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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
279 Years Old

Last Tuesday night there was
lodged in the county bastile four men
whose combined ages amounted to 279
years, an average Of nearly 70 years
apiece. They were the only occu-
pants and their extreme age is rather
singular if not pitiable. When men
have passed through life with all its
opportunities and advantages and
have failed to accumulate enough of
earthly goods tc keep them in old
age, and fall into such helpless
slough of dependency, it is a mat
ter of sympathy and of warning tc
the young men of today who are fling
ing their lives away in recklessness
to take heed.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Perhaps.

Perhaps the paper falls short of
your idea of local newspaper, says
the Liberty Sentinel. Perhaps there
are many local items that you fail to
see that if you were running the paper
you would see here. Perhaps when
you don't find the notice Of your
friends wishing you from distance or
you or some member of your family
have gone or returned from visiting,
you are ready to condemn the paper.
Perhaps there is a pleasant social
event at your home, new heir is
born and the event fails to appear
in the paper.
Perhaps you have painted your
home, built new barn or a new
side walk and the paper doesn't
mention it and you feel slighted.
Perhaps your son or daughter has
gone away to school and the paper
never said word about it. Perhaps
you have met the news gatherer
dozen or more times day
with some or all of these items under
your hat and you never gave hint
and perhaps if he asked you for in
formation you wouldn't know a
thing. Perhaps you are not aware
of the fact that the news gatherer is
not all wise nor is he om-
nipresent nor a mind reader. And.
perhaps. after you read this. you
will go on doing as you have done
keep everything away from the paper
and then kick at the paper. Perhaps
this isn't meant for you.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
DIES DURING
THE NIGHT
f. f. LaRawelI. q Former Clerk In
the Idaho Commercial Passed
Quietly Away

F. E. Langwell. man well known
in the city where he has resided for
a number of years, was found dead
in his bed at the Evans Hotel yester~
day afternoon. Mr.. Langwell has
been ailing for a number of years,
but has been accomplishing and his
friends little dreamed of the serious
ness of his condition.
He had been clerk in the Evans
pool and billiard hall for the past
few weeks which has kept him on
duty often times until one and two
o'clock in the morning. Mr.. Evans
was very generous with him and
allowed him to sleep unusually late
the next morning. Yesterday. on his
failure to appear at reasonable
hour, it was decided to send up 9
call. The man returned and informed
Mr.. Evans that he was unable to
waken him. At this Mr.. Evans de-
cided there was something wrong
and asked Mr.. Nicholson to 60 up and
arouse him and if he failed to break
in the door. Repeated pounding
failed to bring any response and the
door was forced open. Langwell was
found in his bed dead. There was
no evidence of q struggle or any
suffering whatever. He had slept
peacefully away.
| The Coroner was called and decided
that he came to his death through
natural causes and there would be
no occasion for an inquest. His body
Twas removed to Mr.. Governs under
taking parlors where they will re-
main until disposition is made by his
relatives.
sxdis wife end little GIL loft last
summer for Clyde, Ohio, he has also
two sisters, one in New York state
and the other in Washington. Mes
sages were Immediately sent to them.
Mr.. Langwell is well known to
many in Mountain Home who will
remember him as clerk in the Idaho
Commercial establishment. He was
employed by Mr.. Parish at different
times but not sufficiently to identify
him with the place.
The sympathy of the community
goes out to his stricken relatives.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Train Loads for Seattle

Seattle, March 10 Steamships
for sale and charter are at premium
on the Pacific coast and the Alaska
transportation lines are sending
agents into the Great Lakes country
and along the Atlantic to negotiate
for craft to be used this summer in
carrying tourist parties from Seattle
to Alaska.
The Alaska, Yukon. Pacific exposi-
tion, which opens in Seattle on June
/, is of course attracting hundreds of
thousands to the Northwest and that
many of them are going to take adj
vantage Of the opportunity to see also
Alaska's magnificent glaciers and
other splendid scenic beauties. made
evident by the fact that excursion
reservations on regular boats of the
lines are already made to the full
capacity No less than half dozen
other large steamers are either now
on the way to Puget Sound. or shortly
Will be, and these will handle the
balance of the traffic. AS it now
stands, no less than thirty large craft
will be engaged constantly throughout
the summer in carrying excursionists
back and forth on the six day Alaskan
coast trip.
The traffic officials of the Hill
system railroads and the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul estimate that
no less than 1000, 900 passengers,
bound for the exposition and the Pac-
inc Northwest generally will be
handled through st. Paul during the
exposition period The Hartman sys-
tenn puts similar estimate upon its
business over the Oregon Short Line,
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific,
All of these roads are making ex-
ceptionally low round trip rates and
granting stop over privileges hereto
fore unheard of. Under the privileges
offered it will be possible for the ex-
position bound tourist to see every
scenic wonder that lies between the
Mississippi and Seattle, including the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the
Colorado Rockies, Banff. on the Can
adian Pacific, Yellowstone Park,
Southern and Central California. with
the Yosemite valley and all of the
Z rest.
7 On March / the the exposition wa!
ninety five per cent complete, so tha
e no question remains, if ever there
= was one, that the big fair will b,
opened on the day first announced
June i, with everything in place.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
PhoniSt

Hereafter you will please desig-
nate that nut brown haired. velvet
voiced girl who always says, BUSY.
call again., when you ask for tele-
phone number as the fphonist-'
That is her request. That is the re-
quest that the New York Telephone
company has received. The girls
whom you have known as telephone
operators, - centrals, hello
girls and whom many have called
various other names, most of which
are not fit for publication. wish to
have distinguished title. They
want to be classed somewhere. They
want to have some title they can
print on their business cards and that
they can tell to the agent who 10 col
lecting data for the new city directory.
The girl who pounds the typewriter
has succeeded. after long struggle,
in getting recognized as "typist'
now the girl who stuffs clothes into
the mangle at the steam laundry il
now spoken of almost always as 8
"'laundress the girl who runs ths
sewing machine has long been know
as seamstress the girl VIII.
toile behind the counter has risen q
the dignity of saleslady only the hart
working telephone girl has been with
out an official designation. Sh'
wants to be recognized now as holding
4 job with title to it. She want
title that shifts little of profes
: sionalism and to that end the tele
phone companies have been asked t
adopt the title of "phonist' as tn
official designation of telephon
operator The New York Telephon
s company and others now have the mat
4 ter under consideration. Frank A
a Burrelle, the press clipping man o
z New York, who created the wor
y and applied for government protectio
e on it, has volunteered to relinquis
n all rights in case of its official adop
e tion.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Who Owns the Earth?

The Bible says 'the earth is the
Lords and the fulness thereof, -
which later expression may be in
terpreted to mean the coal, the oil,
IT, precious metals, etc. But a
writer in the Technical World Maga-
zine for January offers some interest
ing facts to show that the Lord is
being deprived of large share of
ownership. For example the land
grant of forty-four million acres
made as free gift to the Northern
Pacific railroad by the national con-
gress some years ago more than
equals in extent the united area of
the states of New York. Massachu-
setts. Connecticut, New Jersey,
Rhode Island and Delaware.
Up to twelve years ago, says this
authority, congress had given away
the public domain to the extent OF
266, 600, 900 acres, territory not fan
from the total size of France and
Germany, two countries which sup
port between them population much
greater than that of the whole
United States
Among the other great resident
land owners it mentioned Samuel
w. Allerton of Chicago, who owns
40, 600 acres of improved farm lands
in the states of Illinois. Iowa ane
Ohio.
An estimate made twelve years
ago showed that Sc foreign individ
uals owned in the United State
land aggreagting more than 26, 600,
600 acres, territory much large
than the state of Indiana and which
if kept in the publicr domain ant
divided into homesteads would hav'
furnished 140, 600 families witt
farms of 160 acres each.
The Standard Oil trust owns mil
lion acres of oil lands; the Steel trus
one tract of coke and valued at $50,
600, 600, while the United State
Leather company has 500. 900 acre
of hemlock timber - One lumbe
company dominated by Frederic
-.xW Weyerhauser of ST. Paul. control
timber area of 10000, 900 acres
nearly the size of the state of Wis
consin. Henry, Qll-) Republican
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

good form requires that everything
be laid by rule. A plate of dinner
size should be put at each place;
at the right Of this lay a dinner
knife, with cutting edge toward the
plate. and just beyond this soup
spoon, which may be either d dessert
spoon, tablespoon or a regular
soup spoon. If you intend serving
oysters place the oyster fork to the
right of the soup spoon. To the left
of the plate, place the forks in the
order they are to be used. with tines
turned up, the one to be used first
being fartherest from the plate. as
fork for fish, entree and roast The
forks and spoons for your dessert are
passed when they are needed.
The napkins lie on the extreme left
unless they are very large and there
is not sufficient space in which event
they are laid on the plate Fold
them in simple, three cornered pyra-
mid and slip inside a bread stick,
dinner roll or a piece of bread two
by one half inches long, being careful
to only partially conceal it. You
can, if you prefer, lay the roll or
the top of the napkin. but this in
not usual.
At a formal dinner bread anc
butter or butter plates are not used
The dinner platte and the cutlery
should be set half an inch from th'
edge of the table, and between eacl
two covers is set a tiny silver sal
cellar.
In addition TO the flowers. candles
salt cellars and silver furnishing
there should be on the table few
pretty dishes-glass or silver-con
tanning salted nuts, crystallize
fruits and bonbons.
In case of extra knives, forks, o
spoons being needed, the sideboar
should be supplied with row each @
large forks and knives, dessel
spoons, tablespoons, extra tumblers
fish slicer and fork This simplifie
matters for the waitress. The Apr
New Idea Woman's Magazine.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Those Mineral Leases

Gaylord w. Thompson, who recently
secured an iron ore lease which covers
8, 900 acres of land lying near Weippe
has returned from the east where he
has been on business, the lease land
development being in prospects are
brighter for the discovery of iron ore,
and further development will be pros
ecuted, says a Lewiston report.
Mr. Thompson. was inclined to be-
lieve that the ore showing would in
tend to say that sufficient body of
hemitate will be found to warrant
the establishment of steel mills. He
out his plans to establish the extent
of the ore bodies.
That the lease will be executed is
believe by Mr. Thompson, who was
somewhat surprised at the newspaper
criticism which arose at the time the
lease was first discussed. In regard
to the lease Mr.. Thompson declared
that full investigation is welcomed
at all times.
1--WE have mineral rights only on
the state lands, said Mr. Thompson,
land these rights are confined to
iron ore. If we discover a good pay
ing body of iron ore on this land the
state will receive a revenue from it.
| We insisted that the lease cover the
| life of the mineral, which is esti-
mated to be about so years In Min
nesota ore leases frequently read foI
FIVE years or during the life of the
mineral.
"If ore is discovered it will NEAR
the investment of large amount o.
capital to mine and mill, and M
steel mill capitalist would think O
building big mills in the west unles
the ore body is large and the leas
covered the life of the ore. / viii
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
GARNET FRUIT. TREES
ARE IN BLOSSOM
Warmest Section In State of Idaho Along
the Snake River According to the
Weather Bureau Report

in favor of Medbury. Because of the
larger area the air currents have
greater opportunity to circulate. and
draughts and chimneys are more
numerous which would tend to pro-
mote a more generous circulation of
the air. 1t is reasonable to presume
that because Of these favorable con-
di tions. which mi & h t b e
sufficient to offset advantages which
might be present in favor of Garnet.
the climate is about the same. and
in any event not of sufficient differ
ence to effect the growing of tender
fruits in any manner.
Medbury is one of the particularly
favored fruit sections of the northwest
regions in many respects. Transporta-
tion facilities are at hand, traversinp
arcoss the center of the valley. tc
bear away any crop that may be
raised. Irrigation is absolutely as.
sured and water will be turned int
bitches ready for irrig alton mex
season. The settlers are cooperating
along progressive lines and will plan
trees that have proven most valuable
for commercial purposes and the bes
authorities will be secured to direc
those interests. The soil is as goo
as any soil along the famous Snak
river and can be seen running to
depth of 25 feet in many places
Medbury is limited in the amount 6
land for sale and in very few month
the low speculative prices of tn
present time will have jumped to tn
exorbitant prices that will take tn
land entirely out of the market for
long time into the future.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

be in Boise some time this month,
and am of the opinion the lease will
be signed about the 18th of March.
If we find no commercial body of ore
the land reverts to the state. We
will be the losers, for it will cost
considerable money to develop and
determine the extent and value of
the ore deposits. If we discover ore
we hope to make some money. to-
interest steel mill builders and
aid in upbuilding the entire north
west. ."-Lewisotn Tribune.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

Senator Carl A. Davis, of Garnet,
exhibited the first blossoms of the
season last Friday while in town on
his way to Boise. The blossoms were
in full bloom and were picked from
an apricot tree that was heavily la
den with blossoms. He states that
there are indications of a large and
heavy crop this year. The trees are
in a healthy condition and with the
mild winter are ready for the season
beaDpg and will no doubt yield
heavily.
Garnet is the mildest spot in the
state of Idaho. The last climatolog-
ical report issued from the weather
bureau gives the following very in
teresting facts and figures: The
last killing frost at Garnet occurred
on April 6, Payette, April 20, Boise
April 26 Lewiston, April 7. The
first killing frost in the fall occurred
at Garnet Oct. %, Payette Sept. 26
Boise Sept. "a, Lewiston, Oct. 18
This shows very conclusively the con
ditions that are extremely advantage
Gus to successful fruit growing a
Garnet
While no record has ever been mad
of conditions at Medbury it is reason
able to presume that the climate
about the same as at Garnet Bot
are of about the same altitude, bot
protected hy a similar formation {
rim rock, both on the Snake river an
only about ten miles apart. Will
Medbury is larger body of land, sti
this fact would not effect the fro'
conditions to any great extent unles
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
GLENNS FERRY
TO GET WATER
6. II. Hammett Submits Proposition
to q Mass Meeting to Furnish
Water for Irrigation

The King Hill Irrigation Com
pany, represented by c. H. Ham
NETT of BOISE, is confering with the
residents of Glenns Ferry on the feas-
ibility OF. furnishing that excellent val
ley with water for irrigation. At a
booster meeting of the Glenns Ferry
Commercial Clublast Tuesday evening a
proposition from Mr.. Hammett to the
club was read and received very
favorably
Among other things Mr. Ham
NETT requires about 1000 acres OF
land to be made up at Glenns Ferry
and the Medbury Valley. He desired
that the town cooperate with him
in constructing a bridge across the
Snake river at the Ferry, for which
he will raise one half the amount
necessary, the village to raise the re-
mainder and estimates the cost not tx
exceed SIG, 900. He agrees to begir
operations within 30 days after salts
factory contracts had been secured ane
complete the system ready for thu
delivery of water not later thar
May /, 1910. Their final acceptance
of the conditions would depend upol
the State Land Board not granting
any other parties the right to con
struct canals or sell water to partie
owning lands below the line to be oc
cupied by their canals, or to alloy
any other parties to furnish water t
land which can be supplied wit
water from their canals or laterals.
With the lands from King Hill t
Medbury Valley under irrigation
seems that that section should receiv
growth. second only to that of Twi
Falls. This entire valley is special
adapted to fruit raising and in cours
of time will no doubt be wholly dc
voted to that enterprise. 1t is to
hoped that the Glenns Ferry peop
will succeed in securing the desire
acreage.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

Rev. Culbertson, who has been in
charge of the Nazerene church since
last summer. departed for Portland
the first of the week where be will
remain for a few months. He has
several calls from other churches
but had not decided on leaving which
he would accept His place will be
taken by Rev. Ethel who is well
known in the city. Rev. Culbertson
is an earnest and conscientious worker
and made many friends during his
pastorate here, who will watch his
work in the future with a great deal
of interest and earnest wishes for
his success
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

A. j. Kingman, a members Of the
Grand View Land & Irrigation COM
pany. passed through the city Tues
day to his home near Nyssa. He is
very favorably impressed with Grand
View and expects to see very rapid
development there within the next
few years. He states that the new
townsite has been nearly all plated
and that several lots have been al
ready sold to persons anxious to get
in on the ground floor In addition
to townsite activities, several hun
dred acres of trees will be planted
this spring and a large amount of de-
velopment on the lands generally
made
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

Mr.. and Mrs. A. Y More, of VIM
bletone, N. Dak., arrived in the city
last Saturday to visit at the home of
their old friends, Mr.. and Mrs. R..
w. Simpkins. Mr.. More went to
Boise on Sunday on matters of busi-
ness and returned yesterday when he
met Mr.. Simpkins, who was pas
senger on the noon train from Med
bury.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
NOTICE OF BIDS

Bids are desired BY the Board of
Trustees of the Village of Mountain
Home Idaho for the construction of
a cement side walk fronting five lots
l25 feet long and 6 feet wide and a
runway 8 feet by feet. Plans and
specifications on file with the Clerk.
Bids to be on file with the Clerk of
the Board on or before Tuesday,
March Both 1909. The board re-
serves the right to reject any and all
bids.
J. A. EYSTER, Chairman.
Attest:
D,,r+;1l GlorLr
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Grand View Land for Rent

About 200 acres under the Grand
View ditch, cleared and ready for
plowing, to parties desiring to raise
oats. For terms address, Grand
View Land and Irrigation Company.
Grand View, Idaho- 4649-
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Attest:

The Idaho Fruit Lands Company has
received twenty thousand apple trees
from the Stark Nursery and will dis
pose of portion of them at reason
able prices. Call on or write them
for information.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Registration Days.

will be at the Keener Drug
Store next Monday and Tuesday
March % and 80 from 9 a. M to 5 p
m. at which time you will be able
to register for the coming village
election
MRS. CARRIE OLSON.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25
Laying the Table.

- In preparing for dinner the
ing of the plates, knives, forks,
ct cetera, is most important, as
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-03-25

J. A. Purtill, Clerk
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