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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
COUNTY DIVISION

Citizens of Shelley have decided
they want no county division on any
conditions. and have sent w. R. Jones
to Boise to present protest 1t is
said he has a long list of signatures
of farmers in the middle of the coun-
ty to support the objections to the
bill.
The bill introduced would give the
new county the name of Snake Ri
yer County," and that ought to be
sufficient to kill the bill of itself. 1t
doesn't mean anything geographically
as a person trying to locate 1t for
the first time would naturally look
over the whole length of the state.
They might as well have made it
John Jacob Aston County, or Captain
Hunt County or ]. c. Anderson Coun-
ty of they were willing to have 1t
long and cumbersome.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
DID THE RIGHT THING

Last week we stated that man
was being tried in court on the charge
of having struck school boy who
was fighting with his son.
The evidence brought out at the
trial showed that he simply separat-
ed the boys and told them they must
quit fighting. That when the other
boy made another dash to renew the
fight the gentleman pushed him back
and said, II don't allow my boy to
fight, and am going to report both
of you to Prof. Vincent. My boy
will 60 along with me to report,
A number of pupils saw and testi-
fed to this effect and said he did
not strike the boy and that he was
not injured and bleeding. The boys
father swore out complaint and
said that his boy had been struck
in the mouth by the man and that
he came home all bloody from the
blow.
Now the question arises, "Did the
boy mutilate himself to get his ia
Their into the scrape or did the father
do the childish thing in misrepre.
senting the facts?"
The man they sought to punish
seems to have been the only one who
was blameless.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
FAILURE TO ENFORCE LAW MAY
COST TWO CITIES IN IDAHO
THEIR STATE INSTITUTIONS

Capital News
An interesting and somewhat heat
ed session of the educational COM
mittee of the house was held today,
at which the matter of appropria-
tions for the state was discussed.
The committee was thrown into
something amounting to more or less
of panic by open declarations on
the part of some of the members of
the committee that they were opposed
to appropriations for the maintenance
of the Academy of Idaho at Pocatello
and of the State Normal school at
Lewiston until the majority of the
people of the communities where
such institutions are maintained shall
have shown disposition to become
law-abiding citizens.
ut is an open and notorious fact, T"
stated one of the members of the com
mittee, that the laws of the state
are absolutely disregarded, the viola
ton of those laws winked at by
public officials and that this condi-
ton is known and suffered to con-
tinue by the citizens of Pocatello and
of Lewiston, and SO far as | am con-
cerned, not one cent of public funds
shall be appropriated by my vote for
the maintenance of institutions for
the training of the youth of the state
in such communities, where they may
be taught to hold nothing but con-
tempt for the law instead of being
taught to hold it sacred, where they
will be surrounded by an atmosphere
of iaw-defiance instead of being sur
rounded by an atmosphere of respect
for the law.
1--WE who feel this way about it,
know that there are just as good citi-
zens in the cities of Pocatello and
Lewiston as there are in the state.
but it is evident that these citizens
are powerless to act, and that fact
makes the situation all the more de-
plorable. Pocatello, believe, is not
so bad as Lewiston, where there ap~
pears to be an open revolt against
the laws of the state and where it is
taken as matter of pride that the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20

Washington, Jan. 16.-While the
population of Idaho increased 1913
per cent. in the last 10 years, the
cities of the state having a popula-
ton in excess of 5000 increased
24S.3 per cent. Statistics of the
thirteenth census announced today
show five cities in this class, COM
pared with one in 1900.
These cities contributed 1915 per
cent. of the 1882 increase in pop
1'ation of the state.
Large increases were made in all
the five cities. Twin Falls was not
in existence in 1900 and no compar-
ison, therefore, is possible.
. Occur d'Alene made the remark
able percentage of increase of 1852
per cent. The growth of other cities
was; Boise, 1918 per cent: Lewis
ton, 149.1 per cent; and Pocatello,
1926 per cent.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
A JOKE ON THE COW

In printing things it makes a lou
of difference where we put comma,
and in talking it sometimes goes
wrong. When the lecture train was
at Pingree Sunday evening one OF
the speakers was telling people to
60 into the stock car and examine
the hogs, and then he said just be-
yond the hogs was Holstein COW
and beyond the cow fine Jersey
bull.
In telling it he unwittingly got it
like this: Beyond the TamWorth
hog is Holstein COW with record
of eighty pounds of milk in day,
nineteen pounds of butter per week
and Jersey bull, besides many other
things"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
MUNCHAUSEN AND ANANIAs

There was never ship yet" says
George Gould, that did not have one
person aboard who boasted eternally
of the number of times he had cross
ed the Atlantic. Now it is thirty-nine
times, now it is thirty-six times Ev-
cry ship carries this passenger who
seems to have devoted his whole life
to making a record for Atlantic
crossings.
II once heard a Detroit girl poke
little fun at a passenger of this
tyne He said to her:
Do you know this is my fifty
seventh crossing
Is it,! she said indifferently It's
my ninety-eighth'
Really the man exclaimed.
oh, yes, indeed she answered,
yawning. It's an old story with me
crossing the Atlantic now. Why, act
ually, always recognize more than
half the waves we meet"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
REGISTER KTEFER
RE-APPOINTED

H. w. Kiefer, for the past four
years register of The Blackfoot
Land Office, has just been re-appoint-
ed for another four years. This posi-
ton is one of the best plums at the
disposal of the senators from Idaho,
and while there have generally been
a number of applicants for the Office,
it is our understanding that Mr..
Kiefer has given such general salts
faction that his appointment was ia
ken as matter of course and there
were no candidates against him.
The district over which he directs
the federal land business, includes
Fremont, Bingham, Bannock, Bear
Lake and Oneida counties.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20

law cannot be enforced. In Pocatello
I am informed, some effort has been
made to cause the laws to be observ-
ed, some violators have been punished
and the violation is more or less Sc
cret. In Lewiston it is open and no
torious. We have just witnessed the
spectacle of town marshal being re-
moved by the mayor because he did
not enforce the laws, and Immediately
reinstated by the city council for the
same reason, having been kicked out
and reinstated four times within three
days.
"It is not because it happens to be
the local option laws that are not
enforced, nor because these towns
happen to be located in "dry"
territory, that we will oppose any
appropriation to educational institu-
tions. If such an institution were
located in Boise, even though Ada
county has voted wet, yet we would
still favor as liberal an appropria-
tion as the state can afford, provided
the wet laws were enforced with a
reasonable degree of fidelity to those
laws. Whether laws are good or
bad: whether they meet with the ap-
proval of officials or citizens or not,
matters not So long as they are laws
they should be enforced; at least
their violation should not be openly
scandalOusly fragrant, such that all
people are bound to take notice of
the condition and to recognize the
sentiment of the community. More
especially, should educational insti-
tutions not be maintained in such
communities.
The views expressed by this one
member were concurred in by at least
one other member of the committee
and is known to be held by other
members of the legislature. Especial
emph asis was laid by those express
ing themselves to the fact that they
do not question the citizenship of the
representatives from Nez Perez and
Bannock county, one of them esp
cially mentioning the high regard in
which he held the Bannock county
members. "They are democrats" he
said, "and l am a republican, but
they are fine lot of men, and do
not wish in any way to reflect upon
them. They are all right in every
way"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
CARNEGIE's GIFTS NOT TRUE
CHARITY, ENGLISHAlAN SAYS
Steel and Oil Kings, He Declares, Do
Not Seek Out and Give Badly
Needed Help
Robert McWade)

NAtoDOiI 3AN w 0NSJ
Washington, Jan. 9.-"Undoubt-
edly," says Henry Blount of London,
England, who is paying this country
flying visit, "your John D. Rookie
Teller and your Andrew Carnegie are
bestowing vast amounts of money on
colleges and libraries, on peace tri-
bunals, and other like matters, but
theirs is not the commendable charity
that seeks out and gives badly needed
help in cases where schooling also en-
tiers in. Theirs is the ostentatious
charity that gives for several pur-
poses; but it does not compare with
the thoughtful giving of our Joseph
Fels, whose bounty has made possible
among other things health center
that is doing world of good among
class that in the years to come will
benefit by his work and will never
forget their benefactor.. There's a
district in London calld Deptford. one
of whose principal streets is the Creek
Road That highway has school
which when visited and inspected by
the medical officers of the education
department, vas certified to have so
per cent of it's child pupils in actual
need of medical attendance.
Through Joseph Fels' insistence
and help, financially and otherwise,
the Road Creek School Care Com
mittee was appointed and with his
assistance it secured from the Bor-
ough Council of Greenwich the use of
two large rooms in the vestry hall of
St. Nicholas church, rent free. To
those rooms after school hours come
crowds of little children for teaching
and treatment. Their teeth are at
tended to by dentist, who combines
teaching with the healing art. There
is part of one of the big rooms cur
tanned off for a bathroom, which is
constantly in use. In another corner.
close by fireplace, is a nurse who
in five weeks cured 60 cases of
blight horrible and infectious
eye disease. Eye defects are very
common, and the demand for glasses
is correspondingly great-and FEELS
supplies them.
/
"The staff, all of whom are largely
paid by Fels, include teacher who
gives lessons in breathing to those
who on account of adenoid growths
and for other reasons have never
| learned to breathe properly. There
are cases of curvature of the spine,
eczema, deafness and lots of other
affections, all of which are treated
and cured. That's 'charity-that's
helping those who can not help them
selves. This health center is the
germ, not of a hospital, but of new
order of school, Spurred on by its
excellent work and results, the Lon
don county council has undertaken
to pay two-shilling fifty eents)
grant for every child treated by the
dentist and further grant of $4,000
to cover the salaries of the dentist
and the nurse. Isn't there something
practical in such charity? Isn't it
the real essence of true charity?"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
COMMISSIONERS, PROCEEDINGS

Z F ~
The new board met on Monday,
January 9th. and were sworn into
Office by F. w. Jordan.
Each of the other officers took the
oath of Office and submitted their
official bonds, the amounts varying
from $1,000 to 100000. that of Miss
Mary Thompson, treasurer, being the
largest.
The application for consolidation
of the school districts at Sterling
was denied, as were also those for
herd district, except at Aberdeen,
which will be heard at the April
meeting.
RURAL HIGH SCHOOL DIS
TRICT No. 1 was formed from Dis
tricts 9, II, 16, 25 and 81.
Trial Jurors Drawn
Aberdeen-E. F. Davis, G. R..
pearsall, Archie Livingstone, J. G..
Hurt, J. P. Bartel.
Basalt-Wm. Dye, H. Christensen.
C. c. Merkley, J. A. Quinn, G. E.
Lyons, O.. S. Rider, J. B. Taylor.
Blackfoot-H. Bennett, 7. J. RAJ
gan, Alfred Heatley, E. HALFWAY,
F. P. Miller, E. T. Malcolm, w. H.
Ennor, w. D. Ziegler, VIM Drew,
Geo. Ezell, A. B. Stephens, T. H.
Wilde, John Dean, G. R. Powell,
Chas. Merrill, w. w. Blakeslie, j.
H. Jordan, Belo Ball, JAS Cobbly,
R. T. Mussetter, Jno. ]. Peterson
J. w. Staley, P. B. Van Blaricon.
Danilson-R. R. Davis, G. w.
Stowell
Groveland-Chas. Dahman, A. c.
Hale, E. N. Bingham
Moreland-John England, Sr:, II.
Grinnett.
Rich-H. C. C. Rich, F. S. Red
dick.
Enron Yancey, Chas. Sund-
quist.
| Riverside-J w. Bolton, James
| Wray, W. A. Crawford, Henry Damn.
Shelley-Soren Yorgensen, J. Hol-
land Jas. Chadwick, Smith Johnson,
Ezra Christensen, Heber Child, Jas.
Nicholson.
Thomas-Philip Dance, Daniel
| Olmstead, T. P. Fackrell, p Van
Orden, R. X. McMurdie.
Quarantine Measles
An order was made that measles
shall be quarantined.
During any quarantine clothing
must not be placed on the clothesline
or in any manner become a menace
to neighbors. Mail may be received
but not sent out by those quarantined
Dogs and cats must be kept in quar-
antine or be killed.
| Roads
The road petitioned for by Adam
Yancey and others was denied; c.
c. Sjostron and others, allowed; Geo
Mclean and others, allowed; M
| Wenger and others, allowed; Tom
Harper, allowed; j. Ulrich, allowed
Henry Berg, allowed; Chas Carlson
allowed; w. w. Wood, denied; Dry
Farm company, road to be opened
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
STRATEGY

The appropriations for the Idaho
Academy at Pocatello and the Normal
School at Lewiston have been threat
ened on account of the statement
that the towns in which the institu-
tions are situated are openly violat-
ing the liquor law, and it was stated
by members of the committee that
they would oppose any appropriation
for an institution in a town that al
lowed violation of any law and no
attempt was made at enforcement
That it was holding out to the pupils
in the schools that laws are not
made to be obeyed and respected
and such action by the Legislature
would put it up to the city govern
ments to do their duty or have the
town suffer.
On the other hand it may be said
that this course would interrupt the
work of a school. and entail some
loss upon the student body even
though they were in no way respon-
sible for the lax condition.
If town is so lax in the execution
of its laws, it is doubtful if parents
would care to have their children
i'm school in such place anyhow,
and if one school is closed for a peri
cd, there are other places where the
pupils could go to continue their
work. The town would lose some of
it's best citizens and much of it's desir-
able business, and that Is where the
rub comes. Strike down the volume
Of population and business especial
ly business-of town and the whole
business and social fabric will be in
an uproar. If losing some saloons
has that effect there is terrible
fuss. If losing a school appropria-
ton does not have the same effect
it must be because it was drink
they wanted in the other case when
they said business was the reason.
Already the saloons of Lewiston
have been raided and an effort made
to show that the law Is being en-
forced, and that may have been what
the committee wanted anyhow. 1t
is a good strategy, to say the least
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II Y y 4
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
A CRANE JOKE

Senator Crane was praising the art
of compromise. Compromise is
good thing" he said. Take the
case of young builder | knew. He
got married about year ago, and
after the marriage he and his wife
had an interminable dispute as to
whether they should buy two motor
cycles or a five-horse power runabout
suitable to their means. He said.
"'My wife and I wrangled for
months and months, but, thank good
ness, we have compromised at last.
What have you compromised
on?' | asked.
GA baby carriage" he answered
with a wide, glad smile.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20

Mr.. Beckstead, of American Falls
spent the night at Pingree.
Miss May Linch, has accepted a
position with the Bell Telephone
Company at Blackfoot.
Wilson Scott spent few days in
Ogden, returning Tuesday.
Miss Lulu Morgan returned to her
home in Aberdeen Sunday, called by
the accident to her father in which
he broke two ribs
P. w. Powerss of Blackfoot, and
Mr.. Davis, of Aberdeen, spent Sum
day night at Pingree.
About fifty people came to town
Sunday to meet the lecture train.
Miss Alice Bradford, recently from
Scotland, is stopping with Mrs. T. R.
Jones at the Hotel Pingree.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
Not An Experiment

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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20
GROWTH OF IDAHO CITIES

Washington, Jan. 16.-Four cities
in Idaho in addition to Boise have
more than 5000 population as shown
by the following figures made public
by the census bureau today:
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20

You'll find it in the Wantad
columns. Look for it there.
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Dispose of it quickly through the
Wantad columns.
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The Republican can do your print
ing job.
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-14
WOMAN POLITICIAN A SUICIDE
Defeated Denver Candidate Had
Quarreled with Her Husband.

Denver, Col, juno 19.-Mrs. Edith
Culbertson. Republican candidate for
Superintendent OF the Denver County
Schools at the last elections, shot
and killed herself at her home here
yesterday. She left note in which
she wished to make II clear the
wound was self-inficted Her hus-
band Sydney NJ. Culbertson, told the
police that he and she quarreled dur.
ing the morning.
Mrs. Culbertson was SO years old, a
graduate of Vassar College and was
born in Columbus, Ohio.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-14
ERADIcATiNe BAD WEED
Prof. Burns Of University Trying to
Rid Dat Field Of kale.

Professor George P. Burns of the
University of Vermont, who is direct.
ing experiments now being made at
the farm of Tracy Brothers in Shell
burne in the effort to eradicate kale
from an oat field of about three acres
said last night that the effect OF the
treatment applied Friday may have
been destroyed by the hard rain of
the past two days.
The solution used In the expert
ments was made up of 100 pounds of
iron sulphate In So gallons of water,
and the quantity applied was from SO
to 20 gallons TO the acre. A common
spray Is used and the solution Is best
applied at about the time when the
kale blossoms appear. The treatment
works best in cloudy weather without
rain.
Fields often become infected with
kale through clover seed, the. law not
offering sufficient protection to pur
chasers of seed. The iron sulphate
treatment also effects other weeds
than kale. Dat leaves have way
covering which protects them from
the solution, but kale, dandelions and
plantain weeds do not. Dandelions
in grass can therefore be destroyed
by this means. But corn is liable tC
injury from the solution, unless care
Is Decentralization Free Press
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E. HOWE, Editor and pub'r.
INCORRECT DIAGNOSIS

1t looks as If the discipline in the
Vermont Soldiers Home leaves
something to be desired when two
veterans of the ages OF 6S and 20, res
pectiyely are allowed to pummel
each other in a fist fight and the elder
of the two dies as a result of the al
tercation. This was Fridays contri.
button to the record Vermont is fast
making for herself for peace and thar
mony Rutland Herald.
If the Herald will look into the case
little more thoroughly it will, we
believe, be convinced that its hasty
conclusion does not do justice to one
OF the states best institutions. 1t
must be remembered that the sold
iers' home is not house of detention
or a reformatory The inmates are
there of their own volition and are
under no more restraint than the
guests of a hotel. AS long as they
obey the mild rules of the institution
they are free to come and go as they
please and have the utmost of liberty.
There are no armed detectives, no
patrolmen in uniform, no guardhouse,
and no guard.
Nor is there any reason why there
should be any of these adjuncts of a
penal institution, for the soldiers
home is just what its name implies
place where some few of the ma
tons defenders who are poor and
needy are given a home of modest
comfort for their declining years at
the expense of the state Most OF
the inmates nowadays are feeble, old
men to whom the regulations of the
doctor and nurses are more impor-
tant than any other discipline.
There is at the home one special
policeman, himself veteran inmate
and his services almost never needed
except on those rare occasions when
some discouraged old soldier breaks
the rules and gets intoxicated and
has to be cared for and put to bed
The trouble that occurred there last
Friday should no more be criticised
than similar occurrence in a Sun
day school or a million dollar hotel
1t came up suddenly and was all over
in an instant. No rules, regulations
or discipline could have prevented it.
Doubtless those who took part in
the momentary trouble would not
have done so a few years ago. II
must be remembered that age and i'll
health affect the nerves and irritabil
ity and sometimes childishness need
surprise nobody That the result
was peculiarly unfortunate is regret
able but hardly blamable
The one thing surprising is that
such an occurrence has not happened
there before in many years il, indeed,
ever. We feel sure that a thorough
examination of the facts will con.
vince the Herald or any other fair
person that the occurrence was sim
ply one of those things that are
bound to happen as long as frail hui
mainly exists