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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27
$500 PER YEAR
LOST RIVER COUNTRY
ENJOYS PROSPERITY.
State Mine Inspector Bell Highly
Enthusiastic Over the Prospects in
This Section of Idaho.

State Mine Inspector Bell has just
returned from "trip to the Lost Riv-
er country, and is highly enthusiastic
over the prospects of that district mot
only In the way of mining but in an
agricultural way as we'll
Mr. Bill says: The desert between
Blackfoot and the big butte on the
Msckay branch is blossoming with
huadreds of acres CT magnificent
grain which will give a handsome
yielhl and VILE grow anything.
"Thn land is being d1yfarmed and
is O-e THAT was thought would not
produce smYthhng.
There is considerable activity in
the mining industry in the Lest River
country. The platform at the depo,
at Arco carried three carloads OF ore
awaiting shipment. One carload was
from the Hood mine at Eric and will
go 100 oaynces of silver; one from the
Old Erie mine cont. Inning high values
in lead and silver, and one from the
Patterson mime ON the PahsOmari
river, carrying high grades i'm tung-
sten On this pr perty a, small con-
centrating mill is being rebuilt, and
will enter new mining product to
the shipping lists of Lemhi county.
"At Mackay, the White Knob is be-
i,sy onaratad NV small leaSerS. One
hunIdred carloads have already bcFn
shipped with the prospect of dupllca-
tom before the winter sets In.
business collditio. S in the LOST
River country are favorable, but the
pecple are praying for the complexion
of the Lost River project, Whcil
means so much to the whole country
I'M busne Wy. bose journal
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27
Advertised Letters.

List of letters remaining uncalled
Tor la the post office at Blackfoot,
Idaho, for the week ending July 25p
1911 Persons calling for these let
ters will please say advertised July
%, 1911
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Sparks, Geo. t
Taylor, MIR. Ira
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one cent. All of the above letters re-
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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27
LAKE PEND D'OREIulE
is DEEPEST IN

Spokane, Wash, > July 25.7
tific investiga tons conducted
federal government by John Fl
Bovard, professor in biology al
University of Oregon, and DR..
Irving Kemmerer, professor in
istry at the University of New
leo, have disclosed the fact tina
Pend d'Oreille, in nor thern Ida
the deepest body of water i'm II
kane country. The work thus !
dicates that the lake has
greater depth than 1000 feet
center. Other lakes range frt
to 200 feet. The experts wnr,
to- this district at the request o
Spokane chamber of commerce
the purpose of determining the
ard game fish best adapted tc
numerous waters. They take tt
perature of the water at v;
depths, analyze it for plant lit
make other tests. lit is prObabl
Pend d'Oreille lake will be st
with deep lake trout, Lake Su
white fish and ether specie
known to- these waters at the
ent time. Other lakes in MOI
Idaho and eastern Washington
inv. stigsted at once.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27

lean make no mistake by invest
M,EhCut doubt there VIII D.
people from my state wEo VIII
|e here this yer. In fact, a rum
have clready purchased orchard
s. The climate is far better thal
rf Nebraska. The heat q re
nit Cypress as does uha hc"l
b can hut see that Gre Gef cp-
mites exist here thail there.
ccnGition is apparent. Bolse II
best city cf Its siz That ! nave
seen, | am particularly dmpres-
bv its fine office buildings, us
era bt mes, its beautiful law-s,iu'
= sire It's, and the spirit OF push
go th,-t seems to dominate hhe
,.e. Why they tell me that ousi-
is dun here as compared 10
t it usually is. This senIls
nge for | am impressed that DuA :
here is brisk ''-C-pital News.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27

considerably lower inquire. by y
this, and in purch sing the prof.
from the stick holders at an eel
able value, it would seem that
Mountain States Telephone and
graph Company will have no Gift,
ty in making this portion OF its
erty earn dividends equal to t
her tofore enjoyed by the stock !
ers If The Color 1o Telephone
pany and The Tri-State Telep
and Telegraph Company.
Several promiiae ent stockholderl
The Rocky Mountain Bell TalepI
Company have expressed themsl
favorabliy ON the terms OF the
Said oIle OF them: BETTER t0 .
a, sixty dollar Investment paying
steady income than hundr I'd d.
investment whose greatest earnii
pacity merely allowed it to pay
ereset Gun its deGts.
In an interview given today to
Associated Press, President
said in part:
This merger is in no sense
formation lof a trust or moncpol!
mo competing properties are int
ed. u. is merely the natural
come of our experience of the
two years with The Tri-State
phone and Telegraph Company
many ye-rs there was a distinct
.4sf demarcatiOn in the conduct o
lines OF business betweebl Colo
and New Mexico and Ari07 :
frontier or borderland, if yo ~
across which but little traf<I&1
Our own aff-irs seemed pI M
susc eptible to this, but \ ~.
solved our difficulty by givl
Colcrado Telephone Company
The TrLState Company joint
agemelN whereby the needs of
two communities were viewed
common. The results were rems
BILE; the frontier disappe2ted al
by magic. So that it was felt I'll
Joint ownership was equally los
Business men of all of thes Il
tain states are daily making in
ments i'm Depver, SILT Lake, B
Helena, Boise. Albuquerque,
Vegas, Roswell, Bisbee, Douglas
other cities, thus making a, univ
telephone system cIcnnecting thel
gether, a commercial necessity.
The new company will operat
exchanges and toll lines in Utah.
mil z, Montana, Idaho, Eastern
zons,, New Mexico and Colorado. I
is a. strong inter-relation of busi
lla this great territory We cover,
we hope to meet the telephone L
AID requir ments of this vast I
which covers some 100000 SO
miles, or nearly one-sixth OF tn
tai area Of the United States,
intelligently and moro extent!
than we could expect to do
three separate corpOratio2s. We
ready count 10000 subscribers
tions, and / expect to see this
b II doubled within five years.
this will require large sums OF
ey. and to get such sums we
market safe, stable and const
tive stock This We expect to d
wish to call attention to the fact
the issued capitalization of the
companies combined is less thar
capital liabilities of these three
pa.zies separate. In other words
safety of the investment is incre
and the ben fit to the public is
apparent snce it insures mod
and reasonable rates to care fer
decreased divideId and inter st
Quirements.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27
lEBRASKA PEOPLE COMING
TO IDAHO BY HUNDREDS.
and All but Discour-
aged They Look to Land Where
the Crops Never Fail.

the general passenger
ent of the Union Pacific Railroad
mpa y at Omahs, State Immigra-
N Comm ssioner S. j. Rich has r.
lived requests from 500 Nebraska
Szens who contemplate locating in
|ho and desire information relative
Its resources and opportunities.lDes
btWe literature will be mailed each
tha applicants at once AS a con-
uel cd Cf the severe drought
3ch prevails in the east and south
re will be great exodus from the
es of those sections and it is very
bable that Idaho. will be the bcne-
ary of the depcpulation of the
lght-stricken states. The cQrtanr
1f AGRICULTURAL failure there this
has very forcibly impressed the
ple of those sections with the de-
|biIitv of establishing homes in
TRY where they will not be under
necessity OF gambling with the
ncnts On crops. without doupt
,odence is to hc attached to- what
estate mem say, there viii be
/ increase in the population od
10 this year consequent TO the
failures i'm eastern and southern
es and the optimistic nows as 10
cron situaion in Idaho co'nW eyed
leir citizens by former Irleliea
have settled in Idaho. Some
> like 1000 acres of fruit land h~s
ntlv been purchased in tae ray
varlev Wv citizens Of Omaha, ana
cf these purchasers have alEeaus
blisIhed homes there and ut lf-aS-
| ed by them th~t during the y ("
,eaeH 500 off thCir old neigApor7
ioin them. One Of these gentle
Who came cut with the NoprasN'
Vtv and who is locking oNr the
,lntry with a view to Investing Is
Il Compton of Omaha, OF the flrm
'lraug Bros. Commission company
is we'll plersed with IdFlR0. anti
Iery enthusiastic about the poS'S9-
lies which exist for the state TC-
} greatness and development. He
4 here through tine influence OF }
Roberts, the easteNl sales agent
? e Payette Land & Orchard ccm-
y who operates fir, TN Omaha ana
&c locatcd all the Nebraska 'opie
yette.
Compton is already great
4r fer Id ,ho and he anticipates
his year will he an exceedingly
me for the state in Un immlgra
,ov In speakit g VI the countr!
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27

Consolidation of The Colorado Tele7
phone Company, The Tri-State TelS
ephone and Telegraph Company
and Rocky Mountain Bell Tele-
phone Company, Placing All UNDER
One Management.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-07-27

he said:
'avor bly impress ID by
consider the outlook
Idaho Ig,2,od. Judging
clf the old ilrchards
,itizens tell me of their
past, it locks like a
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17

NACY's, Herald Square, lays stress on
wonen's autumn apparel, fur coats ana
small furs and fur sets. Other bargains
may be had in towels, tabiecioths ana nap
Klns blankets, portieres and housefurnish-
ings.
ABRAHAM g. sTRAUS. Brooklyn, an
nounc. a sale OF upholsterings. including
nnrtieres and lace curtains. at exceptional
prices.
HEARN. West I4th street. in the sale tnls
week offers special values I'm dress goods
wash dress fabrics, white goods laces ana
ne+a trimmings and buttons, ribbons
ebcars and scissors. Lace curtains. bed
so,s and curtain nets and table covers and
pmtieres are other attractions 70 oe or
fered al reasonable prices
RLOOMINGDALES' Third avenue, be
tween 59th and 5Oth streets, will have a
.necial sale Of tailored suits. afternoon
frocks. gowns and waists for women. and
Oriental rugs There will also be "A con-
densed budget of Monday and Tuesday
sales
STERN BROTHERS. West I'd street.
will display tomorrow a large assortment
~ women's suits and dresses, trimmed mil
unery. women's muslin underwear and
misses and chil1rens hats, which VIII he
cold al moderate prices. There VIII also
he a sale OF lace curtains womcn's and
children's hosiery and mems furnishings.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
NOTABLE OFFERINGS At THE STORES
For Further Details Consult the Advertisements in 1odays
Tribune
Tribune.

LORD e. TAYLOR, Broadway and 9th
street, Fifth avenue and 18th street, direct
ottertion 20 m extraordinary sale or
Oriental rugs which will begin tomorrow
4 feature Of this sale Is the large assort-
mcnt o.! Kermdnshah carpets. OF which
there are over five hundred carpet sizes
from which TO select.
VANTINE'S. Broadway. between lSth
ard 18th streets. calls attention "a sale
OF dress silks and crepes: also announces
a special sale Of Oriental rugs.
]. ". GIDDING & co. Fifth avenue be-
tween 18th and i7th streets, beginning to-
morrow, viii have special displays In
women's apparel TO be sold at extraordi-
nary prices. The sale Will also include
millinery and furs.
GREENHUT-SIEGE COOPER COM
PANY, 9th avenue. between 18th and 18Th
streets. announces their formal opening OF
millinery. which Will be exhibited to-mor-
row. Tuesday and Wednesday Among the
sales for this week are housewares, alum
mum ware. china, cut glass and lamps.
A. JAECKEL * co. No. Sa Fifth ave-
nue., between 18th and 0th streets oner
special values In millinery, scarfs, stoles.
capes and muffs and necktcs.
ARNOLD. CONSTABLE & CO.. Broad
way and 18Th street have arranged for this
week sale of embroderies, wonens 5
coats and suits for juniors and misses.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
STRIKE ON TO FINISH
Tai|ors' Committee Refuse Arbl-
tration and Declare War.
EMPLOYERS SCORE UNION
Maintain That Committee Fought
All Attempts at Settlement,
and Advertise for Workers.

The negotiations between the committees
OF the Ladies' Tsilors and Dressmakers
Union and the Merchants Society Of La
dies Tailors and Dressmakers which be-
gan on Wednesday at the Hotel Victoria
and were continued yesterday were called
off at the end OF Yesterdays conference,
and the fight is now TO De 10 finish. Inc
employers say they made more conces-
sions than they ever expected TO make, nut
as the result OF the conference OF yester-
day. which began early In the afternoon
and lasted until Z p. m. II is evident that
II the strikers have among their leaders
any persons with n desire for fairness such
leaders cannot have any influence with the
people on strike. The committee OF the
union, they said, went back on some OF its
own propositions.
Arbitration has been offered over ana
over again 20 the representatives OF the
strikers before the strike and since IL TOOK
place The employers are now making
preparations to have their work done in the
mean time in a number of small shops ana
decided TO send the following advertisement
signed by eighty-six Of the largest employ
ers in their organization, TO the papers:
Ladies' tailors wanted. Coat and skirt
makers Union men not objected 10. Hlsn-
est wages and short hours. Extra pay TOT
overtime. Steady work and sanitary con-
ditions guaranteed
Al the conference OF the two committees
on Friday at the Victoria, II was SAID IL
looked as If an amicable settlement OF the
demands Of the strikers might be orougn'
about. It wes satd that II had been IN
tended at yesterdays conference 10 appoint
a mediator acceptable TO both sides ana
then adjourn TO meet and take up the points
In DISPUTE to-day. but the labor committees,
tho employers said. turned down all promo
sitions and at last marched out declaring
Il was now war TO fnish.'
Some Of the employers say they have
been threatened within the last two days
and one or two OF them who had tsilors
working closed down for fear Of violence.
They are preparing now TO open the SHOPS III
defiance Of the union. The strike originally
affected six thousand persons, ana four
thousand more went out later II was sald
that most Of the ten thousand were stu
ont only a number of the small firms, en-
Moving about seven hundred men and
women in all, having settled with their en-
ployes.
BY authority and direction Of the Mer-
chants Society Of Ladies Tailors ana
Dressmakers, Edwin Goodwin. one of the
EMPLOYERS. and Walter II. Bartholomew
secretary OF the society, gave out a state
ment last evening giving the history OF
the trouble.
They said that instead Of agreeing on
mediator a discussion arose, and the result
was that the employers agreed TO make
concessions on one or two OF the most
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
BANDITS KILL PAYMAS1ER
Fail to Get $3,400 When His
Father Returns Fire.
H0LD-UP NEAR PITTSBURGH
State Police Arrest Two on Sus-
pioion, Parent of Slain Man
identifying One.

pittsburgh, Sept. l6.-While driving 20
m. mines Of the Superior Coal Company
near here. to-day, with the semi-monthly
nav David Steen was shot and instantly
killed BY highwaymen. His father, VIII
lam ]. steen, who was in the buggy with
him. caught the body Of his son as 1t top
pled over The money, s3,4O0 was saved.
Later in the day Quadrata Orrighelh, an
Italian, was arrested, suspected of knowing
something Of the crime. 1t was with difii-
Guilty that troopers Of the state constaou-
larry prevented Mr Steen from throttling
him.
The shooting occurred almost within a
stones throw Of the Steen home, near
Woodville. Father and son were driving
along the road, when two men opened fre,
one with revolver and the other with a
Shotgun. The Steens were armed. Five
minutes after they left the Steen home
where the money, obtained at Bridgevil'e
bank earlier in the day. had been placed
in envelopes for the miners, they Gro sse1
the Pittsburgh, McKecsgort & Youehio'
gheny Railroad and were passing an aoan-
doned mine. when a man opened-lre with
a revolver. and another man came into view
from the other side. lifted a shotgun and
also fred. Both shots we're directed a
David Steen, who was driving and botf
took effect
One shot tore away the right hand, cut
ting the reins, and the other buried Itself
In his body near the heart. The reins
dropped and the frightened horse sprang
forward. The dying man toppled toward
his father, who encircled him with one
arm and drawing his revolver began shoot
ipg at the bandits.
They did not reply, and after standing
IN astonishment for a moment, turned and
ran swiftly toward the hills. The elder
Steen, after emptying his revolver caught
up the reins, and shouting for help, drove
furiously to the Superior mine. There he
gave the alarm and summoned doctor
but before the physician arrived his son
Was dead
: posse was quickly organized. From
their home, scarcely a hundred yards from
the place Of the shooting. Mrs. John Nichol
and her sons. George and Joseph, had wit
messed the crime and the fight Of the ban
dts. The boys were eager 10 follow. but
were restrained by their mother until the
posse came up.
Meantime the alarm had been given and
police in adjoining towns had been IN
larry. stationed in the district, took charge
~ 'hs r''0 Tate IN the afternoon they
captured two men answering the general
dCs,IIi,uOu sven by LII. seen and took
them 10 his home, near Bridgeville.
That's one, of them" he cried. as he
spTang toward the taller of the men and
planted a blow IN his face. Before he
could be prevented he attempted to throt-
tie the man, but the troopers interfered and
held him back. A crowd had gathered, and
the state officers were compelled 10 draw
fn hpr "
thev hurried the suspected man to the Car
negie taii
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
CROWDS SEE STEEPlEJACK
Merrill and a Helper Paint the
Tribune Weather Vane.

Robert Merrill. a we'll known steepleJacK'
and his assistant, William Kent, were Al
work. Yesterday afternoon on top Oh the
Tribune Building tower repairing anu
naintine the weather vane and ooliVloos Oh
the passing thousands below VINO were
craning their necks to catch a glimpse OIL
them.
Merrill Is perhaps the oldest steepio
climber IN the business, having been en-
Gagged in II for more than thirty-eight years
Al times he has been a parachute jumper
and once ne entered the employ OF the Eng
lisb government as q deep sea diver
Resides having erected or repaired near'y
au the faGpoles on New Iorks highest
buildings, Merrill has done consideiaD'e
work IN Europe He has rlade repairs
twicc on ;he Eifel Tower, In Psrls; ,in,, anu
wa once engaged three years IN Milan
working on the cathedral ,,,, t
Merrill has had many thrlinng eApeti
ences in his work, but they never nave
affected his nerve ~ =, ..-,ous
accidents Once he fell from the ROOF Oh 4
chicago factory six stories 10 the srounu.
Snfore striIkInE the pavement he tore
through an awning, which broke ths loICe
cf his fall. ..,,,.. o.,,oaa
Al another time he narrowly escaped
death al the hands OF an assistant VINO
y.ent insane while they were WORKING 70
rsthsr on q steeple in Cincinnati. ms
worst fall. he said, was from a six-ioo'
fence
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
ISSUES WARRANT FOR CIRCUIT
Court Would Compel Him to
Testify in Union Bank Case.

Justice Putnam, of the Supreme Court,
Brooklyn, issued warrant yesterday for
the arrest OF Edward NJ. Grout. in order to
compel his attendance as a witness before
the investigators Of the Union Bank. I'm
medately afterward he signed a stay. per-
mittlng Mr.. Grout time to appeal from his
decisions OF Friday, denying the eX-Control-
ler's Thetion for q reargument Of the At
torney Generals motion for a warrant.
The application for the warrant was grant
ed week ago yesterday. but in such a
manner that Mr.. Grout could not appeal
from the decision.
The motion for reargument was merely
made TO raise technical points on which
the Appellate Division could review the
proceedings and pass upon the legal right
OF the Banking Superintendent to issue
subpnnas TO compel witnesses to appear
before the Investigators of the department
II Assemblyman Louis Goldstein, the
special investigator, has his way, Mr.
Grout will not stop the investigation Of the
banks affairs by long legal controversy
He announced yesterday that he was about
10 carry out a plan which would obviatt
he necessity OF passing on the rights OF
the Banking Superintendent, namely, TO Sc
Dix. compelling Mr.. Grout to appear, ire
spective Of the Banking superintendent
powers.
Mr.. Goldstein said yesterday that he
would go TO Albany on Tuesday, and would
then request the Governor 10 issue the
subpoena. The Governor, he said. had
promised him such subpoena If the ne
ce.sity for it arose and he was going 70
ask him to keep his word. While such a
subpoena can only be served in this state,
persons who have been served can be
svtradited from other states TO which they
nave fed Mr.. Goldstein said that he did
not think that Mr.. Grout would seek TO
avoid service.
The delay which would be caused by
awaiting the decision OF the higher courts
on the powers of the Banking Supern-
tendent would be almost fatal in IFS re-
suits on the investigation, Mr.. Goldstein
explained and il was for that reason ne
had decided to ask the Governor for the
slibDCenA at once.
New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
Calbraith Rodgers and hls mechanician!
WOMEN FLY AT BRIGHTON
Beatty Takes Brooklyn School.
girl Up as a Passenger.

There was q crowd Of only moderate size
at the aviation meet yesterday afternoon
ar the Brighton Beach racetrack, ths
threatening weather OF the early afternoon
keeping many away. The flying began at
l2:S0 when Thomas Sopwith, the young
English aviator. arrived from the Nassau
Boulevard in his Bleriot monoplane. He
covered the twenty-five miles in II min
utes Shortly sfterward Claude Grahane-
White and George W Beatty also arrived,
and in the latter part Of the afternoon Or.
Henry Walden few In his own American
monoplane.
Despite some trouble with his gssolene,
DR.. Walden convinced the crowd that his
machine was eminently practical. He cir
cled the track several times, Tying at
height Of between thirty and forty feet
A seventeen-year- Brooklyn schoolgirl
was one Of the passengers taken up by
Mr. Beatty. Miss Euphemia Woolough, oil
No. 255 Covert avenue. She had gone TO
the meet with no intention Of 'hying, but
after talking moment with Mr. Beatty
she suddenly decided TO try 1t. She was
in the air nearly fifteen minutes, and dur
ing that time the big Wright biplane went
through most hair raising evolutions.
The greatest altitude of the afternoon
was obtained by Mr.. Sopwith, who went up
one thousand feet The young Englshman
then few back to the Nassau Boulevard,
carrying Miss Kitty Mccarthy as pas
senger Mr.. Beatty took several passen-
gers with him, among them being Mrs
Bud" Mars and Mrs. Eugene Ely both
young women going up at the same time.
The most daring flying OF the afternoon
was by Claude Grahame- White, in a era
hame-White baby biplane that he used Tor
the first time in America. Several Oh MS
turns were most spectacular