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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01

Wonder what excuse Gov. Hawley
win give to the suffrage meeting to
be held in New York, March 80. to
which have been invited the governors
OF the five suffrage states, viz,
Jamse H. Hawley, of Idaho; John F.
Shafroth, of Colorado; J. M. Carey,
of Wyoming; William Spry, of Utah,
and Marion e. Hay, Of Washington
and, because of Idaho being an es-
pechlly enthusiastic suffrage state,
(take notice. also Ex-gov ernor Brady
all of whom have accepted, for his
veto OF Senate bill No. rs, rega riding
the WHITES signature in dispensing Of
community property.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01
To The Voters

while in his present office, and
contrary to law, he (Englehart) benz
Gifted by accepting the contract from
the Village for laying cement side
walk. This lis some New Time
truth(?). 1t is an absolute falsehood
as Mr.. Englehart never did one dol.
lars worth of work for the village OF
Mountain Home while holding office
OF village trustee. The only sidewalk
built by the village during the entire
present administration was the Lii
brary walk and that was built by
James Grmsell.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01
inspection of any stakeholder.

uHoPCCtioi VI dIly SuOChllOlu6T.
Had the editor of the local paper
inquired at the banks, he would have
found thai the $4,000 was actually de-
POSTED as represented, and that $500
of it was paid ON the survey.
The water right holders and the
stockholders of the Gilmore Irrigation
Company understand about the 1925
600 of stock that is to go to Adams
and his associates; they understand
what agreement has been made with
Hewitt; they understand that these
and other expenses, such as taking
care OF the receivers certificates and
Hens, the cost of surveys and the
cost OF construction, must all be paid
by the water users if this project is
successful; they are not so much i'm
terested i'm the actual cost as they
are in getting the water and getting
1t as soon as possible. 1t is their
business and they are willing to stand
for it. They are not willing that
their Company and their hope of Sc
curing water should be attacked by
a man who doesn't own an acre of
water rights or foot of land i'm
this neighborhood. They wish to
know what business it is of his if
they see fit to pay these expenses,
and why he, with nothing to lose,
should make 1T his duty to attack and
attempt to destroy the work that they,
for the PAST year, have been doing to
build UP company that bids fair to
carry them to success, for they are
all vitality interested i'm the success
of this company. 1t is their COM
pany and amy attempt to injure or
discredit 1T is blow at all the farm
ers and water right holders i'm this
company. The attack lis unwarramt-
ed and deserves the censure of all
business men and women and all or
CARNATIONS interested i'm the UP
building of Mountain Home.
1t is the opinion of tie Board of
Trustees and it believes 1t expresses
the opinion of nine-tenths of the water
right holders and citizens that the
editor of the local paper that made
the attack ON the Emore Irrigation
Company in it's last issue is not a
good Citizen in that he is not one
who helps to build up and advance
the interests of the community. and
that his paper is not the broad mind.
ed liberal paper he promised it should
be, lis not published i'm the interests
of the community and lis not a paper
worthy of the patronage of our pro-
gressive people
Signed:
B. P. Thompson
E. Himebaugh
j. G. Watts
Lloyd Morton
Henry Jacobson
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01

titled to FIVE. But what he was the
maddest about was your knowing it
was filed and before you printed the
piece, and he proved that, too, by
showing your article ON Norell. l
wish you had been there, for l felt
at the finnish that had been worsted
In the argument"
well, Rastus, am glad was not
there That lis what get for print
ing the truth. never did 1t but
once before and then I got into a
mix-up over 1t and | win never do it
again. Ring off. feel as If 1 had
been caught with too much religion.
Hoping you are the same,
MEMO.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01
Barney Renounces New Timer,


Deere Misther Idither:-
Yer Umbel Sarvint fit tibet fer
the reputation ay'the family he mustn't
be afther ritin few loines t. kleer
tn atmosfayer.
Ay koorse its mesilf az noze tn
turrable timptashuns me wan tonne
frind, the New Toimer is constantly
subjected to, whoy Their jist whisthn
thru hiz whiskers all tn tonne.
Shure AN its mesif tibet noz sum
av thin.
Theirs tn Ballymascroggin Cater
wauler, 'f'jist phunked $4,000 a yere
forninst hiz swate mug and tn tip av
hiz noze touched tn rim av tn latest
sthyles in he'd ornymbmis.
Thin KNOWN hz timperans sinty-
mints the "Catskil Cowld Wather
Krunickel" made big Lid fer h,1
1aynAus and got turned down cod F."
Thin tn "BeI.owin Blatherskite" ay
Beantown ktnklooded tibet he wuz j.st
tn wan t. maik a howlin success
av tn payper, but he filt tibet tn
nades av tn prismt fayh av oper-
ashuns naded man av lhiz wumdher-
ful powers t stheer 1T thru the dam
gerous sholes and rapids av the pri
STINT politikal situashun
Afther radin the raeint artickel by
me wan tonne frind Oh fit loike the
chap who he'd just louped tn loup
an thin whit am bout kuanpus t.
foind hiz way home.
Ez on red the. blud jumped thru
me vanes t think tibet tn bhoy Oh
he'd befrinded all the way thru shud
turn thraither at the lasht an curse
tn bridge thOt carried him over tn
sthrame tibet wud hev shwamped him
"Toime Thrys ALL"
Their kums t. moi recomimbrince
parable towld be wan av me an.
ON me muthers soide, am be
The same token 1T wus ovid Phil Bran
nagarf av Ballykilldysart, ez shmart a
man ez liver throtted tn bog av Allen,
He SEE, SEE he shure an wan tonne
tn burds hild a CRATE matm T. beside
how t. git wather near the Crane
BeeldS SO ez t. hev attn an dhrinkin
olost t wan anuther AN thay Civ
t wan lyer burd the job av dhrawin
up the paypers, AN iverythim wuz a.
goin nicely within anuther big raven av
lyer burd gifts jellus thin he goes t.
the bg black crow wild the Quill
sthuck behint hiz hug, tn idither av
We PLACE; an he sthicks hiz black block
up agin the nuzepayper burds Imply
chaze box an he sez "Thim fellers
IL fetherin Their nists so we'll rite am
knock tn nest t. pieces an mebbe
well git sum av the wul an fithers
fur ourselves. Thin the nlzepayper
burd mked jist as sankymonius az ye
PLACE an SEE he: roight ye ar, we'll yell
down wild ivry thin thets up an meb.
be we kin pick sumthin out av the
reck. But within tn uther buMs found
1t out thay STINT back .ther paypurs
an cut out Their subsc nipshuns thin
the idither burd an the lyer burd
hav fat taste on the skiliten."
1t all puts me i'm mind av phat me
CRATE unkels CRATE grandfather ust t.
say: Whume the Gods wud dis
throy thay first maik mad" An its
mesdk az behaves tibet me wan tonne
frind haz sum av the farms an thay're
divilopin rapidly. Therefore Oh pub
lickly renounce him az an inimy av
good sinse, good morals and good
government.
Barney Glhooley.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01

agreed to be given to Watts,
has, UP to date, given $21 200
OF his allotted amount to other per.
sons for their assistance in helping
to promote his plans. Not one dollars
worth of his stock has ever been
given or even been promised to- Saw.
yer, Thompson, or any other member
of the board of Trustees except Mr..
Watts, nor have any of the trustees
ever been allowed or promised any
stock whatever except stock for their
water rights the same as have all
other water right holders.
The insdnuation that Thompson and
Sawyer had received any promotion
stock was untmthful, dishonorable
and intended solely to injure their
good names In this community.
The community had invested $780,.
600 i'm worthless water rights and
many thousands of dollars more i'm
improveme on their lands. They
stood to lose lit all. Mr.. Adams
Jumps into the breach and offers to
organize company and save for the
community the amount invested. He
asks as compensation 1-3 per cent
of the stock OF the Company. Is that
exhorbitant? Is that robbery? Does
merchant feel that he is being rob-
bed when he pays an attorney ten
per cent. for collecting bad debt.
or twenty per cent. N 1T be particu-
larly hard to collect?
How many men are there in this
town that would have undertaken the
job that Adams undertook? And if
amy OF you would have tackled it,
could you have been induced to do 1t
for less than 1.3 per cent, devoting
one, two, perhaps three or four years
to the work with long chance that
in the end it might prove failure?
Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Watts have both
offered, on more than one occasion,
to turn their stock back to the COM
pany and give their services on a cash
basis, but the company could not &C
cept because 1t had no cash for this
purpose.
Mr.. Adams has now retired from
any further active part in the affairs
of the Company, his contract has
been assigned to Mr.. Watts who I'm.
dertakes to perform the services re-
quired Of Adams.
Suppose Adams and Watts did n.y.
pothecate some OF their stock. It is
theirs to do with as they please, and
the very fact that they are able to
raise money on 1t is proof that some
Of our people have faith in the propo-
sition and believe the stock to have
value.
Now let us look as to the value
of the system, for 1t is asserted by
the local paper that when We agree
to pay Hewitt 100 cents on the dol.
lar of the face Of his mortgage" and
the prior liens and certificates, ap-
prOximately $4,000 in all, we are
paying at least 100000 more than
the system lis worth, and that paper
asserts that according to the best
the system could not be
appraised for to exceed $4,000.
We must be sensible In these things
and not allow our prejudices or our
desire to knock to blind us to the
actual facts.
The Great Western owns 800 Sec
ond feet of the waters Of Lime Greek |
that are prior to any Of the Govern
ment rights under the Boise-Payette !
project and prior to any other rights
ON Lime Creek except 1t be the early
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01

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during the irrigation season, say af
ter July first. Said Company also
owns prior rights to all the flood wat
es of Little Camas and Cat Creeks
enough water from these three strea
ms II properly impounded and con
served to irrigate 10000 acres of land
Are these water rights worth any
thing?
The Great Western owns reser
voir site at Little Camas capable Of
impounding $4,000 acre feet of watel
and another site at Long Tom. Are
these worth anything? The Great
Western has dam at Little Camas
capable of holding and impoundine
$4,000 acre feet of water. This dan
is essential in the plans of the Ell
more Irrigation Company and would
be to the plans OF an irrigation dis,
trict, and Is worth to either the
Company or district at least 500 900
The Great Western owns IA miles
OF ditch running from Little Camas
to Long Tom, which ditch, Mr.. Adair
tells us has a considerable value to
any company or organization that UNI
dertakes to enlarge the system. He
thinks the Company would be justi-
fled i'm paying from $15O,OOO to
100000 for the system as it now
is as a nucleus for our enlarged sys-
TEN, and this particularly in face of
the fact that an attempt to condemn
might involve us i'm litigation and
cause long delay in our work.
If we proceed to condemn the sys-
tenn the Court, Jury or Commission
ers appointed by the Court, will en-
quire into the matter about as follows;
l. What did the system cost? The
records OF the Great Western and
the contractors who did the work will
be called ON for this evidence.
2. What Is it worth as nucleus
to an enlarged system? This evil
dence will come from surveyors and
contractors who are able to estimate
how much saving the present system
will be to those who desire to enlarge
1t.
3. What is the market value of
the present system? That is, what
Is anyone willing to give for it? We
assume that the certificate holders
would be willing to give 100000 the
amount Of the certificates and inter
est. Mr.. Query and his co-laborers,
m order to save their claims would
give 900, because they must take
care Of the $4,000 ahead of them.
Mr.. Hewitt would be willing to give
$4,000 to save his investment.
From these different means of deter
mining the value the Court, Jury or
Commissioners must fix the price for
the system. Does anyone seriously
minded and not blinded by prejudice
believe that the price will be fixed
at less than 100000? The water
rights and reservoir sites alone are
worth one half that sum.
The price fixed by the local paper,
SIC, 900, means that the certificate
holders, after the expense of the pro-
,eeding in condemnation Is paid will
get about so cents on the dollar;
Mr.. Query and his co-laborers will
get nothing; Mr. Hewitt will get moth
ng. Are these people going to stand
by and see the system go for 100000,
n are they going to exert their efforts
o have a fair valuation placed upon it?
There are no records of the Com
,any in Seattle, all are i'm the office
II the Secretary and are open to the
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01

Editor Elmore County Republican,
Dear Sir: AS / was lounging in sub
station No. Of the Grapevine I'm
derground Telephone Compamy's Of
flee the other day, the telephone
bell rang and / put my ear to the
ground wire and picked up the fol-
lowing as 1t passed over:
Hello! Hello!. is. that you T. T..
(meaning Truthful Truxton).
Eyes, is that you RAstus?
Yes, how are they coming, old
pal? Say that was a crackerjack
skinndng you gave Noren for not
filling your village ticket without
comment. 1t ought to convince
anyone that he is i'm with a gang of
deep dyed villains who are bent ON
running you. But never you fear,
you won't have to crawl out from
under another wreck and start over
again as you limited at few weeks
ago. Not on your life. Not while
you can write such articles as that
There lis nothing Like It. Nothing In
the world counts hike sympathy
Just keep them thinking that some
one is doing you dirty work, abusdn
and conspiring against you and you
have them solid. And you surely
have the ability for that. You GER
taiply drew 1t mildly when you said
you had editorial ability that would
command a high price I'm the market,
but which you refused to sell be-
cause OF your desire to work for the
people. That article was a master
stroke. Why when you told the diff
ference between Corker and yourself
you did Corker in just seven lines
and then you used fifty-seven and a
laf lines i'm telling what al
NAN you HAD been, i'm al
way that read like fairy
ale, and made Corker's seven lines
ook so insignificant that I don't |
Wonder he failed to reply. In fact |
le must have concluded THAT HE |
lever WAS the man that HE HAS |
aEEN. But say T. T. how are you
GOING to square 1T with Hall when |
le gets home for giving away his |
'hvate conversation with Tom Mel
en?"
Square 1t with Hall? l don't have
% square anything with Hall. II
lon't live i'm Halls house now. III
moved to Harvey's house some time |
lgo. Haven't you noticed the tone of |
The paper for the last month";"
"Oh, see. l just mentioned as
Thought you might be overlooking
Il am overlooking nothing. Thank
you just the same"
But say T. T. how are you going
to fix that part of your platform for
your village ticket where you pledge
them to reduce the dog tax? Some
thinking man may look the matter
UP and find that the legislature by
section 2238 prevents a Board from
making dog tax less than SO. as
the present INCOMPETENT Board
Is doing and that would be embar-
rassing.
why Rastus, you are always see
Ing gobbins i'm the dark Don't you
know that the thinking people are no
my subscribers? only had six
and they quit Saturday morr
Ing"
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-04-01
How to Mend an Egg-Beatsr.

TOW 70 Mehu an E99-beateF
Don't throw away your Dover egg
beater just because 1t "skips" II It II
otherwise good. Take some soft
Irvine and twist tightly around under
the head of the screw In the center oil
the wheel, until you have enough on
to make 1t run firmly. 1t may wear
on In q week or two, but Is easily 70
placed, and have found that It pro
longs the working life of the egg
beater observation-disclosures Home
Companion.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28
A BattIeship's Ewes.


In the design and equipment OF On
Gle Sans newer battleshlps no feature
Is more noticeable than the facilities
afforded for observation by the officers
and men stationed on the bridge-Ob-
servations Of the beacOns and other
aids to navigation, but more especially
observations OF the movements OF a
supposed enemy On the bridge and
Oh the fire control" tower overhead
are to be found artificial aids for the
"eyes of the battleship," ranging all
the way from old fashioned glasses to
the powerful telescopes and kindred
annihilators OF distance that are too
large to be supported at arms length
and manipulated after the fashion OF
the spyglasses Of the ancient mariner.
Detroit Free Press.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28
Glass In the Maxine.

Tho manufacture of glass antedates
authentic history. II Is only about
seventy-6ye years, however, since Its
true character was ascertained Ii Is
now generally conceded to be a salt-a
chemical compound resulting from the
union OF an acid with base. The acid
Is silica, the same that Is found In
quartz or the quartz particles Of sand;
hence the use of sand In Its manufac-
ture. The base may be potash Tor
soda). together with alumina and lime,
or lead may take the place of lime.
Lime makes a hard glass and one less
susceptible to acids and suited to win
dows and chemical purposes; lead
softer, more fusible and more lustrous
article, suitable for optical instruments
All acids act to some extent on glass.
especially II the latter has an excess
Of alkali In 1t. Even wine may cor
rode the bottles wherein 1t is contain
ed The moisture Of the air often dis
solves out the alkali, causing the rain
bow-like colors uridescence) Of some
windowpanes.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28
public Baths Abroad.

London probably possesses more pri-
vate baths than any other city, but
In the matter Of public baths 1t can
not claim first or even second place,
says the London Chronicle. Tokyo,
Japan. has over 500 public baths. where
100000 persons battle daily at cost Of
about one halfpenny each. CONSTANT
nople probably ranks second; then
comes St Petersburg. famous for the
vast vapor baths to which the Rus
slams flock In thousands every Saturday
evening. The finest public bath In the
world is at Vienna. 1t has basin 578
feet long by 1853 feet wide and can
accommodate l 800 persons. The wa
ter Is changed thrice daily.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28
Whom surqery was cruer,y.

The extreme clumsiness and cruelty
with which operations were performed
even subsequent to the fifteenth cen
fury would scarcely be credited had we
not authentic descriptions Of them by
the operators. Thus FaDricius Of Aqua
pedents Q537-1G19), the eminent pro
fessor at Padua and preceptor Of the
immortal Harvey, describes what he
considered an improved and easy OPP
Grafton Ia the following terms: If 1t
be a movable tumor cut it away with
q redhot knife that sears as 1t cuts, but
II 1t be adhered to the chest | cut with
out bleeding or pain with wooden
or horn knife soaked In aqua fortis,
with which. having cut the skin,
dig out The rest with my fingers" WheG
the surgeons Of Edinburgh were incOr.
pOrated It was required as a prereq-
uisite that they should be able to read
Hnd write, ito know the anatomie. ma.
ture and complexion Of eYefie mem
Der OF humans body and hkeways TO
know all vaynes Of the same, that he
may make flewbothemle in due time"
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28
Air Saos Of Pigeons.

The air sacs of the pigeon constitute
a system of interstices. the value Of
which lies in their absence Of weight
and resistance.
Flying Is possible only TO body Of
high mechanical efficiency Invested Of
all superfuous material. The original
reptiles, which by evolution became
birds. were Invested of superfuous ma
terial, and the body spaces thus OBJ
tained were filed with air sacs. The
body wall, adapting itself to the me
chanial requirements. became hollow
cylinder serving as a support for the
organs of movement, the mobility of
whose parts was assured by the sur
rounding air sacs. The air cavities In
the bones of other birds are similarly
explained.-Harpers Weekly.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28
Dye Before You Patch.

Never patch garment just before
1t goes to the dyers," was the advice
of u young woman in a dyeing estab'
lishment. Unless the patch and the
thread 1t is sewed on with are exactly
the same kind Of material as the gar.
ment they will come out of the dye
pot different shades. Here is blue
skirt that was brought to us cream
colored The cloth had worn through
In several places, and the owner had
patched the tiny holes SO painstaking.
ly that the patches could not be de-
tected in the original color, but after
the dyeing they showed up darker
blue. The amount OF dye any ma.
terial will take depends upon how
much cotton, wool or silk 1t contains.
1t Is so hard to determine that exactly
that any garment that has to be mend.
ed can be matched much better after
dyeing"-New York Sun.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28
The Telephone Voiee,

The voice heard over the telephone
is a mechanical reproduction Of the
original voice and differs from that Of
a speaking tube or megaphone. where
the sound waves produced by the
speaker at one end are transmitted
directly to the other end. In the tele.
phone the diaphragm of the transmit
ter Is caused to vibrate by the sound
waves produced by some one talking
into the transmitter mouthpiece. This
diaphragm Is connected with small
receptacle having a flexible front and
partially filled with granular carbon.
This carbon offers resistance to elec.
trio current in proportion to the me-
chanical pressure brought upon it.
The diaphragm, therefore. In vibrat.
Ing produces a varying pressure
against the carbon. The carbon ia
included In an electric circuit, so that
the variations In Its resistance will
vary the current strength In the cir
cult
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-28

Gloves have always been connected
with royalty When the tomb of King
John was opened century ago 1t was
discovered that his hands were gloyed.
III France the gloves worn by the king
at the coronation were consecrated by
the officiating bishop, and at English
coronations a glove Is thrown down as
a challenge to any one to dispute the
royal title. When George II. was
crowned an unknown Jacobite came
forward and lifted the glove on behalf
of the absent Stuart and at the corO-
nation Of Edward VII. the Duke Of
Norfolk handed to his majesty pair
embroidered with the ducRl arms be
cause manor connected with the
dukes inheritance is held by the serv-
fee Of presenting the monarch with a
right hand glove on the day of the
coronation.-T P.'s London Weekly.