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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
MYSTERIES THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN SOLVED

but that the skeleton, separated from
the flesh, was hidden away in some
dark closet of the war department.
There is no doubt that the neck bones
bearing the fatal gunshot wound are
on public exhibition in the Medical
Museum at Washington, although
they are not labeled as Booths.
That one dark night the body was
taken down the Potomac, and there
sunk, has been testified by a man
claiming to have been one of the
four soldiers ntrusted with the secret
mission. More people, however, ad-
here to the theory that the corpse of
Wilkes Booth was buried in secret
grave, and, according to some of them,
this grave was in the Washington
Arsenal grounds where battery of
artillary was driven back and forth
over the freshly filled hole until ev-
ey trace of it was obliterated. =
Then again it is asserted with equal
positiveness that the secret grave of
the assassin was under brick pave
ment inside the old Jail where Mrs.
Surratt and other conspirators we're
hanged,
There are more persistent ac-
counts of the body's removal to Balti-
more where the Both family lies bur-
led, but these stories also differ wide
ly. According to one the corpse was
disinterred two years after its burial
in Washington, and, while waiting for
the family to claim it, lay wrapped
in a blanket and hidden in the old
stable, near Ford's theatre, where
Booth had kept his horse the night of
the tragedy.
Still another story was that the
corpse was not inferred until the lapse
of seven years, when it was identi-
fed by the Booth family in Wash
ington undertaking establishment,
and removed thence to Geen Mount
cemetery, Baltimore. Some claim to-
have been shown the burial permit by
officers of this cemetery, who, how
ever, refused to state the exact To-
cation of the grave. Basil Moxley,
the veteran doorkeeper of Ford's the
atre, used to maintain that a body not
Booths was buried In the Baltimore
cemetery with some show of mystery
after having been furnished by the
government, at the solicitation Of the
Booth family.
All of these theories have been sup
ported by persons who had hand in
the stirring events growing out of the
assassination. One of these men has
insisted that the body was promptly
turned over to the Booth family, and
that the various stories to the con-
trary were circulated merely to graf
ify popular cIanor.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
YOU CAN HELP
PURE FOOD
CRUSADE
BY HOLLAND.

VERY ONE appreciates
II the Importance of pure
food. All appreciate the
danger In adulteratiOn. the
risk In substitution.
You can aid the pure food
movement and at the same
time aid yourself. Howl
Merely by buying articles
that are Of known purity and
merit.
How can you know these ar
dcles? By watching the ad-
vertising columns in this pa
per and in other papers. Man
ufacturers who advertise
have confidence in their goods
and are willing to have
themselves and their prod
ucts known. Makers Of sub
stitutes and "just-as-goods"
usually hide behind anonym-
ity or use meaningless firm
name or brand.
PROTECT YOURSELF
BY PROTECTING
THE PUBLIC.
There can be no better
guarantee of the purity and
merit Of an article than the
fact that 1t is widely adver-
tised.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
First Native American Mysteriously
Disappeared

a deep mystery awaited the James
Itwn colonists when they landed in
1907. Sir Walter Raleigh had charg-
ed them to seek Virginia Dare, the
first native born white American. and
her fellow colonists upon whom the
forest primeval had so mysteriously
closed some twenty years before. But
only the pines and the hemlocks in
the depths of that leafy wilderness
could tell whittier these lost ones had
so strangely vanished, and, until Raj
eighs head fell from the block of the
executioner it was troubled with won
der as to the fate of his "lost Roam
oke Colony"
These one hundred and fifty men,
women and children he had sent to
Virginia, to found an agricultural
state. in 1887. In three ships they
had sailed gaily out of Plymouth on
a balmy morning of April, but they
did not touch their restless feet to
the sands of Roanoke Island until the
sun of late July had scorched it. John
white, their governor, brought with
him his daughter, Eleanor, and her
husband, Ananias Dare. The colo
nists had hardly hewn their cabins
out of the woods when they had oc-
casion to celebrate the bith of, "a
daughter to Eleanor and Ananias,
and the governor Christened his lit
tie granddaughter-the first child of
English parents born in the new
Virginia" Dare. Virginia
was only nine days old when Govern
or White was obliged to sail back to
England for fresh supplies. War with
Spain delayed his return, and it was
only after two years of worry as to
the fate of his colony that he at last
landed again on Roanoke Island on a
hot day of late summer
His heart sank at what he now
discovered. The entire colony had
disappeared and even their houses
had all been removed. Carved upon
tree, however, he found the word
"Croatoan," presumably indicating
that the colonists had fed, or had
been taken to that supposed Indian
settlement. But Governor White
died before this village could be
found The Jamestown colonists at
: length located it, however, and found
it to be deserted.
That the last of the Roanoke col
onists were all massacred by order of
Chief Powhatan, with the exception
of four men, two boys and Virginia
Dare, was one tradition. Another
tradition was that the entire colony
went up the Cape Fear river and in
termarried with Indians in Central
North Carolina.
Captain John Smith saw in an in
land Indian village half-breed boy
with yellow hair, whom he thought
to be child of one of the colonists,
intermarried with the red men. Ger
tain blue-eyed Indians found near
Cape Hatteras and up the Cape Fear
river were also alleged to be descend
ants of those lost whites.
But the fate of Virginia Dare, our
first colonial dame, remains the dark
mystery that it was three centuries
ago.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
POCKETBOOK
INSURANCE
IS CHEAP
BY HOLLAND.

ny r1OIIANU.
VOU can insure your peck.
a etbook by reading the
advertisements in this paper.
The manufacturers of the
most reliable goods and the
merchants who sell them are
telling you what is best. what
Is cheapest, what is most de-
sirable and where II can be
bought.
They know what they are
talking about, and they would
not talk in such an expensive
manner unless they knew
their words would bear in
spection. They want to save
money for you because by so
doing they make a perma-
nent customer of you.
1t takes little time and lit
tie trouble to read the adver-
dsements and few occupa.
tons will pay better. The
returns are immediate and
the profits are in cash.
If YOU WANT THE
BEST YOU WANT THE
GOODS THAT ARE
ADVERTISED.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03

who had lent him the money where
with to pay the probate expenses of
his brothers will and who had made
him guest at their house during the
settlement of that brothers estate.
But this explanation, too, has failed
to gain hold, and the mystery of our
hero's name seems fated to remain
unsolved.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03

Where Was Andrew jackson Born?
With all the fierce light that has
beaten upon our presidents it seems
incredible that the birthplace of one
as conspicuous as Andrew Jackson
should be matter of doubt and Bit
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
TO THE MEMORY
OF A
FEMALE STRANGER
Whose Mortal Sufferings
Terminated on the 4th day of
October, 1916
Aged % years and 8 months
TO THE MEMORY

This stone is erected by her dis "
consulate husband in whose arms y
she breathed out her last sigh. "
and who, under God, did his ut
most to soothe the cold, dull ear
of death.
y How loved, how honored once,
y avails thee not,
y To whom related, or by whom be- =
y got;
. A heap of dust alone remains "
. Of thee
+" IT'S all thou art, and all the "
. proud shall be.
To whom gave AL the prophets
witness, that through His name, .
whosoever believeth on Him :
shall receive remission of sins. "
= ~" "
1t was on the twenty-fith%of July
1915, that the brig Four Sons, bound
from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to West
Indies, diverted her course in order
to ascend the Potomac river, and an
chored of Alexandria just long
enough to lower a boat there and send
ashore sick woman and her husband
The trip up the Potomac was evident
ly made for this special purpose, since
no mail, cargo nor other passengers
were put ashore. When the small
boat pulled up at the wharf 1t was
seen that that the invalid had on a
thick veil. which, in spite of the heat
OF that midsummer day, she continued
to wear while being carried through
the streets to the Bunch of Grapes"
the largest tavern in the city.
After engaging the best room that
the hostelry afforded the anxious hus-
band hurriedly sent for a physician,
Continued on page ~
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
Grave of the "Female stranger

""'o VI JIG romaic SGUnBCE
Pilgrims to the tomb of Washing
ton at Mount Vernon have for gener-
ations been in the habit of stopping
over in old Saint Pauls churchyard,
Alexandria, Virginia, to view there
large marble slab resting upon six
carved columns and bearing the TO-
lowing inscription.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03
Why Did John Paul Jones Change His

Why John Paul Jones changed his
name is another of our unsolved col
onial mysteries. He was born with
the surname Paul. John Paul, and
no more, he had been as Scotch
laddie when his bare feet had scam
pered over the heather; and his father
an honest Scotch gardener, had been
John Paul, pure and simple.
Indeed it is well-known fact that
John Paul had been good enough for
our hero until he came to the age of
twenty-six or twenty-seven, when he
must needs don the extra surname
which scores of men have gone into
court to doff that they might have
surer identity. But did John Paul
wish to lose his identity by becoming
a Jones?
This precocious youth when twenty
four was captain of Scotch brig
which he took on two trips to the
West Indies. On one of these cruis-
es charges of cruelty to one of his
crew were made against him, but dis
missed as frivolous. When in few
weeks, however, his alleged victim
died the charges were revived. John
Paul was not arrested, but the Incl
dent preyed upon his mind, and, to
prove his innocence, he sent affida-
Wits to his family in Scotland.
Three years after this occurrence
his brother died and left HIM an estate
in Virginia, and thither John Paul
went, proposing to settle in Freder-
icksburg. 1t was at this time that he
added the name of Jones" to his
signature. Some people have thought
that he did this for reasons of con-
cealment growing out of the charges
just mentioned. But this idea seems
hardly probable, since he settled in a
community where every one knew his
original. name and since he continued
to correspond with his family in
Scotland.
Another theory is that he took the
name of Jones out of gratitude to two
brothers of that name, Virginians,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-10-03

gascar, was burned off Haiti and most
of her valuables moved to the sloop
in which Kidd showed up in New
York. This sloop was traced and
found first to have gone up Delaware
Bay, where a chest was landed; next
up the Hudson, and then into Long
Island Sound, where some treasure
was buried on Gardeners Island. And
there was evidence also that while
the sloop Lay off this island three sis
ter vessel received mysterious car
goes from her and proceeded north.
The Gardeners Island treasure was
afterward dug up and constituted the
bulk of the recovered seventy thous-
and dollars.
Even the spirit world has since
been tapped, through mediums, to dis
cover what became of the remainder.
The latest theory is that ten million
dollars worth of gold, silver and jew
els was buried by Kidd or his men in
a one-hurdred-foot hole in Oak Island
Nova tia; and in the spring of 1909
a we'll known engineer signed con-
tract to dig for the treasure, which,
if it exists, must now be covered by
the dust of more than two centuries.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22
WINTER CARE FOR
HORSES AND MULES
Animals Not Injured During Cold
Weather if Given Good Feed
and Warmth.

horses that are we'll fed and given
warm, well-bedded stables and care
fully handled are not injured by being
worked in cold weather. Give good
daily grooming plenty to eat, water
regularly, provide good ventilation,
ctean the stables every morning, and
let the sun shine into the stable.
Sunshine and pure air is Of prime
importance. Manure allowed to re-
main in the stable will ferment and
poison the air of the stable and give
the horses lung disease. When horses
are brought in at night from hard
work rub the legs down with bands
Of straw, and If warm blanket; when
cooled off, remove blanket, taking
care that they are not exposed to
draughts. When out with team carry
blankets to put on each horse If he
is to stand out in the cold when warm
any length of time. Carriage horses,
which it is desirable should have a
shiny coat, may wear linen covers but
toned round the breast and having
cropper attached.
When a horse is worked hard, his
food should chiefly be oats and corn.
These grains supply more nourish-
ment and flesh making material than
any other kind of food. Give good
mixed hay, just what will be eaten up
clean.
A careful hand will save his wages
In the feeding and care Of his team.
For severe work mules are superior to
horses. If humanely handled they are
as docile as the horse, much less IL
able to disease. A grass pasture at
tached to the barn will be great con-
venience. The horses when not at
work may be turned out to Craze and
for exercise when the weather is suit
able. Stable the stock in rainy
weather Do no turn stock out when
the ground is wet, as the sod will be
! injured
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22
GIANT TREES ARE FOUND
Centuries Old, Several Hundred Feet
High and Growing in Little Elk.
plored Canyon.

Hood River, Ore.-'In the forest
reserve between the headwaters Of the
west fork of Hood river and the
Bull Run lake are some large trees,
bigger than any l have ever seen
anywhere else in the northwest" said
George T. PratheT, a pioneer news
paper man and orchardist of the Hood
River valley.
my attention was first called to the
giants of the forest about fifteen years
ago by l.. Ferdinand Floss of Latour-
ellie, who made a visit every summer
to the northwest base of Mount Hood
Mr.. Floss at that time had a com
munication in the Oregonian relative
to the trees"
The trees are said to be several hun
dred feet high and to stand on the
fiat of hidden canyon. Steep bluffs
on either hand shut in the gorge in
which they rear themselves, and this
reason is given for failure of those
who fish in the Lost Lake district
to have found the trees. There are
two species Of the great trees.
One has a yellowish and not very
rough bark and is straight and as
round as a candle. 1t has no limbs
to great height, and has a beautiful
crown. The second species is cedar.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22
ELEPHANT is PARIS DISH
Comes From a Bright Idea Of Money
Making Animal Owner In
Paris.

Paris.-Elephant pate will figure on
a menu for a dinner at all the princi-
pal restaurants this year and Is being
looked forward to with rather mixed
feelings by Paris gourmets. The APP
pearance of the new dish is the result
Of chance supply rather than a popu-
lar demand, being due to the death,
week or two ago, Of Agra, a large
elephant, which for some days terror
lied Paris. Agra was the property Of
a travelling Snowman and developed
a habit of getting out of his cage,
walking around town, wrecking num-
erous wine shops, uprooting trees, and
causing panic in the streets where
she appeared. When the authorities
suggested that Agra would be better
out of Paris his master took him to a
provincial town, but as it was still
found impossible to keep him from
escaping and walking through shop
windows he had to be killed. The
owner determined to lose as little as
possible by his DEATH so he engaged
several butchers to cut him up and
mince him into pate, which sold here
for nearly the price he paid for the
animal when alive.
The pate is said to have delicious
flavor but its digestive qualities are
not insisted on, and this suggested
that Agra's devastating influence may
not have ceased with death.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22
HER FATAL GIFT OF BEAUTY
Missouri Girl in New York, Harassed
by Men, Tried Suicide, but Is
Prevented.

New York-For ten years Mary
Morgan fought the battle of the city"
in an endeavor to earn enough
money to keep life in her own body
and send something back home" to
her crippled father in De Soto, Mo
She was pretty, an expert stenog-
rapher, hard working, honest and
good But she found it impossible, al
most, to keep a job.
Il am too good looking" she said
to her friends as she told how she
had been Obliged to leave one office
after another because men tried to
force unwelcome attentions on her,
or girls appeared who would work
for less money Recently she lost
another job. Just before daybreak a
policeman saw young woman walk
ing toward the North river pier. Her
head was bowed and she was mutter-
ing to herself Just as she was about
to cast herself into the water he
caught her. The girl was Mary Nor
gan.
Let me go, let me CO." she
shrieked. Il want to die. They put
another girl in my place. She will
work for less than l could and l tried
SO hard to be good
At Bellevue it was found she had
almost starved herself to death and
that her clothing was far too'thin for
this season of the year.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22

ing the excavation of the Simplon tun-
mel is now accepted, says Prof.
Gregory. as proof that such water
came from a plutonic and could not
have come from a meteoric source.
Several most interesting discoveries
have been made in connection with
the artesian waters Of recent years.
One was that the constituent elements
in some Of the higher and lower lev
els in the same we'll differ very con-
siderably the former being generally
injurious and the latter beneficial to
vegetable growth. The injurious ef-
fects Of the higher level waters are
attributed to an alkali which com.
bines with clay to form a substance
known as a difiiusible colloid, which
expands in soil treated with these
waters, blocks the pores and renders
the soil unfit for agriculture Hence
the bad reputation of artesian waters
as an irrigant for agricultural pur-
poses. But this difficulty can be
overcome by constructing the wells IN
such a way as to enable the beneficial
waters at the lower depth to be tap
ped to the exclusion of the injurious
ones at the upper level.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22
LITTLE Difference
IN DAIRY BREEDS
Milk Function Requires Certain
Amount Of Care, Whether
Jersey or HoIStein.

When the best results are desired
in dairy work, there is very little to
be said regarding the difference in
care between the different dairy
breeds, says Hoard's Dairyman. Milk
function requires a certain kind OF
care, whether it is found in the Jersey,
Ayrshire, Guernsey or Holstein. The
moment we expect a dairy COW to rus
tie for her living, that moment she be-
gins to depreciate as a dairy animal.
The milk-making function of the mod
ern dairy COW is to a large degree ar
tificial and to keep it up to the high
est state to which it has been devel-
oped requires what might be term
ed artificial environment and feed
ing.
We presume that If we would
study of the history of the Ayrshires.
Guernseys and Jerseys, we would find
that the Ayrshire COW has been forced
to do more rustling, living under more
rugged and rough conditions, than
either the Jersey or Guernsey. The
AJISllilC tOlilCO llOlll a SOuhIl IllO
climate of which is colder, pastures
rougher, and perhaps less productive
than the countries in which the Guern-
seys and Jerseys originate. But as
the milk-making function becomes de-
veloped and the animal is called upon
to do a larger amount of work, it
demands, whether in the case of Ayr
shire, Jersey or any other breed, about
the same kind Of care and treatment
for the best results. If, however, we
should reason back to the environ
ments under which the Ayrshire,
Guernsey and Jersey originated, it
: would perhaps not be out of place to
say that the Ayrshire would be a bet.
ter hustler for her feed than the Jer
sey or Guernsey.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22
COnsumptive, White-Haired at
70, Is Admitted to U. S..
Peruvian Writes Story and ImmIera-
ton Officials Allow Him to Go
Was Lost In Andes for 1870
Days-Found by Indians.

New York.-A man with pure white
hair wasted frame and hollow, burn
ing eyes that bespoke the consump-
tive, wrote in Spanish brief history
of himself that made the immigration
officials shudder, and they allowed
the stricken man to go.
The man who wrote his name,
Miguel Rios, though white-haired and
wrinkled, is but %. Also he is stone
deaf.
When he arrived, a month ago, from
Iquitos, he was held and was to be de-
ported. Inquiry developed the fact
that his father, in Lima, Peru, Is i'm
mensely wealthy, and also that young
Rios has plenty of gold.
Rios, year ago, was gay young
senior in Lima, Peru, the only son of
a rich father, and he turned night
into day. When the good doctors told
him he was a victim of the white
plague he gathered a camping outfit
and started for the Andes, which lie
back of the town. The mountains
had cured others Of consumption and
Rios went light-heartedly, his guide
leading the llama which carried the
| camp pack.
While hunting one day he parted
from his guide, and night fell. For
days he wandered, living on berries
and roots.
One hundred and eighty days from
the day he was lost some Putomayo
Indians, few miles from Iquitos,
stopped to watch five vultures wheel
ing slowly overhead. BY gauging the
center of their flight the Indians
found the pitiful wreck Of what had
once been young Miguel Rios. He
was unconscious and nearly dead. His
hair had turned snow white and he
was totally deaf. Jabbering like an
idiot, he shrieked at his rescuers
Careful nursing at Iquitos brought
back sanity. Then he learned he had
crossed the Andes.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1913-01-22
REGIMENT is PENSIONLESS
Extraordinary Discovery Is Made as
to Ninth Kansas cavalry-ons
Trooper Makes Application.

Topeka, Kan.-Not one member of
the 9th Kansas cavalry, one of the
states most active regiments in the
Civil war, is drawing a pension. This
fact developed recently upon receipt
of a letter by state officials from H.
B. Lapham Of Lorton, Va, a member
of the 9th Kansas.
Lapham says that when he applied
for pension recently he was noti-
fed by the pension officials that no
other member of the regiment had
ever drawn a pension, that he was the
first to make application and that he
would have to induce five other mem
bers to apply, making six in all, be-
fore the consideration of granting
pensions could be taken up. Inforn1a-
ton regarding surviving members of
the regiment is being sought by
Lapham