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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
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Fairy Tale
FARMLAND BALL.
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"we're going TO have a ball." said
Fairy Princess Joy. land l am getting
IL up. VIII you all come TO Fairyland
tomorrow evening at eight o'clock!
We're going to dress in fancy costumes
and we're going 10 have a great deal
Of fun" she said.
And that was the invitation she
took around TO everyone.
The very next evening they all ar
rived in plenty of time, and there were
The most remarkable costumes you
have ever seen.
There were gypsies and there were
knights and beautifully gowned ladies
and there were gnomes and brownies
dressed like animals, and many of the
elves had dressed as birds.
A number of the fairies were miss
ing, however, and everyone wondered
just when they would come and just
what they would wear.
In q few minutes after the guests
had arrived, along came old MIR. Giant.
He wore a huge costume which stuck
out and made him look larger than
ever
His sleeves were the most enormous
things you ever did see.
well, old Mr.. Giant" they all said,
"you have a joke in mind to tell us.
"What makes you think so?' asked
Mr.. Giant.
"Oh, you have something in the way
of surprise or joke, for you've got
an expression on your face which says
quite plainly that you've something vi
your sleeve"
Something up my sleeve, eh?' asked
Mr.. Giant. Pray tell me what thai
means"
"Well," said Billie Brownie, "whel
creatures have some secret they know
or some plan on hand, or somethin'
they mean to spring. they say, 'you'v
something up your sleeve They meal
that there is something hidden eithe
IN the way Of surprise, joke,
pack Of cards-anything.
"And SO we say that you have some
thing up your sleeve. for you look
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31

fishing an Independent Mongolia, In
cooperation with Semenoff, or
whether he merely feels that he must
have some place in which to winter
and obtain supplies. Semenof has
force estimated at $4,000 men, while
the Kappell army now with him was
$4,000 before the Chita defeat.
West of Lake Balkal is soviet ter
ritory with Moscow's control undis-
puted by any regular organization. A
number Of cOunter-revOlutions have
been reported from that section,
however. All the news Is fragmen.
tary and unconfirmed, but 1t is be-
Ileved that the Irkutsk region Is fair
ly quiet, while farther west ant
south peasant revolts are reported
from Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk and Novo
Nikolaeievsk and others from Semipal
atinsk, Barnaul and BiiSk.
Japanese Military Missions.
The japanese Eaye military mis-
sions still ut Verkhne- Udinsk, unde
Colonel Isome; at Chita and Blagov
eshchensk, while General OF is in ger
eral command of the Japanese !
Siberia, with headquarters ut Vlad
! voStok.
| The activities of the Nerchins
government in Selling Chita ma
furnish an excuse for further Japal
! csc activities in interior Siberia, Il
$ terms of the recent armistice betwee
8 the Russian factions and the Japa
r ese being that there should be no 8
e Wet activities east of Lake Baiks
d Public opinion in Japan, however,
d decidedly against any further Sib
k rian adventure.
II Reports come from China that the
D is belief in Picking and in Mongol
W itself that the japanese are behind t
IS Ungern invasion Of that provin'
,t but there is nothing in the attitu
is of the authorities here nor In pre-
pt comments on the attack upon Urga
b. substantiate any such belief.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
SIBERIA FACES
HARD WINTER

orders OF Ienine and Trotzky. The /
president of this section is Trinisser.
Best Army in Siberia.
West Of this is the so-called Ner-
chinsk government. In reality a
branch of the Blagovieshchensk adj
ministration. From Nerchinsk re-
Gently marched the best drilled and
best equipped army in Siberia,
force of fighters whipped into shape
by regular staff officers sent from
Moscow some four months ago.
Led by tanks and escorted by air
planes, this force descended upon
Chita about two weeks ago, driving
Ataman Semenoff from his erstwhile
capital and herding him and the rem
nants Of Kappel's army back along
the Chinese Eastern railway to the
Manchurian line.
KappeH's army is what is left Of
the force raised by General Kappell
from among the hardy artisans, me-
chanics and factory workers Of the
Ural when the BOlsheviki first began
their campaign of atrocities. These
men fought alongside the Czechs
4 against the Reds until their gallant
leader met death by freezing Since
then they have stayed together under
one general after another, their latest
commander, yergbitsky, being killed
in the retreat from Chita.
. This force is bitterly -Bolshevil
, and is associating with the troops o
, Ataman Semenoff only through wan
, Of better company. A great suspicion
Is entertained of Semenoff, somewha
> allayed at the time when the Atama
telegraphed his acknowledgment Q
a the supremacy of General Wrangel.
! West of the Nerchinsk territor
: comes the Verkhne Udinsk govern
a ment, controlling the district betwee
!, the Yabionoi mountains and Lab
,. Baikal To ali intents and purpose
this Is branch Of Moscow, but lie!
= openly so than the Nerchinsk crow
IS and is claiming a paramount pla'
70 in the formation of the Far Easter
republic, the buffer state whi'
~ Japan desires to see created, b
70 which appears to be as far off
i ever. The Verkhne.Ud preside
~ is Tobenson, alias Krasnoschekeff.
Headed for Mongolia.
1t is from this section that Bar
Ungern, an independent leader,
at heading an invasion Of Mongolia,
u force now being somewhere ne
ne Urga and clashing with a Chine
We army dispatched with rush to defe
by the Mongolian capital. Ungern b
DIS led his men against Verkhne- Udir
ed (the name Of the capital city as "
De- as Of the republic) in the hope of G
au- turing it and of establishing n
run center Of anti-Bolshevism, but Y
OF defeated and driven south. 1t Is
positively known as yet whether
ace drive against Urga is real after
lur to capture it for the purpose of est
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
Reds Use War Tricks to
Get Literature to U. S.

Observation-Disclosures prop
uganda experts, anxious TO
avoid discovery Of the propa-
ganda matter they are taking
to America, are said to have re-
sorted to the old wartime dodge
of having their printed matter
done In microscopic form, capa-
BILE of being enlarged photo
graphically.
One man, caught In central
Europe, had In his possession
number of queer-looking post
age stamps, upon which were
printed soviet propaganda mat
ter. The authorities were able
to enlarge this to ordinary size.
The propaganda university,
which has been established at
Moscow. is reported to be now
devoting extraordinary care to
literature intended for two par
ticular classes-women and
farmers.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
Pet Rabbit Vanquished
Three Cats in Battle

Having earned the right to
hang the sealps of three cats at
the door Of its hutch, a pet rab-
bit, Byng, owned by Mrs. Ella
Fields of Oceanport. N. j., Is
now held in deadly fear by the
feline members Of the neigh
borhood.
Cats have killed hundreds of
young rabbits In that section
each year, but war-grizzled
"toms" who picked out Byng as
prospective dinner have done
SO to their sorrow. Byng has u
powerful kick and he literally
kicked his would-be assailants
to death.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
Famine and Death Expected to
Take Their Toll Of the Mis-
cradle Population.
AN1l-sovlE1 FORCES LOSE
Half Dozen Governments Set Up In
as Many Areas-35,ooo Japanese
Remain In Country Near
vladivostok.

Tokyo.-All the news that filters
down from Siberia through the vari-
ous propaganda bureaus and from in
dependent correspondents, indicates
that things in that section of the
world are rapidly going from bad to
worse, with the prospect that this
winter will find woe and misery as
widespread as during last winter,
with death and famine taking toll Of
the miserable population now crowd
ed into the various centers along
what is left of the Trans-SiberiaR rail-
road.
| The drift everywhere, from the
Pacific to Lake Baikal, is plainly in
The direction of sovietism, with q
,arge part of the country openly fol.
lowing the instructions received from
Moscow. The anti-Bolshevik forces
ire being exterminated, forced across
the Monaghan and Manchurian Dor
1ers or herded into corners where
they must fght like cornered rats.
The Japanese still have about $500
zen in Siberia, including 5000 occu
aging northern Zaghalien. The grea
Majority Of these are in and aroun
Vladivostok, having withdrawn fror
al interior points. The last impol
;ant place evacuated was Khabarovsl
INTO which the Partisans marched o
The heels Of the Japanese what we
left of the bourgeoisie fleeing befol
.. them.
Roughly speaking, there are toda
six separate governments functionir
J between the Pacific and Lake Bake
| west Of which Moscow has a shall
9 hold.
No Organized Government.
The Vladivostok government
= the time of writing. a semi-comm
nistic organization from which t
, Social Democrats and Cadets ha
: recently separated--is headed
President Medviedoff. This contr'
- that comparatively thickly populat
- section Of the Maritime province
q tween the Pacific and the Mancl
!, rian border from vladivostok mol
=, to a point short distance south
:. Khabarovsk.
;. The rest Of the Maritime provil
10 and the eastern section of the An
province (about 200 miles wide)
n controlled by the Partisans, with
q any organized government and W
cd no particular ascerta'nable aims
A. eept that of plumber, murder
cd rapine. The de facto head OF
&c. Partisans just now is Fiegontoff
~ sheer anarchy can be said to hay
a head.
IN The Observation-Disclosures governm
controls the rest of the Amur, ro'
on ly Skebeltsina to Shilka marking
,os eastern and western limits of the
no ritory controlled. This governn
Is openly soviet, acknowledging
mr.. COW as supreme and accepting
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
Peat used as Fuel in Earliest Times,

Peat Used as fuei IN GaF'eSs '"'Se'
The use of peat as source OF neat
goes back beyond the historical period
into the ancient history OF the early
tribes in northern Germany. Piiny,
the Roman naturalist, gives us posi-
bly, the first Indication of the use OF
peat. He reports that the Teutons ON
the border of the North sea dried ana
burned mud, what we now would eau
neat. In Ireland, Great Britain and
Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, Hol'
,npd and parts Of France peat has
been used MS fuel since time I'M
memorial The peat was cut from the
hog very much in the same manner
| MS II is still being done in many parts
of Europe. where 1t is cut In brict
shnpcs. allowed to dry In the wins
unt sIn.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
Mayor Orders Police to Prevent Kiss
ing and Hugging in Public
Affairs.

Warren, O.-Declarlng some of the
scenes at public dances are not merely
improper, but shockingly immoral,
Mayor j. ID. Mcbride issued an order
to Chief of Police Giles to have Off
GERS keep an eye ON such affairs and
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31

You look as though you had some
thing hidden away. You have Sc
cret for us, eh, Mr.. Giant"
"Well, well, well, maybe you're
right" he said.
And as he said so the great enormous
sleeves he wore began to shake and
move, and suddenly they saw many OF
the little fairies running down old Mr..
Giants sleeves and coming out over
his hands and jumping about laughing
with delight.
II did have something up my sleeve,
ha, ha, that was true enough, SAID
old MIR. Giant.
"A good Joke" said Billie Brownie.
Just then along came fairy carry
Ing an enormous whistle and cake
of soap, a fowl and basin filled with
water.
what in the world are you doing
Fairy?" they all asked. "And wont
your water freeze on this cold day.
Pm seeing that this whistle lives
up to the reputation it has said the
fairy. "They use the expression "a
clean as whistle, and must see ina
this whistle is no disgrace to the fam
ily name. and so I'm constantly wash
ing my own face and hands, for ! wan
to be as clean as a whistle, ana I'd
whistle must be clean to keep up IL
reputation"
They all laughed loudly, and onl
stopped when they heard sound con
ing from one of the branches of I
tree.
"Who's up thereY they called.
II am" shouted Fairy Princess Tw
light Bell. II am up tree because
don't know what to do. was Off {
twilight party and didn't have tin
10 make my frock. So | don't kno
whether to come to the fancy DIRE
PARTY as am, or to stay away becau
haven't costume. So I'm up tfe
or in other words, I'm greatly puzzl
about what to do"
"Come down, come down, they ca
ed, and Fairy Princess Twilight -
came down laughing. "A gay NJ
Joke l played on all Of you. act
out the old. old joke o. being puzzl
or ND a tree. Ha, ha," she laughed
her musical voice.
And then from the ground they s.
arising the Fairy Queen. she n
been lying on bed of snow and
was dressed In gown OF glistenl
snow. with starlike jewels In 1t.
"And none of you saw what
right under your noses" she laugl
as she Joined the jolly party.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-12-31
important Requisite.

"Have you change for dollar bll'F'
yep"
"Fine! Would you mind letting me
have a quarterT
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-04-23
IDAHO IRRIGATION FACTS

II ldaho's big reclamation program IS
successfully and speedily developed as
is ardently hoped and the waters that
are now running to waste are impound-
ed and diverted to even material part
OF the lands available for them. a pop
ulation of "a million people by 1880 viii
not 10 be an eNtravaeant dream. The
present rate Of increase will account
for three fourths OF million people by
hy the end Of the decade without any
increase In irrigated area. During the
past year Idaho has received a good
immigration. bur q has not been evenly
distributed The irrigated districts have
received the bulk OF il. The school
census provides the most reliable in
formation as TO the number who have
come and where they have located A
comparison Of the school census OF 1919
with that Of 1918 indicates an Increase
in Canyon County for the year OF 2s.3
pct. as as compared 10 80 percent for
Bear Lake county An increase Of 80
percent Is shown by Lincoln Cooling.
Jerome and Minidoisa counties com
blned. all irrigated, as compared to
very small Increase in the counties
with limited irrigated areas MinidolSa
County provides an illustration Of the
Development Of the irrigated districts Of
southern Idaho b the creation Of
Jercsns County. Mlnidoka County lost
q iargs Irrigated area containing two
small villages. but notwithstanding
This loss the 1873 scheol census shows
IS mare children than we're contained
n the county before the division year
before
win practically 10 increase ~ the
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-04-23
Up AGAINST 1T.

Patriotic democrats who have not
been inoculaied with the Anti Ameri-
can Wiisonian vius find themselves up
against it hard and fast when they at
tempt to talk patriotism and wisconsin
az the same time. 81 recent Jeffer-
son day banquet ln Boise one Of the
speakers 10 laying down his ground
zork for 40 attact on the present state
admins, alton cried OUT PARTY
PLATFORMS ARE SOLEMN OBJ
LlGATloNs~ ID is presumed he had
ia mind me One term FOR President"
Free banana canal tolls for Ameri-
can sh.pping lie kept us out Of
war" ana host Of similar disregarded
pianss 30 The recent Wilsonian plat
foms.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-04-23
GETTING CLOSER TO AMERICAN
INTERESTS


In recent speech az Lincoln. Neb
Senator Hitchcock who has been the
Administration leader in the treaty
fight in the Senate, is quoted as hav-
ing said
Friends of the peace treaty were
willing to subscribe to any reasonable
reservations" He asserted that such
reservations should make clear beyond
pcradventure that the domestic affairs
Of the United states are never to be
taken under jurisdiction Of the league:
that tho Monroe Doctrine is TO be unaf-
fected That Il the United states is en- o.
gagged ia dispute with any nation
having self governing colonies each
with "a vote ia the league. an Of those
votes and Amercn's vote are to be
disqualified. that the powers Of Con-
gfess TO declare war are unimpaircd:
that the league has no control over the
American army and navy. and that the
United States SHAH be the sole judge
Of whether Il has performed it's obli-
CATIONS in case il wants to withdraw. "
That Is an the opponents Of the VIII
son covenant have asked for NJ any
time and II the administration honest
lS desires 20 protect the interests Of the
United States along those lines WHY
NOT AMEND THE WORDING OF
THE LEAGUE COVENANT so
THERE COULD BE NO DOUBT As
Toi IT'S MEANING AND INrEN-
TON
The entire tight against tho league
as presented by Wilson. aas been to
make it SAY exactly what senator
Hitchcock now declares he wants 1t to
say AS matter Of fact the wording
Of the covenant as presented 10 tho
Senate with orders from the President
to adopt II without crossing 90" or
dottng an 81" says exactly the op-
positc Of what Hitchcock now insists
he wants IL 20 say that Is II IL saws
anything at all Mr.. Wilson In his
Indianapolis speech last summer de-
ciafed that the covenant was so word
ed that HE only OF an citizens Of
America. was capable of understanding
% and Interpreting IT, and asked the
American people 10 permit him to act
as the sole Interpreter The Lodge
reservations which Cenator Hitchcock
has fought so long and hard were de-
signed 10 put into the covenant exactly
the things Hitchcock now says he
wants ia d.. Has Hitchcock forgotten
the fate Of Colonel House and Lansing
and others7
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-04-23
THE AMERICANS CREED

BELIEVE ~ the United states Of
America e Government OF the people
hs tae people. for the people. who 'e
just powers are derived from the con-
sent ~ the governed; "A democracy Ia "a
republic sovereign Nation Of many
sovereign slte q perfect Union. one
aoi inscparhie established upon
those principals u freedom. equality.
Justice and humanity for which Amer
iear patriots sacrificed their lives
ard fortunes
therefore BELIEVE 1T ~ MY
DUTY 70 my country 70 love IL. to
support ~ constitution: TO obey its
iana. 70 respect - nag. and 70 defend
81 axsfnst ~ enemies
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-04-23
Serial No. 012s4S
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department Of the Interior,

L. ;. LAND OFFICE at HALEY Idaho.
April II, 1920
Notice Is hereby given that Frank l.
Thomas, Of Jerome. Idaho, who. on
March q. 1913. made Desert Land Entry
No. oi2Si5. for Lot ?. Section 7. Town
ship s South. Range IS Fest, Boise
Meridian. has filed notice OF the inten-
ton to maize Final Proof. to establish
claim to the land above described. be-
fore Frank r Disney. T. $. Commiss-
Toner. at shosaone Idaho, on The 18th.
day Of June 1920.
. Claimant names az Witnesses.
Gearge Bcckett. a. w. stone. Grace
BECKETT. 2. =. Stone. an Of Goodipg.
Idaho
a22-m2l
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-04-23

J. irrigated area during the past ten years
the school census indicates an increase
in population Of the State OF about IS
percent. Most of this increase has
. come in southern Idaho. The southern
counties have shown an increase or
about IS percent as compared to about
20 percent for the ten northern eoun-
ties. What the increase would be with
the American Falls reservoir construe-
ted. an abundance Of water provided
for the lands in the older irrigated dis
tricts and water made available Tor
new lands. is indicated by the develop
ment in Twin Falls County where with
a very small increase in the irrigated
area the population during the past ten
years has increased almost four fold or
from 1880 to about $4,000.
Bingham County presents a typical |
instance of the development of the old
er irrigated districts during the past
decade. In 1910 the population of Bing-
ham County was 2S.SOe. Bonneville
County had not then been created.
The combined population today of
Bingham and Bonneville Counties is
estimated at $4,000 an increase of %.
lOS Bingham County has almost iden
tically the same number of acres of
cultivated land and the same popula-
ton that was shown ten years ago be-
fore Bonneville County was created.
Thus all the people and wealth of
County may be justly be
considered to have come within the
past ten years.
The counties of Gem and Payette
show only about so percent of the in
,rease in wealth and population of the
erritory included in Canyon County 4
on years ago. {
Washington County has more people .
md more wealth by far than were
10 own ten years ago before half of her
eIitory was taken to create Adams
-ounty. 4
Idaho irrigated land provides a safe =
nd profitable investment fot capital. .
NE growing of seed and potatoes and
ther remunerative products is in
reasing in many districts and if devel-
pment continues along these lines.it :
,ill be an easy matter to support a .
opulation many times greater than we >
ow nave without becoming crowded. )
and values are rapidly increasing and :
ill continue to increase The farms
re becoming smaller in size and more
Intensive cultivation is being adopted =
The production records of the Twin =
Falls and Minidoka irrigated tracts is .
good illustration of the productivity 4
/ Idahos irrigated land. In 1918 and :,
81 600 acres in crop in these projects
Produced S2S99S, 467, exclusive of live '
took and diary products. The cost up :
o that time of the irrigation systems .
applying water for these lands was
IS.62Ls75. or s1O,S74O92 less than the
roducts of 1918 alone.