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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25
To the Consumers of the Idaho
Oregon Plant.

In letter to you of February l. we stated "We
not here exploit the community We wish to
and keep in this econ and desire only
fair thereon Beyond that wish the people
have the benefit in good service at fair rates"
By far rates" referred to in that letter. showed
that believed the present fair you but
had nothing do with creating establishing these
rates. end intent give you fair
the sale confirmed by the Court and the property
ed
The people, who are now Offering reduced rates.
and informing you that you do enjoy the rates
your neghbor the very people who had control OF and
managed the Idaho-Oregon Light Power Comrany be-
fore put the hands Of the Receiver, and they
responsible for the rates you are now paying
Ask these agents of the Power Trust why your neigh
bors in the Middleton Star and Eagle Districts which
served by them, do enjoy the benefit Of competitive
rates.
We are an independent Company, and the only
Electric Company this territory controlled by these
Wall interests
All the other companies in this territory ARE
troled and operated by the Power Trust and Wall
street interest.
Please remember that here representing the
bondholders, of whom there several hundredthe
ority them small or moderate meanswho desire to
their from the ravage OF the Electric Pow
er Trust By cooperating with you also your
selves from being exploited by combination of Proiot
ers whose real purpose drive all competition from the
field and thus enable them charge the last cent the
service will bear
i We ask your consideration for square deal, and
trust that you viii withhold action until after the conr-
nation Of SALE which Will advise you Of the
reduction in that intended go into effect as
soon as the purchase of the property confirmed BY the
-lCourt. Yours very respectfully,
i IDAHO-OREGON LIGHT & POWER co.
Il B0ndho5ie Protective Committee
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25
1 KNOW HpL

I know a man who thinks that
he could write a book or tame
bee: could run the earth in every
wav much better than it's run to-
day: could sail a boat or ride
mule or teach the teacher In the
school: could bsat the band At
every squeak were he te train
about a week; could do all these
were he to try. He doesn't though
- wonder Why? I know him Ike
: printed book. as well as though
I we're his cook. 1 know he thinks
that he could run the universe and
cau 1t fun II he could only get
start that he would play a Won
drous part. But stili he sits
around ana waits. and On his ner-
lis coeitatss. Perform in every
lines Great scottt He knows he
could. but he does not Vow how
can / suca insight show. and say
@, him that this IS sos The mans
myself-1 ouzht to know. 3st5sls
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25
Dogs Must Be Muzzled.

The county commissioners have
ordered all dogs in the county to be
muzzied. The order appears on an
other page OF this issue. The need
for this order is obvious to all. and
every owner of a dog in the county
should conscientiously comply with
it. No sentiment should be allowed
10 interfere with the efforts OF the
health officers TO protect our peo-
pie and our property. Every man
who owns a dog should have him
muzzied. and keep him muzzled from
TOW until the order is reseinded
The expense OF muzzling dogs i:
negligible Our hardware dealers
now have on hand sufficient sup
Div Of mazzIes TO take care Of al
orders. Muzzles cost about SO
each. The people are entitled to
few days' time in which TO get thei
DOGS properly muzzled, after whicl
all unmuzzIed dogs viii be kille'
anywhere found in the county
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25
BUSINESS LOo9LS-

W. H. Ross is paying best
prices for hogs. See him.
Any old hot water bottle tax
en- TO the Stockton Pharmacy
is worth so cents on the pur-
chase price of a new one between
Feb. 26 and March ;. 2t
You can get more for CASH at
Tanners than any place else.
Mortgages and notes bought
and sold. A. l. MYERS. Caldwell,
Idaho, over Baker & Harris
store. u
We have a complete line in
everything we carry.
Tanner Nero. Co.
Lost-A bunch of keys on road
between Parma and Roswell.
Finder kindly leave at this Office.
We are agents for N. Born &
Co, merchant tailors.
Tanner Nero. TO.
Take advantage of the big
overstocked stationery sale Feb.
ruarv Is. 10 and 20 at Stockton
Pharmacy. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
Mortgages and notes bought
| and sold. Al MYERS, Caldwell
Idaho, over Baker & Harris
store. II
Don't forget to go to thl
Stockton Pharmacy Thursday
Friday and Saturday, Feb. is
10 and 20 and get your suppl,
OF stationery, two and three box
es for the price OF one.
Mortgages and notes bough
, and sold. A. /. MYERs, Caldwell
Idaho, over Baker & Harri
store. II
DR.. T. o. Humphreys, residen
dentist. Office in bank building
ground floor. phone As.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25
THE SACRIFICE IN HOGS.


In the last seven days more than
12,000 hogs have been received at
the Portland Union Stock Yards.
For the corresponding period a
year ago the number received was
little more than 5000 and two
years ago for the third week in
January the number was fewer than
2 900 These figures are taken
from the books Of the stock yards
company and are to be relied on.
Most Of US remember that Z
years ago hogs were selling in this
market at 10 cents a pound, live
weight II will also be remem-
bered that during the following
year several buyers went to the
middle west in search Of brood sows.
which were bought and shipped to
Oregon carload after carload The
trouble was that the hog market
Of Oregon was so much higher than
ever before that almost everything
that looked like a hog was sent
to the shambles. Hence the high
prices instead OF benehting US as
whole were detriment, setting
the hog growers back two or three
years. - -
Now the large shipments come
Of wheat, for most OF the hog grow
ers depend upon wheat to finish
their hogs for market This could
be done at fair profit with wheat
al o normal price; when II SCARED
up 70 the $3.50 marx it meant a
loss 10 feed It to hogs that we're
worth something like cents per
pound.
So again Oregon is being cleaned
out of hogs. OF those reaching this
market, and we understand the
same can be said OF Seattle, Tacoma
| and Spokane. only a prOporriOnate
few are actually fit for slaughter
The rest are shipped By the farm
ers and growers simply to save
wintering them And the price Is
falling day by day.
These abnormal conditions are t.
be regretted. They arise largely
from a lack OF business acuner
among farmers. They do not thini
far enough ahead. They have. 4
is true. done wonders in making
Oregon a hog-prOducing state, To-
which thanks to the crusade TO
more hogs that the stock yards an,
packing house people have Eade
assisted very largely by the rail
/ " But GAOL4Gl AD- " ol4 SIC
must be made by the farmers=the
must not only grow hogs the.
must grow feed for them Tn
! idea that wheat is the only feed o
the best feed for making pork
fallacious. Just so long as tn
farmers depend upon wheat we AT
. liable at any time to have cor
ditions arise as they exist at pre-.
ent.
The farmers. especially the sma
farmers, should raise, as far as poI
sible, their own feed-alfalfa. corr
Z peas. anything for finishing The
i should not depend upon the whe;
|, growers. They should so condu
: the business as 10 buy wheat vhf
: the market justifies, but 10 depeT
; almost solely upon it is sheer foil
. II looks now as if next year '
would be sending east for bro.
sows again Surely If the prese
, shipments continue for anOth
= month or two we must Then '
shall be back right where We We
two years agO-starting anew
r the business
This is all wrong Three mont
2, ago the northwest Eas N bett
: shape as TO the hog business tn
ever before. Then came 81
d wheat and we are approaching L
/ bottom very fast--Portland Orego
ian.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25

County Surveyor Fred Neon
nell was in town Tuesday in con-
nection with work soon to be
storted on the laying OF sewage
pipes on Parma Heights.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs Chss. Fry returned trl-
day from q two months visls Win
friends and relatives in Wisconsin and
Illinois points. Mr.. Fry reports thai
Chas. Bcerman. who has also been
visiting in the east. 10 be vary sick n
his former Illinois home, and as requir-
ing the attendance Of two doctors and
nurse. Mr.. Buerman was taken s,cs
the iay before he intended to stsrt on
his home trip.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25
FIRE CAUSES
HEAVY LOSS
Parma Barber Shop De-
molished by Flames on
Tuesday Morning.

An early morning fire occurred IN
Parma Tuesday which completely
destroyed the stock and fixtures OF
the Parma Barber Shop, Cigar Store
and Pool Hall, and caused probably
$4,000 damage TO the building IN
which they were situated. The bar
Der shop. cigar store and pool hall
we're owned By Hardy Hughey and
the building by ]. 2. English The
FIRE was discovered at 3:45 a. m
BY D. o. Castater, who gave the
alarm The fire department re-
sDonded promptly and confined the
FIRE to the one building. Mr. Hugh
ey carried s2.5OO insurance on his
stock and fixtures. and Mr. English,
on the building, carried $1,000.
Parma's volunteer fire department
| is entitled 20 great credit for pre-
venting the IRE spreading to the Of
fee building owned By Judge Her
rick and the residence Of Herman
Jurries which we're IN close prox-
Unity. The place was in charge Of
In H. Collins, 8Ir. Hughey being at
the time IN Kunz on business. 1lr-
English, proprietor Of the building,
was at wilder when the fire broke
out. but reached the scene before
the confagration was finally sub
ldued. Mr.. Collins had closed the
building at II O'Clock Of the even
ing before and is unable TO under
stand how the fire could have oc-
Cured. II was probably caused
either By a short circuit or by sDon-
taneous combustion in the room
in which the proprietor kept tbs
oiled rags with which he cleaned
his furniture Mr. Hughey states
that his loss On the stock and hx
lures will amount TO s+,500-
The way in which Marshal Boy
handled the water at the recent fir
J IS worthy Of commendation- An
this in spite OF the fact that he for
: got to put his socks on when tn
L alarm was given Also. We neve
( saw him wear the same pair {
4 pants before. but they might hay
!. been his
d Everybody in this section no
- knows why the voice OF the DEM
-e cratic party was heard in this Sc
e ton last election When Castat'
n discovered the fire Tuesday mori
y ing he disturbed the slumbers
sr sleepers three miles away.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25

Mrs.. A. King Was in Boise the hrst
OF the week
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1915-02-25

On Tuesday W. G. vogts of Nys-
sa sold the fixtures in the poor
hall conducted by Walter Tully TO
E G.. Dickerson II IS understood
that Messrs Dickerson and Tully
will conduct the pool hall in the
future.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
SLAVS TURN TABLES
 ON HInDEnBERG

troops who not only succeeded In turn ing the tables on the enemy but actual ly turned his attack into precipitate
 retreat in order to escape complete enve,o2ment as a result of the Russian corp.
 The German attempt was met by a counter movement which completely surprised the enemy and resulted in a heavy loss in men and supplies in cluding several guns of large caliber. The Germans are still on the defensive in their former positions south of the Dvina.
 The German movement was a part of the general plan of encircling the Russian positions at Dunaberg. Gen eral staff reports place the German losses at over thirty thousand men, a large portion of whom were taken prisoners.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01

The first safe cracking episode to take place in Nome for many a long year was pulled off in the hardware store of the E. w. Carleton Company supposedly some time Sunday but re- suited in little gain to the robbers In so far ae the contents of the strong box were concerned as the robbers gave up their task before securing entrance to the interior The yeggs made a bold attempt, however, and succeeded in knocking off the knob to the com- bination lock with sledge hammer but in so doing locked the combination in a way that prevented opening the door.
 When the proprietor arrived this morning he was at once confronted with the evidences of the attempted robbery by the broken lock and several implements employed in the attempt to gain entrance to the safe. Locked In the safe was considerable quantity
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
BRITISH SEIZE US.
 STEAMSHIPS
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 SEATTLE, Nov. 1.-Terming the seizure If the American steamships Hamborn and Herking warships high handed and illegal the officials of the state department today indicated that that the seizures will be protested im- med!ately. The officials are not aware of the exact raiding of the vessels but believe that they were engaged in the coastwise trade and were in no sense carrying on the commerce of war in accordance with the British estimates of contraband carriage. No . official s; Will be taken. however until Con- sul Young at Halifax has delivered a full report to the department.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
.STEFANSSON WRITES
 AN INTERESTING
 LETTER 10 ALLAN

fore, only one sled( Bernard's) Der nard's dogs and one dog you got for me Ia brindle one named Hans). The Nome freighting sled type has proved excellent for ice work, but the tobog- gan bottom put In by Father La For tune Is great improvement (pre- vents the benches being caught on snags of ice and floats the sled through soft snow where it sinks to the body. For speed, convenience of handling and for general driving on smooth going I like the Nome style of hitching in pairs on a central tow line, but, as you told me you though would be the case, the individual hauling traces keep getting snagged In very rough ice and so do the neck lines, less frequently. some times choking the dogs badly. For heavy hauling in rough ice find the better than any method have tried, especially with big dogs For con- venience, speed in good going, etc. it Is of course not up to the Nome style Bernard is a jewel priceless to us in cur situation.
 Thompson has also proved very serviceabl and his wife is worth her weight in gold She Is the most rapid seamstress I ever know, which Is im- pOrtant pou, +bot all oIir raady made clothes are lost with the Karluk. Everything has to be made now Of the skins we kill ourselves. I have thought these things would be of interest to you especially general news l have not time to go into. This note may be the only one have time to write to Nome though there are many there to whom I owe much beside you. Please show them this letter or tell It's con- tents SD far as they are of interest to Mir. and Mrs. Darling. I hope to nave the pleasure of seeing you all for rew days at least In 1916.
 vIHLJALMUR SUPERVISION. Portscript written at Herschel island August 22, 1915 says Have heard the tracio ews of the Karluk. It Is un- believable, strong young men dying one after the other and the infirmest oldest man and the babies safe and well and our worst trouble so far has been tooth ache.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01

Mrs. c. E. Darling received by last mail letter from the explorer Vihljal- mur Stefansson which was forwarded from Ottawa by CScotty) A. A. Allan who in turn had received 1t from the Canadian authorities. The letter is written to Allan from the Bay of Mercy on the north coast of Banks land and bears the date of July IS, 1915. Sev- eral parts of the communication are of a private nature but the remainder is substantially as follows: As will be seen by the date the first part of the letter was written before the explorer had been located by Captain Lane on Kellet point while the latter portion was penned after Stefansson had reached Harschel island in the Polar Bear and shortly before he started out on the return journey to Banks land to continue his exploration dur ing the present winter.
 Dear MT. Allan: I intended writing you this summer (by the mail sent out by Wilkins but had not the chance. write this not now on a page of my diary so I shall have it ready to tear out and send when I have a chance.) A whaler may call In. possibly about tse time We expect to get to our winter camp at Kellet (about August 15). We shall have to go overland to there with pack dogs. This letter Is written not because it will amount to anything as a letter but merely to show I have not forgotten your services to the expedi
 ton when we were outfitting. Mostly the fine outfit you helped me get to- sether went out of my hands with the Karluk The twelve dogs I took with me ashore were ones which I had not previously tried and I was taking them on a trial trip. They were not, there- fore the best though some of them proved excellent. Of the sleds I had one that Father La Fortune made for us and the other from Mir. Davenport Both of these got out of my hands later for when l was absent (with a six-day team and Captain Bernard's sled) from the rest of the expedition, the sum- mer of 1914, both those sleds and all the dogs I brought off the Karluk were taken by the Alaska to Coronation gulf, Of the Noem outfit have here. there-
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
FIREMAN INJURED
 IN FAIRBANKS FIRE
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 FAIRBANKS, Oct. 31.-A fire break evening completely destroyed that pop ular hostelry and also resulted in the serious injury of Jack Hasmen, one of the firemen who fell from the ice cov- cred rungs of a fire ladder while try ing to make his way into the upper story windows The prevailing cold greatly hampered the fire boys and prevented effective action The loss lars and there was on insurance.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
YEGGS ATTEMPT TO
 CRACK CARLETON SAFE

of valuables including large sum of money. For time 1t was thought that the safe crackers had accomplished their work afterward closing the door but after a locksmith had finally sue ceeded in opening the door the contents were found to be intact. Entrance to the building was obtained by jimmying window opening on east side of the building. Nothing else in the store is missing so far as known. MT. Carle- ton states however, that the robbers may have take any part of a hundred dollars or more in goods but 1t would be impossible to tell 1t without an ex- tensive investigation. The police are working on the case but so far nothing Las developed.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
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4. a. Service.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-Secretary Lansing announced today that the all legations of Germany relative to the sinking of the Allen liner Hesperion have been completely refuted by the findings of the navy department fol- lowing an investigation of the frag- ments of the war engine which sent the vessel to the bottom some of which have been recovered. Germany has all along insisted in the face of contrary testimony that the Hesperion was not torpedoed but was destroyed by a mine
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
UNITED STATES WILL N N N MIN
 PROTEST BRITISH SEIZURE
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WASHINGTON, Oct 31.-A dispatch to the state department last night from Consul Young at Halifax states that the American steamships Hamborn and Herking have been seized by the British warships lying off the Canadian coast and have been lowed into Hali- :ax on change of engaging in con- little detail. An investigation has been ordered
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
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A. p. A. Service.
 FAIRBANKS, Nov. 1.-Captain Louis Lane, the man who located the ex- plorer Stefansson and who subsequent ly sold him the schooner Polar Bear with which to continue his explorations in the North Arctic, arrived in Fair banks yesterday afternoon after a long mush overland from Herschel island.
 Lane reports leaving the island on September 13 sailing twenty five miles to the mainland In an open boat. Cap tain Lane says that Stefansson left for the north on the third of September intending to continue his explorations from the northern en dof Banks land and is accompanied by the best men he has ever had with him on any of his northern journeys, all of them be- ing tried and seasoned by long experi- ence in Arctic travel. Stefansson took the pick of the best men of the ex- petition and Lane predicts that he will fully accomplish every thing that he set out to do providing that he has time. Fear that he would be handi- capped In this respect led the ex- plorer to ask the Canadian government
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
CANADA WILL MUSTER
 ANOTHER ARMY
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 OTTAWA, Oct. 30.--It has been of ficially announced by Premier Bor- den that Canada will muster an addi tional two hundred and fifty thousand creasing the total number of troops placed at the disposal of the mother country to over one half million. The new army will be fully equipped by the Canadian government. The premier today signed new recruiting order calling for troops to fill the ranks of the new force.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
SIR CHARLES TUPpER DIES
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A. p. A. Service.
 OTTAWA, Oct 30.-Word was re- ceived from Great Britain today that Sir Charles Tupper died this morning. Sir Charles was one of Canada's fore most native sons and was the princi- pal promoter of the Canadian Pacific railroad At successive stages of his career he also occupied many impor- tant public posts
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
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Ns Fs W 06TNTCbs
 ATHENS Nov. News from the Serbian battle fronts state that the French and Bulgarians are waging terrific battle between Strumnitza and Kroyak while farther to the south the British and Bulgarians are engaged in q struggle in which the slaughter is occurred along the battle lines of the near east.
 Th, fighting at both points has been iil F ogress for the greater part of two 2aNs both forces engaging yesterday forenoon with the struggle continuing
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
RUSSIA SENDS ARMY
 ID BULGARIA
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BTKHAREST. Oct 30.-Under con- voy of a large number of warships a huge fleet of transports carrying Rus sian troops are on their way to the Bulgarian coast from Odessa and Se- bastopol according to authentic infor- ma ton arriving in the capital today from one of the coast ports. It is offensive against the Bulgarians- will now be taken up in earnest. Accord ing te the information the transports fleet was composed of thirty large ves- sels heavily loaded.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01

A complete exposition of the wealth, resources and interesting features of Seward peninsula. Nugget Mining and Dredging Edition. Now on sale at the 0 flee and book stores.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
TWO BIG BATTLES
 RAGING IN SERBIA

throughout the night. The results are | still undecided as far as ascertained Fighting is also in progress at several other points as there are now seven distinct war zones in the Serbian ter ritory.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
GOVERNMENT PROVES
 HESPER|ON TORPEDOED

er similar engine of destruction. This statement has been completely contro- verted, according to the secretary, by the findings of the naval engineers who have established beyond all question of doubt that the fragments recovered from the Hesperion were originally part of a torpedo.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01

Tells everything about Seward Pen insula and its resources; Mining and Dredging Edition. ready about October 15. 6oc per copy. $500 per dozen.
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-11-01
POLITICAL PARTIES PREPARE FOR A
 CONVENTION
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" OtFVINSs
 NEW YORK, Oct. 30.--The chalrmen of both the republican and democratic national committees have issued calls for the purpose of selecting the cities in which will be held the coming con ventions. The democrats will meet on December seventh and the republicans on the fourteenth.