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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21
COURT HOUSE
NEARLY DONE
NEW BUILDING TO BE SOURCE
OF PRIDE TO PEOPLE OF
WHOLE COUNTRY
$35,OOO THE COST
BESIDES COURT ROOM AND JAIL
OFFICES PROVIDED FOR
ALL OFFICERS

Work on the new Elmore county
court house is being rushed to COM
pletion as rapidly as force of skin-
ed carpenters can complete the work.
ly all in place and the most that re-
mains to be done Is the dressing OF
the floors vanishing and various
finishing touches The district court
viii have the east side of this floor,
the court room, judges room and
jury room and layatory taking all
the available space. The court
| room is finished with raised plat
form for the court, jury box and q
rail to divide the court from the
part of the room to be used by the
public Across the hall 10 a suite
of rooms for the county attorney,
one for the surveyor and one for the
school superintendent.
On he first door are rooms for
the auditor, the assessor and the
treasurer, with other rooms that may
be used for other purposes.
The probate judge will have offices
in the north half of the basement and
the sheriff in the south half Fur
mace and coal storage rooms and
the county jail viii also be in the
basement The jall Is divided into
four rooms and is separated from the
sheriif's office by a heavy wall and
grated iron door The windows are
barred with heavy steel and one is
impressed with the lack of sporting
chance for escape horse thief will
have when the sheriff gets him to
the dungeon of Elmore's new Bas-
tile This dungeon lis perfect inside
room and resembles the one in which
Edmond was confined for seven--or
was it eleyen-long years in the
Chateau dlf, An it lacks is the
rat and it lis possible that that lack
could be supplied if the prisoner
were insistont In contrast there is
small outside room with an east
exposure and two pleasant windows
that only need a geranium and a
canary to make them seem more
homeIike than a boarding house.
The new court house is a beauty,
Il
tractor, the board OF commissioners
who have held office during its
building and the 800 Elmore county
voters who made its erection possible.
And we believe the voters who voted
against it will not feel that the money
was wasted when they ook over the
accommodations that the new build
ing off RS.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Sunday forenoon subject, THE
Eyes in the Wheels Evening, 1880,
tOur Town. its Welfare
Sunday school at 1910. The scar
let fever scare is passed. All men,
bers come. Endeayor at $50.
Prayer meeting at 1880. Ladies
Aid Thursday in three sections. Re-
member the cooked food sale Satur-
day, this week at the Idaho Power
Co. office, by Section Two.
The Elmore County s. S. conven-
ton VIII be held Saturday and Sunday
q and % at the Methodist church.
Mrs Ormsby of Boise, Rev. Sears of
Bruneau, Rev. Estabrook of Denver,
Colo, are to have places ON the pro-
gram besides local workers We look
for one OF our best conventions.
Help it on.
Rev. Mr. Bunch of Boise win speak
at the opera house Sunday evening,
), on the Constitutional
He is strong speaker.
Circulate the invitation.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Editor Mo lntain Home Republican
Moan,ain Home, Idaho.
Dear sir:
Noticel IN your paper some five OF
six weeks ago that you would like tC
have the opinion of some of the peo
pie IN regard to this herd law Now
for myself / have had twenty years
experience with cattle and cattle
men, also sheep and sheep men
VIII state that bo h bear watching
When the sheep aren't in your front
yard the cattle are.
The sheep man can be made TO
suffer for the damage done by his
sheep while the cow-man cannot My
experience with cow-men in the last
twenty7seyen Years is a great deal
OF worry and broken fences. 1t is
impossible to remedy these things
under the present conditions. Now
Mr.. Editor, have been reading up
on the matter carefully the past two
years and have found that many
people who were formerly bitter
against this herd law are now very
strongly in favor of it. ! am rails
ing some cattle myself and am in a
position to know all the conditions
and | am sure that a herd law would
be very beneficial to this country.
There are at present several large
coW-Outfits in this country and Sc N
to persist in ranging their cattle on
me and everyone else in this vicinity.
We don't get to see the big Kings
of these outfits only in the spring
and fall at he rOund-ups. All during
the summer our crops are ruined and
ou fences are torn down by those
hungry cattle. These cow-men have
forest reserve Now why can't he be
compelled to keep his cattle on his
reserve. ! surely don't believe in
anyone running more cattle than he
is capable OF taking care of. Now
Mr. Editor if there can be pro-
vision made to KEEP the coW-man on
his own range we have no complaint
to make. If the cow-man is left UNI
restricted it is gong to cause a
great deal more trouble soon, as this
country is fast becoming tiled up
by the homesteader
Yours Respectfully,
ROBT. c. McNEELY,
Bennett Idaho.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21
FIRST NUMBER OF
SCHOOL LYCEUM COURSE
WAS GREAT SUCCESS,

The American Quartet, which fur
nished the first entertainment OF
the lyceum course Tuesday evening
was a sure enough hit. Every one
in attendance pronounced it the best
of its kind that had ever visited
Mountain Home but the special at
traction was Conrad the cartoonist,
who in the wink of an eye made
clever drawings in color and who
kept up an entertaining line of talk
the while. If the other numbers
are as good as the first, and they are
said to be better, this years lyceum
should be the most successful enter
tainment course ever staged in Noun
tain Home.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21
METHODIST NOTES
Bennett, Idaho.

Sunday morning the pastor will
speak on the subject, "All Things
Freely given Sunday school meets
at 10 a. m. Epworth League meets at
$50 p. IN. Topic: Second Mile Re-
ligion" Frank Bumgarner will lead
the meeting There will be no preach
ing service on Sunday evening due
to the fact that the pastor it to hold
a Prohibition Constitutional Amend
ment Rally at Glenns Ferry Sunday
evening. Special attention is called
to the Sunday school convention and
rally to be held Saturday and Sun
day October 28 and 80 Also remem-
Der 'The citing Pot" to be read by
Miss Shaw, who is a famous dramatic
reader. Miss Shaw will give the
reading at the church October 27th
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21
n its borders long ago.

in its borders long ago.
The peopleof the United States
need this territory for a park. The
climate is delightful Under Nation
al Park manag this magnificent
scenic area will be preserved for the
people for all time. The animals,
birds and flowers will be protected.
Roads and trails will be dev loped and
the scenery made accessible to the
pubic This National Park will hasten
tha development of Idaho and give
the people of the United States a
rare pleasure realm Thousands OF
visitors would annually visit Idaho.
Among these there would be humid
reds who, charmed by the climate and
scenery, or interested by busin IS
opportunities, would become settl rs
or investors.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21
BIG ROCK OF VAST
RICHNESS RECOVERED
IN ATLANTA MINE

One day last week a discovery
was made at Atlanta that stirred up
great excitement in that rejuvenated
mining camp. The discovery was a
block Of almost solid gold weighing
over a hundred pounds. The nugget
was shot through with quartz, but
an estimate Of its value goes up
around 100000 The nugget was
loaded on a sled and paraded around
town and an impromptu celebration
was held in It's honor. The find
was made in the old Chunk tunnel
ON the Boise-Rochl stor property
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Mrs. D. W. McFadden of Boise,
who was member Of the ten h
legislature, and the only woman ever
elected to the Idaho legislature was
in town Tuesday arranging for a
N citing to be addressed by Mrs. NJ.
B. Mmson Of Kansas. Mrs. McFad-
den is an experienced political worker
and interviewed many Of the local
workers in the cause.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

B nnett Brothers and G. S. Don
nell sent a shipment Of fat hogs to
the Portland market last week. A
portion Of the shipment brought $9.75,
the top price OF the week Colin
Tyler chaperoned the shipment to
market.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

The Catholic Ladies will meet with
Mrs Joe Labbee Xt Thursday
afternoon for business and social
meeting
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Prof and Mrs. J. A. Smith visited
at the home OF Mrs NJ. e. LongfelIoW
last week. Mr.. Smith is Mrs. Long
fellows uncle and is connected with
a commercial school at ogden.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

At a meeting of the board Of direct
At meeting of the board Of direct
ors OF the Mountain Home Water
users protective association Monday
evening II. r. Pickrell was elected
to fill the position Of Director Hine-
baugh, resigned.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Uncle Hugh Riley, an old time
miner of the Atlanta district, now
ranchng on the South Boise near
Pine, came to town Tuesday to have
a troublesome tooth pulled. 1t is Mr..
ri. US first visit to the county seat
for four years.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

1t has been found that the Su-
preme Court Of Idaho is best balan-
ced by having one member from the
North one from the Southeast and
one from the Southwest. The only
way to continue this arrangement is
by electing John G. Rice Of Caldwell.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

w. II. Turver a former resident
of Mountain Home, where he was en-
gagged in the real estate business,
was in town this we k attending to
business matters and renewing his
acquaintance with old friends. Mr..
Turver is now a resident of Los
Angeles.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Mr.. and Mrs Gilbert hacher OF
Eugene, oregon, stopped off in Noun
tain Home Tuesday for a short visit
with their son, G. G. Zachor, Of the
Boise -Payette lumber company. They
are on their way to visit their old
homes in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Mrs. Frank Englehart left Tuesday
afternoon for Rosedale Washington,
on receipt of a message conveying
the sad news that her brother at
that place was very sick and not ex-
pected to live
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

VIM. Blackman had narrow es-
cape from a serious accident Satur-
day while coming to town. One OF
his horses got its bride off and
started to run. Mr.. Blackman Kept
them in the road and after going
through town and out on the other
side managed to stop the team.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

A vote for John c. Rice as Justice
Of the Supreme Court is a vote for
character, efficiency and high legal
standards in the highest court in the
state.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

George Pinkston of Three Creek
left here Sunday for Moscow where
he will enroll in the agricultural
course of the university. He was ac-
companied as far as Mountain Home
by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. II.
Pinkston, who are substantial citi-
Ems of southern Owyhee county.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Attorney A. a. Sessions was a
visitor at Boise, Parma and Roswell
in Canyon county several days this
week
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

The Republican is printing folder
devoted to dry land farming for r
w. Simpkins, the real estate man.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Miss Claude Coltler of Rosw 1
visited over Sunday with Mrs A. A
Sessions.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

The county commissioners adjourn.
ed their October session Saturday
evening.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

Don't forget the chicken pie dinner
given by the Catholic Ladies on elcc-
tion day in the old Nelson Grocery
-h1iIhinu
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

B. b. Blackwell was in town from
the Ferry several days this week.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21

l.. II. York was in town from
Boise Tuesday in new Cadillac
eig Inf
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-21
"CAT CREEK BOB" McNEELY
WRITES ON BENEFITS OF
HERD DIST. TO SETTLER,

Bennett, Idaho, Oct. 10, 1916.
Editor Molntain Home Republican
Moan,ain Home. Idaho.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
Death of Wyoming Man is Re-
garded As An Unusual
Coincidence.

FORT STEELE, Wyo., Feb. s.
There was good deal Of the uncanny
in the death, few days ago, Of Con-
ductor Harold ]. Cummings, whose
body has been taken to Bangor, Wis,
for interment. Cummings and his
senior brakeman, F. G. Selby, of
Marthaville, La, were in charge OF a
freight train east bound, and had stop
ped the train here to permit the pass
ing of two passenger trains. There
is a double track on this section of
the Union Pacific, and the freight
train was occupying what is known
as the passing track" between the
two.
The trainmen we're cooling a hot
box on one of the cars, and hearing
the rumble Of an approaching train,
they stepped on the west bound track,
believing that the coming train was
on the other track. Just as they
reached the track a west bound train
struck them, killing Cummings in
SANITY. Selby lived for few sec
onds afterward, The men were be-
lieyed to have been preparing for the
coming west bound train and had for
gotten for the moment that the other
was to pass at practically the same
time, at a high rate of speed.
It was on this same section OF the
Union Pacific, between the same
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
PLAN PROTECTION
OF STATE FOREST

tected by the government, there are
thirteen fire stations, or lookouts,
forty feet high, commanding view
over a radius Of thirty miles.
Always on Duty.
In these lookouts employees are con-
stantly on duty, being in constant
telephone communication with each
other.
Working with the fire stations are
three federal patrolmen, skilled in
fighting forest fires, who travel over
prescribed routes. e..
Supplementing the work of the fire
stations and federal patrolmen there
is force of 800 firemen distributed
throughout the various counties en-
braced in the protected area. These
tiremen are provided by the various
counties. A special tax Of one cent
an acre is paid by owners Of timber
lands to assist In carrying on this
work.
Although the organization for fight
ing fires in West Virginia forests has
been in operation but about two years,
Inspector Glenn stated that the wis
dom of establishing 1t has been justi-
fed.
Besides protecting timber, the prop
agation of fish and game has been
fostered.
There are moro deer, pheasants,
squirrels and other game in the state
this year, according to Mr.. Glenn. than
at any time during the last twenty
five years. f
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
Killed at Spot Where
Brother Was Run Down

freight terminals that brother OF
Cummings, Thomas Cummings, also
conductor, was killed nearly fifteen
years ago, in practically the same
manner. Cummings was inspecting
hotbox on one Of the cars Of his train
and was hanging to the grabirons on
the side Of the car when he came in
contact with bridge over the Lara
ME river at Howell, his brains being
crushed out, and his body falling into
the river.
A few months ago Harold Cum
mings was assigned to temporary duty
between Laramie and Cheyenne, and
had to cross the Rocky mountains at
Sherman. On the other side Of the
range, with the train on sharp de-
clining grade, the engineer cut his en-
CINE loose from the train and ran
ahead to take water Before severing
his connection he failed to manipulate
the air brakes and the train began to
move toward the engine at the water
station. Cummings and his brakeman
we're unable to stop the train and 1t
overlook the engine, killing the fire.
man and badly wrecking score of
cars.
To add to the somewhat peculiar
features Of last weeks accident, the
car against witch Harold Cummings
was thrown was taken to the repair
track at Laramie and placed along
side the car that had killed his broth
er June 10, 1902. The car also stood
on the same track as did the car that
killed Thoms.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
Mother Necessity's Here;
Where is Baby Invention?

ia good idea to supply pencils with
rubbers and devised a means of doing
it. Before his patent. expired 1t yield
ed him more than 100000
A Washington man invented little
lock to hold fence wires together II
was only a small thing, but it had
two big advantages-it was cheap and
with 1t boy could build good wire
fence as quickly as man. With a
very small investment his patented
idea netted him in single year $780,
600.
Many persons remember the old
style soda water bottle with the stop
per. which had to be pushed into the
bottle to open it. A Baltimore man
conceived the idea of replacing this
cumbersome arrangement with the
convenient and much less expensive
little tin cap such as now so widely
used. Although he used UP more than
ten years of the life Of the patent In
getting capital interested in his inven-
ton, he made fortune in the remain.
Ing seven years.
1t seems as If any one might have
thought of making cans with strips
OF soft tin, which would hold the cover
in place and which could be easily
torn off when the cans contents were
wanted. 1t was, however, long time
before such an idea occurred to any
body, and the lucky individual or
whom it finally dawned has made two
or three fortunes.
Fortunes In Games.
A successful invention does not nee.
essary have to be useful article
Some of the greatest money makers
OF recent years have been games and
puzzles. pigs in Clover" 1.-The FIJI.
/ teen Puzzle and the Ferris Wheel
are three Of the many things of this
description that made fortunes fol
their inventors before their popularity
died out.
Interesting puzzles are often thu
result OF accidents. The famous
"Whitechapel" puzzle was due to {
painters idle hanging of two pain
bucket hooks while waiting for sud
den shower TO pass over.
All at once he found that he hat
fastened the hooks together in such
a way that it seemed impossible Il
separate them. 1t took considerable
thought to get them apart, and Their
he realized that he had stumbled ,upor
an interesting puzzle. He made $751;
900 from his chance discovery.
Some Inventions Greatly Needed.
In proportion to the amount Of time
and effort involved there, they say
more money to be made from some in
genious little article that will be II
great demand at five and ten cents
each than in some epoch making in
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
OLD Relations
With the Pope Are Sought to
Be Renewed by the Euro.
pean Warning Powers.

Correspondence OF Associated rrcsso
ROME, Feb. 5.-Not since the TALL
of the temporal power Of the Pope
some forty-six years ago have there
been so many attempts of hitherto
Indifferent countries to re-estabish
diplomatic relations by the sending Of
ministers to the Vatican, in addition
10 those already accredited to the gov
eminent OF Italy at the Quirinal,
England and Holland have renewed
Diplomatic relations by sending min
listers to the Vatican, while France is
thought to be represented through the
principally of Monaco, which is the
latest to renew old relations. or
course since the entrance OF Italy into
the war, the Austrian ambassador to
the Vatican left, as well as the minis
tiers from Prussia and Bavaria, re-
spectively the Baron Won Ritter and
the Baron Won Muhlberg.
While these three countries Just
named did not in any sense break
their relations with the Vatican and
perhaps even now try to keep in bet
ter connection than ever, 1t was i'm
possible for them to remain openly
here, due to the peculiar position Of
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
COAL PROBLEM
MOST PRESSING
IN ITALY NOW
With American Coal Scarce
Of the Ship Shortage and
High Prices.
CORRESPONDENCE of Associated prcss.)

Correspondence Of Associated PrcSs.)
ROME, Feb. 15.-With American
coal scarce because Of the ship short
age and selling here from $25 TO $40
ton, according to quality, the solu-
ton of the problem of securing coal
in quantity and at reasonable prices
has become one Of the most pressing
public and domestic questions in Italy.
While the situation will finally re-
suit in governmental measures for a
wider use of water power, popularity
known as white coal to secure heat,
light and motor power, pending such
action various temporary measures
are either being urged or adopted. In
current issue of the organ OF the
minister of public works, Italian cities
are urged to save coal by burning few
er street lights at night, following
the example of London, Paris and
Venice. and force their cities to go to
bed early.
There is no doubt that the two gas
companies of Rome would approve
such n war measure. One of the cur
ious results of high coal prices is
that in Rome the losers are the gas
companies, not the consumers.
1t is estimated that the gas COM
panies have already lost 100000 Tires
as a result Of their contracts with the
city, made in peace times, to furnish
gas at sixteen centimes the metric
cube. whereas it is costing them thir-
ty-two centimes to furnish it.
From the point of view of the poor
people, Rome is thus the most for
tunate Of European capitals. Lon
don. Paris, Venice may turn off their
lights as a precaution against aero
plane attack, but in Rome, where no
such fear is entertained by the mill
tary authorities. the streets are as
brilliantly lighted as ever they were
at the height of the tourist season and
he Romans continue to find happi-
ness and warmth in late street prone
nades and coffee drinking on the side
walk cafes.
While coal may soar to famine
prices, the cost of gas, which is made
of coal, cannot increase, under the
city contract, so the people, rich and
poor alike, are installing gas heaters
as fast as possible,