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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22


which mean better schoolhouses than
usual.
The ordinary schoolhouse has cost
from $500 to $500. 1t was simply a
big box, of straight lines, with -four
windows on each side. a door at n
the new buildings cost from $1,000 to
$1,000, and they are thoroughly mod.
ern in lighting, with furnace heat.
some even with steam heat, and with
genuine slate blackboards. Every
convenience known to the city
schools is being installed In the coun.
try schools also.
There are many boys and girls now
in the high schools and colleges OF the
state who got their common school
education in one Of these old-fash.
toned box sc~hoolhouses and there are
a few who went to school in an old
sod schoolhouse. There are a few Of
these old sod schoolhouses still stand.
ing but not a single one is in use In
Kansas now. All have been replaced
by the modern structures.
Since the first OF the year more
than 800 school districts have issued
bonds for sc~hoolhouses. In every in.
stance the bonds were issued for new
buildings. The old ones were used
last winter for the last time and
when the children started to school
this fall they went to a new build.
ing with every comfort that Is posi-.
BILE to give them. Some districts do
not have to issue bonds for the new
structures.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Avlators Having Trouble.

New York.-C. P. Rodgers and ].
J.. Ward, the aviators who are fly
ing to the Pacific coast from New
York to San Francisco for the Hearst
prize of $500 900 are companions in
misfortune. Rodgers flyer is a
wreck at Middleton, where he
landed Monday, after an initial
fight of about eighty miles from the
Sheepsheada Bay a C track, and
Ward is at Corning, about $50 miles
from New York, with the engine OF
his machine so badly burned that IL
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
EARS LIKE BANANAS ON CORN
Freak CROP Of Maize Grows In the Gar
den Of an Arkansas
Farmer.

Hermitage, Ark.-W. @. Pierson OF
this place had two short rows of corr
In his garden that developed more ears
to the stalk than ever heard Of before
In this country.
The corn was planted February Is,
and at first the usual number OF ears
developed. Then came an extra sup.
ply, until some of the stalks looked
like banana trees. The small ears were
pulled of when partly developed and
fed to the stock. AS fast as the stalks
were trimmed OF their crop of small
ears another lot came on. Some OF
the small ears grew In clusters like
bananas.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
French Army Ready for Campaign.

Paris.-A foreign military authority
of high standing and a witness of the
French army aneuv declares that
the French army is in complete read
mess for a midwinter campaign. This
opinion, he says, is sustained by his
observation during the He
declares the French army is in better
fighting trim than the German army.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
KILLED BY RACING AUTO.
Nine Meet Death and Fourteen Are
Injured When Machine Driven by
OIdfieId Leaves Track.

Syracuse, N. Y.-Nine persons were
killed and fourteen injured, some of
them seriously, as the result of an ac-
cident during the closing miles of a
fifty-mile automobile race at the state
fair track Saturday afternoon, when
a Knox racing car, driven by Lee Old
field, leaped from the track, crashed
through the fence surrounding 1t and
plunged into the throngs that lined
the other side of the speedway.
Six of the nine people were killed
outright and three others were so
badly injured hat they died on the
way to the hospital.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22

growing far below with mother earth
to nourish them.
The growth Of the trees on the roof,
has loosened the slate as the roots ex-
tended along the rafters. 1t is feared
that there will be considerable dam.
age to the building in the course of
time. Some OF the authorities believe
that the trees should be removed and
the roof repaired. Others oppose the
Idea on the ground that the trees
growing from the court house dome,
furnish the most effective advertise
ment that the town possesses and at.
tracts many tourists.
1t is regarded as extraordinary that
the trees should thrive with apparent
ly but a trifie of earth.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
War on SOM sIrds

Montclair, N. This town has de
clared official war on birds OF all
kinds, and a park employee with .
shotgun has been commissioned to 20
out every night among the shade trees
which line the residence streets and
kill as many Of the feathered SONG
sters as possible.
His bag" the other night totaled
more than 500 birds. including Eng.
lish staritngs, robins, blackbirds and
sparrows.
Under a long-continued system OF
protection, the birds have increased
in numbers until residents lodged com
plants that their noise was making
sleep impossible.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
COUNTRY SCHOOL OF TODAY
Modern Type Building In Kan
sas This Year.

Topeka. Kan.-Kansas has finally
decided that the old-fashioned. unsan-
itary. iltlighted and poorly-appointed
schoolhouse does not produce the
best results. and more new and thor
oughly modern schoolhouses are be-
ing built in the country school dis
tricts this year than ever before.
More school districts have issued
bonds for new buildings this year
than we're ever offered to the state
school fund commission before. and
the bonds. are for laFger amounts.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
natnln eouosa man. Eu.

San Francisco.-Tke turn of a WON
ms head may cos' Daniel Mack his
eyesight Mack attempted to make his
way through a dense crowd. A WON
an beside him turned her head TIL
long steel pin projecting from her hal
passed through Mack's right eyelid
through his nose and into bis left eye
you brute. how dare you touch mJ
hiatt" the woman cried as she felt thu
.pg on her headgear.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
TAFT IseuEs CHALLENGE.
Asks Opponents to Help Him In an
Extension of Civil Service.

Extension Of Civil Service.
Decentralization Taft on Mon
day plunged into the political phase
of his long trip through the west
and delivered n of the set
speeches which may have a deter
mining effect upon his future.
MI. Taft chose the trusts" for his
first speech and outlined his position
regarding this issue. In a second
speech he answered the charge that
he has used patronage to further his
own ends and challenged the men
who had made the charge to come for
ward and join him in an extension
of the civil service practically to all
appointiye offices under the govern
ment. Mr.. Taft's free use of the
words 81 challenge" gave a cam
paign ring to his utterances which
seemed Il delight his hearers.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
pespondent wife suicides.

Salt Lake City.-Disheartened over
continued failure to secure her hus-
bands promise to abstain from strong
drink. Mrs. Alice Lee ended her life
Sunday afternoon by shooting herself
in the right temple.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
More Privileges for Settlers.

Boise, Idaho.-All southern Idaho is
bubbling over with enthusiasm as a
result of the given by Sec
rotary of the Interior Walter L. Fish
er that he proposes to construe the
reclamation laws anh the rules of his
department in favor of the settler,
that where 1t is found that the laws
work hardship on the settler he will
do all in his power to have the laws
modified.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Soldiers Boycott Cheyenne.

Denver, Colo.-Because the Chey-
enne (Wyo.) Street Railway company
sees fit to charge a 1O-cent fare from
Cheyenne to Fort d. A. Russell, three
miles distant, 700 soldiers from that
military post on Saturday chartered
a special train. and came to Denver to
do their monthly shopping.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Gave Dying Woman chIoroform.

Kissimee, Pave helped our
friend out of this life at her own re-
quest. She was in the last stages
Of tuberculosis, she was suffering,
and at best had only a few days
more to live" This was the final
statement given put here Monday by
Elizabeth Sears and E. B. Gillespie,
members of the Shaker colony who
administered chloroform to dying
Sadie Marchant recently.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22

clasped about him. He did not utter
a word after the first attack.
Congressman Madison had not been
in good health for a year. He was a
member of the labor committee of
the house. and was also a member of
the special committee which investi-
gated Secretary Ballinger of the inter-
ior department. Congressman Madi-
son was arranging to accompany Pres
ident Taft on his Kansas tour next
week
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
=kettenhs.h Acquitted.

Boise, Idaho.-Frank Kettenbach.
former president of the Lewiston Ma
tional bank, tried in the federal court
here on the charge of classifying re-
ports to the comptroller, was Friday
acquitted on all five counts.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Burned Baby Sister to Death.

Charlotte, N. C.-The burning of the
2-year-old child of e. G. Friday. a far
mer of Irodell, by her brother, A
years old, came to light Monday. The
older child deliberately Emitted the
clothing OF his baby sister.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Three Killed In Riot.

Monterey, Mex.--Threa men were
killed and eighteen wounded in Men
terey Saturday, during tae "grite"
celebration, which de~generated into a
riot. The riot began with the ston.
ing of windows, and when the police
attempted to dispense the crowd they
were fired on.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Mariners subsIsted on seaIs.

Punta Arenas, Chile.-The captain
and fifteen of the crew of the Ger
man bark Thekla, which was wreck
ed last July on the rocks off State.
Island, near Terra del Fnego, arrived
here Sunday on board a transport.
They had spent nearly two months
o a desert island ard their sole
means of subsistence were seals.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
TREES GROWING ON A W
Lofty Dome Of indiana Court House
s~urmounted by Trees Which
Birds Planted.

Greensburg, Ind.-Trees are grow.
ing on the tower of the court house,
ITS feet above the ground. Many years
ago. seeds dropped by birds and which
fell into crevices of the slate roof OF
the lofty dome of the tower. germin.
ated. and each year, the young trees
become larger. OF the present group.
the principal rec is about twelve feet
In height and Is as full Of leaves. and
as healthy. apparently as its fellows
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
disastrous Blaze at ooldfieId.

Goldfeld, Nev.-Fire originating in
a tailor shop burned a half dozen
downtown buildings here Sunday and
threatened the entire business sec
ton. Among the buildings Quilted
was the Turf saloon, an old-time head
quarters of mining stock promoters.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Haunted and Unhealthy.

Chickasha, Okla.-"These parts are
haunted and are generally unhealthy
for negroes" This notice, signed
citizens" found posted in a negro
farming community north of here
Saturday, has so alarmed the negroes
than many of them are leaving the
community.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
CONGRESSMAN MADISON DEAD.
Kansas Representative Succumbs 70
Attack of Heart Disease.

Dodge City, Kan.-Edmond H. Mad
ison, representative from the Seventh
Kansas district in congress, died at
the breakfast table at his home here
Monday. Mr.. Madison was attacked
while eating breakfast with his wife.
His wife FASTENED to aid him, but he
died almost instantly, with her arms
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Back TO Prison.

Redwood City, Cal.-Twenty years.
Imprisonment in a state penitentiary
the sentence imposed upon James
C. Creelish, a former convict, who on
July q shot and seriously wounded
Mrs. Leon Guggenheim.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Car PLUNGED over PrecIpice.

Kansas City, Mo.-Two persons
were killed and third probably fatal
ly injured when a street car leaped
from the tracks and plunged over a
1O0-foot hill at Fifth and Bluff streets
here Monday night.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
ReattIe l. Rlchmond JaIl.

Richmond. Va.-Henry Clay Peat
tie, Jr., the convicted wife murdered,
was brought to this city Sunday in
an automobile by a deputy sheriff and
placed in the Richmond city jail,
where presumably he will remain un-
til he Is removed to the penitentiary
for execution.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Imprisoned Miners Rescued.

LeadvilIe Colo.-Fred Caski, An
drew Perle and Nat Jacobson, the
miners who were imprisoned in the
Morning Star mine for sixty hours,
as the result of a cave-in, were res
cued Monday. Their rescue was eff
fected through a hole made in the
obstruction in the shaft.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Two Killed In Duel.

Upton, Wyo.-As the result of a
rife and shotgun duel last Saturday
two miles from Thornton, Wyo., NJ.
W,hiteman is dead and Edward Kos
ter is dying. Both men were
ranchers and they became involved
in a quarrel over fence lines.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
plsreaarded Warning.

Prescott, Ariz.-While leaning out
from the platform of a coach on an
eastbound passenger train, Walter
Patten, son of e. l.. Patten of Pres
colt, was struck by a bridge timber
and instantly killed neal Hot
Springs Junction.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
#Riotine In Vienna.

vienna.-Traceable to the high
price of the necessaries of life, riots
broke out Sunday aud many persons
were killed or wounded. Troops fred
On the mob, which had erected bar.
ricades in the street. There was u
fierce exchange of bullets and the SOL
diers were relted with all sorts of
missiles
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Serious Situation In Spain.

Madrid.-The strike situation In
Bilbao and throughout the province
of Blscay grows more alarming with
each days developments, despite the
vigorous measures resorted to by the
government.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
AGED Woman browns Herself.

Thermalito, Cal.-Leaving her bed
in the Odd Fellows home early Thurs
day. Mrs. G. Hahn, 80 years OF age,
Of San Francisco, went to a fish pond
on The grounds, lay down in two feet
of water and was drowned.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Arizona Millionaire suicides.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Martin Costello,
sixty-fve, of Tombstone. Ariz.. prom
inent for more than a quarter of q
century in development work in the
southwest and reputed to be a multi
millionaire, shot himself Saturday.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Havoc Wrought by storm.

Chicago. - Two persons were
killed, twenty others injured and a
property damage of 100000 resulted
early Monday from a storm which
was a remarkable combination of
lightning, thunder, wind, rain and
hoiI
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
=cavaIrv OFFICER MISSING.

st. Paal, Minn.-Lieutenant Gibbs
Lykes, Ninth United States cavalry
of Fort Russell, Wyo., here on leave
of absence, Is missing and friends
fear he has either met with loul play
or is being held a prisoner.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Another Auto Victim Dies.

Syracuse, N. Y.-Harry Bradley of
Franklin. N. Y, one of those injured
by Lee Oldfeld's car when II crashed
through the fence at the state fair,
died Sunday. His death brings the
list of dead up to ten.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Aviator Falls Into ocean.

Santa Curz, cal.-Harry Edwards, a
San Francisco aviator. barely escaped
drowning in the Pacific ocean Friday
night when his machine fell in the
water. Edwards was rescued with o
row boat.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Protest Against Food Prces.

Paris.-Rloting in protest against
! the high food prices was widespread
throughout France Sunday. In Para
the meetings of labor unions we're
guarded by strong forces o. y ;..ce aad
numerous aTres.a were maae.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Aqed veteran's Lone Walk.

saltwater, okla.-Waiking from
Pocatello, Ida, to Austin, Texas, to
see his three children before he dies,
Marcus Golf, 50 years old, arrived
here Friday. He is a veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
DR.. Wiley pleased.

Bluemont, va.-"It. is a complete
v~indication or me-" said DR.. Harvey
W. Wiley when informed Of the pres
ident's decision. The doctor is spend.
ing a vacation on his mountain farm.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
.EarIe,s Fourth Affinity.

New York.-With his fourth amin.
ity, the third of whom he made his
wife, Ferdinand Pinney Earle arrived
from Europe under a pseudonym on
Saturday and went to the Hotel Marie
ADtoinettq.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Self on Grave.

Reading. Pa.-Henry stebert, 81
years old, a German writer and ed
Itor. took his life by shooting Mon
day, while standing at the grave of
his first wife. He was married a
second time a year ago.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Killed at Crossing.

Milwaukee, Wis-Four persons
were instantly killed and two injured
when the buggy in which they were
riding was struck by an east-bouni
500 train at Richhelu, near this
city, Sunday.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Murdered Actress Jewelry Sold.

London.-The iewelry which be-
longed to Belle EImore, the American
actress, for whose murder her hus.
band, DR.. H. II Cripren was hanged,
YVES disposed Of in an auction room
r,A..--SA.. TITO lnA hrnatoht aQnn
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
MIn opnoae Nelson.

st. Paul, Minn.-Daniel w. Lawler,
former mayor of st. Paul, has filed
his affidavit with the secretary OF
state as a candidate for United sta os
senator to succeed Senator Knute
Nelson.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
charaed WIth Bank RobberY.

Ell Centre, CaI.-R. ". Parker, who
has lived at Brawiey during the past
Two years, was arrested here N oEday,
charged with having been implicated
in the robbery last January of a bank
In Willis. Tex.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Soldiers Patrol Streets of Vienna

Vienna.-Vienna is in the hands OF
son has been reinforced by several
regiments and all the palaces and
public buildings are guarded. Martial
law has been declared in the Ottakring
district
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Take Moving Pictures from AeropIan,

Neutrality-suspicious. of the most i'm.
portant experiments the army avia-
tors in training at College park, Mary
land, have successfully made. is the
taking of moving pictures from an
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-09-22
Eight Inches of Rain in Twelve HOUR

Fort Scott. Kan.-Eight inches of
rain fell hero in the twelve hours pre-
ceding 8 O'Clock Saturday morning.
Water ran through the streets three
feet deep in the north part of the
city.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-11-02

honorable means which would lessen
the chance of armed conflicts. Men
endure great physical hardships IN
camp and on the battlefield. In our
civil war the death roll in the Union
army alone reached the appalling ag-
gregate of. 1853, 900. But the suffering
and perils of the men in the fieid'
distressing as they are to contem-
plate are slight in comparison with
the woes and anguish of the women
who are left behind. The hope tha'
husband, brother, father. son may De
spared the tragic end which all
soldiers risk. when they respond 10
their country's call. buoys them up
in their privations and heart-breakine
loneliness. But theirs is the deepest
main. for the most poignant suffering
ia mental rather than physical. NO
pension compensates for the loss Oh
husband, son, or father. The glory
of death in battle does not feed the
orphaned children, nor does the pomp
and circumstance of war clothe them.
The voice of the women of America
should speak for peace
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-11-02
OUR SENSITIVE PLANET.
Constant Changes In the Snaps Of the
Earth's Crust.

Esrth's Crust.
One naturally thinks OF the earth's
crust as being exceedingly solid and
stable, except perhaps In volcanic re-
pions where earthquakes are OF fire.
ouent occurrence. AS matter of
fact. however, the shell of our planet
a extremely sensitive and most deli
catelv balanced, SO that under the in
Nuonces of causes that seem altoCeth-
or insignificant in comparison with the
gigantic bulk and weight OF the earth
q Yields and fuctuates In most
amazing manner.
To an eye so placed as to be capa-
BILE of taking in Mt one comprehensive
glance the whole round outline of the
globe It would not appear of precisely
the same shape during an entire day
or even an hour. Most OF the changes
referred to are, Of course. very slight
when compared with the size of the
earth itself.
The operation Of atmospheric ana
oceanic and other similar causes is
continually bringing about changes in
the shape Of the earth's crust. One
Of the most interesting Of the agencies
whereby such alterations are effected
is the carrying power OF rivers. Wher-
ever a great quantity of sand and
gravel is being brought down from The
interior Of continent and poured into
the sea. as, for instance, along the
northwestern coast Of Europe or the
gulf coast of the United States, the
weight of the earths crust is slowly
increasing. and the consequence is
seen in the gradual subsistence of the
shore.
Such a sinking has been going on
for thousands Of years along the North
sea coast and on the continental side
Of the British channel. A similar de.
preston is occurring on the eastern
edge Of our own country and along
the gulf Of Mexico. 1t has been eSti-
mated that the gulf coast is sinking
at the rate of nearly two feet in
century.
Corresponding elevations must. of
course, occur elsewhere. And to these
slow changes in the level of the earths /
crust earthquakes are due as well as
to the more violent local disturbances
created by volcanic. acknowledges
Weekly.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-11-02

Describing his Impressions at first
hand of Great Britain's recent gen
eral election Everett Colby. the New
Jersey insurgent, calls attention u
some suggestive features of the
British lays governing campaign cx
penditures and methods. AS Ir
many of the States in this country
British campaign managers are no
allowed to hire carriages to get Out
voters. One candidate for parliament
whose American brother-in-law, II
ignorance of the law, hired auto
mobiles to get out votes was un'
seated, though the candidate did no
know he was being aided in thi.
way. Another highly interesting sea
ture of the British law limits the
number Of workers a candidate Of
party committee may employ, and i
provides further that these workers
shall not be allowed to vote. Such
law enforced in this country woult
do away with most of the vote buy
ing that remains in the average Am
erican community. Hiring men u
work" for candidate, but in reality
to vote for him. is a too common
practice where more direct bribery
has ceased.