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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-16

cago taught him which he will never
unlearn For several years he was
trusted employee of the Ohio Loco
motive Injection Co. of Chicago
In addition to the officers the other
directors of the Westfall Commercial
Co. are Elwood L. Clark, and b. w.
Corbitt.
ElWoOd l.. Clark
too, deserves a word. He is the cash
Ter and a chief maker of the First
Bank of Vale, one of the strongest A.
nancial institutions in Oregon and be-
sides being one of the most brilliant
young business executives in the Pa
cine Northwest, he is an empire build
er OF the first rank. And to his ad-
'anced spirit of enterprise. more than
20 any other one individual, Westfall
and its tributary Empire will be in
debted for Il First National Bank at
an early date, bank which will have
a capital stock of $4,000
b. W. COrbitt
is a young man of large mercantile
experience, rare business experience.
and tireless industry. He is giving
the best that is in him in building up
this business, and his popularity at
tracts troops of friends and acquain-
tances to the counters Of the Westfall
Mercantile
was trusted employee of the Haines
Mercantile Co., at Haines, Oregon.
and there as well as here he stands
high in the good opinion of all who
know him
OF Messrs. Gillian and Eckerman.
ment of the store, they are as united
and work as tremendously together
as the fingers on one hand. They
represent the union of the best bus
mess ideas of the East and West.
What one lacks the other abundantly
supplies, hence, they make an eXcep-
tionally strong team, and are thus
armed to meet and conquer all OBJ
oCldIleS anu Dullu up an eNer-enIaIR-
ing business.
Even now they do not have to con
tent themselves by picking up the
crumbs from the table at which their
competitors are dining. Social quail
tiles are theirs, too, that build up
friendships and business. And they
are as unassuming as they are strong,
progressive and honest They are
new at the merchandise game here,
but go at it like veterans. 1t is diff
cult to keep a squirrel on the ground,
and Messrs. Gillian and Eckerman
are surely climbers.
Both of these gentlemen have sub
scribed for stock in the First Ma
tional Bank of Westfall, and were
prime movers in its organization.
Twice fortunate Westfall in these
new merchants and unusual business
builders. young men who are also do
ing their utmost to make the town
and section all that the God of nature
designed it to be.
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Public School

has become a financial and industrial
magnate without resort to anything
smacking of high finance jugglery,
hence his record is without blot or
blemish and the faith of his fellows
in him is infinite. For % years he
has been part and parcel of the his
tory of Malheur county. He was the
first man to embark in the sheep in
dustry in the county on extensive and
successful lines, and among his var
ioius valuable holdings today are some
5000 head of cattle. His model ranch,
a veritable Ell Dorado is at Juntura,
20 miles southwest of Westfall. A pill
lar indeed of the commercial world of
Eastern Oregon is VIM. Jones, a man
of practically unlimited financial re-
sources, and to whose unselfish pub
lie spirit, Westfall, Juntura, and On
tario, in particular, are indebted
largely for their present commercial
Importance.
The field marshal and business as
sociate of the COMMUNICATIVE chief, in
the personal direction of their mer-
camille and banking interests in
Westfall is
]. ID. Falrman,
manager of the Jones Mercantile Co
cashier of Jones & Co, bankers, post
master of Westfall for seven consecu-
tive years, and the towns mayor
since its incorporation, over fire years
ago. For twenty years Mr., Fairman
has been In the thick of events In
these parts, and is shining example
, the possibilities of this country,
Ills start hereabout was In the humble
capacity of sheep herder His next
Upward step was when he ana ms
brother, Harry. eubarked In the live
stock industry on their own account
AMI they prospered to the extent of
climbing to u fore most place among
the horse and cattle growers of this
sec. ion. and fine quarter section
stock ranch is still the property OF
these brothers.
Iii viably, too, has j. ID. Fairman
figured politically, in this region. An
instance OF his popularity was when
some eight years ago. the Republican
candidate for county clerk died two
DAYS lefore the election and Mr.. Fair
mans name was put on the ticket as
n substitute. And Notwithstanding
he had only two-day's canvass he
came within 16 votes o. victory,
compliment to his integrity and abili-
ty which any man might pardonably
treasure He has been mayor since
the establishment of that office Eng
land is lis birth land. but when little
more than boy he got on Intimate
terms with hard work in construc-
ton crew on the Canadian Pacific
railroad, thence he transferred his al
legiance and his best efforts to THIS
section. and a more eloyal and erect
i've town-making and Emplre-building
man England or no other country or
state ever gave to our new West Tru-
ly Mr.. Fairman Is type or man that
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its possibilities and by his indomit-
able industry, genius and energy he
has made the desert blossom as a
rose made it unfailingly give forth
a bounteous crop of the priced pro-
ducts of the earth
This great transformation has been
wrought by the miracle of irrigation.
and the management of a man with
grit and the sumption to never be
baked by difficulties, by a man who
has made soil and climate his ser
wants, and thus made the best farm
in this nook of Malheur county, if not
indeed, the bst farm in this county.
Right here and now we are TEMPTED
! to ask the question; Is not this farm
the realization Of the day dreams of
the Oregon born boy who in early
youth Graded rye on the hill by the
old red barn in New York state-John
H Rowley? For our subject was
born in the Empire state, and it was
there that eastern ideas of farming
were ingrained in lbs nature. Kansas,
too has contributed to his knowledge
OK agriculture, for ten years he and
his father, N J Rowley, were in the
liz estock business there together.
In 1883 our subject returned to his
native state and for the next four
years engaged in the stock business
in Wallowa county. For the four sub
sequent years he TILED the soil of
Marion county, then for twelve months
he followed farming in Baker county.
and thence he came and tried his des-
inies here for the mutual advantage
of the community and himself.
But we must not forget Prince"
his Percherou stallion. q horse with
an imperial strain Of blood which is
traced back to most famous French
stock.
The record number of this stallion
is 475OS. He is a magnificent young
mountain OF flesh, but three years old,
and weighs 1900 pounds, and will
surely weigh ton when fully ma
tured
some 20 brood mares and colts are
also his, ana his colts are invariably
sueh splendid specimens OF draft
stock that prospective purchasers
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-16

plant. Mr.. Fairman, by the way, is
the manager of the Jones Mercantile
Co. and largely interested in the con-
Germ.
few pertinent facts and figures
perhaps, most eloquently tell this
houses story of success.
In addition to its store, proper, 4Ox
so feet and with equal cellar room,
this company has four large ware
houses, and every available inch of
floor space in all the buildings, from
floor to ceiling, is jammed with stock
mems supplies It's stock now would
inventory not a penny less than
$4,000, and is never suffered to shrink
below the $4,000 mark.
Their trade last year exceeded $780,
600, and the sales thus far this year
are so far in advance of what they
were last year at this time as to war
rant the assertion that the sales OF
1909 will toe the $4,000 mark, good
and plumb, and they have done this
without developing a full f1edged
kicker" in their regular army of GUS
toners.
Their trade, on the west, reaches to
the outskirts of Burns 100 miles away,
and to the north, for another so miles.
Their stock embraces everything
necessary to support life, to clothe
and adorn the person, several of the
essentials to build a house, barn or
fence, and moving machines are
the multitude of other things
OF ready-to-wear clothes they have
a large and select stock of finest fab
rio, latest styles and the best tailored
The prices and quality of
their goods anticipate the last wish of
this trade, and thus obviates the me-
cessity of these people going to ano-
Their town to trade,
Four clerical assistants are always
to the despatch of their
business.
They also handle about $4,000 bush
els of grain per annum.
William Jones, President.
The senior member and president of
this company. and he whose name it
bears, William Jones, is the largest in
lividual stock man in Malheur coun-
ty, and one of its pioneer, wealthiest
aud most oiti1apC
Mr.. Jones is vice president of the
First National Bank of Ontario, and
president of Jones & Co. Bankers, al
Westfall
j. ID. Fairman, Manager.
Mr. Fairman has since the Jones
Mercantile company was ushered into
existence been its manager and a no
stakeholder in it.
The day that Mr.. Fairman became
active directing its destinies makes
IA red-letter event in the commercial
history fhtis community, and by rea-
son of the pushing, conservative and
constructive genius of this CONNER
cial genius of this commercial COM
mander during the seven years he has
managed its affairs he has built in this
business a monument which will have
an enduring place in the scheme of
eastern 0regon's trade and commerce.
Behind his business methods is les
son for every man who sells goods be
hind counter. For old fashioned
rock-ribbed honesty is at the bottom
of his business policy.
No one can see the possibilities of
an article from the selling angle
quicker than he, hence this store has
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-16
A GREAT MERCANTILE COMPANY
In a Far Inland town, The Jones
Mercantile Company

The town of Westfall was born
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

tured on vaudeville bills as one Of the
-Four Cohans. and was noted as being a
young man who could twist himself INTO
more shapes and get out Of them quicker,
keeping his feet patteriug on the stage all
the time. than any other who worked In
one" Today II all the theaters in The
world were wiped out, snd the stage as a
profession and a source OF revenue to sue
cessful managers were obliterated, Mr..
Conan would not have to worry about his
board bill OF laundry check, for he has
st" slowed away in the banks to the tune,
estimated by some close enough to know,
Of s.. 5OO.OOO. This means that George mas
coined almost $500 a day since he began
his life work" of writing for the stage.
Running for office" was his first, and
nobody knows what will be his last. But
at least once a year he has produced a new
play. and now and again he has initiated
the old lady's hen by producing two oi
three. None Of these are dead yet. but are
all IN a state OF profitable activity. and
there you have ii. Mr.. Cohan may be q
genius or he mas not be q genius, his plays
may be worth watching, and they may b
a waste Of time, but the American publ,
persists in filling the theater whenever Z
Conan play is therein presented. Some com
PARSONS have been made between the tat
Charles A. Hoyt and Mr.. Cohan as to thei
methods Of writing. The scissors and tn
pastepot proved their best friends and III
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

literary capacity can be found who will
for pay prostitute their pens to such ends
as this. But having found them. what
shall we say Of the men who will employ
them? What satisfaction can either Of the
opposing leaders OF the business world Of
the stage possibly derive from seeing his
opponents belabored by a man who has
been hired to do II? The literary bravo Is
no more a loveable person than was the
bravo of the by-gone day. who was con-
sidered to be really an Objectionable char
acter. 1t requires no more Of courage to
stab a man by pen for pay than it did to
Turk in a dark street and leap out and
thrust a passing victim through the back
with a dagger. The wage in either case Is
earned by the same effort. The gentlemen
who are engaged in this deplorable contest
must not affect surprise if they find the
public inclined to take them at their word
and believe what each says of the other.
Other causes may be cited for the apparent
Indifference Of the public TO the offerings
at the theaters, but here viii be found the
most responsible 81 all the reasons.
To the question OF George NJ. Conan a
soft, but insistent. echo answers in most
musical tones, WHY" When a Cohar
play is submitted to a critical analysis cht
residuum is represented by the hole in, the
d~oughnut. Yet when the twentieth century
dawned George NJ. Conan was being fea
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Why Do Theater Managers Complain of Hard Times

world their field for cleaning. In another
best Judge Of the plays quality. yet II
would DO no harm 90 soak the manager of
the tneater a SO fine just TO remind him
OF the desirabuity Of being careful. and
so the fine was put on. NJ Des Moines a
post mortem case u being made against the
manager % a theater IN which The Girl
from Rector's' was recently exhibited.
Here. too. a minister Is the complainant
This minister does not undertake to say
that 9TH Girl from Rector's" is better or
worse than a large number Of perfor-
mances that are permitted on the stage.
but he announces his intention Of keeping
the amusements Of the city's people as
pure as possible. and therefore is before
the grand jury asking that the manager
OF the theater be indicted for permitting
an immoral performance in his house. In
Chicago a young woman. q juvenile court
officer, has had a dancer arrested for Civ
ing an immoral performance. She does not
charge that the dance she witnessed
approached in any degree some Of the
dances that have been given Of late, and
whieh are being hailed as triumphs OF art,
but she insists that her mission is to pro-
tect the boys and girls growing up in Chi
cage and therefore she will not patiently
tolerate anything tina might possibly con-
taminste the lives OF young folks. II does
not seem TO have occurred to her that one
good way to protect the young folks from
contamination would be to keep them out
Of harms way. In each Of these cases the
complainant seems to have conceived a no
ton that the duty Of protecting the public
Is resting impeTatively upon him or her, -
long as such careful guardians of public
veal may be found there is no reason Il
fear for the safety Of the folks who taxi
their pleasure at the theater.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

dramas and travelling circuses. In a ramb-
cuts. crudely colored, Of the current melo-
ling sort Of way he gathered a limited
knowledge of perspective and figure draw
ing.
"A thorough bohemian, he soon made the
acquaintance Of sundry showmen and
numerous actors, and was finally engaged
by q museum msnage to paint the signs
and ornamental announcements of the
various freaks exhibited from week to
week. Aimless as were his initial attempts
at art. his fame nevertheless grew. and
when the late John Avery came to Gin
cinLati from Chicago to conduct the old
viLe street museum he induced Mac to
come with him. And here on the facade
of that temporary repository of freaks his
first real reputation was made.
Mac stuck to his work, unmindful of
the irregularity Of the visits of the ghostly
paymaster. His studio was a dingy little
room on the top floor Of the museum.
Here he toiled on, his own teacher, without
models and without adequate material or
tools. On the front OF that Heck and
Avery institution blossomed out each week
in a blaze of Macs well mixed pigments
an edition de luxe of fat women. snakes,
/ living Skeletons ana oSsIltQ men.
Occasionally pictures of the more curl
GUS of the monstrosities OF the peculiar
show house were in demand for newspaper
use and it was suggested TO Manager
Avery that he have Mac make the draw.
ings for the press. He received his first
lessons in process drawing in the Cincin.
natl CONGRATULATIONS art room. Final
| ~. when business became very bad at thc
museum, he became a regular worker or
the paper, From Cincinnati Mac went tC
New York.
AS he sat" writes Mr.. Phister, in tn,
luxurious box al the Grand the other nigh
and saw the great ~troupes~of dancers, tn
many clever actors and all the gorgeous
paraphernalia of this Klaw & Erlange
staging Of his brains creation and con
templated, as he no doubt did in retrospect
his hours of grim discouragement in tina
old museum directly opposite the magnifl
cent Sinton playhouse, is Il a thing amaz
ing that he should be. as he says, 'plun
nutty' about Little Nemo?'"
The Western Theatrical Managers as
ISOLATION, comprising the principal point
In the states OF Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kan
sss, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, has entere
into a contract for a long term of year
giving the exclusive booking control G
p their theaters IN Klaw & Erlanger. Thes
are the managers who some time ago Dc
I clared for an open door" policy, snnounC
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Status of the Stage as an Element in Social Life Fixed
Beyond Dispute While Quality and Quantity of Modern
Writing for Production is So Prodigious as to Puzzle

way they were similar. Mr.. Hoyt was an.
usually gifted in his faculty for selecting
actors to present his fares, and TO the
personality Of the men and women he EN-
ployed is due, perhaps. as much Of his sue
cess as to his capacity for collecting and
arranging the current jests and passing
slang In a pleasing way. Mr.. Cohan also
has this faculty and each of bis important
companies is headed by some one actor Of
established popularity and unquestioned
ability, so that the people who are looking
for amusement are certain to find IL when
they attend a Conan show. With these
qualifications and the assurance necessary
to take chances, Mr.. Cohsn had made for
himself a fortune that win endure even IL
his literary labors do not.
While there is no censorship for the
drama in America. we have had recently
two or three notable examples OF what
might happen. In Toronto a manager was
hauled into police court and fined SO
for permitting an immoral performance.
The complaining witness was a Baptist
minister, who admitted on the witness
stand that he had never before been in a
theater The witness could not specify tn,
exact point on which the performance fel
short Of the moral standard, but said thai
he was shocked by some OF the things h,
saw. The police magistrate held that whils
the complaining witness might not be thu
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

ing that they wished to play all attrac-
ticr irrespective Of their sffliation. but
they found their movement a complete
failure, as the principal producing mana.
gers Of the country would not play with
them under these conditions. This expert
L.ent brought disaster to their present
season, as they have not been able to
supply their patrons with tirst-class attrac-
tions. This, with the exception of a scat.
tering one-night stand here and there,
gives Klaw * Erlanger fun control not
only OF the cities, but of ali the one-nighI
stands in the United states and Canada,
.
stage children, / know. are particu-
,arly precocious,' says Miss Dakota Reich,
who is playing the part Of Clara Runkle
in Liebler & Co.'S latest P~atterson-Ford
play, but l think the remark passed by
my little brother was positively the cutest
thing / have heard since Hugh Ford told
me ! was engaged for the part"
We'll, Miss Bones. what was the remark
made by your precocious relativeT'
"As we we're entering the theater to-
gether, opening night, tho stage door man
stopped my brother Wire. and asked If
he had a right to go through. WHO are
your asked the stage dooIman."
And what did Willie answer
Willie said. quick as a flash. 1 am a
little brother OF the Reich.
did Willie say that"
YES, Willie said that
"Well?"
That is the name of the pay
What is the name Of the play?'
"A Little Brother Of the Rich
"And?"
Il pronounce my name as If It were
spelled R-i-c-h.'
How old is willie?'
"Twenty-four."
John Dunphy is a printer of credit and
renown. On the program of Wallsck's
theator, New York, where The Fourth
Estate is playing, Mr.. Dunphy is billed
simply as Makeup Man No. 2. But out
in front of the theater, in the MORMON;
enlargement OF the composing room seen,
of che newspaper play. Dunphy stands
out larger than Charles Waldron, leading
man, or Pauline Frederick, leading woman
Dunphy is erudite, graceful in the part
and has a union number which anv.
body can ascertain by asking him o
James Tole. president Of Blk Six. In al
dition. Dunphy thinks there never was
play such as the play by Joseph Medi'
Patterson and Harriet Ford, in which h
is a factor. Recently in the dOwnstair
dressing room, where the mechanical fore
makes up" someone read in the thestrica
news announcement of a new playa calle
justification" and wondered what il wa
about
"oh, another newspaper play, of course.
said Dunphy, out Of a superior technics
knowledge. but I'll bet it amt as good a
The Fourth Estate"
Walker Whiteside hasn't always been TN
star Of a play of the Importance of TT
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

second act ends with a terrific fire scene,
realistic to the extreme; the third act eli
max shows the attempted drowning Of the
leading lady and her subsequent rescue, an
effect entirely new and fully covered by
patents. in the fourth act transpires the
daring leap Of A large sized auto touring
car, going at a high speed, from one end OF
a rising jack knife bridge TO the other.
a flying leap through space Of fully twenty
feet, The last act depicts an awe-inspirlng
death dealing tornado in the full strength
Of It's first born force, with the usual ter
rtfying electrical storm. laying destruction
and havoc in It's track. Every vestige OF
scenic equipment used in this act is APP
parently utterly destroyed and the curtain
descends on a scene Of devastation and
waste impossible to describe.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

Melting Pot" and he hasn't always been
so comfortably housed as he is at the
dainty Comedy theater. New York. There
was a time when Mr.. whiteside was en-
gagged in that widening and ennobling ex-
p~erience known as transforming, and
there isn't any false pride in the White
side makeup which prevents allusion to
that period. In his dressing room yester-
day, the star Of the Zangwill drama re-
called some of his struggles.
'only once" aid he, was really
stranded, and that was in g little Kansas
town several years ago. The stage had
refused to be elevated, and l and kindred
bold spirits, had taken a sporting fiuttcr
and hired the town hall for $50 for a per
Torrance of Hamlet We didn't come up
to our guarantee, for there was exactly
$3.50 in the house when all had been
counted.
1--WE were feeling pretty blue, l can tell
you, and when the kindly-faced old gentle
man who was either the manager Of the
house or the janitor or the sexton, ap-
preached, VIC decided 10 ask him to help
us with enough money to get to the next
town. We had got as far as to tell him
we were without funds when he stopped US
and left abruptly, saying ne would see
what could be done. He was gone three
quarters of an hour. When he returned, he
said:
Boys, it's all right. l couldn't settle
this thing myself. because / amt got all
the say. But the other trustees were will
ing to help when l explained the thing to
them. You don't have to worry about the
other 10 cents"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
sure EnouEh.

Pat got a job moving kegs OF powder,
and, TO the alarm OF the foreman, was
discovered smoking a. his work.
Gracious eNlaimed the foreman ID
you know what happened when a man
smoked at this job some years ago. There
men.
That couldn't happen here returned
Pat. calmly.
why uotg'
Cos there's only ms and you, vas the
repg.-HarpeTs.