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Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-10
orpheutn, Tsn,nht.

Another sood lot of movies at the Orpheum tonight: NJ
 Woman's Honor. story of strong heart appeal.
 The Sherif, an exciting drama.
 Legally Right, . majestic comedy fuull of honor.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-10
MINERAL CREEK
 ROAD BE BUILT
Business Men and Mining Operators, 9ubvcribs Over One Thou ;
 sand Dollars. /

The business men and mining op- orators of Valdez and Mineral Creek have agreed to contribute $1,020 for the work of building a wagon road from the beach at the mouth of Min eral creek to the upper end of the creek. The collection was made by Robert Mcintosh, the freighter, and the work will be started at once.
 Col. Richardson. chairman of the Alaska road commission, will give the project such aid as is possible. but because of the shortage of, funds can not undertake to do the work.
 The subscription list is as follows: Robert Mcintosh .......... .$300. .00 Town of Valdez, by E. E.
 nltCIllC 4OO.VV w. L. Smith, Mountain King 10000 Big Four Mine ............... 10000 J. M. Lathrop ............. 5000 J. P. Simons, Mineral creek
 operator ............ 5000 s. Blum & Co.,. 5000 Woods and Olson. ........... 1000 Valdez Mercantile Co. ..:... 25.00 Al. White .. .............. 20.O0 H. E. F. King ............ 1000 Jack Mclean .............. 1000 Senate Saloon .............. 1000 Smith & Chisholm .......... 1000 c. M. Day 1000 Buffet Saloon ............... 1000 Copper River Luumber Co.,. 1000 c. C. Rudolph .............. 1000 Chas. Bunnell ............... 1000 E. E. Rftchie ................ 1000 W. H. Blackwell ............. 1000 Ingram & Bush ............ 1000 James Patterson ........... 1000 A. J. Wendler ........ 500
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-10

Sister M. Amadeus, of the con- vent, left this morning for Seattle on the steamer MaripOsa.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-10
Prohibition,sts h ssssion.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July 1o.-Plans for state-vide prohibition in Colorado are expected to be laid during the state convention of the Prohibition party which began here today. While all delegates are unit ed in their belief that the time is ripe for q determined campaign. they are said to differ as to the proper methods which should be pursued.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-10
Baseball Players, Attention! /!

There will be meeting of .ban players in Ingram < Bush's this evening at o'clock at which busi- ness of importance will be transacted. All players are requested to be pres ent.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-10

Charles Simonsted. the mining ex- pert. left for Juneau on the Mariposa.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15
"CLEANING-UP" DAYS

go make thy garden fair as thou
canst.
Thou workest never alone.
Perchance he whose plot is next to
thine
Will see it and mend his own"
And that is the spirit that is push
ing the Cleanup" the "paint-up'
movement along, house to house, and
neighbor to neighbor, until in time
the whole city-yes, and every city
and hamlet in the United States
will be radiantly clean little song
of freshness.
Because as one little perked-up
stretch, one little garden fair" one
lettle street all wholesome and clean,
throw out their signals of pride, the
next in line will soon feel ashamed to
look forlorn and neglected, and out
will come some more. And every
waste place turned into a miniature
garden, every rubbish-heap or I'M
slightly fence removed, every neigh
borhood lending its aid, means an
other step toward the "city beauti-
full. "-Exchange.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15

plain quadrille. 1t was then found
that there we're not enough ladies
to go around, so Jim Madison bor-
rowed some female clothing and for
the rest of the evening he played
missing rib to the other fellow.
( Jim Madison afterwards purchased
himself a complete layout of lady's
clothes and for several years he APP
peared at most of the dances dressed
up in this rig)
w. B. Marsh had accompanied one
of the leading ladies to the dance,
but when evening came he was dead
drunk, SO old Jimmy Henry took his
place The dancing kept up all night
and everybody seemed to enjoy II
hugely. If you don't believe it, ask
the De Witt girls, they know.
1t is a far cry to that first celebra-
tion and most of the people who par
ticipated in it have been dead for 10,
these many years.
Part of the survivors are now liv-
ing in the near vicinity of Mackay,
and their descendants still keep up
the same old dance which was learn
ed by their progenitors long ago.
J. w. POWELL.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15
Loved NOrdica's
Voice Stiled In a
Foreign Land
BLACKFOOT

Lillian Nordicas body will be sent to
the United States. She died Sunday
night of pneumonia at Batavia, Java.
Lillian Nordica was an American
singer of worldwide fame. Her ad-
mirers ranged from the men of the
Bowery section of New York, where
she had sung at mission meetings, to
the most critical box holders of grand
opera houses in all of the world s
great musical centers. The purity Of
her voice, employed in many tongues,
had delighted hundreds of thousands
since the day, forty years ago, she
first appeared in public as soprano
soloist at Grace church in Boston.
Nordica and Eames-although he,
latter was born of American parents
in far off China-were of old New
England stock, both claimed by the
state of Maine, and they made
notable American contribution to
the operate world. A farm house
built by the prima donna's great
grandfather on a hill just outside the
village of Pennington, Maine, was
Nordica's birth place in 1850. Her
name was Lillian Norton. She
changed it to the Italian, Nordica, 20
years later when she began to study
in Italy for an operate career.
After her graduation from the New
England Conservatory of Music at
Boston, and successful singing of the
leading roles in several of the orator
los given by the Handel and Haydn
society, she went to Europe, in 1878,
as soloist with Gilmores band. She
chung tenaciously to classical music,
and was we'll received by great audi
ences in the Crystal palace, London,
and the Trocadero, Paris. She went
to Milan and became a pupil Of San,
giovanni, and within six months she
had mastered ten operas.
Her reput in opera was at Brescia
in 1879 in La 'Traviata." After a
trip to st. Petersburg she appeared
for trial before Ambrose Thomas and,
the impressario, Vancorbeil, who en-.
gage her for the Grand Opera House
in Paris. Her first appearance there,
in 1882, as Marguerite" in Faust"
was triumph. The critics observed,
her American accent, but said It gave.
.piquancy to her tone, and her acting
was Landed as equal to her singing.
Her matrimonial ventures number
ed three. She was first married in
1882 to Frederick A. Cover, a
wealthy electrician and native Of
her state of Maine whom she met
in Paris. Shortly after she had be-
gun separation proceedings in 1884,
Cover disappeared. He attempted
a balloon trip across the English chan
mel. Although the balloon was later
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15
R. NJ. McCracken
Is Again out for
Congressman

r. NJ. McCracken will be candi-
date for nomination for congress on
the republican ticket again this year.
He made the race two years ago, re-
ceiving flatteling vote but not
enough to secure the nomination, and
he will again shy his hat into the
ring for the coming primary election.
Il shall be candidate at the
primaries in September for the NOM
ination on the republican ticket for
Congressman from Idaho" said Mr..
McCracken today.
"You can set me down as one who
will, if elected, support national pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic for bey-
erage purposes. Also that will sup
port the legislation now proposed in
congress which contemplates the
farmland loan system. The bill pro-
vides that loans may be made to bona
fide farmers up to $4,000. England
adopted the system in Australia some
years ago with the result that some
of our American farmers are going
to Australia to make their homes.
We must encourage agriculture in
this country in substantial way,
and when farmer needs money to
carry on his farming operations the
government should find some way
to aid him to get it at low rate
of interest"
Attended WOOdmen Convention
Mr.. McCracken has just returned
from Standpoint where he attended
the state convention of the Modern
Woodmen, by which he was elected
a delegate to the national convention
which meets in Toledo next month.
Speaking of the national convention
of this order, Mr.. McCracken said:
ut shall be my purpose to revoke
the Chicago rates adopted by the
Modern Woodmen of America con-
vention at Chicago in 1912, and il
we must have a higher rate am
instructed by our convention not to
allow that rate to exceed 80 per cent
of the rate which the member paid
at the time of his entry into the
society.
Il am also instructed to procure
such modification in our bylaws as
Will insure a referendum vote upon
every rate submitted by the head
camp. l am further instructed to
secure such legislation by our society
as will insure the retrenchment of
expenditures in every department"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15
PACIFIC VETERANS
FIFTH ANNUAL REUNION

The days of the building of the
Central Pacific railroad were lived
over again in Renaissance on Sat
urday, May 8, in San Francisco, when
the fifth annual reunion and luncheon
of the veterans of the Southern Pa
cific company-all pensioners-was
held in commemoration of the 45th
anniversary of the driving of the last
spike of the Central Pacific at Pro-
montory, thus connecting the tracks
of the Central Pacific and Union Pa
cific and establishing the first trans
continental line uniting the Pacific
coast with the east. One of the
unique features of the luncheon was
the presentation of data and pictures
showing the magnitude of the con-
struction of the Panama canal and
the Central Pacific, both of which
We're American achievements actuated
by practically the same motives.
While the means employed in the
building of the canal are of the most
up-to-date character and included
the use of high explosives, power
drills, electricity, concrete and steel
structures, steam shovels and dredges,
the railroad was built at time when
only black powder, hand drills, wood
en- structure, block and tackle candle
and sperm Oil lamps were in use.
Motion pictures of the building of
the canal were shown, and pictures
taken during the construction of the
Central Pacific showed the scope and
difficulty of that enterprise half
century ago.
Hundreds of California pioneers
gathered at the luncheon and
listened to addresses by Presi-
dent William Sproule, Vice Presidents
E. o. Mccormick and w. R. Scott,
and Col. John P. Irish. Many of the
veterans were accompanied by their
wives and families.
| Since the Inauguration of the
Southern Pacific pension system in
January 1903, the sum paid out in
pensions to retired employees has
reached $1,400,000. The system is
voluntary on the part of the company,
and 935 former employees have been
accorded these financial benefits dur
ing the eleven years that pensions
have been granted On May 81,
1914, there were $50 pensioners on
the roll. The employees of the COM
Dany never tire of telling of the work
of building the Central Pacific, for
it was distinctly California project.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15
A Cut and Stitch that Save lime

found, nothing was ever heard or
seen of him.
In 1896, Nine. Nordica married
Zoltan Doeme, a Hungarian army Of
ficer and singer, from whom she Sc
cured divorce in 1905.
Her third marriage was in London
in 1909, to George w. Young, veal
thy New York banker. 1t was an
nounced at that time that Nordica
would retire from the stage, but aft
er honeymoon spent in part at the
old Norton homestead in Maine, she
decided upon a farewell concert tour
of the world. 1t was while making
one leg of this trip on the Dutch
steamer Tusman that the vessel ran
ashore on Thursday island in the An
tipodes. The shock of the accident
and exposure brought on pneumonia.
Nine. Nordica's admirers felt it to be
a particularly tragic circumstance
that the famous singer should have
fallen dangerously i'll on the other
side of the world.
The Nordica fortune must be large.
1t was published as fact in 1909
that she had made $128,000 during
that season alone. Much of her mon
ey went toward realizing her DEAN
of "a Bayreuth in America" She
bought a large tract of land along
the Hudson near Ossinging, and with
great enthusiasm, sketched plans for
great musical institute. 1t was said
million dollars was back of the
scheme, but it was never brought to
full realization.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15
ADVERTISED LETTERS

List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the post office at Blackfoot,
Idaho, for the week ending May, 70,
1914. Persons calling for these let
ters will please say advertised May
IL, 1914"
Anderson, Miss Katie
Bialpando, Samuel
Davidson, Golden
Frost, Miss Edith
Hubbel, G. W.
Henry, Fred II.
Hepworth, Mrs. J. H.
Irving, Mrs. ]. B.
Irving, Franklin
Jensen, J. c.
King, w. e.
Mitchell, Thomas
Melbourse, A. ].
More, Mary
Nay, Carey e.
Pickett, Lyman
Smell, Jim
Sowe, Waller
Wilkerson, Wallace
Passage due on each of the above,
one cent. All Of the above letters re-
naming uncalled for two weeks from
the date of this list will be sent to
the dead letter office.
H. B. CURTIS,
Postmaster.
-A
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15
INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY
Salt Lake City, May 1910

Excursions via Oregon Short Line
Tickets on sale from Utah points
May Is, 16 and II; from idaho
points May IA, Is and Is. Limit
May Goth See agents for rates and
further particulars. -48-1
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15

We want limited supply of clean,
white rags at the Republican office.
Cash paid for same.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-05-15

See The Republican for those Ie-
gal blanks. They are carr led in stock
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27
CALIFORNIA STORM
WORST IN HISTORY


Los Angeles-With loss of prob
ably more than $4,500,000 and a total
of seven human lives since Wednes.
day, Southern California is recovering
from the effects of the worst storm in
it's history.
Swept by wind and rain for three
days, most of the territory between
the Tehachapi mountains and the
Mexican line was flooded.
More than 100 homes were destroy.
ed in Los Angeles alone by the tor
rents that rushed through the Los An.
geles river and the Arroyo-Seco.
According to an estimate made by
A. c. Hansven, assistant city engineer,
Los Angeles was damaged to the ex-
tent of at least s1,500,0OO. One hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars repre-
scented the damage to city streets
alone. The remainder represented
losses sustained by railroads and by
citizens who lost their homes, which
were swept away by the floods, with
all their household effects
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27
TO INVESTIGATE COVE, ORE,
Governors Fair Aide to Investigate sa-

1oVernors fair Aide TO Investigate Sa-
loon In Another East Oregon Town
Salem, Or.-Miss Fern Hobbs, Gov
ernor Vests private secretary, who
virtually declared martial law in Cop
perfield and told the saloon owners
they would have to give up their bars
or resign city offices, is on another
mission of like character. The Gov
ernor's aide slipped out of the capital
city Sunday night en- route to Cove to
investigate charges of illegal conduct
of saloon there.
The governor says Cove was voted
dry" at the election last November,
but that the county court declined to
declare the result of the election, and
the one saloon of the place is running
full blast
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27
HOLD UP INTERuRBAN TRAIN
Three Masked Men Take $3.50 on Sc
attle-Tacoma Train.

Three Masked Men Take $3.50 on Sc
attIe-Tacoma Train.
Seattle. = Overawed by the revol
vers carried by the bandits, 60 passen.
gers and the train crew on the south.
bound Seattle-Tacoma interurban 10.
cal train, leaving Seattle at 9:05 and
due in Tacoma at 10:45, were held up
and robbed of an aggregate of $500 by
three highwaymen Saturday night at
South Side station, 20 minutes out
from Seattle
The bandits forced Norris King, a
boy of Kent, to carry hat through
the smoker, obtaining 5000 from the
male occupants. One of the bandits
handled the rear car, getting 500
from the men and women passengers
The remainder of the $500 was OBJ
tanned from the trainmen.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27
Another Eastern Blizzard.

Chlcago.-Heavy snow again fell
over Michigan. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and the
Dakotas. In Missouri, portions Of
Kansas and Oklahoma the stern was
marked by sleet that crippled trans
oortation and wire service
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27
REBELS SAY BRITON
HAD FULL HEARING
Declare Benton Was Executed
for Armed Violence Against
General Villa.

Ell Paso, Textile record of the al
legged court-martial of William S. Ben
ton, made public at Juarez late, as
serts that the Scotchman was present,
that he was represented by rebel Of
ficer as attorney, and was permitted
to testify, and that the session was
public.
He was executed for attempted
armed violence against General Villa,
declares the record, and was found
guilty of giving aid and comfort to the
enemy by giving them cattle and for
age and by giving them information.
Benton's friends on this side of the
Rio Grande received the report with
sneers. They pointed to their knowl
edge of many years that he guarded
against possible serious results of his
high spirit and temper by never car
rying a pistol. The statements that
Benton was allowed to testify and that
the proceedings were public carried
no conviction to the men who assert
that their friend was deliberately muir
dered
"The accused" says the report, twas
arraigned and having been advised to
name someone to defend him, Captain
Mariana Tamez was designated fol-
this purpose and was warned to de
fend Benton loyalty"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27
IN WRONG AGAIN

WE WOULD SAY for the benefit of Brother gg the Pasco Pro-
gres that the article which appeared recently editorial col
umn head of Telling the Truth clipped from
furnished by the bureau the
lean Trade League and editors receiving these sheets free
use the fit No credit expected
given though have noticed articles from this appearing from
time the reputable of the The article
question puroned EDITORIAL hence
plagiarism involved although the fact that both The Courier and
Rene happened during the perhaps
cidence smile
We the editor
in the darkened cluster lights the creek that he brighten
up his editorial columns with of the similar
His readers find it far less tome than the home.made
stuf which he grnds out from week to week.
SUPERINTENDENT F. E. Lukens the schools Poatch
y &c working on plan furnish students who
wish them at the students EACH Each
required to furnish dishes and supplies pur-
chased bv the schools prepared by the domestic
SPOKANE JUDGE, says the Yakima Republic revoked
n nensiop because learned that she had bought
mobile This another illustration of the tyranny the judiciary
the for the recall of judges heartless The
woman now needs the pension more than ever
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27
COMMENT ON TIMELY TOPICS
THE BENTON CITY ROAD

BENTON CITY ROAD
THE TIME is PAST ripe when something should be done sub
way City,
that this the of the road the entire
journey But that merely the bucket the
road
The appropriation the the Sunnyde
City that the need this road than imperative
There will be much land the that
will admit of cultivation with this water and that will that the
will needed constructing
would cheaper already completed
completion the canal will command that the commissioners do
something and the quicker done the cheaper will be the right
way and will than would have month
Delays always dangerous.
Sunnysde thing
There has been much the press weeks concerning
blast February which opened the channel the
Cello cleaning the fancy touches
heaviest part left that undertaking. and that will all be done the
months Thereby will have in the end the
a Yakima valley
that the road built well that Kennewk will demand for the
making her position that of greatest value But
Knnewck boosting for that road also for the that will
her greater pull bridge
Waa Waa building roads from her limits and that
building directions bridge
greater demand all the while But Kennewc
show barely Is miles of good road her that long will
nishd and then the demand for bridge will
valley the western CT the state
which getting into the the big Improvements in the Sno
qualme will prove
completion the contemporaneousy
canal will bring into this section of the state immigration
county able support than half million pop
uaion greatest when all
much should the undivided support
direction of Improvements that will the securing
great growth.
AS suggestion committees present petitions
their meeting, and ask them
long promised of inspection the and
purchase the right and the
Independent-Record.
RMERS CAN HELP
NOT ENOUGH that the county agent be simply
deas from farmer gobetween
gather everywhere and interpret
local conditions and 90
step farther and the and the ideas
much of
knowledge of the farmers problems
information which agricultural institutions give.
and mutually helpful cooperation needed the
themselves and all the public intended
agricultural education The
explanations which the furnish The
need of the facts and the point view of the farmers
wholesome wisdom that the of the thought expert
who have made good through
and thrift and unconscious adoption circumstances.
every county will be found that the agr
problems been solved by of the
teaching scientific truth than by calling
who successfully pracicing it. will often found that
successful farmer has stopped anay the his
may often attribute to the wrong factor The lesson
the
IN WRONG AGAIN
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-27

Washington.-It is understood a
complete report on the execution at
Juarez of William S. Benton, the Brit.
ish subject, is awaited before the view
of this government toward the Incl
dent is made known.
On the truth or falsity of Villas
statement that Benton tried to kill
British and United States govern.
ments will take.
Evening star., 1914-12-22
SENATE ACTION OPPOSED.
Reservation in Safety-at-Sea Con-
vention May Nullify It.

President Wilson, it is understood
at the White House, believes the
Senate. should reconsider its action in
including clause in its ratification OF
the safety-at-sea convention which. adj
vocates of the convention believe. prac-
tically nullifies it. 1t is expected that
the question will be brought up in the
Senate this week.
Secretary Bryan yesterday reported to
the President on d conference with Secre-
tary Redfeld, Chairman Alexander OF
the House merchant marine committee
and Commissioner Chamberlain, al
which it was felt that the Senate should
reconsider it's action.
Advocates OF the convention do not
believe the other nations which signed
it will agree to the Senate's reserva-
ton that the United States shall have
the right to make further safety regu-
lations and impose them on foreign
ships coming into American territorial
waters.