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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13
COUNTY AUTO IS
WHITE ELEPHANT
The Hawaii Supervisors Have a
Secondhand Automobile to
Sell Very Cheap.

According to the Hlo Tribune. the
county fathers of the Big Island have
already become tired of their latest
Plaything, the chu-ehu-car, and now
they want TO sell it. The car has not
been an entire success, in spite Of the
eulogies with which it was covered re-
Gently when the majority of the board
hankered for it like little boy for
stick of candy. But little has been
said of the shortcomings of the car,
the county afficials being quite natur-
ally anxious to say as little as possible
about the mistake they had made
against the advice of practically the
entire community.
At the meeting of the board in Hilo
last week, it was decided to sell the
machine, but the intention is to buy d
new one as soon as the Buick now on
the hands of the county has been dis
posed of. Shipman. who introduced the
resolution providing for the sale of the
car, was asked how often he had used
it, 81 had one ride in it; that was
enough, - he answered. He referred to
the disastrous ride to Kona. where the
car broke down at Olaa and the pas
sengers had to proceed on their way
in other conveyances, while the car
was taken back to Hilo
Shipman s resolution read as fol-
lows:
"Whereas, The automobile recently
purchased Of !. Gaspar has been found
too small, and totally inadequate for
the uses and purposes of the county;
therefore, be it
Resolved, by the supervisors in and
for the county of Hawaii, That the
county sheriff is hereby authorized and
directed to contract for the sale of the
same. at figure not less than $1,000,
and to report to this honorable board
Immediately upon the completion of
any sale. in order that a machine
larger and more suitable for county
purposes may be purchased in lieu
thereof. -
Shipman said that he introduced the
resolution because the car was too small
and not because it was not good. He
knew it was good machine because
Kalaiwaa said so. and in view of that
the county could probably even get
$500 for it were it so inclined
Kalaiwaa did not seem to detect the
sarcasm. He said that the auto had
been bought for the use of the sheriff,
but every body had wanted to ride in
it, and therefore the car wouldn't go.
He thought the resolution a good one,
but wanted to amend it so that after
the sale bigger car could be bought,
even if the county would have to pay
two thousand dollars for such.
Desha was in doubt as to whether
the sale of the auto could be legally
made at a private sale through the
sheriff. or whether it would be neces-
sary to sell the machine at auction. The
question was referred to County Attor-
ney Beers, who gave his off-hand opin-
ion to the effect that the sheriff could
legally sell the auto as long as he had
been authorized to do so by the board.
Fernandez said that he favored the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13

resolution with the amendment that a
bigger machine be bought SO that ev-
erybody could ride, and the resolution
carried.
The sheriff now has the county s
white elephant on his hands, and II i
TO be hoped that he viii prove to be
good salesman. About Hilo. how
ever, the opinion is being expressed by
auto owners that the county viii have
a hard time to get its money back on
a machine which has proven itself TO be
q failure.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13
PRIESTLY TRIO
ON THE ROUNDS
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ed upon the letter and his request was
complied with.
These two letters-the Turkish one
and the mayor 's-are presented TO
householders and book shown them
and they are asked not only to "give
something for the hospital but also
to inscribe their names in the book, so
that the people who are to benefit from
their contributions may know whom to
thank.
About a year ago priest arrived
here wearing about the same kind of
clothes with the same clerical cut
high, notched clerical collar and frock
skirted coat, and reversed collar, and
made the rounds of the city. He was
denounced by Bishop Restarick as a
faker, and he finally left town. The
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13
DO IT NOW.

Now is the time to get rid of your
rheumatism. In fully nine eases opt
Of ten the attack IS simply rheumatism
of the muscles due 10 cold or damn
or chronic rheumatism, neither ~
which require any internal treatment
The free application of Chamberlain =
Pain Balm IS certain to give quick 20.
lief. Try It. For sale by all dealers
Benson, Smith * Co. Ltd, agents for
Hawaii.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13

Gustav Kretzchmar, the Hamakua to-
baeco planter, says that Kona is good
district for tobacco when the season is
wet, but believes that Hamakua is bet
ter still, as the rain, which is necessary
for the production of the expensive
wrapper leaf, is more to be depended
on there. He believes that Hilo dis
trict, with its frequent rains and cloudy
days, would be fine place for tobacco
culture
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13

Second District Magistrate Swain of
Hilo has been offered the position of
clerk in the county clerks office, which
was left vacant by the appointment of
the former incumbent, W. Fl. Beers, to
the office of county attorney. Tt is not
probable that Swain will accept the
offer
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13

Property and income taxes must be
paid on or before the 18th instant, or
ten per cent. will be added.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13

up at their expense. And, by the same
reasoning, there would be no necessity
for sending half a dozen priests out on
money collecting mission.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-13

Ten per cent. penalty is to be added
to all taxes not paid before the 18th
instant.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
Local Option Law Is In Force
No 9ODay Exemption for BOotLeggers Booksellers
Where County Votes Dry--Heayy Penalties Now
Available for Violations of the Law

Attorney General D c. MeDougal
yesterday handed down an opinion
holding that all provisions of the To-
cal option law become operative on
and after the date of the election at
which a county votes dry" except
ing its application to saloons previous
ly licensed and for which licenses are
still in force. This opinion is given
in view of numerous inquiries from
counties where prohibition has carried
and where there has been much con-
lecture as to whether the provisions
of the new law could be invoked
against persons carrying on an Illicit
traffic, such as the sale of intoxicants
without, license, and by drug stores.
Under the terms of the local option
law this offense is made what may
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09

where over the field. Taking an ay-
rage two acre patch, Mr.. Baugh coun-
ted the sacks on it and weighed sew
eral of them to strike an average. He
found there were 72O sacks on the
patch and they averaged 110 pounds
to tho sack. This would give $50
bushels to the acre or nearly 20 tons.
In digging two hills, Mr.. Baugh
filled a gallon can with tubers. But
to think of nearly 160 tons of No.
potatoes on acres of ground The
land was an old alfalfa field and
was worked by Sam Crothers who
certainly knows something about po-
tato raising. Most any of the land
in this region of the country can be
made as productive. It is all good
to begin with but it needs alfalfa to
give it nitrogen and humus. This is
certainly a spud country
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
Idaho Is for Irrigation Bonds
National Reclamation of Arid West Will Supplement the
Magnificent Work of Private COmpaniesIdahO
Senator Proposes Better Methods.

presented in congress for long time.
1t is rational; it is not measure to
fatten any one, or any dozen favored
localities, but for the preset better
ment of the whole country. 1t has
been shown that in the last year, one
navy yard was maintained for politi-
cal effect in its particular locality,
where the expense was more than
100000, and the total output only
about $1,000. Others were only lit
tie less bad But this isn't the case
with reclamation funds. Every dol
lar rightfully spent, makes five dol
lars of permanent prosperity, perma-
nent tax-paying ability to the state,
to the nation. The opening of new
lands heretofore idle, provides homes
for people who need homes; and a
so different from the criminal con-
gestion of the cities where the navy
yards and other political expenditures
are made.
The reclamation service needs to
be cut loose from some of the red
tape, bureaucratic nonsense that has
in the past stood for law, or regula-
tions, or orders, or what not. But
stripped of the trash that has made
certain features of it obnoxious, it
is great and good movement; and
the government that spends hundreds
of millions of dollars every year for
army and navy, wouldn't miss it to
spend one-fourth as much annually
in making homes for the people who
need defense against foreign foe.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
MEASURING STREAMS
A Party of Surveyors Looking.
up the Water Supply

A party of eight surveyors has been
here during the past week, measuring
the flow of the streams and looking
into the total of right claimed. 1t is
in the employ of the Idaho Irrigation
Company, and is gathering data to be
used in the impounding or conserving
of water for the irrigation of the com
pany's lands.
There is more than enough water
flowing in Wood river to irrigate every
acre of land that can be reached by
gravity or by pumping; but it is per-
mitted to go to waste during the 9 to
II months when it is not needed for ir-
rigation, and when it is needed there
is not half enough
1t is therefore the intention of the
Idaho Irrigation Company to conserve
the unused water in reservoirs, and to
be thus enabled to use it during the
season. Wood River Times.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09

There is not and never has been
anything wrong with the theory OF
the government reclamation service
1t is an UJOpian attempt to provide
homes for the homeless, opportunity
for the dispirited or weak as well
as the strong, and to develop the ul-
innate resources of the nation for
the benefit of the whole people. To
make homes for a million people
where once the coyote ruled supreme,
is indeed a mighty work. And the
government is doing that, in the Arid
West. The way may be tortuous, the
regulations hard and painfully un-
ielding-indeed, some of the people
of Idaho have found it so, to their
bitter cost. But just so is any great
reform, any great movement for the
betterment of conditions. The re-
former, the evangelist, the propagan-
dist, all contribute their part to make
any movement complete in the end.
And SO the settlers in the pioneer rec
lamation projects give their bitter ex-
perience to show what the service
should do for better for the later
generations.
1t is altogether a matter for COM
mon sense and an experience that
will learn, to make the reclamation
service what it should be. The gov
ernment is as much bound to devel-
op lands to provide home for the peo-
pie, as it is to provide streets, roads
navies, capitol buildings or anything
else needed We have these resour-
ces, that can be developed. Only the
government, working on the theory
of an equal opportunity for everybody
whatever the cost=lilSe the postoffice
is run-can take up all the develop
ment possibilities that can be found
in the West. Private enterprise can
do marvels- witness Idaho today
but still, there is point where it is
the governments right and duty to
go farther than the individual.
The Borah bond issue to provide
funds for irrigation parts of the arid
West, is one of the best measures
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09

kind of a country 1t is in, and the
very shortest way to get there. They
have had as many fires this year as
usual, caused by careless or criminal
campers or hunters, but their or
ganization of the fires has been so
well perfected, that they were able
to extingush the blaze before much
damage was done.
AS compared with the United
States forestry bureau work in the
checking of fires, the state work has
been infinitely more efficient. There
is less red tape, bitter understanding
of the necessities, and the state, hav-
ing less bureau control to run up ex-
penses, has been able to supply more
field service for the same money than
the government. In consequence, the
Idaho forest fire regulations have
been pronounced the very best in the
West
The Reforestration and Conserva-
tion Association, made up of timber
men from all over the West, has in
view the reforesting of the vast areas
of timber lands that have been logg-
ed off and considered of little value
thereafter; and the introduction of
better methods for the perpetuation
of forest growth in the lands yet un-
cut. The association has secured the
services of one of the most eminent
forestry experts iii the country, who
is to take up the matter with vigor
and speed. 1t believed that this
organization, unaided, will be able
to come near perpetuating the for
ests of the country SO that there can
never be a real lumber famine. With
tn state and national governments
their public holdings, so as
to make them self-sustaining, the
country will soon be beyond all possi-
BILE danger of the lumber panic that
has been predicted.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
BOSS SPUD GROWER.
Dr. Baugh's Field Produced 700
Bushels Per Acre.

That eight acre potato field on the
w. H. Baugh ranch on the Little
Wood river between Shoshone and
Richfield has made a record for this
section Of Lincoln county and that
without joking. Scarcely a person
rode by the field during the growing
season but what remarked on the re-
gularity and clean cultivation of the
rows and the wonderful luxuriance Of
the tops and asserted that it was the
finest potato field he ever saw. Dur
ing the digging season it was asserted
that person could walk across the
field without stepping off of the filled
potato sacks that lay scatter every
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
Idaho s inc FnireeLaaww il claw
Western Timbermen Pay Tribute to
Great Preservative Measure---Im-
pOrtant RefOrestratiOn Move.

State Land Selector George Day,
who recently returned from a trip
TO Spokane to meet with the Western
Reforestration and Conservation AS
socation, says that the Idaho state
Fire Law was the very best thing
discussed before the gathering, and
that the members considered it a
model of its kind, worthy of adoption
by every state as well as by the ma
ton.
The law established districts, with
fire wardens in charge, in all the
forest regions of the state where the
state has standing timber These
fre wardens have a well-defined ter
ritOry to cover, not so large but
what they are able to thoroughly pa
troll t. Last year, it is estimated that
the fire loss was little more than
100000 feet of timber-w whereas
some of the big fires of other years
have destroyed millions and millions
in a single blaze. There are many
trees standing on state lands in the
Clearwater country, that would cut
1900 to 5000 feet per tree; and
there as sometimse as many as 30
such trees to the acre. One such ac-
acre would supply all the timber for
three years fires when the patrols
are as active as they were the past
year--and Idaho has near 100000
acres Of timber to care for and con-
serve. The small tax for fire protec-
tion is the greatest bargain the state
ever bought, of any kind.
1t is not a mere wandering to and
fro that occupies the patrolmen.
They usually have their headquarters
on some eminence where they can
have pretty good view of their ter
ritory. But they send their spare
time in cutting trails, and in getting
the topography of the country. When
a fire is located, they know what
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
Pheasants for Idaho Shooters
1000 Birds Imported to Set Free Over the State: Good
Hunting Assured When the Brdlngs Bloom
Ten Million New Trout for Next Year

any shooting. It is believed that
the Idaho game department is going
to be able to supply the needs oi
the shooters for all time, and that
its herculean efforts will continue
to be as successful in the future as
they have bee the past few years
while the department was being fair
ly organized.
Close to 10,OOO,0OO trout will be
distributed next year, from the three
state hatcheries. The whole depart
ment has been busy this fall, gather
ing spawn over in Fremont county,
where nearly 100000 eggs were
gathered at or near the Warm River
hatchery. Other eggs will be bought
abroad, in all probability, and then
some of the spring spawning varieties
will yield their eggs in March and
April.
Some great records were made in
the growth of trout Matched at the
Hay Spur Hatchery, last year. Trout
nine months old have reached a
length of seven inches-big enough
to be ready for market, and to sell
for 60 to rs cents a pound The
Idaho waters are unsurpassed for
the production and growth of trout
and it is an industry that the state
does well to encourage.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
HIGH PRICED LAND.
Blake so Adjoining Town Sells
for Close to Sl5, 900.

V. V. Bower has just closed an i'm
portant land deal, the biggest, perhaps,
in the history of the Richfeld tract. 1t
is the purchase of the Blake so acres
adjoining town on the east. The price,
while not definitely announced, is un-
derstood to be near SIS, 000 The land
is to be laid out in lots and small acreage
tracts, probably next spring. 1t has
long been considered about the choicest
land outside of the townsite, and many
prospective buyers have tried hard to
secure it. 1t was fine stroke of busi-
ness to buy it and plan to open it to the
public But for the bad weather, it
was to have been surveyed this week,
though it will not be within the corpor-
ate limits.
Richfield is in the limelight just now,
and there is no place where a good land
buy is more to be desired than here.
With the probable coming of the main
line railroad through here, and an abun-
dance of water for irrigation insuring
the speedy settlement and development
of the tract, you can put llyour money
on Richfeld- and win without a risk!
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
1900 LAND BUYERS.
Magnificent Crops Bring People
To lincoln County.

In speaking to an Idaho Statesman
representative recently about conditions
in Lincoln county, C. A. Elmer of the
sales department of the Idaho Irriga
ton Co. said: ''The Idaho Irrigation
company has entered into contracts fol
water with Carey act land entrymen tC
the number of over 1906 All of these
entrymen will be required to make set
tlement and improvement next year
1t is estimated that not counting the
additional increase of population in the
towns that upwards of 5000 people will
be added to the citizenship Of Lincoln
county by this means within the next
10 months. Probably the town growth
will be equally large.
1.-The lower Wood river valley, from
above Shoshone to the mouth of the
river III the Hagerman valley, although
long settled and in way farmed, found
itself agriculturally for the first time,
this summer. For so years it has been
widely known as one of the greatest
sheep and cattle communities in the
world. Persons engaging in these in
dustries have found wealth and ease.
During the past season, however,
some of the older residents, appreciat-
ing the impending change in conditions
have commenced to cultivate the soil
intensivelp. For a first year the re-
suits have been astonishingly good. In
two caes to my knowledge men who
cleared sagebrush from land last April,
each putting in 10 acres in potatoes,
have nested more than $100 an acre
from their crops, one man receiving
$1420 for 10 acres Of potatoes and the
other $1460. DIR. W. H. Baugh of Sho-
shone had seven acres of potatoes plant
ed in an old alfalfa field. An acre wac
carefully measured and when the po-
tatoes were dug the crop weighed %
tons or over 720 bushels to the acre,
What the crop is worth can easily be
determined by people who have to buy
the tubers F. w. Gooding on place
near Shoshone raised SO bushels of
wheat on new ground, rs bushels of
barley and SO bushels of oats. These
we're not experimental farm patches,
but fields of grain.
"Mr White of Shoshone raised 103
bushels of oats an acre on 63 acres, the
oats weighing az pounds to TIM bushel.
F. W. Gooding on 275 acres of alfalfa
in two cuttings stacked 1880 tons of
hay, worth in the field from $40 to $l2
a ton. T. H. Gooding near Gooding
secured 667 tons from 100 acres in two
The yields mentioned are not
50 unusual as to cause comment. The
feeling is growing that these yields
IAN be duplicated on any Of the lands /
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09
Mandamus Proceedings

Richard Higgs, on the part of the
prohibitionists, has filed an alternative
writ of mandate to require the board
of county commissioners of Blaine
county to call speciol election to de-
termine whether the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors as beverage shall be pro-
hibited in that county Judge Walters
of the diserict court has ordered the
commissioners to call such an election
or appear in his court at Shoshone on
the 22nd instant at O'Clock a. M, and
show cause why they should not order
such election.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09

properly be termed a "high misde-
meanor" All offenders must be
bound over to the district court for
trial, a measure which is considered
much more stringent than the old
method permitting the disposition of
such cases by justices of the peace.
The maximum penalty provided for
violations of the local option law is
also more severe providing both fine
and imprisonment.
Attorney General McDougall stated
yesterday in announcing his opinion
that it was clear to his mind there
was no question about the time on
which these provisions of the law he
came operative. "The 9O-day provis-
ion of the law" he said, refers only
to saloons previously licensed. -
Statesman
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1909-12-09

The state fish and game depart
ment this week shipped out from
Boise a large number of Mongolian
pheasants, to be planted" in var
ious parts of the state where it is be-
lieved they may do well. Some are
going to Hagerman; some to Mont
pelier, some to various points along
the Snake river valley. They are be-
ing shipped in crates of 20 birds each
and are to be liberated at once on
reaching their destinations, or they
may be held and fed for a time, if
the weather conditions do not seen
to warrant getting them free immed-
lately.
The birds were brought from Ore
gon, where the department secured
an especial bargain on 1000 pleas
ants They have proved to be
conspicuous success in Oregon, at
which place they supply the finest of
hunting, and are yet able to keep
up their numbers. The pheasant is
a hardy, wary bird, that is able to
live in fairly well settled communities
and still keep up its numbers despite
the annual shooting.
The native game birds of Idaho
have been good enough for the hunt
ers of the past, but the time is COM
ing when they will not stand the en-
croachments of civilization. The in
PRODUCTION of the California quail4
has been fine thing for the hunt
ers, the bird is hardy, flies like a
bullet, and it can stand civilization
almost as well as a canary. The
Hungarian partridge, larger bird
than the quail, but smaller than the
pheasant or prarie chicken or grouse
has been proposed as a fitting COM
panion for the quail. The annual
flights of wild ducks will doubtless
continue, but will grow less as the
years go by, and land fowl will have
to take their place if there is to be