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The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
Soldiers Welcomed Home.

Lancaster, O.-The second of Sc
ries of welcome-home dinners was
rendered 300 returned soldiers by the
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce at
the Sherman Memorial Armory.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
ASQUTTH AMBRSSADOR TO U. S.
London News Says Former Premier OF
England VIII Succeed Earl
Reading.

London. April 80.- Herbert Fl. AS
quith, former premier, is likely to sue
coed the earl of Reading as ambas-
sador to the United States, according
to the Evening News.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
REIGN OF TERROR
PLANNED BY REDS
WARNING ISSUED TO ALL PUBLIC
OFFICIALS AS AGENTS TURN TO
CLEWs IN NEW YORK.
Mails Scanned For Internal Machines
ASSASSINATION of Morgan and
Holmes PIanned--Rockefeler, BurI-
eson and Palmer Included.

Western Newspaper Union News Service,
Gadsden, Ala.-Representative John
II Burnett, Chairman of~ehe Immigra-
ti0n Committee of the last House, mar
rowly escaped serious injury or posi-
BILE death by an Internal machine re-
ceiNed through the mails. The lid on
the package stuck when Mr.. Burnett
attempted to open 1t, arousing his sus-
HES Haaehipe
over I'd fine notice.
The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1919-05-03
over to the police.

Washington. Every official and en-
ploye In the postal service in the Uni
ted States is on the lookout for sus-
piciOus packages which might contain
Internal machines. A warning was
flashed over the entire system follow
ing an official report to Postmaster
General Burleson Of the discovery of
16 bombs in the mails in the New
York City postoffice. A preliminary
investigation convinced the postofice
authorities that they had unearthed a
countrywide plot of terrorists to as
sassinate highly placed persons as a
demonstration on May 1.
Following are prominent men
throughout the country to whom dead
ly bombs have been mailed from this
city in the last few days: William NJ.
Wood, Boston; Friedrich ]. Howe,
Commissioner of immigration, New
York; A. Mitchell Palmer, United
States Attorney General, Washington /;
Anthony Caminetti, Bureau of Immi-
grafton, Washington; William B. VIII
son, Secretary of Labor, Washington ;
Senator T. Larry Eyre, Chester, Pa. ;
William Fl. Lamar, Solicitor General,
Washington w. H. Finch, Department
of Justice, New York A. S. Burleson,
Postmaster General, Washington ;
John f. Hylan, Mayor, New York City ;
Richard e. Enright, Police Commits
sioner, New York City, John D. Rock
efeller, Tarrytown, N. Y.
William l. Shaffer, Attorney-Gen-
eral, Harrisburg, Penn; Gov. William
@. Sproul, Chester, Penn; Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, United States Supreme
Court Justice, Washington; ]. p. Nor
gan, New York; Federal Judge X. M.
Lands, Chicago, ILL.,; Mayor Ole Han
son, Seattle, Wash; former United
States Senator Hardwick, Atlanta,
Ga. From all the information availa-
BILE it was apparent the makers of the
bombs hoped to exterminate everyone
who has been involved prominently in
the prosecution or deportation of
members of the /. w. W.
Not only were officers of the Immi-
grafton Bureau marked for destruc-
tion, but also the authors of the bill
which would have stopped immigra-
ton for a year. This measure would
have made it difficult for Russian
radicals to gain access to this country.
Agents of the Department of Justice
said they believed the mailing of the
bombs was timed to cause reign of
terror on May Day, observed through
out the world not only by peaceful
labor organizations, but the most pro-
nounced radicals. 1t was recalled that
radicals in this country had threat
ened a demonstration on May | in be-
half of Thomas j. Mooney, under SEN
tence of life Imprisonment ip Califor-
MIA for murder in connection with a
bomb outrage.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
ATTEND VICTORY LOAN
CONVENTION AT BOISE

H. D. MacCosham and Frank
Bergman attended a meeting in
Boise Saturday of the district chair
men who will handle the Victory
loan drive commencing April 21. The
state quota has not been fixed and
only preliminary work can be done
and that is about completed in this
county.
Mr.. MacCosham said Monday that
the loan will be for a short period
and presumably at high rate. He
said also that Idaho had made the
unique record in loan drives of hav-
ing a much smaller ratio of expense
than any other state. The last drive
cost Idaho $4,000 to put across and
states of like quota, Utah and Ore
gon spent $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively. ,-
Another thing, in Idaho every
county has every time gone over the
top, and that also is a unique ac-
complishment. Mr.. MacCosham as
cribes this success to the quiet busi-
ness-like system that, has been fol-
lowed in this state, instead of pro-
miscuous soliciting.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
auto THIEVES BREAK
into MANY GARAGES
Many People Aroused
by the Amateurish
Attempts
SCARED BY LIGHTS

Thursday night was notable for
mobiles and If the efforts of the
would-be thieves were always as
futile it would be poor business.
They were frightened away just as
they had almost made getaway
with Vic, Barrer's Chandler, when
O. Buchanan heard them, for the car
was in his garage and got up armed
to the teeth. Somebody turned
light on in Mr.. Barrers house, and
Mr.. Buchanan found only the car
out in the street. 1t had been roughly
handled and wires were run around
the switch to make spark connec-
tions. This was three o'clock in the
morning.
/. About midnight Of the same even
ing Mrs. L. B. Dustin said to Mr..
Dustin, II thought 1 heard some
thing in the yard. Somebody sneezed
twice. But Mr. Dustin was enjoy
ing good book and thought nothing
of it. The next morning he found
his garage disarrayed and cigarette
butt on the floor and he never
smokes cigarettes. Fills car, however,
was In downtown garage all the
time.
Frank Bergman found that some
body had broken into his garage,
where there were two cars, but evi-
dently the night-men couldn't make
them start. Sam Lloyd's garage had
been entered also, but the car was
so well locked it couldn't be started.
A car belonging to James Heatley
was found to have been tampered
with. Up to Saturday morning the
police had not been informed of
these attempts, so nothing much was
done. +a
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
News of Court House;
Cupid is Foiled Again

In the probate court a preliminary
hearing was set for Monday for C.
c. Fredericks, accused Of obtaining
money under the false pretense of
having stock as a guaranty.
Marriage Licenses
E. I. Kofeld and Miss e. c. Estes
both of Idaho Falls.
Sydney =. Carter and Miss Alberta
Foster Of Idaho Falls.
Some Disappointment
Nobody could help but feel for the
bright-faced happy couple from Po-
catello who appeared at the county
clerks Office Saturday with six wit
nesses all expectancy, and asked for
a marriage license. All was fine
until the bride-to-be blushingly con-
fessed that she could not possibly be
eighteen years Of age until the
of April. Proceedings
came to q breathless stop. No, there
was no way but to fetch mother and
she in Pocatello. Judge Good
wheeled in and his heart was touched
and he suggested they Jump into the
car and 60 after mother. The groom,
impatient Of delay, asked the deputy
to call mother by telephone, but that
couldn't pass, he was informed, So
the party went sadly back to their
car and moved away. There indeed,
was a proper chance for one Of those
nice little white fibs. What Is two
weeks to eternal truth?
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
Many Complaints
Against Railroads

The railroad company have made
some Of the folks happy by remov-
ing the very old water tank from it's
berth at the crossing by Judicial
street. The ground has been leveled
of and no tramps diIid hiding place
there now. On the same site, some
steel rails have been lodged, and a
few tons Of h-plates.
Mr.. Gagon says the fishing season
10 over and 1t is mistake to be fool
ing around with fish-plates now.
Besides, he says, few tons is more
than anybody's limit, unless they are
fishing on behalf of the whole
division.
] Anybody that Is interested in fish
plates can 60 down and look. These
these are about two feet long.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
Republicans Nominated
to Serve. on City Ticket
N. j. Thorstenberg Candidate for
Mayor. Resolve to Make
j.,g "a Better Town
COPY OF RESOLUTIONS

al ZIG uoctIHS OI HopuDllCanS or
Friday evening. N. J. Thorstenbere
and George Jorgensen received a tic
vote Of twenty-five each on the first
ballot for mayoralty, and on a second
ballot it stood twenty-six to twenty.
one in. favor of Thorstenberg.
L. ]. Chapman and Willis Thomas
were balloted on for city clerk and
Chapman won.
The office Of city treasurer is now
appointive under the new law.
Councilmen were nominated as
follows:
Ward Cecil Clarke and O.
Buchanan.
Ward w. H. Snyder and J. J,
Quillin. &3t SN
Ward S-Lon Cone and H. B.
Kinney.
\ Ward 4-Ernest l.. Anderson and
L. R. Clegg.
Resolutions were adopted as fol-
lows:
We, the Republicans, of the city
of Blackfoot, in convention assem-
bled, believe that it is as necessary
to the well being of our.city to have
a party organization responsible. for
the administration of it's affairs as
it is to have such responsible organ
izations in the state or the nation,
and it is in this spirit and not in the
spirit of partisan politics that we
pronulgate our platform and present
our ticket.
!. We pledge our candidates If
elected to the Improvement and ex-
tension of our streets and side
walks, the improvement and beauti-
flying of our public buildings and
parks. Likewise the extension of
the pavement district in the busi-
ness portion of the city, and the
creation of new districts in the resi-
dence portions thereof wherever
practicable.
We also pledge ourselves and our
candidates to prepare to take care
of our present burden of indebted
ness, by working out some plan
whereby the same can be paid as
speedily as possible with as little ad-
ditional burden to the tax payers
as may be.
We pledge ourselves and our
candidates to cooperate with the
county commissioners of Bingham
county in the Improvement of high
ways, and to keep the streets of the
city up to the same standard.
w.,
We pledge ourselves and our can
didates to the ablest and most ef-
ficient police force possible, and to
the strict enforcement of the city
and full cooperation
with the county officers in the en-
forcement of the law.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
SHEEP NAN WINS
IN GRASS EATING CASE

F. M. Quinn brought suit in the
justice court Friday against Farley
Price to recover $3.50 damages for
pasture feed alleged to have been
consumed by sheep bands belonging
to the latter. Witnesses for Mr..
Quinn claimed to have identified the
sheep and outfit near the dry farm
in question, and witnesses for Mr..
Price claimed that the bands were
at other places on the date men
toned. The jury found for the de-
fendant.
Mr.. Quinn alleged that. the sheep
had eaten the grass within the two
mile limit and on his dry farm ITSELF
Mr.. Price showed that other bands
of sheep had been in the neighbor-
hood during the month. Judge Good
represented the defendant and Mr..
Beakley the plaintiff.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
RALPH CHUBBUCK DIED AT
MAYO BROTHERS HOSPITAL

Ralph, the twelve, year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Chubbuck of
Blackfoot died at Mayo Brothers
hospital In Rochester, Mimi. Satur-
day evening, April s at IL O'Clock.
Mrs. Chubbuck took the little lad
there for treatment nine weeks ago
and was with him all the time. He
had received but three treatments
before death occurred. a
Mrs. Chubbuck started home i'm
mediately with the body and will be
met at Omaha by Mr.. Chubbuck, who
left Monday morning. They expect
to reach home Wednesday evening
and funeral services will be an
nounced later.
Besides his parents the little boy
Is survived by an older brother
Walter and a younger brother James.
three sisters, Marian, Alice and
Helen, 5t
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
Firth Commercial Club
Banqueted Wednesday
Business Men and Others Interested
In the Welfare Of Firth
Met Together NJ
PLEASANT EVENING SPENT

Firth had real event Wednesday
evening in the nature of a banquet
for the Firth Commercial club and
Its interested friends, including Wis
itors from Idaho Falls.
The banquet was held in the
dance hall and covers were laid for
fifty. The ladies' aid society of Firth
had charge of the provisioning and
they are extended the thanks of the
club for the admirable way in which
their work was done.
Barrer's orchestra played selec-
,tions thruout the evening and added
much to the pleasure of the banquet.
" The principal speaker Of the even
ing was Professor Lewis of the Idaho
Technical school of Pocatello. In
the course of his remarks, he en-
phasized the need of closer co-opera-
ton between the business men and
the farmers, and that each should
be able to view his particular line OF
work from the standpoint Of the
other. Mr.. Lewis also spoke of the
needs of better roads and better pub
lie schools as the geat object to be
sought. He believed that these
things and civic matters generally
should be fostered by commercial
clubs.
Relative to the school system, Mr..
Lewis had the modern and more
broad-minded view. He said that
Latin and Greek were impractical
for the ordinary man and should be
less taught than subjects of which
a boy or girl might make some prac-
tical use after leaving school.
The committee In charge is to be
congratulated upon its success with
the hann11at ARA garments
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
INSURE YOUR AUTOMOBILES

Automobiles can be insured
against fire or theft by comforting
with j. H. Early. ~,-a
Tomorrow might be too late to
save your machine. Ring 81 and
secure protection from the present
moment. ttFsa adv.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08

for its office and hall for its meet
ings in. Action may not be taken
this season, but 1t Is observed that
Che farmers and members can easily
handle it with a small assessment or
by the sale of stock or popular sub
scriptions to the fund. 7l8
The board will meet again at 10. 80
O'Clock on April IT,, to consider the
1919 budget and one or two other
matters.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
FARM BUREAU PLAN
Ming ACTIVE SEASON
Several New Depart
nents Established at
Recent Meeting
MEET APRIL IS

= s 4 4 z 80. -.
The bureau will undertake to ar
range for the sales Of fat stock for
the farmers having less than car load
lots. The plan of H. G. Taylor,
leader Of that department is to make
shipment of choice fat animals in
June. Persons having any number
of animals for shipment at that time
should confer with H. C. Taylor,
Blackfoot, route 2, phone 257J2.
They intend to classify the stock so
that top notchers will go as top
notchers and anything inferior shall
not go into the same shipment or
same car load to hurt the sale of the
finer animals. When the second rate
stuff is shipped it will be shipped as
such. The intention is to establish
a reputation for reliability for the
bureau. >~a 5 tH
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
A GOOD FAMILY LEAVING

Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Whitcomb
planned to leave Monday night for
Colfax, Wash. to make their home.
Mr.. Whitcomb goes there to accept
a position in a Touring mill,
They have lived at Blackfoot some
twelve or fourteen years and many
good friends will miss them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
Poisoning the Public Mind

We had not intended to give any
publicity to these disagreeable facts
but his activity in poisoning the pub.
lie mind by predictions and insinua.
tions as. to imprbper conduct to be
expected of county officials in ex.
pending the bond money makes 1t q
matter of public concern for people
to know from what character of cit.
izen such talk comes.
Defeating Public Enterprise
A large number Of people take
the view that certain changes in ad-
ministration Of road work should be
made to meet q great rising emerg-
ency, and the activities Of Mr.. Red
dick In the Pingree country were fol-
lowed by united threat on the part
of the community to hold up road
construction. It was Mr.. Reddick's q
privilegeSto agitate against the issue
Of bonds II he so desired, but the
point we make is that the people
should consider the source of such
opposition, and consider what Mr..
Reddick> has accomplished in his
own affairs, and how he did it. It
would be timely to ask themselves
whether they would like to have the
county business conducted as Mr..
Reddick has conducted his private
business. Would they like to be the
bond-holders and have to look to
Mr.. Reddick and his Kind for the
payment OF the bonds when due?
Reddfck Invited Criticism
So long as Mr.. Reddick confined
his activities to word of mouth, we
did not give him any publicity thru
the press. but now that he has taken
Continued on page four
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
Boys and Girls Club Work

The department. of boys and girls
club work is to be supervised by a
leader whose name is L. E. Tillotson,
who comes from Glendive, Mont, the
fifteenth OF. April. Every community
should have "a meeting and decide
what line of work it will have it's
boys and girls take up and the club
leader viii carry, out their wishes in
that respect. The work heretofore
handled by the county superinten-
dent of schools will now be handled
thru the club leader who is an ex-
pert agriculturalist and stockman.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJ
JECT0R" AT PINCREE
Prominent Man Talking
Forcibly Against the
Road Bonds
GIVE HIS RECORD

The Pingree neighborhood is in
the throes Of q rebellion, trying to
decide whether they are going to
be short-changed or not II the bond
election carries. There has been at
least one conscientious objector''
talking against the road bonds for
some time, and Pingree seems to be
making record for itself by falling
in line and passing his arguments
along as If they believed they were
good stuff. The original objector
we refer to is O. B. Reddick and con-
siderable surprise is being expressed
in the rest Of the county, over the
fact that the Pingree neighborhood
should be willing to act upon the ad-
vice Of man with such a record for
successes as Mr.. Reddick.;
An expression oft-repeated is that
If Pingree can't find any better ad-
wiser than Reddick, they should be
given full swing to test out his ad-
vice.
The Record of Mr.. Reddick
People who know Mr.. Reddick,
know that he lived in that commun-
ity good many years and has ac-
complished about as little as the
least of them. When he came here
from Kansas he left large amount
of unpaid debts, and for good many
years after making his appearance
at Pingree he pursued a course that
involved him in abundance of debts
which his creditors were unable to
realize on. When he owed a large
number of people in the community
and in other communities from Arco
to Pocatello and from American
Falls tol Idaho Falls he took the
bankrupt law and asked the court
to release him from the payment Of
any of these debts, amounting in the
total, to almost as much as a years
interest on the proposed road bonds.
He asked for this release because
he had little OF no assets and he
wanted a chance to take fresh
start with clean slate. There was
nothing to be gained by refusing it,
the creditors were unable to get any
thing from him to apply on his in
debtedness, so the court granted the
discharge in bankruptcy for hun
dreds or thousands of dollars in the
various communities in this state
and in Kansas. Reddick acknowl-
edged that he had contracted the
long list of debts and that he had
not paid them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
Pest Control

4
The work of destroying pests by
the use of poison is well under way.
The most effective time to administer
the poison is just when spring opens,
when there is little or no feed and
the animals are hungry and devour
anything they can find that is eat
able. Later in the spring and sum-
mer when there is plenty of food and
when they have. multiplied it is con-
sidered an almost helpless case to
try to poison them. The farm bureau
makes its purchase of poison based
on the. estimate furnished by the
farmers in advance. The county fur
nishes one half the money to buy the
poison, the price this year being
$40 per ounce, plus the express.
County agent, Monroe, says there
will be some refund to each pur-
chaser later in the season. He got
the poison at just a little better
price than was estimated and after
paying express, insurance, interest
on money that he borrowed to make
connections and get the cash price
and what ever other expense there
is connected with handling it, there,
will be refund Of about or 6
cents per ounce to each purchaser.
The books. are carefully kept and
when the accounts are, closed the
refund will be taken care Of. The
new executive board renewed the
order Of last year that none but
members of the farm bureau shall
be entitled to purchase poison thru
the bureau at these rates. Notices
will soon be sent out to all mem
bers urging them to send in their
estimates in the fall for 1920 so
that purchase can be made early in
the winter and the poison distributed
in plenty of time and the farmers
enabled to make use of itlwhen win
ter breaks. Those who go to the
farm bureau to purchase poison in
the spring and summer make great
deal Of extra work for the bureau
and 1t cannot be purchased at so
good price nor at so low rate of
expense for handling It, so that very
little provision will be made here
after for the man who comes In
late. County Agent Monroe asks
that all persons receiving a notice
for the next estimate for poison act
rnvs AL Ivy \ - ay
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
Home Economics Department

D
The department of home econom-
les and girls clubs will be established
II the women and girls Of the county
are sufficiently interested. Cards
will be mailed out to them asking
II they wish to work in such a de-
partment and they are requested to
fill out these cards promptly saying
ives" or mo" and return to Mrs.
Snyder, whose full address will ap-
pear on the cards.
Labor Agent
The great success of the labor
agent for 1918 prompts the new
board to make arrangements for q
labor agent for this year and appli-
cants are being considered. They
authorized the county agent to en-
ploy man at $125.00 per month.
The scale Of farm wages will be the
same this year is in 1918. Farmers
are advised to follow closely the
scale as announced and to remember
that any deviation from this scale
makes trouble for all concerned and
members who do not stick to the
scale will be promptly dropped from
the service.
A Home of Its Own
The bureau is confronted with a
raise in the price Of its office rent
from $50 to $50 per month and it
was suggested that the farm bureau
should buy some ground and erect
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-04-08
I Reddick Invited Criticism

Continued on page four