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Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24
EXPRESS COMPANY PROFITS.

St. Paul Pioneer Press: The Of
6cials of the Wells Fargo Express
company have decided to cut the
$24, 100000 melon which has been
'ripening in its care for some years.
This will be accomplished by the
simple process of paying on Decem-
Der az, an extra dividend of 300 per
cent on the $s,OO0,O01 capital stock
of the company. Each stockholder
may buy two additional shares of new
stock at $1OO per value for each share
he now holds and will receive in addi-
ton S100 in cash for each share he
holds. The capital stock of the com
pany will be increased from SIS, ,O00, 900,
and the additional $8,000,O00 to $24-
100000, and the additional $8,000,000,
provided by the 300per cent dividend,
will be passed around as Christmas
presents to the stockholders.
This distribution of such vast
amount of money would not be SO
striking were it not for the testimony
Just offered in a case before the state
railway commission of Illinois in
which an order reducing express rates
was asked by number of shippers.
The express companies had recently
aci 7anoea their their I'd rates and the shippers
wanted them restored to the old basis
because the new rates were excessive.
The express companies protested that
the proposed reduction in rates would
cause the loss of many thousands of
dollars annually to the company.
The company evidently did not pro
pose to allow its melon 10 lose any OF
its richness.
The Wells Fargo company has been
earning, according to report of its
officials, So percent on its capital stock
in 1908 an increase from 3S per cent
in four years. In addition to paying
an annual dividend of s per cent the
company has accumulated surplus
OF three times its capital stock OF
course no corporation can afford to go
on record as earning such enormous
dividends and the natural recourse is
to water the stock Under the new
deal, each holder of 500 worth of
stock in the company gets $500 worth
of stock and 500 in cash, without
going into his pocket for one penny.
By this arrangement, the embarrass
ment of paying such enormous diyi-
dends will be avoided but the com
many will get the money Just the same
and the shippers will pay the freight.
The Wells Fargo company is not
alone in the possession of such melons.
The Adams company recently read
justed surplus in a similar manner,
and the American now has a surplus
Of some $3S, 1000, 600 which it il ex-
pected will be divided through the
process Of . special dividend. With
such profits piling up each year il Is
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24

The Wells-Fargo Express Co. this
week paid dividend of 300 per cent,
which has been accumulating for
some time. Last year the company
earned 58 per cent on its capital stock.
This is the company that refuses to
reduce its rates at the order of the S.
d. railroad commission which acts
under authority of statute.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24

THE dividing of 1000, 900 surplus
in the form of $500 in new stock and
500 in cash for each share OF stock
now held by stockholders of the Well
Fargo Express Company makes the
necessity for some power to control
the issuance of stock by common car
riers more apparent than ever before.
The net earning OF this company have
been enormous, all out of proportion
with the the cost of the service rem
dered. To avoid such appearances in
the future the company proposes to
inject 200 per cent of water into an
already watered stock. After this is
accomplished the rates will be held
UP to the high point, and any attempt
by the people through legal process
TO lower exhorbitant rates will be re-
sisted on the ground that the lower
rates sought will not return reason.
able rate on the stock, plea which
the courts have recognized In his
DesMoinss speech President Taft ad
yocatsd the control of tho issuance Of
stocks by the interstate commercs
commission. Here Is "a instances
where such control is needed.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24
RECEIvERSHIP IN STRIKES

Representative Steenerson's bill of
last week, providing for quick arbitra-
ton of strikes, one feature of which is
authority for the government to apply
for receiverships for the roads involved
pending settlement of the controversy,
has aroused some adverse comment in
eastern papers. The Washington
Post objected to the receivership
feature in an editorial. and the Balti-
more Sun says, in reference to re-
ceivership.
"This would be radical measure,
and the question may well be consid-
cred by congress whether, this bill, if
enacted, would be an incentive to
strikes. Employees might prefer to
work under the orders of the court, and
might organize strikes and refuse set,
Element by arbitration for the express
purpose of forcing receivership. 1t
is case, in short, in which the remedy
is worse than the disease. .
The Post prints column letter
from MIR. Steenerson, in which he
answers objections to the receivership
feature Of his as follows:
at goes without saying that no at
torney general would exercise this au
thority except in cases of the gravest
Importance, where either food or fuel
famine, for instance, was imminent by
reason of the stoppage of traffic.
When the Erdman act was under con-
sideration in 1896, such section was
proposed, and was, in fact, approved
by Attorney General Olney, who then
had fresh in mind the Pullman strikes
in Chicago. Later similar provision
was approved by national convention
of railway commissioners.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24

not difficult to appreciate the zeal
with which the express companies
have persistently and thus far effec-
lively opposed every movement look
ing to the adoption of the parcels
post system in this country.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24

THE authorities of the university at
Copenhagen have examined all the
data furnished by Cook and now an
nounce that his evidence does not
bear out the claim that he reached
the north pole. This leaves Peary as
the sole pole discovered.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24

SPEAKER CANNON has spoken again,
and this time he says that if LaFol-
lette is republican, he the speaker
is an old fogy. But this is not neces-
sarily any reflection on the republic
canism of Senator LaFollette. Sioux
Falls Press.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24

The railroad wreck record for the
week ending Dec. 18th was n killed
and Sc injured. The worst accidents
on the list were caused by broken
rails.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24

The railroad situation is still critical.
There seems to be an element among
certain classes of employees that will
be satisfied with nothing but strike.
Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-12-24
The report that Secretary Wilson
had resigned from the cabinet is
denied at Washington.

The Standard Oil Co. has appealed
to the supreme court from the order
of the federal circuit court dissolying
that corporation.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-18

IunIc5 and Garter @asne7 Are rc4-
tucss Of -. --latest Costumes.
Erenins gowns are cut w't'1 long
,Isins. .lfaped tnpic dshWiie over
Isisirts and su1dllloe f9z|nus caliEitl I'M
as deep pinafoFe gilss - Sim
COX IA The b lind Of for SpFeit Sel::
Run: ana hers are tllet
fsdiaft gae ~
.i1T on ffdn and lisht phans
Gus Picture z5FGIls of ssosf
a Eil6lF6 ii rilhnel
win riulls ID and syea aces, are In
tsseaE d nd New york women dre.
,,tsstng an NJ the new ii
asf That tIss ne q arcands
dSes ss lhvetted for de
aafoplane. not isECeni, wherein
& slre TO take Is PEacs mere hefess.
ifer. ions ere a. rlpstesl a Il. 4
.ipcoas 4as1tial thls as ever
ana tie styles. yof the ssNenea en=eteh-
Ees and the eight seventies ytroll
aiohg a1Hteey arm ie'nl IN this year
ii grsce. ntHeteeai i1tinsb red and nine
II
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-18
AssAssADoRs' WIVES
IsAvE WoEs.
All Their Socially AmtlEieu. Country
men Desire TO Shake Hands
With Royalty


The lean arnbas S. ne Is
usually very pc g; atlioagh am
|agafe that many Ion y.
Ishe Is proud OF the repltat i6n her
country women aiaEe saed
abroad ESrleyearlsls aud and
IS willing to 90 cut Of lser way 70 give
as many Of them as posstbie ectat
and exc feIaseat II Siss0fa, scaurt
Eilf aescfdlng IS aefianette tslfe can
MA lid abiIt itw6 at tlihesa prd4 chi tfois
1t each court and. these must Be mp
proved b. the eottft eia1ibetlaitl;
|whfte there are some times q htthtitsd
applicants she can not present q
woman who has been dtToree been
m any way connected With s social
scandal She can not present the
daughter OF the most inf1uentfal poll
hcipn II she Is socially impossible.
a poiftietan who can stalk tllrolgh
the apartments at Washington in q
free and easy way, and mike every
man from the President down feed
his importance. can sometimes get
nnthtng for his family from the .aal-
bhssad6rs. Is 81
"a great deaf of troub7ess e5ibes
through the letters OF Introduction
Rhica the State Department siyes 70
slch men for their wives and dat,gh.
tars The men demand them and the
Department b mot Il "a pgsstipn 70
refuse, although 1t Is well nhdea stood
between the Department and the em-
blssy that the letter means nothi4s,
that 1t has, as it were, been Obtained
by coercion. But women who
Fi5rin S. IT, over often goes shoHIss in o.
towering rage Of disappointment
Until asfsw years ago some q the
Govemofs IL tba dfferent States kept
printedtsiorms which were, filled out
uopn application to any RESPECTABLE
-persous .swho applied, ecoMgne ending
them to the courtesy ON torefgr
Representatives. But these letters
were so numerous that they b'ecanne
a veritsble- nuisanceQ and the State
Department ordered them disconltin.
lesll..AF,rom THE Restrictions Of A
inlpiomat:s Wife" in The De1ineator
foq. November. $50
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-18

one gold turn deserves another said
cat Wrapping his arm ar6tfld
Hattie waist twice. - % ~ e
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-18
STATE OF OHIO
City7Sof To edos x

Lucas County S.. ~, Z - ! y
Frank y. Cheney makes 1atl that he
|is5 senior partnef.ot the firm Of F.. j.
Cheney q Co. doing Business in the
city OF Toledo, county and State afore:
said and t1ist said Arm will lpa7 the
sliIi OF Owe HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of Catarrh
Mat cannot be cured by the use Of
|Hall's Catarrh Cure. 8 8 e
~ FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
Id my presence. This 9th day of De
cenber. p. 1sSe. tSs 8
tsealJ A. w. 4I1AsoN. s5
Notary Public.
Halls Eatarrh3 Cure is taken inter.
.nalIHs and acts ilree3l yeQu the blood
Ind m1ephs surfaces Of the system.
Bend Tor testtni6p Is free.
+ F1ENEY CO.. toledo o.
Ii Sold byEalI druggists. T5c.
Take Hal. IS Family Pills for consti-
paGlOQ. ~ -. = Icy sSfslf ta
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-18

s,ze;he talks twice az snSlch as the 9TH
ss know"
Yes she has double chin. -: |:
6slsEelsnl az q ss as eF sssAisSss,y
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-18

S1f tendent: 3. b oneSo
teaehers at the SIMMER term is, keep
ms things npsilg az the Tyler County.
High, School l4e hiss very tint asest
zig letter in last weeks Tyler County
Journal -; T. Ftsii
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04

DR.. J. NJ Hanslmair. of Portland,
Ore, who is one of the principal pro-
motors of an enterprise which will re-
claim 10000 acres of land in the
Deschutes country, Oregon. was in
town Wednesday on business, and
was deeply impressed with this part
Of Idaho He was told just before
boarding the train that he would find
several inches of snow down here.
and he hurridly bought himself a
pair of heavy boots. and was very
much disgusted when he arrived to
find even finer weather than at the
far-famed Portland. He spoke very
enthusiastically of this country and
stated that he might see fit to return
and make investments here.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04

A sermon will be given next Sun
day evening. 1880 o'clock. in behalf
OF the Home Department of the Sun
day School.
Though there has been a home de-
partment for twelve years the past
y ar has been the most fruitful un-
DER the superintendency of Mrs. Ella
Guthrie.
The first of quarterly assembly
was held Tuesday afternoon at the
parsonage and an organization effect
ed. Mrs. Elizabeth Archibald was
chosen superintendent; Mrs. John
Eyster, secretary; Mrs. B. T. Bjorn-
son. treasurer; Mesdames Mahoney,
Ross and Englehart visitors; mem
bers of the Junior Endeavor messen-
gers. The hostess served simple re-
freshments Mothers are invited to
come Sunday evening and bring their
husbands and children.
The Teachers meeting last week
at Mrs. Littooy's was profitable and
pleasant cooperative counsil, classes
and departments being readjusted for
the coming year. Mrs. Littooy served
some sociability in the way of good
things to eat. Several OF the teachers
held class gatherings this week and
last, for study. organizing and good
time.
The Endeavors will hold a social
next week, Friday evening, at the
parsonage. Refreshments viii be
served. dime offering and as much
more as anyone wishes to give and all
the sociability each one can bring.
A business session will precede
promptly at 7:45. The public is in
vited.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04
COURT MAY REOPEN
WATER RIGHT CASE
Important Matters Should Be Given Further
Consideration Before System
is Disposed of.

the purchaser of the property, or re-
spective bidders, may know just what
he is getting when he secures his deed
to the property That is, he must
know whether his obligation rests
when he has furnished $4,000 acres
of water, the present capacity Of the
system, or whether he must yet CON
struct and complete the system to
deliver the other or additional s5-
600 acres. And if he is compelled to
deliver the other $4,000 acres. must
he deliver that water free Of addition
al cost?
Hence 1t Will be readily seen that
these questions must be ultimately
settled and that until they are set
tied and finally settled the people in
this vicinity who are depending rpon
the Great Western Beet Sugar Cont-
pany's system will be uncertain as to
what their rights are, and their prop-
erty will have a deprecated value.
and it is to their interest to get these
vexatious questions determined and
the system completed. and every per-
sons rights fairly and equitably ad-
justed and settled, then every pur-
chaser Of water will know what his
rights are and whether or not he has
any rights. The sooner he knows
this the better he is on.
While different views we're exprea-
sed as to the rights Of these various
water holders, yet all Of the attorneys
agreed that it was to the interets Of
their clients to have the questions
involved speedily and finally deter
mined, so that prospective bidders
for the system would be able to bid
intelligently for the property as well
as to have the rights Of the various
claimants finally disposed of.
Judge Walters seemed especially
anxious to get all OF the vexatious
questions involving the rights of the
citizens OF this community, In which
they are vitally interested, finally dis
posed of and assured counsel that he
would do all in his power to assist
in speedy adjustment Of the case.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04
POPULAR JUDGE WALTERS.
Selected by Judge Wood to Hear the
Boise Commercial Club
Case.

BOISE. Nov. 3-Counsel for the
state and for the Boise Commercial
club consented to the trial of the liz
uor case, in Ada county district court
on stipulation, before Judge E. A..
Walters, of the Fourth Judicial dis
trict following an announcement by
Judge Wood in open court yesterday
afternoon that he would not hear the
case owing to the fact that he is
disqualified as a member Of the Com
mercial club.
Whether the case will be further
stipulated and presented to Judge
Walters or argued at Mountain Home
or in Boise at date to be agreed up
on by counsel has not been determin-
ed as yet, Judge Wood writing to
Judge Walters today at request Of
counsel for the interested parties to
ascertain what date will be conven-
lent for hearing the case. Stating
that a question of public Importance
is involved, Judge Wood asserted
that since he is a member Of the Com
mercial club, he is desirous of being
informed whether it is on par with
other clubs or not
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04

The preacher faced the hushed as
semblage. They are hanging on his
lips, as the papers often put it. Myri-
ads of eyes were turned to his eyes
calloused hearts were futtering, a
sob or two had been heard and then
had died away into the breathless si-
lence. Below Heaven there is a
sunny land" said the voice. land that
is the land of childhood" The
speakers changeful. fiery blue eyes
were growing dreamy that is the
land we grown-up people all love to
stray back to--the land where a
mothers dear arms hold us away
from the griefs we are to know
where there are daisies always blow
ing, and merry music in the treetops,
and hills and dales of ever-golden
sunshine. Who wouldn't be a little
child again." The man on the plat
form was Henry Ward Beecher. the
most famous American preacher Of
his period. The thousands before
him were the thousands who crowded
his Plymouth church every Sabbath
morning. There through the sun
shine-for the time was sunny June
the preacher paused for moment
and looked back. This is what he
saw:
A rambling parsonage on a hilltop.
Below it lies a little town trailing of
into meadows and woodlands. The
house is surrounded by summer flow
ers that loving hands have planted.
It is pleasant place for any boy to
know. To the north and south and
east and west of it are paths to every
sort Of glorious adventure. From the
windiws of the sitting room that
CLEAN like kind and knowing eyes
you can catch a glimpse of the high
way where the stage coaches dash
away to the wonderlands that are
going to be- There sits fair-haired
boy dreaming of the future. His eyes
are on the road as he drinks in the
fresh rose-laden air. What will that
winding road call to him? Where
will it beckon? The man on the plat
form catches the scent Of those roses
as he pauses. although that June has
been dead nearly half a century
Stories Of the Lives Of Great Preach
ers." in The Ladies' World for No
vember
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04
NEW STATE BUILDING.
Contract Awarded for the State Deaf
and Blind School.

H. o. Koeppen of Boise has been
awarded a contract for the consruc-
tion of the State Deaf and Blind
school at Gooding By the educational
commission. the building to cost
$500 with the interior of the third
floor and other portions of the struc-
ture unfinished. state in which il
will stand until the next session Of
the legislature unless public spirited
citizens advance the sum of $500
necessary for its completion.
Koeppen's bid was $2S,5OO. $4,000
less than his nearest competitor, and
was made upon the building in it's
entirety. With an appropriation of
$25,000 the board, after advertising
for bids for a second time, was con-
fronted by the necessity of either
changing the plans or letting a con-
tract with the understanding that a
part of the work was to remain un-
done The latter was decided upon
sthe alternative and such an agree
ment has been entered into with CON
tractor Koeppen. under which. should
1t be decided later, through the aid of
private capital to complete the build
ing the work in its entirety will be
done at the price made in the origi-
nal bid.
All members of the board were
present at the meeting Statesman.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04
Wrestling Match.

A wrestling match has been ar
ranged to take place in Hungerford s
hall on Saturday night between Mr..
Leo Rocker and A. p. Murphy Of
Boise. Mr. Rocker is classy sport
and has met some OF the best men
In the business. He knows the game
and agrees to throw Mr.. Murphy two
falls in forty minutes. Mr.. Murphy
is wrestling Instructor at the Boise
Y. NJ. c. A., and promises to give
Rockler an interesting time.
A large number OF Boise enthus-
lasts are coming down to back their
man and no doubt the match will be
the best ever seen in this place
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04
CANNON APPOINTED
GENERAL RECEIVER
Will Take Charge of all the Business of the
Great Western Beet Sugar Go. and
Make Final Disposition.

new the same, and said certificates
are hereby made a first and prior
lien on all the said property and su-
perior to all mortgages, judgements,
liens and other encumbrances exist
ing against the same; provided, how
ever. that said certificates shall not
in any wise prejudice or affect any
lien of any receivers certificates
Hereinbefore issued or hereinafter is
sued affecting said property under
order of this court, but shall be of
equal rank of any so issued, and none
shall have any priority, the one over
the other.
'5. To institute and prosecute all
such suits as may be necessary in
his judgment to the proper protec-
tion of the property and trust hereby
vested in him, and likewise defend
all actions instituted against him as
receiver, and also to appear in and
conduct or prosecute or defend any
and all suits or proceedings now
pending in any court against said
company, the prosecution or defense
of which will in the judgment of
said receiver be necessary and proper
for the protection of the property and
rights placed in his charge, and for
the interest of the creditors, and
stockholders of said company, and to
employ attorneys at law to render
any and all legal services necessary
therefor, and also to advise and coun-
sci him in all matter pertaining to
said receivership.
1t was further ordered that the Of
f.eers, directors. agents and employees
of the Great Western Beet Sugar
Company deliver upon demand to the
receiver all books. papers, moneys or
deeds or vouchers for the property
now under the control of said receiv-
er. and the court further ordered
that the receiver give a good and suf-
ficient bond in the sum of $1,000
The order is dated Oct. %, 1909.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04
Notice of Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting Of the Stock
holders Of the Citizens State Bank
Ltd. will be held at its Office. Noun
tain Home, Elmore County. Idaho,
on the goth day of November, 1909
at o'clock in the afternoon, for the
election of five directors for the en-
suing year. and for the transaction
of such other business as may prop
erly come before the meeting.
D. F. DENSEL.
26-27 Secretary.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04

The party which the st. Vincent
Society gave last Saturday night at
the home of Mrs. Montgomery, was
a great success. The girls had deco
rated the house with many black cats
and Jack-o-lanterns and candles. The
Halloween idea was carried out.
Games were played, fortunes told,
and after the refreshments, appro-
pirate to the occasion, the guests de-
parted.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-11-04
Excursion to Chicago.


November 18th and nth.
Via Oregon Short Line and Union
Pacific for United States Land and
Irrigation Exposition. November 20,
to December 4, and InternationI Live
Stock Exposition. November 27th, to
December 10th. Round trip from
Mountain Home, s65.10. limit, De-
cember 18th. See agents for further
particulars.