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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
MORE LAND FOR
TAKING PURPOSES
Assessor Gets List Of Newly
Patented Areas in
Idaho County

Forty-hve pieces of government
land, aggregating S94011 acres, for
which U. S. patents have been issued
during the year 1923. have been listed
by the land office at Lewiston
with County Assessor William In
gram. These lands will be subject to
taxation in 1924
While the valuation of the new ad-
dition to the taxable land of Idaho
county has not been determined, the
area is for the most part grazing land,
assessed at not less than 81 an acre.
The 8940.11 acres comprise only
newly-patented lands within the Lew
iston land district. The Boise and
HALEY land offices have not as yet
provided the assessor with a list OF
lands in those districts that have
been patented during the year.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
GREENCREEK
HEALTH
OFFICE ORDER.
|hipman Will Take Drastic
Steps Unless Scarlet Fever
Quarantine Is Respected
I Cases Reported by County
Physician; Failure to Call
Doctor Is Cause OF Spread

Drastic steps will be taken by DIR
I Chapman, county physician, to Ell
rec a rigorous scarlet fever quaran
De in the Greencreek district, un
ss residents of the district change
cir attitude toward health regula.
ons. This was the statement made
the county physician. Thursday.
+. Chapman is hopeful, however, that
e quarantine regulations will be vol
atarily respected.
81 Scarlet Fever Cases
The entire Greencreek country, in
uding School Districts Nos. 81, II
ID 80, have been placed under quar-
lfine because of widespread preva-
Ice of the disease. Sixty-seven
4es in sixteen families are reported.
me have recovered, and others are
ID suffering from the contagion.
he of the cases is critical.
Scarlet fever has been prevalent in
4 Greencreek country for about two
dpths, DR.. Chapman said, Thursday.
81 physician had been summoned in
d case, however, until December
Z and consequently the disease was
= reported to the authorities. 1t
read rapidly. Last Wednesday,
Norwood physician was called to
'ofncreek to attend a patient. He
G6ounced the disease scarlet fever
"a notified the county physician.
Health Officer Probes
o. investigation. last Friday, DR..
lfTnnan discovered the contagion was
dospread in Greencreek and vicini-
Ind he placed the entire district
der quarantine.
he county physician, in establish
The quarantine, issued orders that
Resident of the district should
ve his premises, and no person
u1d enter the premises. Travellers.
vever. are permitted to pass
Otlgh the district. The regulations
hibit dispatching of all outgoing
II. but incoming mail may be re-
red.
Determines on Enforcement
ertain residents of the district
e evinced unwillingness to re-
Il the quarantine regulations, DR.
pman reported. On Wednesday,
went to the Greencreek country
issued a warning that If the reg
Ions were not observed he would
70 an officer at each home under
rantine with Instructions to en-
% the law. Albert Vessels has
iappointed health officer at Green
X
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
Your Honor on the Bench,
Plain Miles Johnson in the Street,
Ruling Of New District Judge
Lewiston Jurist Desires to Be
Thus Addressed by His
Friends
BY staff Correspondent

LewiStOn-"When L am In the court
room ii will be Your honor and when
l am on the street ii will be just plain
Miles Johnson This was the gist
Of an interview with the Hon. Miles
5. Johnson, pioneer Lewiston attorney,
who has been appointed by Gov. G.
c. Moore to fill the unexpired term OF
the late Judge Wallace N. Scales, as
Judge of the tenth judicial district,
comprising Idaho, Lewis and Nez Perez
counties
Judge Johnson, or perhaps just plain
Miles Johnson, for this is not written
in the courtroom, desires that his old
friends shall know him by the name
that he has always borne. The 'your
honor stuff is all right in the court
room. the new judge holds, but he
wants to remain one of the plain folk,
despite the honor that has been given
him by Idaho's governor, and when
one meets the judge on the street It
win be o. k. to just call him miles, -
the same as yesterday or the day be-
fore. when he was a practicing at
t0rney.
Hours Of Holding Court
The new judge declares that he will
expedite court business. and intends
to hold court from 8 to ~ In the morn
ing and from j 80 to in the after
noon There will be no arguments
on demurrers nor other routine bus
mess while the jury is on duty de-
clared the judge, in edict No. 1.
Edict No. 2 recites that mo attor-
ney will talk with me on any matter
to his case unless the at
torney for the other party is present. -
Nor will I allow any one Of the
public to converse with me about any
case" emphatically declared Idaho g
newest judge
whenever I am not occupied with
any regular term of court, If cases
are in such shape that they need a
chambers session, it will be given
them
30 Years a Lawyer
Judge Johnson has had long and
brilliant career as an attorney. He
is native of Oregon. He was adj
mitted to the bar Dec. z, 1893, in Col
orado. and since 1898 has been a prac-
ticing attorney in Lewiston. Judge
Johnson comes from pioneer western
stock His grandfather. the Rev. VIII
liam Johnson, erected the -four mill
for Whitman at Walla Walla, and
his aunt was with the Spaulding fam
Iy, pioneer missionaries at Spaulding.
Judge Johnson was prosecuting at
torney for Nez Perez county from
1901 to 1905; assistant u. s. district
attorney for Idaho, 1905 to 1908; spe-
,ial assistant to the attorney general
If the United States, and prosecuting |
attorney for Nez Perez county from |
1913 to 1915. He was employed by |
he state of Idaho as attorney to en-
orce the blue sky law, and has served |
or several years as a member OF the |
IDAHO Uniform Laws commission.
Sets Terms of Court
The new judge has set terms of
Continued on last page)
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
IDAHO COUNTY LAND
RESTORED TO ENTRY

Approximately 200 acres of land in
Idaho county will be restored to en-
try January II, it is announced at
the land Office at Boise, open to gen
eral disposition April IL. A soldier s
preference right period will be frem
January IL to April II.
The land will be restored under sec
ton "a of the federal water power act.
The land is described as follows {:
Township "a north, range 2 east, Boise
meridian; lots 5, and Z, section 49,;
lot 1. section 10; lots 2, 6 and Z, sec
ton 20; lots 3, 4, 6. and s, section 81
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03

Assessor Ingram has collected on
personal property taxes to the amount
of $20,677.24, compared with $20,1SS.-
30 in 1922, despite the fact that the
combined state and county levy for
1923 was reduced % cents on each
500 valuation. Assessor Ingram has
collected within about 5000 Of the to-
tai personal property tax due, and of
this amount further sums will be paid
without the county instituting suit
for collection, Mr.. Ingram believes.
Assessor Ingram has collected for
1923 the sum of S2SO6.79 on migra-
tory livestock, compared with $577.27
from this source in 1922
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
421 MOTOR CARS IN
COUNTY REGISTERED

A total of 421 motor cars in Idaho
county had been registered for 1924 at
the close of business in the office of
Assessor William Ingram, Wednesday
night. Assessor Ingram estimates that
1000 motor cars are owned by resi-
dents of the county. Failure of motor
car owners TO promptly purchase 1924
licenses for their cars renders the cars
liable to assessment as personal prop
erty. even though they are not oper-
ated on the public highways.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
'|DAH0ED|TORS
in CARAVAN ON
.N.&S.H|GHWAY
emi-Annual Convention of
Newspaper Men to Be Held
in Idaho County in July
Publishers Favor Earliest
Possible Completion of the
Salmon River Canyon Road

Idaho State Editorial association,
membership of which comprises edi-
tors and publishers of daily and week
ly newspapers In Idaho, will meet in
semi-annual session i'm Grangeville, in
July. Decision to hold the summer
convention In Grangeville was reached
at the annual meeting Of the associa-
ton, in Boise, Friday and Saturday
Besides electing to come to Grange
vile, the newspapermen adopted a
resolution asking earliest possible COM
pletion of the North and South high
way. The resolution follows:
Resolved. That this association
go ON record as favoring the COM
pletion OF the North and South
highway as soon as possible, there
by Fastening the day of much
needed closer association between
the citizens of the north and south
Idaho.
Back TO Idaho" Move
Another resolution of vital impor-
lance to the welfare of the state
pledges the members to foster the
Back to Idaho" movement. This
resolution reads:
Resolved, That the members of
this association support and foster
the spirit of optimism now mani
fest in our state and encourage
the Back to Idaho" movement
which is already apparent, by fea-
turing our individual and collec-
tive successes in order that gloom
may be dispelled and the doleful
sound completely silenced.
South Idaho members of the assoc
Iation. in coming to Grangeville, will
travel over the North and South high
way. They will meet in Weiser, and
here form a caravan which will ira
verse, by way of the Salmon river
,anyon, Idaho's scenic wonderland.
Coming from fhe North
In addition to members of the car
ivan from the south, a score or more
" north Idaho newspaper men are
to gather in Grangeville for
he meeting, and in all it is believed
he visitors will number seventy-five
o 100. Following a 2-day session
Iere. members of the association will
nd Moscow. where they will inspect
he state university, and may continue
he trip further into the north.
Dates Of the meeting will be deter
lined later, but the convention will
e held during July.
Many south Idaho newspaper men
ave never visited the north, and they
re enthusiastic over the coming trip
, Grangeville. They are particularly
lterested in seeing the North and
outh highway, about which they have
card much.
The next annual meeting will be
cid In P0catello.
Officers for Year 1924
Officers elected by the association
n the next year are:
President-F. r. Swan, Gooding
eader.
Vice PRESIDENT. G. Safely. Idaho
,unty Free Press, Grangeville.
Secretary treasurer = Guy F1enner
oise.
Executive committee comprises the
regoing officers and Nicholas lift.
,catello Tribune, and Ned Jenness.
ampa Leader-Herald.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
BLIC SCHOOLS ARE
TO OPEN ON MONDAY

rangeville public schools which
} been closed because of an cpl
y of measles, will be permitted
'&ume Monday, DIR. B. Chapman.
ny health officer, announced
rgday.
Pc schools were to have opened
lnesday, following the holiday va
p but because of spread of meas
mong the children, it was deemed
Mble to continue the vacation
days longer.
H situation is considerably re-
ID DIR. Chapman reports. None
ne measles cases has been serious.
I
LICENSED TO WE'D
marriage license was issued Sat
y to Glen Reed and Pearl Pixley,
Of Kooskia.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
BROTHER OF LATE
JUDGE SCALES DIES

Sixteen days after his brother, the
late Judge Wallace N. Scales, died,
J. I. Scales, an attorney, of Green's
boro, N. c., passed away on January
1, according to telegram received
Wednesday by Mrs. Helen Scales,
widow of the late Idaho county jurist.
in Grangeville. Judge Scales died
in Portland. Ore, on December 49,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
LICENSED TO WE'D
SCISSOR COMBS COUNTY FOR
! TAXES ON PERSONAL PROPERTY

= ton of personal property as
by Assessor William Ingram
mo county in 1923 was $685.
9, and not SSS,326.35, as was
q appear through Topographic
etxor in last weeks Free Press.
- an oversight, the first figure.
3 omitted, with the result that
sonal property list was $780,
b isz5 valuation on personal
~, taxes for which was not a
real property. and which
ga TO $4SS,326.35, is compared
valuation on personal property
- 446.71, in 1922.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
This Week
What Labor Would Do
Harding AS Decoration
We're Doing Well
Germany's Small Change
BY Arthur Brisbane

Labor may rule the British empire.
Lloyd George says labor has the right
| to show what 1t can do. 1t won the
recent election. Ramsay Macdonald,
head of the labor party, would be
prime minister. He tells of labor par
ty plans.
First, it would tax wealth, not the
income. That is only child g play
fortune above $4,000. The bigger the
fortune, the bigger the piece taken.
Small fortunes would lose / percent
Of principal, big fortunes so percent.
Two or three men in America would
lose in one lump hundreds of millions
if we had that here. The capital tax
will be taken gradually, to avoid de-
stroying values by forced sales. That
is something for our big men to think
about, prayerfully.
Whether the experiment would work
well no man can say. The nomadic
Tartars, driving cattle with them. cut
pieces off the living animals as they
went along. That was a capital tax
on the animal, but not good for cattle
in the long run.
If labor came to power it would
avoid many things that it now hates.
To run a nation, and keep the compli
Gated machine going, is not easy. 1t
is especially dangerous to interfere pre-
maturely with selfishness, which slim
ulates energy and accomplishment.
30
The Republicans are planning con-
vention decorations for the great pub /
lie hall in Cleveland. American flags. !
with pictures of Washington, Lincoln |
and Harding, are suggested. Things |
happen suddenly. How little President |
imagined a little while ago |
that he would be only decoration for
the 1924 convention.
The president of Germany has his |
salary cut to $500 a year. Ambas-
sadors get $3.50. Guards employed by |
the government railroads get $3.50 a
year, "woe to the vanquished, espe-
cially financial woe.
-
he scheme to fortify Singapore. That IS
The first result probably Of the labor
victory in the last election.
o.
Recent study of cancer shows the
vicious growth within the body to be
| separate existence, stimulated by its
,wn excretions, and growing with the
furious energy of embryonic life.
Cutting out or destroying with
x-rays or radium is the only cure now.
But way may be found to check
growth and bring about cancer de-
'truction by scientific control of
rowth-stimulating substances. Cancer
S to some extent an embryo in the
wrong place, q body within the body.
Germany prints notes for one bill
ion and five billion marks each, M
appropriately decorating them with
histles and thorns. The note for one
'illion, which would have been worth
wo hundred and fifty million dollars
'efore the war, will be used for small
hange."
Miss Muskrat, an Indian girl of the
cherokee tribe, had luncheon with
President Coolidge and his wife at the
White house and talked American COM
non sense "We don't want any gov
looking after us.
We want q chance with other Ameri-
ans. We don't want to be kept in
ur original state Of savagery for tour
SITS and artists to look at, and slushy
and writer's to write
bout
An able young Indian woman is Miss
fuskrat, of Mount Holyoke college.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
JACOB I. KENNY
DIES AT AGE OF
MORE THAN 100

Jacob 1. Henry, aged 100
years, 6 months and Is days,
died recently In the home of his
daughter, Mrs. T. H. Engle, on
the Middle Fork of the Clear
water river, above Kooskia. The
centenarian, who was born in
Pennsylvania, had been an in
valid for eighteen years, and for
most of that time was belfast.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-03
FUNERAL SERVICES
FOR MRS. SPENCER

Funeral services for Mrs. Metha
Emma Spencer were held last Fri
day afternoon at l from the church
at Denver. The Rev. r. X. Martin
officiated The funeral was largely
attended by friends Of Mrs Spencer.
There were numerous beautiful floral
offerings Burial was in the Denver
cemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04

The history of. science abounds in illus
trations of OrthOgenesis. that is, evolution
anticipating selection; in mans resourcetul-
ness, Here is an example, In, the closing
decade of the last century the French were
forced to abandon their enterprise to unite
the Atlantic with the Pacific ocean by cut
across the Isthmus of Panama Orthogenesis
had not yet proceeded to the necessary stage
though, as we now know, the process
started, in this case, in 159O.s For. strange
as it may seem, the success of our engineers,
where the French failed, must be credited
largely to the microscope A Dutch optician,
Zacharias Jansen, toward the end of the six
teenth century, working on his lenses, makes
a happy combination, and the microscope is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
An Unsettled Question

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
In these days Of investigation of all SUBJ
jects it seems that evolution has reached the
greatest spotlight of the public. We find
preachers for and against, lay members of
the churches advocating or against the theory
and plain ignoramouses like myself having
seems that the question is Just as far from
settlement as it was when Darwin fired his
first shot.
Once upon a time there was a great move
ment made against the sale Of whisky and
kindred beverages, aad the increment was
called local option. The saloon element was
against the movement. BY this movement
small sections of the country could vote out
the sale of whisky. The power of the saloons
became a menace to good government Saloon
men were elected as councilmen, to the
mayorship, the legislature and to congress.
The people arose and voted out the sale of
whisky in larger sections. Made bold by
success the prohibitionists began to, vote out
whisky in entire states-state-wid so to
speak. Immediately the whisky element be-
gan to change tactics, They--to a man
became local optionists. They began to be.
lieve in prohibition, but said LET every com
munity decide the question for themselves.
Then came national prohibition. and the old
whiskying because ardent advocates of state
rights, etc.
MY depression from the subject of evolu-
ton was to bring out my position more clear
~. To-day there are multiplied definitions Of
the word evolution. 4 child born Of parents
NATURALLY and growing 70 manhood is said
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04

to eTolute from a helpless babe to a man Of
power A little plant in the vegetable king
dom eyolutes to full-grown plant, etc Years
ago the word evolution had but one meanin-
to the average man or woman, and that
meaning was that mans original ancestor
was an ape. The men of yesterday who OPP
posed the Bible theory of the creation of
man we're both brazen and filled with the
courage of their convictions. They boldly
denied the Bible and claimed that man evo-
luted from an atom of some kind and came
up through different stages until he was an
ape, and then to man, but admitted there
must have been missing link that was lost
in the shuttle. They never could explain
what the atom etoIuted from. Believers, in
the Bible stood their ground and fought the
evolutionist on every part of the ground and
kept the theory of man coming from an ape
out of our public schools.
AS the whisky men changed their tactics
and, became local optionist so as to have
whisky sold in territory largely against pro-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04

authors who never achieved the shining goal
of their dreams, but died as they had lived,
obscure and unknown; and the works of au-
thors who may at some time have created q
ripple on the shoreless sea of literature--of
such as these are chests, trunks and attics
filled to overflowing. What eventually be-
comes of them all nobody seems to know.
What sermon there is in these forlom brain
children, a sermon on hopes unfulfilled, on
ambitions bligKted, on labor performed with
infinite care that was entirely wasted. Be
hind every one of these books is story the
writer did not tell. No book was ever writ
ten without purpose. Here was an author
who was poor, and ambitious, too. II this,
his, masterpiece. won success, he would dress
in purple and fine linen, and ride in a car
riage, his fame secure. If he were. more
modern he may have visioned himself in a
Limousine, the cynosure Of admiring and en-
vious eyes. But his book did not succeed
1t fell still-born from the press and the
author enjoyed neither riches nor fame.
How many. many- times have writers who
would be great toiled over manuscripts that
were to transform lifes baser metal into
gold; that were to revolutionize human
thought found a new creed or right great
wrong and the fruit of their labor, even
.when it reached the light of day in print,
fell utterly and irrevocably flat! Some
books have scared like meteors across the
armament and have been forgotten, but these
form group apart. 1t is the books that
never lived that, to the sympathetic observer,
seem most in need of tear. If it is better
to have loved and lost than never to have
loved at all, how much better it is to have
tasted success, if for only little while, than
never to have succeeded at ALL -.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
WHY PITT IN A NEW MANI

Our public affairs often suffer from our
lamentable custom of frequently voting out
experienced or efficient officials and replacing
them with men untried and inexperienced.
This thought particularly arises in connec-
ton with the office of Alabama's commits
sioner of conservation, which has for the
past two or three years been ably admins
tered by the incumbent, Mr.. 1. T. Quinn.
Mr. Quinn's one opponent for this position
is undoubtedly a good and upright citizen.
He might in time make good executive.
But by the time be became proficient in his
duties and understanding of his responsible
ties, an election might come along and re-
place him with still another. The public
welfare involved in the duties of commits
sioner of conservation for Alabama would
eoFrespondingly suffer.
1T would appear the part of wisdom,
therefore. for the people of Alabama to do
as all good business firms do, and keep in
office one who has come to understand its
functions, and who. to all appearances. is
performing them satisfactorily and conscien-
tiously. A newcomer would not only have
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-04
BOOKS NOBODY READS

The shelves of secondhand book stores,
dusty. atties, closets under stairways, hooks
and crannies of all sorts are stuffed with
the books nobody reads. They are a pathetic
company. Their torn and faded covers speak
eloquently, not of many perusals but of
much neglect They have grown old because
they have been tossed hither and yon, as
useless things, and have eventually come to
rest in the places of refuge they. now occupy,
where they moulder and fall to pieces. if they
are not carted off some day by the junk man
mot to be read, Heavens, no! but to be
ground up and to come forth once more. re-
incarnated in newspaper, perhaps, or some
other piece Of print
But most Of the old books-the works Of