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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-02
Dated September 81, 1908. s25-o2
Notice for Sealed Proposals for Paw
ing Streets and Alleys In the city
of Caldwell. Idaho.

Sealed proposals and bids will be re-
ceived by the clerk of the city of Cald-
well, at his office at said city until the
25th day of October, 1909, at eight
o'clock p. m. for the pavement, with
bitulithic, of all those streets and al
leys described in Local Improvement
District No. l, of said city, in the man
ner provided for by Ordinance No. 1870,
and the plans and specifications for
office of said city clerk. All bids shall
be submitted on blanks which will be
furnished upon application to the city
clerk. No proposal or bid will be con-
sidered unless accompanied by a certi-
fled check in favor of the city of Cald-
well for three per cent of the amount
bid, as evidence of good faith, to be
forfeited as and for liquidated damages
in case the bidder neglects or refuses
to enter into a contract and provide a
suitable bond for the faithful perform
is awarded to him. bond will be re-
CURED in the penal sum of Twenty five
Thousand Dollars, to be furnished by
good and sufficient sureties to be ap-
proved by the mayor and council of the
city of Caldwell, Idaho. No bid will be
considered UAlG- accompanied by a
good condiao the bituiithie nav In
such bid shall state the amount per
square yard per annum and shall be
ten per cent of the amount of the
maintenance contract. The successful
bidder Will be required to furnish a
| bond in the sum of Twenty Thousand
Dollars, guaranteeing to keep the
! pavement in repair for a period of ten
years. The city reserves the right to
reject or accept the maintenance bid
at any time prior to the completion of
| the entire Improvement. However, the
| city agrees that IL the maintenance bid
is not accepted at the time of accepting
| the contract bid, that they will allow
| the contractor to substitute, in lieu OF
| the certified check deposit, a good and
| sufficient bond guaranteeing, in proper
| form. that the contractor will enter
| into a maintenance contract at any
| time prior to the completion of the
| work, II so required by the city. Said
| bonus so given to meet the approval of
| the mayor and council. The work shall
| commence within twenty days after the
| signing of the contract, and shall be
entirely completed within one hundred
fifty. 150) working days.
Attention of all contractors is called
to the agreement and bond Of WARREN
| BROTHERS COMPANY, filed with the
city of Caldwell. in accordance with
which agreement said WARREN
BROTHERS COMPANY agrees to IL
cense all contractors desiring to bid
for the work, to lay Bitulithic pave
ment in accordance with its patents
and the terms of said agreement.
The right to REJECT any and all
bids is hereby reserved.
Done by order of the mayor and
council of the city OF Caldwell, Idaho.
Dated this goth day of September,
C. ]. SHORE.
s25-o2S City Clerk.
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Notice of Sale Of City Bonds.

Notice is hereby given by the Mayor
and City Council of the City of CaId-
well, Idaho, that the said Mayor and
Council intend to issue. negotiate and
sell the negotiable coupon bonds of said
city to the amount of 100000, for the
warrant Indebtedness of said city. Said
bonds are to be issued in denominations
of 100000 each, and will bear interest
said interest to be paid on the first days
of January and July of each year, at
the office of the City Treasurer Of the
,nSk Of IF cSNl eM Ror GF .9ss NSti S
York. at the option of tlt holder of the
Interest coupons. The principal Of said
ponds is to be paid at the office of the
City, Treasurer at Caldwell, Idaho. Said
bonds shall be payable twenty years
from date, redeemable in their numeri-
cal order, at the option of the city al
years from date. Both principal and in
terest of said bonds will be payable in
lawful money of the United States.
bonds must be sealed and addressed dS 10
Idaho, and filed with the city clerk Jerk
noon, on Monday, October rs, 1909.
Said bids will be opened by the Mayor
and Council of said city on October rs,
hail. bsGy a. Hei fSabd sad at the city
not be sold for less than face and &C
crued interest at time of delivery, and
no bid Will be considered which speci-
flies higher rate of interest than five
per cent per annum. Each bid must be
accompanied by a certified check to tn
amount of five per cent of the amount
Idaho. Said bids may he for the whole
amount of the bonds to be issued or
for a portion thereof at the option Of
the bidder and the city reserves the
right to reject any or all bids and to
make allotments of the bonds that shall
be deemed for the best interests of til,
city. The issue of bonds herein speci-
fled is authorized by the laws Of IL,
state of Idaho and the ordinances and
resolutions of said city.
By order of the May or and City
Dated at Caldwell, Idaho, September
90 1909.
J. B. GowEN. Mayor.
Attest:
c. ]. SHORE,
Clerk of the City Of Caldwell, Idaho
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Notice of Sale of City Bonds.

Notice is hereby given by the mayor
and city council of the city of Caldwell,
Idaho, that the said mayor and council
intend to issue, negotiate and sell ne
gotiable coupon bonds OF said city to
the amount of $26,059.7S for the pur-
pose of grading and paving all those
parts of streets and alleys within Local
Improvement District No. l, known as
cross streets and intersections Said
bonds are to be issued in denominations
of 81 100000 each, as near as practicable.
ing Coupon Bonds of the city of Cald-
well, Series of 1909, and shall be num-
bered consecutively from one to
twenty-seyen; inclusive. Each of said
of five per cent per annum, payable
semi-annually on the first day of jan
uary and the first day of July in each
interest shall be payable at the office
of the treasurer of the city of Caldwell,
or at the office of the Chase National
Bank, in the city of New York, state of
New York. at the option of the holder
thereof. Each bond shall be payable
within twenty years from the date of
its issuance and shall be redeemable at
any time after the expiration of ten
years from the date of fits issuance and
in the order in which 1t is numbered.
The bid for the purchase of said bonds
must be sealed and addressed to the
mayor and council OF Caldwell, Idaho,
and filed with the city clerk. Bids will
ne received until II O'Clock noon of
Monday October 25th, 1909 Said bids
will be opened by the mayor and coun-
ell of said city on October rs, 1909, at
o'clock p. m. at the city of Caldwell,
Idaho.
Said bonds will not be sold for less
than face and accrued interest at the
time of their delivery, and no bid will
be considered which specifies a higher
rate of interest than five per cent per
annum.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check to the amount of five
per cent of the amount OF the bid, pay
able to the city of Caldwell, Idaho.
Sold bids may be for the whole amount
Of the bonds to be issued, or for a por-
tion thereof, at the option of the bid
der, and the city reserves the right to
reject any or all bids. and make allot-
ments OF the bonds which shall be
deemed for the best interests of the
city The issue of bonds herein speci-
fled is authorized by the laws Of the
state of Idaho, and the ordinances and
resolutions of said city.
BY order OF the mayor and city coun-
ell Of the city of Caldwell Idaho.
Dated at Caldwell, Idaho, Sept. 20,
]. B. GowEN.
Attest: Mayor.
O. ]. SHORE, City Clerk OF the city
of Caldwell, Idaho. S25-O28
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Department of the interior, United
States land office, Boise, Idaho, Sept,
Z, 1909.
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this office by Walter c.
Froman, contestant, against Home
stead Entry No. 7717, made NOV. 4. 1904,
for M NEA, section 70, township 5
N range w. Boise Meridian, by l.. J.
DeFrates, contestee, in which 1t Ia
alleged that said l.. J. DeFrates was
killed by accident by falling in well
about three years ago and that the
heirs have removed all improvements
except the cabin from the claim, and
that they have not settled upon or Gull
tiVated the said tract as required by
law. Said parties are hereby notified
to appear, respond, and offer evidence
touching said allegation ia 10 o'clock
a. m. on October 70, 1909, before U. s.
Commissioner Geo. w. Stovel, at Cald-
we'll, Idaho, (and that final hearing
will be held at 10 o'clock a. IN. on Octo-
Der 81, 1909, before the register and
receiver at the United States land office
in Boise, Idaho.
The said contestant having In q
proper affidavit, filed on the 4th day
of September, set forth facts witch show
that after due diligence personal SER
vice of this notice can not be made, ii
is hereby ordered and directed that such
notice be given by due and proper pub
lication.
VIM BALDERSTON, Register.
FRED V. 1ANkEkL, Receiver.
Sll-O1e
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Notice to Oontractors.

Sealed proposals will be received at
the offices of the Sewer Committee in
the city hall, in the city of Caldwell,
Idaho, until 10 o'clock a. m. on the eth
day of October, 1909, for furnishing the
material and constructing the sewers
in the city of Caldwell, state of Idaho.
Forms of proposals, copies of specifi-
cations and instructions to contractors
may be obtained of the chairman of the
Sewer Committee, or the city engineer,
and the plans and profile may be seen
at their office, or will be furnished any
contractor who deposits with the city
engineer a certified check to the
amount of $500.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check to the amount of 8 per
cent of the bid, as a guarantee of good
faith of the bidder.
The committee reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
BY order of the Sewer Committee,
Sewerage District No. 8.
H. ]. ZEH,
Chairman of the committee.
G. j. SHORE, Clerk. S1S-25-O2
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Notice to Creditorn.

In the probate court of the county of
Canyon, state of Idaho. In the matter
Of the estate of Thomas Russell, de-
ceased, notice to creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the under
signed Administrative of the estate of
Thomas Russell, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against, the said deceased, to
exhibit them with the necessary vouch-
ers, within ten months after the first
publication of this notice to the said
Administrative at the law office of T.
D. Catalan, Nos. 206 and 207 Soma
building, Boise, Idaho, the same being
designated as the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated September IL, 1909.
MRS. LIZZIE RUSSELL,
Administrative of the estate of Thorn
as Russell deceased. O1S-NS
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AN INCREASE OF 1850 PER CT

Ckc Part Of the Rural Telephone Has
Played in the Winning of the
West.
Two thousand three hundred and
fifty per cent seems rather large fig
ures to be dealing with, even when
one is considering as broad a subject
as the increase in the use of rural
telephones. Yet it is a fact that in the
ive-year period ending December 81,
1907, the number of phone stations in
the rural districts of the western
states did jump 1850 per cent. In ac-
tual figures, the eleven states which
constitute this group had 1859 coun-
try telephones at the end of tie year
1902; five years later they had
62,774.
These figures form the most strik-
ing part of the latest telephone CEN
sus. Statistics placed side by side
for comparison always speak an in
teresting story. One may deduce
some telling facts from the following
table, showing just how many rural
phones each Western state had in
1902 and in 1907:
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est convenience and business aid.
That is the story told by the telephone
census and there are many other
statistics of more than passing inter-
est.
In the United States in 1902 there
were 266,966 rural phone stations.
Five years later the census recorded
,464 1888, an increase of 449 per cent.
The number of farms in the country
is given as 5,535,611. In 1902 but
24.8 per cent of these farms were
equipped with facilities for communi-
cation over the telephone wire. Five
years later the per centage was 26.5.
The state of Iowa on December 81
1907, showed 1879 per cent Of its
farms using the telephone. Today
unofficial figures place the percentage
at 85. For the increase in the num-
Der of farm telephones has gone on
even more steadily since the latest
census figures were published. Ac-
cording to the statement of the West
srn Electric Company, which manu-
features all the telephones and ap-
| paratus used in this country by the
Bell system, it alone has sold over
eighty thousand rural telephones
within the past six months.
An up-to-date farmer once said
that he would as soon think Of NOW,
ing his hay with an old fashioned
scythe as of trying to conduct his
farm successfully without telephone
These are the days when agricultural
America is retaining so-called waste
land; is buying farm implements that
reduce toll and increase productive.
ness and the telephone is the instru.
ment that is going hand-in-hand with
all these improvements in the rural
communities.
The farmer or ranchman who sells
his products or stock keeps we'll in
formed on the fluctuations of the mar.
ket by means of the telephone. He
sells at top prices and calls his phone
real money-saver. If there is sick
ness in the house he can locate the
doctor even if he has to phone across
the country. He can get in quick com.
munication with the veterinary sur.
geon if some one of his precious ami.
mails becomes suddenly indisposed
For his wife and children there is q
means of enlivening the long day by
conversation and exchanges of visits
with neighbors. Neighbors on west.
ern farms are often miles apart but
they can be brought nearer than next
door with the aid of the telephone.
These are some of the many rea,
sons why rural phones jumped ADS
per cent in the United States anC
1850 per cent in the far west in fivC
years. 1t can truly be said that the
country telephone has had it's part il
the winning of the west.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1909-10-02

Sealed bids VIII be received by the
City Council of the city of Caldwell,
Idaho, at the regular meeting of that
body october A, 1909, at p. M, for
the laying of cement walk according to
IL, block rs; lot H.. block So; lot l,
block 70; lot l, block 81; the same being
aling Tenth avenue between Main and
before lots 5, 6, Z, 8, 9, 10, block 8; and
also along the easterly side of Ninth
avenue in front of lots l and "a, block
8; and lot /, block 81. All in the orig
inal town of Caldwell.
The council reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
j. B. GOWEN, Mayor.
Dated September 81, 1909. $500
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that l, the
undersigned, Frank Crowther, Assess
or and Ex-Officio Tax Collector, hsrS
by gives notice to County Comm:sslVo
ers of Canyon county, Idaho, of my
intentions of making application to
them at their next regular meeting for
the assistance of two ~ Office clerks
for a period of thirty (3O) days each
Yours respectfully,
FRANK CROWTHER,
Assessor and Ex-Officio Tax Collector,
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rALsE fkUPHEI, HE.

rALSE FRUPHEI, HE.
The following is a special dispatch
to the Portland Oregonian. 1t sheds
some light on the good, old days when
Pinchot was in full swing:
When James r. Garfield, then Sec
rotary of the interior, approved the
cooperative plan of building Govern
ment Irrigation projects, recently held
by Attorney General Wickersham to
be illegal, he acted contrary to the ad-
vice of his official legal advisers, save
one. That one was George W. Wood
ruff, then Assistant-Attorney General
for the Interior Department.
This cooperative plan under which
settlers were given the opportunity Of
working out part of their water pay
ments, was conceived by Director
Newell, of the Reclamation Service.
AS first proposed it was an utterly
impracticable scheme, which even Gar
field could not endorse. In time, how
ever, it was whipped into the shape
in which it eventually was adopted,
and in that shape was submitted by
Secretary Garfield to the various law
yers of his own office and of the Cen
eral Land office. One and all, with the
ception of Woodruff, held that the
plan could not be legally adopted by
the department under the terms of the
reclamation act. Yet, in face of this
overwhelming advice, Secretary Gar
field overruled the men on whom he
was supposed to rely, and acted upon
the advice of a single man, whose
opinions were always in harmony
with his own, regardless of the law.
Woodruff, before becoming Assist
ant Attorney General for the Interior
Department, was legal adviser Of
Chief Forester Pinchot, and was sent
to the Interior Department at Pin
shots request. Through Woodruff,
Pinchot was able to keep his hand on
the pulse of the Interior Department,
and it was in this way that he had
much to do with shaping the policies
of that department. Pinchot was in
entire harmony with Newell; he be-
lieved the cooperative plan should be
adopted, regardless of the law in the
case, and Woodruff, getting his in
spiration from Pinchot, framed his
opinion to suit his chief. This is only
one of a great number of instances
where Mr.. Woodruff exhibited a
strange conception of the law; it is
only one of many opinions which he
rendered which have been overruled
by the Attorney-General of the pres
ent administration.
In the good old Garfield Pinchot
days law was interpreted in the Inter
Tor department and forest service to
suit the ideas of the heads of those
two branches of the Federal service.
Woodruff served his apprenticeship
under Pinchot, and during that ap-
premiership, learned to twist the law
to suit the emergency. In other
words, his function, as legal adviser
to Pinchot, was to render opinions
which would sustain his chief, re-
gardless of the language and intent
of the statutes. When he went to the
Interior Department, he was an adept
at that sort of thing. His Opinions"
have returned to plague the present
Administration, and are, almost with
out exception, being overruled as fast
as they come up.
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Notice Of Proposed TrRnsfer of Water
RARhN.

Notice Of Proposed Transfer of Water
Notice IL hereby given that American
Ditch Association, Ltd, OF canyon
county, has applied to the state engiini
eer of the state of Idaho for certitl-
cate authorizing 1t to transfer OF the
point of diversion of 1475 inches OF the
water of Boise river from the point
where the same Is now being diverted:
toWit: A point on the south bank OF
the Boise river at or near the southeast
corner of the southwest quarter OF sec
ton 16, township N. r w. B. M. TO
be diverted at the headgate OF the
Eureka Ditch company at point on
the south side of Boise river near the
southeast corner of section IL, town
ship 4 N. r w. B. M.
And that on the 30th day of Septem-
Der A. d. 1909, at the office of J. H.
Lowell, in Caldwell, Canyon county,
Idaho, at 10 o'clock a. M, before the
water commissioner of this division, or
his authorized agent, the opportunity
will be given to any and all persons to
appear and present for his considera-
tion and reason or reasons why GER
tificate should not be issued authoriz-
ing such transfer.
Full details of the proposed transfer
may be obtained from M. G. Mcconnell,
Watermaster of said stream. at Cald-
AHEsRfCAN DITCH ASSOCIATION. Ltd
| By A. P. ALEXANDERSON, Pres.
| Attest: MARTIN BRUNT. Sec. car
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NOTICE OF ffOpOSSO AENAsAGN Va
Notice is hereby given that Nancy
Nichols, William NlcholSSs d,y AM
Canyon county, Idaho, have applied TO
the state engineer Of the state OF Ida
no for certificate authorizing them to
change the point Of diversion of 2lO
inches of the water of Boise river from
At the headgate of the canal of the
American Ditch Association, Ltd, on
the south bank of the Boise river at
OF near the southeast corner of the
southwest quarter of section 1Glown-
ship 4 N. r.. 8 w. B. M. the 50 me to be
diverted at the headgate II the canal
Of the Pioneer Dixie Ditch Company at
u point on the south side uf the HOiSe
river near the center of the north east
quarter of section IL, O." 81 lp N
And that on the 10th .lry OF Sep
TENDER, A. d. 1909. at 2 o'clock p. m
at the office of ]. H. Lowell, in Cald-
we'll, Canyon County, Idaho, before the
water commissioner of this division or
his authorized agent, the opportunity
will be given to any and all persons
to appear and present for his consider
alton any reason or reasons why Ger
tificate should not be issued authorlz-
ing such transfer.
Full details of the proposed trans
fer may be obtained from M. G McCon-
mel, watermaster of said stream, Cald-
NANCY NICHOLS
WILLIAM NICHOLS,
c. W. COOPER.
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Notice.

In accordance with a recruitment OF
Section 3O15, Revised Code of Idaho, the
trustees of the First Presbyterian
church of Emmett, Idaho, hereby give
notice that a congregational meeting
Of said church will be held Saturday
evening, October 2, to take action IS,,- on
the question, Shall the SAID chnrch
place a mortgage Of $1,000 on their
church building now being erected on
lots located at the corner of Second and
Wardell streets in Reed addition TO
Emmett, IdahO?" .oo>,
r. B. GILkERSON,
VERN MUNDAY,
v. T. CRAIG,
Trustees.
Octl7-N1
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Serial No. O7O52.

NONIee TOT FWDNHCuIIOMs
United States Land office, Boise,
idaho, August %, 1909.
Notice Is hereby given that the
Northern Pacific Railway Company,
whose postoffice address is st. Paul
Minnesota, has this 23rd day of August
1909, filed in this office its application
to select under the provisions of the
$50 Stat. 597, 500. the southeast quar-
ter of section 80, in township north
Of range 4 west of the Boise Principal
Meridian, containing 160 acres,
Any and all persons claiming ad-
versely the lands described, or desiring
to object because of the mineral char
acter of the land, or for any other
reason, to the disposal to applicant
should file their affidavits of protest
In this office, on or before the 10th day
of October, 1909.
VIM. BALDERsToN. Register
GA.ON
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Notice of Receipt of Assessment Roll of
Sewerage District No. by the City
Clerk and the Time Set for Hearing
Protests by the City Council.
Notice is hereby given that the as
sessment roll for Sewerage Improve
ment District No. 3, city of Caldwell,
Idaho, Is now on file in my office in the
city hail. that the same was filed at 8
p. m. September Is, 1909, and that the
city council will meet on Wednesday,
October 6, 1909, at 8 p. m. in the council
chambers at the city hall to hear and
consider objections to said assessment
roll, by the parties or any party ag-
grieved by such assessment. The owner
or owners of any property which Is as
sessed on such assessment roll must
file with the city clerk before the said
9Th day of October. 1909, his or her OBJ
jections in writing, to said assessment
or to any part thereof, which objections
must be definite and specific as to the
property or piece of property included
In said assessment roll to which objec-
ton is made, as we'll as the specific
grounds of such objections. The as
sessment roll shall be open for inspec-
tion at the office of the city clerk OF
said city on each and every day, ex-
cept Sundays and holidays from a. m.
to d. m.
BY order OF the city council.
O. J. SHORE, City Clerk.
Dated at Caldwell, Idaho, September
l5, 1909. S1s-26