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Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-03-07
CATHOLIC CHURCH

Regular services will be held on
every first and third Sundays of the
month
Mass at 10 o'clock,
Sunday School at O'Clock.
Benediction at 1880.
at IL o'clock.
REV. +. L. Lobell, Pastor.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-03-07
X y " II Il y y
METHODIST CHURCH NEWS


Rev. J. V. Hawk of Boise Will
preach next Sunday morning and
evening. Special music at both meet
ings.
The District Conference will be
held here March 22-25 Thirty or for,
tv ministers are expected, also Bishop
Luccock of Helena, Montana.
Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-03-07
THE METHODIST CHURCH

J. w. SIFTON, PHI. D., M. D., Pastor.
Sunday School at 10 a. M.
Preaching by pastor, IL a. m.
Bpworth League, 700 p. m.
Preaching by pastor, 7:30.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday even
Ing a. 1880 p. m.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
10 Pages
$500 Per Year
Water Power Rights.

Washington, d. C.-The president
and the cabinet have consented to ac-
cept Secretary Garrison's policy re-
garding national water power rights.
Mr.. Garrison's plans make no surren-
der to the federal governments
power to control navigable streams,
yet it practically gives to the state
the entire supervision of actual ope-
ration. The idea is that congress
will be asked by the department to
issue permits for the construction of
dams and power plants; these are to
be given only to concerns incorporat-
ed as public utilities under state
laws.
The operation and regulation will
be under the states commissions and
is intended to prevent any monopoly
or unfair discrimination. Instead of
tolls or rents from these plants going
to the federal government, it will re-
main in the treasury of the state. In
states where there is no utilities
commission, no grants will be issued.
This will probably have a tendency to
force legislation in states where at
present there is no utilities commits
sion.
Another pleasing feature of the
scheme is that franchises will be
granted for fifty years only and at
the end of that time, the dams and
accessory work shall become the
states property. The entire scheme
is closely related to the proposed plan
of the secretary of the interior, Mr..
Lane, for the regulation of the water
power projects on public lands.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
TO MEET AT DENVER.

Secretary Lane of the interior de-
partment has called a meeting at
Denver on April 9Th at which time
he hopes to meet representatives
from the various western states to
consider irrigation matters II is the
desire of the secretary to not only
meet the state officials but he would
wish TO have Representatives present
from the various settlers associa-
tions. investors and others interested
in irrigation projects.
In a letter received from S. d.
Taylor, Carey act commissioner. he
states that II is the desire Of Gov
ernor Haines that the Association on
this tract recommend some memb Der
as a representative TO this confer
ence. As the commissioner says,
this will be a very important meeting
and one that will enable the people
of this section of the country to get
in touch with Secretary Lane and
Director Newell of the reclamation
service 1t is we'll known that these
OiilAidiS Van bt vi iAilltlSC SCI III
to Idaho at the present time in CO.
operating with the state in complet-
ing some of the defunct projects and
putting them on a sound financial
basis.
Notwithstanding the importance
of this meeting and the good that
might be derived from it for the
state as a whole. and this section il
particular. the board of directors a
their meeting last Saturday, after
discussing the matter at some
length, decided that they did not fee
warranted in expending an amoun
sufficient to meet the expenses of ;
representative at this conference.
From the fact that this meeting
will mean much to Idaho. we fee
personally that the state at larg
should bear the expenses of a few
representatives from some of th
larger segregations. and have m
doubt but what the results woul'
; more than compensate the state 70
this expenditure.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
Producers Meet.

The Southern Idaho Producers as
sociation held their regular monthly
meeting in this city Tuesday after
noon. At the meeting the commit
tee took up the matter of sacks for
the farmers and it was decided to
furnish them at cost to the growers.
The sacks to be used will hold 12O
pounds. During the afternoon the
matter of warehouses was discussed
and it developed that the association
will more than likely build forty
warehouses or storage cellars this
season. These are to be financed by
the members of the local associa-
tions
During the afternoon addresses
were delivered by John L. McPher-
son, who spoke on the matter OF f.
nancing the warehouses, and S. J.
Donaldson of Pocatello, who deliver
ed an address on cooperation.
G. l. Towle, of Jerome, was elected
president of the association in the
place of H. E. Barrett, resigned. The
meeting was attended by potato
growers from all over the tract
Twin Falls Times.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

been in position TO report that the
sum it was proposed to raise would
not be sufficient.
"The truth is that the bond brok-
ers found that there was a ready
sale for irrigation bonds. The com
mission of from 10 to 20 per cent
YIELDED such a ready revenue for
them that no adequate attention was
given the essential fact that the pro-
ceeds of the bond issue should bring
in sum sufficient to supply with
water the land embraced in the con-
tract; no adequate attention was
paid to the amount of land actually
covered by the canal.
The state should not have allow
ed a bond issue on a blue print and
prospectus.
The blue print allowed the bond
broker to make victims of investors
in every walk of life from one end
of the world to the other. The pros
pectus enabled the colonization pro
moter to make victims of the inno-
cent settlers, who moved TO the land
built their homes and put in crops
in expectation of the water that nev.
er came.
These are the two sets of victims
whose interests should he seriously
considered by the state authoritie:
in any plan of reorganization.
1T is needless for the state to say
that it had no responsibility in til,
premises. 1t has no legal responsi
bility, but it has a moral responsi
bility for the reason that these vic
tins invested and took up land undei
the impression, covertly conveyed
that Idaho was guaranteeing
square deal for ALL"
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

on Saturday when a general mass
meeting will be called at which time
he will be pleased to meet all the
settlers and address them.
The announcement that matters
were practically adjusted met with
most universal favor by everyone on
the tract, and will receive the same
hearty welcome by our nonresident
land holders, many of whom are anx-
iously awaiting the consumation of
the extension plans to begin develop
ing their lands here. While no def
mite announcement has been made,
it is most likely that the present To-
cal management of the system will
| not be changed this season. Mr..
Shepard, however, will assume the
personal management of the affairs
here. and expects to spend most of
his time on the tract this summer.
The progress of affairs thus far
should be sufficient to instill the
spirit of enthusiasm into the heart
| of every settler on the tract. We feel
that the opportune time has arrived
for everybody to get their shoulder
to the wheel and boost for the North
Side tract, and If this is done we will
see our population doubled within
the year.
Let all remember the meeting on
Saturday afternoon and be present
to hear what Mr.. Shepard has to Of
fer as he will probably at that time
announce some definite program tc
be followed.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
BLUE PRINT AND PROSPECTUS
CAREY ACT PROMOTION.

Who would have thought the
Statesman, which until recently has
never uttered word of criticism
against the practice pursued by the
irrigation companies throughout the
state, would finally experience a
change of heart sufficient to pen the
following. which appeared as a lead
paper?
THE King Hill project visualizes
the horrible example of Carey act
promotion as it has been practised
with reference to this state. Its evils
and dangers are presented as COM
posite photograph in a single enter
prise.
THE company was organized on
the theory that water for $4,000
acres could be sold for s65 an acre,
or for total sum of 1915, 900. The
construction work was estimated tc
cost 100000 and the total expense
of administration, colonization, in
terest, taxes, etc, at probably $3.50.
600 more. which would leave a possi
BILE margin of s225.0o0 profit.
1T would seem that proper in
vestigation would have shown tina
the possible acreage was not 1900
but only about 10000; and if double
the estimated cost has already beer
expended for canal that will no
: supply the water for even that re
/ duced acreage. any engineer capabl
of acting for the state should hav
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
A WISE ACT


We Will take off our hat to the
state land board for their action last
week in turning a deaf ear to the
request OF Don H. Bark for funds to
carry on his experiments of duty of
water
AS we CLEAN from the Capital News
Mr.. Bark appeared before the board
and asked for an appropriation of
$1,000 from the state TO supplement
the money furnished by the federal
government and the various irriga-
tion companies to continue the in
vestigations as to the duty OF water.
Attorney General Peterson took
the position that the real problem of
the land board was to get water upon
the land first. He thought scientific
| investigations as to the duty of wat
| er would be worth little to the set
| tiers until they get a water supply.
He argued further that the land
board would be hardly justified in
expending the limited funds at its
command in making scientific expert
ments while settlers on the projects
we're actually suffering for water.
Mr.. Bark emphasized the value OF
the work he could do with the $1,000
and the permanent value of his re-
port. But the board was feeling
poor and the money was not voted
Governor Haines and State Auditor
Huston favored the appropriation
| AftnrnaN Canara1 Do
retary OF State Clifford opposed it and
the motion was lost. 1t was then
agreed that $500 be appropriated tc
enable Mr.. Bark to meet all out
standing obligations and clean up
We have time and again criticized
the action OF the board for advanc
ing money out of the Carey act trus
fund for this purpose, on the sam,
grounds that are now advanced b,
Attorney General Peterson, viz: tha
what the average settler was most in
terested in was getting a supply O
water rather than to know just hov
much to use, and we congratulate
the land board that they have at las
seen the folly of this so-called scien
tific investigation as carried on b.
Mr.. Bark on a few of especially Sc
= lected spots.
There may be time in the futur
when those Investigations may be O
some practical use to the settler, bu
at the present time the only advatag
. we can see in them is to the advant
age of the irrigation companies /
enabling them to furnish as littl
l. water as possible. 1t is a pleasure {
know, however, that the land boar
is slowly getting their eyes open t
the many unnecessary wastes out {
the Carey act fund. and also to n rei
Z lization of the actual needs of tn
e settler.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
WHAT TO DO WITH 1T.

That is the question now before
the land board since they have come
into possession of the King Hill pro-
iect. Gov rnor Haines insists that
some steps must be taken at once to
furnish the settlers there with wat
er for the coming season, and this
will likely of course be done.
1t is know in general way that
State Engineer King some time age,
after making a thorough inspection
of the irrigation system, submitted
report to the state land board in
which it was set forth that approx
mately 100000 is needed to put the
system in good condition. This re-
port has been withheld from the pub
lie up TO this time. so that what is
recommended by Engineer King in
the way of betterment is known only
10 those directly interested.
In the report of the state land de-
partment for 1912, the latest public
information on the King Hill project
it is reported that
The source of water supply is Ma
lad river. from which it is conveyed
to the project through main cana
27 miles long.
The total Carey act acreage in the
project is 1S.S59.S4. OF this 1859.
4S acres are reported to be sold. 1t il
also reported that water from til,
system is also furnished to 19,3S5.2I
acres of desert, school and othel
lands.
The original estimated cost of th'
project was 100000. Total amour
expended on the project to date o
report, s1,101, ,693.0S.
Cost of water right per acre 70
Carey act lands, s65.
Cost of water right for state lands
$40.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

Barney O'Neirs petition for a par
don was unanimously rejected by
the pardon board last week. The
question was under discussion for
two days and was presented by legal
talent. but the board in its final ac-
ton declared that O'Neil's crime
was direct violation of the law in
that he made selfish and unlawful
use of money in his bank that should
have been regarded as a trust fund.
AS a result. O'Neil will still make his
home behind prison bars for time
longer at least.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
WHO OWNS THE SHORT LINE

In tabulated list giving the num-
ber of stockholders of about IS lead
ing railroads of the country, the
Boston News bureau cites that the
Oregon Short Line has 16. with a
capitalization of S10O,000,0O0 The
Southern Pacific. with capitaliza-
tion of S272.672, 400, has 1885
stockholders, of whom 62S5 are
women. Union Pacific has a capital
ization of SS16.216.S0O. with "a
655 stockholders, of whom $500 are
women. The Santa Fe has a capital
ization of SSO5.O1O.3OO. with S5.-
BAL, of whom 5,O46 are women.
The total capitalization of all rail
roads given in the list-about Is
is S6,15O,17O,OS3, with list OF
stockholders aggregating 61,445
there being 13O.679 women included
in that number. No women appear I,
hold stock in the Short Line.
The short Line is one of few
controlled by a small number o
stockholders, but two other road
having a less number than 16.-Poc
atello Tribune.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

The people of the country were
somewhat surprised last week when
the dispatches announced that the
directors of the United States EX-
press Co. had voted unanimously to
liquidate their affairs and dissolve
The inauguration of the parcel post
is said to be the cause of this disso-
luton. 1t is stated that this act of
the directors will throw $4,000 per-
sons out of employment, many of
whom have grown old in the service
and will be unable to find new jobs.
The pay roll of the company amount
ed to S6,0OO.00O per year.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

The postoffice department seems
to be having no end of trouble with
its star routes and rural mail car
riers. Since the Introduction of the
parcels post the burdens on these
carriers has multiplied until it is
impossible to get contractors to take
these routes at the prices offered by
the department. AS a result. over
8 per cent of the Idaho proposals
for carrying these mails have been
rejected. Ia relation to the rural
carriers. fourth assistant postmaster
Blakesley is coming to Idaho to in
vestigate the conditions, and in the
meantime Senator Brady is insisting
that the rural as well as star rout,
carriers get full compensation fol
the services performed.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19
A recent dispatch from Washin

A recent dispatch from Washing
ton states that Senator Borah We'd
nesday introduced, by request, bill
authorizing the secretary of the in
terror to cancel any segregation of
lands under the Carey act upon a re-
port signed by not less than five set
tiers that the state is not in good
faith prosecuting the reclamation
of the lands segregated or that the
contractor is violating his contract
and unnecessarily delaying the work
of reclamation.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

Mr. Byrd Trego, of Blackfoot, who
was sometime ago convicted of
statutory offense against a young
girl, has been granted a new trial by
the supreme court. Mr.. Trego is ed
itor of the Blackfoot Republican,
and prior to this has had very little
TO say of this case. Now that he has
been granted a new trial, however.
he is laying bare the secrets in the
case which is making quite interest
ing reading for those acquainted
with the parties, as startling facts
are being brough out and other
prominent people being brought into
the case.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

The announcement has gone out
from the White House at Washing
ton of the engagement of Miss Flea
nor Wilson, youngest daughter of
the president, to Secretary McAdoo
of the treasury department. While
there is quite a disparagment in the
age of these two important person
ages, the bride to be being "a while
the groom has reached two score and
ten. Eleanor probably looks for
ward to being an old mans darling
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

Governor Haines has placed sec
toes, investigation having shown that
the tuber moth is quite prevalent in
that state. The growers in that
state have lost several million dol
lars in the past two years from this
moth. and our state officials propose
to see to it that the pest does not get
into this state.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

1t will be remembered that some
time ago DR.. Smith of King Hill
was convicted of starving a patient
to death, a young lady school teacher
who was under his care. He was
granted a new trial by the supreme
court and when the case came up
again at Mountainhome, the same
was dismissed for want of evidence
to convict.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-03-19

The startling discovery has been
made that the Big Lost River is un-
the structure will re worthless. 1t
seems that the settlers on that pro-
ject have more than their share of
trouble.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-12-04
The Object Of War
BY FORD H. MacGREGOR
Chief Municipal Bureau University

emys water supply. 1t is forbidden
to treacherously kill or wound indi-
viduals of a hostile nation, as by
assassination, or to kill or wound an
enemy who is defenseless or has sur
rendered at discretion. 1t is mex
cusable for nation to lombard the
defenseless town of hostile nation,
to Wantonly destroy religious or
charitable buildings, or to needlessly
seize or destroy the enemy's prop
erty. 1t is an act of perfidy to
make improper use of the flag OF
truce, of the enemy's uniform, or of
the insignia of the Red Cross.
These are all practices forbidden
by international law. Conventions
were also signed at both Hague
Conferences forbidding the dropping
of shells or explosives from balloons
and airships, and the use of projec-
tiles for the diffusion of asphyxiating
gases, but as Germany was not one
of the signatory powers, these can
not be said to be prohibited inter
national practices.
How are these rules of the com
mon law of nations enforced? BY the
worlds public opinion. The force Of
that opinion is illustrated by the
trouble to which each of the nations
involved in the present European
conflict has gone to justify itself in
the eyes of the world, and to place
the blame on the other nations. The
commercial and industrial, as well as
the political future of a nation de-
ponds upon the maintenance of its
international integrity.
Progress and civilization should
have the effect of alternating the
calamities of war. Though they may
not be avoided entirely, their devas-
tatiOn may be reduced. The rules of
international law demand that the
practices of war be limited to only
those means which tend directly to
weaken the military forces of the
enemy. Anything beyond this is for
hidden by the law of nations and is
condemned by public opinion. Extract
from University of Wisconsin Exten-
sion Division Correspondence Course
in the International Law of War.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-12-04
GOOD NEWS
Many Ladysmith Readers Have Heard
1t and Profited Thereby

Good news travels fast" and the
bad back sufferers in Ladysmith are
glad to learn where relief may be
found. Many a lame, weak and ach-
ing back is bad no more, thanks to
DOan's Kidney Pills. Our citizens
are telling the good news of their
experience with this tested remedy.
Here is an example worth reading:
Mrs. S. Taylor, Ladysmith, Wis,
says: 81 had backaches and pains
through my sides for quite awhile.
My kidneys showed signs of being
weak and at fault generally. | didn't
get any relief until l used Doan's
Kidney Pills. They took away the
pains and aches and corrected the
other troubles that my kidneys were
causing. Another in my home who
first used Doan's Kidney Pills had
just as much benefit from them.
Whenever we need kidney medi-
cine, we know there isn't better one
than Doan's Kidney Pills. I recon-
mend them just as willingly as I did
when they first helped me-
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Taylor had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-12-04
CANADIAN ARMY DINING CARS

The commissary department of the
Canadian Pacific Railway has pro-
vided 10 special dining cars for the
trains carrying troops in the DOmin-
ion, which resemble in equipment
hotels on wheels. From 500 to 900
men can be accommodated daily with
facility in these cars. Along the
side of the car are ranged big steam
boilers, great cooking kettles, steam
ovens, ranges, and other modern APP
paratus for the operation of the cul-
mary department. In the center and
extending the length Of the cars are
counters on which the food is served.
Suspended from the ceiling or roof
are rows of plates, and beneath the
counter, in specially prepared cup
boards, are dishes, saucers, knives
and forks, spoons, and other service
able articles. Above the counter are
ranged rows of tin cans which can
be used for serving soup, coffee, tea,
and other liquids.