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# "Sg WITH o €V5 If you have $100.00 buy our Treasury Stock We want you interested with us. We pay our dividends quarterly. The best financial autho rities recommend hydro-electric stock. Grangeville Electric Light & Power Co. Æ 4* t'fi: c H* „ wf£ MC>' 't-z* ."Off the Hook'' When your telephone is accidentally left off the hook,*' the operator first answers as she would if you were placing a call. After repeated efforts, receiving no response, she reports your line as out of order." It is then disconnected from the regular switchboard and placed on a special board where it awaits the attention of the repairing forces. All this takes time. It involves tests, reports and generally a trip to the location of the trouble. In the meantime, what happens? Others have been unable to reach you by telephone. Even if the mistake has been discovered and your telephone placed on the hook, service may not be restored until the "troubleman's" final O. K. On a party line all other telephones on the line are deprived of both incoming and outgoing service for the same period of investigation and repair. "Off the hook" is a most common cause of in terruption to telephone service. By the exercise of care in this connection you will protect your service and avoid inconvenience to yourself and others. Y* & CSîSSU % wim m. The Pacific Telephone And Telegraph Company . ! | I , i i ! I | ; STATE HAS THREE TICKETS IN THE FIELD (Continued from page 1) lowing planks : Endorsee, the national and state adirmu .nations. Endorses the emergency -tar . iff law. < . Endorses the ldaluo congress ional delegation. Declares for a reduction of ! taxes. Favors curbing highway con struction. Urges the advancement of just claims of disabled ex-service men before the departments. Endorses the continuation of the state welfare commission and the movement to have the Sweet bill extended a period of five years in case of tubercular and mental ailments. Endorses the Smith-McNary bill and the work of the Idaho reclamation association. Favors the simplification of courses of study in the public schools. Declares for the present divid ed primary law and its authori zation of a state convention and the amendment of the law to make it more effective. Favors l »etter marketing for the farmers. Endorses government supervi sion of both state and national banks and the adoption by con gress of a bank deposit guaran tee law which will utilize the ex | cess profits of federal reserve banks for depositors' losses in bank failures. Favors greater relief to the stock and sheep industries. Favors the enactment of a law whereby the supreme court shall have to direct the work of the district judges of the state and to send judges from their own districts to other districts in order to expedite business. Declares for the passage of a I law providing for the supreme , court sitting in two divisions, with three members of the court and a district judge to l>e called in by the supreme court as other i provisions. i Declares for the abolishment ! of the state constabulary in the interest of economy and because the emergency for its existence having passed it is no longer nec essary. Favors vesting the land lioard with ]»ower to srrant extensions of time to make payments on land contracts, and continuance of the present rental of 5 cent; I»er acre. Progressive Ticket. With delegates from thirty I foui - counties in attendance, the state progressive convention con | veiled in Nampa at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning and nominated the following state ticket: Congress, First district—-Rev. W. W. Deal, Canyon county. Congress, Second district— Dow Dunning, Boise county. Governor — H. F. Samuels. ; Bonner county. Lieutenant Governor—A. B I Lucas, Jerome county. Secretary of State—E. A. Dow Bingham county. State Treasurer—George Pip ; her, Canyon county. Attorney General—A. H. Wilkie, Bonneville county. Superintendent Schools—Miss Etta Brown, Lewis county. Mine Inspector—Ed Schward, ! Ada county. State Auditor—C. C. Blake Bingham county. I Member of the state supreme court— O. E. Hall, Bingham Co. ' The platform adopted calls for public ownership of railroads and control of natural resources. Other principles embodied in the platform included: State wide primary ; the initiative, re ferendum and recall and exemp tion from taxation of the pro ducts of labor and industry ; al>olition of the state constabu j lary and the cabinet form of I state government ; election of meml era of the public utilities commission : a graduated inheri tance and income tax on incomes i of more than $5,000 a year and the bonus bill. The Cynical Hachelor observes that the prlncipul difference between a good talker and a good listener Is that the latter is always a married man. "Marriage Is a tie," quoted the Wise Guy. "So It Is only natural that the sea of matrimony should be disturbed by the tied," snickered the Simple Mug. Muggins—"I missed my usual Sun day morning nap today." Huggins— ; "How did that happen?" Muggins—"I «veut out and played golf Instead of gn I mg to church." BOTH SIDES BLAMED BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE Harding Lays Story of Coal and Rail Strikes Before American People. Washington. D. C.—Prealdent Hard ing laid the «hole story ot the tall and coal strikes before the American ; people with a pledge that, whatever the cost, the government by law will be sustained. Summing up before a Joint session of the senate and bouse his efforts toward Industrial peace, the president asserted that neither employers nor employes could escape responsibility for the present situation uud that no "small minority" would be permitted by "armed lawlessness." "conspiracy." | or "barbarity and butchery" to over- j ride the paramount interests of the public. To strengthen the hand ol the ad ministration in dealing with present and future coal troubles. Mr. Harding asked (or authorization o( a national agency to purchase, sell and distribute coal and for creation of u commission to Inquire into "every phase o( coal production, sale and distribution." No similar request was made for emergency rail legislation, the presi dent asserting that, although the rail road labor board had inadequate au thority. other agencies of the govern ment were armed with statutes to prevent conspiracy against interstate commerce and to insure safety in rail way operation. "It is my purpose," he continued, "to Invoke these laws, civil and crim inal, against all offenders alike." One other legislative enactment, a law to permit the federal government to step in and protect aliens where atate protection fails, was advocated by the chief executive as a result of what he termed the "butchery of hu man beings, wrought in madness," at Herrin. III. Uesptte the protests ol foreign governments whose national suffered In the Herrin mine battle, lie said, federal officials were powerless to take In baud the situation creuted by "the mockery of local inquiry and the failure of justice in Illinois " a RAIL IS LOOSENED AND TRAIN DITCHED Chicago.—Express train No,. :tî». en rode Iron New York to Chicago, was wr. i ked with the h <s of two lives net.r Gary, 1ml Th wn ■ k r> ..Ited from the deliberate removul of "7 spikes from one of the rails. Michigan Central railroad officials announced $1000 reward was oflered for the arrest of those responsible The dead were Kdwurd Coyo, en gineer. Kulamazoo, Mich., and Frank l.ubbs. fireman, Niles, Mich. The train, composed of 23 cars, was plunging along at a speed estimated at more than 30 mites an hour. Sudden ly on a straight stretch of track ubout a mile east of Gary the engine leaped from the rails, plowed over the ties for a hundred feet and then turned a complete somersault, ending in a mass of steaming wreckage at one side of the right-of-way. Eight of the cars fuilowed after the engine FOR SALE—Furnished house can be bought very reasonable. Mrs. L. B. Hale. 33-tf i of ed N. COUNTY SEAT NEWS ITEMS. Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Gore and son have arrived in Grangeville from Fromberg, Mont. Mr. Gore will l>e superintendent ol the public schools here during the ensuing year. Two trustees for the Grange ville Independent School district will he elected at an election in the schoolhouse on September 5. ie The trustees are to Is' chosen for terms of three years to succeed Henry Teicher and J. G. Eimers, whose terms expire. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Gilkeson and daughter, Nadine, in com pany with Mrs. W. B. Richardson and two daughters, who have of been visiting at the Gilkeson home, left Thursday for Spokane from which place Mrs. Richard son and daughters will proceed to their home in Missouri, Body of John N. Rice, former county commissioner and pio neer of Idaho county, is schcdul ed to arrive in Lewiston Friday night from Santa Rose, Cal., where he died July 30. Burial will take place in Lewiston. A. W. Talkington and W. II. Zum walt have gone to Lewiston to attend the funeral. E. W. Rhett, well-known sheep man, of Lucile, was in Grange ville this week. Mr. Rhett re ported having sold his lambs under contract for October 5 de livery to B. B. L inkous of Weiser^ for *9.50 a hunderd weight. Robert Gill, of Whitebird, also has contracted his lambs to Mr. Linkous. John A. Davis and Ellen Wil kins, both of this place, were united in marriage by Probate Judge John E. Byrom* on Mon day afternoon in the presence of a few friends. The contracting parties are both well known in this section where they have re sided for a number of years. On Tuesday of this week Thomas Chandler purchased the City Cafe from Joe Kondo who haR Leen in posession for the past year or more. Mr. Chandler contemplates making several im portant changes in the institu tion and has been prevented from so doing on account of a greatly increased patronage since taking over the business. MOTHER AND SON GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE. By Judge Wallace N. Scales For Contempt of Court—Now Sues For $100,000. Mrs. Mary Dahlquist and her son, Earl II. Poff, l*>th of Culdesac, were found guilty of contempt of court at Grangeville Saturday and were sentenced by Judge Wallace N. Scales, tenth judicial district, to 30 days and 20 days, respectively, in the county jail at Lewiston. They were remanded to the custody of Charles Monroe, deputy sheriff of Nez Perece county, with instructions from the court to take them to Lewis ton and see that they were con fined in jail for the entire period of their sentences. The mother and son wire taken to Grangeville Friday from their home near Culdesac by Deputy Monroe, following their alleged interference with con struction of the north and south highway across their land in the I^apwai highway district. Last July a court order by Judge Scales, was issued to the high way contractors, to build their road through the Dahlquist ranch. Sue For $100,090 Damages. On Monday Mrs. Dahlquist filed suit alleging that when sLite and county officials and highway engineers of the state and county sought to resist her efforts to prevent them from constructing a link of the North ami South highway through her ranch several miles south of Culdesac, they were guilty of a conspiracy against her, Mrs. Mary Dahlquist, who was jailed Saturday for contempt of an in junction of the Nez Perce county district court, filed suit for dam ages of $100,000 against a group of nine defendants. In the complaint Mrs. Dahl quist charges that the defend ants tore down a "hog tight" fence around her farm, trespass ed upon her property, turned her stock loose, seized her stone quarry and injured her fields and crops and that when she re sisted she was arrested on a warrant issued by Judge Wallace N. Scales at Grangeville. which she alleges was void because the law governing such warrants was not complied with in its is suance. She furthermore alleges that she was not given an op portunity to consult counsel and was not allowed to give bail for ^_____________ ___ her appearance in court, but was j n CUs tody from the time of her anest un tH the time for her appearance. she alleges that while the .state law stipulates that'for con tempt of court the penalty shall ie a fine of $500 or imprison tnent for five days, or l»oth, she was sentenced for 30 days. In the commitment papers issued by Judge Wallace N. Scales, it is stated that appraisers estimated the damages done to the Dahl quist place by the construction of the highway to be $206, which was offered her, hut that this offer was refused, and that it had l»een proved that Mrs. Dahl quist had violated an order of the court restraining her from interfering with the construction of the highway, Those cited as defendants are Theo. Mattson and John May her. contrary to law. nard, Culdesac farmers ; Grant Smith company, contractors of the highway: Jud McGuire, su perintendent in charge: William P. Hughes, J. F. Dunbald, Elsie Dunbald, Everett Harris and D. L. Ba relay. She also charges that Judge Wallace N. Scales and George Welker, sheriff of Nez Perce eounty, were influenc ed to press the action against