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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
They All Get It

Last Wednesday night Jess Harper
and Burrell Tiffany were arrested on a
charge of violating the prohibition law.
The officers spent the next day locating
their cache of Intoxicating liquors.
Friday forenoon the two men were ar
! raigned for preliminary examination
and waived the same, and were thence
Immediately conducted before the dis
trict judge where each received SEN
tence of ninety days in Jail and a fine
of $500. 90 and costs.
Recently woman fifty-six years old,
was caught with supply of intoxicat-
ing liquors. She was examined by the
county physician at the request of the
prosecuting attorney. and charge
filed against her of being addicted to
the excessive use of morphine and
other stimulants. She was sentenced
by Judge Cowen in the district court
to serve for term of six months treat
ment in Blackfoot.
Another was recently arrested and
the prosecuting attorney prepared
complaint against him for being intox-
icated. Investigation showed that he
had been drinking sweet cider and ia
maica ginger, but he, too, had to pay
the penalty.
Recently officers were watching for
a certain piece of baggage enroute
from Salt Lake to Shoshone, and the
night Paggageman was deputized to
arrest anyone that called for the pack
age. but the night. baggageman pro-
ceeded to open the suitcase containing
the liquor and get we'll Gagged"
Complaint was Immediately filed
against him and he also paid the pen
atty.
Some of these parties have been
for months before the nsces-
sary evidence to convict them was OBJ
tanned. Thus it has again and again
been demonstrated that no one can vi
'late the prohibition laws of Lincoln
county and 60 unpublished.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

thusiasm. He so simplified the presen-
tation of his plan to make Idaho tax
less that the truth of its practical and
beneficial operation would have been
plain even to school boy. Mr. Davis
proclaimed in ringing eloquence his at
titude on the liquor question, maintain
ing the position that has characterized
his entire life and not an extemporan-
eous temperance principle promulgated
at the last hour merely for vote-Ret-
ting purposes, as is so palpably the
case with his opponent, Governor Alex
ander, under whose administration as
mayor the city of Boise was run wide
open.
The quiet dignity, the freedom from
mud-slinging and personal allusion,
the high ground taken marks Mr..
Davis as patriotic student of Idaho's
peculiar needs and type of man who
is amply fitted to supply those needs,
to right present wrongs, to originate
and advocate new, practical and bust
ness-like legislation that will make
the name Idaho tsynonymous of
wealth and contentment. Mr.. Davis !
was applauded enthusiastically by his
hearers to whom he had brought Wis !
ion of new Idaho, not as cheap pol |
itician presents superficial harangue,
but with the burning tratory of
statesman of large comprehension and !
profound mental grip who, forgetful of
mere people and petty personalities,
presents real message
In the evening Mr.. Davis spoke to
crowded house at Shoshone and large
number of Richfeld folks motored
to our neighboring town to hear him
expatiate on the principles which will
carry him to the governors chair on
November 7.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03

WE have number of partially improved
FARMS principally on the Richfeld and
Dietrich Tracts, upon which we will place ten
ants for terms of from three to five years. Will
lease these places under agreements providing
for completion of improvement under the direc-
ton of the Company and an equitable division
of expense and income Terms and conditions
easily be met by men of small means. We
are prepared to enter into mutually profitable
arrangements with the right parties. Appli-
cants who have not had farming experience on
this or the Snake River projects will not be con-
sidered. Men with families will be given the
preference. Both husband and wife must like
the country and have ambitions to eventually
own farm of their own here. We will require
from applicants references as to honesty, indus
try and farming experience, unless they are
known to us personally. The more capital
livestock and farm tools a man has the more
profitable arrangement he can make While we
are not offering this as an inducement, it is an
excellent opportunity for the man of small
means to gain foothold which may enable
him to become owner at the end of the lease
period. A few farms are ready for occupancy
Others will be ready early in the spring
Applications in Uriting should state fully
extent, character and location of farming ex-
perience. size of family and age of children;
amount of capital, livestock and farm tools;
kind of crop and livestock with which applicant
has had most experience. Applicant must fur
nish names of at least three references mot rea-
tives) who have personal knowledge of his stand
ing and reputation, at least one of which must
be banker merchant with whom he has done
business Applications will be received up to
Nov lst. for immediate consideration and up
to January lst, 1917, for consideration in the
Spring. The first applicants will be in line for
the best places Address applications to
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
For Supt. of Schools.

Dora SommerUiILe, young lady O.
recognized abilities, teacher in the
Jerome High schools for the past eighr
years, who will use every endeavor tt
assist the. children of Lincoln County in
securing sufficient and practical edu-
cation.
For COmmis'r LIST Dist. Jerome)
Anders Anderson, a business man
Of tried ability. The kind of a man
we need to administer the affairs of
our county.
For Commits r End Dist. '(Shoshone)
Harry W. Anderson, a practical and
efficient Office man who has had twelve
years experience in Lincol County af-
fairs. He knows what is needed and
the best way to get it.
FOa Commis'r 3rd Dist. (Richfeld)
". J. Taper, former County
Commissioner and Carey Act farmer.
His record as County Commissioner is
worth considering.
For Coroner.
John F. SchmershaH, physician of
recognized ability who can handle this
office at the minimum expense.
For Surveyor.
X. S. Fuerfado, a civil engineer of
experience who is capable and efficient.
In Finale.
We have a lineup of strong, capable,
clean and efficient candidates and it is
with much pleasure that we recon-
mend each of them to the voters of
Lincoln county. The election of the
entire list above will have an uplifting
effect upon the clean government of
your county affairs Respectfully,
Republican County Genital Committee,
Attest: By Chas. F. Zeller,
j. w. Lundin, Chairman.
Secretary.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
ID. w. Davis
in Richfeld

Last Saturday afternoon Hon. D. w.
Davis, Republican nominee for Gov
ernor, was greeted by fairly large
crowd that responded to his sledge-
hammer locgic with outbursts of en-
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
For Assessor.

o. Il. Burkhead; Carey Act owner
who knows the value of the property
and guarantees each and every resi-
dent of Lincoln County just and
equitable assessment, and if elected
will visit each piece of property in
person and ascertain it's value.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
For Sheriff.

Clarence Wheeler, an officer who has
made good, and has so conducted his
office in the past two years as to make
it practically self-supporting, one of
the best records made by any sheriff in
the State of Idaho.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
For Probate Judge.

Educ. II. Miles, a man of discern
ment who will administer justice and
care for estates irrespective of poll
tics. We need him in this important
office.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
For Treasurer.

Walter II. Copp, whose record stands
for your approval. The first county
treasurer to receive the written COM
pliments of his bondholders. A man
who understands economy and efficien-
cy and whose record shows their use.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
For State Representative.

E. e. Streifz, a Carey Act farmer
who knows what legislation the Carey
Act farmer needs and is anxious to
help you get it.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-11-03
For Prosecuting Attorney.

John II. Helman, a fearless man
who believes the law should be enforc-
ed, regardless what the law is, or the
social or financial standing of tee ac-
cused. An important Office that each
taxpayer should consider carefully for
whom he votes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
ON BEFITTING CONDUCT
By Horace Greeley.

by I1Oi ace 0Teeley.
/ plead not for eccentricity, for rough
ness of manner--I am no stranger to the
bland amenities and suavities of life. /
acknowledge a fitness to time and duty,
and circumstance. in dress and in incl
dents of even lighter moment. l accept
the common sense of mankind as the
arbiter between what is real and natural
and what is assumed and fantastic The
banker, the capitalist, the merchant, who
should ape the dress of the car man, the
hodcarfier, would be justly the ridicule
of every healthy mind, and of none more
than the car man himself. loathe per-
verseness-it is at war with harmony and
the supreme good. Convince me that the
Quaker remains stubbornly covered in
the presence of his equals his seniors
from mere emulishness or within, and
abandon him to your rebukes; | will sec
ord them with my own. But let me
realize that that rude noncompliance
stands to him for a vital fact-that ii
symbolzes to him great principle. to-
wit the stern uprising of a true manhood
against servlity and fawning adulation
and l will defend him to the last gasp.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
PLAYING WITH MATCHES

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
! If one could imagine all the buildings
destroyed by fire in the United States in
| a year arranged along one highway,
each building occupying lot IS feet
wide, the highway would extend from
New York to Chicago, and the buildings
would line it on each side. Such is the
calculation OF the department of interior.
Furthermore, a person travelling this
| scene of desolation would pass in every
thousand feet a ruin from which an in
jured person had been taken. At every
three quarters of mile he would en-
counter the remains of human being
who had been burned to death.
1t is such facts as these, repeated year
after year, that led to the establishment
of fire prevention day in the United
States-a day on which the thoughts of
the American people are turned to the
fearful waste of life and property due
to the national habit of building flimsily
and then playing with matches.
The Chicago fire of 1871 still ranks as
Americas most destructive conflagration,
and the anniversary of that event, Oc-
tober 8, is now generally accepted as
the day for centerng the thought of tho
nation on the needlessness of such sacri
fees. BY official proclamation fire pre-
vention day is called to the popular att
tention and it's general observance in
some fitting fashion recommended.
For years. it is estimated, the amount
of actual property annually consumed by
fire in this country reaches $3.50, 900, and
another sum of about like proportions is
spent for the maintenance of fire de-
partments, waterworks, insurance prem
iums, etc, to prevent still gerater losses.
1t is a fearful penalty to pay for care
lessness, but the American people keep
on paying it year after year without seri
Gus complaint.
| The more widespread the observance of
| fire prevention day the better the augury
| for a future freed from the incubus of
| this tremendous annual drain on the
| economic resources of the country. Play
| ing with matches as a national pastime
has continued so long and so disastrously
that the desirabilty of stopping it should
need no further demonstration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
WARNS HOUSE BY SUNS RAYS

Fostoria, O.-"Bottled Sunshine" is
and a genius, calls his new invention-a
caloric contrivance which he uses to heat
his house in winter and to do the wash
ing, ironing and all other household tasks
requiring stored force.
On the hottest days in summer Mr..
Barnes catches the rays of the sun at the
focus of a bright tin roof on his house
and conveys the heat to his barn, which
he has remodeled into an immense model
of fireless cooker box. In this
building great squares of artificial stone
are placed and the heat is stored within
these big disks. These are closely packed
inside bales of pressed straw. The stones
hold more than 100000 calories of heat.
sufficient to heat his house all winter
and to supply all needed extra heat.
Mr.. Barnes claims that it took only 10
days last summer to charge his hot stor-
age plant The idea for the contrivancS
originated with Mr.. Barnes when he was
trying to paint the roof of his house on a
hot day. Filming such great heat on the
tin he was curious to know If food could
be cooked there and taking beefsteak
to the roof he left it. After a wait of
an hour he crawled to the top of the
house and found the steak cooked to a
crisp This incident gave him the idea
for his storage plant.
Hundreds of visitors are viewing the
dish shaped roof. the dollhouse and heat
ing system at the home of Mr.. Barnes.
who says that as there is no meter on
the sun he does not expect to pay cent
for heat the remainders of his life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
ALABAMA IN LEAD

From the Mobile Item.
AS the hearings at Washington on the
question of a desirable site for the gov
mirgham and Philadelphia appear to have
the preference of the majority of naval
experts before the secretary and general
board of the navy. Other points are still
being supported by some as preferable
for the plants location but the race
NAV almost be said to have narrowed
down to the first two mentioned
AS between Birmingham and Philadel-
phia there can be nc doubt as to which
II the most advantageously situated for
the purpose. At Birmingham the plant
would be at the base of supply of raw
material, While at Philadelphia the plant
would be forced to bring it's principal
raw material from the iron ore district
of Lake Superior-in far away Mime
sofa. Under the arrangements that the
United States could easily make for an
aii-water route from Birmingham, de-
livery of the finished product to the va
rious shipyards would probably amount
to about the same, on the average, from
either point Fuel is another very inn
portant item in operation of such a plan:
and it is well known that the coal fields
of Alabama, practically at the proposed
plant site, will furnish this much cheaper
than it could be obtained at Philadel-
phia.
The location of this great plant in Ala
bama would be a great boost to the state
from an industrial standpoint, as well
as an assurance that the government will
get its product at the lowest possible
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

(Copyright, 1916, by the Cincinnati En-
quirer)
we want to say kind word for Eve
every time we view the prevailing styles
Eve didn't wear much, but what she did
wear was not transparent.
When some girls offend by displaying
too much of their legs, you might sa,
that it is slim offense.
A scientist ella ms that if we talked less
we would be healthier But what does
a woman care about health?
While one man imagines that he must
be proud of his ancestors, another man
magines that his ancestors must be
proud of him.
We don't know much. But we do know
that the man who said that it takes two
to make a quarrel was not a married
man.
The man who is bold enough in other
ways is often too bashful to meet his OBJ
legations.
Every girl is ambitious. When you sec
her hanging on to the arm of a young
man and filling him full of honey, she is
trying to make a name for herself.
You may have noticed that the more
| tiresome bore is the more tireless he is.
| What has become of the old fashio ned
woman who used to go to the saloon ev-
cry Saturday night and bring her hus
! band home?
| Even the sweetest girl is liable to soui
on man after he marries her.
| We don't care how shabby he may look
the man who has smile for a kid and
pat on the head for a dog is pretty
good citizen.
The girls are getting pretter and
shapelier and are wearing less each year
! Gee, what fine place this world will be
to live in about 80 years from now.
Somewhere in this land there may b,
an Indian who isn't chief But We
| have never met him.
| What has become of the old-fashioneC
man who used to sing: Slide Kelly
| slider
After you get her you are liable to dis
cover that blonde is unfair.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
THE VENICE OF MEXICO

times wading in the canal and drawing
the heavy laden boats after them; and
| alas! returning to their paradise a
woman plotting her husband who is the
| worse for pulque.
| "Fiotsam and jetsam in the canal are
vagrant bulbs and flowers of water hya-
cinth, a wicked, beautiful plant, whose
reproductivity makes men work to keep
it down, but here it has met it's match
and is made to be useful, for the Aztecs
throw great masses of it upon a strip of
bog to the thickness OF a foot or more.
The water hyacinth is provided with
large, cellular floats. a natural provision
for it's dissemination, which has made it
. an obstruction to navigation in some of
our southern rivers.
! upon this bed of floats the native
spread layer of muck, dredged from
the bottom of the canals. Perhaps be-
fore the plant floats have decayed these
gardens may drift away should the
water rise Even now portions of the
lake on square miles of vegetation cover
the surface like the .sudd' of the Nile,
and the canal roads have to be staked
at the sides to keep them from disap-
pearing.
THE term floating gardens was prop
erly applied by the early historians of
Mexico to masses of water weeds COW
cred with thin layer of SOIL employed
| by the Mexicans at period when the
] fluctuating waters prevented the forma-
ton of permanent chinampas. and so in
the new world the Indians repeated the
famed gardens of the lake OF Cashmere
THE Exochimlcos are expert garden
ers and assiduous at their work. Most
! of their plants are started in seed beds
from which they are transplauted to tho
| chinampas, and it is strange to sec boat
loads Of corn sprouts brought to be
planted i'll this manner. Curiously
enough. these morass gardens sometimes
| require irrigation, which is accomplished
| by throwing on water from the canal
with a wooden scoop.
! 1T cannot be said that the Xoch.rnii-
! can man has AN open and Ingenious
countenance, but it Shows force OF char
acter and lights UP quickly in response
to kindness and recognition. The young
women have round. often rudy. bur
rather expressioness faces; the children
are pretty and the older women are bet
| ter preserved than the women of the
Pueblos of the southwestern United
States. Both sexes work hard, and
where there is such uniformity of pow
erty the struggle for existence makes life
a serious matter and engraves deep lines
in the faces of the breadwinners
THUS birth is heralded with mourn
ing and death with rejoicing.
What will be their future when their
swamps are drained and their old lake
dweller life merged into the humdrum
OF farmers? If by good fortune they are
kept from the deadly effects of alcohol,
the chief moloch of the Mexican Indian,
no Doubt they will live happily on the
dry lake bottom, as before the days of
Montezuma.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
a BRITISH OFFICERS FAREWELL

From the London Times.
Lieut.. Frederick William Robertson
Turner, r. E., who was killed on August
). 20 years old, was the elder son of Mr..
and Mrs. James Edward Turner of Lis
vane, Cardiff. He joined Welsh motor
cyclist dispatch section at the outbreak
of war; obtained commission in May,
1915, in the royal engineers and went to
the front last February His captain
writes of him: He was very able sol
der, a splendid comrade and one of those
rare people who did everything WE'LL In
almost the last words he wrote home.
dated July 20, he said: Yes, father.
read Of the death of III. and VI. uwo com
radesl 1t is sad. but one couldn't wish
better death. Men have [, be sacri-
receive are at Wal, Piaytl ings have
heen put aside, and we are in the midst
of grim and stern conflict. I canno
imagine better death than tina in ac-
ton 1t is all sufficing. No reed OF
memorial services-they are superfluous
To die like that is glorious"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
MAEsIA,s SONG


BY Robert Greene. Farewell to Folly"
Sweet are the thoughts that SAVIOR Of
content,
The quiet mind is richer than a crown.
Sweet are the nights in careless slum-
Der spent,
The poor estate scorns Fortunes angry
frOwn;
Such sweet content, such MINDS, such
sleep. such bliss, Il q
Beggars enjoy. when princes oft do miss.
The homely house that harbors quiet rest.
The cottage that affords no pride nor
The mean that 'grees with country music
best,
The sweet consort of mirth and modest
fare. kft
Obscured life sets down a type of bliss;
A mind content both crown and king
dom il. WY
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
VIII Go Democrn,lc

West Virginia is going to elect a full
democratic state ticket at the fall cleo
ton said Edward Slack, secretary of the
Marion county, Virginia. democratic con
vention, who was in Birmingham yester-
day. Not only is West Virginia going
to put in a full state ticket, but they art
AT present We have full house OF re-
publicans in the state executive offices
Practically all the legislators in botf
houses together with the governor are
republicans, but in the November cleo
ton John J. Cornwel will be elected
governor over Judge Ira Robinson, re-
publican nominee. That is my conserva
tive opinion"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20
HOTEL LOBBIES
Wonderful Dog

I have seen many dog acts during my
long experience as a manager of various
theatres said Monte Semon. Il must
admit most of the animal acts on the
stage today are tiresome. This is due
to the fact that most of the tricks are
wholly mechanical on the part of the
animal
'Snoozer,' the dog act at the Lyric
for the first half of this week, is really
a wonderful dog. He rivals some hui
man beings when it. comes to real intel
liGence. There is nothing mechanical
about this animars work and he acts
willingly and without any undue urging
on the part of his owner"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-20

THE fraternity, with it's ever in
creasing Importance in collegiate life,
is becoming wiser" said DIR. Dixie Nc
Crossin. with the growing vogue of
the fraternity house as dwelling for
undergraduates, the universities are
now requiring more of the fraternities
and the national organizations are
planning larger things.
There was a time when the fra
ternity was regarded more or less as
local proposition. but 1t is a stable
organization now. Through it's alumni,
the fraternities are seeking to encour-
age better scholarship, higher ideals
and greater deeds of it's local chap
ters.
Some of the larger national fra
ternities employ travelling secretaries
who journey about from chapter to
chapter in hopes of inspiring the mem
bers to greater effort. OF course, the
social side is emphasized, but the pri-
mary objects of university life are
accentuated in a marked degree.
The last 10 years have witnessed
remarkable change in the organi-
zatfori of the brotherhoods and as the
result the fights on them are not as
persistent as few years ago"