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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
Elder Makes Trip
to Washington
REGARDS DISTRIBUTION OF JOBS
Split Factions of Idaho Democrats
Send Representatives to Wash
ington to Endeavor to Have
Plums Passed Equally.

WASHINGTON Nov. 4.-Hon. r..
H. Elder of Occur d'Alene; Democrat
ic national committeeman for Idaho,
has been in Washington for a few
days endeavoring to adjust patron
age questions for the state that he
represents. Mr.. Elder represents
the Wilson faction of the Democratic
party in Idaho, while Mr.. Gray the
state chairman and former Senator
Dubois, represent the anti-Wilson ell
ement.
Most of the important positions
that the administration has to dispose
of in Idaho have remained untitled
because either the president has de-
clined to take sides in the patronage
fight or because the senate has fail
ed to confirm. Among the choice po-
sitions where no nominations have
been made are U. S. district attorney
and U. S. marshall. Nominations have
been made for other positions of i'm
portance but confirmation has not
been obtained in the senate. For in
stance, a receiver has been nominal
ed for the land office at Blackfoot TO
fill the position made vacant by the
resignation of Assistant Attorney
General Guheen. Up to the present
time this appointment has not been
confirmed.
Again, Frank E. Cornwall of Mos
cow has been nominated as postmaster
at Moscow and bitter fight has been
made against him by the Gray-Dubois
element of the Democratic party.
While the name of Mr.. Cornwall has
been before the senate for about four
months, the senate committee on
postoffice has not been acted and a
deadlock has existed during this
time. 1t is understood that the post
master general stands back Of Mr..
Cornwall and is determined that this
nomination shall not be rejected by
the senate. Other important posi-
lions are likewise in the balance and
it is not all certain what the outcome
will be.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07

ginia. decided to finish seeing Am
erca" this year, and in company with
her brother they started early in June
for a tour of the Great Lakes, the
Canadian Pacific to the coast, down
to Seattle and Portland, back on the
Northern Pacific to Butte, toured the
Yellowstone park, and visited in Ida
no. The brother went home in Au-
gust and in September she saw the
big fairs and finished up at Denver
on her way home, but decided to see
more of the west, so she went back
via the Santa Fe, visited the Grand
Canyon of the Arizona where 1t is
10 miles wide and mile deep. tour
ed California, went over the South
ern Pacific via Ell Paso, took side
trip into Old Mexico, visited New
Orleans and went home through the
southern states.
After she got back to Richmond
and had time to get out to the farm
and see the folks and the darkies and
inspect the Poland China hogs and
the draft horses and her FLOODED
hunting dogs which she is getting In
training for marketing to the sports
men who buy for winter trips, she
wrote to the occupants OF Sagehurst
that she had enjoyed the West so
much, and appreciated 1t all except
California; she was afraid she did
not appreciate it, she was really very
much disappointed in it, and consid-
cred it about the poorest part OF the
trip.
Moral: "See Idaho First.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
Offered 80 Cents a Hundred For the
Crop. but Prefers to Await the
Arrival of Better Prices
Has Seventy Acres.
(Boise statesman


Professor w. H. Olin has just re-
turned from Idaho Falls after attend
ing the teachers institute, where
he delivered an address. He also
looked into farming conditions in that
and other sections of the southeast.
Professor Olin was deeply interest
in the five acres of Idaho Rural po-
tatoes raised by Joe Taylor near Ida
no Falls. These potatoes yielded 1854
bushels to the acre. The land was
surveyed to be certain on this point,
and the potatoes were weighed in the
presence of witnesses. e. H. Grubb
the potato expert, was deeply interest
ed in this field. He pronounced it the
finest he had ever seen anywhere. Mr..
Taylor was offered 80 cents hun
dred for his crop, but he preferred to
store them and wait for better prices.
He raised 70 acres this year, all one
variety-the Idaho Rural-and Pro-
lessor Olin avs the sight was beau
tiful one.
Professor Olin brings the same re-
port from southeastern Idaho that Is
brought by all other visitors-tremen-
dous crops, good prices and general
prosperity. Some farmers, he says,
are anxious about shipping facilities
for their potatoes and grain.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07

EXAMINER
FACES SUIT
ECHO OF FAILURE OF HALEY
STATE BANK CASE.
Judgement Entered Against Bonds
men of Former State Bank Com
missioner by District Court.-Stey-
ems Hears Case for Sullivan.

The bond of $4,000 given by the
American Casualty company to the
state of Idaho as bondsmen of w. C..
Cruise, former bank examiner of this
state and holding that office when the
Idaho State bank OF HALEY went TO
the wall, is the bone OF contention
around which an interesting argu-
ment waged in the supreme court to-
day. Clara Mills, togetehr with 40-odd
other depositors in the defunct bank,
are plaintiffs in suit against the
surety company to recover lost depos-
its, claiming that it was through the
negligence of Commissioner Cruise to
attend to his official duties that they
suffered the damage. They are there
fore attacking the bondsmen which In
this instance happen to be surety
company.
Judge Stevens of the. district court
is hearing the case in place of Justice
Sullivan. The surety company is rep
resented by the law firm of Richards
& Haga of this city and the deposit
ors have as counsel the law firm of
Sullivan & Sullivan of Boise and Hail
ey and Attorney Baker of that firm,
with headquarters at HALEY.
One of hte most interesting featur-
es of the important case is that there
was a default entered in the district
courtafor Blaine county after the case
was tried there, against the Ameri-
can Casualty company because it had
failed to take the necessary legal
steps within the required statutory
period in which to protect itself This
company had moved to take the lit
cation into the federal court and had
apparently taken it for granted this
would, be the procedure because cas-
es of this kind are usually tried out
there. 1t allowed the time to elapse
in which to protect its rights and the
clerk of the district court entered 8
judgment for the amount of the dam,
ages allowed the depositors against It
The appeal is from the entry of de-
fault.
The attack on the big bond is SIM
flar in nature to the step taken in the
district court for Ada county few
days ago in the suit brought by the
depositors of the Boise State bank
against V. w. Plat, and his bonds
men, against whom the same charge
is placed.-Capital News.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
TRADE TO BE GAINED
AS RESULT OF CANAL.
Imports into the Various Pacific Ports
Now Exceeds Two and One-Third
Billion Dollars.-Increase Certain.

WASHINGTON, Oct. ,31.-As an
intimation of the trade that will be
brought close to the doors of Amer
lean manufacturers and merchants
with the opening of the Panama ca
nal, the bureau of foreign and do
nestle commerce issued statement
today of the world trade done by the
countries washed by tn Pacific ocean.
The total of this trade cannot fully
be gathered but the imports into the
various Pacific ports last year exceed
ed two and one-third billions of dol
lars. The bureau discovered also
that the consuming power of the
countries virtually doubled in little
more than decade.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07

several states, constantly in session,
to make and unmake laws to vex the
people and confuse the courts. Inev-
itably respect for law is lowered, and
here, as elsewhere, familiarity breeds
contempt.
The danger is admitted. Rene
dies are sought. Thus far in each in
stance they follow the precept that
the hair of the the dog is good for
his bite. Clearly seeing the evils of
too much legislation we call for more
Through chance majorities, stable in
nothing, we would regulate the tastes
morals and habits of the peole by
act of assembly. Perennially re-
preaching congress- we would never
theless augment the power of con-
gress. We are creating system of
centralized bureaucracy and supple
menting the civil service with multi
farious commissions. We have a
standing army of officials. Collecti-
vism, robbing man of his individuali-
ty, trusts nothing to the force of ma
ture, the genius of our institutions
and the providence of God.
Yet we disdain alike experience
and forecast. Forgetting that 1t was
sentimental extremism that cid our
undoing in Eighteen Hundred Sixty
one, leaving us after an Iliad Of woes
much where it found us, it is still
sentiment which is on every side I'M
.yoked. We are threatened with gov
ernment by hysteria, displaying its
excess on the one hand By the vain
glorious assertion of our grandeur
and puisance, on the other hand ex-
pressing its humanity through the
exploitation of visionary schemes of
impossible relief.
The age of force is passing. The
age of numbers is at hand. We have
weathered the assaults by which time
tries the bravest: the struggle for ex-
istance, the foreign invasion, the do
nestle quarrel, even the disputed sue
cession. Comes the final test of the
right to be free; can the people, "the
majority of citizens told by the head, Z
rule themselves?
1t is problem that still hangs in
the balance of the experimental, and
except we look to it we may find oul
boosted world-power partaking rath.
er of the majesty of empire than the
blessing and the logic of liberty.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
BORAH SENTIMENT STRONGER.
People Throughout the Country Very
Much in Favor of Borah for Pres
idential Candidate in 1915.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. A.
Senator Borah and Representative
French during the practical recess of
the house and senate have been able
to make several speeches in Massa-
chusetts and New Jersey in the cam
paigns now going on in those states,
and Senator Brady in Maryland where
governor and 9 U. s. senator are to
be elected.
Mr.. French reports that the feeling
for Senator Borah as a presidential
candidate in 1916 is exceedingly fav-
orable and has expressed the judg-
ment that the rank and file of the
Republicans and Progressives are
uniting for the carrying out of pro-
gressive policies as have been sus-
tanned in the senate by such men as
Senator Borah, Senator Cummings
and others of this type.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
GOVERNMENT BY HYSTERIA.
(By Henry Watterson)


At length we are reunited. Let
us thank God for that. But from our
misadyentures and mistakes shall We
take no lesson to ourselves?
But, although the crossroads lie
behind us, there are the mileposts d.
rectly ahead each described with the
misleading words, "On to Washing
ton"
What do they mean? They mean
that when anybody wants anything he
shall go to Washington and get it..
They mean. through the spirit Of
mendicancy, less of manly character
and effort, and, through organized
paternalism. more Of personal Deepen
dence and public meddling with pri-
vate affairs.
May not dwell moment here up
on a peril menacing the future Of the
Republic?
We arc told, and most of Us believe
that those are best governed who are
least governed. Yet we have one big
congress in the nations capital and
forty-eight little congresses in the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
RECLAMATION MONEY NOT
APPROPRIATED; INVESTED.
Boise statesman

Pork barrel talk in eastern pa
pers, taken in connection with the
address of Director F. H. Newell at
the Commercial club Wednesday eve
ming brings out one point with clear
Money put into the reclamation of
the arid west by the federal govern
ment is not donated; 1t is not appro-
priated. 1t is invested and is to be
repaid, every dollar Of it, by the set
tiers on the land. This is true of
the 500, 100000 already advanced
for this purpose. 1t will be true of
the additional $100,000,00 put up to
carry the work further if Secretary
Lanes idea prevails at Washington.
This is not true of the money ap-
propriated for rivers, harbors and.
other government mprovements in
the east and south. The money so
expended is gone forever, and never a
dollar of it is returned to the treas
ury.
This one of the points clearly en-
phasized in the Commercial club
meeting last evening. Another point
and one of equal Importance, was that
there must be never word or thot
of reputation anywhere in the west
of any part of the obligation assumed
in the reclamation of the arid lands
through government aid.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07

Some three or four days ago, Mrs.
Lucy Alfred sent her little eight-year-
old girl to neighbours on an errand.
1t became necessary for the child 70
cross footbridge, and after an hour
or such a matter elapsed the mother
became anxious about the girl. and
started after her. She found that
her daughter had not arrived at the
neighbours house. and after diligenta
search, spread an alarm.
Since that time good number of
men. under the supervision of Fire
Chief Jack Mcmahon have been drag
ging the river and have gone so far
down as two or three miles, and were
equipped with graphing hooks, poles
and other apparatus.
Chief McMaohn has had consider
able experience in recovering bodies
from the river within the past two
or three years, and yesterday arrang-
ed number of poles with heavy
hooks attached. These he placed in
the hands of searchers, and short
ly after they were started out yes
terday afternoon, and at point some
800 feet below the footbrideg, Sam
Isom, while carefully probing under
bunch Of willows, succeeded in
finding the body, the hook having
caught in one of the child's legs.
Parties were still searching at least
a mile further down the river when
the body was recovered. The body
was taken to the undertaking estab-
lishment of Will T. Walker. Tho
searchers were very diligent and have
worked far into the night ever since
the child was drowned.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
SMALL BOY AND MATCH THE
CAUSE OF FIRE AT BOISE
(Boise Salesman

A small boy with one small match
had all kinds of fun and created all
kinds of excitement in the northern
part of the city Wednesday after
noon. The boy was skeptical. He
had heard that hay would burn, but
he did not believe it. He determined
to test the matter. He did. When
nice load of alfalfa drove up in the
alley in the rear of Ensign Smiths
home, 1909 North Ninth street, this
small boy, whose name is still un-
known to history, drifted out that way
With a skeptical smile on his mouth
he pulled out match, gave it a
swish over the leg of his pants as he
had perhaps seen his elders do, and
than applied it to the hay. Much to
his surprise and secret qualification,
the hay burned. And it was not slow
at burning. Fortunately for all con-
cerned, the owner of the hay, team
and wagon was at hand. With nerve
and presence of mind he dumped the
hay and got away with his team and
wagon. The barn into which the
hay was to have been stored was
saved by the prompt arrival Of the
fire department.
-
1t is intimated by some Of the
neighbors that the boy in question
discovered that other things will
burn as we'll as hay.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
PETITION
FOR O'NEIL
TOBESENT
PARDON BOARD TO BE ASKED TO
FREE EX-BANKER.
Strong Petition Filed and Considers
ton i'm Some Form Will Be Neces.
sary by the State Body Controlling
Such Affairs. -NOrth in Favor.
(Exchange)

1t is already clear that the state
board of pardons at its next meeting
will be called upon to consider a
strong petition for the pardon of B.
F. O'Neil. -.nOw~in the pennitentiary
under conviction of having made
false returns to the state bank exam
liner regarding the condition of the
State Bank Of, Commerce of Wallace.
says the Statesman. Copies of the
petition for pardon are to be found
in many communities of the state.
This is particularly true of those
communities in north Idaho in which
O'Neil operated most extensively and
where he was best known. The petit
tion reads as follows:
That at the time he commenced
to serve prison sentence he had been
incarcerated in various jails upon
said charge for more than one year;
that at the time Of the suspension OF
the State Bank of Commerce of Wal
lace, Idaho, he transferred and as
signed all his property, both real and
personal, to the representatives of
SAID suspended bank, and that he is
now wholly without means or prop
erty; that in all his dealings with
his fellow men he has always been
honest, just and generous, and up to
the time he was charged with having
made false report he had never been
accused of any crime or wrongdoing,
but on the contrary was noted for
his generosity and liberality, particu-
larly with the poor and needy.
I'VE believe that Mr.. O'Neil's Of
lenses wore mere technical offenses,
and that in the commission of the
same he followed out long establish
ed customs of other bankers; that he
did not intend to defraud the bank
or any of its patrons.
I'VE are informed mat Mr.. O'Neil
is the only officer of the suspended
bank of Wallace who has been OF
will be prosecuted, although all Of
the other officers were in position
to know, and must have known, OF
the technical violations of the law,
and we do not consider it fair that
he alone should suffer the penalty.
Mr.. O'Neil has a wife and child who
are without funds and means of sup
port and require and need his assist
ance. and we believe that he has been
punished sufficiently and that the
ends of justice have been met; and
that it will serve no good purpose to
further continue his confinement in
the penitentiary. We therefore re-
spectfuly pray that your honorable
board grant to said B. F. O'Neil a
full and unconditional pardon, with
full restoration of his civil rights
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
BLACKFlOOT MAN MARKS
BOUNDARY FOR GRAZING.

Fred w. Kiefer the civil engineer
returned a few days ago from Soda
Springs where he had spent a month
marking the boundaries Of the lease
for the Soda Springs Grazing Asso-
citation. They have 111.OOO acres in
the tract and they put up signboards
with cloth signs on, at roads, trails
and streams an dother conspicuous
places where people can easily see
them.
The lease is for grazing only, and
covers a period of five years.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
ABERDEEN MEN TO LOST RIVER

G. L. Myers and M. l.. Haines
Aberdeen were in town Monday eve
ming on their way to Howe where
they were to be met by Richard Nor
wood and go out UP the valley to be
shown fish and big game. Mr.. Nor
wood has been living out there for a
year or two and knows which can
yons to take for good sport.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
BOOSTS FOR IDAHO.
Commercial Agent for Nj. X. & L. IL.
II. Says $50 to Idaho"

II wouldn't tell the young men to
60 west; I'd tell them to go to Idaho. '
S. Halline, commercial agent of the
Missouri, Kansas G Texas railorad,
with headquarters in Denver, passed
through Salt Lake yesterday on a re-
turn trip from the Gem state, where
he had been looking up business for
the Katy" line. His opinion of the
territory he passed through was sum-
med up in the above sentence.-Salt
Lake Herald Republican.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
A SLAM ON CALIFORNIA
Young Lady Who Spent Summer In
BlackfOot Likes Idaho.

People generally praise the land
OF sunshine" after seeing it, but here
is case where it was different.
Miss J. M. Boice Of Richmond. Vir-.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07

Mrs. H. L. Lowe returned Saturday
to her home at Aberdeen after spend
ing week at Salt Lake City on canal
business.
Subscribe for The Republican.
We Specialize on Butter Wrappers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
r. H. CLAYTON IN HOSPITAL

Manager r. H. Clayton of the su-
gar factory has been in the hospital
at Idaho Falls for over week for an
operation for appendicitis.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-Repre-
sentative Burton L. French has re-
ceived notice from the civil service
commission of an open competitive ex-
ANIMATION for Jr. telegraph and tele-
phone engineers for men only to be
held on December 3rd, 1913, at var
ious points throughout the country.
In Idaho the examination will be
held at Boise, Moscow and Pocatello.
The position will pay from $40 to
$4,000 per year.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
CHILD IS
DROWNED
IN RIVER
SENT ON AN ERRAND AND DOES
NOT RETURN.
Searchers Find Eight Year-Old Child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred of POcatello
After a Three-Days' Search.
Lodged Under willows.
(Pocatello Tribune)

Yesterday afternoon shortly
after 8 o'clock the body ofSthe
little Alfred girl was recover
ed from the Portneuf, at a
point about 800, feet below
where the child had fallen In.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07

T. L. Jones, Ansil Rupe and A. d.
Nelson we're in from serling Fri
day.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07

Henry Damn and E. L. Yost went
to Idaho Falls Tuesday morning in
the interest of the Northwest Fruit
Distributors.
We Specialize on Butter Wrappers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-11-07
Big Potato Yield
at Idaho Falls.

6O8.4 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE.
Evening star., 1913-10-19
THE GAME OF LA BOULE." "
Where People Spend Their Holidays
in Gambling.

4
People go to Dieppe to gamble. And
there you have the real attraction of
the French seaside town-gambling. At
Dieppe you can play la boule-that stupid
game. There used to be petits chevaux
which, at least, was amusing to watch
for five minutes or SO. The French gov
ernment, though non-religious, Is moral.
1t was decided to put down gambling
throughout the land of France. SO a law
was passed to put IT down. The little
horses" were taken away. and. in
stead, they installed la boule-though
why one is gambling and the other is
not no man knows. They are prac-
tically the same thing. but instead of
the little horses which gal1oped round
the top of the table. they have cut
round hole in the center of the table,
where the little horses used to be,
and into this cavity they have fitted a
sort Of round wooden bowl. on which
the numbers one to nine are painted,
each in a little compartment of it's own,
arranged not in sequence but anyhow,
and each number recurS twice. An OF
fetal stands in front of this round
pond he takes solid rubber ball, the
sort which we call u dog ball; with ms
fingers he rolls it round the OUTSIDE
of the pond. into which presently 1t
falls, and bobs from number to NUMBER,
until at last it rests in one-and the
people who have Staked a franc upon
that one get their franc back ana
seven more besides. You can also stake
what is called an even chance on the
columns; there are four numbers In
column on one side of the table, ana
four numbers on the other. If num-
her which is contained in the column
on which you have staked franc
wins. you win a franc: but between the
two columns. in the center of the table
by itself, is the number five; and II the
number five wins, all bets on the col
umns go to the bank-which Is good
for the bank.
1t will thus be seen by the intelligent
reader that Ia boule is game az
which there can only be one winner
and that is the bank. most cursory
examination of the odds will show that
to be certain.