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Erie Ranrcad Prior Lien H..

e. a. a.. iiemmonds port. ~. Y..-ricssc
tell me on which mileage OF the Erie
Railroad system tho consolidated mort
Gsse prior lien Is OF 1925 are u hrst aud
collateral lisn7 DO you regard them AZ n
good Investment?
These bonds are n first lien on 1so.So
miles. ~ follows East BuNaio to Sus-
pension Bridge. y. v: International
Junction to International Bridge. n. V.
Tonawauda to Lockport. n. y: Buffalo
tvia Avon) TO Painted Post, n. Y. They
arc \ first collateral lien on tho follow
ing mileage: New York q Greenwood
Lake Junction To Newark Newark To
Paterson GARFIELD to rassaic conesus
Lake Junction to LakeNillc state Line
Junction. y. y. to Pennsylvania state
line Tioga Junction to Pennsylvania
New York state line carrollton. y. V.
IN Gillesyillc. IA. Bradford To Nus
baum, IA. Arnot Junction to 1Ioytvillc.
Pa. a total OF Sl."a miles. These bonds
arc protected by u wide margin cf earn
ings and are entitled to q good rating.
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MinnennolLs 4 II. IAuIs.

: 7. NJ. Brooklvn-Which do YOU 10.
Gard as tho better speculative purchase.
tho Minneapolis a 81. Louis refunding I
per cent. bonds. ar tho Iowa central re
funding bonds bearing IN" same ~" Of
INTEREST,"
Both these bonds occupy about the
same relative position TO the division
which has been consolidated into the ays-
ten. but bond experts believe that the
Iowa Central bonds are entitled to q
somewhat better price. * they arc con-
sidcred as covering the best revenue pro-
ducing part OF tho system.
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II. =, Elmirt-W with reference 10 thu
Louisville n Nashville Railroad = pcr cent.
general mortgage sinking fund bonds. can
YOU tell me how many moro Of these bonds
are issua hlc under the original authorizH.
tinn which was mrd" some time back In
tho sos" ! understand there arc sa.2So.-
ooo outstanding Ht tho prcs"nt tine.
Louisville Il Nashville general mort
gaze 6s are outstanding to the amount
OF s2,.S3. 600. The mortgage. dated Juno
I. 1850. Is closed. so that there can he
10 further issuance Of these bonds.
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last month the lu,al oIlicr Of the
State Public Employment bureau GOT
work for itI7 men ne Women. Accord
inG 10 the report submitted I" the STATE"
Industrial Commission The ptoh,cnt OF
tndiUg dn|vc tmy. and crrand ir.Ns Ia
mprc dinirult, T1ryr "a = short.
age Of candy workers ani ricvks for de-.
partmcnt stores and Wholesale houses.
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ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS.

THE IiDoSItk FALLS RAILROAD
COMPANY.
To III. Stockholders:
Notlcc II hereby given that tho annual
m"eiiag of the Stuck holders ~ THE ROO
SICK FALLS RAILROAD COMPANY wiz
lie held In The ufflrc "t the FeCrctlry Of the
rompany, Room aoto. ';rund Central Ter
minni, New rnik. ~. ', "n Monday, Do
cWiuhr, wan tSfs, a. 40 o'c'ork noon,
for tho purpose OF ~rlrrtiua a Hoard of "a.
rrciVs. three inspectors of Election. and
She transa elton OF any other business that
may came before tho meeting.
Dated Move Gath, 1910.
a. &c. CLARK. Secretary,
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4 n r, Patcrson. =. II uulcrstnnd
that last yea and 1910 ucre he large,
Years In tn" United Fruit ~'oWnany's his
tory from the point ~ percentage cpui,a-
Tents earned on tho stock. My 1gtrrcs arc
80 per cent. IN 1915 and :s.S pr cent. IN
1910. Ii this corr"c'T
United Fruit Company earned 33i per
cent. on stock in 1907.
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ms they are well protected by the margin
Of safety In earnings and arc secured on
Tho entire property Of the company. Th"
company controls the entire electric light.
ing and power business of Chicago and
suburbs.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27
SENATOR THOMAS
ADMITS

Senator Thomas has addressed
some more meetings at various school
houses in the county, and he admits
writing the queer contract which he
and the council tried so hard to get
Editor Trego to sign regarding the
city printing, but he says he merely
did what the council told him to.
We tried at the time to believe that
but there were two points in the mat
ter that would not go down. Perhaps
he can explain: Did the city council
tell him to advise them in open meet
ing that their appointment was not
valid when they had created an Of
hcial newspaper as provided by law,
and had the bargain acknowledged in
the presence of witnesses and placed
on the minutes and signed and work
started and service accepted? After
all that, he advised the council that
tlfey had done nothing that would
prevent their going ahead and Great
ing another official newspaper at
their pleasure. The way they
doubled the orders for publications
when they got to something on which
Lu0F6 Was OppOSlLlOu, WHClC IhCy hou
to have legal publications made, was
ample proof that they knew they
had made a mistake.
The other point of this: Did the
council tell Mr.. Thomas to rise in
meeting and inform them that Mr..
Trego had refused to make the pub
locations as desired when nothing Of
the kind had occurred? Mr.. Trego
lifted his hand and stopped him while
making the statement, and told the
council that it had never happened,
and Mr.. Thomas sat down and made
no further attempt to brace up his
statement on that item. He argued
many other things, but not that.
If Mr.. Thomas does all these little
things at the bidding of the council,
then we are ready to admit that he
was not leading them in a little
steam roller game to accomplish a
purpose which the more cunning ones
among them had devised for the
others to follow.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27

bond was written and the premium
paid for out of the county funds,
and then he resigned and the resigna-
ton was accepted. L. Ivan Jensen,
of Basalt, Republican, was then ap-
pointed by the commissioners and his
bond was written and the premium
was paid out of the country treasury.
Judge Kestner refused to give up the
tlons, and after he left the office in
the evening, Sheriff's Jones's pass key
was used to effect an entrance, and
the lock was taken off and different
one put on. The new judge was
given the key to the new loci, and
the next morning Kestner was unable
to get in.
And Still Another
T. J. Bennett, ,of Shelley, Demo-
cratic commissioner for this county
for the first district was candidate
for reelection in 1912, and two
nasty reports were spread concern
ing him during the last few days
of the campaign. One was published
in The Blackfoot Optimist to the eff
feet that he had recently taken a
homestead in Bonneville county, and
that if elected commissioner he could
not qualify without FORGETTING his
homestead. If he protected his home
stead he could not be resident of
Bingham county. This was not
brought out until the last regular
issue of the paper before the election,
and Bennett had little chance to de-
fend against the statement. The fact
of the matter was that he had filed
on a dry farm over in Bonneville
county and had it surveyed to see
where the lines were. When he got
this information he found it did not
include much of the tillable land that
he supposed was in the land describ-
ed on the plat. and he relinquished
it to the government This can be
verified by referring to the records of
the Blackfoot Land office in the plat
book of township north, range Al
east, serial number 012047.
He had been delegated by the other
two members of the board of commits
sioners to buy lumber to be used for
covering some of the bridges over
Snake river, and it was reported that
he bougth it in Idaho Falls and had
it hauled down the valley to the
bridges and that the delivered cost
was more than it would have cost to
buy of the local dealers near the
bridges. This story was circulated by
many people on election day and he
was beaten. The truth of the matter
was that Mr.. Bennett found he could
get the bridge planks from a mill in
the mountains east of Blackfoot and
they would deliver it to the bridges
for SIS 1000 feet cheaper than the
local dealers would furnish it, and
Bennett secured it all from them at
the reduced price, saving the county
several hundred dollars. Whether
this circumstance furnishing the basis
for the false report was circulated by
persons interested in sustaining the
price of lumber or was merely seized
by his political opponents and worked
over into something that would do
for the days fight we are unable to
say. 1t is true that Mr.. Bennett made
a good commissioner, and in all our
work investigating the county records
we did not find any transactions that
reflected upon his integrity.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27

tOrney. We did not intend to go
back to the record he had made in
any previous term of service, but last
week His Paper devoted some space
! to personal TRADE against Byrd
Trego because he had attacked Hon
orable L. r. Thomas. whose record
had always been so perfect. We have
noticed for years that The Optimist
always answers facts with personal
abuse. We have observed too, that
whenever The Optimist praises any
one, that is pretty sure sign there
is something wrong in the conduct
of the person praised.
When we read in His Paper what
an honorable man Senator Thomas
had always been, we remembered
that he had served this county as
probate judge few years ago. and
that His Paper must be laying an
extra covering on something he had
done as such official. On thinking
! it over we recall that he wanted the
position because it would afford him
opportunity to study law, and he was
elected in the fall of 1908. He was
inaugurated in January, 1909, and
resigned about the end of June, and
left for trip to Europe right away,
leaving Blackfoot, we believe on the
sixth of July and sailing from Mont
real. He seems to have attended to
the last business in the probate court
on the second of July, but in his
resignation had named the twenty
seventh of July as the date he ceased
to be judge. AS to what was his OBJ
ject in fixing it so he would be judge
about month after his resignation,
and some three weeks after he start
ed on his trip abroad, the reader will
probably be able to Judge. Certainly
he could not try any cases while he
was sailing the seas, and no success
sOr could be sworn into office until
the time came for his resignation to
take effect and make the office va
cant. William Mcconnell was county
attorney at the time, and number
of cases came up that needed prompt
action, but the commissioners could
only appoint successor and wait
for the twenty-seventh of July to ar
rive. When the time came Karl s.
Fackrell was sworn in and when he
put in bill for that quarter he dated
it for service from the twenty-seventh
or July, so the reader who can rea-
son from cause to effect and from
effect back to the motives will under
stand. Judge Thomas bond was writ
ten for the year and the county pays
for bonds for its officials. When
Fackrel went into office new bond
had to be written for the rest Of the
year, and the bill for it was $35 and
was paid at the October meeting of
the board. The commissioners did
not like it much and the people who
wanted to get action in court did
ont like it much to find that there
was no court for rs days in July,
but nothing can be done in any de-
partment of government when that
department is suspended. When the
commissioners looked the situation
over at their quarterly meeting the
second Monday in July, what could
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27
ALL GOOD MEN

Bingham county is going to have
a good board of commissioners the
next two years, because both parties
have nominated good men. MILFORD
Christensen and John E. Kelley in
the first district, W. G. Sollenberger
and j. G. Bond in the second and
Jed Taylor and F. II Halverson in
the third, are all men who are well
thought of by people who know them
best.
There is going to be considerable
maneuvering over the votes, for many
interests are centering their energies
on these places because of their ap-
pointive power and because of var
ious political disappointments. Any
way, somebody will be elected and
the fellows who are beaten need not
feel bad about it, for it isn't exactly
a personal equation.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27

| they do but accept the situation the
way the departing judge had left
it? They could not call him back.
They could not change the date in
his resignation. They could not APP
point new jud e to try cases at
once, because L. r. Thomas was still
the legal judge of that court and
there was no authority vested in
them for creating a second probate
judge. The commissioners might
have done like the present city coun-
Gil did upon the advice of L. R.
Thomas, as city attorney, appoint
second official newspaper for the city
without getting rid of the one al
ready created, but it would not be
legal, and anything it did would be
void. The commissioners went over
the situation and found that the
whole thing rested upon the right Of
the probate judge to be absent from
his office for a months vacation at
some time during his year of service.
And in this case the judge had served
only half year and did not expect
to finish, yet he fixed it so he would
be judge until the twenty-seventh of
July, his term expiring when he was
in mid-ocean or approaching the
coast of Ireland. If he wanted to
protect the people who had elected
him to this position of public trust,
why did he not have his resignation
effective at once so they could still
operate their probate court if need
arose, and needs did arise, several
of them. Suppose he had been as
saulted or robbed in Buffalo, and it
had been necessary for him to 60 as
a witness into what they call the
surrogate court of New York state.
and when he arrived at the court
room he had been informed that the
judge of the surrogate court was
touring the Yellowstone park and
would not be back for three weeks
and he would have to wait, and that
there were a good many other cases
waiting that would have to be tried
ahead of this one in which he was
detained as witness. What would
Mr.. Thomas have said about the kind
OF management they had in Buffalo.
10 let the court be suspended and at
the same time allow the judge to
fix it so nobody else could take up
the work until he had been three
weeks on his road. The two cases
are parallel and the people of this
county were the victims in the
Thomas case. They had no recourse
then, but now, after seven years, thew
have come to understand how it was
worked, and they will go to the polls
and either vote to endorse that kind
of stuff or administer their rebuke
by voting for the other man for sena-
tor. One thing is certain; every one
who casts vote of endorsement of
such official conduct should hold his
or her peace if officials get so thew
disregard the people altogether and
just take their salaries and their va
cations.
Anyone desiring to verify our state
ments as to conditions at the pro-
bate court in 1909 can do so by talk
ing to the men who were county COM
missioners at that time: P. j. Will
Jams, John Empey and w. D, HUFF
faker, or by reading the minutes Of
the commissioners sessions for Julv
and October, 1909. The county clerk
will hand the book to you on ra-
quest.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27
1T is ABSURD

A certain candidate, a member of
the old corrupt political ring that so
long dominated Bingham county, and
one who was active in perpetuating
it and it's practices, is setting forth
as reason who he should be elected
probate Judge, the statement that a
large per cent of the real property
of the county goes thru the probate
court every two years, and that hav-
ing practiced some law ne is the
logical and proper candidate.
The people of this county would
like to have person of character
to fill that position, and they have
one candidate in w. H. Keller who
fills that requirement as we'll as to
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27
YOU MUST DECIDE 1T

There are hundreds of voters in
this county who are unsettled as to
what they are going to do on election
day about certain problems. 1t is
right that they should be unsettled
for time, and the time is approach
ing when they should come to de-
cision.
1t is not such difficult matter to
decide when one goes about it on
a plain simple plan; plan dictated
by first principles and common sense.
The trouble is to get down to first
principles.
You and Your Party
Most people belong to some politi-
cal party, and that is all right, for
it has been the best thing to do.
They want to be loyal to their party,
and yet they want to do some things
on election day that do not harmon
ize with party loyalty. They do not
wish to vote for all the candidates
on their ticket, and they want to
vote for some on another ticket.
Since each voter is entitled to do as
he pleases with his own vote, and
since we have secret ballot so that
particular act can be done, then it
just becomes question of deciding
in his own mind what he wants to do
and doing it. ~.
-FOUR Highest Duty
That last expression, deciding
what you want to do, and doing it."
is what the fathers had in mind when
they established this free country
of ours, and yet some of us hesitate
to act upon. In the final analysis,
the people are the ones to decide
things, each for himself in his home,
and then doing it in the voting booth.
A voter may support one party
nationally and in state affairs and
the other candidates or a mixed
ticket in county politics and yet be
doing the very best thing. So long
as men have fine ideas of honor and
duty, so long as they are prompted
by patriotism, so long as there are
corrupt men in office or politics who
are not living up to high standards
of patriotic duty, men will continue
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27

possess the legal and other qualifi-
cations The other candidate must
have been thinking of the assessors
office when he said so much of the
real property of the county passes
thru the office. 1t is the estates of
those who die that are probated, and
nobody will concede that large part
of the population of this county die
off every two years. There are plenty
of fellows who know a little of the
law and cannot be trusted to handle
the affairs of the dead.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27
IAN ACCEPTED
RULE

1t is an accepted rule of good gov
eminent that person who has SER
we'd one term satisfactorily is entitled
to reelection if the official desires it,
This is only justice to the official
and to the people, for in the first
term the official devotes considerable
time to Tearing how to handle the
business, and the public pays him a
salary for the learning. During the
second term the public receive the
benefit of this investment
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27
SENATOR THOMAS,
HIS JUDGSHTP
Cleft gut last week.

When we began
criticising S e n a to r
Thomas we intended
to just give some
examples of how he
did things in differ
ent phases of his Of
fetal duties during
his present term as
senator and CITY at
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27

Mrs. Clemens and daughter, Mrs
Matt Quay, stopped in Blackfoot the
first of the week, en- route from Ger
70 Grande to Ohio. Mrs. Clemens
has been visiting Mrs. Quay in Cerro
Grande.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-17

Make at least n OF tnem permanent
ly happy and her husband, father OF
son particularly useful by sending us a
contribution.
"The sooner you act the sooner one
brave, good, faithful woman will be
rescued from an existence of despair
and crushing slavery and the sooner
the man who is tragically anxious to
support her will be saved from a life of
uselessness and hopelessness."
Mrs. Whitney is also a sculptor of
rare achievement, and frequently her
beautiful studio becomes the setting of
some charity benefit. She lately voiced
one of her own art axioms in these
words:
Beauty without intelligence Is the
beauty of an unlighted lamp. There
must be brain to direct the expression
of beauty" !
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-17
OUR VARIED MONEY
No Two Classes Have Exactly the
Same Quality or Value.
A GOLD AND SILVER COMEDY

TribuIations of a More or Less Honest
Citizen Who Mas Stuck With Six
Trade Dollars and Who Wanted to
Exchange Them For a Gold Coin.
When a new treasurer of the United
States takes Office his predecessor
hands over to him assets to the value
securities that come into his possession
bonds, securities of all kinds, gold
bars and silver coin, base metals, gold
notes, silver notes, gold in the reserve
fund, governmental legal tender notes,
national bank notes, fractional cur
rency and subsidiary coin.
No two classes have the same quail
ties. no two exactly the same value, in
trinsic or otherwise. Yet people are so
eager to get anything with the stamp
of Uncle Sam that they accept it any
where at its face value unless it is re-
quired for some purpose which calls
for the peculiar quality of a certain
kind of money.
1t is a mark of confidence in Uncle
Sam that his beautiful silver certifi-
Gates are taken at their face value,
when in reality they bear about the
same relation to gold dollars as adul-
terated food does to pure food-only,
like the adulterated foods. a certain
artificial value must be given to them.
When the food adulterater turns
out his product, the government, In
just horror, says it is wrong to tam
per with food, and the person who
does it must go to Jail. When Uncle
Sam sends out a silver disk stamped
with his mark he has made a very
good business stroke, for he has
placed in circulation as a dollar 56
cents worth of silver and put A
| cents worth of bullion into his treas
urer's charge and, like the adulterated
food dealer, has made a good trans
action.
A Door wreck OF humanity with q
| grateful streak in his heart not long
since found himself In possession OF
six trade dollars. His first inclina-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-17
OTTENS TRACT NOTES

Ed. P. Wheeler (Uncle Ned, Wash
ington, d. c., is in Wildwood at Mrs.
M. A. Feaster's, 119 west 18th street,
for his quarterly visit.
o. d. q omwell returns to Vineland
at the Soldiers Home tomorrow after
visiting bis daughter, Mrs. Let's.
Mrs. Wackendorfer, Mrs. Kessler
and Mrs. Swope were Sunday guests
at the home of Policeman Charles
Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gabell and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wesley Clayton autoed here and
spent the week end in their cottages.
Over Sunday visitors were P. Con-
way and wife, Mabel Shivers and aunt,
Commodore Brennan and friend. Mes
srs. Ottens and Duncan dined at the
Hazelhurst.
Mrs X. Schmidt, Mrs. Mary Trap
and daughter, Mrs. Mathers, were
guests of Mrs. Becker on Sunday.
Mrs. King, of 18th street, entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Schuheler and
daughter, of Philadelphia.
Miss Sadie Gibbs and friend spent
Sunday with her parents.
From Paulsboro, the busy town, came
Harold Larcomb to spend three days
with his parents.
VIM. Lowry and sister spent Sunday
in their cottage.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-17
PLEADS FOR BLIND
Calls Upon American Women to
Help War Victims.
PLANS TO TEACH TRADES,

With Her Unceasine Zest For Good
Deeds, Mrs. Whitney Makes a Special
Plea to Help Alleviate Suffering In
European Countries.
One of the latest steps taken by the
sympathizers of the allies is an appeal
issued by the B. F. B. British, French,
Belgian) Permanent Blind Relief fund,
with headquarters in New York, over
the names of Lady Arthur Paget of
the funds executive committee and
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, one of the
honorary secretaries, calling upon the
women of America for aid. The appeal
says in part:
unless you act these thousands Of
women will be condemned for the rest
of their lives to an existence of hope
less drudgery and hardship.
For humanity's sake help these Eu-
ropean women. They are your sisters,
even though you have eve seen them.
six months training will educate
the blind men dependent on them in
trades not requiring sight. Even your