The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-06-21

at Reilly's.
Whitman sells the Universal Fur
mace. Both heat and health.
Miss Fay Bellus of Union, Ore, ar
rived in the city Sunday for visi
with friends and relatives.
Clare Shane ard William Maddel
were business visitors in Boise Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. D. Riggs are en-
joyipg a new Elcar, which was re
Gently purchased from Ray Hartley
Carleton and Martha Lathrop ar
rived home last Thursday from Me
Minnville, Ore, where they have beer
attending college.
Remember The Index does all kind:
of job printing at reasonable price:
and the quality Of the work is equa
to the best, and the money received
for the same is all spent right here
in Emmett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray G. Newcomer
autoed to Eagle on Sunday and spent
the day with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Kin
ger.
Miss Martha Benning of Keokuk,
Ia, is a guest at the home of DR.. N
B. Barnes. Miss Benning and Mrs
Barnes were college chums at Kinks
vile, Mo.
A. J. How'd, a former South Slope
fruit grower, but now located at Nam
pa, has been granted patent for a
rotary gas engine. He has sold a
controlling interest in the invention
to E. H. Dewey.
G. W. Davidson on Friday shipped
half carload of fat hogs to Nampa.
He announces that he will make
shipments every two weeks during
the summer and requests those hav-
inng hogs to sell to communicate with
him.
When baby suffers with Group, ap-
ply and give DR.. Thomas Electric
Oil at once. Safe for children. A lit
tie goes long way. 25c and Soc. AT
all drug stores.
MIR. and Mrs. St. Clair Guthrie of
Marysville, Kansas, and Miss Ruth
Silveria of New York, arrived Satur-
day for an extended visit with rel
atives and friends. The party spent
the winter in California and have been
expected here for some time.
Mrs. Phipps of Payette, who has
been visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. L. Thomas, received word
Thursday of the death of her niece,
the 1S-months-old daughter of R. M.
Phipps of Brogan, Ore. The child
was bitten by a rattlesnake while
playing in the yard at home. Mrs
Phipps left Friday morning to attend
the funeral.
Perhaps this will be new to you:
Prof. Geo. B. Wilcox, of Chicago, re-
veals a well-kept secret of our late
war. He says that the purchase of
Alaska from Russia by the United
States government, in 1867, was really |
not for the acquisition of more terri |
,ory, but for the purpose of paying a
Iobf of +bo ,ro~ ,rbioL D,as;Ja1+ -,
,oln and Secretary Seward contract
ID. At the time, during the war when
t looked as though England and
France were going to take hold and
lelp the Confederacy in earnest,
President Lincoln secured from Rus
ia a fleet of war vessels to help de-
end DOR ports, and assist in main
aiming the blockade of the rebel ports
The presence of Russian vessels off
ONE of our harbors was mystery
t the time, and they departed as mys-
as they came. Their depart
ure was due to the fact that the ap-
danger from England and
rance Ulu IlOL IIldltIdilLe, anu lutu
he question arose how Russia could
e compensated. President Lincoln
ad used his war power freely, and
had backed him up, but here
Tas a bill for millions, and he feared
nat he would be criticised for incur
ing it, although it was wise thing
, do when he did it. While the presi-
emit was hesitating how to get it, the
ar closed and the President was as
estimated, and Mr.. Seward was left t
solve the problem. Russia wanted
lie money, but she appreciated the
tuation, and waited patiently. Fin ,,
ly the project of getting congress to
lthorize the purchase of Alaska was
ally in payment of the fleet bill,
Id Alaska was thrown in. The sec /
t was so we'll kept that Gen. w. 7.
herman heard of it for the first time Il
Russia, and he kept the story to
mself until recent army reunion. T
,cretary Seward must have shared II
til some of the congressman his sec w