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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-02-18

Austria Il making secret prepare.
lions for war with Servia.
A Mexican at GusdaIajars has Just
celebrated his E39th birthday.
Women safTrsgist leaders are pre-
per'ng to again storm parliament.
Chicago business men have protested
70 congress- agaisst a duty on coffee.
State wide prohibition 10 South Car
olina has been defeated by four votes.
San Francisco woman has secured
1900 damages for seven hours false
imprisonment.
The Maya Indians. Of Mexico. are
causing troubled and troops have been
ordered TO the scene.
Rocks in the Santa Barbara channel !
which were formerly 40 feet above
the water have sunk until they will
prove menace to navigation.
gsring the last half Of 1908 the
Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad earnings
showed decrease Of $500, 900 az com
pared with the same period OF 1907.
Farmers and others interested have
started another suit In an effort TO stop
the sfaoke nuisance from Montana
smelters. which is killing vegetation.
The fact that Roosevelt win spend
! J days IN Italy has caused on his gay
To Africa has caused stir in Rome.
and preparations are being hurried for
reception. l.
The Mexican volcano Of ColIma Is
spreading devastation. Il
Buchanan has signed a treaty with
Venezuela settling all disputes.
The Montana legislature will take ,
up the Japanese exclusion question. II
Cleveland shippers say competition
between the Hartman lines is a farce. :
The order Of Elks has asked congress- :
70 protect Wyoming elks from atarva- h
ticn.
The Watcrs-PIerce OIL company viii b
night the Standard in the Missouri &
courts. Il
Hartman has started on tour Of !,
the South and West to inspect his rail- !,
roads !,
Taft says the president and COVER b
nors should work together for the good
Of the country. c.
A big reception Is planned when the = =
nect arrives home from its voyage =
around the world. o.
Prominent Canadians also favor the
exclusion Of Japa from schools attended
BY white children.
A preacher IN Wyoming stopped a q
train TO get the crew 10 act as wit
asases at wedding.
Protraeted drouth In parts of Texas m,
have driven eattlemen TO extremes 10 IN
procure food for their stock. ea
Russia has violated the Portsmouth "a,
re=ss;i AID The United States and Great to.
britain may protest jointly.
Eastern wool buyers have formed ed,
ombine. INF
AM
Several persons have been killed In 81,
iexican riots against landlord rule. lea
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-02-18

Lewiston-Farmers on the prairie
country are awakening to the fact that
the Northern Pacific railroad is impos-
ing an additional heavy tax by the high
Freight rate, which amounts to more
than o cents bushel, on every sack
OF grain shipped to coast elevators
While wheat is selling in Walla Walla
and Colfax at more than 81 a bushel
buyers will not offer more than SIS
cents at any of the prairie elevators
because, they declare, the freight rate
viii not justify it. Although Il cost
the Northern Pacific railroad SO. 500
600 to build 55 miles Of track from
Culdesac to Grangeville the heavy tom
mage originating on the prairie ia be-
lleved 70 be sufficient 10 Justify the
cost OF construction. That the rates
quoted in the tariff sheets on the new
line are extraordinarily high is admit
ted by railroad men, although relief Is
promised as soon as the road passes
under joint operation.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-02-18
PAY BIG FINE.
Missouri Courts Doubt Waters Pierce
Company Quitting Standard.

~N' % OOuDt VdteTS-RferCo
Company Quitting Standard.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 16.-Hen-
ry 5. Priest, of st. Louis, and H. CLAW
Pierce, chairman of the board of the
Waters-Pierce Oil company, today filed
IN the Supreme court of Missouri AN
acceptance of the terms imposed upon
tne company by the recent custer order
Of the court. The fine of $50, 600 was
PAID The custer decree provided that
tne company must show to the court
that 1t had severed all connection with
the Standard Oil company, and a state
ment to this effect may vet be rem,;red
by the court. Judge Priest. however
SAID that he believed today's action
covered the case so far as the Mis-
sour corporation was concerned and
sad ne did not know of anything more
that could be done.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-02-18

Ice Piles Up on American Side and
Two Men Cross on Rocks.
Niagara Falls, N. Y, Feb. le
Only tiny rivulet, not deep or swift
enough TO carry pulp log over the
brink, Is flowing over the American
side OF Niagara Falls. A atron0
northeast wind which has blown since
Friday, has held back the water and
allowed the Ice to gain foothoId. Two
employees Of the American reservation
walked from Prospect Point nearly To
Bath island this morning.
A great wall Of ice runs from the
mead Of Goat Island to the American
mainland, through which only tinv
streams are able to tricklc. This wall
has even enercached on the Canadian
enamel, extending out some 200 feet
beyond the Third Sister island and
greatly diminishing the flow over the
horseshoe. Only the very apex Of the
Canadian falls IL left, and that is rob.
bed Of half Of lis flow. The gorge be.
low Il choked and the rapids have lost
their fury, while the whirlpool is
barely In motion.
This Is only the third time that this
combination Of wind and ice has thus
affected the falls since the white man
came here. The other occasiona were
on March 20, 1913, and on March 22.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-02-18
ROBBERS SECURE ss5, 900.
Daring Early Morning HoIdup Carried
Out Near Denver.


Denver, Feb. 15.--That the hold-up
Oh the westbound Denver g. Rio Crande
passenger train, near Denver. at 3:15
TINS morning, was the work of three
instead of two robbers and that the
robbery of the mail car gave them a
loot OF possibly $35, 600, are indicated
by the investigation of the railroad and
police officials today. So far no tangi-
Die ciew to the identity or whereabouts
OF the robbers has been found. but il
seems probable that the men came To
DenVer and are now hiding in this city.
The exact amount secured bv the
robbers cannot be ascertained. II is
known however, that the registered
mail sack from Colorado Springs to
Denver was empty and that little of
value was in the Pueblo-D Denver sack.
The sack from Portland, Colo, to Den
yer, however, contained $500 of money
order funds consigned to the Denver
postofiice.
Inc robbery was remarkable for its
originality and daring. IT took place
within eight miles Of Denver. within
Tess than two miles Of Fort Logan. the
United States military reservation.
and at spot whore habitations are
Yet so thorough was the
work OF the robbers and so well were
their plans laid that they had fully an
hour and a half start Of the officers.
Search of the vicinity of the hold-up
indicates that third man and possibly
fourth were engaged in the robbery;
That rubber-tired buggy was in wait
ing for the actual hold-ups and that
lorpedoes and red signal fires were
lsed unnecessarily in an attempt to
'top the train before the automatic
'evosvers Of the two men on the train
we're used in doing this.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-02-18

Boise, Feb. II There was another
outbreak from the minority in the SEN
ate today when Macbeth, at the OPEN
ing Of the morning session, presented
resolution providing that the register
OF the state land board be instructed to
place Immediately in the possession of
the chairman Of the state affairs com
mlttee his handbook or bankbooks
showing deposits in any bank or banks
IN which state land funds have been
deposited during the past three wears.
to aid In the state affairs committee
investigation Of Democratic charges Of
Irregularities in the conduct OF state
land affairs by the land board.
The senate local optiln bill az sub
mitted TO the house for final disposition
VIII not be passed. Within two dava
The forces In the lower branch have
been crystollized and preponderance
OF votes will stand united against an
unreserved acceptance of the measure.
An attempt will be made, il is stated,
to prevent the proposed enactment
from being taken into committee of
The whole upon the part of what have
been termed the radical members.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-02-18
PROCEEDINGS OF
The LEGISLATURE.

+ po;,<1 mi,
1o'ss, 80, y'-ine senate today, II
sst, ,' '' - ~ sns Mno's, TOOK favorable
aSeion on the senate local option bill.
~ .'.,s.'''.'s presented number OF
@ @'i,e'.9''en's 70 make the measure con
se'sus'ona' ana All but few unimport-
10y Vl'es were turned down by the Re-
puoii'ans' emerging them with perpe-
' slas'ns : ~. suDteriuge BY passing an i'm
s'a.' p''i ~ oroer 70 present the &c
v s'sn ~ oalrying out a party pledge.
:, .xo'o.s QUESTIONS were made, but
" ~ purpose 10 parts Of the measure
ever is ona,s n.a .'n' - s'Ss away liquor
tine a. ' ',e;e v"p aguse, ana permit
e'sk 81 o'"'e' "lSaolt warrant to
''' '''ss anu search IL Tor liquor.
Boise, Feb. 10. The passage IN the
house today without amendment, Of
the direct primary bill by vote Of "a
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20

agreed with the Able Chappe that II we per
ished he might find other means to land else
where with the rest. which would be sufficient for
making his observations I embarked then in
the long boat with my four sailors. steering d.
rectly for the coast: the nearer we approached II
the more sensible of the difficulty Of
landing.
We were constantly thrown back by the accu-
INFLATED waves, and our boat threatened all the
while to ship water. when the point of losing
courage. of the sailors discovered at a dis
lance. the mouth OF an unknown river. This dis
covery animated us: reached the coast by this
mouth but with great difficulty. | sent back the
long boat for the Able Chappe and the Spanish
astronomers. who arrived safely enough.
Arrived on the peninsula the twenty-frst OF
May. 1863. 10 days before the epoch OF the tran
sit of Venus. We found no (azile pouvoir nous
METRE a labir). the incemency OF the weather.
The savages that repaired to us said that con
tagion prevailing In this country which raw
aged It completely. The Interpreter who trans
lated this added that they said that in order to
withdraw ourselves from the influence of this ter
rible malady. It necessary to remove some
hundred or more leagues farther to the north.
The means of undertaking this journey.
broken down with fatigue were; had
neither horses carriers to transport our bag
gage: It was impossible to march on foot. AID we
shrank from a journey through desert. All these
reasons decided to occupy ourselves with no
business but that which had brought
We labored to construct observatory. which
ready the twenty eighth day OF May six days
before the epoch when we would have need of It
We made our observations on the third OF june
with the greatest exactness.
The contagon made progress every day:
a general sorrow reigned in all this part OF Cali
fornia; We not long without participating in
1t I'm a distressing manner. This dreadful malady
came upon us six seven days after the observa
ton We were wholly without succor: We could
not be useful to another. because we were at
tackled almost all at once.
The little medicine that we had brought from
W knowing
to apply 1t.
Nevertheless. the able, all sick as he was. con-
tinued his observations all the dine. After OBJ
serving an eclipse of the moon. he at last yield
ed to his faintness the delirium of his disease left
him but little time to examine himself; he died
the first of August. 1863. We were all dying Il
and the companions of our voyage), when had
the sorrow to close his eyelids.
Our situation and our want of strength induced
us in this case to bury him without much cere-
mony. | devoted some moments to regret for the
loss had suffered. and in the height of disease
from which did not expect to recover, l TOOK the
precauton collect all the relating to the
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20
L0VE7T AT SCHOOL
New "RaiI Kings" Early Training
Began in Texas.
Old schooIhouse Where e. H. iiarrL
mans Successor Began His Ed
ucation Still Stands in
Lone Star State.

Houston. Textile Lone Star state
Is proud that 1t has added another dis
tinguished citizen to the nations list
Of great railroad men. With B. F.
Yoakum a shining light in the rail-
road business and James Stillman a
leader in finance and closely associ-
ated with the railroad interests of the
United States. Texas felt well repre-
sented. but when Robert s. Lovett
was chosen to fill the vacancies
caused by e. H. Harriman's death,
there came more cause for pride.
While Yoakum and Stil.man have
risen to positions of great trust. honor
and usefulness. they have not gone
the same route as that travelled by
Lovett, and unlike Lovett they were
born with greater advantages. Lovett
mad no advantages whatever. His
people were poor, very poor and are
still poor. living in common plank
houses in the backwoods of east
Texas. farming. working at public
works and following such other avo-
cations as will afford them n living.
Forty-nine years ago Robert Scott
Lovett was born on his fathers farm
among the hills and in the wilderness
of San Jscinto county. Texas. The
youthful years of Bob Lovett were un.
eventful. He worked in the field. as
did other boys IN that backwoods Sec
tion. and went to school during the
winter and summer months.
Bob attended school at the First
Chapel schoolhouse, which was situat-
ed in the Big Creek Bottom. and there
he learned his letters and also how to
read and write. He attended this
school. of and on. for about six years.
His teachers were Professors wager.
Wood and Weatherby. This old-time
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20
BABY's WATERY ECZEMA.
Itched and Scratched Until Blood Ran
$50 Spent on Useless Treatments
Disease Seemed Incurable.
Cured by cutieura for $3.50.

when my little boy was two and q
half months old he broke out on both
cheeks with eczema. 1t was the itchy.
watery kind and we had to keep his
little hands wrapped up all the time,
and If he would happen to get them
uncovered he would claw his face till
the blood streamed down on his cloth
ing. We called in physician at once,
but he gave an ointment which was SO
severe that my babe would scream
when 1t was put on We changed
doctors and medicine until we had
spent fifty dollars or more and baby
was getting worse. / was so worn out
watching and caring for him night and
day that almost felt sure the disease
was incurable. But finally reading of
the good results OF the Cuticura Rem
edies. determined to try them. l
can truthfully say / was more than
surprised, for I bought only a dollar
and a halrs worth of the Cuticura
Remedies (Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Pills). and they did more good than
all my doctors medicines I had tried,
and in fact entirely cured him. His
face is perfectly clear of the least
spot or scar of anything. Mrs w. NJ.
Comerer. Burnt Cabins. Pa. Sept. 10.
1908"
Potter Drug 3 Chem Corp. Solo Prora, Boston.
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20
WOMEN IN FIELD OF SCIENCE
Margaret huddIeson, a Kansas City
Girl, Gives instructions on
Fruit Raising.

Detroit-Wandering through the
huge white marble buildings of ths
department. OF agriculture at Washing
ton. one sees many women. in neat
white aprons, some OF them mere
girls. bending over microscopes and
test tubes. Their activities seem very
mysterious: but when one inquiries.
one learns that they are engaged in
original research work relating in
one way or another to farming or
gardening.
The case OF Miss Alice Henkel. a
botanist in the plant bureau. is note
worthy, II only for the reason that
she entered that establishment orig.
nally in an ordinary clerical ca
pacity as stenographer and type.
writer. That was only a few years
ago. when. a mere girl. she came to
Washington from Cincinnati. But she
was the inheritor of scientific aptitude
from a family in which there had been
many searchers after exact truth in
botanical and other lines. and she
quickly took up plant study as a pro
fessional pursuit.
Miss Henkel, though still a young
woman, is the author of a number OF
scientific bulletins already issued by
the plant bureau. One OF these is on
the subject of Weeds" Another il
on Drug Plants"-this latter subjec,
being one to which she has devoted
special attention. Up to the present
time more matter of hers has been
published by the government than
from the pen of any other woman.
Miss Margaret Huddleson is an
other young woman scientist in the de
partment Of agriculture. She halls
from Kansas City. Mo. Not long age
she took a high degree at a college OF
medicine. and is now a full fiedged
doctor This she did in the intervals
of her work as a pomologist-that be
ing her particular specially. Hel
most important business in the divi
sion of pomology is to give instruction
by letter to people all over the coun
try who want to know about how t.
grow fruits.
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20

object OF the voyage. I placed them in casket
with an address to the viceroy OF Mexico
earnestly begged some Indian chiefs who were
about me to make this casket safe in we
should all die. and to transmit II to the vessel
which ought to arrive in the month of September
to take us. My intention in this to secure to
my country this valuable depot. I remained in
my condition OF sickness. pain and wretchedness
until the twenty-ninth of September.
AT last the captain of the vessel arrived: he
had landed at the island OF Ceralvo. which is stu
ated some 80 leagues from San Jose. My Joy was
much the greater in seeing him that he pressed
me to quit the fearful place where NJ Liable
Chappe and all the rest had died. We were car
ried to Ceralvo forgot to say that this cruel
contagon had taken from the chaplain and
nearly all the persons that formed our little com
pany.
Although sick and oppressed with grief 1 was
compelled to undertake the perilous route which
l had followed in coming. sometimes upon mules.
sometimes upon the backs of the Indians. when 1t
necessary to cross the streams. With all
this trouble. reached Mexico the twenty third
day OF November. 1863.
There l was received by monsieur the marquis
of Croix the viceroy of that country. with com
passion worthy of that good patriot. He had had
the kindness to send to meet me a carriage and
his physician. Arrived at the capital OF Mexico
and having paid my respects to the viceroy was
lodged by his orders at the expense OF the city 3.
When l left Mexico the marquis de Croix rec
commended me cordially to the commander OF
the Spanish feet. In which embarked We land
ed at Cadiz the twenty-first of July. ITO. The
court at the Escurial | had myself taken
thither and presented myself to the marquis dos
sun. then French ambassador in Spain. He re
ceived me with marks OF kindness and consider
alton, and gave orders to show me whatever they
have to show strangers In this royal house.
He caused me to dispatch in advance Of the
party. the strictest orders through the minister Of
customs that at pass my route must be
searched either myself the chests In which
were the observations which bore
did not arrive in Paris till the fifth of the fol
lowing December. | sent to the Academy the OBJ
servations that made in California This so
ciety expressed the greatest satisfaction with my
zeal and my services They presented me to the
king. and to all his minister's They solicited fol
me recommendation of my labors. His majesty
Louis XIV. granted me small pension of s0of
The government is too equitable to leave me In
want in the flower of my age, afflicted with the
evils which have incurred for the service. and
indispensably obliged to have servant TO leac
me. l hope. then. from his justice and from his
goodness. that he will grant me an increase of the
pension sufficient to enable me to accomplish with
decency the rest of my public career.
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20

Our police are excellent, thanks
to the stimulus of our law. When a
crime is committed a. sleuth is put
upon the case and given. say 80 days.
to land the criminal. II the sleuth
fails, he himself pays the penalty of
the crime, less two degrees. Thus. IL
the Sigel murder had occurred in
China. a police official would now be
undergoing life Imprisonment. That.
too. is a just and stimulating law.
For II the police can neither prevent
nor punish such a crime as the Sigel
murder. then they should be them
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20

iected to accompany him and We set sail for Mex
leo In the mouth OF September. 1868
After a perilous voyage OF about 5000 leagues,
We arrived In Mexico on Easter day. 1859 Time
was passing: we stopped but eight days to
fresh ourselves The viceroy procured mules
and provisions. and we undertook to perform By
land part OF the remainder OF our travels which
was about 800 leagues. Amid lofty mountains.
dreadful precipices and arid deserts. encoun-
tered new dangers every day We failed from
fear thousand times. We were also oppressed
by the excessive heat. which left US hardly
strength enough to drag ourselves thousand
insects OF every species gave no rest BY day or
night. and we had constantly to be on our guard
against the very ferocious beasts with which the
country is covered Moreover lacked the
essares of life. for the provisions that We got in
Mexico had been spoiled by the heat We
Obliged TO live on wild cattle and whatever fruits
could hnd here and there. We made halts
near some river or spring. that we might siake
the burning thirst with which we were constantly
consumed. to find II often necessary to
march a whole days journey.
Arrived In the evening In valley. or
the side OF some hill. would endeavor to take
upon the ground let a la belle etoie). the repose
which our cruel fatigue rendered necessary.
When scarcely asleep we were often aroused by
a storm. and then by the impetuous torrents that
came down upon us from the heights OF the noun
tains Many dark night we had to our
selves and equipage. fearful at every step of
tumbline down some OF the precpices.
After running thousand risks arrived at
iast AT the port OF san BIAS. on the racine ocean.
thence embarked for California on a brigan-
tine which the viceroy of Mexico had had pre-
pared. The Pacific ocean. although very tran
quill. is not the less dangerous account OF the
(vigies) with which 1t is filled.
The great calm which prevailed at that time
caused to despair OF arriving in time to accom-
piish the object of our voyage. After six weeks
sailing during which made but $50 leagues.
on the greatest breadth of the sea- the shortness
OF the time caused us to risk hazardous exploit
The part of California near which found
selves the port of San Jose-so dangerous
that one had ever landed there. The access to
It is guarded by the incessant waves that break
impetuously against the rocks.
The Spanish astronomers who OF our COM
pany wished to wait for favorable wind to land
at Cape St Lucas. which distant but ten
leagues. The landing there is indeed less danger
Gus. but We did not follow their advice because
were pressed to arrive at the place OF des-
tiIation; we resolved to attempt to dsembark at
the first land should discover.
While these gentlemen yet celebrating.
four Indian sailors and myself let down the long
boat: took with half of the instruments
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20

schoolhouse still stands. 1t is Al feet
long. rs wide. made of heart pine lum-
Der and covered with heart pine
boards. all of which are perfectly pre-
served still rs sound as a dollar. though
because 1t was used as a church. and
is well filled with old-time benches.
The name OF RI. 8. Lovett." cut In
bold letters. Is still to be seen on the
back Of one Of these benches Water
TO. school purposes was brought from
the creek q hundred yards away.
On the creek banks and only a few
steps from where water was dipped
up with a gourd the initials r. 8. l."
were cut on n larg, beech tree. 5ust
tbove these initials is the name AN
ME-"
The Lamar register., 1909-10-20

Great Scott. mani" cried the ex.
asperated guest in the hotel dining
room. That squeaky phonograph is
the limit of all limits. Why. people
can't remain at the table over a few
minutes while 1t is playing"
''Ah. that is little joke of mine,"
explained the suave proprietor. That
photograph is great saver"
In what way?"
Why. it gets on the nerves of the
diners and they have to leave the ia
BILE without even waiting for dessert
II the squeaky photograph breaks
down I'm going to put on bagpipes."