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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14
Passed BAD CHECKS

A middle aged man was in town
last week pretending to be looking
for land, and on Saturday afternoon
after closing time at the banks he
passed number of checks for small
purchases and received change. He
left town before there was an oppor-
tunity to present the checks and sew
'eral firms are losers by it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14
TABER MAN KILLED

J. H. Leschosky, one of the new
settlers at Taber, was accidently kill
ed in the road this week by falling
under his team and wagon.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14
Don't 90 to Extremes

We feel that it only fair say that people should not
circulate such unless they know We do believe this
being DONE shall believe it until find proof of
There tendency 60 extremes and has been
dscreded thing people apt to think there is not
good impulse left him. 1t may be that advantage being
taken the mentioned but be slow pass judgment and
when you of conclusions hold fast to them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14
County attorney 1Oas Busy

Such charges referred in the foregoing paragraph
may have been prompted by the report that the county attorney
recently looking up evidence and probably talk
ing politics the meantime and from its being coupled with
of the campaign of 1912 when he hired 60 out
investigating in the limerick The bill for hire
$780, and shown by voucher number 48o of the October budget
1912 In work of auditing the bills of the county did
find that he took 60 hunting up evidence
cept campaign time but that proof that he did
go expressly find evidence There have been number
of automobile bills for the sheriff. presumably for of
when the county car was out of The hired
and stenographer few weeks ago for holding inquest
and although the question was asked where the county
and where the county stenogapher has yet been
answered except from uppostion and publishing sup
positions in these
Lvery Expense Increasing Rapidly
The expense for livery and hire for the county in
creasng faster than the taxes carul review of all the bills
which there are charges for these items shows that this
pense 1913 exceeded that 1912 by 81 per cent 1914 to date
exceeded the corresponding period the year before by 1os per
Here the figures
From July, 1911 to July, 1912 ~.-~~~~~~$2Is25
From July, 1912 July, 1913 -~-~.~~~~~.~~~. 33Ioo
From July, 1913 to July, 1914 ~~~~~ 68!74
In order have the comparison fair deducted all
items for the county commissioners when they viewing roads
travelling about the county for any purpose The new road
law makes them the supernndts of work requiring them
travel their districts and this would make the comparison
unfair the present ncumbents if left in The livery
bills for the probation officer have decreased somewhat this
but the shers expenses running high At the July meet
ing the bills for gasoline and repairs the county used by
Continued page eight
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14

Rev. ]. C. Austen, of Twin Falls,
and son, Eugene, passed through the
city, Wednesday evening, en- route
to Darlington. While in the city he
visited the family of ]. w. Ezell.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14
Reducing the Taxes
Riding Costs Money Livery and Auto Bills Increase BIG
Per Cent in Three Years---lhe County Car Costs
.- ~ Nearly Thousand this Year
Chapter Thrty-seven

There report going the rounds that of the officers
doing campaign work in the county that campaigning
has been done under the preense of being looking up ev
dence of and the bill for the charged the county,
and still other things relative county gasoline driving private
cars in campaign work.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14

| wish to announce that
am a candidate for the NOM
ination for treasurer of Bing-
ham county on the Republi-
can ticket. | have been fight
ing the battles of the Repub-
lican party in Bingham county
for twenty-five years, and this
is the first time | have ever
asked for recognition for my
self.
l shall appreciate the favor
able consideration of the
voters at the primary.
l. H. ALFRED,
adv. Riverside.
j. J. j. !. i. !. !. !. !. i. i. i. !.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-14
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ANNOUNCEMENT
To the voters of Bingham

: To the voters of Bingham :
. county:
: | wish to announce that l :
. am a candidate for the nom
!. ination for probate judge on :
: the Republican ticket, subject :
/. to the will of the voters to be
!. expressed at the primary.
+ | am free to serve, and if
|. elected, promise to faithfully
|. perform all duties belonging
!. to that office.
!. GEORGE o. WATTS,
+ adv. 81 Blackfoot.
|. i. 4 i. i. i. i. i. X 1. i. + !. +
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09

the two italian acrobats, who are really
Irishmen: the ponies, the elephant, and,
last and most important, Clarlce, the
best trapeze performer in the business.
She Is the heroine. From an altogether
different social stratum come the Phil
adelphia millionaire who is the ranch
mans partner in the mine; his wife,
his son, and his niece. 1t is delight
to see the pater slough off the side"
his wife has put on him and become
Just a plain American; and as for her,
Mrs. Ajax and the rest put her in her
place. even as they dispose in short or
der of the Mormon bishop who arrives
post haste to recruit plural wives for
the Church. The tale is not all humor,
however, for where there is gold there
is a villain-and such a villain in this
case, with many scores against him!
The scene in which Western private
Justice is pronounced upon him grips.
There is a murder mystery, another
concerning the heroines paternity
more than one love affair. assorted
Western characters-plenty of mixed
material to keep the interest going.
Mr.. Moffat is a newcomer. His story
has all the freshness OF a good first
venture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
HIGH TREASON.

THE MAN INSIDE. BY Natalie Sum
ner Lincoln. Illustrated. i2mo. PIP. S0S.
u. Appleton & Co.
THE SECRET OF THE NIGHT. Further
Adventures OF Rouletabille. BY CASTOR
LerouX. 12mo. PIP. 376. The Macaulay
Company.
It is seldom that an American detec-
tive story deals with such vast interests
as furnish the plot OF The Man In
side" Here are high treason, inter-
national espionage, and amazing reve-
lations. We are at the centre OF things,
in Washington, at the State and Navy
DEPARTMENTS. The exposure OF con-
spiracy is stopped by murder; Colon
bian affairs are in a critical state:
plans of super Dreadnoughts are stolen;
the ambassador Of a great oriental
mower is in such hurry TO leave the
capital that his chauffeur breaks al!
the speed laws. OF course. the most
dangerous and efficient of all inter-
national secret agents is a beautirui
voman-in fiction, at least. This hint
NAV be freely given to the prospective
reader Of the book, because, even
though in possession OF this bit OF
knowledge. he will have to read 10 the
very end TO know the denouement.
British military attaches may some
times be deceived by appearances. IL
may be said here that the story Is
well invented and ingeniously worked
ont. that the author proves her ability
throughout to handle so bold an inter-
national plot, and that she plays the
games OF false clews fairly with both
ber readers and her characters. sat
isfactory story OF its kind.
Rouletabille in Russia to prevent the
assassination OF General Trebassof BY
the Nihilists-this is the substance OF
the story OF the French journalistic
tective's new exploits. 1t is, OF course
the Russia OF melodrama. so delight
fully. mysteriously crowded with daily
danger of sudden death. Rouleta-
billie scorns the Third Section; he
knows that every secret agent may
be a Nihilst, every Nihilist, secret
agent. Every servant may be con-
spirator: even the generals vile ana
daughter may be traitors. This IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
DRAMA AND REVOLUTION
The Paris Stage Under the
Reign of Terror.

A quaint. curious little book by ~
Paul d,rstree. paris Theatres During
the Reign of Terror" supplies great
deal Of picturesque and stirring infor-
nation about the French stage-actors'
octr.sses. theatrical managers. authors
dramatic critics and the public-durihs
tho exciting days of Jacobin despotism'
paon,s then went to the theatres not
so much TO see the plays as TO assert
tbeir own political opinions. The Com
mittee OF Public Safety USED the S'aee
az q means Of communicating the news
of the day, doctored 10 suit il' o"'
ends. The comedies OF Mohere "
,ro.cribed as dangerous, and no plays
nara nermitted unless they gloriheo
revolutionary ideas. During the emu
actes agents OF the committee oi'e"
co,,re,led the spectators to go oo"h
,hair knees and chant the Hymn
TO Liberty" after which the ac'oi
wore forced TO step forward TO tHe ioo'
lights and proclaim the names OIL t"o
w., and women who had been be-
headed during the past twenty -iou'
ho,,rs IN the Place de la Revolution.
Immediately after these grim an
nouncements a number WouId pe
given mimcking and ridlcullns tue
,yraoinarv contortions Of the victims
when their heads had been placeu
under the knife. The public was theh
called upon TO shout "Vive la Guiiio-
tine, and TO sing in chorus the famous
"Ca iraw A few more political an
rorrcaments would be made, and up
would go the curtain for the next act
Of the play.
Among the actors thus compelled TO
recite the names OF the guillotine's VIC
TINS during the entr'-actes were Talma
and Mole. The entire company OF the
THEATRE Francois was on several occa-
sions locked up for the night IN the
ainte-Pelagie prison because its MEM
bers seemed to be lukeyarm in play
ing the parts assigned TO them by the
Committee OF Public Safety. on the
other hand. the artists OF the opera
showed unbounded enthusiasm for the
Jacobin leaders and went so far as, OF
their own accord, TO make bonfire OF
The archives and records Of the Acad-
,my of Music. The duty II the
dramatic critics consisted in writing
diatribes against the plays Of the old
regime and in lauding TO the skies the
bombastic political lines idolizing the
Jacobin leaders under names borrowed
from the Greek classics. Strange 10
cav. the theatres were well filled during
the Reign of Terror. and some or the
managers made plenty OF money.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
MORE WESTERN ATMOSPHERE.

THE FULL OF THE MOON. By Caro-
line Lockhart. illustrations by Charles
II. Stephens. limo PIP. 26l. Philadel-
phia: The ]. b. Lippincott Company.
Miss Lockhart shows us the West
without the traditional glamour The
quality of its chivalry is very much
strained in this story. whose happen
ings and characters serve to bring an
Eastern girl to her senses. She, too,
has claimed her year Of liberty before
marrying, but. instead of seeking life in
the vortex Of great cities, has elected
to see 1t In a stagnant corner of Ne
vada. Her Irritation with the foreman
of the Tx ranch, by the way, is wofuiiy
lacking in the very quality the author
claims for her-dignity. The handsome
foreman was. afraid OF the manager.
all-powerful in the neighborhood, ana
a particularly offensive sort OF Don
Juan. The affair should have suihced
to disillusion the lady's Eastern sutton.
but, instead, he forgave. after having
tains. But 1t is the locality and al
mosphere that matter in this book, and
not its love story. The author de-
scribes we'll, her cowboys come up TO
expectation, and so do the MeXicans.
There is an excellent report or the
rough and-ready trial Of man falsely
accused Of rustling, and most enter
tanning farcical ending to the career OF
the manager of the ranch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09

Among the many books on TripOli that
have appeared since the country annexa-
ton by Italy there is one. The New
Tripon," by Ethel Braun. OF which so
far no American edition has appeared. IL
deals not with the war Of conquest but
with the work Of civilization already be-
gun in the country. In her chapter on the
legends. superstltions and spells OF Tripo-
litania Miss Braun relates the following
true story. which she had from an
Arab woman:
Once, one hundred and fifty years ago,
before the time of the Turks, rlch
Arab of high rank passed beautlful
Jewess in the street lie fell in love
with her and said: You are beautifui-
you please me" But she refused. an,
swering: mo. ] am a true woman. l
love my husband" Then he continued;
Give me hair Of YOUR head as a re-
membrance." So she went into the house
and took n long hair out OF the sieve
these are often made of long hairs from
the tail of n horse or cow. and gave 1t
to him In the night she and her nus
band were awakened by the noise of the
sieve. which was bounding round the
room and beating against the door.
When they opened the door the sieve
rolled out. away to the house of the
Arab. who opened the gate with JOY. But
when he saw the sieve he knew that
his spells had been in vain, for none are
strong enough TO break down woman 8
love.
Many variants OF this old tale OF in
cantation are current in the Orient, the
most telling OF them all being the mod
ern Dutch-Indian version. which sub
stitutes the wife of Dutch government
official in Java for tho Jewess, and a
tiger skin for the sieve.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
Illustration by EVERETT SNNn G,on,-<
THE iSAlANAM0eR",. 6ooes MERRITT O.

deed, proves to be the state Of affairs:
tho mystery OF the attempts upon
tho condemned mans life narrows
down to these two. NJ. Leblanc Is
patriot, so Long live the entente cor
dale! Rouletabille, having solved the
case with amazing fertility Of re-
sources, tells the Car. on taking his
leave, that tho solution OF the Rus
sian problem lies in progress and
pity" And the Emperor, lin a state
of exaltation," answers, 1T Is prom
ised." He then makes Joseph Rou-
letabille. OF "L'Epodue," an officer
of the order OF St Anne OF Russia and
gives him the accolade. All st. Peters
burg was at the station to see Joseph
off and to cry "Vive la France! Nive
la Russie," Nevertheless, as the train
approached tho frontier Rouletabille
threw himself back on the cushions
and said "Ouf" A most adventurous,
altogether satisfying-not to say filling
narrative.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
JUST GEORGE ABE.

AIDES FABLES. BY George AIDE. Illus
trated by John McCutcheon. l6mo, PIP.
2s7 Doubleday, Page & Co.
One does not review a new volume OF
George AIDES fables, least Of all does
one think of comparing its contents
with those of earlier ones. Sufficient
unto the moment are the slang and
humor and the wisdom thereof. We be-
gin TO read without reservation whatso-
ever. and are his once more the mo-
ment he tells us of The Flower OF
Americas Young Womanhood out IN
the Ozone. walking four abreast with
Shining Faces. and pushing white
haired Business Men off into the
Sweepings" Later on, one of these
Elfns of the Young Unmarried Set en-
tertains four young men, and has to
bat up short and easy ones for this
Bunch, as they are from the Wholesale
District" Then there is the convivial
clubman whom a railroad accident
maroons among a family of New Eng
land farmers fanatically given to total
abstinence:
At the Cocktail hour he ventured a
ReQues. for any one of the standard
Necessities OF Life, but Mrs. Peabody
read him a passage from the Family
Medicine Book 20 the effect that Liquor
was never TO be used except for Snake
Bites. When he ordered the Hired Hand
to bring him large Snake, they gave
him Sleeping Powder and told nqulring
Neighbors that he was still out of his
Head.
And there is. further, the multi-mill-
ionaire who was what you might call
Honest, which signifies that all Of his
Low Work had been done by Agents;
and the commercial theatrical manager
who tells the author and the composer
Of highly literary. highly musical
musical comedy that the Simp that
pushes his Metal into the Box Office
wants Something Doing every minute
and many Gals, otherwise it is back to
the Storehouse and a Card in the Clip
per-: and Elphye, the actress who had
a good Social Position back at her
Home. but for some reason, she never
sent for it," But why continue? And
the moral? 1t is there, at the end OF
each fable, its full justification and
more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
a., Iohnsons Study of New Form of Parasitism-
Welcome Mr.. Ade-More Stories of the
West-lnternational Episodes

beyond self-control. she is saved from
herself.
1t is a curious study. and an unpleas-
ant one, which one classes rather with
what the French call the roman de
mGurS contemporaries than with any
thing in American fiction. Mr.. John
son makes much. in the case of his
heroine, of the modern young womans
purely intellectual curiosity TO explore
life. but that factor. one is inclined to
believe, is only minor incentive of the
type as n whole. One also doubts
whether the intense seriousness with
which the authors men take this SAL
amander OF his is true TO type. Is IT
not rather the casual way with which
our men take her kind that enables it
to play its little game at all? These
be, however, the shortcomings of fic-
ton as social criticism. 1t must be
dramatic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
TARDY JUSTICE.

A DOUBTFUL CHARACTER. BY Mrs Mrs
George II. Doran Company
Mrs. Reynolds has the knack OF max
ing the old-fashioned heroine interest
ing in a modern setting. No abstruse
present day subtleties Of psychological
analysis for her. no perplexlng prop
lens. no purpose beyond that OF trylhs
her heroine in many cruel ways oi
making her earn her ultimate happl-
ness through many tears. Love is her
theme, the old-fashioned love OF many
earlier English novels. which never
doubts in adversely. which cings 10
the beloved in the face Of appearances
and revelations and the wise counseis
and opposition Of the world. II is GER
,a;nlv a doubtful character whom the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
CIRCUS FOLK.

THE DESERT AND MRS. AJA&. BY
Edward Moffat illustrated. 12mo, PIP
SS4 Moffat, Yard & co.
The circus, as BELTS its place in our
affections, is one of the happiest tradl-
tions OF American fiction. Here 1t
comes again. or, rather, here II u.s. at
the very beginning OF this story
stranded in a small town in the Nevada
desert. The town has no time for Cir
cuses. for news has come OF a gold
strike near by. So the artists become
very domestic on the ranch of the fort
innate owner OF the mine, who takes
pity on them-Mrs. Ajax the strohs
woman. whose given name is lmogene'
and who overfows with womanly ten
derness: Cobrita, the snake charmer;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09

girl in this story loves and decides to
marry, a man OF mystery who asks
question as to his past. And so the
agony begins. and is piled up on her
devoted head. The author is, further
more, a clever craftswoman, who makes
the most and the best OF the material
with which she deals, OF minor char
acters, locality and atmosphere. The
opening chapters Of this story are good
reading as a picture OF Alpine climbing.
and of the traits of character which the
sport brings out on the arduous way
and at the exhausted end of the day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
A L0GICIAM'S DOG
A Passage from a Clever Little
Book.

Whether William Timothy Call, the
author Of a diminutive Boys Book on
Logic: A Talk, Not a Treatise" con-
siders logic an art, science, or, with
the late Professor JOwett. "a dodge"
does not matter; suffice it to say tnct
the elders of the boy will enjoy this
clever little volume greatly. Mr.. Call
is strong on illustrations, and so, while
discoursing on syllogsms, fallacles, alb
stractions, concepts and the like, ne
comes TO tell us of his fox terrier Fido.
which he trained TO the utmost Of its
intellectual capacities:
| did not stretch his powers beyond
what l learned TO regard a his normal
limit. l gave up all hope of ever being
able 10 teach him abstraction--that is,
how to separate the qualities. properties,
attributes of the things from the things
themselves. In other words. sweetness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
WITHIN ANIANA
Walt Whitman's Complaints OF
Translators.

The many pages OF the third bulky
volume OF Horace Traubers monu-
mental with Walt Whitman in Cam
den" Mitchell Kennerley) are studded,
like those Of its two predecessors, with
the names OF literary celebrities great
and little, and with Whitmans pun
gent comments on their bearers and
their works. often tinged. in the case
OF his contemporaries with frankest
egotism. These volumes are not so
much a biography as sort OF encyclo-
pedic index OF Whitman's mind. nj
ways readable, often most interesting,
occasionally amusing in their malicious
fervor. one dips here, there and else
where, invariably tempted to go deeper
into this revelation of an exceptionally
strong and aggressive personality. but
for the moment quotes only Whitmah's
very just complaint OF the deplorable
quality Of the early hurried trans.a-
tons of Tolstoy:
"Tolstoy has been unfortunate in his
transators: how much of his failure 10
impress me is owing TO this could not
say; mucn az was confident The most
wretched y Be able stuff has been palmed
off on u IS tre"scripts of the original
NrcsH-i nth Anna Karenina' ::
AL my g'%oai"s railel to relieve 1t of its
dulness" Ma II the fault of the trans
lation? "Yes-yes-it stared me In the
face from every page. 1T sounded Ike
translation m ade by a man who started
to translate the book before he had read
it. The troubi is. the publishers are in
such a devil of hurry to get there: no
matter how: disgracefully or honorably
either: but get there Even Tour
genieff suffered from imbecile transla-
tons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-09
Books 60 AUTHORS g REWEws - COMMENT
HERE AND THERE
IN THE NEW BOOKS
An Ancient Eastern Tale and Its Many Variants
and Inducve Reasoning-The Quality OF the
Early Transitions of Tolstoy.

or sourness were properties not to be
separated In thought from the word
milk by means OF words. MIX was
milk. and there was nothing else 70 De
known about II except that IL tastea
good or bad.
AS to conceptions concepts In teen
meal lang-aSe) such as your tree IN
general" 80 had TO use for them anu
did not un .erstand them any better than
We DO. .nfuction was his favorite styie
OF reasoning. end he INDUCED in II 70
excess. Il 90. walks. II thore were
birds IN .wo o. three bushes, he az once
eonciuf, ~ Induction that all bushes
had bits n hem. and would run 10
every bush - light 10 test II by deduc-
ton.
Then Fl1> died. His master wrote
his epita~l. imploring all logicians not
10 desecI re *:
All men are animals,
Fido was an animal;
Therefore Fido was man
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-27
CONDITIONS
 WORSE MEXICO

Special Nugget Service.
 VERA CRUZ, April s7.--From rel urecs who are arriving from Mexico City 1t is learned that scores Of Amer ican women with babies and children have been turned back by the Mex jeans and not allowed to leave the city. Thirty Americans made thei@ evcapc and reached here by passing for British subjects under assumed rames.
 The reports reaching here from Mexico City indicates that the condi- tions of Americans are very serious md growing worse each day without there heinz any means of rendering them relief. It is thought that pend ir E q settlement by the mediation o1 the South American republics. tn' situation of the Americans will he i'm proved and that they may he giveT orrort unity in leave. the country.
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-04-27

banking houses, because they have refused to contribute money. which h:s been demanded of them by the Mexican government. It k charged that the government is encouraging tn demonstrations against Americans LI tho city as the mOhs arc unrc- strained in their attack upon Ameri- cnns. The situation Is growing worse hourly and great fear is entertained for the safety of many Americans who C uld not leave the city.