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THE REPUBLICAN
OFFICIAL PAPER OF MOUNTAIN HOME
MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1909
Number 9
Volume 21
LAND DRAWING
A SUCCESS
Carey Act Opening at Medbury
Tuesday Attended by Good
Sized Crowds. First Five Choices
Go to Mountain Home People.
(Special Correspondence)
November 18—At the open
ing of the famous Medbury
tract Tuesday, November the
16th, thousands of people par
ticipated.
It was a beautiful day and
every train was loaded with
people all bound for the land
where a living can be made from
five acres.
Mountain Home was here en
mass and from all appearances
it was Mountain Home day.
In the drawings for the acreage
tracts the five first choices were
drawn by people Irom the neigh
boring city.
It is plain to be seen that the
former residents from Moun
tain • Home and those from
Glenns Ferry will be the two
rival factions in settling the
new city of Medbury and in the
future it will be these two fac
tions that will be struggling for
the political control of the new
city.
One of the most interesting
incidents of the drawing is the
' fact that out of the acreage
drawings there were fi ty-six
tracts drawn by people who
will make this valley their home
and will at once commence to
improve their property. It is
much better that this be made
their home than for the out
siders to come in and buy up
, the land and hold it for specu
lation purposes.
In the drawing for the Carpy
Act lands Mr. William Hard
wick of Jerome was the succes
ful drawer of number one but
owing to the quantity and the
quality of all the land drawing
number 46 was able to get his
first choice.
People are still coming to
Medbury daily and are getting
choice picks from the acreage
tracts and town lots but when
one is familiar with the valley
this part of it can be very easily
explained for there is very
little land in this segregation
that is not the best iruit land
in the west.
Preference right land is sel
ling fast but there are still a
few bargains to be had in this
line.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that a
meeting of the water users
having a date of priority of
1904 or prior thereto for the
purpose of discussing matter's
of mutual interest, will be held
at the court house in Mountain
Home, Idaho, on the 20th day
of November, 1909, at 7:30
o'clock p. m.
Respectfully,
Daniel McLaughlin,
George P. Hall.
AN ANSWER TO WATERHOLDER
As the article in the last is
sue of the Maverick entitled
"Mountain Home and Irriga
tion" and signed "Waterholder"
was evidently intended as a
shoe made to fit my foot, I take
the shoe and beg leave to an
swer through the columns of
The Republican.
It doesn't matter who "Wat
erholder" is, it is enough to
know that his sympathies and
his support are now with the
Southern Idaho Reclamation
Company, and before the ad
vent of that company he aided
and abetted the Great Western
Beet Sugar Company.
lie asks several questions
which I shall answer. First,
he wishes to know if we have
become so demoralized that we
cannot reason. If by "we" he
means those whom he supports
and sympathises with, I answer
yes! If he refers to the large
number of water right holders
who have been defrauded b
the Great Western Beet Sugar
Company, I answer that reason
and good judgment have
prompted all their actions dur
ing the past year. They made
mistakes when they dealt with
the Great Western Beet Sugar
Co., they profited by their mis
take and do not proposed 1 o hi
trapped again.
Second, Waterholder wishes
to know if we were not assured
of owning this system within
the past year. No, you were
not assured of it. I gave it as
my opinion that the water right
owners were the rightful own
ers of the system. 1 am still of
that opinion, the decision of the
District Court is not final,
the Supreme Court shall sus
tain the District Dourt, I will
then be ready to admitt I was
mistaken. If the District Court
were always right we would
have no use 'for the Supreme
Court. I am sorry you have
reasoned so little, or been so
demoralized in your reasoning
that you have taken the deci
sion of Judge Walters as final.
Third, yes we did spend large
sums of monev to acquire the
property, that money was
squandered, the company failed
to give us what we paid for;
perhaps the Supreme Court
will give it to us. We'll see.
And while we are on this sub
ject. I ask you "Waterholder,"
do you know that last spring
when the Great Western Beet
Sugar Company filed a petition
to become a voluntary insolvent,
that the president of the com
pany by verified complaint
stated that the irrigation sys
tem was worth nothing as an
asset to the company, and stat
ed as a reason therefor "that I
said company has sold water
rights for a much greater quan -1
tity of land than such reser
voirs will furnish water for,and
that said water rights so sold!
are upon an agreement that the j
holders thereof shall receive>
If
I
their water free of charge, oth- i
er than each shall bear his
proportion of the cost of main-1
taining said plant-and cost of
distribution of water, and that j
therefore, there will be no in-;
from said system and
come
that the same has no market i
value?" If you do know this,
"Waterholder" and you know
the company is insolvent, and
has not a cent with which to !
improve or enlarge this system
so those to whom it sold water'
CONDUCTOR KILLED ON
WEST BOUND FREIGHT
Thomas Hughes Has Back Broken and Was
Instantly Killed Last Night at 7:05
CRAZY FINN KILLED YESTERDAY AT NAMPA
FINN SHOT TO DEATH AT GARRETT RANCH IN NAMPA. BOY
PRISONER ESCAPES FROM FINN, WHO ATTEMPTS TO
FOLLOW AND GETS SHOT TO DEATH
Thomas Hughes, conductor I
the local west bound freight
was killed in the losal yards
last night. In some manner in
attempting to couple cars, he
was struck by the Dumpers and
his back was broken, causing
almost instant death. This
happened at 7:05 p. m. His
last words "I'm gone" were ut
tered just as he was struck,
His family reside in Glenrs
Ferry. The verdict of the
coroner's jury was "Accidental
Death while making coupling
discharge of his duty."
rights can get what they paid
for, will you tell me why the
company holds onto this worth-1
less property so tenaciously,and
refuses to allow those who have
bought water rights "for a
much greater quantity of land
than such reservoirs will furn-!
m
ish water for" to take the prop
erty and operate it?
The property is worthless to
the company by its own admis
sion, also it admits its inability
proceed further with the
system, it admits these people
have bought rights far in ex
cess of the capacity of the sys
Why, then, is the com
pany so anxious to keep t he
tern.
(continued on page 2)
THANKSGIVING DAY PROCLAMATION
^ N faith and humility our forefathers set apart a
j day and gave thanks to God for deliverance from In
dians, pestilence, and for bountiful crops in the fall of the
first year of the history of New England.
The custom was adopted by all of the States of the
great American Union, and, like all of our National cus
toms, its observance, with each succeeding National suc
cess, danger or general continued prosperity, has been
more and more deeply imbued with the advances of
Union and its civilization. If each one of us can,aside from
giving praise to our Creator for our own blessings, make
lighter the burdens of others and give them reason for
rejoicing, we are showing in a substantial way the appre
ciation of our own prosperity.
Therefore, I, James H. Brady, Governor of the State
of Idaho, do hereby designate Thursday, November twen
ty-fifth, Thanksgiving Day, and request that the people
refrain from their usual vocations, and, so far as possible,
offer in prayer to God and charity to others their grati
titude for past blessings and hope for a continuance of
His favor.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho.
Done at the Capitol, in Boise, Idaho, this sixteenth day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and of
the United States, the one hundred and thirty third.
[seal]
By the Governor:
Robert Lansdon,
Secretary of State.
our
JAMES H. BRADY.
At 8:30 a. m. Friday (yester
day) morning the Finn, who
shot Night Watchman Flenning
at Nampa Wednesday morning,
was shot to death at the Gar
re tt home on the Coffin ranch
just outside of Nampa. With
one °f the Garrett boys held as
as a hostage in an upper room
the Garrett home, securely
barricaded, the F inn threaten
ed the boys life if his arrest
was attempted. Not until v
ercome by want °f sleep, when
he dozed, did the boy get an
opportunity to escape through
a window, when the man sprang
to follow him. As the half
crazed fellow jumped to the
ground his body was pierced by
a dozen shots from the rescuers
who surrounded the house. He
died before he could be taken
to Caldwell. These are the es
sential facts learned as The
Republican goes to press,
Democracy Worried.
Down Boise-way the Capital
N evrs seems to have laid in a
s t oc k of lightning rods for the
use 0 f receptive candidates for
gu bernational honors, and from
lhe class 0 f "dope" dispensed
we are j e d to inquire the reason
for th j s apparent kindness of
our friends the enemy in select
ing the future standard bearer
of the Republican party.
One paper in the Panhandle
says: "We want a man from
the north." Another one says
"Trot him out." There are sev
eral bore politicians "trotting"
about the state who haven't very
much to say in favor of the
present incumbent, but up to
date they do not seem to have
unearthed a candidate who
doesn't shy.
In the meantime the good
people of the state who, under
the changed order of conditions
are going to have something to
say about who shi ll or shall not
be their candidate, seem to be
going ahead making Idaho the
best place in the world to live,
boosting for their own particu
lar locality, eating three meals
a day and saying nothing.
We opine when they do say
anything it will be to register
their approval of a man who
has had the courage to fill the
position to which he was elected.
It is a pretty bitter pill for the
Democratic press to swallow
and we have not always been
able to say it in the past, but
the Republican party and their
governor in this state can pre
sent to the citizenry of Idaho a
clean slate of platform promis
es. There is not a single pledge
but has been backed up by the
governor, passed by the legis
lature, and enacted into law,
with many other meritorious
laws thrown in for good meas
ure. The governor, so far, has
done just what he told the peo
ple he was going to do—en
deavor to see that the party
pledges were carried out and
give the people the best admin
istration of which he was cap
able, and from present appear
ances he is going to keep up
this performance.
All this calls to mind the re
cent laughable "band wagon"
stunts of Democray's foreiorn
hope in the last campaign,
which leado us to believe that
the Democrats would prefer
some other Republican candi
date than Brady.—Morning
Post.
One of the inmates of the
county hospital, who gave his
name as Ed. Hawthorne, died
last Sunday about midnight.
This individual was sworn on
the county about three weeks
ago. He was sick with typhoid
fever and seemed mildly de
mented. He refused to give
his real name, giving the name
of Ed. Hawthorne and Sacre
mentoas his residence. It is
thought that he was one of the
San Francisco earthquake vic
tims.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
United States Land Office,
j TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that ap
| proved plat of survey of Township
2 North, Range 8 East, Boise Meri
dian, in part, has been received at
this office.
Said plat will he filed at nine
October 30, 1909,
o'clock A. M.,
after wb ch time application for
entry of lands therein can be re
ceived and considered by this of
fice.
Wm. BALDER8TON,
Register.
FRED V. TINKER,
Receiver.
FOUR COUNTIES
VOTED DRV
In Four Counties 2307 More Dry
Votes Were Cast than Wet—
And all Were Triumphantly
Cast for Local Option.
In the four counties of Koot
enai, Lincoln, Twin Falls and
Washington local option elec
tions on Wednesday resulted in
victory for the drys in such
substantial majorities as shown
by the figures at the head of
the column. In the heavy score
of dry against wet the surprises
are to be found in such places
as Weiser, in Washington where
it was feared by the friends of
the drys they were in for a
threshing, and at best if any
thing like an even break was
made it was all that could be
hoped. Weiser shies her castor
into the arena and emerges from
the fray with 118 dry votes to
the good, the county precincts
swelling the total to 417.
A most amazing vote was
that of Gooding, in Lincoln,
where out of a total of 416
votes 338 were dry—or 338 drys
to 78 wets—and the county
gives a total majority of 850
dry vot es, which makes it a pret
ty safe place for strangers as
well as dwellers.
Those who thought Twin
Falls favored an open saloon
town are wiser now. For Twin
Falls city by giving 414 more
dry than wet votes told the
boose peddhrs to get them
hence, while the balance o! that
thriving county swelled the
majority to 900 and emphasized
the admonition. Twin Falls
seems to be maintaining the
reputation of her sponsors--she
does things.
Koetenai's majority for right
and decency is 140. The prin
cipal battle ground here was at
Coeur d' Alene City, where the
"business" interests and brew
eries worked hand in hand, as
formerly was done in Mountain
Home, to retain saloons. This
town went wet by a majority of
303, but this was wiped out in
other precincts, notably at Rath
drum which cast 254 more dry
than w( t votes,giving a total dry
majority of 140.
The record to date for Idaho
reads:
Ten counties dry.
Two counties wet.
Elmore is wet; so is Ada.
Next!
Notice
TO ALL PERSONS HOLD
ING CLAIMS AGAINST
THEGREAT WESTERN BEET
SUGAR COMPANY.
You are hereby notified to
present all claims of whatsoever
nature against above named
corporation identified as water
right contracts, water right
deeds, notes, accounts, etc., to
the receiver of said company
at his office on or before the
15th day of January, 1910, at
Mountain Home, Idaho.
O. E. CANNON, Receiver.
Office, Bailey-Siffert-Garrett
Co. Bldg.