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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
PROTECT THE YOUNG CHICKS
Loss Through Oepredations by Crows,
Hawks, Cats and Other Enemies
May Be Avoided.

A covered coop or yard is advisable
on most farms for raising young
chicks. The loss through depreda-
lions by crows. hawks. cats and other
enemies is very large, and most OF
this can be avoided by raising the
chicks in well protected coops or
yards, says Farm and Home.
A yard that will give sufficient pro-
lection should be inclOsed on sides
and top. The first three feet of net
ting should be of one-inch mesh, the
balance of two-inch Either this net
ting or board should be buried sew
eral inches in the ground, so that
skunks cannot dig under. In a yard
20x40 200 chicks may be raised unit
large enough to take care OF them
selves.
Where breeders and individual
houses are used a small covered yarc
should be attached to each house anc
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Baked Bluefish.

Select a blueflsh weighing six
pounds. have it split. cleaned and the
head left on, rinse thoroughly SO that
no scales or blood remain upon 1t.
dust 1t lightly with pepper and salt.
Make a savory dressing with plenty Of
butter and have 1t highly seasoned;
stuff the body and the head as we'll.
and tie with kitchen tape, do not sew
1t as it makes it difficult to serve and
1t is also apt to burst. Lay thin slices
of bacon on the top and haste with a
wineglass of white wine and take
some Of the melted butter. Garnish
with cold boiled egg rings and fried
parsley. serve with butter and parsley
sauce. Remember to grease the rack
we'll before laying the fish on 1t to
bake, SO that 1t does not stick.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Otherwise Normal.

Pardon me-" he said, bending for
ward and speaking to the young wom-
an in the seat facing him. Pardon
me If seem to be staring at you in
an impolite manner. My physicians
tell me I have an affection of the
sclerotic nerve that may give others
the impression that I am looking at
them"
The train rolled on. He continued
to gaze steadfastly at her. Sometimes
his eyelid would droop knowingly
Sometimes a flicker Of a smile crept
about his lips. At last she asked:
us it your sclerotic nerve that Is
affected"
Yes" he answered readily. "only
the sclerotic."
"Ah." she said. with a sigh of re
lief. Il had formed tho impression
that the rest of your nerve was I'm
affected"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
While They
7 alked

HE was the smartest dog you ever
saw!" said the host from the head Of
the table. enthusiastically. There
he'd sit Just as contemptuous as a
human being II you threw down eight
rings, or nine--but the Nc cute all ten
Of those rubber rings were down he'd
bark and gather them up one by one
and bring them back to you! Why.
he could count, that dog could, just
as well as you'll There wasn't any
fooling him. either! Why. one time"
my French poodle w. just as
bright" interrupted the woman on his
right. Really, Toto was abnormal!
He wasn't just bundle Of fluff with
no brains. as most people judged from
his looks. He knew every single word
you said to him and he knew how to
get his own way. Why, I've known
that dog when there was a rOomful Of
company and nobody was paying any
particular attention to him to select a
prominent place and sit up on his hind
legs, looking about proudly when peo-
pie exclaimed over how clever he was.
But that wasn't what l started to
tell you. Toto was frightfully stub
born and always wanted his own way.
Once he sat down In front of the
swing door into the kitchen and
barked to be let out there, but fol
some reason | didn't want him to go
so said: NO He kept right on
whining and teasing and dropped his
ears and his tail and looked the pic
ture of deserted despair, but didn't
give in and finally he sat down ald
put his head on one side and thought
Then, like flash he got up, raced VI
the front stairs, through the SECOND
floor and down the back stairs into
the kitchen, where he wanted to go
You needn't tell me that dog didn'
figure that all out"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
DAINTIEs FOR PARTY
CONNECTIONS SURE TO PLEASE
THE CHILDREN.
May Be Known as Washington Cakes
or by Any Other Name, but Will
Always Be Found Most
Delicious.

Possess yourself of forcing tube
such as is used for icing, various harm
less colorings, and plenty Of confec
toners sugar. and you can evolve all
sorts of patriotic designs at little
cost
Make simple cup cake batter, bake
in shallow tins about two inches deep,
when cold cut the cake in oblong
pieces. Ice some of these with red
icing, others in white, and with tube
make a curled fancy border of white
on red, and vice versa
Ice in one corner crossed flags, using
red and blue icing. Some of the cakes
can have three caniied cherries, dot
ting the top with leaves and stems
made of angelica: below can be tree
trunk iced in chocolate, with red ice
Ratchet in it.
For big cake, bake in a deep star
shaped pan. ice with white icing, dec
crate with scrolls and fancy border,
and in each point put cluster Of can
died cherries with angelica foliage.
Serve on a round platter, covered with
red, white and blue frills, or surround
with wreath of artificial cherry
leaves and fruit.
For child's party make a number Of
small cakes, but in blocks as described
above. Ice in red, white and blue, In
even divisions. Heap these on round
platter, log cabin fashion, to resemble
a fort. Through some of the openings
stick toy cannon and tin soldiers on
top of the fort for sentinels, and in the
center have small silk flag.
For another coloring ice the cakes
In the colonial buff and blue, have the
soldiers in colonial uniforms, while sew
eral of the flags used in the early days
of the Revolutionary war can be stuck
in standard III the center.
An effective border for a round, big
cake iced in white can be small flags
crossed on sides and top. If one fears
to eat cake SO decorated, the icing
can be put on a round box that slips
over the real cake.
Have the sheldshaped cutter made
by a timer. Mix simple sugar bis
cult dough, roll rather thin and cut into
different sized shields. From a die
tionary study the coloring of various
state and national shields and copy
them closely in colored icing.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
POLLUTION CAUSE OF DISEASE
Too Many Fowls Kept on One Enclo-
sure for Year Without Change of
Ground-Should Be Divided.

Nearly every poultry raiser keeps
too many fowls in a limited area of
ground. 1t is a common circumstance
to hear of some person having good
success with poultry for a few years,
when all at once things begin to go
wrong and the person loses faith in
the industry. Chickens die by the
dozens, and those that remain alive
fail to yield a profit. The cause of
all the trouble seems to be hidden, yet
it is not far to find, right in the
ground of the poultry yard
| Fifty or hundred or more chicks
or any other domestic animals. kept
in one enclosure for a year without
change, will pollute their surround
ings. This Is true even with healthy
fowls, and where disease breaks out
1t Is much more true. The pollution
extends, as a rule, not only to the
grounds, but to the poultry house as
we'll. 1t Is often impossible or diff
ficult to purify the house. The result
is that poison or disease become deep
seated in the surroundings and strin-
gent methods must be resorted to In
order to eradicate them.
1t Is easy, or at least possible, to
clean and purify almost any poultry
house and make it fit for continued
habitation of fowls without hav.
ing to change them to other
quarters. 1t is not SO easy with
yards and grounds. The poison Is sc
deeply absorbed by them that 1t re
quires months to remove 1t.
The immediate grounds around q
poultry house receive the most pollu
ton. The grounds further away re
ceive less. For this reason, the
grounds Immediately adjacent to the
poultry house should be divided by
fence into at least two parts and eact
part cultivated in some crop every
alternate year, with all poultry KEEP
from it during the season of cultiva
ton. This will allow much of dis
ease and other pests to die out TO
want of anything to feed on. and mucl
of pollution and poison will be con
sumed through physical and chemica
action in the soil. II the ground 1
j.. plowed deeply some of them will b.
buried so deeply that they will neve
come to light. Cultivation. aeratio
and the growth of plants in the sol
: all have a general tendency to sol
publication from the point of view G
! animal sanitation.
Poultry grounds on the averag
farm where there is an abundance G
: free range can be kept comparativel
e fresh by always feeding the fowl
away from the poultry house. The
J. will feed and range in other places
:. no inducements are placed at or nea
i the house Then they will use tn
house only for roosting and layin
q purposes and the natural daily polll
!. ton will be carried far away.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Instruction in Cartoons.

have found that one of the easiest
and most interesting ways of teaching
my growing boys current events is by
having them make scrapbook of the
cartoons that appear in the daily pa
pers and magazines A. soon as the
papers have been read the cartoons
and pictures that bear on the leading
questions of the day are carefully cut
out and put in special place till the
end of the month. Then we look over
them together and save for the scrap
book only the best and cleverest
1t is really surprising what a de-
lightful little recreation this makes
for the evenings. 1t encourages a dis.
cussion of current history, in which
the father usually joins, and at the
same time promises a feeling of good
comradeship between parents and chill
Harper's Bazaar.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Morning Bread.

Pour one cup Of boiling water into
one cup Of milk; when cool stir in one
cake OF compressed yeast dissolved
into two tablespoonfuls of cold wa.
teri. one teaspoonful of salt. Add
flour to make a soft dough; turn on
kneading board and knead 20 minutes,
or until 1t will not cling to board Set
oughly, put in pans. and let rise one
hour Bake forty-flve minutes. This
will make three medium sized loaves.
The bread is splendid and far less
trouble than to bother with bread at
night.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Individual Coop and Covered Yard.

the same device should be adopted
for individual coops. Make the frame
work of Turing strips 1x2 inches and
6 to feet long.
Cover the sides with inch mesh net
ting IS inches high. Put ridge pole
in the center, SO that you can set
board shutters against them. These
may be made of half-inch boards and
will give needed shade, as we'll as
protection from storms.
This yard should be permanently
attached to the coops. After the
chicks are old enough to care for
themselves. let them out during the
day by raising up one end and after
they go in at night they are easily
shut up. 1t is only ten seconds work
to move the coop daily two feet onto
fresh grass.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Salt Eaters.

Idiosyncrasy often takes the form
of a special craving for. instead OF
an objection to- certain foods. Many
people possess an extraordinary
relish for common salt, and will eat
It by the teaspoonful when oppor-
tunity admits. This sometimes leads
to obesity and dropsy. but it has also
the peculiar effect of increasing the
weight. One young lady who devoured
immense quantities of salt on every
possible occasion. and emptied all the
salt.cellars on the table at each meal,
would increase as much as 1O-lb in
weight in twenty-four hours. and was
frequently unable to wear a drea
which was quite loose for her on the
previous day.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
SaqacIous Sister.

Smith Tin the background Your
sister always shows good taste in her
hats.
Brown (also in the backgrounds
Yes, she makes father select them
They are on a shopping trip now
Your father must have good judg.
ment, then"
Il don't know. You see, sis always
chooses the hats he is to select from"
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Her Sacrifice.

Il have given up eating bananas
during Lent" said Miss Soulful.
Excellent" murmured the pastor.
"You are to be commended for such
sacrifice to your conscience"
WELL" she said, as her conscience
put on a few extra twinges, ito be
honest about it. never did like ban
anas."
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27

One lady says: The best l ever
used. Another lady says: l tried the
sample, it beats all. l want two bot
ties. You try it. For sale at Bic
thans.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
BIETHAN'S.

Exercise for Fowls.
Rather than pamper your fowls
with too much rich food, see that they
get plenty of exercise in procuring
what they do eat.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-04-27
Knew Him Of Old.

Here Is an article in the paper"
observed Mrs. Fijjit. ION the Greatest
Robber in Modern Times"
"Ah," commented Mr.. Fijjit. "Is
the iceman making his spring an.
nouncement?"
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21

men. race track men and large horse owners generally to hIs way of look ing at the question of the horses rights. In the first place, although not a politician, AIr Hrrison believes in the full nose bag" and he urges all horse owners to give their ani- mals three square meals a day. With view of correcting the horror of rough and knOtty collar pads, he secured the agency for the Powers Manufacturing company of Santa Ana, California. whose collar pad will. he believes. make the heaviest load light, and the hardest days work a genuine peasure for the draught horse. In stead Of selling black snakes he offers the goods of the New England Whip company Co his patrons. and he states that the whips he sells have been giving satisfaction. But the feature of his line is his horse lingerie. Lux urious blankets cover the horses of the dealers who do business with Mir
 Arrison. said blankets being manufac- tUred by the Kalamazoo Blanket mills
 Not content with providing for the welfare of the horses he has con- tributed to the comfort Of the drivers by carrying a side line of wagon um- brellas, designed to intercept the rays of the hot sun and keep intellectual freight hustlers from attacks of brain fever. His is a noble mission, and he intends to keep on with the work until all the horses of the country are
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21
PERSONAL MENTION

The following arrivals registered yesterday at the Phoenix hotels:
 At the Hotel Ford-E. J. Aullerson, Tucson; C. A. Clark. Los Angeles; H Lemhardt, Los Angeles; Nine Sa- vile, New York; l.. G. Dieler, Los Angeles; w. w. Parkerson, St. Louis; William Berryesa, San Francisco; H. A. Steinberger, Denver; C. H. Catch el. Los Angeles; w. c. Wing, New York; c. s. Cassie and wife, Spo- kane, Wash; Mrs. W. Johnson; Joe Bass; D. c. Schweizer, San Fran cisco; $. G. Rosenthal. Cincinnati; Ebert Curry; Louis Degan.
 At the Adams Annex-Miss Eleanor Robson. New York; Jack Story, New York; Paul Decker, New York; Ar thur Deeming. Chester Pa: William Pontame, New York; John Bailey Sidney, Neb.; Leroy Richmond, Sa- lima, Kas.; H. E. Thompson, Denver: George Greenburg. Dallas, Tex; John Doe. Marshall, Tenn; Sam Sneed Mexico City; William Friedlander, Kansas City; H. N. Cooley, Milwau- kee, Wis; Mir. and Mrs. J. c. Hotze -N'N bAhH " dilCi IDOltNs CltNttdIlu Ohio; Willard Light, Los Angeles.
 At the Stag-E. B. Flack, Los An geles; w. B. Whelan. Los Angeles; E. M. Stale, Los Angeles; Peter Loullard Kent, Tuxedo Park, N Y; A. Nathan. Rochester, N. Y; Edward Guinsbury, N. Y; H. Greenwood, Los Angeles; John M. Rose, Bisbee.
 At the Commercial-J. l. McMahOn. New York; J. w. Lines, San Fran cisco Mrs. C. F. Bremare. Hayden, AriZ.; J. E. O'COnner. Florence: S NJ. Bailey, Ray; F.. Carvillo. Winkel- man; Thomas Wilson, Manhattan. Nev.; J. w. Smith, Tombstone, Ariz.; Mrs. l.. J. Deering, Depver; w. H. Burbage, Winslow; F. w Wilson. Winslow; H. C. Lockett. Flagstaff. Matt McMurphy; K. l.. Mumford.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21

THE LATEST STYLES OF HAIR GOODS FOR SALE. COMBINGS MADE INTO PUFFS, CURLS AND SWITCHES. FOR 4 HAIR DRESS, SHAMPOO OR MASSAGE, SEE SHIRLEY & SHlRLEYS TOILET PARlOR, 39 E. ADAMS. PHONE RED 3072. OVERLAND PHONE 2622
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21
HEARD IN TIE LOBBIES

AIr T S. Arrison has a taste for horses. and he has adopted the busi- ness of selling horse paraphernalia as much for the personaI satisfaction he gets in handling the line as for the money in it. once upon a time there was considerable agitation made by the humane societies looking toward the invention or a horse col lar that would allow horse to pull full load without getting sore should CTS. There was also a pamphlet cir culated among horse owners asking them to blanket their animals after a hard run or heavy days work
 About the same time black snake whips went out of fashion per force. because it was not considered the correct thing to cut horse to pieces merely because his owner had loaded more on the wagon than the willing brute could pull Much affected by the appeals of the humane society and by the stronger appeals of the horses own wretchedness, Ar. Arris0n was called on a mission and for several years he has been converting livery
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21
06202 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior U. S. Land Office at Phoenix. Arizona.
 April 10. 1911. Notice is hereby given that Harry c. Adams, of Hayden, Asiz, assignee of Percy B. Lowell, who, on June 3. 1909, made desert land entry. No. O62O2. for S1s, section 27, township 4 N. range l E., G. & s. R. meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final proof, to establish claim to the land above described. before register and receiver, Y. $. land office, at Phoenix, Ariz, on the 11th day of May, 1911.
 Claimant names as witnesses: La fayette Myers, of Glendale, Ariz. i; James c. DObbins. of Phoenix, AriZ {; William P. McCOrd, of Glendale, Ariz. i: David r. Hayes, of Glendale, Ariz.
 FRANK H. PARKER,
 Register.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21
HE SHOWED SIGNS
 OF MILD INSANITY
An Ol Colored Man With a Hidden
 Fortune.

An old colored man was picked up on the street yesterday, suspected of insanity. The longer he remained un- der inspection, the more that suspicion was confirmed until at last it riped into certainly. It was rather strength ened by his statement that though he had no money where he could put his hands on it, if he could only get to Los Angeles he would have access to s370O0,000 which he had buried there about six years ago.
 This money. he said. was in the shane Of note which he had procured from a band of robbers near Bozeman. He was, he says. guarding some sheen when mountain lion made a sudden descent upon the flock and seizing one of the sheep ran into a cave The old fellow followed and saw an amazing sight. A gang of men ran out leaving this note, which, it was learned, had been stolen from the government. which afterward offered a reward of S4OO,OOO,OO0 for it. It is the reward that the old man Is after rather than the paltry face of the note
 After the relation Of this story. Leon Jacobs, who was affected by the men, ton of these substantial sums, ques- toned the old man further and learned that he had been engaged in sheep herding near Holbrook. and had just arrived in town from the north. Thus a bond of sympthay was established. Mir. Jacobs has been in the sheep busi- ness himself though not as a herder. Yet his heart goes out to any man who has ever faced the disaster attendant upon the sheep industry
 Accordingly he started a subscrip- tion for a fund to defray the expenses of the old man to Los Angeles to re- cover that note. The necessary sum was quickly raised.
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21

lished and made known by d man well qualified to speak with authority
 on the subject For more than two
 weeks q. A. Demo, special agent from
 the Denver office of the service, with
 Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mex
 leo and Arizona as his territory. has
 been inspecting the territory with F.
 R. Crandall. deputy collector of inter
 nal revenue for the territory of Ari-
 zona. MT Crandall stays here all of
 the time and Mir. Demo only part of
 the time. but Demo stays long enough
 on each visit to check up Crandall
 and Crandall sees enough of Demo
 to learn all the ins and outs of the
 business, for it goes without saving
 that Demo is an older man in the de-
 partment than his deputy They in- spect oleomargerine factories, brew cries and industries of all kinds and descriptions, and when MT. Demo says everything is Q. K. in Arizona-as far as he can learn" it means one of two things: either that the revenue laws are being generally observed throughout the territory, or (woeful possibility that they are being evaded m manner which defies detection. The latter is unlikely for two excel lent reasons. In the first place. a number have defied Demos detection but said defiance was eaten by the defiee. Only last month he investi- gated and uncovered a number of blind pigs at Russell, to which fact let all st'ict prohibitionists take mo- 1ce. Secondly, the Arizona people are not as bad as that. They are loyal and law abiding. and they appreciate the responsibility of citizenship. The | special agent and the deputy leave in l i day or two, after spending a week ! 1t the Stag
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21

provided with his merchandise and until he himself has-accumulated a million. Mir Arrison stops at the Hotel Ford, where he talks horse con tinually.
 At the AdemS Annex. A. Barr, who has been hoisting tons and thous- ands of tons of ore from the mines of the Ray Consolidated. He is a hoist ing engineer, who loves the feel of his levers, and although he has not made any such statement he is recog- nized as one Of the most careful men in the business. Men never come into Bars engine house threatening to work him over for putting them off at the wrong level or starting the hoist before the signal comes from below. He takes as much care of his wire cable as some other persons do of the silver chord, and while the latter breaks, his cable wraps mer rily around the big drums, year in and year out, without snarling, snag ging or snapping For two years he has been connected with the operating department of the Ray Consolidated. and he returns this morning to start again and continue his long record.
 
 As far as I can learn, everything is O. K. in Arizona" This statement was made from the standpoint of special agent of the United States revenue service. and was uttered, pub
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21
A Reliable Medicine-kOT 4
 NARCOTIC.

Mrs. F. Marti, St. Joe Mich, says Our little boy contracted a severe bronchial trouble and as the doctors medicine did not cure him. I gave him FoIey's Honey Ind Tar Compound in Which have great faith. It cured the cough as well as the choking and gag glng spells, and he got well in a short time. Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound has many times saved us much trouble and we are never without 1t in the house" Elvey & Hulett, quality druggists
Arizona republican., 1911-04-21
O834o NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior. T.. :. Land Office at Phoenix, Arizona.
 April fl, 1911 Notice is hereby given that Henry J. Riggs. of Phoenix, Arizona. who, or February ,, 1910. made homestead entry, No. OS349. for N1a NW14 section 30, SlA SWA, section 19. township N4 range 3 F., G. & $. R. meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final communication proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before register and receiver, T.. $. land office, at Phoenix. Arizona, on the 23rd day of May, 1911.
 Claimant names as witnesses: Arthur F. Jones, Phillip Bottler, John Schla- los, Tom Thomas, all of Phoenix, Ariz.
 FRANK H. PARKER,
 Register.