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GENERAL OFFICES
NEW YOrtK AND CHICAGO
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
A DULCET COUPLET.
The Hon. Franklin Pergramus Kipp
and the Hon. Mrs. Mary Beck aTe a
dulcet couplet but they hardly rhyme.
They are both estimable people and
we would do nothing to grieve them,
nor think anything in discord with
their finer sensibilities. Anything we
may say about Mr. Lewis and his plan
of operation has no relation to either
of these persons, only insofar as they
care to assume relationship. Each
has taken it upon himself to establish
the honesty, integrity and reputation
of Mr. Lewis and may feel a personal
interest.
Common politeness demands that
we give the lady in question first con
sideration. Reduced to simple terms
Mrs. Beck's argument is: "I have
handled subscriptions for the past
year and a half and got my little com
mission every time. Lewis is an hon
est man and his schemes are legiti
mate." Of course, our critic extends
her observations over a great deal
more territory but that is all she
knows or can know about Lewis.
Her observations about the Rural
New Yorker being a back number
and her reasons for its editor going to
Florida once in a while are pure as
sumptions and are entitled to the con
sideration pure assumption usually re
ceives.
For the edification of Mrs. Beck we
might say that in 1873 William Marcy
Tweed, the man who made Tammany
Hall powerful, and one of the most
corrupt politicians America has ever
produced, was tried and found guilty
of graft and corruption. He was sen
tenced to 12 years' imprisonment and
to pay a heavy fine. Now Tweed was
a grafter, but it was never charged
that he defrauded his butcher, grocer
or pFivate secretary. A man who
would defraud the widow out of a few
dollars she has earned selling maga
zines would be a common swindler,
rather than a flourishing grafter. We
do not charge that Mr. Lewis is a
grafter but he might be for all Mrs.
Beck has shown to the contrary.
However, let that be. Mrs. Beck ad
mits she is in the employ of Lewis.
She can hardly be unprejudiced. On
another page will be found an inter
view with Mr. Curtis Haydon, one of
the reliable and responsible attorneys
of Caldwell. Mr. Hayden says Lewi
is a grafter. Which of these persons,
kind reader, do you think is more ca
pable of expressing an intelligent
opinion of Mr. Lewis?
As to the Rural New Yorker, we ;
might say that the paper is reliable
It has been published for over 70
years in New York City. It has
readers throughout the entire United
States. It may be a little old fash
ioned. It is probably not up to date
in the methods of Lewis and his de
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I Idaho Meat Co. \
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votees. But it is reliable and respon
sible. Why don't Mr. Lewis secure
damages from the Rural New Yorker )
for defamation of character? For li
bel?
Now let us pass to the Hon. Frank
lin Pergramus. The Hon. Franklin
has a theory peculiarly his own. He
says common bank wreckers only
leave the depositors 50 per cent, while
one left the depositors only ô'/i per
cent. Hence, Lewis "is a very honor
able man and engaged in a wonderful
system for the uplift of humanity. In
fact, according to Kipp, the "chapter
house if the greatest educational
movement that was ever started."
Now, Kipp is very ingenius. We will
admit that among bank wreckers Lew
is may be a remarkably honest man
The Tribune had not presumed to
classify Lewis with defaulting bank
cashiers and peculating bank officers
It remained for Kipp to put Lewis
where he belongs. If Kipp and oth
ers feel that Lewis is entitled to un
usual credit because he only got away
with 13 per cent we freely grant them
the satisfaction.
In all seriousness, though, neither
of the critics of the Tribune is en
titled to much credit. Mrs. Beck is
employed by Lewis, so she says, and
is undoubtedly blind to his faults. Mr.
Kipp argues that a man 87 per cent
honest is a wonder. The Rural New
Yorker, a reliable newspaper, 70 years
of age and a little behind the times,
makes serious charges against Lewis
It cannot be interested except in ex
posing fraud. Which source do you
prefer to get your information from?
The Tribune would rather believe the
Rural New Yorker, even if we should
fall behind the times. It will be ad
mitted that Judge Hayden is disin
terested and unprejudiced. He says
Lewis is a grafter. Who do you
place your confidence in, Curtis Hay
den or F. P. Kipp?
The Tribune made its first inquiry
solely to learn the facts in the case
Our only object was to let the people
of Caldwell know exactly what they
were up against. We wanted to save
them a few thousand dollars, if it de
veloped that Lewis was not exactly
what he pretended to be. We did our
duty by the people of this community
as we saw that duty. If we have done
Lewis and his associates an injustice
we repair the damage to the best of
our ability. If the people of Caldwell
lose more money through Lewis, it
will be their own fault.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
A meeting of the city council took
place Monday evening. Ordinance
No. 112 was amended to permit the
Oregon Short Line to use Aven street
either day or night for the running of
their trains. ,
The new cemetery plat was sub
mitted for the inspection of the coun
cil, but it was not adopted. It is un
derstood that the cemetery committee
of the Forward Club is not sat
isfied with the plat. The members
of the council and the club committee
have had difficulties of two years
standing regarding the scheme for ir
rigating the cemetery, with the result
that the ladies have had their way
There is approximately from $1,000 to
$1,200 in the hands of the Forward
Club committee. This sum was se
cured by subscription and was to be
used in getting a water system such
as would be satisfactory to the ladies.
This, the council believes, has been
accomplished. A pipe-line has been
laid from the new standpipe to the
cemetery. No one questions but that
there will now be an abundance of
water for irrigating the grounds.
The council now wants the ladies
to turn into the city cemetery fund
the sum raised by popular subscript
ion. This the ladies refuse to do un
til they get a report from a landscape
artist for beautifying the grounds. On
the other hand, the council refuses to
proceed farther with the necessary
pipe to be laid until the above men
tioned fund is available.
McCONNELL PROMOTED.
Adjutant General F. A. McCall
Tuesday announced that Sergeant
Mervin G. McConnell is to be captain,
2nd Inf., with rank from January 1,
1911. He is assigned to Company G.
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SURVEY LINE TO ROSWELL.
Engineer Ed Hedden started out
Wednesday with a crew of nine men
to make surveys for the extension of
the Boise & Interurban line from
Caldwell to Roswell. Mr. Hedden
has spent several days looking for the
feasible routes and has decided upon
the one for the preliminary survey.
«MEt SAYS
GET CASH TOO
HE INSISTS THAT THEY BE AS
SESSED AT FULL AMOUNT
—DISASTER COMING
Experiment Elsewhere Along Same
Line Has Proved Very Injurious—
Hawley Has Gone Wild on Assess
ment and Taxation Problems of the
State.
Caldwell people and business men
and the banks are greatly concerned
in the latest freak reform proposed by
Governor Hawley. The "people gen
erally have come to the conclusion
that the governor is nuts on this ques
tion of taxation and assesments valua
tions. Tuesday morning's Statesman
contained the following:
"Practically no money has been
assessed in the state for many years,
although a large amount is on deposit
jn the banks of the state and is sub
ject to taxation. Thorough inquiry
of the banks and of the taxpayer will
enable you to assess this class of pro
perty equally with others. Tolerate
no evasion on the part of anyone in
the matter. Exercise your power un
der the law to the fullest extent and
call for the assistance of the other of
ficers of the state and county wher.
ever necessary."—Governor Hawley's
instructions to the county assessors,
March 8, 1911.
The latest authentic figuers obtain
able on bank deposits are those fur
nished in the last annual report of the
state bank examiner on the state and
private banks and trust companies,
and the latest reports of the comptrol
1er of the currency on the deposits in
the national banks of the state. The
date of this report is September 1,
1910. From these reports it is seen
that near the close of last year there
were in the banks of the state the fol
lowing deposits of cash:
National banks ..$16,465,000
State banks 16,815,000
Trust companies .. 2,500,000
Private banks .. .. 240,000
Total $36,020,000
It is doubtful if Governor Hawley
and the other members of the state
board of equalization tok account of
what might be the effect of this or
der to assess every dollar of bank de
posits. Where the experiment has
been tried in other states it has re
sulted in the withdrawing of the de
posits and in some cases of transfer
ing them out of the state.
It is asserted that when the popu
lists were in control of certain coun
ties in the north part of Idaho and
undertook to enforce this policy, it
resulted in driving bank deposits from
Idaho to the banks of Spokane.
It might require a drastic "search
and seizure" law for the assessors to
find any material portion of the de
posits after it became definitely es
tablished that they were to be taxed
to the limit.
The total resources of all the state
and private banks and trust compan
ies were less than $30,000,000 when the
bank commissioner filed his last re
port. These are more than half cov
ered by the deposits, and if these are
to be withdrawn, or any large part of
them, suddenly, it will be felt in every
community of the state.
So serious is the outlook that it is
understod that prominent local bank
ers have called upon Governor Haw
'ey within the last day or two to in
duce him to modify his order to the
assessors. If the bankers have made
any concerted move to have the as
sessors modified, they have given no
intimation of their plans to the pub
lic.
Repot of Treasurer of Caldwell Chor
al Society.
Owing to the fact that a number of
the members of the Caldwell Choral
Society have asked that I make a re
port of all receipts and expenditures
of funds received from the recital giv
en on March 6, 1911, and that there
has not been a meeting of the society
.since said recital to which I could
make a report, I take this means of
making the report public.
Receipts.
Bal. on hand Mar. 6 $ 1.15
Total receipts from recital .... 100.50
Total .. ..$101.65
Expenditures
March , cash for opera house $ 20.00
Mar. 10, cash to Central
Lumber Co 1.75
Mar. 10 cash to Caxton Print
ers—programs, etc 23.50
Mar. 14, cash to Buntrock
Trans. Co.—moving piano. 9.50
Mar. 17, cash to Gates Lum
ber Co 90
Mar. 21, cash to F. N. Mor
ris,— bal. on hand 46.00
Total .. ..$101.65
Respectfully submitted,
W. G. BROOKS, Treas.
March 28, 1911.
$2500 to loan on farm security, 8 pei
cent interest. Smith & Scatterday.
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TAXPAYERS TICKET
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For City Clerk and Ex-Officio Police ,
Judge
CORMAC J. SHORB.
For Mayor
WALTER GRIFFITHS
For Treasurer
MARIE MARTIN
For Engineer
EDWARD HEDDEN
For Councilmen First Ward,
Vote for Two
JOHN L. BARDSLEY
JOHN STEUNENBERG
For Mayor
For Treasurer
For City Clerk and Ex-Officio Police
Judge '
For Engineer
For Councilmen Second Ward
Vote for Two.
In the several wards the ballots will be changed. In the first ward there will be
three tickets— Taxpayers, and an Independent ticket and the usual blank. On the Indepen.
dent ticket the name of Frank H. Bowen for Councilman will appear. In the second and
Thiids wards there will be two tickets on the ballot, the 1 ax payers and the blank ballot
In the Second ward the uan.es of the councilmen on the Taxpayers" ticket will be Henry J,
Zeh aud C. Q. Adams. In the Third ward the names of the councilmen on the Taxpayers'
ticket will be Thomas E. Walker and Ernest H. Adam.
The election will be Tuesday, April 4, 1911, and the polls will be
open from 9 o'clock a. m. until 7 o'clock p. m.
March 27,1911. C. J. SHORB, City Clerk.
Which Is Fortunate?
Conversations are fortunately for
gotten as soon as they are over, oth
erwise people would be so mortified
over their inane remarks that they
would seek new friends every day,
fearUn- to meet old ones.
WE SXIX i I J
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WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE-LIST
NO. 0, FOR $4X)0.
100 Eiberta Peach. 1 to 2 feet.
10 Jonathan Apple, 1 to 2 feet, 1 year.
NO. 1, FOR $6.00.
100 Eiberta Peach, 2 to 3 feet, 1 year
from bud,
10 Jonathan Apple, 1 year, 2 to 3 feet
NO. 2, FOR $9.00.
100 Eiberta Peach, 3 to 4 feet, 1st class
10 Jonathan Apple, 1 year, 3 to 4 ft.,
first class.
NO. 3, FOR $5.00.
100 Apple, 1 year, 1 to 2 feet.
10 Grimes Golden 10 Yellow Transp.
10 Gano 30 Jonathan,
30 Winesap, 10 Winter Banana.
NO. 4, FOR $8.00.
100 Apple, 2 to 3 feet, lst-class, 1 yr.
40 Jonathan 20 Winesap
40 Rome Beauty.
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We realize this, and endeavor to supply
a banking service that Is valuable to
our depositors and clients.
Accounts subject to check are Invited
CAPITAL STOCK
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$100.000.00
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C aldwell Commercial B ank
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WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALERS.
I "" wines and Liquors for family and medicinal asettspe ci»' 1 ?
WK SELL BEER AT BREWERY PRICES.
NO. 6, FOR $16.00
100 Cherry, 2 yrs. from bud, 5 to 6 ft I
80 Early Richmond 10 Dyehouse |
10 Montmorency.
NO . 7, FOR $15.00.
5 0 Keif fer Pear. 4 to 6 ft, 1 st-class
50 Eearly Richmond, 2 yr, 4 to 6 ft.
NO. 8, FOR $18.00
200 Apple, 1 yr, select, 3 to 4 ft.
100 Spitzenburg 100 Wint'r Banana |
NO. 9, FOR $15.00.
200 Apple, 2 to 3 ft., lst-class, 1 yr.
100 Winesap 100 Winter Banana j
NO. 10, FOR $27.00.
300 Apple, Select, 3 to 4 feet, 1 year.
Best commercial standard sort!.
100 Jonathan, 100 Winesap |
100 Rçme Beauty.
NO. 5, FOR $10.00
100 Apple, select, 1 yr., 3 to 4 feet.
10 Spitzenburg 20 Winter Banana ]
30 Winesap 30 Jonathan
10 Rome Beauty