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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
NeU Lincoln County Officers

1t is only a little more than a
month until the new county officers
take their places, to carry on the
work of their predecessors in the
public services In several of the Of
fices there will be no change, the
present incumbents being reelected.
There are enough of the older men
to take away any sense of newness
or unfamiliarity about the court
house, which might have occurred if
a few of the voters had known how
close the vote was going to be, and
had punched their votes only lit
tie more
Harry w. Anderson succeeds him
self as clerk and recorder He has
made a good record and in no coun
ty in the state are Office iaffairs bet
ter conducted There will probably
be little change in the present offcie
force. l.. M. Zug, the new sheriff,
is the present efficient deputy and
his face will not be new Some of
the other men who are now connect
ed with the sheriff's office will re-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
A WEEK OF WEATHER.

Important Information for all Those
Who Talk of Arid Idaho.
The weather is here.
Here with both feet---and just as
muddy feet as you ever saw.
Arid Idaho joke and the
Great American Desert being nayi-
gated by boats and rubber boots.
Yes, indeed.
There has been full week of
falling weather, one of the most
complete and continuous weeks that
have been recorded here for long
time. A real rainy week is always
twice as long as dry one---and the
people of this sectttion must have
been powerful good, for their days
have been long for the past week.
1t wasn't one of your gully-washing,
stormy rains, but the gentle sizzle-
sozle shower, with little intermis-
sions of snow and fog to vary the
monotony. Such a week as makes
the ground soak in enough moisture
to last it almost through the next
dry season, starts the grass all over
the prairies, and paves the way for
the prosperity of another year. 1t
hasn't been a calamity, not bit of
it---but it is really surprise; like
you'd ask friend for tw bits and
he'd load you down with more silver
dollars than you could carry
1t has been a mighty successful
rain. And it is still at it, only just
now it is snow.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
FARMERS COLLEGE.
Short Course In Scientific Farming
To Be Given at Wendell.

The University of Idaho will hold
a tv C weeks course in practical ag-
riculture at Wendell beginning De-
cembcr H. Every phase of farm We
will be considered in the course and
1t will be of great value to every
farmer who attends. 1t is worth
while to keep this school in Lin.
coin county and to do so, Lincoln
county must make this first one a
success. The community that show
the greatest interest by being repre-
sented by the largest registration
will have chance to get this schol
for next year and a good attendance
from Richfield would probably re-
suit in lri lging the school herenext
year. several have already signifiet
their intentions of attending.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
GREAT GRAIN GATHERER,
Idaho Combined Harvester-Threshe
Goes to Argentine.

Idaho has given to the farming
wosld one of the greatest inventions
of modern times, in the shape of a
combined harvester and thresher to
cut and thresh the grain as it stands
in the fields, without stacking or any
other intermediate work The ma
chine is eing uilt in small way at
Moscow though other cities have at
various times tried to entice the fac
tory away. To build such machine
requires a big factory and the lack
the development of the industry. A
representative of the Argentine gov
ernment who was in this country
a year ago, was so taken with the
machine that when he got home he
persuaded his government to offer
a quarter OF a million dollars for an
interest in the machine, putting up
tnat sum Tor a factory in Argentine,
conditional only on a successful de-
monstration OF the machine in the
Argentine grain fields A machine
has been shipped and will soon be
there ready for test. Argentine
is one of the greatest wheat coun-
tries of the world and economical
methods of harvesting mean much to
them. Since the combine has worked
so successfully on the rolling hills
of the Palouse and Potlatch coun-
try in Idaho and Washington, it is a
practical certainty that it will be
success on the level fields of Argen-
tine
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
WILL GROW EGGS.
Bankers Increase Capital Stock by
Going Into Poultry Business.

R. e. Mickelwait and George
Schwaner have grown tired of colo
storage eggs and have launched into
the poultry business and say they
expect to supply the local market
with good fresh eggs from now on.
They received two dozen barred Ply
mouth rock pullets from Boise this
week. Those desiring fresh eggs had
better put in their orders early so as
to avoid the rush.
Enough eggs are shipped in to
Rcihfiled, or done without because
good ones can't be had. to make a
half dozen fortunes. Yet there is no
place where poultry should do bet
ter than right here. It's nice easy
work, too. All you have to do is
to get good wooden hen, wood
en- braader, an automatic watering
trough a clock-work feeder, and it's
all over but the shouting and spend
ing the money. There are number
of patent methods being promulgate
through the advertising columns of
the farm papers ANY one of which
will bring good results. There are
people here on the Richfield tract
who know no more of really fresh
egs than they do of the great aux
Or the dodo, and unless someone
gets after the egg business they will
never be any wiser than they now
are. There is more money in poul-
try than in an Idaho gold mine---a
lot more-and it is easier to get.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
MILES OF FISH.
Fish and Game Department Makes
Big Showing This Year.

Up at the state fish hatchery at
Silver Greek, above Richfeild, the
state fish and game department is
aboutas busy as the proverbial hen
with one chicken But there is
lot more to do there, for they have
already collected more than a third
of million trout eggs, from the
beautiful, gamey native trout, and
they are still at it. Think of all
those eggs growing up into trout,
each one a foot long---70 miles of
the finest fish that ever grew. And
they would reach that size, too, in
two years--those of them that the
birds and the eels and the carnivor-
Gus papa trout and the fishermen
did not get before.
The native trout spawn in the
fall ,and the Eastern brook trout,
the next in value in the Idaho wat
ers,- in the spring, thus doubling
the working season for the busy
fish culturists. Close to four million
trout fry have been raised and dis
tributed this year, from the three
state hatcheries at Warm River in
Fremont county, Sand Point in Koot
enai county, and the Hay Spur hat
cherry III Blaine county T no depart
I, = <<.~>'
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
A NECESSARY CHARITY.
States Obligation to the Unfortun-
ates at the Gooding School.

Lincoln county has one of the ed
ucational Institutions supported by
the state, which needs especial at
tention from the forthcoming legis-
Iature.- This is the state school for
the deaf, dumb and blind, at Good
ing. The first building was built
this season, and is now occupied by
the school, which had formerly had
temporary quarters in Boise. 1t is
one of the most necessary and also
one of the most appealing of char
tiles. Young men and women in the
bloom of health and strength, can if
necessary go far to secure an edu-
cation, and they will do it any time.
But these helpless and afflicted ones
dependent on the state, afflicted by
none of their own doing, must grow
up in helpless hopeless darkness, If
the state does not care for them. 1t
is possible, through special instruc-
1On, TO Drlng lne liSnl " thSSe III
fortunates and in many cases to
bring them to useful citizenship. AS
this work is altogether in the hands
of the state, there being no private
schools where they can be taught,
the state is altogether responsible
for them. There is hardly doubt
that this will be one of the best
institutions in the state,
when the appropriations come before
the legislature. Q
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 1T might
have been.
That is what happened to the
daho Irrigation Company exhibit at
lional Apple Show at Spo-
kane, last week.
They took up 16 boxes of as fine
apples as ever grew anywhere; just
a little finer than almost anything
else that was exhibited. Ordinarily
it would have been lead-pipe cinch
for wheelbarrow load of medals.
But there was a hitch. The rules
of the show require that the entries
for prizes have atrleast ten boxes OF
fruit on exhibition. After making
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24

At the meeting of the county com
missioners last week the vote of
the special election held in this city
the 10th inst, to decide whether an
independent district should be Gre
ated out of school district No. 16
was canvassed and as the vote was
seventy-three in favor of the in
dependent district and none against
it the board ordered the district cre4
ated and appointed the following
board of directors: One year term,
R. j. Lennon and R. w. Pridmore;
two year term H. B. Jones and K.
G. Phelps; three year term, B. w.
Reeves and r. E. Mickelwaite, thus
causing the election of two mem
bers every year.
This is the first Independent dis
trict in the county and there is but
a few in the state and the venture
will be watched by great number
of people who are interested in the
school work of the state and we pre-
dict for Independent school district
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
Lincoln County Apples Win Near Prizes

be enough to qualify? And that's
the whole story.
While the 16 boxes sent up by
the Idaho Irrigation Company from
the Lincoln county orchards made a
very small quantity showing--m
than 80 carloads of apples we're dis
played in the prize classes---it is the
whole truth that the fruit from this
section was the peer of the very fin
est on exhibition there. The color
was conceded to be the finest of any
shown, and the marvel of land SELL
ing for s35 an acre that would pro-
duce such fruit was the talk of the
whole show
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24

No. 6 "a promising future.
The district will start out with
a very flattering prospect, as the
Richfield school bulidginis ons of
the best in the state adm the rapid
development of the district will an
other year furnish us with ample
fuds for conducting our schools at a
low taxation.
There has been one team engaged
this term in hauling the children
who live in the country. too and
from the school and as it has so far
proven very satisfactory, an effort
may be made another year to cen
tralize the district ,and take in
some of the outlying districts. pro-
vided satisfactory arrangements can
be made, thus giving the choildren
on the Richfield tract as good an op
portunity for a high school educa-
tion as they would have in the lar
ger cities.
The board considers themselves
and the district very fortunate, by
this year in securing the teachers,
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24

steel, the train loads of food and
supplies for man and beast, these
Jeffries and all the others that have
been used up.
A gate tender and an engineer
will probably have permanent quar-
ters at the dam, with what other
assistance may be needed to look
after the routine work and keep a
close watch for any kind of acci-
dents. Built carefully as it is, no
accidents or failures are anticipated,
nothing much more than q man can
fix with his own hands.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24

that are now conducting the schools
and when you realize that nearly
three months of school has passed
and not a kick registered against
either of the teachers, you can see
how fortunate the board consider
itself in securing for the schools
Professor Lenker and Miss Dew, as
instructors for the present term.
There is several improvementsyet
to be considered on the building and
grounds although ther is no more
comfortable or better ventilated
building in the county than we have
here in Richfield. The bulidign is b
heated with steam and has proved
very successful as it is easy to keep
the building at about the same tenn
perature all the time.
The building has large well ligh
ed basement that during the bad
weather will make an ideal place
for hte children to play, where they
uB I9qleeM PEG 9ql 10 lno u! 9q cso
at the same time receive the benefit
of the fresh air.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24

neral?
Well, it's so.
All the big stuff, and most of the
will not come back---they are like
little stuff has been hauled away,
to be shipped on to the next job. 1t
was big job, too, OFF in the more
than two years the dam has been
building they had taken out there a
vast quantity of moveable stuff. OF
course they don't bring back any
large part of all the stuff they have
hauled out. The thousands of tons
OF coal, the carloads of cement and
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
TO WOMM 1T MAY CONCERN

We, Irwin L. Farmer and Mrs. Ma
ry J Farmer, legal husband and wife
have this day made an equal divis-
ion of all our property, both real
and personal, and henceforth will
maintain our businesses separately,
neither being responsible for the con
tracts or Indebtedness of the ovher
Signed at Richfield, Idaho, this
25th day of October, 1910.
IRWIN L. FARMER
MRS. M. ]. FARMER
In the presence of v. v. Bower.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
DESERVING THE DAM
Big Job Almost Done And Work
Played Out.

Do you know that the big dam
out on the Big Wood river, the res
ervoir that is to impound the waters
for irrigating the $50, 900 acres Of
the Idaho Irrigation Company pro-
that the once busy camp, where al
most thousand men were working
at one time, is now practically de-
serted, and almost like a pauper fu-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
OFFICE SEEKERS OUT.
Change in Administration Results in
Scramble.

In view of the fact that Hawley
has been elected governor, and in
view of the fact that this election wi
bring forth an abundant crop of Of
flee seekers it maybe valuable in
Information to hte office seekers to
know just what appointments the
governor is empowered to make as
most OF the appointments OF the stat
are board appointments and as all
the boards will have a majority of
republican members, it may be sup
posed that the dmocrats will find lit
tie consolation from that source
The following list gives the chief APP
ointive offices. together with pre-
salaries drawn by them. 1t
ne .epublican members
lgis atIre viii agree with the
II ga.i, demands for greater econ
49, - .4la nis-ration and will redu
e the salaries and may even abol-
ish some of the offices. But as
they now stand there are, the figures
being the annual salary.
Secretary to the governor, ,$2400.
Chief clerk to governor, $500.
aBnk commissioner, $4,000.
immigration commissioner, $4,000
Insurance commissioner, $240O.
Deputy immigration commissioner
$500.
Clerk to insurance commissioner
s72O.
Three water commissioners 1000
State engineer, $1,000.
Clerks for two years. $3.50.
Adjutant general. $1,000.
Quartermastr, $1,000.
Storekeeper, $500.
Fish and game warden, $500.
Chief deputy, $1,000.
Each assistant $1,000
Clerk, $1,000
Grain commissioner, IS day and
pense'
State horticultural inspector, ap-
jointed by board but board appoint
I'd by governor $4,000.
Pure food commissioner appoint
I'd by board but majority of board
by governor, $500.
Chemist, $1,000.
Each of these officers has large al
for office and travelling
expenses the bank commissioner rv-
yceeini $4,000 for travelling expenses
md $1,000 for office expenses. The
Insurance commissioner gets S2500
m travelling expenses and $3.50 for
vice expenses. The state engineer
,ets $1,000 for travelling expenses an
$500 for Office expenses. These ap-
'ropriations being for term of two
,.arS.
Many of the appointive offices of
he governor are appointed for long
erms, but as the governor has the
'ower to remove them for cause it
$ not hard TO see that democratic
.overnor would find cause for re-
rowing republican office holders.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1910-11-24
HaEE0R SALE.

l have three hundred tons of prim
alfalfa hay in stack, for sale cheap
for cash Irwin E. Rockwell, Agent,
Estate John @. Packard. Bellevue.
Idaho
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Accuracy of
Census Depends
Upon the People
Director Durand Calls Attention to
Necessity Of Prompt and Accurate
Replies to Questions.

WASHINGTON, Jan. n.-Whether the
thirteenth census on which the government
expects to expend at least $13, 900, 900 and
probably more will reflect a correct pic
ture Of the nation, its people, their lives
and resources, is going to depend as largely
upon the people themselves as upon the
census bureau, and it's sc, 900 enumerators,
who will be engaged in the work.
Director Durand makes this declaration
in his annual report to Secretary NageL
OF the Bureau of Commerce and Labor.
While the report reviews the work of the
bureau for the last year a great part Of
it deals with preparations for the coming
census.
that any person or corporation may make
returns and know that when the results
are published 1t will be impossible to iden-
tify them with any individual or set of
men. The returns are not disclosed to any
one not employed in the census bureau,
and are not even furnished to any other
bureau of the department of commerce
and labor.
On account OF the extended records which
will be taken of agricultural conditions
the card system for those returns will be
with the magnitude of the requirements
will be adopted. In spite of the added
work this year. the director believes II
can be done with the present office forces
and makes only one recommendation fol
the creation of q new office-that of a CHIEF
statistician of mines and quarries.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
BOTH GERMAN AND FRENCH
LEGISLATIVE BODIES OPEN
PrussIans VIII Act on New Election
and Agricultural Measures
Tariff Bill in France.

BERLIN, Jan. 12.-Emperor William
opened the Prussian Diet today. The pro-
posed legislation outlined In the speech
from the throne includes a bill for the re-
form of the election law and another to
counteract the tendency of the laboring
class to desert the farming districts.
The speech foreshadowed a considerable
deficit in the forthcoming budget, notwith-
standing the increased receipts through i'm
proved conditions Of trade. The deficit is
due chiefly to IN increase of S5O,OO0,0OO in
the salaries OF government employees.
The Reichstag r~econvened today.
PARIS, Jan. 12.-Parliament reconvened
today for the tina session preceding the
general elections in May. Besides the com
pletion Of the budget. which promises an
important and interesting debate, and the
school question, the principal work of the
Chamber will be the perfecting of the
finance law and the workmen's pension
bill, which has been returned from the sen.
ate.
The tariff bill is still in the Senate and
its final passage before adjournment ii
doubtful.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Mayor Gaynor's
First Message Is
Shortest Recorded
It Contains a Summary Of City's FL
nances TO Close Of Year and
Suggestions for Economy.

NEW YORK. jan 2-wiliam J.. Gaynor
trapemittcd to the board Of aldermen today
his first message as mayor OF Greater New
York. 1t was one Of the briefest documents
Of its kind ever written by an executive Of
this city and contains no intimation as TO
the policy he will pursue. The message
consists primarily OF a mmsr Of the
work accomplished by the various city de
partments, together with Views Of the de-
partement heads, looking to a more eco
nominal administration as has been re-
1uested Of them by the mayor.
OF chief interest, perhaps, Is the sug.
gestion from the board Of water supply
concerning condemnation proceedings. The
expense Of such proceedins, as conducted
by commissioners, has been severely criti-
cised by several state supreme court jus.
tices of late and as n remedy the board
Of water supply recommends that legis-
lstion creating a permanent board for con-
smning property.
Besides its record for briefness the may.
or's message established another precedent
in that 1t gives a detailed statement Of the
city's financial condition up to the very
last day of 1909, instead Of up to September
80 as has previously been the case.
The a made It plain that the type
OF police officer commonly known as the
"slugger" would receive scant consider
alton under his administration. In a letter
to Police Commissioner Baker he asked that
official to see that there was no delay in
bringing to trial a policeman recently ac-
oused Of getting drunk and clubbing lnof-
tending persons whom he encountered in
the street.
1.-THE quicker all men capable Of such
things be got off the force the BETTER
was the way the mayor put 1t.
The cleanest sweep so far in any depart
ment since the beginning Of the new ad-
minstratlon took place in the borough of
the Bronx today. Shortly after Tammany
had been shocked on learning that Park
COMMISSIONS Higgins had dropped 1853 men
from the park service in the Bronx, Presi-
dent Miller Of that borough announced he
had received the designations of a dozen
heads Of borough departments and holders
Of important positions within his Jurisdic-
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
L. Webster
Made President
Omaha Man Heads State Historical
Society-C. S. Paine Wins in Z
Fight for Secretary.
tFrom a staff Correspondent


LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 1~2.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-The State Historical society in it's
annual meeting last night elected the fol-
lowing officers:
John l.. Webster of Omaha, president.
Robert Harvey, first vice president.
S. e. Bassett OF Gibbon, second vice presi-
dent.
8. L. Geisthart. treasurer.
c. S. Paine, secretary.
The meeting was more largely attended
than any Of recent years owing to the
big fight put up by the opposition to Secre-
tary Paine. Prof. H. w. Caldwell Of
the state university led the fight. but
Secretary Paine had lined up the business
men of The Commercial club and won out
with a good margin. The test came over a
motion to change the constitution to pro-
vide for the election Of officers previous
to the reading Of reports. The Paine peo-
pie defeated this after which all votes
were unanimous.
The society showed its extreme generos-
ity by adopting a motion to alter temper
srily the plans of the $685. 900 historical
building to provide a place for the state
supreme court and the state library pend
ing the construction of a new state house.
The meeting was held in the dining room
OF the Commercial club and the room was
crowded to overlooking. John L. Webster
and M. L. Learned of Omaha were among
those from out in the state who attended
the meeting.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-13
Library Ready cor city.

MADISON, Neb,. Jan. 12.-(special.)-
The annual meeting Of the Library asso-
citation was held at the city hall last even
ing. Mayor George r. Wycoff, president
OF the library board, presided. As a pre-
lude to the exercises the Madison band
rendered several selections Of music, after
which followed the annual reports OF the
president, secretary, and treasurer. indi-
eating hat the association was in a flour
ishing. condition, Miss Templeton. secre-
tary OF the State Library association, read
a paper on the history and growth Of
library work, dwelling at length on the
probable future work of the association
In this state. Senator C. II. Aldrich Of
David City was present and made the adj
dress Of the evening on the subject,
twentieth Century Republic" At the
conclusion of the speaking a motion OF
Senator Allen was adopted that the old
officers, consisting Of George r. Wycoff,
president; S. C. Blackman, secretary, and