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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
Idaho Southern Railroad Intends
To Go Into City by the Dam
Without Amy Delay
PROBABLY EXTEND TO OAKLEY
Ninety Thousand Ties and Heavy Steel
Rails Have Been Ordered---Donald
Grant & Co. Have Contract

Major Fred r. Reed of Wendell,
general land sales agent of the Twin
Falls North Side Land and Water Co.,
is authority for the statement that the
company has issued orders for the
immediate completion of the Idaho
Southern railroad from Jerome to
Miner, a distance of 35 miles.
The road is already built and trains
are running from Gooding to Jerome
and much grading has been done be-
tween Jerome and Miner.
Ninety thousand ties have been
ordered and will be shipped at once
and heavy steel rails will be sent from
Pittsburg.
The Donald Grant Construction Co.,
have been awarded the contract and as
they were the men who built the road
TO its present terminus besides doing
the heavy part of the canal construction
for the North Side irrigating system it
goes without saying that the new ex-
tension will be put through on schedule
time 1t has been no secret among
the friends of the Grants that they were
fairly itching to break loose on this
section of railroad and throw big force
on it that would rush it to completion
in a hurry. Now that the order has
come the way dirt will fly on that right
of way will be pleasure to behold.
The report from Pittsburg intimates
that this road will be extended from
Miner to Oakley in order to connect
the Twin Falls Oakley project with the
North Side project.
This will be welcome news to the
settlers of the entire North Side pro-
ject but more especially to those of the
eastern end of the segregation who
were without adequate transportation
facilities. The Miner or Hillsdale Sc
gregation and the new town of Hills
dale through which the road will pass
and the eastern end of the Jerome
tract will be the parts most directly
benefited by the new extension.
But of course the whole of Lincoln
county is interested in the upbuilding
of every section of it's broad domain
and the people as whole will rejoice
in the consummation of this railroad
system.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
EARLY FISHING TRIP
SAVED THE HARNESS

Arthur and Charles Hansen were
planning little fishing trip the first of
the week and so they arose very early
Sunday morning and Charles went out
to the barn to feed and harness the
horses. "But when he got there the
cupboard wss bare" according to the
nursery rhyme, but it required little
variation in this case. The horses
were on deck and the feed was forth [,
coming but when Charles attempted
to harness up, behold no harness was
there. Then Arthur was called out
and the two decided that theft had
been committed in the night. A brief
search revealed some suspicious tracks
which the two young men followed.i
They led east past the o.. S. L. shops
and out into the sage brush beyond.
After brief walk they were re warded
by seeing two rough looking men max
ing off into the desert and one of them
carried big sack full of something.
The Hansens gave chase when one of
the men fell back to hinder the chase
while his comrade with the sack kept
on. This ruse would not work because
the persons paid no attention to the
man behind but pressed after the one
with the suspicious looking sack. The
latter, when he saw capture inevitable,
dropped the sack and escaped. The
Hansens then investigated and found
the sack to contain several harnesses
which had been taken to pieces so as
occupy less space. fastening home
with the goods they gave word to the
authorities and Sheriff Wheeler, Deputy
Zrg and Marshall Ames struck the
trail of the robbers and soon captured
them. They are now in Jail. Besides
the Hansens harness the robbers had
taken the fine fifty dollar harness be-
longing to Ben Darrah the same being
found in the sack. 1t was no doubt
owing to that early start for fishing
trip that led to the captuoe of the
robbers.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13

at the Riverside Inn the last of the
week.
R. P. Cross of Chicago was abusiness
visitor here Saturday.
H. R. Grant of Twin Falls attended
the dance Saturday night returning
home Sunday
r. w. Faris of Boise stopped off be-
tween trains Saturday on Goose Greek
business.
L. w. Howard made a trip to Hills
dale Tuesday in the interest of the
State Land Board
Carl c. Canine was in town Tuesday
making final proof on his North Side
ranch.
The farmers on the Miner segrega-
tion are getting record crops this year
and most of them are here to stay,
having built substantial houses, fenced
their ranches and made all the improve
ments for permanent home. Several
of the more energetic farmers have
raised crops which can't be duplicated
in Southern Idaho.
The work on the electric line be-
tween Jerome and Miner is progressing
rapidly. and the present construction
camp will be doubled in short time to
push the work through. The extension
to Oakley will be completed by the
time the Idaho Southern arrives, if not
sooner, and then keep your eyes on the
Dam City.
T. H. Howard and L. j. Doyle made
a business trip to Twin Falls Friday.
See L. w. Howard & Co., for Real
Estate and Insurance.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
SPECIAL CERTIFICATES
FOR TEACHERS

Although the people in Idaho gener
ally understand that the Lewiston Nor
NAL school, being state institution, is
empowered by law to grant teaching
certificates to students, yet it is not
generally understood that the Lewiston
Normal may grant and does grant
special certificates in special subjects.
The following certificates are granted:
First, the diploma or life certificate;
second, the first-grade certificate good
for five years; third, second grade GER
tifcate good for three years; fourth,
first grade rural certificates good for
five years; fifth, professional primary
certificates; sixth, manual training and
drawing certificates; seventh, drawing
and domestic arts certificates; eighth
musical and physical education certIfi-
Gates. These special certificates are
granted upon the completion of one
years work in the professional school
of the Lewiston Normal Recently
there has been growing demand on
the part of school boards and superin-
tendents throughout the state for
trained teachers who are specialists in
music and drawing, domestic art, man
ual training and physical education.
Undoubtedly this demand will grow
stronger with each year, and those
teachers who have had special training
along these lines will find no difficulty
in obtaining desired positions at in
creased salaries. The special training
required for such positions teachers
can receive at the Lewiston State Nor
NAL school.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
Twin Falls s-Oakley Project Con-
tanning $4,000 Acres VIII
be Opened for Settlers
At MILNER, SEPTEMBER 20
Railroad for Tract Assured; Soil Rich.
Sandy Loan, Free from Rock;
Plenty of Water for All

The Twin Falls Oakley project of
SO, 900 acres of the finest land in south
ern Idaho, all first class, located south
east of Miner on Goose Greek, will be
opened by Carey act drawing in the
town of Miner on September 20, 1909,
at 10 O'Clock a. m. There is no finer
land anywhere than this segregation;
it contains no poor or second-class land.
The impoundlng dam for the project
is located on Goose Greek above Oak
ley, and will cost from 81, 300, 600 TO
81, 400, 900.
This project will have railway con-
nection with Burley by an extension of
the Oregon Short Line or with Miner
by an extension of the Idaho Southern.
The latter road will build from Jerome
to Miner this fall.
The Twin Falls-Oakley project is f.
nanced by the same company that
backed the North Side enterprise which
has been so successfully carried to near
completion, and that they will fulfill
all obligations entered into relating to
the Oakley project is conceded by all
l.who know them.
Every one who has seen the lands Of
the Oakley project is enthusiastic over
their richness and beauty. They con-
sist largely of a deep sandy loan nearly
level and free of rock. The price is
fixed at sos. so per acre for water right
and land, of which S3.25 per acre is
paid at the time of filing and balance
in II annual payments at 6 per cent
interest.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
Date of Oakley Opening Changed.

The state board of land commissions
ers in accordance with the request of
the Twin Falls Land and Water COM
pany has changed the date of opening
$4,000 acres of the Oakley project to
entry from September 9 to September
20, the opening to be held at Oakley.
The opening of $4,000 acres of land
under the Big Lost River Land & Ir-
rigation Co. September IA will be held
at Arco. With both land openings set
for the same month and only about
two weeks apart it is anticipated that
many people from the east will thus be
given an opportunity of attending both
land openings.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
WILL TEST THE LOCAL
OPTION LAW IN IDAHO

An important case was brought be-
fore Judge Walters at chambers last
Monday involving the constitutionality
of the local option law of Idaho.
The case was from. Elmore county
and was brought by the temperance
forces of that county praying for a
writ of mandamus to compel the county
commissioners TO call an election under
the provisions of the local option law.
When the Elmore county commits
sioners met in Mountain Home last
July the temperance people filed pc
tition asking the county board to call
an election according to the local option
law. At the time one of the commits
sioners was absent, one was in favor
of calling the election and one was
against it. AS matter of course no
action was taken. The present move
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
Better Prunes Than Ever.

G. R. Wheeler's prune orchard on
the west of town is loaded with fine
large fruit this season and Mr.. Wheeler
has already contracted two tons for
delivery. The frost was a benefit in
thinning out the blossome of the prune
trees but it was too much for the other
fruit on the place as most of it was
killed. Mr. Wheeler has storage
house this year in which can be stored
1000 boxes. This will save that part of
the crop which the frost has caught in
former seasons and enable him to work
it off on the market at later date.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
MILNER MILLINGS

Houston Hill of San Francisco ar
rived in town Wednesday to make
final proof on North Side claim,
Lee w. Glass of Twin Falls was in
town on business Wednesday.
C. w. Joslyn of the Salmon Dam
came up the middle of the week for a
short stay.
H. F. Silk and P.J Jones of St. Louis
arrived in town Thursday and drove to
Oakley on business in the company
automobile.
David Downer of Salmon Dam re-
gistered at Riverside Inn on Thursday.
George Rinkar of jerome was in town
he last of the week on business for
the Land & Water Co.
C. E. Mcpherson and c. E. Baird of
Sewickley, Pa, arrived in the Junction
City Friday and have acceptedpositions
in the company office.
R. S. Fessenden spent the week end
in Boise in the interests of the Raft
River project returning to Miner
Sunday.
Major Fred R. Reed and H. w. Hur
lebaus of Jerome are in our city for
several days and Mr.. Hurlebaus has
opened an office in the Miner State
bank building which he will occupy
during the Goose Creek opening here
OF Sept. 20.
The dance in the hall Saturday night
was thoroughly enjoyed by all who at
tended.
Phil. Weaver and L. Mclean took
the evening train for Boise Friday and
returned Tuesday noon.
Sunday afternoon the Dam baseball
team. crosses sticks with the Jerome
team in Jerome and fast game is ex-
pected.
E. A. Wilcox of Pittsburgh registered
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
COMBINATION HARVESTER
DOING GOOD WORK

The combine harvester is making his
tory on the big dry farm, having been
started Wednesday. People who saw
it started say it is perfection, not only
cutting as clean as any header, but
saving the grain. j. L. McKown made
a careful examination and found but
two kernels of wheat in 100 feet, and
says the saving over a header is mate
rial. The only busy man about the
machine is the one sewing the grain
bags. In going once around a field of
grain. This is the first combine to be
brought here, but the satisfaction it
has given will insure the purchase of
others. MIR. MeKown estimates the
average yield of the 2008-acre field on
the dry farm at twenty bushels per
acre. Some of the grain he says will
make thirty bushels, while some may
not go more than fifteen, the latter
having been seeded on poorly prepared
ground.
The combine is attracting many Wis
itors to the big farm, and all come
away enthusiastic. The capacity of
the machine has not yet been demon
strated, but it will handle large acre
age. The first of the four 1900 bushel
steel grain tanks to be used in connec-
tion with the combine is due to leave
today, and the others will soon follow,
and the wheat from the big farm will
soon be on the market. = American
Falls Press.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
Surveyed Unsurveyed Total
Unappro- Unappro-
nriafad nriated
Totals 2,838, O97 10, 519, ,O06 10, 356, 1O3


The total includes mineral, agricultu-
raj and grazing land; some of it is alb
solutely as good and as desirable in ev-
cry way as land in irrigation projects
which sells up to s75 per acre. A quar-
ter section of it would therefore be a
modest competency. Properly exploited
it would enrich its owner. Yet good
living could be made upon five acres of
it, or even upon less.
There is therefore room in the Haley
Land district today for fully million
families in addition to those already
here. And the child is born who will
see even a larger population in the ter
ritory indicated. Wood River Times.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
Posey Ryan Gets Life Sentence

A telegram to the Journal from
Warren L. Clowser at Cheyenne Wyo-
ming, states that Posey Ryan got
life sentence for the murder of the
daughter and divorced wife of Mr..
Clowser. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Clowser was in Gooding at the
time of the tragedy and several days
were required to find him by telegraph.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-08-13
REPORT OF THE HALEY
LAND DISTRICT

There is now heavy immigration into
Blaine and adjacent counties, notwith-
standing there is still a vast area of
land in the Haley Land district that is
unappropriated and therefore open to
entry by any person desirous of max
ing home thereon.
The Haley Land district is composed
of the counties of Blaine, Custer, Cas-
sia, Lincoln, Lemhi, and Twin Falls,
and parts of Bingham, Elmore, Ere
mont, Owyhee, Idaho and Boise.
The area remaining unappropriated
in each of these counties, and the acre
age of surveyed and unsurveyed land,
is given by Register Mcmahon of the
Haley Land office as follows:
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
NEWsY GLEANINGs.

Rutherfurd Stuyvesant died sud-
denly in Paris.
Feeling in Turkey is growing more
bitter against the Greeks.
1t is expected that the Tariff bill
will have been enacted By August /.
The German-American sharpshoot-
ers from New York arrived In Berlin.
The communication OF the Powers
note on Crete was delayed for modifi-
cations.
Ground was broken on Spuyten
Duyvil Hill for the Hendrix Hudson
monument.
Advices at Hong Kong say that the
Macao boundary dispute is growing
more acute.
Japanese trade and navigation
have been hit hard by the South
China boycott
The French dirigible balloon vile
de Nancy made a successful flight
over the Longchamps race course.
Henri Lemoine, the diamond swim
dler, was sentenced at Paris to six
years imprisonment and a fine OF
5000.
Joseph Gruber. eighteen, shot him
self dead In the street In Williams
burg, N. Y, while chatting with wom-
en- and children.
Advices from Bogota strongly In
dicated that there had been a revolu-
ton I'm Colombia. and that General
Reyes was fugitive.
The Tauern Railway, which cost
S62, 500. 900. connecting Gastein and
Spittal, thirty milesapart, was opened.
by Emperor Francis Joseph.
A rebellion has begun at Barran-
qullla, Colombia. 10 overthrow Gen
eral Holguln, the acting President,
and place Valencia In power,
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17

The people OF the United states
are tho greatest users OF the telc-
phone.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
Cover For Water Pail.

The drinking water pail is usually
the most likely catch for all dust,
dirt and flies in the house unless pro-
tected in some way. Get an inch or
three-fourths inch board twelve
inches wide and saw off foot and
also saw off the corners to make II
rounding on one end Fasten hinges
to the square end and screw them
against the wall at a height SO that
this cover will rest level on the water
pail. Nail a block of wood above
the cover and put a small wood but
ton on 1t so that when the cover is
raised up against the wall It will be
held by the button. This will keep
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17

day. Instead, the clothesllnes are
economically arranged on one sup
port. The latter consists OF a post,
TO which are piyoted Ave or six bars.
These support the clothes line, which
is arranged I'm graduated lengths be-
tween the bars. When thus spread
out there Is thus probably $50 feet
OF clothes line, affording considerable
space for the clothes. After tho
clothes have become dried the line
and supports can be folded up and
placed out OF sight by operating a
small lever on the main post. The
upper part OF the framework being
thus detachable, II can be quickly re-
moved or replaced when needed.
There are thus no dlsfigurlng clothes
posts TO mar the lawn.--Washington
Star.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17

dust. dirt. flies. millers and other
insects from falling into the water.
No cat or other animal can drink
from the pail when the cover Is down.
When fresh water Is wanted, merely
lift the cover and fasten back against
the wall with the button.-Lewls Eli
thorp, In The EpitomIst.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
Up-to-Date ClothesIlnc.

A sensible clothes dryer, which will
be welcomed by the particular house
wife, is the recent invention of a resi-
dent of Port Angeles, Wash. II does
away with the unsightly long lines of
clothes usually associated with WASH
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
Easy.

Easy.
I'm what condition was the patrl-
arch Job at the end of his life2"
asked Sunday-school teacher of a
quiet looking boy at the foot of the
class. Dead" calmly replied the
quiet looking boy.-1llustrate Bite.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17

The Church OF England reports
10000 baptisms for last year, and
membership OF 2,142,O39. Sunday
school teachers number 21O,439.
With 2,4SS,23O paplls.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17

The pedigree OF some Arab horses
may BIO traced back for 1000 years.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
MISS KATE L. LUCAS,
PALATKA, FLORIDA,
MILLINERY FANCY GOODS,

Notions. ladies'. misses and chill
dren's summer underwear.
Ladies' silk gloves.
Laces. embroidery, collars. belts and
the latest styles In spring hats and
bonnets.
Experienced trimmer and designer
employed. Prices right Satisfaction
guaranteed.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
Rather Away From II.

You cannot lead men into truth by
trleks.-Aeson.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-05-08
WRONG IDEALS.

The deliberate sacrifice of ones
chances for material betterment is
tragic When it happens in the case
of negro, one who is already marked
by racial peculiarities from the rest of
Americans, and one whose personal
shortcomings count against US all as
well as against himself, the matter is
too grave to be passed over Yetthis is
just what members of our race are do
ing daily Occasionally some fragrant
case of general worthlessness attracts
public attention and arouses comment,
but steadily a certain per cent of us
are contributing to our own downfall
and incidentally bringing the whole
race down with us. The fault lies in
wrong ideals. 1t is strange but it is
true, that many pride themselves on
the looseness of their morality, on the
wasting of their money, and on the
smallest possible part of their time
that they give to work. The commun-
ity is too tolerant of this attitude.
The downright criminal does us less
damage. He is in class apart ana
nothing is expected Of him. But the
Negro who goes to his work drunk, or
lays off to frolic, signalizes his pres
ence at picnics with fighting belongs
outside the pale of good opinion.
When he gets sufficiently insistent
upon being noticed he belongs in jail,
and it is the part of good citizenship
to see that he goes there rather than
have the community injured by his be-
hvior @ ..
In discussing this matter We are not
making much ado about nothing, but
are sounding the warning. Unless we
mend our ways, our industrial oppor-
tunity is at an end
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-05-08
COULD NOT RESIST THE TEMPTA.
TION. f

The League Journal, published at
New Rochelle, N. Y is one of the late
corners to our desk. 1t possesses in
terest for us for two reasons. One is
that it is the organ of business
league that does something besides
talk and issue pronunciamentos for
political effect This one deals in real
estate, and has houses Of its own.
Wonderful! This one popularity OF
the New Rochelle Folk makes the
Journal noteworthy if for no other rea-
son. Consider, then, how much we
are interested in its welfare with the
addition of our old friend, J. e. Bruce,
Bruce Grit" as it's editor. He has
just severed his connection with one
newspaper, the Yonhers Standard, and
here he is with another We sincere
ly hope that the change is for the bet
ter, and whether it is or not is dis
tinctly for the better of the race that
he has decided to remain and fight the
battle out with the weapons he knows
SO well how to use. Good Luck, old
friend!
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1909-05-08

The Ladies' Aid Society will give a
chilli and ice creams entertainment
Saturday night, at the residence of
Mrs. Mary G. Clinkscale, 250S Tre-
mont street. You are cordially in
vited to attend this entertainment and
thus help good cause.