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Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20
Irrigated Unirrigated Tracts

S45OO-Will buy tracts 35 and 36 of block No Il :
consisting of 10 acres each-20 acres. Thesa
tracts are located just a half mile due north AZ
the Hayden Lake schoolhouse on the east side
of the county road that leads north, and one mile
due west of the large poultry ranch at the lake
These are tracts that were selected from the
choice tracts of the first addition and plated
years ago. adjoining the west side of the beauti-
full Hayden lake. There is no question as to the
richness of the soil; as to the supply of water
there is a 14-inch water main running across
both tracts, from the northeast corner to the
southwest corner, and is now furnishing water
for many tracts on every side of these two tracts
mentioned There is no better water system n
the state. There is no better land location
than these two tracts. They are level; only half
mile from school and good general store
This property is worth $3.50 per acre. We also
have other tracts, consisting of from 2 to 20
acres, and ranging in price from 5000 to $3.50
per acre. INVESTIGATE THIS.
$15OO-Will buy acre tract, with 4-room resi-
dence with nice porches good woodshed and
poultry house, also 40 nice fruit trees. This is
a splendid chance to own home near the city
and raise poultry and fruit.
$25OO-Will take this acre tract of the very best
garden land, all fenced adjoining the city linn
it's. This is most beautiful tract for plating
into city lots acre tracts. 1t lies very high
and level, fronting so foot street, and adjOin-
ing a tract already plated
$45O-Two acres of nice level fruit and garden
land in of the additions. THIS is
GOOD BY.
S36OO-Will purchase this IL acre tract adjoining
the city limits. This is very desirable tract
and well improved, with good six room house
and good barn, poultry house and yard
and good shed; all fenced acres in cultivation
all level land with city water. One of straw
berries: of orchard of the best varities
of fruits; / in berries. This is a snap.
LOOK 1T UP
$17OO-Takes this 4-acre tract of level garden
land, with good 4-room house; good shed and
other outbudings; fine shade trees all fenced
and city water. This is located very close in.
A BARGAIN.
$1OOO-Will buy this 4-acre tract, very close in:
fronting a good street, all plowed ready for
garden, This must be sold quick. SNAP.
$9OO-Takes this 4-acre tract nice level fruit and
garden land with city water This is fine In
Yestment.
$55O-Will buy this 2-acre tract in Springwater
addition. No improvements. THIS is A SNAP
AND WE HAVE MANY MORE LIKE IT.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20

The germ faddist now says that
those pretty cigar bands which society
girls dote over and carefully preserve
In the best room are laden with ba-
cllll carried from the tongues Of the
slum girls who attach the bands.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20

Of timothy meadow, 3S acres now seeded to oat.
4 acres in orchard and garden. The orchars
consists of ITS assorted fruit trees mostly aDpIee
Some cherries prunes and pears; all kinds ~
small fruits. There is 36 acres Of good I'm
Der; this land is used for pasture; all im-
provements are No /. Fine 7-room Residence.
No. l large new frame barn and granerlas.
large stone cellar and other buildings This
is an ideal home and location. Terms, y cash
balance to years at per cent interess
All machinery and crops go with this sale
This is a good investment.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20
Lake Frontage

We have some very desirable tracts consisting Of
from 81 to 80 and up. The prices ara
right. We have some very fine beach with yerv
desirable building locations 1t you are look
ing for something frst-class, we would be pleas
ed to show you what we have. Call and see ne
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20

is also a pumping plant located the river
for irrigation purposes. This land is especially
adapted for fruit growing and vegetable raising.
Three acres of this land produced $1,000 in
tomatoes last There is better fruit
land or climate than this in the west. If you
looking for an investment of this kind, let us
hear from you.
100 acres, all No / fruit land, with 5000 bearing
apple trees of the best winter and some fall
varities; $50 bearing peach trees of the very
best varities, also so cherry trees all In bearing,
and some fine varities of plums, pears, apricots
and prunes, also all kinds of small fruits such
as Strawberries, raspberries, currants ETC.. a
splendid Groom residence and a large barn.
This farm is well improved and the location is
ideal. Railroad station within few rods
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20
IDLEWILD PARK

The ideal residence portion of the city, only IL lots
of which are fronting east on Fourth street and
front west on Third street, 2 of these lots are
corners size 6Ox15O feet and 10 inside lots
size 50x150 feet This is the most beautiful plat
of residence locations in the city, being located
just eleven CID blocks north of sherman street.
and between Third and Fourth streets. This Is
the first time this property has been offered for
sale. Who will be the first to make selection
of one or more of these beautiful lots? They
won't last long, so look them up at once.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20
Robt. w. Collins
SUITE 8 WGoETT BLOCK

Land Irrigated Tracts Timber Lands The North offers
better
men than other section West Kootena Dadem
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-20
GARDEN LANDS

for sale at bargain. We will sell all together
or will divide it. There is no better land or lo-
cation; city water; land perfectly level; brush,
and heavy black soil. The price is right. Look
it up at once if you want something first class
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
MISSIONARIES LITTLE JOKE.
He Heightened the Day by Several
Hours for Korean Village.

The Koreans in the vicinity of Seoul,
the capital city, and around the treaty
ports are fast losing their early guile
lessness in trying to follow the march
of western civilization. In the noun
tains of the interior, however, condi-
lions are much the same as in the
days when Korea could justly be
termed the Hermit nation" and the
inhabitants knew little and cared less
about Occidental progress.
Among the American missionaries
who were in the habit of making pro-
tracted trips in the interior of the
country there was one who, in addition
to being jealous worker, was also a
good deal of a wag.
On the occasion of one of his inland
journeys he found himself at nightfall
in a small village, where he was to
spend the night in the straw matched
dwelling of one of the native converts
The sleeping chamber was the usual
tiny room, heated by a system of fues
beneath the mud floor and rendered
nearly alright by closely fitting oil
paper windows and doors.
1t was fearfully hot, and about mid
night the American could stand it no
longer; so he strolled out in the open
for breath of air. The village was
wrapped in slumber, so just for joke
and with no Interior motive the mis-
sionary let out a 1usty imitation of
ROSTERS crow. This was Immediately
taken up by a wakeful bird in court
yard near by, and in few minutes
every fowl was adding his morning sa-
lutte to the general chorus.
Now, watches and alarm clocks
were an unknown luxury in the vii
lage, and the people were accustomed
to time their rising hour by the roos-
tiers. In a few moments, therefore, the
sleepy Koreans came struggling out of
their little huts, and after starting the
fires on which to boil the morning rice
lighted their long bamboo pipes and
squatted round in little groups to wait
for sunrise.
Their amazement can be imaa he'd
when the hours went by and still there
were no signs of light in the east.
'1run chame,' said one to another,
as with open mouth he pondered over
the phenomenon
Years have passed since then, but in
at least one village in Korea all events
still date back to the night when the
morning didn't come.'-Youth's Com
panion-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

A man is also the architect of his
misfortune.
The manufacturer of cradles makes
plenty of rocks.
The best way for a woman to man
age her husband is not to let him
know it.
We spea kof a fellow as a comins
man when he makes a go of it.
Artists models, as well as book
keepers, should be good at figures.
A coat of paint won't always make
an old woman look as good as new.
A seat in a crowded car is a conun-
drum that a gallant man always gives
up.
A chestnut sometimes demonstrates
the fact that a worm will turn when
bitten upon.
Without being a student of physiog-
nomy the barber can generally size up
a man by his mug.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
Price OF Food Increased.

Increase in the price of grain and
foodstuffs throughout India has be
come a serious matter on account of
the poverty of the masses and the low
wages paid for labor, according to .
report made by Consu1General VIII
liam B. Michael to the bureau of
manufactures He says that food
stuffs have advanced 40 per cent. dur
ing the last two years in India; rents
from so to so per cent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

DIR. Norman Ditman has received
the Gibbs prize of $4,000, offered by
the New York academy for the best
original research work on the kidneys
The prize was founded to create an
interest in the study of Bright's dis
ease DR.. Ditman's investigations
tried to account for the unnecessary
two-thirds of mans meat diet, and to
see If this had any close connection
with the poisons present in the sys-
tenn of a person afflicted with Bright's
disease.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

Germany in 20 years has increased
Its yearly mining product from 100
10000 metric tons to 242, 500 900
metric tons, worth $439, 0S6, 200. Coal
forms IS per cent of the output Other
minerals are salt, iron ores, copper,
lead. zinc, pyrites, gold, silver, man
ganese, arsenic. saltpeter, vitrfol and
alum. The workmen number about
100000, and the companies about
1000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

An aeroplane garage has been con-
structed on the roof of building in
Paris Why not call it a roost?
After all one can find a certain de-
gree of Christian charity for the man
who committed suicide because his
wife insisted in walking him up at three
o'clock in the morning and talking TIC
him. For a gentle spirit there was ev
identity no other defense.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

There has recently been opened in
one of London's fashionable streets a
toilet club for dogs. There the pets
OF the smart set can have their hair
dressed and their coats trimmed to
immaculate perfection For three shil-
hngs they can be bathed. If their
teeth are imperfect they can be filled
or extracted. and If their claws pro-
trude too far they can be daintily mani
cured
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

Cornetists standing in the belfry OF
the Park Street church in Boston
played America" at noon on October
FL, in honor of the one hundredth an
nfversary of the birth of Rev. s. F.
Smith, the author of the words sung
to the music in this country. Amer
lea" was first sung publicly in this
church. on July 4, 1892
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

When the officers of the American
battleships arrived at Tokyo last
month they were welcomed by crowds
of school children, who sang Hail
Columbia and other American songs
in English. When have American
school children ever welcomed foreign
visitors by singing songs in their ma
tive tongue?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

A simplified spelling society in Eng
land wants to have school children
taught to spell by ear. To show how
tastes differ, it is a matter of common
complaint among business men here
that some of the graduates of the COM
mon schools spell that way now
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

Can the proposition that the mini
mum salary for an unmarried Episco-
palian clergyman in the diocese of
New York should be 81 200 and for a
married clergyman 1900 with suit
able place to live in, or $1,000 in
money, be taken as an official state
ment of the exact cost of a wife?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

About $50 buffalo, remnant of the ia
nous Pablo herd recently purchased
by the Dominion government, will be
taken from Montana and placed in the
new buffalo park on Baltic river, a
thousand miles northwest of Winni-
peg The animals now are being
rounded up by Michael Pablo in Mon
tana and will be brought north in spe-
cfal trains.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

DIR. Hills thinks the millennium has
arrived. The man who needs IA tons
of hard coal and doesn't know where
he is going to get the money to pay
for 1t is probably convinced that a
millennium doesn't amount to much,
after all.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

In view of the fact that the price OF
stock exchange seats in New York
has jumped recently from $4,000 to
SIS, 900, it is a little discouraging to
learn that the owner of a pew in fash
ionable Grace church, on lower Broad
way, which he bought for $4,000, has
been able to get only $1,1O0 bid for
It at auction
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

Asbestos sheets are being instituted
under the mattresses of sleeping cars
on some of the railways of the United
States to shut out the heat from the
radiators underneath.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

Philadelphia boasts of a. magazine
devoted exclusively to aeronautics.
One of those fy-by-night publishing
concerns. Ell?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

The elevator originated in central
Europe. The earliest mention of the
elevator is made in a letter of Ma
poleon I. addressed to his wife, Arch
duchess Maria Louise.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
Married the Dressmaker.

How about your marriage2 Al
broken on Some days before nay
nancee showed me her dressmaker's
bill She had one for 5000 In two
weeks" 81 understand why you are
not married. Pardon, 1 have married
the dressmaker.'.Sava Morning
News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

1t is claimed that the mound build
ers were the first baseball players, but
nobody has ever discovered anything
to indicate that they were the first
umpire manners.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

est item on the list-$2S, zoo, 900 paid
in wages to telegraphers and dispatch
ers, an army of 10000 men "at the
key" This is more money than all
the telegraph companies in the coun-
try spend in wages.
And then the item at the top of the
list-$21O,0 100000 in wages to shop
men You know, perhaps, that rail-
roads have shops, where they mend
broken wheels and put new paint on
cars. But did you ever know that the
railroad shops of the country employ
an army of 100000 men earning $780,
100000 year in wages? This repair
end of the railroad business is bigger
than the business of the Steel corpora
ton itself-more men and more
wages.
The army of shopmen has a big job.
In the shops of the big railroads loco
motives and cars are built as well as
repaired. The smaller roads buy their
equipment from the Independent build
ers, but there is no road so small but
that it has its shops for repairing
equipment. The railroads own 22OO,-
900 cars-of which $4,000 are pas
senger cars. Made up into one train
these cars would stretch around the
earth, and to every fortieth car there
would be a locomotive, for the rail-
roads have $4,000 in service You
could carry every man, woman and
child in America in this train, allow
ing only 40 passengers to a car. It's
the business of the third of a million
shopmen to keep these two and a
quarter million cars and locomotives
in running order.
A bigger army still is that on the
track-430,000 men, made up of AZ, 900
section foremen-the bosses-and 1885,
600 humble workers, the lowest paid
men in the service, averaging eight
dollars a week. But they take six dol
lars out of every 800 of railroad rev.
enue, or $3.50, 1000, 900 a year, and no
small part of this money finds its way
back to the old country Many a
good American citizen of to-day
earned his first money in this country
as member of a track gang.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
Depends On Your Liver.

the melancholy man, "is life worth
the living? WELL replied the wise
old doctor, "that depends largely upon
the liver. "-Philadelphia Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

The American Humane society ia to
arrange a plan to war on cruelty, and
victims of the mammoth hat are
hoping for relief.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

You remind me of broken pump,
DOCTOR" said the druggist How sc!
queried the M. d. You can draw
nothing from the well,' replied the
pill compiler.-Chicago News
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

A western observer says that almost
all the street railway companies now
run "Pay-as-you-enter" cars.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

aries paid the heads of transconti-
mental roads. The average daily earn
ings of the officers and men of the
railroad forces is here shown:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

What is more potent than the dol
lar?" oh few millions OF IL.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

Mrs. Langtry is 90 years old, but at
q little distance you can scarcely mo-
tfce it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
A Horse the Safer

when you have an automobile
said Mr.. Chuggins, enthusiastically
you depend on your own intelligence
entirely. Now. it's altogether differ
ent when you drive a horse yes,
answered the unassuming man, that's.
one reason why 1 thi2k maybe a horse
is safer.'-Washingto Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

The other three-Quarters Is spent on
various materials, coal and steel being
the principal items. The coal bill for
the locomotives is the biggest single
item-S185, 100000. Besides the coal
bill, there is spent for locomotives
$1O,OOO,0O0 on water, $6,000.000 on oil,
tallow and waste, and 100000 on
other supplies than 5000, 000,0 900
in all. The tie bill is big-$4O, 900, 900,
bigger than the rail bill-$25, 900, 900.
Stationery and printing costs 81, 000,-
900, advertising 100000 wrecks and
other damage $22,00O,0OO, clearing
away wrecks $4,000, 900, killing and in
juring people $4,000, 900, insurance
$500, 000-and so on through a score
of items all in the millions.
Share of the Owners.
A glance at the table at the begin
ming of this article shows that after
the railroads pay out of their revenues
40 per cent. for wages, % per cent. for
materials, ETC., and three per cent for
taxes, there is still left 80 per cent. OF
the revenues. The creditors-that is,
the bondholders, spread all over the
face of the earth-owning $4,000, 000,-
900 of American railroad obligations,
get Is per cent. of the revenues. This
nets them 81 per cent. on the par
value of their bonds. There is still 10
per cent. left. OF this IL per cent.
goes to the shareholders-the half mill
lion owners. They receive 100000, 900
a year out of the $4,000, 100000 earn
ings, which nets them only SO per
cent. on their $4,000, 900, 900 of stock.
The other seven per cent. of the earn
ings goes into surplus.
Such, in brief, is the story of the
country's biggest business, the opera
ton of 100000 miles of railroads.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

rs she a well preserved woman ?"
yes, guaranteed under the food and
drug act.'-Town and Country
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
Third Largest Railroad Army.

The train crews, with $4,000 en-
ginemen, fremen, conductors and
trainmen, make up the third largest
railroad army, but they head the wage
list with $685.. 100000 year. They get
more than dollar out of every ten
received by the railroads.
Here is shown the makeup of the
railroad army:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26

ne DlSS6SC DuS1-
" ness in the country is rail-
reading.
If all the railroads in the
country (there are $500 of
them) could hoard from day
to day the money they gather in for
moving passengers and freight, at the
end of a year there wouldn't be dol
lar left anywhere else in the country.
Every piece of metal and paper cur
rency in the country would be in the
railroad, treasures.
The railroads earn in a year five
times the whole worlds output of
gold, thirty times this country's gold
output; they take in four times as
much money as the Steel corporation,
i've times as much money as the gov
ernment itself more money than is
represented in all our trade overseas.
It's big business that takes in
81, 500, 900, 900 in year; this is $1,000
900 a day-seven million dollars a
day!
And $3,500,000 of this money, every
day of the year, goes into the pay en-
velopes of the workers. For half the
money gathered in by the railroads
half of this $2,60O, 100000 a years.
the workers share of this biggest of
American businesses. So in two years
the railroad workers receive in their
pay envelopes as much money as
there is in circulation in the whole
country.
Big figures these! There is the
humble trackman, usually an alien
from the slums of Europe, who dog
gedly obeys the orders of the track
foreman Out of every 500 gathered
in by the railroads, six dollars goes to
him-hve times as much as goes to
the railroad officials. The figures are
big, you see, whether you start from
the bottom or the top.
Let us see what becomes of every
800 received by the railroads in their
two-and-a-half- billion-dollar business.
Workers on railroads Q,7o0, 900 men) S 40
Dealers in railroad materials Chiefly
the steel and coal trades). .... q
Creditors Hundreds of thousands of
The owners (500, 900 investors. p
For the surplus Improving the prop
ertD ---------..---.-----..-
Aoeal ----------------.----- 800
Workers actually get $50 out of
caxve Co.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-12-26
A RiIIion-DoIIar Pay Roll.

Iotai wages 81 900, ooo. 900
When you look over this billion-dol-
lar pay roll you get an idea of the big
ness of railroading. Take the small