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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
TO OPEN AGENCY
FOR LOCAL SALE
CANADIAN LAND

e. J. Colthorp will go to Great
Fails, Montana, where he expects to
enter into contract with the Cana
dian Pacific railroad to become t., ,
immigration agent for this part of
Idaho. He will go from Great Falls
to Alberta, where two of his sons
are engaged in farming before he re-
turns here and during his absence
the immigration work will be handled
by B. T. Bjornson.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
PLEASANT SURPRISE PARTY.

On Tuesday about 20 ladies pleas
antly surprised Mrs Nile Carr at
the home of hel mother, Mrs. G.
Carr. At five o'clock tLey sergtd a
bountfiul luncheon after which all
went home saying they had had a
jolly good tine
J. A. Purtill was las week appoint
I'd a member of the stat account
ancy board provided for by the re.
cent legislature. The board VIII have
charge Of examining cand dates who
wish to work as public accountants
and auditors Mr. Purtill served
several years ago on the state tax
commission and has statewide
reputation as an expert accountant,
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
WAR IS GETTING
CLOSE TO HOME
RECRUITING SQUAD HAS BEEN
WORKING HERE THIS WEEK.
WAR STRENGTH IS AIM.
TO DO GUARD DUTY
WILL BE HELD TO PROTECT MAIL
AND PUBLIC PROPERTY IN VAR.
lOUS PARTS OF THE STATE.

The imminence of war with Ger
many has started wave of patriotic
feeling over the United States that
calls for the display of the national
colors from every home and business
house. In Mountain Home practically
every flag staff carries a flag, win
dows are draped with them and from
porches and doors of private homes
the national emblem waves. Public
feeling runs higher and higher and
there is no doubt that when con-
gress assemblies in extraordinary
session next Monday action ON the
altitude of Germany will not be de-
layed.
The National Guard of 18 states,
including Idaho, has been notified to
be prepared for mobilization within
their states to guard property that
enemies of the country might wish
to destroy. The newspapers have
been asked to publish no details of
the placing Of the National guard
UNITS as such course might give
the nations enemies valuable infor-
nation as to where are the vulnerable
spots at which they could strike
Three members of the Nampa COM
pany, in charge of Lieutenant Egbert
have been here since Thursday re-
cruting new members for that COM
pany.
A strong effort is being made all
over the state to bring the second
regiment up to full war strength of
1000 men, and it is reported that
over 400 recruits have been enlisted
this week.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
LOCAL STOCKMAN
LOOKING AT LAND
AROUND BRUNEAU

Ge rye Hammond, prominent sheep
man, and or Jess Pinkston, were
Bruneau v'si ors Monday, returning
to Mountain Home Tuesday morning.
No one said but George looked hun
Cry that Is, land hungry, and it
would be a mighyt good thing for
Brunrau If Mr.. Hammond should de-
termine to invest money in valley
realty; for, in all the essentials OF
good citizenship, George Hammond's
name stands deseryedly high.-Bru-
neau Nugget.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
FORD GARAGE
MOVED TO NEW
HEADQUARTERS

Jess Hedges has moved the Ford
gargae to the building formerly occu.
pied by the New York store across
the street from the First National
and is getting it fitted up to hand
his businessi n fine shape. The Cen
trai garage, which he formerly occu.
pied is now torn down and work
commenced on the new 50x1OO brick
garage building that Pete Gadniaga
is putting up.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
BLACkMAN KEEPS MORTGAGE

The supreme court handed down a
decision this week affirming the
right of VIM. Blackman of Mountain
Home to a mortgage on the Palo
Alto stock farm at Boise. Mr.. Black
man had a certificate of deposit on
a bank which failed in Boise several
years ago and before the failure 1t
was cashed by transferring him the
mortgage in question.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
SPECTATORS DEAF.
IN LAND LEASES
DRY FARMS ON STATE LANDS IN
EASTERN IDAHO INVESTIGATED
BY AGENTS.
BIG FEES COLLECTED
AGENTS EXACT TOLL FORM FAR.
MERS AND STATE is LOSER
THEREBY.

Employees of the ale land board
have recently reported to the board
that certain indy duals and com
pau.es in eastern Idaho are leasing
large tracts of S ate land and subleas-
ing to farmers at a much higher rate.
This is true and has been true for
years
When it was found that the lands
Of Eastern Idaho We're adapted to
dry farm ng, growing fine crops of
wheat, there gradually grew up the
sys en- of leasing these lands for 25
cents per acre by the fellows who
knew the ropes and sub-leasing for
about $l50, and with the very high
price prevailing for the past two
years no doubt a much higher rate
than that has been received.
In an address before the state
grange some three years ago, the
editor of the Lead r-Hrad attempted
an argument for the more rapid sale
of state lands, and among other
things pointed out this pernicous
ieas ng system, saying that the peo-
pie of the state were entitled to the
full earnings of their properly If
they We're to be leased at all, but
pointing out that when lands were
leased the chief interest of the lessee
would he to get all he could out of
the land during his possession, turn
ing it back to the s ate exhausted
while if the state would sell on a 40
year plan( (which it has since ar
ranged to do), the owner would nat
urally keep up the fertility Of the soil
and thereby protect not only his
own interests but the interests of
the state as a whole 1t will be readi- !
ly seen that those sub-lessees who
are now paying rental of from
$1.50 TO $500 per acre will pay out
more in 40 years han the price of
the land twice over and that il
brought to their attention they would
much prefer to buy ON the 40-year-
payment plan.
The pr sent land board states that
her after all leases Will be made to |
the highest bidder. This will be fair
TO the individual lessees and insure
,he state in getting all that the lands |
earn. Nevertheless, 1t is a most
vicious PLAN. Nothing could be de-
yised for greater injury to the fu-
-ure Of the state. The man who Sc.
cured a lease by paying more for it |
han anybody else would pay, could |
hardly be expected to have the pub.
ic welfare at heart. He would nat
lrally get the most out of the land
possible during his brief term. Con
serving The future fertility Of the
'oil by summer following or other
methods would not enter into his
llans at all.
1t is well known that wheat-which
S the principal crop grown on these
eased lands-depletes the soil very
'apidly. In five years of continu-
us wheat growing 1t practically ruins
he land. Leasing to the highest bid
Ter viii bring a good rental and
.utn the land. A wise craftsmanship
will prob BIT the leasing of state
ands altoge ther except for grazing
purposes but make the terms OF
ale as easy as possible for the
nan who wants to make a home and
,lild up the state.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31
THE EGGLESS CAKE
High Cost of Living Reduced by
Several Millions

The prestige OF the hen is being
curtailed in a new and interesting
way.
She lays a billion eggs or so for
the human race each year, and, I'M
der world war conditions, the price
Of eggs per dozen to consumers had
approached a dollar in some parts of
the United States, and has reached
the prohibitiVe price of two dollars
or more in the belligerent countries.
There fore when the high cost of
living looms large in the public eye,
unusual importance is attached to
the announcement Of the best known
baking powder company in the world
that it has evolved a ready and
practical way for the housewife to
save, in the aggregate, many millions
Of dollars in household expenses
through the use of more Royal Bak-
lng Powder and less eggs.
Months of experiment have ELECTED
large number of recipes for the
making of home baked products with
fewer eggs, and these recipes are
b ng strlbuted gratis. 1t is claim
ed that they prove conclusively that
the baking powder saves eggs-in
some cakes about half the cost OF
the cake is saved. In receipts call
ing for the use of eggs, the number
can be reduced and excellnt resu
healthful, appetizing cakes, mullins,
corn bread, etc.-obtained by using
a small additional quantity, about a
teaspoon, of Royal baking powder inI
place of each egg omitted.
The acme, or top-notch achieve
ment in this connection is an eggless,
mlIkless, BUTTERFLIES cake that is pro-I
nounced by all who have tasted It'll
to be delicious and wholesome. It's
quality, it is claimed will
be surprising to the housewife whoI
tries it accord ng to the recipe given.
The idea of using more Royal bak-
ing powder and less eggs in baking
is not entirely new, but the elabor-
ate enlargeing and perfecting of the
idea just accomplished renders it a
very present help, meeting the neces
s es of tn houswife of moderate !
means in a time of soaring food
prices.
In the British Isles the news has
been rece we'd with enthusiasm. The
baking powder company, while not
being accused of being an out-and-out
philanthropist in the matter, 10 point
ed out as having provided the means
Of effecting an enormous saving in
household affairs in way that bene-
fits everybody and harms nobody
except it be the pride of the auto
cratic hen. The company only com
pie ed its experiments recently and
already the announcements are being
spread broadcast in the newspapers
which, it will be remembered, many
years ago made the name Of Royal
Baking Powder a household word all
over the world.
The ladies aid Of the Baptist
church will have their regular annual
Easter sale ON the afternoon of April
s, at the old Nelson grocery store
building, and will serve an oyster
supper from to s.
Street Commissioner Schoenecke
Is having gravel hauled to repair
.he worst places in the business
streets.
Stanton Park was a business
visitor at Boise Friday.
M. G. Grebe was a business visi-
or at Boise several days This week.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31

Street Commissioner Schoenecke
is having gravel hauled to repair
the worst places in the business
streets.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31

Stanton Park was a business
visitor at Boise Friday.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31

NJ G. Grebe was a business visi.
tor at Boise several days This week.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-03-31

The ladies aid OF the Baptist
church will have their regular annual
Easter sale ON the afternoon of April
6, at the old Nelson grocery store
building, and will serve an oyster
supper from to s.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
ROOT SEES END OF WAR
IN 1918 IF RUSSIANS
WILL CONTINUE FIGHT
Head of American Mission Ex-
presses Views in Moscow
Speech.

PETROG RAD. June Eff every
allied government and every people
turns itself fully over 10 the business
Of making war. victory will come by
1918. in the opinion or Elihu Root,
chairman OF the American mission.
lie made the prediction at Moscow.
= here the Americans were being en-
tertained yesterday. In the course Of
an interview with newspaper CORE
spondents.
Americans accept all interpreta-
lions Of Russias formula of peace
without annexations and without
contributions but we feel profound
ly that the German empire In a most
and Infamous form has
violated the rights or Belgium and
Serbia" said Root. I'VE demand re-
OF these rights. We
hold il just TO insist on fun restora-
tion of violated rights of possession
pf viulated rights Of possessions and
raparatiGu for Ianapcs'
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Red cross Wants Girls.

Wanted-IOOO girls to sell Red
Cross symbols ON Saturday The ex-
ecutive committee or the Umatilia
County Red cross has received "a
shipment OF small Red Gross em-
blems and these will he sold at ten
cents each. In order to sell them
all on saturday. a call has been Is
sued for a thousand girls 70 meet at
Red cross headquarters on Main
street at 10 a. m. The Umatilla
County Red Cross now owns 20 con
tribution boxes. donated by Pendle-
ton business men, and these have
been put up in the post office, depot.
banks and various business houses.
They were opened for the first time
Saturday and found to contain s2S.@G.
Bushee Chapter No. 10. o. f. s. has
donated $50 to the county chapter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Chautauqua Guarantors 90 Meet

The final meeting of the guarantors
of the Pendleton Chautauqua viii be
held this evening at 1880 in the rooms
of the Commercial Association. The
purpose OF the meeting is to definite
ly check the advance sale Of season
tickets.
1t is urged that an the guarantors
report at this meeting in oruer that
an accurate account may be secured.
The 500 tickets to be sold for $3.50
are almost all taken The exact fig
ures however will be determined at
the meeting this evening
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
burglary of sample Rooms.

Ben Ettelson. travelling salesman
for NJ. Sellers & CO., lost about $500
worth OF silverware Monday night
from his sample cases in the Hotel
Pendleton sample rooms. Entrance
was made by the thief or thieves by
means of pass key. The police are
on the lookout for the stolen ware
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
All Choked Up With Catarrh?
Why Continue Makeshift Treatment?

rid of Catarrh. you must drive the
disease germs out OF your blood.
Splendid results have been re.
ported from the use of S. S. s., which
completely routs from your blood tho
Catarrh germs, for which it is a per.
feet antidote.
s. S 6. is sold by all druggists.
If you wish medical advice as to the
treatment of your own individual
case. write to-day to Chief Medical
Adviser, Swift Specific Co., Dept B
Atlanta, Ga.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27

y number of cars pass through each
day. Last night four different parties
spent the night at the Golden Rule
Hotel. In one party were d. f. Car
mack, wife and daughter and L. r.
Hare of Camas, Idaho. also headed
west. ]. $. Shelburn had driven his
jitney all the way from Oklahoma. j.
Cassidy of Ritzville and Fl. II. Ben.
nett of Tyler, WASH. in one ear and
F. c, Bennett and family in another
We're headed for Portland.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
VII of F,mmet Rccs.

BY the terms of the will Of the
late George Emmet Rees. his widow
Bessie Nadene Rees. receives the
whole of the $40. 900 estate except the
nominal one dollar left to each of the
two children. Raymond EmEet and
Harold George Rees Mrs Rees has
been appointed administrators.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Fighters Are Fined.

w. H Nevers. focal plasterer
was fined SIS in police court and
Hugh Bell. Helix farmer with whom
he engaged in bout of fisticuffs.
was fined $40. According to the story
as told to the police. Bell was having
a controversy with another man
about the price of farm labor near
when Nevers took a hand in the ar
gument Nell is said to have showed
him away. This occurred in front of
the Jost cigar store and little later
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Suit To Quiet Title.

A suit has been filed IN the circuit
court by Claud Sloan To quiet title to
land in township 3. north of range
30. Josephine Abbott. Warren ID.
Abbott and a number Of others who
have adverse claims are made defend
ants. Raley * Raley and II. j. War
ner are attorneys for the plaintiff.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Ca,aIr, Bnys Mnkc $50.

The cavalry boys of Troop d clear
ed a little more than $50 last night
on the jitney dance which they gave
AT the Happy Canyon pavilion for the
benefit of their mess fund. Despite
the warm evening there was a large
attendance. The pavilion was deco
rated in American flags The troop
will probably give another dance be-
fore il is ordered into service.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27

Sprays and dOucheS VIII never
cure you.
Catarrh is annoying enough when
it chokes up your nostrils and air
passages, causing painful and diff
cult breathing and other discomforts.
But the real danger comes when it
reaches down into your lungs.
This is why you should at once
realize the Importance of the proper
treatment, and lose no time ex-
perimenting with worthless remedies
which touch only the surface. To be
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Estate Is Appraised.

Alexander Ried, Charles Hnggard
and Ralph Holte. appraisers of the
estate of the late c. w. PTegnitz OF
Stanfield have submitted their report.
They place the value OF the estate at
S3245. It consists of town property
in Stanfield, a small tract Of farm
land and some personal property.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
In,lnr nids onen LrIdn,.

Bids for the contract to lay the
ter miles of hard surface ON the PEN
dIeton- BlakelN station road up Wild
Horse will be opened at the Uuatilla
county court house FRIDAY morning
bv the state highway commission ana
the UmatilIa county court
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27

Dispatches from Moscow today as
serted the city had accorded the Am
railway mission is busily at work
here, comforting with Russia's trans
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27

portation experts and going over the
best form of aid To be extended. Ad-
miral Glennon was to arrive Mt Arch
angel today General Scott was in
conference with the war office lead
ers
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27

Recruiting officer Swartz of the
navy this morning received word
that on and after July 1 the mini
mum age for naval recruits will be
Is years Heretofore it has been II
years. Men listed and examined for
the draft army will not be eligible
for enlistment in the navy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27

DR.. Fred Lieuallen, formerly of this
city, has been commissioned as "A sur
geon in the medical corps of the army
and is to leave soon to enter the SER
vice. He is here today meeting his
father, J. A. Lieuallen and other To-
cal relatives
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27

There will be "A meeting of the To-
cal q. A. c. Alumni association to-
night at the club room in the public
library. The meeting is open to all
o. A. c. graduates, former students
and students. Charles Despair is
president of the local club.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Licensed to Wed.

Marriage licenses We're issued yes
terday afternoon to Evan Cameron 81
of Pilot Rock and Nena NJ. A. Van
Tassel. Is. or Pendleton and John c.
Dinsmore. %. of Pilot Rock and
Dorothea Pearl Gulliford. 81. OF PEN
dleton
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Called by sisters Death.

Mrs, w NJ. Blakely left this morn
ing for Antelope, Ore, having receiv-
ed a message telling ner of the death
of her sister. Mrs. Albert Henderson,
at that place yesterday afternoon
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Tourist Traffic Begins.

The automobile tourist is becom-
ing a familiar figure I'm Pendleton
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
saw MIN Man Here.

e. J. Wilbur. veteran sawmm OPP
orator ON upper Mckay has been in
town today
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Buys New Buick,

DR.. H. S. Garfield has purchased a
new model Buick auto of the oregon
Motor Garage.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-06-27
Painting store Front.

Painters are today giving new
coat of white TO the front of the
Department Store.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-10
QUESTION OF LAND VALUES HELD BY
RAILROADS IS VITAL TO THE PEOPLE
Original Should Freight Charges
and Not Says National
Grange Areas Held by Western Roads
Made Part of Capitalization

value of land, is s25, 5,257 $50, while its
capitalization is s99,052,000.
Makes Railroads Rich.
"a similar discrepancy obtains for
the other railroads of which valuation
tion of the Texas Midland Railway
company. 1t is conservatively esti-
mated that of total capitalization of
the railroads, amounting in round fig
ures to S21 ,12S 900, 900, $4,000, ,000, 900,
at least, represents increases in the
value of land, over and above what the
companies paid therefor, and issues
of stock without actual or prudent
investment"
Examples of how all the railroads
everywhere are charging the people
on surplus values which the people
themselves have created were given in
Senator Kenyon at Washington by
Clifford Thorne, at the time railroad
commissioner of Iowa:
Figures in Rate Schedules.
1.-The total original cost of the lands
of the Northern Pacific at the termin-
ais in st. Paul, Minneapolis and Du-
luth, including purchases to April 80,
1908, was 81, ,527, ,22S.76. The master
allowed as their value, apart from the
improvements made by the company,
which, as we have said, were en-
braced in the other items of reproduc-
! ton cost, the sum of Sl7,3l5, ,S69.45.
In 1910 the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad company insisted
that the law entitled them to a return
upon present value estimated at $780,
100000. Out of the difference be-
tween the original investment of
S25S. .000,0 and the estimated pres
ent value of 30,O0O,O00 it has been
estimated that the increase in land
values amounts to approximately
Sl50,000, ,000.' And this property rep
resents less than one-fourth Of the
railway capitalization in the coun-
| try"
Whether a legitimate and fair valu-
alton is TO be made the basis Of rate
making or is to be the basis Of pur-
chase or condemnation Of the rail
roads for government ownership and
operation, the question of valuation is
an immediate and vital one. If the
country is to be defrauded of nine
billions of dollars in cash with con-
stant increase of that burden) the
people, the committee declares, at
least should know it.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-10
INDIANS TO BE IN PAGEANT.
Story of Journey Way Back East for
White Mans Bible" to Be Shown.

In 1882 four Nez Perce Indians,
members of the tribe in central Idaho,
were delegated to go to St. Louis, to
secure a copy of ''the white mans
Bible" The story of the journey,
which required an entire summer, and
of the return is being revived by a
pageant at Spokane, Wash, says the
Spokane Chronicle.
Four young Indians have been Sc
lected from the tribe to act the part of
the messengers and several hundred
white children will provide the chorus
and take other parts.
Two members of the party that
made the historic trip in 1882 died in
returning. The party was disappoint-
ed in not being able to secure a Bible
in the tribes language. But word of
their coming 1000 miles on foot to
get the book was sent to a New York
publication and it started a campaign
to send missionaries to the Indians.