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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
SWEET RANCHER DEAD
IN CABIN
VIM. WeatherhOlt Dies Alone in
Cabin on the Butte-Had
Been Dead Several Days

William Weatherholt, an old timer
of the Squaw Creek country, was
found dead in bed in a cabin on what
is known as the old Bill Fuller ranch
on the butte, Saturday. 1t is thought
he had been dead several days.
The body was discovered by Mr..
Strickland, owner of the ranch, about
10 o'clock Saturday morning. Mr..
Strickland is teacher of the Jack Knife
school near Ola. AS is his usual Gus
tom, he came home to spend Saturday
and Sunday. Upon opening the cabin
door he found Weatherholt's lifeIess
body in bed There was no appearance
of even a struggle and it is probable
his death was caused by heart failure
Probate Judge Vadney was notified,
and he with Undertaken Bucknum, Mr..
Vadney's brother and Joe Jacques
brought the body out Sunday. The
cabin is some distance north of Sweet
and three miles up canyon on the
east side of the butte from the main
Travelled road from Sweet to Ola. As
the snow was two feet deep and crust
ed, it was necessary to rig up a sled
with ski runners to bring the body
out. The four men had strenuous
time, and were nearly exhausted when
they had completed the trip. The body
was buried in the Sweet cemetery on
William Weatherholt was widower
and lived alone, He owned quite
number of horses, and having bought
the Strickland hay, had driven them
to that ranch to feed them. Seven head
were found in the barn nearly starved.
He has a grown son in California and
a sister, Mrs. Gale Carlock living in
High valley. Besides about II head
of horses and some other livestock, he
owned no other property, so far as
known.
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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

Sam Little, the well known sheep
man, returned Monday from a trip to
his Crane creek ranch, and relates a
narrowing experience. He rode horse
back when he went there from En-
NETT. After crossing BigWillow creek
he encountered two feet of snow on
the hillside and to relieve his horse,
Sam decided to walk. Now, sold
Smoky" the horse he was riding, is
trusty animal and has been trained
to follow his master around like u
dog, so of course Sam turned him
loose. Everything went along fine
until about four miles from home, the
horse walking ahead and breaking the
trail. But Sam was getting tired
tramping through the snow and had
decided to ride. He called to Smoky"
The horse stopped moment, then Civ
ing his master the horse laugh, started
for home-"head up and tail arising"
and never stopped until he reached
the ranch barn. When Sam a1~ived.
he was Just about all in, and he has
fully decided to never give Smoky an
other chance like that to leave him.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Better Pay Delinquent Taxes

County Attorney Reed is preparing
to file complaints, as required by law,
against all property upon which the
delinquent taxes have not been paid
for 1918, together with abstracts. The
expense of the litigation to foreclose
on the property will in most cases
exceed the amount Of the tax. Mr..
Reeds object in giving persistent
warnings is to save owners of proper
ty affected considerable expense and
the loss of their holdings.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
A Big Success

The Crescent Club dance Monday
night was a big success in every way
socially and financially. The at
tendance was large, 100 tickets being
sold in advance, and every one enjoyed
himself to the fullest extent, being
10th to depart when "Home, Sweet
Heme" was announced at 2 o'clock
The proceeds will help to swell the
fund being raised to build club house
near Freezout hill. The committee in
charge of the affair desire to thank
the public for their generous patron
age.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
High School Adds Another

The High School added another vic
tory to its string Friday night in a
game with the Militia. 1t was hard
fought contest, and was anybody's
game until the very last. Kip Harrell
made great record in throwing field
baskets, which accounted for at least
half of the soldiers scores. The re-
suit was 90 to 26.
The High School second team was
also victorious, administering a crush
ing defeat to the Militia's second team.
The score was 81 to IL.
The next game, Friday night, will
be between the Athletics and Militia.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
BIG STEAM SHOVEL FOR
CANYON CANAL
Irrigation District Secures Use
of Reclamation Machine to
Make Plowman Cut

The directors of the Emmett Irriga-
ton had a streak of good luck and
make good business deal when they
secured the loan of the government
reclamation's big steam shovel with
which to make the cut in the Canyon
canal which will take the place of
what is known as the Plowman tun-
mel. Work will start within the next
two weeks and it is estimated that
from so to 80 days will be required
to complete the job.
The machine uses clipper" that
excavates 211a yards of dirt at each
@dip" 1t weighs 70 tons and is driven
by two 16-ton locomotives. With it
go 80 dump carts, each of which have
a capacity of four yards of dirt. These
make two trains of Is trains each.
The outfit runs on regular railroad
rails and it will be necessary to build
a track for it to operate on. A track
will also have to be built from the
station at Montour to the scene of
operations. This track will be built
in two sections and as the outfit passes
the first section it will be moved to
the end of the second, and so on until
its destination is reached As the Plow
man bridge across the river is not
strong enough to support the outfit,
the river will be forded short dis
tance above the bridge. The machine
will be in charge of Mr.. Fordham, an
expert in the reclamation service, and
he will be the only expert help re-
quired.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Rooming House Changes Hands

The former Steinbower property on
Commercial avenue, in which Milt
Kelly has conducted rooming house
for some time, changed hands this
week, DR.. N. B. Barnes trading it to
C. NJ. Drake of Boise valley for pro-
perty in the Boise valley Mr.. Drake
arrived Tuesday and will take pos
session the first of next month.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
scooning Slides From Track.

Employees of the Oregon Short Line
have been busily engaged this week
in removing the rock and landslide ac-
obstructing the line above
Banks. Pending the removal of the
heavier debris it has been impossible
to send the rotary snow plow in to
buck the drifts. 1t was thought yes
terday that it will be possible to start
operations today or tomorrow. Two
big steam cranes, one of the clamsheli
type, have been busy all week dishing
the landscape from the tracks.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Man Frozen to Death.

The body of Thomas Seymour was
found a short distance from Cascade
Monday on the trail leading down the
valley 1t was frozen and it is sup
posed that the victim froze to death.
An inquest will be held to determine
whether the man died from exposure
or some other cause.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
G. O. P. CONVENTION
viii Be Held at Twin Falls April 20
to Select National Delegates

The Republican state convention to
elect delegates to the national con-
vention at Chicago, June Z, will be
held at Twin Falls April 20. The rep
resentation at that convention will
consist of delegates from each of the
81 counties in the state on basis of
two delegates for each member the
county has in the legislature. This
was the decision reached by the Re
publican state central committee at a
conference which closed last night.
The representation given to counties
in the last state convention to elect
delegates to the state convention in
1912 was five to every representative
by each county in the state. The
state committee cut down the repre-
sentation. There will be 202 delegates
in the next state convention where
four years ago there were close to
400.
1t was left optional with the county
as to how the delegates to
the state convention shall be elected.
This is taken to mean that the county
may determine whether
a preferential primary election shall
be held for the election of delegates OF
the delegates shall be hand
pickd by the county organizations.
The state committee did not go on
record as favoring preferential pri-
mary election for the naming of the
delegates.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

Suit for damages against J. V.
DeLamater has been filed by Mrs.
Emily E. Bramlee, both of Pearl.
The case is the aftermath of a suit
filed against Mrs. Bramlee, in which
it was alleged she had allowed her
cattle to roam in the Pearl herd dis
trict. The case came up in the probate
court and the defendant was ac-
quilted. Damages are sought for
false arrest.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
First Chickens, Maybe

As usual, Mrs. Bliss is the first to
report early chickens, one of her
biddies having Matched setting the
first of the week. Of course, we know
that the first one to tell a story has
poor show, and it is not unlikely
that Mrs. Bliss's claim will be chal-
lenged next week.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

The cost of the work will not ex-
coed $4,000, it is stated. The district
will pay the reclamation service 8
per cent per month on the present val
ue of the excavating machinery, which
will be approximately 5000 per month.
Engineer Horne states that the work
will be completed in approximate
60 days, but the directors are allow
ing for accidents and place the date at
the first of June.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Sets New Butter Record

Sheboygan, Wis.-Susan, E grade
Guernsey COW, has established rec
ord of 10 pounds of butter n so
consecutive days which equals the av-
e-age yearly production per COW of
Wisconsin. The test was concluded
February 2. In the 60-d9ys period
Susan, produced 1854 pounds of milk.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Road Washed Out

The wagon road leading from the
Frozen Dog ranch to the main road
was ruined by washouts during the
recent thaw. A gully, in some places
seven feet deep, was made. The water
came from the Canyon canal, which
was cut above the ranch house when
melting snow filled it.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

The Canyon canal was sold at the
Court house Saturday. Shorty"
Smith bid it in at LOO, the amount
of his claim. His original claim was
$4,000. The increase represents ac-
crued interest. The outcome of this
peculiar transaction will be watched
with interest. 1t is said that the
claim has been assigned to the First
National Bank of POcatelio.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Lumber to PENNSYLVANIA

Paul Schumacher, who operates a
sawmill on Shafer creek above Horse
shoe Bend, was in town Tuesday. He
reports a brisk demand for lumber.
He recently shipped a carload to
Pennsylvania, laying it down there for
$37.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Bond Case in March

The case of j. Paul Thompson, one
of the Canyon canal bondholders,
against the Emmett Irrigation dis
trict, which was remanded by the Cali
fornia federal court to the Idaho
federal court, has been set for March
% in Boise.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
Three High School Societies Hold An
nual Meeting

The annual meetings of the Liter
ary-Athletic association, the Spartan
and Athenian societies were held this
week. Officers for the coming year
were elected as follows:
Literary-Athletic Association Dor
Downing, president; John Gamage,
vice president; Rosella Parrish, secre
tary.
Spartans-Harold Haylor, presi-
dent; Leonard Scott, vice president;
Ethel Knox, secretary.
Athenians-Kip Harrell, president;
Delmar Tarleton, vice president;
Margaret Exum, secretary.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

County Surveyor Forshay, who has
his office in the court room, is engaged
in drafting map for J. R. Hunter
showing the Emmett Irrigation dis
trict and the owner of each tract of
land under that project. 1t is being
drawn in Mr.. Forshay's usual excell-
ent manner.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Iambing in Progress

The lambing season is here and the
sheep camps are becoming busy places.
Most sheepmen have built sheds in
which to shelter the lambs from in
clement weather, and the danger of
early lambing is almost eliminated.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
BUYS GEM ABSTRACT COMPANY
Miss Katherine Mann of Caldwell
Takes Over Business at Emmett

Miss Katherine Mann has purchased
from -he Canyon Abstract & Trust
company its branch office business in
this city and will take personal charge
of tie business about March l. Miss
Mann, though her long connection
with the abstract company and con-
slant supervision over the ''Daily
Reporter" issued by the firm, has be-
come widely Known in Canyon
county. Her duties in compiling the
data for the Reporter kept her in the
county clerks office most of the time,
and there she made a wide circle of
acquaintances.
The commissioners of Gem county
have kindly consented to arrange Of
fee room for Miss Mann in the court
house.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Inspecting Sheep

w. H. Mckenzie, chief government
veterinary for Idaho, was in town
several days this week, inspecting the
condition of sheep. He found them
free from disease.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
schoolhouse for Farmers Union

At meeting of the school board
Monday night, permission was given
the South Slope Farmers Union to
hold its meetings in the Lincoln
schoolhouse.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

Because of the death of her mother
at Springfield, Ore, Judge Bryan has
the term of court which was
to open here Monday, until Feb. %
Judge Bryan left at once for Spring
field upon receiving notification of his
mothers death.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Becomes = Father at e6

Whitesburg, Ky.-Uncle Bob Bates,
E96 years old, has just become the
father of boy, his twenty-fourth
child. He has been married three
stimes. Recently he made 200-mile
"trip on horseback in two days.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Theresa Alice Young

Theresa Alice Young, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs Walter B. Young of
Ola, died Friday, aged 91z months. In
terment was made in the Ola ceme-
terry.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

The Vanderdasson bridge matter
has been turned over to County Com
missioner James Kesgard and Sur
veyor Forshay. They are planning to
eliminate the bridge entirely by laying
pipes of sufficient capacity to carry
the water and filling roadway of
earth above them.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

The old Plowman roadhouse has
been leased at SO per month and
there the men will eat and sleep. The
cooking department will be in charge
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Basye. This
department will also operate two
shifts and four meals will be served
every "a hours.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

The cut will be 100 feet long, 200
feet longer than the tunnel, II feet
wide at the bottom, $50 feet wide at
the top and 70 feet deep at the deep
est point. There are 100000 yards Of
dirt to move. The cut will be made
on one side of the tunnel and there
will be no interference with the water
service while the work is in progress.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

The outfit is now stationed at Boise.
The Short Line has generously made
a rate of half price for transporting
it over the Short Line and Idaho
Northern roads.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
EMMETT WEATHER REPORT.

A weeks record of the government
weather station, as furnished by Lo-
cal Weather Observer H. 7. Davis:
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

Two shifts of 20 men each will be
employed One shift will work from
] o'clock in the day time until mid
night and the other from l o'clock in
the morning until noon. They will
move 5000 yards day, it is estimated.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
COURT HOUSE NEWS

Hattie E. Houser has filed suit. in
the district court against John M.
Houser for divorce.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17

F. P Horne, the engineer in charge,
is now ross-sectioning the work.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-31
GIRLS MAY STRIKE AGAIN
Failure of Both Sides to Agree on
Wage Question Makes Garment
Situation Serious

Another garment strike like that of two
weeks ago is probable today. according to
BENJAMIN Schesinger, representative of
the garment workers.
1t is reported that Leo Becker, presl-
dent of the manufacturers association.
has resigned on account of disgust at
what was to be a harmony meeting yes
terday at the Continental Hotel.
This was the day the arbitration board,
consisting OF Judge Patterson, Mayor
Smith and Director Wilson, set TO hear
the report of the Wage Committee ap-
pointed by the arbitration board. The
manufacturers thought that the offices of
this board could be avoided by a mutual
understanding. So they met yesterday,
but got nowhere, and the report has it
that Becker was so incensed that he
aunt. He was asked today whether he
had resigned and answered;
Il will neither affirm nor deny the re-
port"
The Wage Committee only had two
members, for il was not possible to agree
ON a third neutral member"
The two members, Morris Fleischman
for the manufacturers and Miss Julia
PoyntZ for the workers, have arrived at
widely different conclusions Fleisch-
mans report asserts that the workers are
making a sufficient wage; Miss POyntz
has figures to show that the average
weekly wage was $3.50
Schlesinger said today:
al will not be responsible for the action
the workers may take If the boards de-
cision on the wage question is not satis-
factory" The girls who were on strike
are said TO be In favor of striking again
il they don't get the Is per cent. increase.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-31

wainscotng and bids all welcome by say
ing Run like everything"
Seventeen seconds after the door OF
the garage is locked another device
lights the cigar in holder on the steps
to the house, and as Briggs picks up
his cigar the lights in the garage are
automatically switched off. "Skinnay"
hows his master into the house and closes
the door with manikin skill, then jumps
back into his recess
THE DINING ROOM.
The dining room is large and CONF
Portable, surrounded entirely with quar-
tered white oak panels, stained most
beautifully by Father Time himself The
ceiling is beamed with those old water
logged timbcrs. The window frames are
made from the old planking which more
than dozen hardwood turner's refused
to touch with their tools but patience
carried the day. and although 60 cirCu-
lar saws were ruined by the petrined ma
tcrial enough were finally put through
for every window frame in the house.
The windows in the dining room are Of
loaded glass translucent but not trans
parent. and in every window are de-
scriptve pictures of full.rigEcd ships and
knights and ladies Of old. and the like
This room sports a front door, the twin
sister ot another front door opening from
the hall. All the doors are four feet wide
each constructed OF three solid threC.iurh
oak planks, seven feet long. aud all arc
hung with heavy hammered iron hinges
more than three feet long.
The dining room opens into a spacious
hall which leads, two steps down, into the
living room. which occupies half the
house. Hero the planknE on the floor
is four inches thick. Is or 3 inches wide
and 20 feet long The seams are Calkcd
with oakum and tar. for these planks
have lived many a year on that diet
Sears and marks on the floor show where
stays were fastened in them aboard ship
and many n misunderstanding carpenter
has aroused laughter for suggesting
THAT hole will show" The holes are
expected to show, to bring to mind the
romance Of life at sea.
MINSTRELS' BALCONY.
There is n huge stone fireplace At its
left secret panel gives entrance to n
winding stairway in tho chimney In a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-31
BLINDNESS HALTS
BRUSH OF ARTIST
Mrs. E. M. Gardner Completes
One Thousandth Picture of
Cat as Eyesight Fails

Blindness, the same afliction which pro-
hibited the hero OF Kipling's THE light
That Failed" from completing his mas
terpiece, is preventing Mrs r. NJ. Card
ner, noted animal artist, OF Pitman. n. T.,
from painting her 1OOist cat.
But, unlike Kiplings hero. who sought
soace from his despair In drink and the
excitement of the battlefront Mrs Card
ner has accepted her misfortuneH re-
signedly and is grateful she finished her
lWOth picture Of feline before her eye
sight failed.
She feels that her work has been well
done. and finds happiness and cofftenf-
ment in rejecting that her pictures of
cats will bring Joy and happiness to thou
sands long after she is dead. The sleiIful
product OF her brush has gone 70 ali
parts of the world In art galleries and
exclusive salons In this country and Eu.
rope her tabbles and tomcats have de-
lighted thousands. They are so lifeilke
that they can almost be expected 10 leap
from the frame and purr and stretch
after the manner of all lazy and con-
tented cats.
Mrs. Gardeners painting Of her one
thousandth cat race with her failing
eyesight. All of the intensity of her love
and appreciation of felines was placed
In her effort on this last picture, and art
lovers say II Is her masterpiece. AS the
light grew DINNER faster and faster f1ew
Mrs. Gardner's brush over the thick
black velvet which served as her can
vas. SO afraid was she that the mid
night of total blindness would Suddenly
shut out her falling vision that she
painted until late at night under an In
tense artificial light
Mrs. Gardners vision had indeed en-
tered the twilight zone when the picture
was finished. She dropped her brush
with grateful sigh She knew it Was
her best work. although her sight was
now so dim that the outlines of the pic
ture were barely visible to her.
"Oh, you beautiful cat" she murnured.
Il thank the Almighty that he allowed
me to finish you"
Tx, II beautiful Angora which sew
eral years ago resided at Green's Hotel,
was the most famous cat Mrs. Gardner
ever painted, Tx was valued at $4,000.