davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-03-14

"Captain,' said a wealthy passen
ger, who was about to take his first
trip across the ocean, "I understand
this ship has got several watertight
compartments.
eyes, sir" was the reply.
Captain" the passenger went on,
decidedly, "I want one o. those com.
partments-I don It care what it costs. -
London Telegraph.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-03-14
FOREIGN HUMoR.

"You are the proprietor and a phar-
macist of the first class7'
eyes, madam"
I" And you know your business wellf"
"From the foundation.
"That is well. Give me two cents
worth of gum drops. lie Rire.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-03-14
HIS CHOICE.

"You've been sleeping in the tele-
phone booth, I believe" said the man
ager of the summer hotel.
"Yes.D
~ can give you billiard table now,
if you like"
"No; I'll stick to the booth. I
rather like the room. Ism It large, but
it's cozy." kansas City Star.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-03-14
Editor Said to Be Passing
Eastern Publication Holds That Oldme Journalist Is Giving
Way to Advertising Manager

OF greater journalism rests on these
men, and, in great measure, the lit
erary future of the country, also. The
editor must not pass.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-03-14

If every young man could see the
girl he is in love with eating her din
ner when nobody is watching her, the
crop of old bachelors would increase.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-03-14
Turn Your Ideas Into Money

INVENTORS. PATENTEES- list and
sell patents. state rights; also have
several openings for good inventions.
Agents tor Little Wonder Vacuum Cleaner.
PACIFIC COAST PATENT SALES AGENCY
IS, Morrison ST.. Portl.nd Oresss
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-03-14

A girl who has been engaged three
or four times may look as hopeless as
woman who is married.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
Coeur d'Alene Fears Loss.

A petition signed by many business
men and residents Of Occur d'Alene
was sent to Senator +. w. johnson at
Boise last Saturday, urging him to
use all possible means to defeat the
Koelsch bill now before the leglsla-
ture which adds to the requirements is
now demanded Of applicants fer mar
riage licenses. The proposed law,
which it is thought may pass, pro-
vides for a medical examination of
applicants for licenses and the publ.
cation of their names for certain
period before a license will be granted
them. The petitioners say that they
believe that the passage of this bill
would mean loss to this county Of
at least $4,000 annually besides the
fees which are paid to clergymen and
Others who perform marriages at
Occur d'Alene.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

years to affirm the legislation.
This amendment is the 10th and
will be known as Article XVI. OF
the constution.
Ex-Speaker Cannon has de-
clared on the floor OF the house
that the majority of the people OF
the District of Columbia are poor,
and this Notwithstanding the fact
that Uncle Sam who employs 49,
900 OF them, is pretty good pro-
wider. He asserts that the gov
ernment clerks close track of their
former homes, lose ambition and
finally 60 into dry rot." Uncle
Joe who has been forty years in
the national capital has expressed
truth cleverly.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
More About Taxes.

Taxes in Idaho will never be re-
duced until the legislature reduces
the fixed levies is the assertion made
by Attorney General Peterson who
thinks the legislature should look in.
to this feature of the law and stop
the county and city and school officials
from levying taxes in large amounts.
About two thirds of the amount of
taxes which are paid by the average
taxpayer go to the upkeep of the
school districts, the county govern
ment and the city governments. The
schools Of the state seem to take more
money than any other institution and
a great many attribute this to- the
many experiments being carried on
in the different schools throughout
the state.
A large number of those interested
in having the legislature practice
economy 10 the matter of appropria.
tions are attempting to have the fixed
levies changed so that the latitude
which now is possessed by county
commissioners, school trustees and
city officials would in measure be
cured. 1t is thought that If the
state starts to practice economy that
the cities, county and school districts
| will follow suit and lessen the tax
burden in this way. but the attorney
general insists that the only way in
which taxes can be appre:iably re-
duced is to begin and lop about so
per cent off the fixed levies so that
the different county, school aud city
authorities will have to be economical
In their administrations Statesman.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE
Some Of the Doinss Of the
Idaho S0lOnS.
GOVERNOR SAYS HURRY UP
Only Short Time Left to Dispose of
Mass of Bills.

The legislature has been hast
ened to its work by Governor
Haines, who sent a message to
both houses Tuesday, calling at
tention to the fact that there are
but l6 more days, including Sun
days, to consider over 400 pending
measures.
The house took final action on
"a bills, Tuesday. The bill for a
S25, 900 bond issue for live stock
show at Lewiston was defeated, as
also was the bill to appropriate
SIS, 900 for the state to take part
in the Panama. Cello celebration
i'll Lewiston in 1915. The bill f,l
a $3.50, 900 bond issue to complet.
the state capitol was also defeated.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
NATIONAL GUARD PROPERTY
What Would be Done if Militia
Was Abolished.

The officers of the national guard
at Boise are worrying over what will
become of the property belonging to
the organization 10 the event the
legislature refuses to appropriate
sufficient money for its continuance,
says an article in the Statesman of
Feb. 16. At the present time the
government has supplied the guard
with about 500, 900 worth of property
including uniforms, guns, ammuni-
tion, tentage and equipment. The
governor is held responsible by the
federal government for the return or
the proper use Of the property and in
the event the national guard should
be done away with all the property
will have to be returned to the govern.
ment.
There is about 25 per cent of this
property ia Boise under the care of
the adjutant general and the remain.
ing Is per cent of the equipment Is
scattered over the state among the
various companies.
There is on the way to the Idaho
national guard carload of ammuni-
ton shipped from the government
arsenal at Rock Island, H., and it
will arrive here within the next two
weeks. The car contains about l20, :
| 900 rounds of small arms and field
ammunition. The cost is about
$2500. This ammunition is furnished
to the guards of the several states
and charged up to the accounts of
the states appropriations made by
congress. When this ammunition
has been shot away either in actual
service or 10 target practice the gov.
ernment wipes the slate clean and
sends another carload.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
MRS. S. ]. MELDER IS DEAD
Passed Away in Spokane.-Funer-
al Here Next Sunday.

The Spokesman. Review contains
the following account of the death Of
Mrs. Sarah j. Melder, who will be re.
membered by many old timers of
Rathdrum:
Mrs. Sarah j. Melder. widow OF the
late Judge Henry Melder, died Salur.
day afternoon, Feb Is, aged "a, at
her residence, 3l3 Mansfield avenue,
Spokane. She is survived by seven
children: Oscar f. Melder and Henry
l.. Melder of Blanchard. Idaho; Fred
E. Melder of Twin Lakes, Idaho; Gus
e. Melder. Mrs. Minnie Rose, Mrs.
Edwin J. Young, and Mrs. Robert S.
Bragaw Of Spokane; also by Is grand
children and two great grandchildren,
ali living in or near Spokane.
Mrs. Melder was born at Gardner,
Maine, January 10, 1899, and came to
Spokane with her family in April,
1881, from California, making a home
with her son, Oscar Melder, the first
white settler on Peone prairie, where
she was the FIRST white woman 10.
habitant.
She moved with her husband to
Rathdrum, Idaho, in 1882, returning
to Spokane after his death at Twin
Lakes In 1909.
Mr.. Melder and Justice Sam e.
Hyde practlced law together in the
early days. Mr. Melder was first ap.
pointed and afterward elected probate
Judge for six terms IN Kootenai
county. He was collector Of customs
for eight years at Bonners Ferry.
Mrs. Melder who was member of
the Rebekahs, will he inferred at
Rathdrum, Idaho, next Sunday.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
Railroad Ice Harvest.

Thousands of tons Of ice have been
stored by the railroad companies dur.
ing the cold weather and the work Is
abou l. complete. The Northern Pa
cifc has housed about 5000 tons on
the idaho division and Is nov COM
pletlng the storing Of about 10000
tons on the Pasco division. This
comes from Coco'alla, Idaho.
The Great Northern has stored
total Of more thau4 $4,000 tons at
Hillyard. Spokane, and Leavenworth.
This ice was mostly cut in Idaho and
Montana.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

The Wright house bill dividing the
state into two congressional districts
Is being opposed by Congressman
French and others. 1t Is said some
OF the opposition is due to the placing
OF FIVE southern Idaho counties along
with all the northern counties IN ONE
district in such a manner as To leave
the second district composed OF the
southeastern counties, thus giving
the MOrmOns control OF the second
district, 1t is claimed.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

On Feb. 10, the senate passed the
house bill authorizing the summon
ing OF Jurors by registered mail as
well as by personal service; also, the
house bill authorizing trustees of
independent school districts to levy
taxes for the Establishment of gym.
nasiums and public Fairgrounds. On
the same day the house passed House
bill %, prohibiting the sale of fire
works and explosives to minors unde
10 years Of aye without the written
consent OF their parents. Several
less unimportant bills were passed In
both branches.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
Whv There Was No Tin.

In a downtown restaurant which Is
usually crowded during the midday
meal time n waiter took pains to se-
cure places at one of his tables for two
men who had been waiting for some
time. The waiter received the thanks
Of both men and attended to their
wants in a highly satisfactory manner
When the check was presented one Of
the men paid. received the change and
left nothing on the salver for the wait
er. "You forgot to tip the waiter"
said his companion. mo. didn't
He's my landlord."-New York Trib-
une. -------.... -.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

Senator Hart has introduced tn rec
bills that are looked upon as admin. s.
tration measures. One of these pr.D.
vdes for the creation Of a state taA
commission and for an appropriation
OF $50, 900 to carry out its provisions.
1t is the desire to combine this with
the public utilities bill that is ex-
pected to pass the house and make
the public utilities commissioners the
tax commissioners also.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

Chandler evidently thiaks the
members of the legislature are worth
more than the state is paying them.
He introduced joint memorial pro.
posing an amendment to the cunsti-
tuition to raise the salaries of the
solons from S. to $40 per day with
mileage at the rate OF 10 cents Der
mile each way. Indications are that
the resolution will pass both ho, Uses
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
RATHDRUM, KooTENA COUNTY

Emilio VasQuez Gomez, recently
released on bond at San Antonio,
Texas, crossed the border into Mexico
last Saturday and proclaimed him
self president of the republic. He
had been imprisoned in the United
States on charges OF neutrality vio-
lation.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
County Warrants Called.

County Treasurer r. F. Kercheval
has issued call for cuarent expense
warrants to and including No. 1880,
dated Sept. 13, 1912, and general road
warrants to and including No. 800,
dated August II, 1912.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

Up to the beginning VI the present
week the legislature had created five
new counties, all In southern Idaho,
the last Of The five being Madison
county, formed out Of part Of FIRE.
mont. A sixth division bill passed
the house Saturday to organize Jetfer-
son county out Of part of Fremont.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
STATE AND COUNTY NEWS
Items Of Interest Gathered
From Exchanges.
OF INTEREST TO IDAHOANS.
Events and Industrial Progress
Of the Week.

The steel bridge across the ST.
Maries river near St. Mares IS nearly
completed. 1t cost $4,000, half OF
which sum was appropriated by the
county and the rest by the state legis-
ture Of 1911.
The omnibus public building bill
reported to the lower house of con.
Rress last Saturday carries $s5, 900 for
erecting public building at Twin
Falls and $1,000 for building and
site at Standpoint.
House robbers at st. Maries last
Saturday ransacked one house where
the family was away, but were
frightened of when attempting to
enter second house, leaving behind
the plunder they had taken from the
first.
The University of Idaho is to take
an important part in stamping out
the hog cholera 10 the southern part
of the state. The manufacture of
hog serum is to be undertaken at
once by the veterinary, bacteriology
and animal husbandry departments.
A fusilade of bullets fred by police
in Spokane In chase Of an alleged
highwayman, last Sunday morning,
caused the death of Gustav Froistad
OF Laclede, Idaho. Though two
blocks away, Froistad was struck in
the head by stray bullet and died
in the hospital few hours later.
Because of the enthusiasm Of the
specially trained teachers of Ada
county, the rural schools are going to
give the city schools close run for
their position ia vocational training.
With almost no equipment, with
nothing but enthusiasm for their
work and like enthusiasm for study
10 their pupils. the rural schools are
said to be learning cooking, sewing,
manual training aud agriculture.
The Boise State bank, it is said,
will not pay over 25 per cent to the
depositors when its affairs are wound
up and settled. State Banking Com.
missioner Platt turned over to Re.
celver Pettingill $22,5O0. The de-
posits of the bank at the time it was
closed amounted to about $l4O, 900.
1t is not thought that the notes held
by the hank will bring much to the
depositors, and it is not thought that
more than rs per cent of this amount
can be collected.
Accused Of being overzealous in his
enforcement of the law, M. S. Parker
has been asked to resign as deputy
under State Pure Food Inspector
James II. Wallis. 1t is claimed Mr..
Parker prosecuted too many cases
wherein the violation Of law was
merely technical, one instance being
where merchant was ffned for sell.
ing machinery that was not labeled
with his name and address as required
by law. :
Miss jessie Hoover, professor OF
home economics in the state univer-
sity, Is enthusiastic concerning the
proposed women's building at the
Moscow school. She is delivering a
series of lectures to the women OF
Boise and vicinity upon home econo.
mics aud showing how the high cost
of living bugbear may be successfully
killed of il the housewife would onl,
use reason when making her purchases
from the butcher, the baker aud the
candlestick maker. II the legislature
should see at to grant an appropria
ton for the building she has severa
ideas in mind toward developing the
best cooks in the world IN Idaho.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

Lewiston business men are demand
ing bill for a $40, 900 bond Issue by
the legislature to help buy the Lewis
on-Clarkston bridge across the Snake
river. 1t is said similar bill has
already passed the Washington house
at Olympia.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

Word received from California say.
Ing that state will not raise the
quarantine against Idaho alfalfa on
account Of the alfalfa weevil, caused
the house to take immediate actluu
to amend bill by Koelsch authurlz.
ing the state horticultural board To
quarantine any county In Idaho
where Infection is found.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

A deficiency appropriation bill has
been prepared carrying $73, so.
Among the items are: Lewiston nor
NAL, 500, 1872; state university, $3318;
district courts. $1l,3l9; training
school, $4497: capitol maintenance,
$2519; board OF equalization, $4626.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
Call For School Warrants.

Ratbdrum, Ida, Feb. 81. 1918.
! Notice is hereby given, That l am
prepared to pay the following War.
rants of School Dist. No. 2, interest
on same to cease ten days after date
OF this notice. Nos. $40 to 74S 10.
elusive, Dated Feb. ~. 1913.
II. E. YOUNG,
Treas Ind. School Dist. No. 2.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

Last Saturday President Madero
wired a request TO President Taft
asking that the United States with.
hold intervention pending the at
tempt to put down the Diaz revolt.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

The house bill providing that the
signatures of both husband aud wife
be required tu every der,i, was de-
fcatcd In the senate. Feb. Is. The
uain objeci Ion Wa, li.aL the bill
made no ulsLinctiuu between COM
nunlty property and separate pro-
perty.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
Economy ?

Ten new counties, an added burden
of $3.50. 900 a year on the shoulders of
the taxpayers and 800 recruits added
to the army Of Taxeaters-thisp prom
ises 10 be the record of the Trifing
Twelfth.-Boise Statesman.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
At NATIONAL CAPITAL
Paragraphs on Important Gov
ernnlent Affairs.
GET READY FOR INAUGURAL
Borah on Conservation. Money
Trust. Tax.

Washington, D. c., February
17.-The national capital is pre-
pairing to carry off the inauguration
in grand style-the whole District
of Columbia has laid aside its
trivial cares, such as real estate,
and earning livings, to make Mr..
Wilson's "simple inaugurar' the
grandest affair that has been on
the boards since the coming to our
shores of Christopher the First was
celebrated in Chicago twenty years
ago. TIE people of the United
States are "hush" with money, or
at least part of them are, and the
principals of the inauguration may
in manner adhere to their pre-
ference for simple ceremonies, but
with practically all of the states
participating in the event, and with
each attempting to eclipse the
other, it is apparent that the
activity of committees, carpenters,
etc, presages an event that has
never before been equaled in the
capital. The states of Washing
ton, Montana, Oregon, Wisconsin
and Idaho, will not send their
militia to the Inauguration. Min
nesota will send four hundred of
its state soldier boys, and the other
states will all be represented.
Senator Borah, like many others
has found that there are different
kinds Of "conservation," and in a
few pointed remarks concerning a
local measure, told the senate:
"The west does not object to the
conservation which has preserved
the resources, but it does want re-
lief from the conservation that has
tied up the development of the
west" This class of conservation
is likely what Representative
Burke of South Dakota told the
house was professional conserva-
tion," and he explained that it
conserved SO carefully, that the
natural resources of the country
were not utilized-thus stopping
development.
! Both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties of Utah endorsed the
proposed constitutional amend
ment for the direct election oI
senators last year, but the legisla
ture has rejected the proposed
amendment. Thus Utah, the
Mormon state, is the first to de.
clare against this important change
proposed in the method of secur.
ing senators.
The Money Trust investigators
had more trouble finding Mr.
Rockefeller than they did the
money trust, and though the Stan.
dard OH magnate could not find {
voice with which to give his testi
mony, it was immaterial, as thu
material facts in the investigation
were produced through the testi
mony of ]. Pierpont Morgan ane
Banker Baker. Congress is nov
expected to tackle the Wall stree
grip upon the financial affairs o
the nation.
1t has been forty-three year
since the constitution of the Unitet
States has been amended, and it i
doubtful if during all that perio'
there has been a single session @
congress when some sort of amend
ment was not attempted. Th
first step towards amending tn
constitution to provide for an in
come tax was taken in June, 1909
, and the following month bot
houses had affirmed the resolution
and it went to the states. II ha
taken the states three and hal
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

The senate last Week passed Ed
ging,on's joint resolution providin q
for the submission of a constitution al
amendment making the terms of fall
state officers four years Instead Of two
years.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21
PRICE $1.OO PER YEAR

Last Friday, Sargent OF Kootenai
introduced a new bill for the organi-
zatlon of st. Joe county out of the
southern portions Of Kootenai aud
Shoshonc. The new bill differs fr,m
the old bill IN that it leaves the mat
ter to a vote OF the people of the
proposed new county.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

1t is feared yet that Europe may
become involved in war over the
Balkan imbroglio. Austria-Hungary
and Russia cannot agree on the
boundars of Albania. The island of
Crete now belongs to Greece, the
powers having abandoned it Feb. Is.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

The senate last Saturday passed
the senate bill by Hart providing for
one registration unless a voter fails
to vote, and making no.aiies public
registrars OF precincts.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21


time tO county business. was recon-.
mended for passage Ia the house,
Feb Is.
All the bills introduced by Senator
Fields uf Latah: tie anti.racetrack
gambling bill, II corrupt practices bill
and a pubic utilities bill, have been
killed In the senate.
A total Of about GOO bills have been
introduced in the legislature. Seven
ty-four were introduced last Friday,
| the 40th day of the session, after
which no more bills may be intro
duced witl,Ou the consent Uf two
thirds OF the memb.ts.
Among the new bills introduced
Feb. IA, is II. 3. No. 337, by Edel-
blute, making AL appropriation OF
$50, 900 for the Intional guard.
A house bill by, Shattuck asks for a
$500. 600 bond is at " construct u
state highway system
Wearne of Koo,e"A. has introduced
bill requiring PARTIES to suits ia
justice courts who de,GA nd trial by
jury to deposit with the court in ad-
vance the fees aud nil,vge of the
jurors.
An appropriation of 500, 900 for
the representation of Idah no at tho
San Francisco fair II called for in a
house bill introduced by Elliott.
A state board OF agficullLr. and an
appropriation of $S0,0)O for us, OF
! the board and for stlte fair is pro.
vided for in house till by Koelsch.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1913-02-21

A bill by Representative Norton OF
kOotenai county to put this county
In a class by itself with $500 salaries
for commissioners to devote all their
time u county business, was recon-.
mended for passage Ia the house,
Feb. Is.