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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
Drowned In Hotel Water Tank.

Helena. Mont.-News was brought
10 this city Monday of the drowning
at Radersburg Of the little daughter,
aged two and one-half years, of Will
liam Haldaway. The child fell into
a water tank in the kitchen Of the
Raderburg hotel, of which Mr. Hald-
away is proprietor. L is not known
how long she was in the tank. but
when found she was almost dead. The
child's parents we're unable to revive
her and there was no physician in the
neighborhOod
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
LOCAL OPTION LAW VALID.
Idaho Court Upholds Measure Passed
by Last Legislature.

Idaho Court Opholds Measure Passed
by Last Legislature.
Boise, Idaho.-In the district court
on Wednesday, Judge Wood held con
stitutional the local option law passed
by the last legislature The act was
attacked on behalf of the liquor inter
ests and the assam. presented the
form of an appeal from the order Of
the Ada county commissioners in or
dering an election for September g..
The opponents Of the law held it
should go down under the decision oil
the supreme court in the eighth ju-
dicial case. Judge Wood admits the
law is imperfect, but says it does not
present Inconsistencies sufficient to
justify him in declaring it repugnant
to the constitution. An appeal may be
taken to the supreme court. but it is
not likely an expression can be Sc
cured from that tribunal before the
date set for the election.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
JAPANESE KILLED
BY EARTHQUAKE
SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN CEN
TRIAL JAPAN CAUSES LOSS
OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
The Dead Is Said to Number Thirty.
While Many Were Injured, Hun
dreds Of Buildings Being De-
stroyed or Damaged

Tokio.-Reports received concern
ing the earthquake in central Japan
on Saturday show that there was a
number of fatalities and that great
damage was done to property The
dead at present is said to number
thirty. though it is feared that the IA
talities will be greatly increased in
the outlying districts when heard
from.
The number Of persons injured is
81. Thus far S62 buildings including
many temples, are reported to have
been destroyed and more than 1000
Others badly damaged.
The shock occurred at $3.50 O'Clock
Saturday afternoon and affected
wide area in the Shiga and Gifu pre-
lectures. The town Of Ozaku in Gifu
suffered terribly The banks of the
Hida river there broke and the coun-
try was inundated. The people of the
district fed to higher ground and re-
NAMED in the open all night Inter.
mittent shocks were felt throughout
Saturday night and early Sunday
morning. The mountain IbuM. a
short distance west of Gifu, emitted
smoke in the early stages Of the
earthquake and then collapsed with
thunderous roar.
Slight damage was done at Nagoy.
to the southwark of Gifu, and neigh
boring villages.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
Russia sits Up and Takes Notice

St. Petersburg. Apprehension has
been aroused in political circles here
by the energy displayed by the Jap
anese in pushing the reconstruction
of the Antung- Mukden railroad, the
strategic importance of which is fully
realized in st. Petersburg. Even a
greater degree Of disquietude. however.
has been caused by the Japanese plans
for a naval base at the mouth or the
Tumen river to be connected by rail
road with Kirin. This project is con
sidered as verging on an infraction of
the Portsmouth treaty - peace.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19

London.-Unless Greece complies
with the demand of Turkey and
forces the people OF Crete to haul
down the Greek flag which they have
hoisted, the four protecting powers
OF Crete, Great Britain. Russia, Italy
and France, viii perform this act,
using force If necessary. This was
the substance of joint note signed
by the four powers and presented
to the Turkish government on Sat
urday. In order to carry out this
policy and to be prepared to use
force If necessary, additional war
ships Will be sent to Genoa.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
Prohibits pemonstratIon Of striker

Stockholm.-The police on Monday
prohibited a great demonstration ar
ranged by the strikers. The attempt
20 force the agricultural workers to
strike and to refuse to harvest the
crop has proved failure. Hotel pro-
prietors are appealing to the military
governor of the city for permission 10
supply alcoholic liquors to guests who
lake substantial meals in their places
On the ground that the prohibition
against such service is seriously af-
iecting their tourist trade.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
lRRIeArIoNlsTs ADJouRNs.
Ask for a Ten Million Dollar lrri
cation Fund From Congress.

cation Fund From Congress.
Spokane.-With the election OF Of
hcers, the selection of Pueblo. Colo,
as the next meeting place, the pas
sage Of resolutions commencing both
he efforts of Pinchot and Newell in
The forestry and reclamation bureaus.
asking s1O,0OO00O irrigation fund
from congress and commencing the
Mississippi deep waterway, the
seventeenth National Irrigation con-
gress came to a practical adjourn
ment Friday afternoon.
All remaining traces of the Bal
linger Pinchot hostilites disappeared
on the last day of the congress with
perhaps a mention now and then by
some kindly disposed speaker.
Richard W. Young OF Utah was
elected second vice.president, and l..
Newman of Montana. third vice-pres.
ident.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19

San Francisco.-A brutal murder
was revealed when the dead body OF
Agnes Brascesso. a young laundry
worker with the throat cut and the
head beaten almost to a pulp. was
found in the room Of lodging house
on Post street. occupied Jointly by
George Curry, motorman, and L. d.
Prosser. a conductor The remains
were found by Prosser when he went
10 the room. Curry who is a paroled
convict from San Quentin, where he
VAS committed for manslaughter, later
committed suicide
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19

San Rafael Cal.-Milionaire Will
liam B. Bradbury, sentenced to serve
a term in San Quentin for perjury.
must remain in the Marin county Jail
until the termination OF a thirty DAYS
reprieve granted him recently by
Governor Gillette. Such was the de-
cision of Superior Judge Lennon on
Saturday, after hearing arguments on
an application for the release on pa
role Of the aged capitalist. In deny
ing the writ. Judge Lennon said that
even now Bradbury was defrauding
the court of $40 given him by mistake
BY the clerk.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
CRIPPLE CAUSES TRAGEDY.
Former Railroad Man Kills Woman
and Injuries Two More.

Goldheld. Nev.-Patrick c. Casey,
formerly a railroad man of San
Francisco, on Monday night shot and
instantly killed Mrs. Thomas Heslip,
wife Of a we'll known mining engi-
neer, seriously wounded Mrs. Alice
Mann and stabbed Frank Dunn, an
undertaken.
Casey, who came here four months
ago, was drinking, when he saw Mrs.
Heslip and Mrs. Mann sitting on the
doorstep of the Heslip home. After
killing Mrs Heslip, he shot Mrs.
Mann twice in the leg. Dunn inter
fered and was stabbed in the shout
der. His injuries are not serious.
Mrs. Mann may not recover. Casey,
who has but one leg, made no effort
to escape. After his arrest, there
were threats of lynching
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
Plenty Of Work for UnskIIled Laborers

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. has been found
for 5000 persons during the last six
weeks through the Information division
of the department of commerce and
labor Most Of them have gone to the
wheat fields Of the northwest al
though, according to a statement made
by the department, labor is much in
demand in factories as well as on the
farm. The division of information,
under a ruling by Assistant Secretary
McHarg, is confined in its operations
to unskilled labor, the labor organiza-
tons having protested against the ac-
tivity on the part Of the government
looking to the employment Of skilled
labor.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
Girl wife is Slain with Babe in Arms.

San Misunderstanding her baby
IN her arms. Mary Bergstrom, the 16-
yearold wife of a Southern Pacific
switchman, was shot in a lodging
house on Fourth street early Monday
and died within an hour. August
Bergstrom, the husband, who claims
to have entered the room just as the
shot was fired, told the other dodgers
and the police that his wife had com
mitted suicide. He was taken to the
city prison and is held pending an in
vestigation.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
ELEcTRocUTED IN BATHTUs.
Prominent Montanan Comes to Death
in Peculiar Manner.

Butte, Mont.-Byron M. Whitney
one of the oldest and best known
builders and contractors in the city,
was found dead in the bathtub of his
apartments on the third floor of the
Phoenix block on Monday afternoon
by the janitor Of the building, Charles
Lair. DIR. ]. B. Freund, who made an
examination, stated that it was a
plain case of electrocution; that
Whitney's hand was probably wet
when he turned on the key, and, hold
ing the bulb Immediately next to his
heart, the shock had been complete
and death instantaneous.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
CHANGE OF RULERS.
Elidore Villazon Sworn in as Presi-
dent of Bolivia.

La Paz Bolivia.-Elidore Villazon
was inaugurated as president of Bo-
livia on Thursday in succession to Is
mail Montt. Owing to the fact that
Villazon is believed to favor Argen-
tina's award against Bolivia in the
boundary dispute between Bolivia
and Peru it was expected that dis
orders would ensue. There has been
no trouble. however. The lower
classes strongly opposed Gene4al
Manuel Jose Pando, newly appointed
minister Of foreign affairs. because he
favors accepting the Argentina award.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
MILIrIA cALLED oUT.
Twenty-four Men Injured in Riot Of
Dock Laborers.

D0SN -a1Oi G.
Fort William, Ont-FOr the first
time in its history, Fort William is
under martial law. This resulted
from a fight waged on special Cana
dian Pacific police on Thursday by
1000 striking dock laborers.
Twenty men were injured
three fatally, including Chief Ball of
the railway company's local force and
two strikers.
A regiment of militia was called out
after Mayor Pelletier had read the
riot act
The strikers had twenty-five rail
way constables penned up In the
Canadian Pacific railroad bunk house.
They fired through the windows and
were preparing to storm the house
when the police persuaded them to
desist
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
STEAMERS ON soTH COASTS.
Plan to Block Freight Discrimination
Across lsthmus Of Panama.

Across lsthmus Of Panama.
Baltimore, Md.-Bernard N. Baker,
of this city, who has, at the instance
Of President Taft, been investigating
the matter of freight rates over the
Panama railroad, has prepared his re-
port 10 the president bearing on al
legged Determinations to the Panama
railroad and Panama Steamship com
pany against American commerce
crossing the isthmus.
Mr.. Baker recommended that the
government encourage establishment
Of an Independent line or lines Of
steamers on each coast, which shall
connect with the Panama railroad
The plan proposed is comprehensive
and does not contemplate that the
government shall enter the steamship
business.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
YOUTHS ROB BANK.
Secure $1,000, But Are Captured With
In Two Hours.

San Francisco-TwO men armed
with shotguns and unmasked walked
into the Valley bank of Santa Clara,
shortly after 10 O'Clock Friday. and
covering the cashier and his three
clerks. demanded $1,000. After secur-
ing the money they fed In a waiting
automobile. but were captured two
hours later seven miles from town,
submitting without resistance.
When the fugtives surrendered to
the menacing influence Of rifles and
shotguns, it was discovered that they
were little more than boys. Neither
appeared to be over is years of age,
and it was evidently their first at
tempt at such a crime.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
LOST ON DESERT.

Aged Woman Lives a Week In an
Abandoned Tunnel.
San Bernardino, Cal.-Mrs. Ella
Mccormick, an S0-year-old woman.
who had been lost on the desert
was found in the tunnel of the aban-
doned Daley-Moore mine on the edge
OF the desert She had wandered
for fifteen miles out of her way and
had lived for almost a week on gro
ceries which she had when she start
ed to her homestead when she be-
came lost. Her sufferings were ter
rible, she said
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-19
PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE.

Forty and Fifty Injured.
Colorado Springs persons
are dead and others are expected to
die, between forty and fifty were in
iured; three engines are in the ditch.
two baggage cars, including the con
tents were smashed, and several
passenger coaches are badly damaged
as the result of a head-on collision
between eastbound passenger train
No and westbound passenger No.
1 on the Denver & Rio Grande, near
Hustled, thirteen miles north OF this
city at 1925 a. m. Saturday. The
wreck was due to a Misunderstanding
Of orders.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-06
Ashes Quickly Disposed OF.

The newest liners now dispose Of
their ashes by forcing them through
the bottom OF the hull by means Of
compressed air. The old method Of
hosting them and dumping them over.
board was disagreeable to the passen.
gers, and an attempted improvement
by which they were mixed with water
and pumped overheard was equally 30
when the wind was in the wrong quar-
ter.
In the new "expeller" hopper re-
ceives the ashes and clinkers and de.
livers them into crusher. which
breaks up the large pieces. Below this
is q drum revolving In a water-tight
casing and open as 1t turns first to the
crusher chamber and then To the dis
charge pipe below. In order to coun.
teract the upward pressure Of the
water compressed air at about seventy
pounds to the square inch Is delivered
to the interior Of the ash filled drum
Just before Its opening comes opposite
that in the discharge pipe.
Thus the ashes are expelled with
such force that they are swept clear OF
the bottom of the vessel. This expsller
will get rid OF the ashes and clinkers
from forty-eight furnaces under forced
draught. amounting to eight or ten
tons an hour.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-06
CRAZE TO MAKE MONEY.
Happiness Jeopardised ~ vield1nG
to the "Fiest CONFEDERATION"

Happiness Jeopardised ~ Welding
60 the "Fiest Confederation"
There is one grave danger that
threatens us as result Of the money.
making spirit of this age. and this Is
the possibility that we may entirely
lose our capacity for enjoying any.
thing for its own sake apart from its
commercial value. In all classes Of 80.
ciety is there not perpetual striv.
ing to turn everything into q money.
making concern?
Few people study music for the en-.
joyment Of It nowadays" said the head
Of one Of our most important schools
Of music to me recently. says the ed
itor Of the Girls Own Paper and wom-
ans Magazine. Everybody wants to
make It pay? Has girl voice Of
medium caliber? Promptly her people
have her voice trained with q view
to her taking up music professionally,
and this quite irrespective Of whether
she needs to earn money or not. And
the same thing appears In other direc.
lions. No sooner has the beginner
learned to focus Q camera than he OF
she invariably starts to send impos
sible Quarter-plate prints to magazine
editors. Holidays are no longer holi
days in the old.fashioned restful sense
Of the word. They are 10 much copy
to b written up later and sent to mag
azines.
And then look at the efforts that
are made to let the house In town
before many family starts for holi
day. Why leave that standing idle?
said an apparently well.todo man Il
me. when It might be bringing in q
much q week while We are away!
Our grandmothers would have consid
cred It positive sacrilege to allow
strangers the run Of the home. But
then, moneymaking was not necessari
ly the first consideration with them
Perhaps some one may say that these
days differ from our grandmothers
time. Life IL 80 much more expen
sive: more money IL needed on every
hand; and unless everything IL turned
to financial account we cannot keel
pace with the times. This may be true
But--are we any happier. any better
any healthier for all the money We A.,
making-and spending even faster tina,
we make ~"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-06
WOMEN. sHY1ocxs IN ENGLAND.

DiMculty In supprcssinG Ussrers
who Extort Heavy lnterest.
Despite tho stringent regulations Of
the money lenders act. the police are
experiencing great dihficulty In stamp.
lag out the unregistered money lender.
Especially 10 this the case with the
female "Shylocks" who infest all the
great cities Of England.
But an occasional police court case
or verdict of coroner's Jury reveals
the methods Of these sharks. The
other day at Liverpool a woman was
charged with lending money without
being registered under the act. says
an exchange. This person charged In.
terest at the rate Of 2 pence on every
shilling lent for week. or 500 pc,
cent per annum. In addition to this
she compelled her clients to buy fish
and general produce from her at high.
er prices than the market warranted,
20 that the interest was we'll over 1000
per cent per annum.
In London the female money lender
may be found both in the east end and
the west end. In the former she 10
generally one Of the people themselves.
a thrifty person who possesses few
pounds when the rest Of the neighbors
are continually hard up" Then she
let's 1t be known that she will lend a
shilling for week and charge penny
interest, and as this seems very rea.
sonable she has plenty Of custom. It
Is extraordinary. considering the
smallness of the loan, how very seldom
the principal Is repaid. Her clients.
mostly women, prefer to keep on pay.
Ing the penny interest from week to
week. The vicar OF a large London
parish said a short time ago that he
knew womamn who had paid 80 shil-
lings interest on loan. Usually the
period of interest paying Is a year. by
which time the shilling Is repaid. al.
though the borrower has already hand
ed over 4 shillings 4 pence In inter-
est.
A big trade In done in loans of 81.
the interest being l shilling week.
or 262 per cent per annum. Occasion.
ally one hears Of bigger transaction,
such as that revealed at an inquest
last year when It was proved that tho
victim had actually paid 5000 In In.
terest on loan Of fl2. and committed
suicide because the woman she borrow.
ed from was pressing her for imme.
diate repayment Of the principal.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-06
EAOLETS.

"A st. Louis widow declares good
husbands are hard to find." How
many does she want?
<6
The Biographies will have to be re.
vised and that means more dividends
for the school book trust.
Mr.. Taft confesses that he can't
milk COW. We have serious doubts
also concerning King Edwards ability
In that direction.
A Boston physician says It Is q
crime to remove the vermiform ap.
pendix. Unfortunately the operation
often precedes funeral. too.
~9A
As practically all Of the rest Of the
records have been broken this year,
why not complete the list by smash,
Ing the photograph records?
Yes. fellow citizens. your Uncle Sam
sits on the North Pole, rests one foot
on the Far East. the other on the Far
West, and with his horny hands digs
a ditch across the middle OF the hem
isphere. while his sons capture all the
prizes of the air and earth. (Deafen.
ing applause.)
Census.taking is dimcult business
In Mexico. where the masses are In
fear that the enumeration means com.
pulsory military service or more taxes.
Consequently. the coming census In
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-06
Handicapped.

"Precocious children do not always
grow up to be geniuses."
mo-" answered Miss Cayenne.
Sometimes they are kept SO busy
thinking up odd things for their faith.
srs to tell downtown that they neglect
the ordinary branches Of education"
Washington Star.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-06

The eyes Of . chameleon move indie
oendsntly Of each other.
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THE COLLEGE WIDOW" AT THE
COLLEGE.
HELLO. BILL" AT THE MAR

That rip.roaring farce. Hello. BILL"
will be the attraction at the Marlowe
theatre all next week, commencing
Monday night, and the splendid Mar.
win Stock Company should be seen at
its best in 1t. Corliss Giles and Miss
Louise Randolph will portray the
leads.
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80 UuUs uUUoUU eUV~
BLANCHE WALSH IN NEW PLAY
AT MCvICKERS.
Blanche Walsh, the most distin.
guished emotional actress on the Amer.
lean stage will begin two weeks
engagement in Mcvicker's theatre,
Sunday, November Z, when she will
appear in the new play, "The Test"
by Jules Eckert Goodman. Miss Walsh
thinks the part Of Emma Eltynge in
this play the greatest role she has
ever had, and her list of characters ex.
tends from Shakespeare to Sardou. In
the excellent company which will sup.
port Miss Walsh are George Howard,
william Travers Harriet Sterling and
other fine players.
~9A
"BEN.HUR" PACKS AUDITORIUM.
Klaw and Erlanger's new and
greater spectacular arrangement OF
General Lew wallace's "Ben-Hur." a.
tale Of the Christ, inaugurated a four
weeks engagement at the Chicago Au.
ditorium on Monday evening. The
mammoth amusement temple was
filled to overlooking and the audience
vociferously attested their apprecia.
ton Of the elaborated beauties OF this
marvellous and awe.inspiring religio.
historic drama. In dts unfolding
ben. Hur" touches on many Of the
worlds questions, as important to-day
as they were two thousand years ago,
during the period Of tn. plays action.
Richard Butler heads the big company
presenting It.
ONLY ONE MORE WEEK OF THE
OLD TOWN"
Unqualified success and unprecedent.
ed popularity are two long phrases
used in expressing quick thought
Success" You can think success
quicker than you can say 1t, v you
visit the Studebaker some evening and
watch the crowds elbowing into the
doors to see Montgomery and stone
in George AIDE and Gustav Luder's
new musical comedy, "The Old Town"
which the famous producer, Charles
Dillingham;, sponsored. Only one more
week remains in which to see this
great show, as the engagement posi-
lively closes Sunday, November a..
-
THE COLLEGE WIDOW" AT THE
COLLEGE,.
George AIDES greatest play, "rhe
College Widow" will be the banner
attraction Of the season at the College
theatre next week, when Mr.. Marvin's
excellent company will present It for
the first time in stock" '"rhe Col
lege widow" Is by all means one Of
the funniest and most interesting
plays ever written. Marie Nelson will,
Of course, play the part Of the charm
ing widow, and she should play 1t well.
HELLO, BILL" AT THE MAR.
| LOWE.
That riproaring farce, Hello. BILL
will be the attraction at the Marlowe
theatre all next week, commencing
Monday night, and the splendid Mar
win Stock Company should be seen at
its best in 1t. Corliss Giles and Miss
Louise Randolph will portray the
leads.
NINE. FREMSTAD AT THE AUDI
TORIUM SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
The second concert OF the Chicago
Auditorium series, which opened SC
successfully last Sunday, will be given
next Sunday and will be responsible
for the appearance OF Nine. Olive
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NINE. FREMsTAD AT THE AUDI

TOHIUM SUNDAY AFTEKNOON.
The second concert OF the Chicago
Auditorium series, which opened 30
successfully last Sunday, will be given
next Sunday and will be responsible
for the appearance OF Nine. Olive
Fremstad and NJ. Alexander Zukow.
sky.