The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-01-12


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q dead letter. Now he is trying tc
evade the law which prohibits man
from holding two state Offices at the
same time. When State Representa-.
tive Robert NJ. Terrill was appointed
county prosecuting attorney by the
board OF county commissioners OF
Bannoch county, to fill the vacancy
created by the resignation of Colonel
n. V. A. Ferguson, Mr.. Terrill re-
signed his legislative position in order
to qualify for the other Office. The
moment he thus qualified he forfeited
all right to the Office of state repre-
sentative. A vacancy in the legisla-
tive delegation from Bannock county
Immediately was created Only spe-
eial election can fill it, Comes now
Governor Hawley and asks Mr.. Ter
rill to withdraw his resignation as
state representative and become a
member of the special session next
month. In other words, Idaho's re-
markable 'lawyer-governor" would
override the law in order to have as
many Democrats as possible in the
lower house. The conclusion is war
ranted that as lawyer, Hawlev is no
better than as governor-and that S
the worst ever known in the Gem
state.
The Idaho City World is getting to
be real pessimist. 1t takes gloomy
view Of everything. The Tribune was
just getting down to point where it
enjoys DR.. Wiley's diet of bushel Of
wheat and plenty of water when along
comes the World, not only intimating
that all persons who adopt the diet
are hogs. but that the high cost of
living may soon have us by the nape
Of the neck again. The World says:
Dr.. Wiley is always discovering
something for the be.eft of the ever
suffering human race. His latest dis
covery. which comes as a blessing, is
the fact that the high cost of living
can be put down. The doctor an
nounces that a man can exist for six
days on bushel of wheat and water,
and that the bushel of wheat costs
only one dollar and the water nothing
The only danger, which DR.. Wiley has
not thought of, is that if we all pro-
eeed to make hogs of ourselves in
that way, the increased demand for
wheat may raise the price out of the
reach of common mortals, and if the
demand would not raise wheat to the
highest kind of living, some one would
corner it, and then we would have to
change our diet to oats or barley or
some other kind of luxury INDUCED in
by the lower animal kingdom, only to
have the history of high prices again
repeat itself.
Two children are dead and a third
was fatally burned in fire at Bull
Sunday evening. The parents, Mr..
and Mrs. R MCGEE, were away from
home-the mother was attending a
Baptist revival meeting and the father
was about town. Mrs MCGEE locked
the children in the house about half
past seven and the house was in flames
q little after eight. 1t is presumed
that the children got to playing with
matches and set the house on fire. Ell
Their that, or the stove became too
hot and they were too young to do
anything with it.
When neighbors arrived, attracted
by the burning house and the screams
Of the unfortunate children, the scene
beggared description. The house was
small and built entirely of infammablc
material. 1t burned with terrific speed
and although the men and women as
sembled knew that the children inside
were burning to death, they could do
little to save them.
By heroic daring on the part Of
some Of the men the youngest child, 3
years Of age, was taken from the
burning building, but so badly burned
that hope OF its recovery is not enter
tanned. The two older children. S and
6. respectively. were dead when their
bodies were recovered.
the production from Idaho mines IN
1911. according to c. N. Gerry. of the
United states Geographical Survey.
This was attributable to all ores ex-
eept those Of copper. the output of
which decreased in Shoshone county,
and silieeous ore. which diminished
particularly in Owyhee county. The
mos. noteworthy increases were in
xiae ore. silver and lead from lead
ore. and gold from placers. A gain
Of nearly Is per cent in the gold out
put brings the production back to 4
sosmal figure for 1911, after strikingly
low output of 1910. Gold and silver
output have been gradually decreasing
IN Owyhee county. which for many