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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
ABERDEEN.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,


Miss Lee of Salt Lake, is visiting
with her aunt, Mrs. Nellie B. Foulks.
c. w. Brown made trip to Salt
Lake this week on business Connected
with the A. F. G. association.
Miss Jelia Harris was the guest of
u. c. Hurt and family last week.
Cool Alvord was out of school most
of last week on account of sickness.
E. l.. Myers and family spent Sat
urday and Sunday with M. L. Harris
and family.
Mr.. Hoffman of Madison, South
Dakota, is so well pleased with Idaho,
that he has taken homestead-the
Henry Palmer REIMBURSEMENT north
west of here.
R. A. Stearns has his new Aber-
deem residence almost ready for the
plasterers.
Invitations are out for the wedding
of Miss Mabel H. Johnson and D. E..
Arms. The marriage will take place
at "Rockhaven" the home of the
brides mother.
Mr.. Lockhead, salesman for the
Fred j. Keisel Co. of Ogden, Utah,
was here Friday soliciting orders
from the Hamilton Mere. Co. and
Henry Toevs.
M. L. Haines has just completed a
neat little cottage on his Carey land,
one-half mile southeast of Aberdeen
townsite.
The election for road overseer re-
suited as follows: Township 5, Geo.
A. Bartel; township 6, E. E. Boyles.
Mr.. Clark from Canyon City, Colo,
has bought forty acres of land joining
w. S. Alvord on the north. Mr..
Clark is horticulturist and contem-
plates planting the entire forty. He
is delighted with Idaho climate and
soil. Mrs. M. L. Hianes.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
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Mrs. Frank Martin left Tuesday
for st. Anthony, where she will visit
friends and relatives until after the
holidays.
Miss Clarice Just, Miss Myrtle Car
son and Leslie Just spent Saturday at
Blackfoot doing Christmas shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams and Mrs.
Burrell expect to leave in a few days
for Payette, where they will visit
several days.
George Howell ST., came into win
ter quarters last week. He has been
working on the reservoir site near
Henry during the fall.
Mrs. David Burrell and little
daughter Mary, left for their home
lat American Falls Saturday after an
extended visit with relatives at this
place.
Larson Bros. were up from their
ranch near Blackfoot Monday, buying
cattle in this locality.
Agnes Just Reid.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
ABERDEEN.



LEFT Over From Last Week.)
The stork paid visit at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Hepner. Tues
day, and left baby girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Foulks have
been absent for several days. Mr..
Foulks at Salt Lake City and Mrs.
Foulks guest at 1.-THE Remington"
American Falls.
Mr.. LOFTS and family and brother
in-law, Mr.. Hoffman, called on Mr..
and Mrs. Nate Newcomb, Sunday
afternoon. 1850
G. w. Brown and wife attended
the board meeting Of the A. F. G.
Association at Springfield. Saturday.
They report very enjoyable time
and said plans were being made to
hold a farmers institute in the near
future. A two days session at
Aberdeen and one day at Springfield.
Mrs. F. s. Hoskins called on Mrs.
C. L. Myers Saturday afternoon.
L. G. Partner left Saturday to make
a three months visit with friends in
Mendon, Ohio, his former home.
Miss Edith Alvord' made final
proof on her Carey land Saturday,
and will return to resume her school
work as first primary teacher at
HALEY
Some of the patrons were at work
on the Tabernacle Saturday, making
it more comfortable and convenient
for school purposes. They hope to be
able to complete their work next
Saturday. We have a fine board OF
school directors, who are certainly
doing their best.
was very delightfully."- surprised
when last weeks issue of The Repub-
lican reached me and saw my name
at the head of the list. | want to
thank my friends and supporters for
the interest they are taking in my
welfare and assure them that the
favor is very, very much appreciated.
Mrs. M. l.. Haines.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
WESTERN NEIGHBORs.


Chase Clark came down from
Mackay Monday with very large
specimen of mountain sleeps head
which he was taking to Salt Lake to
have mounted. The trophy was Sc
cured by George Warren of Mackay
and was killed on Alder creek about
five miles from Mackay. Guests at
the Cottage hotel were admiring it,
and pronounced it as fine a specimen
as they ever saw.
w. ]. Lamme of Challis and T. F.
Thomas of Moore came in Monday.
|. F. Deal, who has been working
for the Lost River Commercial Com
pany at Mackay, has accepted posi-
ton in Pocatello for the winter, and
went down Monday night.
A. S. Hall and A. S. Riser of
Puyallup, Washington, came down
from the eighty thousand acre
farm'-Powell tract-Monday on
their way home.
H. Colean, who has been in the
mercantile business at Howe, has
sold out to w. H. Bartel, Jr., who
took possession the first of December.
Mr.. Colean left Saturday for visit to
his old home in Oregon, and expects
IN ratrrrp In Eahrr
w. F. Butt was down from Arco
the last week and went home Monday.
Court Henderson and family of
Challis, have been visiting relatives
in Boise and returned home Monday.
Mr.. Henderson is the auditor in
Custer county.
Aleck Burnett Jr. was down from
Leslie Monday.
Ira George was down from Arco
Monday and went back Tuesday.
One Of the land agents of the Lit
tie Lost River reservoir project had
the unpleasant experience last FRI
day of accompanying a man whose
reason suddenly departed. The gen.
tleman travelled all the way from
Nebraska with the land agent and
was in apparently good health. AZ
ter his mind became deranged the
agent made haste for Arco and for
two days three men held the unfor-
tunate sufferer in bed, while his raw
ings we're pitiful in the extreme. His
wife was telegraphed and reply
soon ordered him to be sent to the
Nebraska home.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
Observation-Disclosures
GROvELAND.

Alma Jensen has moved his family
back from Mud Lake for the winter.
He is living in Mrs. Littlefield's
house.
Mr.. Bingham has built an addition
to his house, which is very roomy and
makes a great improvement In his
residence.
A number of farmers in Mcdonald
vile took up some dry farms last
week five miles north Of that place.
Messrs. Tibky, Kinney and Helstrom
were among the lot.
Fred Helstrom and John and Will
Anderson came down from Butte
Monday last to spend a few days with
Mr.. Helstrom's parents and to take
up dry farms. They returned to
Butte Saturday, where they are en-
ployed in the mines for the winter.
The primary officers are planning
for Christmas entertainment and
Christmas tree to be given the even
ing Of December 23rd. The reason
|of this date in preference to Christ
mas eve is that those in charge ex-
lpect to spend Christmas elsewhere.
Great flocks of ducks are to be
seen these days flying over.
A family by the name Of Stewart,
from Nebraska, has rented the farm
the Ashman boys worked last year.
They moved in last week.
Mr.. Meyers pupils planned sur
prise for him Tuesday evening just
after school. 1t was carried out
very successfully and indeed was
quite surprise to him. All spent a
merry hour and half together.
The pupils of the second inter-
mediate department neither absent
nor tardy during the month begin
ming November and ending Deem
Der 4th, were: Orlando Beasley,
Grace and Meta Bingham, Sylvia
Yapcey, Lena Petersen, May Bell and
Sherman Williams.
Mae Croskrey.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
The Largest Assortment of Beautiful
Frame Pictures
Ever Shown in Blackfoot

Consisting Of oil and water colors, many Of
them copies Of the most celebrated paint
ings This entire line is now on exhibition
at our store on Bridge, Street, and will be
sold at exactly half price, regardless Of cost
No picture in our stock reserved from
this great Cut Price Sale.
Nothing makes nicer or more appro-
pirate gift than beautiful picture, and this
is certainly line Of beauties.
You should make your selection early,
before the assortment is broken This is
an opportunity you cannot afford to miss.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
poRTERvILLE.

Observation-Disclosures. s.<+<+.<.t<4
U. W. Taylor has bought a sixty
.hree acre dry farm of w. T. Haw-
Key.
Miss Ada Kraack is staying in
3lackfoot at the home Of DR.. DIPPED.
Most of the young people here
yere to the dance in BlackfQot last
aturday evening.
Il Nearly all the dry land In the Big
send is taken up and the flat called
orter's Pasture. is being rapidly ia
EN-.
Isaac Johnston and Alma Jackman
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18

A man may not be master of his
sentiments. but he is always master
of his deeds.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-12-18
Neighborhood Notes
have sold their hay.

have sold their hay.
James Chapman and his son Eras.
tus, are working at the sugar fac.
tory. Josiah.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02
GUARDSMEN SHOOT WELL
ON A WINDY AFTERNOON
Fine Targets Made by the Militia Rifle Team at
the Fort Shafter Range--Bullets
Cut Through Steel.


the wind, crisscrossing as it did, To
do so was work of art, for each bull
let passed through several varying cur
rents of gale, and each current is sup
posed TO exert just enough influence to
carry the bullet away from the black
disc. But a bullet winging its way
through space at the rate of $500 feet
per second is going some, and little
thing like troubled air may not be
thought to have much influence, but
the marksman says it does.
While the pitmen were erecting half
dozen targets on the sandbank yes
terday, the rifiemen were divided into
squads of six each for skirmish fir
ing. Each target showed two silhou-
cite figures in black on its face-one
representing man lying prone, and
the other kneeling. Each man in the
squad faced a separate target. Mech
anism was looked after, gun barrels
looked into. breeches opened, clips hold
ing five cartridges each examined
sSlxirmishers, ready to fire at 600
yards! came the order from Major
Riley Down upon their stomachs, and
with guns in position, sights adjusted,
the squad awaited the final order for
two shots 1t came, and the quick
suffering was followed almost in
stantiy by the firt of dust far up the
gulch behind the six targets. Then up
on their feet the squad goes on the
double quick to the 500-yard range,
two shots follow, then another run to
the 400-yard bank, where three shots
are sent along; thep few more at the
$50 yards and moro at the 800 At the
200-yard range five shots are to be
fred in twenty seconds. This means
careful adjustment and good sighting,
for when the magazine has to be work
ed for each separate shot there ism t
much time to spare, especially when
the wind comes in puffs and unsteadies
the aim. Then follows a rush to the
targets, each man to his own. Many
are excellent, none poor, and all show
4 fine average The silhouette figures
IRE perforated with gimletlike holes.
Some have ten bullet holes, others five,
put the silhouettes stand for dead men.
But when 0ne stays down in the long,
pit where the targets are
worked and where the markers remain
Turing the firing, it is different story.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02
xeP.wack.k! P-wick ky

x'P-wack-k! Pwick-k!'
Travelling at the rate of $500 feet
per second, the nickel located needle
like bullet of the new Springfield rifle
which Uncle Sam has furnished to his
soldiers, both regulars and national
guardsmen. sounds upon the ear-drum
with a peculiar crack. And with
dozens of these missiles of death fly
ing over ones head as they pass
through the targets at Fort Shafter,
one feels that war can be about all
that General Sherman said it was.
There is a feeling that human flesh
would be like paper to these pretty
looking metal darts, and one has only
to glance up from the cement fortified
pit, where the targets are raised, to
the perpendicular steel signal-f rails
which now and then are indented by
the swift messengers, to see why. Deep
into the steel they sink where they
strike the thickest part, but where the
pointed bullet strikes an edge it gim-
lets its way through that and the plank
behind it. losing itself eventually far
up the gulch amongst the glue bushes
and rocks.
Yesterday the rife team, under the
command of Major Riley, who will di
rect its efforts at Camp Perry, and
Lieutenant Colonel Coyne, skirmished
over the range, now at 600 yards and
now at 200 yards, intent on placing
the pointed bullets through the black
discs.
The work of the team is interesting
not only from the sandbanks on which
the men lie to sight the targets, but
from the pit depths. Immediately be-
meath the targets, over which the bull
lets pass, In the face of a wind that
amounted almost to a gale, the team
really performed wonders with the
rifle. From the 600 yards range the /
rifiemen watched the flags flying at the I
pit and between. That at the pit t
pointed one way, while a couple of hun
bred yards lower down the next flag
pointed off in some other direction,
while third flag could be seen taking
an entirely different direction How
gauge the sights to meet the force of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02

Principals-Merle NJ. johnson. can
tain quartermaster, LIST Infy.; Charles
Nj. Coster, captain, Co. E, LIST Infy.;
Arthur w. Nicely, captain, eommissarv.
LIST Infy.; Orlando J. Whitehead. LIST
lieutenant, battalion adiutant. LIST
lnfy.; Luther A. K. Evans, LIST lieu
tenant, Co. 4. LIST Infy.; Edward Hop
klns, lst sergeant, Co. T, LIST Infy.
Jose Ferreira, sergeant, Co. F, Ist
Infy.; Jose Gouveia, corporal, Co. f,
lst lnfy.; John Stone, corporal, Co. f,
LIST lnfy.; Thomas J. K Evans, private,
re. A, 1st Infy,; William Chilling
worth, private, Co, A, 1st Infy.; Dude
K. Lemon, private, Co. A, LIST Infy.
Alternates-Edgar $. Barry, post
quartermaster sergeant, Quartermaster L
Department; Bradford NJ. sumner pri-
waite. Co. A, 1st Infy.; Edward B.
Blanchard, private, Co A, LIST Infy.
Captain-William R. Riley, major,
LIST Infy.
Coach = Arthur Coyne, lieutenant
colonel, LIST Inf.
Spotter-John W. Short. lieutenant
colonel, disbursing officer, Quartermas-
ter's Department.
me- OIicCio anu Gul1SIpU men
named in this order will leave Honolulu
for San Francisco on August S, 1908,
and proceed from there to Camp Perry,
Ohio, returning to Honolulu upon the
completion of the national competition.
Members of the team will be under
military discipline and subject at all
times to the orders of the team cap
tain.
3. Lieutenant Colonel John w.
Short, the disbursing officer, is author
lied to provide all necessary transport
tation, pay and subsistence for the
rifle team on its tour of duty, in con-
formity with General Orders No. 20,
War Department, February 90, 1908,
and the regulations of the War De
partment governing the organized mi
litia.
Although the team has the privilege
of going to the Coast on the next
transport, Colonel Jones and others be-
lieve that the men will arrive in better
shape by going on passenger liner.
Their going on the Alameda on We'd
nesday means a direct expenditure of
$500 for tickets alone
In place of Major Pratt, who yester-
day announced that he would no longer
trY to become a member of the team,
Private Blanchard of the Signal Corps
will be substituted Mr. Blanchard was
one of the "lucky thirty school teach
ersg who had the privilege of going
tosthe Coast on the last transport, but
in @the hope of making his number on
the rifle team he gave up his place to
another teacher, and was to be placed
no Int Ma Pratt -
name being included in the list. The
major off the list. he was yesterday sub
stituted under a special order from the
Adiutant General s Office.
JONES AND PRATT.
Major Pratt, Land Commissioner,
notified the National Guard
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02

The red flag has been taken down.
signal to the firing squad that every
body at the pit will remain down there,
and they can fire at will There are
benches to sit on, pots filed with paste
and boxes filed with black paper discs
and white discs of the size of quar-
ter, which are to be used IN covering
up the holes in the targets. There Is
also a telephone handy, which connects
with another telephone down at the
600.yard headquarters tent, There
are information discs of tin, and there
is danger, so the pit boys say, but they
don t seem to mind it, whatever it is.
You d better sit over here on this
bench," said one to the reporter as he
sat on a bench below a target. Look
ing up over the rear wall he saw a
steel rail elevated perpendieularly,
which sowed recent and old impacts OF
bullets, and vicious looking bites some
of those wounds were.
. You see sometimes a bullet hits
that rail or one of those other rails
farther along and shoots off down
here" said the head pitboy. A
couple of the boys have been hit that
way" The reporter moved over to the
safe bench.
"'That's the only way anybody can
be-
sounded overhead. At first thought
the newcomers in the pit thought the
marksmen were nlaying joke and had
crept up unawares, leveled their rifles
over the top of the parapet and fired.
"They re firing now from the 600
yard range said Colonel Coyne
- Funny sound, isn't it? Sounds as if
the boys shot right over your head.
The noise seems to be carried along
with the bullet. 1t IS the same out on
the field. too. A bullet passes by you
and you hear that same sound right
there, no matter whether it IS 600 or
400 or 200 yards, or right by you. It's
all the same. -
And so it did seem all through the
time the skirmishers ran from 600
yards to 200 yards and fired their 120
bullets. Then the pitboys got their
red flag, raised it at one side, waved it,
and then those who had had refuge in
the pit came out on the embankment
The skirmishers came up-well it look
ed as if a sand fortress had been sur
rendered.
And so the marksmen of the Ma
tional Guard of Hawaii have been
practising for a year, making ready to.
20 to the national shoot this year in
Ohio in the hope that Hawaii will be
among the initial numbers when the
prizes are given out.
Following is the official order desig-
mating the marksmen who will compete
1t Camp Perry:
!. The following named officers andfl
Enlisted men of the National Guard IF
Hawaii are detailed as members of the !
life team for the year 1908 to be sent
rom this Territory to the national |
match at Camp Perry, Ottawa County, |
ohio:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02

authorities that he had decided not to
endeavor to accompany the rifle team
to Camp Perry, thus leaving an open
ing for another member of the guard
to be appointed. Major Pratt person
ally saw the Governor and asked that
his name be withdrawn from the list.
He stated that he had misunderstood
the orders pertaining to himself, and
in addition he said he did not desire
to do anything that would disrupt the
guard in any way. His explanation of
the matter as prepared for the Gov
ernor is as follows:
Personnel of team: One team cap
tain, one team coach, one team spotter,
one range officer, twelve principals,
three alternates.
Pratt's proposition to Col. Jones:
"That he be appointed coach, spotter,
or range officer.
Col: Jones answered: f'We can {
afford to send range officer-funds
won t allow it. Two other officers have
understood that they are to go as coach
and spotter and have prepared, ana
should not at this late hour be dis
placed. Can arrange for Pratt to go
if he will request reduction from rank
of Lieutenant Colonel to rank of Cap
tain.''
Adiutant General Jones makes the
following brief comment on the above:
cit was never my desire at any time
to have Lt.-Col. Pratt go in any capa
city on the rifle team and | am pleased
that only men who have worked for
place thereon will go. Any arrange
ment made by me for Lt.-Col. Pratt
to go was in obedience to the expressed
desire of the Governor to whom Pratt
made application to go and with whom
he discussed the matter prior to my
having any knowledge of the matter.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02

Lots of new goods arrived per Ala
media for Sachs Dry Goods Co.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02
JONES AND PRATT.

Major Pratt, Land Commissioner,
yesterday notified the National Guard
Evening journal., 1908-09-18
MANY CASES
ARE FOR TRIAL
September Term of County
Court Will Open Here
on Monday

Tho September term OF General Ses-
sions Court in aud for New Castle
county will open here on Monday with
one hundred cases for trial, q larger
number than have come before the
court for several terms. Superior
Court. which viii open on the same
day. viii try I'VE cases and hear argu-
ment in thirty-two more. oyer and
Terminer Court. wthich win open on
the following Monday will try one
case that against Elwood Wiggin, col
ored. accused Of homicide. The three
courts are likely 10 be in session six
weeks.
OF the cases to be called in General
Sessions Court that against Benjamin
f. Spence, former city auditor, who is
accused OF embezzlement is likely to
attract the most attention. Trial OF
the case has been postponed for sew
eral terms because of the Illness of Mr..
Spence. An unusually large number Of
larceny and assault charges are on the
list for trial. as well as one Of alleged
criminal assault.
Evening journal., 1908-09-18
BRYAN SAYS STEEL
TRUST CONTRIBUTES

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK. Sept. lS.--Charging direct
that the Republican National Committee
did not dare make public before election
the amounts and contributors OF the direc-
torate Of the United States steel Company
William J. Bryan to-day reiterated his
declaration that the steel trust is financing
the Republican campaign. He declared;
Il state what everybody knows-that the
steel trust has never been prosecuted and
that no prominent Republican has ever
said anything In public against It. also
said that the steel trust supplied the
Republican treasury with funds that the
Republican National Committee does not
dare publish before election the contribu
tions they have and will receiver from
members OF the trust and It's subsidiary
corporations"
Mr. Sheldon. treasurer Of the RepublI
can National Committee virtually admits
this this morning in an interview. He is
as l understand Il. a director in many con-
stituent companies of the steel trust and
he is quoted as saying that he sees no
reason why individual directors IN the
trust should not contribute funds to the
party.
Bryan arrived here to-day from Har.
rington and Wilmington and will remain
in New York until to-morrow w. morning
when he goes. first TO New Haven. where
he will place a wreath on the grave OF
the late Colonel Alexander Troup, then tC
Providence for his speech.