsia and die. The Lord
takes care of that. Most of them
are fools before they die, and leave
their millions to their sons and
daughters instead of to the Syracus
university. And most of the sons
are fools, too. They spend the mon
ey for automobiles and yachts and
great establishments, and by and by
you all get it back.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
American Prison Horrors.

A report published by the Amer
can Prison association is in effect an
arraignment of the whole prison
system in the United States. Two
hundred and ninety institutions in
81 states were visited and inspected.
With few exceptions it was found
that all sorts Of horrors existed
which could not be justified under
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22

A jury in the federal court at OF
tumwa found John w. Baldwin, of
Shenandoah guilty of sending an OBJ
scene letter through the mails.
Judge Smith McPerson at once sem
fenced him to two years in the pen
itentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The letter was to vulgar to he shown
to the public. Itwas sent by Bald
win through the Shenandoah post.
office to Miss Pocahontas Harris,
daughter Of William Harris, and a
prominent girl of that city. Bald
win is 90 years old.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22
Self Composed.

she-He is person of perfect ease
and possession and is thoroughly al
home anywhere. He-Yes, he even has
the faculty Of making you feel total
stranger in your own house.-London
Tit-Bits.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22

Nervous Old Lady Ito deck hand on
steamboaD Mr.. Steamboatman, II
there any fear of danger? Deck Hand
(carelessly)-Plenty of fear, ma'am.
but not bit of danger.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-04-22

Little girls believe in the man in the
moon, big girls in the man In the hon
eymoon,
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-18
GETS ORDER To
SELL $4,000 OF
RUSSELL ESTATE
Will of Eccentric East Orange
Citizen Again Under Scru-
tiny of Court.

There was another turn in the much
litigated estate of o w. Russell, the
wealthy and eccentric citizen of East
Orange, for the forgery of whose will
Mathew j. Ready, a local lawyer. was
sentenced to State prison for five years
recently. when Judge Davis in the Or
phans' Court today allowed a rule to
show cause why Mary c. Clavin, the
administrators, should not sell enough
of the property to satisfy a judgment
Of $1,000 obtained against the estate by
Mrs. Josephine G. Raphael.
Her husband was ~bookkeeper and
general factotum for Russell, and dur
ing the las term of the Circuit Court
Mrs. Raphael, his widow. sued the
estate for $50 600 for services rendered.
Raphael was not mentioned in his will.
The jury to whom the widow appealed
made the award. The judgment re-
manned unpaid. and today's proceedings
were the next step in the process of
getting the money.
The order was made ~returnable Oc-
tober 20, so as to give Acknowledgement
Robert II. McCarter, who Is in Europe,
and is not expected home until october
Is, an opportunity to be heard. Former
Prosecutor Chandler w. Riker repre-
scented the attorney-generafs office in
the proceedings today.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-18
SHOOTS WEST
ORANGE MANS
RELATIVE DEAD
Charles H. WiCkard Slain by
Negro Employee in North
Carolina.

Following an argument with one OF
his negro employees over wages last
Thursday, Charles H. Wickard, OF
Robersonville, n. c., a brother-in-law
of Van Crawford. who lives ut IS Park
avenue, West Orange, was shot twice
in the head and died five hours later.
Wickard, Aho vas a commtssary SER
geant at Fort Hancock for eight years,
owned a farm of 300 acres and a meat
market in the South. He had an argu-
ment with the negro, the latter claiming
he was owed more pay thar was given
him. Mr.. Wickard insisted the negro
received proper compensation.
The negro later in the day. when no
one was in the store. whipped out a 80
calibre revolver and shot at his M
ployer three times, two bullets taking
effect.
Immediately after the shooting the
slayer made his escape.
Mr.. Wickard was married to Miss
Hanna Burdge, daughter Of Samuel c.
Burdge, former chief Of police of High
lands. They had five children. Mrs.
Wickard has decided to return to
Highlands to live. and IS expected this
week.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-18
ON MELON SPREE
TRIED To WRECK
HARRISON SCHOOL
Teachers Desks Broken Open
and Several Hundred Dol
lars Damage Done.

Some time within the past few days
the Hamilton Street Public School in
Harrison has been broken into and
damage estimated at several hundred
dollars has been done.
The intruders forced open each teach
er's desk and threw the contents on the
floor.
A roll-top desk belonging to Principal
James F. Prendergast was broken open
and his private papers were distributed
throughout the building.
A new system of electric bells and
speaking tubes had recently been In
stalled in the school and this was de-
stroyed, the switchboard being pried
from the wall and broken into pieces
and the wires and tubes being ripped
from their fastening and cut.
In addition to this mischief the
desks, walls and floors were smeared
with a brown, sticky substance.
mo marks have been left to show how
entrance had been gained and that the
intruders were in no hurry is shown
by the remains of a watermelon feast
that they enjoyed in the building. The
matter was reported to Chief of Police
Rodgers and he is investigating.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-18
DAMAGING NOTES
ON PAIR ARRESTED
IN ALLEGED PLOT
Negress Employed in George
L. BroOks's BeIleville
Home in Tolls.

Anna Robinson, a negress, 20 years
old, a domestic in the home Of George
L.. Brooks, of S04 Main street, Belle
Vile, and Walker A. Colbert, a negro,
of BOA West Thirty-ninth street, New
York city, who said he vas the wom-
ans husband, were arrested in the
yard of the Brooks home last night on
a charge of entering into a conspiracy
to rob the Brooks house.
1t was disclosed that Colbert had
been living in the Brooks house since
last Friday, while Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks
were in Oneonta, N. Y. During this
time Leon and Miss Cora Antoinette
Brooks, a son and a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Brooks, were in the house.
A number of discriminating letters were
found on the negress. They were COM
mitted today by Police Justice Connell
in default of $500 bail each for the
grand jury.
The Robinson woman is
a dapper- looking fellow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks arrived home
yesterday. Mr.. Brooks had occasion
to go into the kitchen last night, and
found another domestic, Mrs. Mary
Teabout, who has been in the family a
number of years, sitting there. When
the owner Of the house asked her why
she did not go to bed the woman re-
piled that she could not, as the Robin
son woman a the keys to the room.
Further questions revealed that the
Robinson woman a had a companion
in the room since Monday. The other
two were then out taking a walk.
Earlier in the evening the Robinson
woman said she had "a gentleman
friend" visiting her. and asked permis-
sion for him to sleep in the barn. Mr..
Brooks said he was willing if the hired
man, also a negro, and who slept in the
barn, agreed. When he learned that
the fellow had been an inmate since
Friday he telephoned to the Belleville
police station, and Chanceman Patrick
Finn RESPONDED. The after found the
couple sought in the front yard. He
locked them up.
Among the letters found on the man
was one from the woman, in which she
told of the intended visit of Mr.. and
Mrs. Brooks to Opeonta, n invited
him to come and stay with her while
they were away.
She also mentioned that Mr.. Brooks
was making a present of a diamond
stickpin to DR.. Julius Becker, of New
York city. the fiance of Miss Brooks.
The pin, she said, was worth $500.