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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20
TRY TO MAKE FLILEss TOWN
NJ Germ Methods Tend to Reduce r 4
il of Disease From Flies.

According to a report in the Ore
gon Journal, Portland is making an
effort to become famous as the Fly
less Town" The Journal quotes DR..
Calvis White, state health officer, as
follows:
where four years ago there were
200 flies there will be but one this
year" asserted DR.. White yesterday,
The system of flushing the down
town streets, adopted by the street
cleaning department, washes the lar
vac or eggs of the flies into the sew
ers. At the same time the county
court is preparing to oil every road
leading into Portland. Oil complete
ly kills flies. Where there were once
ste bles of horses the finest places are
now, in many instances, auto gar
ages, and the fumes of the gasoline
kill flies.
The destruction of the old expo
sition building on upper Washing
ton, destroyed the source for all the
flies in that neighborhood," con-
cludes DR.. White. Down in North
Portland the horse stables have been
in some cases removed or destroyed.
There is left one dangerous source
of fly production-unscre food.
would advise every housewife not
to buy any article of food from any
store that does not use screens. Tn,
merchant could at the same time be
told why the purchase in markets,
in meat shops, in groceries, in cafe
terias, fruit stands or wagons, should
be kept screened from flies. Unless
flies have breeding places they are
not produced. If there are no flies
disease will not be spread. Public
health Will be tremendously protect
ed"
A plan for having the council pass
an anti-fly ordinance has been sug-
gestei to DR. White. He answered
that such an ordinance would be VAL
liable. but not nearly SO Valuable as
education in the destruction of dies
breeding places. IF an decaying mat
ter is kept from flies, 81 food. exc
hibited for sale or use IS KEPT
screened. If the streets are contin-
uousiy washed. the roads oiled, the
fies win disarrear
When the lantern slides for which
be has sent, arrive Dr. White wil
4 give a series Of lectures at the schools
and other i>aces where The people
gather. ia order to show bow 70 pre-
vent ana destroy Gees lie VIII also
loan the slides to others who desire
to make similar use of them.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20
FOR AGED PEOPLE
Old Folks Should BE Careful in Their
Selection of ReguIative Medi-
cine.

We have safe, dependable and
altogether ideal remedy that is par
ticularly adapted to the require
ments of aged people and persons
who suffer from constipation or 9th
er bowel disorders. We are so certain
that it will relieve these complaints
and give absolute satisfaction in ev-
cry particular that we offer it with
our personal guarantee that it shall
cost the user nothing if it fails to
substantiate our claims. This rem
edy is called Rexall Orderlies.
Rexall Orderlies have a soothing,
healing, strengthening, tonic and reg
ulative action upon the bowels. They
remove all irritation, dryness, sore
ness and weakness. They restore the
bowels and associate organs to more
vigorous and healthy activity. They
are eaten like candy, may be taken
at any time without inconvenience.
do not cause any gripping, nausea, di-
arrhoea, excessive looseness, fiatu-
lence or other disagreeable effect.
Sold only at our store-the Rexall
store. The R. W. Smith Co.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20
ARE RAISING THE MAIN
Completing Caissons Enclosing the
Wreck Completes First Stage

Havana, April 3.-In the driving
of the last few interlocking steel
piles Of the last of the 20 caissons
forming the enclosing wall Of the
huge basin or Golfer dam surround
ing the wreck of the battleship Maine
the first stage of the work of re-
moving the shattered remains Of the
warship has be IN brought to a sue
cessful conclusion.
The work was accomplished with
rapidity and it's progress was I'M
marked by a single mishap or hitch
until the introduction of the final
pile, which failed to interlock prop
erly with those on either side.
This gave rise to a rumar that the
stability Of the caisson was endang-
cred. but examination showed the
trouble resulted from the pile being
slightly deformei By en- accidental
blow from the iron bucket Of q dredge
WORKING alonss e The extraction
and replacing of three piles s~vei
to repair the damage.
The second stage of the work. that
Of nling the caissons as fast as CONE
pleted with mud. clay and rock dre1e-
ed from the harbor bottom. has been
going on for some time and, now that
the ring is completed, is being pesh-
Ell forward with the utmost rapi 'ity.
The steam dreiga Norman Davis,
sloaned to the government by the nus
ton-Trumb0 Dredging company. and
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20

nard. are dumping hundreds Of tons
of material into the saissons.
It is expected that the filling Of
the caissons will be completed by the
end of April. and litter that the most
interesting stage ofthe work that
of pumping out the great basin and
leaving the ship in precisely the
condition she was on the morning af-
ter her destruction. thirteen years
ago, will begin.
AS a guarantee Of the security of
the retaining wall around the basin,
it is probable riprap will be dumped
around the exterior of the ellipse of
the caissons before pumping begins.
The wresk iself will have to be
carefully watched as the water lev
ell falls, there being some danger that
as the support of the water and the
mud in which it rests is withdrawn,
the hull may careen, just as ships
have been known to do in drydocks,
when insuficiently secured.
AS soon as the wreck is fully ex-
posed the work of exploration in
search of human bodies will take pre-
cedence.
1t is practically certain when this
stage of the work is finished a United
States man of war will be ordered to
Havana and will lie close to the
wreck to receive the bodies as fast as
they are recovered and transport
them to their final resting place.
After that will come an exhaustive
scrutiny of the shattered wreck
by experts who. in the opinion of en-
gineer officers, will be able to deter
mine beyond all question precisely
the character of the agency whereby
the destruction of the Maine was eff
fected.
Probably many months will elapse
before the final stage of the work
the extraction and disposition of The
wreck.
It is known that the forward par
of the ship, about one-third of hel
length, is practically detached from
he rest and is so shattered that il
will have be extraced piecemeal
When he afterpart has been strip
ed as far as possible of all heavy
weights, including the two turrets
weighing with their tow 1O-incf
guns about 200 tons each, it is hoped
It will be possible to build bulk
head across the shattered end anC
float the hulk out Of the basin, to b
sunk in all probability hundreds o
fathoms deep in the straights of Flo
rida.
Finally will come the extraction
of the thousands of steel piles com
posing the 20 caissors and the dredg
ing of the material vita which the.
we're filed. This may not be com
pleted before the end Of the year.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20
International Aviation Meet, Boise,
Idaho, April 10th, 10th.

Reduced rates via Oregon Short
Line. Tickets on sale from points be-
tween Boise and Huntington, April
18th 18th, and goth. and from Poca-
tello and points west up to Nampa
(incmding branches) April 18th and
18th. Limited in both cases April
oath. Brookins, the famous Wright
flyer and Ely of the Curtiss team
will participate in match races, spiril
glides and other startling exhibit
lions. See agents for rates and fur
Their particulars.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20

The Walter Vacuum Developer
which has found favor with so many
people in this vicinity as a beauti-
fer, bust developer. blackhead Grad
icator. massage devise. etc. is now be-
ing placed on the market through
the drug trade. The Developer is
on sale at the 'Keener Drug Store
where its many good features will
be explained to you.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20
Gives Aid To strikers.

Sometimes liver. kidneys and bow
els seem to go on a strike and refuse
to work right. Then you need those
pleasant little sthrike breakers
DR.. Kings New Life Pills-to give
them natural aid and compel proper
action. Excellent health soon follows
Try them. $50 at r. w. Smith Co. A
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20
JOHNSON COULDN'T BE WILD
Big Swede of the washingtons a Mar
veIOus Man in the Box.


veIOus Man in the Box.
A local admirer Of Walter John
son, the marvellous base ball pitcher
and now we'll known as the Idaho
Wonder" has handed the Record the
following clipping from a Denver pa
per which he says is the best news
paper dope" on Johnson he has
seen. The article is as follows;
Louisville. KY, April 6.--Del-
ehanty remarked that Walter John
son could not be wild if he would try
his level best. 1t is not in him. He
has near absolute control.
No body appeared to argue out the
issue with Del. on that line, but ev-
erybody contributed some informa-
tion regarding the remarkable Swede
of Washingtonians.
In 1871 johnson ranked fifteenth
among pitchers. He wen %, lost
II, was taken out of one, tied one
one finished one. His average was
1876. Still Johnson is regarded as the
best pitcher in the business.
Johnson is one of the men for
whom everybody on the Detroit team
has keen respect, and this year they
will fear Johnson as much as they
have dreaded him since he made his
debut.
In one game the Swede pitched
against New York he was retiring
the HighIahders in order.
What's he got?" the men on the
bench asked the retired batsmen as
they filed back.
Not a thing in the world" was
the general answer.
Keller went to bat. Keller was re-
tired, and Keeler, like others. came
back to the bench. And, like the
others, the question was put to him,
and unlike the others, Keeler replied:
'Wen. have been facing pitchers
for ID years and Ice seen about all
in that time, but ] can say that l
never saw one with as much as this
Johnson has. He's got everything. q"
They say he can't neld hunts, "
says Delehanty, and explains:
He doesn't have to Aeld any. Try
to bunt on him. You are lucky to
touch a ball when this fellow is in
form. I'd like TO see you bunt on
johnson.
And he can hefild when he has
to. Don't get any mistaken ideas
about that He didn't know how to
field hunts when he came to Wash
ington. Out where johnson pitched
he had all those fellows scared to
death. They didn't have any idea
what bunting was, and guess John
son never saw anybody bunt till he
came to Washington"
George Washington Simmons, who
was utility infielder for the Tigers
part of last season, was sitting on the
Detroit bench in Washington one
day while Johnson was pitching.
''Why they just float up there,
remarked Simmons in disgust. don't
see why you fellows don't hit 'em.
They look as big as a house"
Toward the end of the game it be-
came necessary for a pinch hitter to
step to the plate. Jennings selected
Simmons, and Simmons was called
out on three pitched balls without
even taking his bat from his should
er.
If Johnson belonged to leading
club he would come nearer winning
every game he started in. Johnson
always opposes the best pitcher OF
the club he is pitching against. They
save the best for oJhnson, because
they realize that an average pitcher
should beat Washington when any
other member of tSe Washington
staff is pitching Denver Post.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20

"Our baby cries for Chamberlain
Cough Remedy" writes Mrs. T. B.
Kendrick. Rasaca, Go. 1T is the
best cough remedy on the market
for coughs. colds and Group" For
sale by R. w. Smith Co. A
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20
Stark Delicious
IN is a gem-fbe finest apple in
all the qy0rid .p-Lufhey Burbauk

Have you planted this wonderful apple? Or have
you planted il only in a small way? In either case
make big order for il this sprne-as orchard
owner you owe il TO yourself to do So Stark De-
lcious is the greatest proh-producer known in
apple history; it is perfect in tree perfection in
frut--it is everything apple could be. The
worlds greatest horculturisis and orchardsis have
unhesitatngly given il first place among apples tits
The one variety that you should plant most largely.
We have prepared a new booklet "The Wonder
iul Apple Stark Delicious that tells the whole
story and gives the record of Delicious up 10 Jan.
i, 1911. This booklet also describes and illustrates
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20

Those are five money-in-your-pocket reasons why
your order should be for Stark Trees this spring.
On these liberal terms you can now purchase Stark
Trees at prices no higher than demanded for
stock of less merit inferior quality. And Stark
Trees have a record behind them-for SO years they
have pleased planters and won friends in every
section of the country where trees are planted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14

wealth of state, country or municipality. proposition, or does it promote temper ance and does it carry out the true prin- ciples of prohibition?
 l understand the principles of prohibi- tion to teach that all intoxicating drinks are curse to humanity and that they should be extermnated from the face of the earth, much less than elevating them in the homes of our people, or at least to those who are so fortunate as to have home. Does not the law as now operated create monopoly for the rail- roads and express companies to do all the dispensing and are our citizens in favor of a monopoly?
 Individually so far as I am concerned, I would not care whether or not there was drop of intoxicating liquors in the world But so long as they remain on this terrestrial shore, which in all proo- ability, judging from the past, they will be like our Savior said about the poor. Thousands of our good women and good men are making effort by petition to the legislature to retain on our statute books the present prohibition laws. Should their petition be heard and complied with I ask the legislature to do one thing, pass a pure food and drink law, providing for state inspectors, to confiscate all the impure stuff called whisky which is now being drank that is poisoning the moral and physical manhood of our. state and destroying their earning capacity for the upbuilding and development of our con- monwealth w. R. PHILIPS.
 Gadsden, January 12, 1911.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
MORE INDUSTRIES
 FOR CHATTANOOGA Coal Syndicate Promises to
 Develop Property BUSY COURT SESSION Bond Issue of Half a Million Is Asked Of the Legislature For the Pur-
 pose of Building Good
 Roads in County
BUSY COURT SESSION

Chattanooga, Tenn, January 13-(Spe- cial l)-As an evidence of the big indus trial propositions which are promised Chattanooga in the near future, c. E. James, the local head of the $10,00o, 900 syndicate which recently purchased three of the leading coal operating companies of this district, made the following proposition to the Hamilton county court:
 If Hamilton county will erect two pub lie bridges across the Tennessee at cer- tain designated points where they are antee the construction of a railway bridge across the river to open the coal mines in the northern part of the county will build a blast furnace, will construct a by-product plant for manufacturing illuminating and power gas and will oth- erwise develop property on the north side of the river.
 It is probable that the proposition will be favorably acted upon.
 The present session of the Hamilton county court promises to go down in history as~being one of the most progress sive in the history of the state.
 resolution asking the legislature to authorize bond issue of $500 coo for good roads was passed in addition to one ask ing for $15O,OO0 bonds to be spent in equipping the six or eight new school buildings which have recently been erected in the county.
 Another special bond issue resolution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Liquor and Pure Food Laws

To the Editor of The AgeHerald:
 Governor Conner in his message to the legislature reviewing his administration made a very frank statement. He says regarding the prohibition question that, "The democratic platform in 1906 called for local option. The legislature met and a local option law was passed Under the law a large per cent of the counties went dry, others on a vote or limitation agreement would have gone dry etc. This certainly speaks well for local option and I am of the opinion that if the govern or and the legislature had remained on the platform on which they were elect ed to carry out, the course of temperance in Alabama would have been promoted more than 1t has been under statewide prohibition laws.
 should be a good lesson to our incoming governor and legislature in carrying out the platform on which they were elected When statewide prohibition is properly analysed, as operated under the present law, if carried out to the letter, it does not commend itself as a sensible busi- ness proposition. Let us take look at the sum and substance of the proposi- ton. The law says to the citizens of Alabama, You are not permitted to do for yourselves what the citizens of other states, manufacturing and selling liquors, are permitted to do for you. You are not permitted to manufacture, barter, sell or give away liquors. You are citizens of Alabama, but you are not prohibited from buying all you want from citizens of other states and giving it away in your homes" What is the result of this?
 The railroads and express companies do the dispensing to almost any and every body, regardless of quantity or quality without adding anything to the common
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
TWENTY FIREMEN ARE
 HURT IN FIVE FIRES

New York, January 13.-Twenty fire men were injured, one perhaps fatal ly, and damage aggregating s15O,0OO was caused by series of five fires this morning.
 Fireman Lee Hackbarth fell four stories down an airshaft and through a skylight in a burning Harlem tene- ment The physicians in the hospital where he is now say he cannot re- cover. He was assisting a woma n tenant to escape when he fell. She was not hurt nor was any of the occu- pants.
 Five firemen were severely burned when a liquor and drug importing house on Pine street caught fire and 12 were injured; five seriously in a blaze which destroyed a five-story building on Duane street. Two small blazes, one down town and one in Har- lem, caused slight injuries to two moro firemen,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
TRYING TO RECOVER
 BODIES FROM RUINS

Cincinnati, January 13.-Efforts to recover the bodies of six men who are supposed to be buried under the ruins of the Chamber of Commerce building, which was destroyed by fire Tuesday night, started at daylight today and lasted until darkness. Hundreds of flre- men and policemen had volunteered their services. but no trace of any of the missing has yet been found.
 Coats, trousers and other wearing apparel were picked out of the ruins, but In each instance it is thought that the articles belonged to some of the walters employed by the Business Mems club who had stored them in lockers.
 The work will continue tomorrow. As more than 48 hours have elapsed since the six men were last seen, all hope of their having escaped death has been abandoned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
WORKERS DISLIKE
 BONUS SYSTEM

New York, January 13.-Unqualified disapproval of the bonus fsystem seek ing increased individual efficiency by labor leaders before the National Civic federation, gathered in its eleventh annual convention. 'It's simp- ly the same old task driving system under the new name" declared John Mitchell, formerly president of the United Mine Workers of America.
 Warren s. Stone, grand chief of the International Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, said the railroads had tried the system found it failure and promptly abandoned it.
 The bonus project was brought up for discussion by the address of H. l.. Gantt an industrial expert. He pro- duced charts which he said would sho that factory girls, previously inef- ficient, had been trained to high eff ficiency by means of rewards. MT. Stone, who followed, promptly attacked the theory, relating instances from his own experience as locomotive er- igneer to show that poor work, not good work, was the result of the sys- tenn.
 The Broth erhood of Locomotive En- gineers stands for efficiency but not for the bonus system, he said. It has been tried and failed.
 The declaration of Louis B. Brandies, counsel for the New England shippers before the interstate commerce commits sion that millions could be saved to the railroads by proper management. also came in for criticism by MT Stone.
 q differ with MT. Brandies,'' he said. Has he ever directed rail- road? Yet MT. Brandies, who has no practical experience on this subject, says the railroads might save half of the waste"
 John Mitchell reverted to the bonus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
Consignment to Bank Seized

Cordova, Alaska. January 13.-One hundred and one thousand dollars, con- signed to a bank in Seattle by the Washing ton Alaska bank of Fair banks, which closed last week, was seized here yesterday by deputy mar shal acting under orders of the United States district court for the Fourth dis trict of Alaska. The shipment consist ing of $76,000 in gold coin and bullion and $25,00 in currency, had been shipped by the defunct Fairbanks bank to cover securities hypothecated with bank in Seatte. The money will be sent back to Fairbanks and turned oyer to the receiver of the bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
An UnintentionaI BiEamist

Springfield, Mo-, January 13.-It was learned today that Mrs. Ida Mattox, wife of the Rev. c. L. Mattox. Bap- tist preacher here. Is an unintentional bigamist Mrs. Mattox's first husband, A. B. Dial, instead of being dead, as she believed. had been found to be liv- ing in Hill county. Texas. While Dial and his wife were living near Berry vile, Ark. in 1884, he disappeared. Believing herself a widow, his wife in 1907 married Mattox in Carol county, Arkansas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
Hadley Wants Income Tax

Jefferson City, Mo, January 13.-Gov ernor Hadley submitted to the legisla- ture today a resolution to Congress. asking for the ratification of the in- come tax. A bill providing for the non'- ination and election of candidates fy, United States senators by direct vote of the, people was introduced in the senate. It Is copy of the Oregon law, except that 1t allows candidates for state senate and representatives to file declarations whether they will vote for the candidate receiving the largest number of votes in theo general elec-' tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
Party of Geologists Wrecked

Winnipeg, January 13.-Word was re- ceived here today that party of 16 Canadian geologists. headed by J. M Macon, chief of the geological depart ment at Ottawa, was wrecked on ths shores of the Hudson Bay while en route to Winnipeg. Grave fears had been felt for their safety for months The schooner Jeannie was wrecked in a fierce gale near Wager Inlet. Hudson Bay, September g. The members of tho expedition were rescued, however, and all reached Fort Churchill safely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
Officer Is on Trial

Vallejo, Cal.r January 13.-On charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. the courtmartial of Past Assistant Surgeon Francis M. Mauncen was begun here today. The charges are in connection with Mauncens Ac- tions in Manila when the naval auk Hilary Buffalo was en route hither frO1f Manila six weeks ago,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-14
Bubonic Plague Is Raging

Washington January 13-Bubonic plague is making severe ravages in, Manchuria, according to cable reports to the state department. In the city of Harbin 500 deaths occurred within IS days and at the date of the report new cases were appearing at the rate of about 100 daily. Out of every 100 pa- tients 40 died from the disease.