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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
A Dry Land Orchard.

One of the successful dry farmers
who had creditable exhibits of fruit
at the fourth Dry Farm congress at
Billings. was p S Corkins Of
Bridger and Billings. Mr. Corl1ins
displayed several varieties of apples
which represented the products of his
dry land orchard near Bridger. They
included the Wolf River, Wealthy
and Mcintosh Red varieties.
Mr.. Corkins' orchard is at at an
altitude of between 1900 and S4OO
feet The precipitation averages
about 10 inches. favorably distri-
buted through the year, the major
portion falling between April 1 and
June Is. He has practiced the ap-
proved dry farming methods in his
orchard. The trees are planted 20
feet apart each way Mr.. Corkins
said the rows of trees in a dry land
orchard should be at least 20 feet
apart. but the trees could be planted
rs feet apart in the rows, not less
than that The ground was prepared
by cultivation before the trees were
planted. and cultivation has been con-
tined since. for the purpose of stor-
ing and conserving the moisture in
the soil Moisture is peroeptible to
a considerable depth under the trees.
Mr. Corkins also raises grains
without irrigation with success. This
year he harvested Is bushels an acre
from is acres of Turkey red winter
wheat and a fair yield of spring
wheat of good quality. Owing to eli
matte conditions. Mr.. Corkins said
winter wheat was preferable to
spring varieties in the vicinity of his
farm. He seeded so pounds to the
acre because the ground was new but
said that ordinarily 40 pounds was
sufficient of Turkey red wheat
Western Farmer.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
THAT SUNDAY REST LAW
(Hailey News iner)

That freak piece OF legislation
known as the Sunday Rest Law will
undoubtedly come in for a consider
able share of the attention Of candi-
dates for election to the next legis-
lature if all signs do not fail A law
that allows the playing Of baseball
on Sundays and yet prevents other
less harmful amusements from being
enjoyed is a piece OF nonsense that
the people of the state viii not stand
any longer. and any man who is a
nominee for legislative honors this
fall win have to pledge himself to
work for that laws repeal or radical
amendment
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24

The apple is generally propagated
by root grating or pieces of Seeding
roots grow nfor this purpose; but
the small roots of large apple trees
may be dug up and used in the same
way. though on a whole, Seeding
root sare preferable. Pieces from
three-sixteenths to half an inch in
diameter may be grated, and nearly
as good results secured as from the
Seeding roots. We like to have the
pieces of roots at least three inches
long. as that is about as short as
they can be worked to advantage,
but even shorter pieces than this
are often used in general propaga-
Exchange.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
ARREST OF A "rnoHTnIrIoNIsT"
(Lewiston Teller)

Lewiston Teller)
The arrest of Attorney J. S. Nc
Donald. one Of the leaders Of the pro-
hibition party in this county, on a
charge of introducing liquor on the
Indian reservation, is one of the great
est jokes of the year. OF course he
introduced liquor to the reservation.
Mr.. Mcdonald for years has been
resident of Vollmer or Ilo, which
towns are situated on the reservation,
and Mr.. Mcdonald for years has been
a moderate drinker.
What was the poor man to do?
AS a private citizen MIR. Mcdonald
is entitled to choose his habits, but as
prohibitionist leader he is open to
criticism. 1t is none of our business
whether he drinks whisky or does not.
But how is he to drink it under pro-
hibition? That is quite an interesting
question, and one which applies not
only to Mr.. Mcdonald but also to all
those who require, or think they re-
auire. alcoholic stimulants. The pro-
hibitionist wants to make criminals
out of every man thus situated. And
every man thus situated looks upon
the prohibitionist as profound null
sance, and wishes he was dead.
The Joke, however, lies in the dem
onstration of the little fact which
The Teller never is too tired to re-
rcat that prohibition is not concerned
with the reform of any evil, has not
ing whatever to do with the use of
alcohol. but is merely a political
move. engineered by the Puritan
churches for the purpose of acquiring
secular power, and used by ambitious
/ politicians as a means of self-advan-
cement
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
SECOND-CLASS MAIL PAYS.
(Hailey Times)

The worm has turned
For decades the public has been
led to believe that the rate Of cent
a pound charged for carrying news
papers through the mails entailed
loss to the government of nearly five
cents a pound.
This loss was even stated at over
$50, 100000 per annum. and it was
an advanced rate to offset it.
The rate charged the newspapers
is the same now as in 1878, although
freight charges have since been re-
duced in all cases. and as much as
100 per cent in some cases.
That the rate pays is evidenced by
the fact that the express companies
handle all the newspapers that they
can get at the same rate charged by
the government. though to avoid the
expense of transmitting to other com
panies. they carry the newspapers
only over their own lines.
The publishers have shown that
the heaviest loss in the postal SER
vice is due to the rural delivery, and
that but for the vast aggregate OF
mail matter carried under the frank
ing privileges there would not only
be no loss whatever, but even an
actual profit
That some newspapers abuse the
second-class privilege is undeniable.
Those that offer premiums, for in
stance, and send them through the
mails are a conspicuous example
But this can be put a stop to. and
few changes. such as the carrying
of local parcels at the rate of three
cents per pound for the first pound
would materially lessen the deficit
Indeed. il this change resulted IL
adding s5O.OOO,OOO to the postal re
ceipts. as it's advocates claim, i
would soon change the deficit into 2
surplus.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
lNampa Leader-Heraldl

There was never time when
there was so much Independent
thought and action in political life
as at present, Increasingly men
think for themelsves instead of let
ting others think for them. While
this makes for some disturbance
within certain limits, it is whole
some sign, for it will result in purer
poMtices and i'm higher class of
men as leaders People today de-
mand on the part of their represen-
tatlves and spokesman not only poll
tical sagacity. but a higher per-
sonal character
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
ONE EVIL OF PROHIBITION.
Lewiston Teller


One of the apparently inevitable
results of prohibition is the entrance
of the druggist in the liquor business.
He is entitled to have whiskey
brandy and certain wines in his store
for medical purposes, and no sooner
does the saloon go out of business
than the druggist is beseiged with
demands for liquor His best friends
try to make him break the law and
he must be strong man to refuse
the appeal which is made. as often
as not. as a matter of personal favor.
At first probably his liquor trade is
confined TO people upon whom he can
rely. but his precautions are apt to
become lax and sooner or later he Is
caught Then there is also the
doctors prescription" fraud Doc
tors prescriptions for whiskey are
wonderfully scarce in saloon towns,
but in dry towns they are apt to
keep the druggist busy for he is
bound to fill them, whether he wants
to or not OF course, many medical
men will not issue these prescrip-
tions, but as rule it is possible to
find at least one willing practitioner
in any community Prohibition,
while it does not stop drinking,
assuredly creates a large army Of
misdemeanants, thus lowering the
moral tone of the city
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
FROM THE STATE PRESS
WHAT MAY HAPPEN UNDER THE
PRIMARY

PEND OItilt tNtNlfW
The Review has always been an
advocate Of the direct primary, be-
lieving it to be right in principle and
that it should work out right in prac-
tice. However. the new Idaho law.
we believe. was made for the sinister
purpose of proving a bad law, with
the hope that the people. after try
ing it in one campaign. will ask for
its repeal and then sit back and be
satisfied that 1.-The direct primary is
a failure"
Like the Washington law. the Ida
no law provides for Second choice
selections. Just why a primary can
dilate must have majority over all
and an elective candidate only a
plurality of the vote cast is hard to
see. if there is any real reason for
it whatever.
This is the way the Idaho direct
primary law can work out to de-
feat the real intent of the majority.
Surprising that Smith. Jones and
Robinson are candidates for the
same office. 1t is a race between
smith and Jones. and during the
heat of the campaign it has gotten
to be acrimonious and the adherents
of neither side will vote a second
choice for either of the leaders, and
the second-choice ballots of both
leading parties go to Robinson, who
receives few first-choice votes and
who is not considered a formidable
candidate by the voters generally.
AS an illustration. say that Smith
receives 45O votes for first choice:
Jones receives 500 votes for frs
.choic, while Robinson receives but
15o frst-choice votes. While Jone:
had received 80 plurality over Smith
he has not received a majority Of the
vote cast for all three candidates, an'
so the second-choice ballots are di
viaed between the three candidates
Surprising of Smiths second-choic'
votes. 400 have gone to Robinson
and so to Jones, and of Jones sec
ond-choice votes. 450 go to Robinson
and so to Smith. and Robinson di
vides his $50 votes with Is for eacl
smith and Jones. The result then il
that Robinson has a total of 100l
votes. while Smith receives $40 an'
Jones 625. Robinson, the man 'wh'
was not in the race, is nominated
If you read Bradys name TO
Jones. O'NeiIs name for Smith an,
Clagstones name for Robinson, ant
increase the vote correspondingly yoi
have the condition that may actuall
happen when the vote is counted mex
summer under the direct primar
election law
Then, when the people are disguste
that the result should be so far from
the wishes of the voters. the mex
legislature viii be repeating the Law
because the people don't want it
We DO not believe the people d.
want the present direct primary law
but they do want sensible direc
primary law under which the can
diiate who receives the most vote
is nominated on his party ticket tn
same as the candidate who receive
the most votes in an election
elected to the Office for which he wa
a candidate.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24

choice votes. 1t is easy enough 20
amend the law with respect to first
and second choice, if it shall be
shown to be necessary.
The law is on the books and it is
on to stay. Those who are disposed
to stab it in the back would better
line up to perfect it if they hope 70
gain favor in the eyes of the voting
public.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24

If you are going to be in the mar
ket for seed potatoes, you had bet
ter place your order now. We have
the following varieties: Dalmeny
Beauty Dalmeny Challenge, and
Peach Blow. Leave your orders
with r. L. Bullock, or F. G. Tick
nor.
f-1O-tf
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-24
No NEW THING.

(Nampa Leader-Herald)
The drift to the city from the coun-
try which so many deplore. is no
new thing 1t has always been so
for history shows that the great
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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
PRICES COMING DOWN.

Just why, nobody seems to know, although there
many reasons advanced, but prices are reported
on the downgrade. To the ultimate consumer the
is cheering. To the producer there is no cause
for JOY. To even things up, the Imperial Window
Glass company, which ordered liquidated by
the United States government, has announced
cut of 80 per cent the wages of the employees of
the company. And to make things more cheerful
Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department,
prophesies that an era of low prices and hard times
is about to come-because the Democrats have got
control of the lower house of the national Con
gress.
1t is hardly safe in these piping times of pros
perity to make predictions Hard times may come
because the corn crop exceeds three billion bush
els, but why everybody should not have enough to
eat, of corn at least, when is more plentiful
than ever before in the history of the nation. is
hard to understand. The unusually large corn crou
is urged as reason why farmers are marketing
their livestock, fearing perhaps that the livestock
will become gluttonous in land of plenty. Then,
too if they kept their livestock and fed them of the
overabundance of corn, the cereal would become
scarce and hence, higher in price
j. Ogden Armour Chicago packer, announced
his belief that prices would continue 20 fall for
some time The drop would not be rapid, in his
opinion, but prices are gradually working to lower
level. Pork the hoof has dropped about two
dollars hundred in Chicago since last month. and
than three dollars since the high prices of
last spring Which doesn't cheer the producer nor
the consumer if retail prices remain approximate
ly the same.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION.

Interspersed with dispatches telling of great
government of Mexico, stories of entire
tranquility extending over the entire section in
which the ''revolutionists" are supposed to be &C,
tive. The stories of battles and fighting usual
ly found to have been somewhat overdraWn, and
were probably sent out to enlist the sympathy of
the people of the United States for the "revolu-
tonists" in their struggle after freedom The sit
uation is a trying for the Mexican authori-
ties. Undoubtedly there is large element among
the people of the southern republic who are not in
favor of keeping President Diaz in his present of
fee forever, and who look upon his suppression of
any anti-Diaz movement with the suspicion that
freedom Is merely name. But aside from the
president of the republic, there are at least two
other causes to which the troubles agitating the
country may be assigned In the first place, stories
of the mstreatment of Mexicans in America ara
spread and dilated upon, with the result that the
popular notion is spread that Americans ought to
be badly used in Mexico. The other cause may be
just plain awlessness. 1t does not matter much
what may be the underlying causes for the dis
ORDERS long the potential liberties of the peo
pie are not interfered WITH it is the duty of the
government to suppress the disturbances. So far
the authorities seem to have dealt with the trou-
bles in wise and prudent manner. While there
is considerable dissatisfaction expressed by Ameri-
in business in Mexico at the limitations placed
upon them by the government, which limitations
are undoubtedly justified from the Mexican point
of view, it remains the plain duty of the people of
the United States to uphold the authority of the
Diaz government Hostile movements originating
in this country must be discouraged and are dis
couraged, not only by the federal government BUT
by the authorities of the border state of Texas,
Mexico has advanced rapidly in modern civilization
since the Inauguration of stable government and |
lawlessness and political intrigue have been elm
mated Every consideration of selfinterest as well
as the interest of the people of Mexico dictates
course which will give neither ala nor succor to t
the enemies of the Mexican government The "rev-
olutionists" largely made up of brigands and |
brawlers, class that has no standing in any civ
ilized country, unless, forsooh they organize them
selves into a revolutionary party and make way
on the government of their native land
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03

women from succession to the throne OF Spain
But, when Ferdinand VIII 1883, restored the an;
cient inheritance in favor of his daughter, and to
the exclusion of his brother. Carlos, there was no
serious opposition to his will in the Cortes or
throughout the kingdom at large. Yet however
justifable constitutional grounds was the Kings
action, the specific for placing Isabella on
the throne was open to serious objection.
For years before her accession, Isabella was
thought to be 'weakminded," but the Cortes and
the Spanish people were satisfied with the Kings
choice and hailed her Queen of Spain.
But, the disinherited Carlos Immediately adj
dressed a protest to the European powers, declar-
ing himself meanwhile the legitimate King OF
Spain. AT the same time he appealed to his SYM
pathizers and followers in the Spanish peninsula
and provoked one or two unsuccessful rebellions.
Carlos passed away in 1856, and his son, Carlos
H. who died in 1909, succeeded to his claim and
his pretension.
The present Pretender, Don Jaime, if
to judge from his appeal to the Nation" published
last week in the Mexican journal Gel Impartial"
will not be much of to the stability of
the reigning monarch. After dwelling at
length the origin of his claim and his rights
as lawful sovereign to the throne he ends his rather
weak and quixotic appeal by saying:
II think the day is not far distant when my fol-
lowers must rally to our flag" This reads moro
like sentence from little Tommy's composition
on Pizzaro, than extract from a strong and
brave mans proclamation of his rights. The Gap
peal" is not the sort of call to arms that arouscs
enthusiasm troubles the dreams of enemy.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
THE KAIsER's APPEAL.

The Emperor of Germany, according to spe
cia cable to the Toronto Mail and Empire, while
visiting the Monastery OF the Benedictine Fathers
at Beuren, to which he had not long ago presented
Crucifx of great artistic value addressed, No
vember 30, the abbot of the Monastery, his com
panions in religion, and many Roman Catholic dig
nitaries who had assembled to greet him.
81 look to you" spoke the Emperor, in the body
of his address, ito help me keep my people re-
ligious This is very important, as the twentieth
century has unclaimed ideas which only be
successfully combatted with the help of religion
and the support of heaven.
My crown can only guarantee me success when
it relies the word and personality of our Lord.
The governments of Christian princes can only be
carried on according to the will of God The altar
and throne are closely united, and must not be sep
arated"
Eheu! fugaces; what change since forty years
ago, when Bismarck the man of blood and iron
and Chancellor of the German Empire said in the
Reichstag, the Parliament, ''Rome must not govern
in Berlin, and when Empire makes laws the
made to be obeyed." These were the days of
the Kuturkurmpf, of the Falk Laws the days of the
"old Catholics" when the Iron Chancellor uttered
his famous boast mach Canossa gehen wiz NIGHT
We shall not go to Canossa"; the days when the
Religious Orders subject to the arbitrary SUI
pervision of the police authorities when fines were
imposed upon the Catholic clergy in hundreds of
cases for obeying their consciousness when the Arch
bishop of Cologne and Bishop Trier were con-
demned to Imprisonment and the Archbishop Ledo
chowski of Posen deposed and exied.
Whatever may be said of the ruling Kaiser
whatever his faults his great love of his fatherand
his for the name of God, his respect for
religion, his intense German patriotism and spirit
claim and retain the love of his subjects. Despite
his rather crude but sincere belief in his divine
right to govern, still it is admitted that the EN-
peror is intensely German, and that love of his
people and patriotic devotion to fatherland rather
than exaggerated idea of his own importance,
is the moving incentive to the expression of his
convictions and to most of his public actions
If he has appeared to have outraged modern no.
lions of the subsection of constitutional sover-
eign to the laws of his country yet it is admitted
that he is influenced by honest convictions and by
what he believes to be the right
No man in Europe manages to keep in the lime
light more successfully than he, hence all his
speeches cabed and teegraphed over the world,
translated into the vernaeular of every country |
and read with avidity by thoughtful people
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
DISSOLUTION OF A TRUST.

Some two years ago certain manufacturers of
window glass organized a selling agency which they
called the Imperial Window Glass company. After
very successful career of two years, the United
States has ordered the dissolution of the combina-
ton The evidence upon which this action was
taken by the government showed the company had
made 400 per cent the capital stock This
profit made, of course, by raising the prices of
window glass. Within very short time after the
company got into frst-class working order prices
had increased 20 per cent. few factories we're
kept running, but fifteen factories were rented and
closed down there might be no oyerproduction
The methods of operation simple. An agree
ment made among the "hand- blown" glas,
manufacturers that their product should all be sold
through this selling agency, and in no other way
The government found this constituted trust
and, besides ordering its dissolution placed fine
upon the members of the organization. This action
had hardly been taken when the members of the
company began efforts to get their money back
They announced a reduction in wages of their en-
ployes, ranging from 30 to So per cent That means
that where their employees got dollar during the
flush times when the company was making 400 per
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03

cent on its capital stock will hereafter get 20 cents
if they are fortunate or as cents if they to
ceive the big reduction. The department of JUS
tice announced that there was method known
by which the company could be restrained from
such action. The attorney general said he would
have put the officials in Jail instead of fning them
if he had known they would have cut down the
wages.
The trust is "dissolved," but who has been the
benefciary 1t is the failure to relief from
conditions such as these that has made possible the
growth of Socialism and other foolish notions. The
people and the nation are struggling in the dark
against conditions which have been forced upon
them. They will find the solution some day-but
when or how is yet not known
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
CLAIM OF DON JAIME, THE spAN1ARD.

The viii of Don Carlos late Pretender to the
throne of Spain, contains injunction to his son
to maintain his claim to the Spanish crown What
is known today Carlism began in 1883 with a
violation of the Spanish constitution by Ferdinand
VIII, who few days before his death cut off his
brother, Carlos from the succession, in favor of
his daughter Isabella For more than hundred
years before the death of Ferdinand the constitu-
ton precluded women from occupying the throne.
But the Cortes or Parliament of Spain carried
through its body bill legalizing Ferdinand's act,
and the exclusion of Carlos at once became ma
tional law. Until 1913 the eldest living child of
the reigning sovereign, boy or girl succeeded to
the throne upon the death Of the King of Queen
In this year. Philip Y, enacted law without
the consent of Parliament, it is said, excluding