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THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR Published every evening except Sunday, at Moscow, Idaho. .Proprietors YOST & ORCUTT. P. L. ORCUTT and J. F. YOST.... Editors J. F. YOST Business Manage SUBSCRIPTION RATES; part of the cit^ advance to a date one month from the date of payment.) ) (Delivered by carrier to any Per Month. (Payment ir or more Three Months Six Months... One Year.... By mail (Outside of city and on rural routes) Per Month.. Three Months Six Months.. One Year.... IK 40 2.75 5.00 35c oo 1.75 3.00 Application for entry at Post Office at Moscow, Idaho, for transmission through the mails as second class matter, pending. s delivered every pt Sunday) by carrier in Mos tiie hours of 3:30 and 5:00. The Evening Star-Mirror i evening (exce; , between All complaints of whatsoever nature should be made at the office at once. All copy for advertisements must be i office at 10:00 a. m. of day on which they to appear. the Classified Ad. Rates: One cent a word each insertion, minimum charge 25c. All classified ads. payable in advance. The Daily Star-Mirror carries the United Press Association Service. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1911. IS LATAH COUNTY LAND TOO HIGH? Speaking about the price of Latah county land, we heard a man say the other day that he did not believe in booming it because it was too high now; that it is impossible to make interest on the investment at present prices. We agreed that this is true, if he meant wheat on $100 land. Per haps it is a little high for wheat where the farmer summer fallows one-third of the time. But whenever the Star Mirror has referred to Latah county soil and said that it is too cheap we have had in mind real farming. We have talked of soil when given a real opportunity to produce. In the first place there is no more reason for summer fallowing Latah county land than there is in the merchant lock ing up his store one-third of the time, or the banker calling in his money and refusing to loan it twelve months out of every thirty-six. The fact that most of our fanners still summer fal low is no argument in Us favor. For a quarter of a century Wm. Clyde, one of our successful farmers, has summer fallowed. The past season he planted an eight-acre patch of corn on summer fallow. The results were astonishing. He raised au im mense crop. Others are making the same discovery. Some are produc ing big crops of potatoes, others clov er and alfalfa, while others plant roots and feed cattle and hogs. By scientific intensive farming the good farmer with a small acreage is pro ducing more than his neighbor with the big acreage poorly tilled, and the tendency will now be to farm less land, but farm it better. Where mod ern methods are followed there is no complaint that Latah county real estate is too high. Invariably these intensive farmers have no complaint to make. We know of one man who is netting more than a thousand dol lars a year from a twenty-acre tract, and this Is taking no account of a young commercial orchard that is de veloping at the same time. DeWitt Brothers have this season sold seme $150 worth of tomatoes from less than four acres. They have no complaint about the high price of land. Arnold Lyons, from a crop of clover and tim othy this year produced a yield worth, at time of baling, $56 per acre. G. P. Mix, from his eighteen-acre pear orchard, purchased by him less than three years ago for less than $100 per DON' FORGET THE Special Sale of Box Stationery at the ECONOMICAL PHARMACY WHERE QUALITY COUNTS Dozens of Styles and all high grade paper at. 25c per box THIS WEEK ONLY GROW WITH A GROWING BANK We want the small account and have the facility for handling the large one. Open that account today. We Pay Interest on Time Deposits and Savings Ac counts. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MOSCOW acre, last year netted over $50 per acre, while his net returns this sea son are $2400. We know of others who are making interest on high priced land raising chickens. Others are getting handsome returns from berries. Cabbage and onions are also returning good interest to the produc while commercial orchards er, several times the present prices that our best lands command. The man who complains about the "high price of land" in Latah county pleads ignor ance of facts that ought to produce a blush. Latah soli is, as a matter of fact, rediculousiy cheap, a fact just beginning to be recognized by the out side world. There is going to be a material increase the coming year. There is going to be the biggest de mand in the history of the county. People who have idle funds might well heed these suggestions and bet ter their financial condition. ANOTHER SORT OF PUBLICITY. Coeur d'Alene Press: "The Spokane spirit was prominently displayed at the Taft meeting in that city Saturday evening when the president arose to speak. Several rows of front seats we re vacant in the grand stand while promoters were passing through the crowd below attempting to dispose of them at prices ranging from $2.50 to $5 a seat. The president noticed this "graft" and refused to proceed with his speech until the seats were occu pied, calling attention to the fact that they were vacant and asking that they be filled before he began talking. The president of the chamber of commerce, a 'Spokane institution,' got busy and there were free seats as long as they lasted. The activity of the money changers and grafters in the face of the president was one of the most dis gusting and disgraceful spectacles of fair week and the president could not help showing his displeasure and dis gust at the desperate efforts of the fair management or its agents to grab a few extra dollars by using Taft as a drawing card. Spokane is nothing if net disgusting at times in the display of her grasping greed for gold." There is not one iota of truth in the above. It is one of the meanest and most inexcusable attacks we have ever known any newspaper to be guilty of. It is nothing more nor less than a de liberate slander, for it makes a laud able and commendable thing something bad and disgraceful. It is a distorting of facts until the best intentions are turned into something that would, were it true, be a disgrace to Spokane. The facts in the case are that it is not true. We know, for we were there, a guest of the Chamber of Commerce of Spokane, occupying a seat near the president in the reserved section where the vacant seats mentioned caused the president to ask tha: they be filled by as many of the standing thousands as could be accommodated. Weeks be fore the fair, when it was known that President Taft was to visit Spokane, the Chamber of Commerce sent out several hundred invitations to promi nent people in neighboring cities to at tend the Spokane reception to the president. When it was decided to have the president deliver his address at the fair grounds, the Spokane Cham ber of Commerce promptly paid for two sections of reserved seats imme diately in front of the speaker's stand, and at once sent word to its invited guests that reservations had been made for their convenience and com fort. The Chamber of Commerce had no way of knowing just how many would respond. They had to reserve a seat for every invited guest. When the president arose to speak he called attention to the fact that it was hard at best to talk so that he could be heard by the vast multitude, and sug gested that the two or three rows of vacant seats immediately in front of him be filled. President Coman of the Chamber of Commerce, who was pre siding, asked the people to move for ward, and the seats were filled. At no time ware the seats offered for sale: as a matter of fact, several thousand people were turned away, while thousands of others stood up, the fair management having nothing to do with the seats reserved by the Chamber of Commerce. And there you are. The efforts of the citizens of Spokane to treat people with die respect; to make it possible for invited guests to see and hear Pres ident Taft, are distorted Into a de testable scheme to use the president as a drawing card by the interstate Fair management to finance the fair. MAGNIFICENT PROGRESS IS MADE ON CANAL COLON, Panama, Oct. 18.—Magnif icent is the word which might fittingly describe the progress made on the con struction of the Panama canal. The statement of Colonel George W. Goeth als, chief engineer of the canal, that the canal would be finished in Septem ber, 1913, or'over one year before the date previously announced for its in auguration, was at first received with some hesitation. Now, however, an examination of the colossal work that is being rushed to completion in Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun, and the surprising way the Culebra cut is advanced has convinced the most There is not a word of truth in it. If the Coeur d'Alene Press, as we be lieve it to be, is fair, it will say that it was mistaken. Every paper in the country, and this will Include the Lew iston Tribune, that published the arti cle from the Press, will make apology. No good can come from such an at tack on one of the cleanest and best managed lairs in the United States. While it is gen Wallace Press: erally agreed that to keep the kids of Wallace from smoking cigarettes would be an impossibility, restrictions to be placed upon the sale of "the makin's" that will, it is hoped by the councilmen cause a decrease in the number of cigarettes consumed by are boys of tender years. The matter was brought up in council Monday night by Mr. Nord apparently Wallace quist. Speaking of the growing practice among youngsters, he said that he was filled and hoped that there with disgust, was some way open in the city coun cil to place obstacles in the way of the boys, who seem to have no difli cigarettes. culty Former Mayor Hanson, present, stated that there ordinance which made the selling of tobacco to a boy a misdemeanor, and that it had been the practice of the councils of the past to give instruc tions to the chief of police to warn all dealers against violating the ordi who was was an nance. The matter was discussed at length and taken under advisement, probable that the ordinance revived and amended, placing a heavy fine as the penalty of selling tobacco or wrappers to little boys. It is will be There will be 531 votes in the next electoral college, 48 more than in the last, and 266 will be required to elect the next president. State News. A local option election will be ask ed tor in Ada county, but not until Feburary of next year. That informa tion is contained in a statement issued by W. J. Herwig, state superintendent of the anti-saloon league. The grain shipments from Cam bridge in 1908 were 20,000 bushels; in 1909, 48,000 bushels: 1910, 65,000 bu shels, and this year there has been purchased in the vicinity for shipment from Cambridge 150,000 bushels. Not for the purpose of prosecuting him, but to put him in touch with law yers who held a fortune in trust for him, the Boise police have been asked to locate John Schoolfleld, formerly of St. Louis, and once a resident of Boise. At a recent meeting of the state land board a resolution was unani mously adopted ratifying the agree ment between the state and federal government in relation to the exchange of lands. What is undoubtedly the largest fine ever imposed in Idaho for violation of the local option law will he paid by Henry Schreiber and Earl Haggerty, who will enrich the coffers of Bear Lake county by the payment of ap proximately $3,000. Thirty-four large potatoes, in a single hill, the total weight being twenty-one pounds, is the banner yield so far in Lemhi county. James Hutch inson, living a mile south of Salmon, has affidavits to prove that he dug the above from a single hill. Charles Rowyel, aged 17, lies on a cot in a Boise hospital with a broken back. He sacrificed his future, pos sibly his life, to help a comrade whose fingers were being ground off in a machine at a gravel pit. It is doubtful if young Rowley will live. A Pocatello bootlegger who had been arrested and taken before the city court for a hearing, established a uni que way of destroying the evidence by breaking the bottles which were concealed on his person and allowing the contents to spill cown his trousers legs to the floor. A second dividend of 10 per cent to incredulous that Colonel Goethal's estimate of completion in 1913 will be borne out. The point which seems to offer the greatest difficulties throughout the whole canal is the cut in the Culebra hills and this, not on account of engin eering problems, but because of the many slides occurring from the loose earth. These slides confuse estimates as to the number of cubic yards to be ultimately excavated. The engineers, however, in charge of the work are confident that these difficulties are by no means insuperable and will, in no way, retard the date set for open ing the canal. be paid by the receiver of the defunct State Bank of Commerce, October 15, has been authorized by Judge W. W. Woods of the district court at Wallace. With the previous dividends this will bring the total payment to 25 per cent, or about $113,000. The contract has been let for the construction of the nig dam for the Crane Creek irrigation project, causing great rejoicing at Weiser. The com pletion of the project means that 20, 000 acres more of rich agricultural land, all within easy reach of that town, will be placed under cultiva tion. Try It. "Mary," said a mother to her quick tempered little girl, "you must not get mad and say naughty things. You should always give a soft answer." When her little brother provoked her an hour afterward, Mary clenched her little fists and said: "Mush."—The Watchword. Two Houses For Sale. A six-room house, south of the court house. Also a six-room house on East First street. Enquire at 610 Adams street, of Mrs. T. E. Edmund son. 13tf WAR DECLARED Catarrh Germs Must Be Conquered or Health will he Destroyed. If you have catarrh you must van quish an army of persistent, destruc tive microbes before you can get rid of it. You might as well choose your weapons, declare war and annihilate this army of catarrh germs right now. Stomach dosing won't kill them; neither will sprays or douches. Hyomei, a pleasant, antiseptic, germ destroying air breathed over the entire membrane will put catarrh germs out of business in short order. Hyomei (pronounce it High-o-me) is guaranteed by R. Hodgins to end catarrh, asthma, bronchitis, coughs, colds and croup, or money back. If you own a little Hyomei hard rub ber pocket inhaler you can get a sep arate bottle of Hyomei cents. a complete outfit that only $ 1 . 00 . for only 50 If you haven't an inhaler buy costs 20-22 7 Per Cent Bonds for Sale. $7,500.00 or $15.000.00 worth of First Class Irrigation District bonds, netting 7 per cent and maturing from 10 to 20 years for sale. Approved by the court and best investment you can get. Ad dress Parker V. Lucas, Moscow, Idaho. 7-18c Phone 22J. Tickling in the throat, hoarseness, loss of voice, indicate the need of Bal lard's Horehound Syrup. It eases the lungs, quiets the cough and restores health in the bronchial tubes. Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by the Owl Drug Store, S. L. Willis, Prop. o When you have a bad cold you want the best medicine obtainable so as to cure it with as little delay as possi ble. Here is a druggist's opinion; "I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy for fifteen years,' says Enos Lol lar of Saratoga, Ind., "and consider it the best on the market.' For sale by the Owl Drug Store. O Nursery Agents Wanted We want reliable agents who can sell our high grade fruit trees grown at Kennewick and Spo kane Valley. Expenses Advanced Weekly Free Expert Advice to Fruit Growers, by Prof. Van Holderbeke, for 5 years Washington State Horticulturist. Van Holderbreke Nursery Co. SPOKANE, WASH. 10tf THIS BANK MAKES FARM LOANS On improved places. Parties having funds for investment are espec ially invited to make use of our facilities for car ing for such funds. THE MOSCOW STATE BANK RHEUMATISM Can be Cured at Hot Lake Sanatorium Hot Lake, Oregon NATURAL HOT MINERAL BATHS Hot Lake is not far distant and health restoration is not so expen sive there. 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It is with pleasure that I give a pub lic recommend to Parsian Sage, which I know is a wonder." Mrs. Ella Gil christ, W. Pitt S.t, Bedford, Pa. 19-21 If you have young children you have perhaps noticed that disorders of the stomach are their most common ailment. To correct this you will find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets excellent. They are easy and pleasant to take, and mild and gentle in effect. For sale by the Owl Drug Store. O If the child starts in its sleep, grinds its teeth while sleeping, picks at the nose, has a bad breath, fickle appetite, pale complexion, and dark rings under the eyes; it has worms' and as long as they remain in the in testines, that child will be sickly. White's Cream Vermifuge clears out the worms, strengthens the stomach and bowels and, puts the little one on the road to health and cheerfulness. Price 25c per bottle. Sold by the Owl Drug Store, S. L. Willis, Prop. 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