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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15
SOME MOMENTOUS
QUESTIONS

A significant thing has just hap
pened in Idaho in the battle with
booze. The state board of canvassers
have recorded the fact that every
county in the state gave majority
favoring the constitutional amend
ment, making the ban on booze per-
tual, Besides doing that, the peo-
ple decided the question by a vote
of three to one after having tried
it in some counties for six years, in
others four, and statewide for two
years.
There were certain wet counties
in the state which were reputed to
be unalterably in favor of remaining
wet. but the statewide movement
carried them into the dry column two
years ago and now, after a trial OF
enforced temperance practice, they
vote dry themselves. Examples of
this kind are Custer county with a
large mining population, and it re-
turned vote of GA per cent dry.
Shoshone, another region of mines
and lumber camps gave returns Of
IS per cent dry; Nez Perez county
containing the very wet city of Lewis
ton, where they had official disgrace
by municipal disobedience to law,
after two years returned Vote of CT
per cent dry. Blaine county with the
mining camps of Wood river valley
and Arco, proverbially wet, recorded
a vote of 6S per cent dry after hav-
ing tested it out. Bonneville county,
dry for six years as the result of a
special election, stood by it's original
majority of 70 per cent dry. FIRE.
mont had the same majority, and
Bingham which gave dry majority
of 80 per cent six years ago, stands
at 76 at a general election when
booze was only one Of dozen ques-
lions to be thought of. Bannock
county, which had voted twice before
on the question and had claimed that
because it had a large city that want
ed to remain wet, and that it was
unjust to let the country people de-
eide what the city people might have
In their homes and stores, took time
to make the liquor ballots So per
cent dry, larger majority than in
1912 when they held special cleo
ton on the question and tore all
things asunder to get a final decision
on the liquor question. In the wet
and dry campaign of 1912 it was said
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15
A GREAT MAN
PASSES

Field Marshall Oyama, the Japan
csc who commanded the armies of
the emperor in the campaign against
the Russians about IL years ago, is
dead.
He was born in 1912 and served
his country practically all his life=
During the Franco-Prussian war he
was sent by the emperor to study tao
tics at the front, and he attached
himself to the Prussian forces. He
learned western military tactics and
upon his return to Japan he proceed
ed to organize and drill the armies
in accordance with European meth
DDS. In the campaign against the
Russian army he drove them back
with such a succession of victories
that it ended the war. He had COM
manded in number of other
struggles in China and Japan, but
the defeat of the Russian arms was
his greatest achievement.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15
THINNING OUT
NEWSPAPERS

There area great number weekly
newspapers in the United States
that have been eking out a precari-
GUS existence, in communities that
are tired of the papers and where
people habitually reflect discredit
upon the paper and the publisher
when they speak Of it OF. his service.
The present soaring of prices OF
white PAPER is thinning them out
at the rate of several a day accord
ing to reports. At meeting OF
newspaper men in California few
days ago it was stated that 500 news
papers had already suspended.
A meeting Of the national publish
ers' association is now in session at
Washington for the purpose of at
tending the congressional inquiry as
to the reasons for the high price OF
print paper, and publishers thruout
the country are curtailing their sub,
scription lists by dropping all doubt
full paymasteFs or going to the cash
basis or both. Some are raising the
price of subscription, some are rails
ing the price of advertising and some
are doing all these things. 1t seems
to be a fight for existence and it be-
comes a question of the survival OF
the fittest. The man who has paid
his subscription for long period in
advance in a substantial newspaper
is safe and need not be concerned
about any of these problems. The
newspaper of tomorrow is going to
be conducted on different lines from
that of yesterday, and it will be bet.
ter or it will cease to be recognized
as a thing worthy of patronage.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15

that all the forces of HI were
conferred In Bannock county to turn
1t wet, and it was said that people
were beside themselves over the prob
lens that 1t raised. In 1915 1t was
one of many question before them,
and was not considered the most i'm
portant, but SO out of every 100 vot-
ing on it put the cross in the ring
that meant dry for all time.
These things have great signific-
ance. 1t means that what has been
regarded as the greatest evil next
to human slavery, has been ruled
against by those affected, after a
thoro trial both ways. Six years ago
it was said that the temperance peo-
pie themselves would rue the day
they won their victory. That taxes
would rise, schools funds would run
low, business depression would fol-
low the loss of SO great an industry
as brewing and liquor trade, empty
buildings would be conspicuous along
the streets, jails would be filled with
ierstwhile respectable citizens who
were incarcreated for exercising per-
sonal liberty, and foolish statute
would change a law abiding public
into criminals made SO by the factory
Of law, trying to legislate people to
be good, q
It was momentous question to
solve. 1t was a momentous task when
the nation undertook to solve the
question Of human slavery. 1t is a
momentous question that arises when
we undertake to solve the question
of the social evil. In each case peo-
pie have said it was a necessary evil
that had existed since the world be-
gan, and that all efforts to solve them
down thru the centuries had failed,
and SO they have, till the last century.
1t looks now, as If the twin evils
were disappearing together and that
people who were for and against
them would rejoice together at the
change, just as they now rejoice to-
gether over the ending of slavery
But nothing is more uncertain in this
world than what seems settled. The
Titanic was built unsinkable; when
the wireless service was hailed as
something that would save drowning
at sea in times of wrecks, one big ves-
sci on the st. Lawrence and one
touching the dock ct Chicago, sank
and drowned practically all on board.
When the world was talking serious
ly of universal disarmament on the
theory that there could be no more
wars, that people were too enlighten-
ed to turn their fertile plains into
shambles, dissipated son of house
of tyrants met the fate universally
decreed to those who violate the
moral law, and started Niagara of
human blood that all the powers of
the world are unable to stop.
In view of human experience 1t
would not be more extraordinary
than some passing events, to predict
that the rivers of Idaho should yet
run with wine and that the dry farms
would be irrigated with gin.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15

properly handled, the quality Of the
crop can be improved or at least
maintained as long as II Is grown
in q community. The variety becomes
adapted to local climatic conditions.
II the conditions are severe, only the
best and most fit plants survive.
1.-The results of many experiments
prove conclusively that the source OF
seed has nothing to do with the pro-
portion Of yellow berry in the crop
In any year. 1t 10 proved also that
decreased yields need not result from
using homegrown seed. Other fac
tors are responsible for the low
yields"
Grading the Seed
Grading the seed with a tanning
mill will do more to maintain yields
than the introduction of new seed.
Blow out all the chaff, straw and
shrunken kernels. Sow only plump
seed, which contains plenty of food
to supply the sprouting plant until
the roots are able to obtain food
from the soil. Plum grain also is less
injured by the smut treatment and
always terminates better than
shrunken seed. Get pure, high
yielding variety from your state ex-
pertinent station or some other re-
liable source and then take good care
of 1t.
Treating Wheat For Blunt OF Sinking
Smut
The first essential in treating
wheat for bunt or sinking smut Is
to fan the grain well, thus blowing
out all light material and any smut
balls that may be present. Ii smut
balls still are present, put the wheat
in a barrel of water. They then
come to the surface and can be skim
med off. The water is then drained
out of the barrel, and the seed re-
sacked and made ready for immedi-
ate treatment in the smut-destroy-
ing solution.
The formaldehyde treatment for
sinking smut requires soaking the
grain about 10 minutes in solution
of / pint of commercial formaldehyde
to As gallons of water. The seed
should be dumped in pile, prefer
ably on a canvas, and covered for
two hours. This is done to distri-
butte the formaldehyde gas turnout
the pile and to prevent the escape
of the gas. The seed then should
be spread out thinly on canvass,
dried sufficiently to SOW in the drill,
and put in sacks which have been
dipped in the formaldehyde solution.
The hopper and tubes of the drill
should also be cleansed with the So
luton, in order to keep the treated
seed free from smut. 1t is useless
to treat seed and then sow it in a
drill which has smut spores in the
hopper or tubes. By using proven
tive measures a great deal of the
loss from smut can be avoided. This
treatment is also effective in prevent
ing oat smut. For further informa-
ton on the smuts Of cereals, see
Farmers Bulletin 507, entitled, "The
SHUTS of Wheat. Oats, Barley and
Corn"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15
CREDIT

Credit is like reputation. 1t takes
a long time to build it up and some
times only a short time to animate
it. and if you have it not, you are
going to be reminded of the lack.
Some folks have it who don't deserve
1t, but usually they get found out Ill
the end.
A good reputation means that
others have confidence that you will
make good, as friend and a citizen,
and that you are whit you appear 10
he. A good credit means that DUST
ness men believe in you and your
ability to pay what you promise.
You can't have much of a reputa-
+;on in a community If you break the
laws and never do anything gooo lor
the community. Neither can you nave
much credit with the merchants II
Won never come to them with your
f,ade and never do them any good.
At times you might receive credit
because others pay their bills, ana
too many merchants fail in business
on account of giving too much credit'
There are times when little credlt
is worth an acre of land.
Credit may some time mean the
saving of your family from Starva,
ton. 1t saves many families every
year. 1t prevents famines sucn az
thew have in Japan, and such as they
had in the days of serfs ana wal
barons. 1t is valuable thing, ane
vet some of the folks we all kno"
are constantly throwing 1t away pS
trading in the east by mall on casf
basis. In that way one neglect'
forming credit for himself IN MI
community and has no chance O
forming it where he spends MI
money. He loses both ways. II NJ
saves a dollar by sending an ordel
away to some mail order house, HI
loses five dollars worth of credit a
home.
The mail order customer is trait
or to his ownsneighbors. While the!
are helping build UP home merchant
in home business he IS helping to pu
the home merchant out of business
or at least, making it harder for hin
to carry proper stock of goods
A business house is built by trade
If a merchant don't have what vol
want he will get it, unless you sent
away and never tell him about 1t.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15
GROWING GRAIN ON SOUTH.
ERN IDAHO DRY FARMS

WASHINGTON, D. C.-With the OBJ
iect of supplying settlers with reliable
information which will enable them
to make homes on the dry farms as
quickly and at as little expense as
possible the U. s. Department or Ag-
riculture has just published Farmers
Bulletin 1863, Growing Grain on
Southern Idaho Dry Farms" The
author of the bulletin, l.. G.. Aicher,
assistant agronomist in the Bureau
Of Plant Industry, discusses in detail
the soil, climate and conditions on
the Snake river plains of southern
Idaho and the dry-farmed valleys
opening into this great basin, the
section to which the publication ap-
plies.
Several pages are devoted to dis
cussion of the proper dry-farmlng
machinery and it's use. The remand
er of the bulletin deals with selection
and treatment of seed, and seed-bed
preparation, and recommends the
varieties of spring and winter wheat,
oats, barley, emmer, spelt, rye and
flax found best adapted to the dis
trict. The author after discussing
varieties gives definite directions as
to time of sowing and methods or
handling the different varieties to at
tain the best results.
OF the general soil situation in this
district, he states:
"Humus and nitrogen are lacking
more or less in the southern Idaho
soils. The dry farmer on the plains
is handicapped because of lack OF
sufficient moisture in the soil to rot
any great quantity of vegetable mat
| ter. Straw, manure and legumes
should be used to help build up the
dry-land soils, but owing to the light
rainfall this must be done very
slowly.
THE dry-farm soils, If properly
farmed, will yield good returns. II
a profitable rotation can be planned,
a permanent dry-farm agriculture
practically is assured"
Importance Of Good Seed
The author lays particular stress
on the Importance Of selecting and
treating seed, particularly wheat. On
this subject he says:
Wheat growers and seedsmen
often claim that wheat runs out
Some of the best farmers in southern
Idaho ship in Turkey wheat from
other localities every three or four
years because they say their seed is
running out. These growers think
that yields decrease and the percent
age of yellow berry increases each
year the crop is grown.
'This is not really the case. If
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15

foot and mouth disease among the
stock which threatened to prevent
the stock show is only a temporary
distemper and that the show will be
held as announced.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-12-15
SHOW WILL HOLD

The Wood Live Stock company,
have received a communication from
Chicago stating that the supposed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-07

ter and a dead shot. brought down tho
largest buck deerl ever killed in Knox
county. Friday. Nov. II. It took three
well placed bullets from Storer's trusty
rifle to stop the leaping buck at 100
yards. The deer dressed two days later
at 800 IL pounds. d. Linwood Carroll.
who was hunting in Storer's party. was
successful the same day and shot q sew
en-point, 200-pound buck.
Eleven deer have been shot on Canton
Mountain in Jay within q few days.
Harold Bartlett got two. J. d. Ridley
two and others one apiece.-Franklin
Journal.
There were 900 deer killed during the
open season In Massachusetts, this year.
according to reports filed with the Fish
and Game Commission. Mrs. Hiram
Bacon and Mrs. Dudley Ward Of will
Jamestown were the only successful wo-
men hunters. The distribution of the
killing in counties was: Berkshire. 19i;
Worcester. 169; Franklin. 167; Hamp-
den, 1854; Hampshire. 1879; Plymouth. 90:
Barnstable. 40; Bristol. 26: Essex, 20:
Middlesex, %; Norfolk. 16, and Dukes. ..
Eastport-Local hunters who were
hunting for deer during the past week
at Perry woods. report plenty Of bob
cats near Porcupine woods, also about
Birch point.
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Accounts Transferred

Whereas certain amounts must be
paid from the State contingent fund
on account of no appropriation or in
sufficient appropriation being made by
the Legislature, and,
Whereas the amounts mentioned be-
low being found necessary to complete
the business of the departments, be it
Ordered that the State Auditor be
authorized to transfer the following
amounts to the State contingent fund:
Augusta State Hospital, maintenance
$4,000; Bangor State Hospital, mainten-
ance, 81 600; Board of State Assessors.
stationery and office supplies, $1,000:
Executive department, expenses and
examinations Of Maine State benefici-
ar7es, $1,000; burial expenses Of soldiers
and sailors, $4,000; revision of statutes
$4,000; Inland Fish and Game Com
mission, fish hatcheries. $4,000; Judges
of probate courts. s17.5o0 Maine State
prison, expenses of retired officials.
$500; Public Utilities Commission. abol-
lshment grade crossings, $4,000:
purchase of books and maps, SO 900;
Secretary of State, purchasing of auto
mobile plates. $4,000; State; Board of
Health, epidemic or emergency fund.
$500; State superintendent OF Pubic
schools salary Of clerk or deputy.
$500; school and mill fund, s14,771.s7:
printing and binding reports. $1,000.
requests and incidental expenses s5oo.
bridge at Fit. Kent and ST Francis ST. :.
1850; Maine School of Feeble Minded
maintenance. $4,000; total, $122,51s47
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Governor and Councils Figures
of the November Election


The vote for candidates for electors at
the national election held Nov. Z last was
as follows, according to an announce
ment made Wednesday at the session of
the Governor and Council:
Republican-George G. Emery OF Sam
ford, 6S.6o6; Herbert Gray of Old Town,
$3.50; Fred u. Kinsman of Augusta. 50.
5O2; Walter G. Morse of Rumford 60. 5oa.
Beecher Putnam Of Houlton, So, 5o2: Ed
ward P. Kicker of Poland, ss,5o3.
Democratic-F. Wade Halliday Of New.
port. a.lS; Charles Mccarthy, Jr.. of
Portland. 64,125; Reuel j. Noyes of Au-
gusta. 64,ls2; Aaron A. Putnam Of Houl-
ton. a.132; Lamont A. Stevens of Wells.
64,l32; Fred H. Thompson of Bath. 6.131.
Socialist-Desre Baker of Fairfield. 2177
E. j. Carrigan of Millinocket, 2l77; s. Dus-
tin Ella Of Augusta. 2177: H. J. P. Enc
mark Of Portland. H77; Harrie p Hall of
Rumford, 2177: H. T. Pinkham Of Port
land. PIT.
Prohibitionist-WilIiam P Breneman OF
Auburn. 596; Howard B. Hilton of skow.
hogan, 597: James Lord Howe of New
Portland. sos; George G. Pendell Of Carl
bou, 6s6; Franklin Skillings of Portland.
bs6; William I. Sterling Of Waterville, 500.
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The 45-Day Period in
Paying Insurance Losses

A question has been brought to this de-
partment as to whether or not the law
requiring delay Of 40 days before the
payment Of a loss by fire from the date
proofs are executed applies to fire losses
on automobiles insured under marine
forms of policies. In reply thereto tho
department has expressed itself as fol-
lows:
AN examination of Chapter Is, Public
Laws of Maine. 1915. relating to payment
OF losses by insurance companies refers
to notice provided by Section 4 of Chan.
ter 40 of the Revised Statutes standard
fire policy and bases the 45-day period
on the date when proof of loss was exc
cuted. Proof of loss was an unfortu-
nate term to insert in the statute as there
is no reference. SO far as 1 am aware, to
the above in any part of the standard fire
policy law. Undoubtedly these words re-
fer to the notice provided by Section 4 of
Chapter. 40 and, therefore. as the entire
statute seems to be based upon the stand
ard fire policy 1t 10 our opinion that only
losses by fire written under said standa I'd
form are subject to this statute"
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"CASCkRE7S"FOR
YOUR b0WE:LSIF
HEADACHY, SICK
For biliousness, bad breath,
colds, indigestion and
constipation.
Enjoy life! Liven your liver and
bowels tonight and
feel fine.

Your tongue is coated. Look inside
your watch cover and see. That's bad
business. What have you been eating
What were you drinking? What kind
If lazy chair did you take exercise
in? Now don't think it doesn't matter,
because, it's your bowels that talk
now every time you open your mouth.
That doesn't help your popularity, nor
your earning capacity. Besides, a per-
son with bad bowels is in a bad way
and a coated tongue or a bad breath
are sure signs of bad bowels and poor
digestion.
Why don't you get a 10-cent box of
your liver and thirty feet Of bowels the
incest, gentlest cleansing they ever
experienced. Take one or two Cas-
carets tonight and wake up feeling
fine and fit All Headache, Dizziness,
Biliousness. Bad Breath, Stomach
Sourness, Cold and Constipation gone
wake up with your head clear
tongue clean. stomach sweet, liver and
bowels active. step elastic and COM
plexion rosy.
Cascarets work while you sleep
never grippe or sicken. Cascarets act
SO gently that you hardly realize you
have taken a thorough cathartic. They
don't bother you all next day like salts
pills, OIL or acknowledgements being
perfectly harmless is best children's
laXative-Adv.
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Sending Out Commissions

Deputy Secretary Of State Llewellyn
NJ. McGouldrick was engaged Wednes-
day in making out and sending to the
respective parties commissions for the
newly appointed occupants of the fol-
lowing offices: Judge of the Newport
municipal court: member of Board of
Accountancy: Examination and Reg
istration of Nurses; two trial justices;
several notaries public; justices of the
peace; one woman to administer oaths,
ETC.; and to Fish and Game Warden
VIM. T. Pollard of Foxcroft, the oldest
in the service.
Ballot Clerk H. E. Donnell of the
department of State on Wednesday
sent out the commissions to the State
auditor and the county officers elect
ed in September, as well as the sum-
monses to the newly elected represen-
tatives and senators. who will compose
the next Legislature.
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The special session of the Governor
and Council called for Dec. 5 for the
purpose of canvassing the November
election returns came to an end We'd
nesds.y noon, a considerable amount Of
other business having been transacted.
The meeting was called to order by
Governor Curtis at 1910, with Deputy
Secretary of State L. NJ. McGouldrick
officiating in the secretary's chair,
Secretary of State j. E. Bunker being
in the building, bat not feeling "frisky
enough" after his long illness to climb
the stairs.
All the nominations in order for APP
prevail were confirmed, including that
Of Judge c. c. Blaisdell as judge of the
Newport Municipal court and John
Lovejoy of Rockland as member of the
State Board of Accountancy. The
next Council meeting will be at p.
NJ. Tuesday, Dec. 10, to continue on the
following day.
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Probate Rules and Blanks

Whereas, the appropriation for ex-
penses of Commissions to make new
rules and blanks for probate and in
solvency courts for the year 1915 have
lapsed, and no appropriation was made
for said purpose for the year 1916, and
Whereas, the expenses Of said COM
mission amount to approximately ST.
500 for which bills have been duly rem
dered:
Be it therefore ordered. that the
State auditor be authorized and direct
ed to set up an account under the
the name of Expense Of Commission
ers to make new rules and blanks for
probate and insolvency courts, and to
pay from the State contingent fund to
said account the sum Of $1,000 for pay
ment of said bills.
Whereas. no provision was made by
the Legislature Of 1918 for payment of
disability claims under the military
law, and
Whereas. a claim for s1s has been
presented under said law:
Be it therefore ordered, that the
State Auditor be authorized and di-
rected to pay from the State contin-
gent fund to the appropriation for the
Adjutant Generals department the
sum Of SIS for payment Of said claim