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LINCOLN COUNTY TIMES L. T. Alexander, Publisher IDAHO JEROME IDAHO STATE NEWS The Democrats made a clean sweep in the city election. In Pocatello, electing the council and all the city officers. H. O. Harkness, one of the most widely known citizens and early set tlers of Idaho, died at his residence in McCammon April 5. The district known as "southern Idaho" alone is larger than the state I of Indiana and contains more Irriga ble land than any other state in the j The record at the Boise baggage of- | flee of the O. S, L. shows an increase of 1.094 pieces of baggage handled during the month of March, 1911, over that of March. 1910. Two cars loaded with fruit trees country. from Utah were received In Payette last week. There were more than | 102.000 trees mostly apple and , prunes, in the shipment. In the most hotly contested election in the history of Preston in which i m me nisiorj oi nt.iuu. iu >*"*•** the largest number of votes ever palled were cast, the entire Republl -in ticket was elected in the majority can ticket was elected. major. . of cases by but a narrow margin. Karl Dateman, a resident of Boise, was stabbed in the side and wrist by William Austin, after Austin had been ejected from Dateman's home, which he entered while in an intoxicated condition. Dateman is In a serious condition. B. Wakefield is in a precarious con dition from the effects of having been knocked out in the sixth round of his fight at Hailey by Carl Anne of Phila delphia. He was unconscious for two hours and little hope is entertained for his recovery. New maps of the state, showing the newly created counties, towns, rivers, railroads and proposed railroads and Irrigation canals of the tsate. are be ing prepared by State Immigration Commissioner Rich. They will be in the form of folders. The office of the register and re ceiver of the federal land office at Boise are busy places these days with land applicants and it is said that before in the history of the of never flee has there been such a rush for land as there is at the present time. Had the Whitcomb temperance bill half of Idaho, now become a law "wet," would immediately have be come "dry." for the measure provided that liquor or Intoxicating beverages of any kind could not be sold outside of incorporated towns, villages and cities. As rapidly as possible the Northern railroad Is completing plans Idaho for the construction of the extension up the river, says an Emmett corre spondent The first five miles ot con struction is comparatively easy. The remaining six miles to Marsh is more difficult. If the advice ot the state game war den is followed out to a conclusion there win he various committees of sportsmen organized about the state for the purpose of informing the de partment whenever there is a short age of fish or an infraction of the game laws. stock Manuel Silva, a ranchman, and owner of a butcher shop at man Shoshone, was found guilty of "boot legging" In the district court of Lin coln county after a trial consuming three days. He was sentenced to five months In the county jail and to pay a fine of $500. the proposed Owinza cut-off have been made and sent east, and it is now up to the eastern officials of the Harriman sys tem to say when construction on the cut-off shall contenance, according to E. C. Manson, the general superin tendent of the Short Line. The conditions for successful Irri gation in southern Idaho on a large scale are such that the United States reclamation service is developing in The surveys for the Boise-Nampa-Payette project, one of the largest systems of reclamation ever undertaken. This project when completed is to cost some $11,000,000. The Shawhan annexation bill, which would have permitted the improve ment of property near a city, but held for speculation, was vetoed by the governor on the grounds that In the opinion of the governor It was a measure designed to benefit a few cities and work an injury on the many. Anjel Uruchua, a Basque sheep herder, brought to a Boise hospital from near Vale, Ore., suffering from numerous cuts and bruises about the head. Is dead. It is believed the man was beaten by an enemy, his head be ing a mass of wounds. The Aberdeen-Springfield Irrigation tract, formerly known as the Ameri can Faljs tract, is to have a state ex periment farm and station. Forty acres of land adjoining the townsile has been donated for that purpose by a public-spirited citizen. George M. Payne, pioneer resident of Mountain Home and a newspaper man known all over the west, Is dead at the age of 77. Mr. Payne journey ed from Vlrgianla to California In 1852, and began publishing a news paper in Mbuntain Home In 1887. Tim Gardner, tried at Caldwell on the charge of Insanity has been dis charged from custody. Because ol the fact that Tim has had the habit of climbing around on the roof of the house with a lantern at all hours of the night he was thought to Ije In sane. I FOR PUBLIC CONTROL VAIL FOR REGULATION AS WELL AS PUBLICITY. SAYS BOTH HERE TO STAY Frank Recognition of Public Rights I by the President of Western Union and Telephone Companies. Public regulation of public service corporations bas come to stay. ought to have come and It ought to Btay That is the flat and unequivocal assertion of Theodore N. Vail, presi dent of both the American Telephone and Telegraph company and the Western Union Telegraph company. it came In the form of his annual re port to the seventy thousand »lock-. holders of the two great corporations » Although Mr. \all s advocacy publicity In connection with the affairs of such concerns was well under stood nobody In financial circles had anticipated so frank an avowal of full public right* In the shaping of their general conduct. It came cons© k quently as a surprise, not only be cause of Us novelty and squareness hut also on account of the unqualified acqulescence Qf r board of dlrectorg comprising such eminent and conserv ««w financiers as Robert Winson of £ «er, Peabody & Co and Henry L. Htgginson of Boston, Henry P. Davi son of J. P. Morgan & Co.: Senator W. Murray Crane, George F. Baer, T. Jefferson Coolldge Jr.. Norman W. Harris. John I. Waterbury and others. President Vail's declaration is her aided as the first recognition by those in high corporate authority of the jus tice of the demand that the public be regarded as virtual partners In all matters that pertain to the common ■welfare. He goes directly -to the point. "Public control or regulation of public service corporations by perma nent commissions." he says, "has come and come to stay. Control, or regulation, to be effective means pub licity; It means semi-public discus sion and consideration before action; It means everything which Is the op posite of and Inconsistent with effec tive competition. Competition—ag gressive. effective competition—means strife. Industrial warfare; it means contention; It oftentimes means tak ing advantage of or resorting to any means that the conscience of the con testants or the degree of the enforce ment of the laws will permit. "Aggressive competition means duplication of plant and Investment, The ultimate object of such competi tlon Is the possession of the field wholly or partially; therefore means either ultimate combination on such basis and with such prices as will cover past losses, or It means loss of return on Investment, and eventual loss of capital. However It results, all costs of aggressive, un controlled competition are eventually home, directly or Indirectly, by the public. Competition which Is not ag gressive. presupposes co-operative ac tion. understandings. agreements, which result In general uniformity or harmony of action, which. In fact, is not competition but Is combination, unstable, but for the time effective. It j When thoroughly understood it will be found that "control" will give more of the benefits and public ad vantages, which are expected to be obtained through such ownership, and will obtain them without the public burden of either the public office holder or public debt or operating deficit. "When through a wise and Judi cious state control and regulation all the advantages without any of the disadvantages of state ownership are secured, state ownership Is doomed." "If Mr. Vail Is right," says Harper's Weekly, In a concise summing-up, "then it seems pretty plain that we are entered upon a new era In both economics and politics. And it Is high time we did If evolution is to sup plant revolution as an efficient force In the development of civilization." Unreliable Physiognomy. I am a profound disbeliever in phys* lognomy. Features are false wit nesses. Stupidity frequently wears a mask of intelligence. I know busi ness men who look like poets and poets who look like business men Men of genius invariably look like Idiots, and if yon pick out the man who looks most eminent in a party you are sure to find he is a nobody. I always distrust men who look mag nificent. Nature is a stingy creature She seldom gives a man the double gift of being great and looking great She took care to lame Byron and d© form Pope and disfigure Johnson. But the crowning example of her jealous parsimony is Shakespeare. I have al ways been disappointed with Shakes peare's face. It does not live up to hls poetry. It Is dull, heavy and com monplace.—Adventures in London. Vegetable Fancy Work. Little Mrs. Bride had almost every thing to learn about housekeeping, but she was so enthusiastic In her interest that every one was glad to help her. "I have some particularly fine as paragus," the marketman told her one day. and he displayed a bunch for her admiration. "Picked not three hours ago," he added. Mrs. Bride looked at It with unaf fected amazement. "Does it grow like that?" she asked. T always supposed the cook braided the ends of 1L"—Youth's Companion. INSURGENT BAND ANNIHILATED Eighty Insurrectos Under Leadership of American Attack Five Hundred Mexican Regulars Near Mexicali. Mexicali, Mexico.—General Stanley Williams hurled his little battalion of rebels against Colonel Miguel Mayot's 500 Mexican regulars on the mesa five miles south of Mexicali on Satur day. Eighty Insurrectos went into the tight; twenty returned from the bat tletield. Williams himself was fatally wound- i ed. being carried Into the custom I house here with his head torn by a fragment from an exploding shell, j where he died Sunday. With a half dozen fugitives or his I fleeing command he was overtaken by i the m ' - R federa i 8 i, e |j tbat lit t q( them Bnd sent up a Keyser of flamo | and 8moke nnd fragraents of human boaIes HU wagon trains were cap . tureJ w h near , of the 8torea and „ ^ whlch he took , n hi3 rald on American ranchers g straggltng into Mexican . fédérais took no nrls ^ {£^2 k iû2 by Lie ' fire of the federal rifles, machine guns artillery were It is believed , * 1 " ' reUtiasly with bayonets siaugnterea mercilessly with ba>onets iu the hands of federal soldlrs. Curtiss Sails on Great Sale Lake. Salt Lake City.—Ten thousand per sons on Saturday witnessed Glenn H. Curtiss make a wonderful demonstra tlon of his new hydroaeroplane on the waters of the Great Salt Lake. This ts the first public demonstration ever made of the hydro-plan© and it was In every way successful. The com bination air and water craft sailed about on the lake for ten or fifteen minutes and then rose prettily to an altitude of several hundred feet. It Derrick Crashes Through Building maneuvered in the air for a time and then settled prettily on Jthe water again. This was repeated several times. New York.—Tons of steel, compris ing the huge derrick being used twen ty-four stories above the heart of the financial district for the construction at crashed af the Bankers' Trust building. Wall and Nassau streets, through the seven top floors of the j i i building on Saturday until the derrick rested upon the huge steel girders below. Two workmen were probably fatally injured, while litany had nar row escapes from death. Preferred Suicide to Starvation. Boise, Ida.—Rather than face star vation and following an unsuccessful j attempt to melt snow w.ith which to cook the buckskin gloves h© wore* for the purpose of eating them and In this manner satisfy his craving hun ger, James Rosa. lost in the woods last winter in the wilds of eastern Idaho in Fremont county, whose body was found Friday. Is believed to have committed suicide. No Place for Lazy Husbands. Sacramento, Cal.—Lazy husbands will find California a hard place to ply their vocations as a result of the sign ing of a bill by Governor Johnson. The bill provides that in case of con viction of a husband for failure to provide he shall be put to work on the county roads or other public work, and the county shall pay $1.50 a day to the wife and babii-s for each day the non-provider works. Christiansen Escapes Prosecution. Salt Lake Clty.-*-In the Third dis trict <*>urt on Friday, Judge Thomas D. Lewis made an order dismissing the charge against James Christian sen, former state treasurer, who was accused of embezzling $70,628.94 from the state funds entrusted to hls care during hls term in that office. The alleged embezzlement was effected during 1908 and 1909. Feud Results in Shooting. Oskabxwa. Kan.— R. M. Payne, sec rotary of the Kansas Thresherman's association, and widely known In Kan sas, on Saturday shot and seriously wounded William Pottorf. a farmer, near here, the shooting the result of an old ftsud. The authorities declare Hard Luck for Wall Street. Now York.—Loud cries of hard times are going up from Wall str«Æt. Bus in oh« has not been so dull In years as It is now. Tho outside public will not speculate and Wall street with out lambs is a poor place for plck Ingtf so far as the proff*»slonal8 are «soncemed. Political Boss Now Bible Teacher. San Francisco.—Abraham Ruef who, since hls Incarceration In San Quen tin, has adopted the tone of an optim ist and the methods of a philanthrop ist, has turned himself to uplifting hls cellmates and raising them to a higher plane by instructing them nightly In the Bible Minnesota Loses Rate Case. St. Paul, Minn.—Judge Walter H. Sanborn, In tho United States circuit court in an opinion handed down Sat urday decided the Minnesota rate cases against the members of th«« Min nesota state railway commission. Truskett Must Serve Sentence. Independence, Kan.—A motion for a new trial made by A. A. Tru ;kett, convicted March 20 of killing J. D. 8. Neely, the wealthy oil man of Lima. O.. at Canev, Kan., on January 7 las», was overruled Saturday. : LIFE'S DISAPPOINTMENTS Wsf •• ! m : ' \ ' j ■ r >1 t V \ ' « / ' • / i ■ ■Vi **— »■ ' i * — mi ( ■ '1 'Ä H ■ \ ! m i/r Uli > i . É «K - fi] »/ iy ■Hi V p /; * (S®AttaQS/VlfQ®KI >%rava <cu owim® ri (Copyright. 18U.» FIFTY PERISH IN MINE FIRE Imprisoned in Tunnel, Escape Being Completely Blockaded by Fire, Smoke and the Generated Gases. Scranton, Pa.—Without a moment's warning, fifty men and boys are be leved to have perished in a mine fire n the Pancoast colliery at Throop, three mile's from here, on Friday, Some estimates place the number at »ixty. Three bodies have been recov «red. John Kvans, head of the United States rescue car. died at 9 o'clock Friday night. A defective rescue hel met caused him to suffocate. A majority of the missing men and ooys are foreigners, but two Ameri •ans. Foreman Walter Knight and Fire Boss Alfred Dawe. are thought u the opening of a slope letfding from he Diamond vein 750 feet from the surface. There were 400 men In the mine, about sixty of them being at work in a "blind" tunnel at the end if the slope. Kscape was completely blocked by fire, smoke and the gen erated gases The other men. scat tered in different workings, got out by various exits. .o have perished. The fire started in an engine house TUNNEL BILL PASSED BY HOUSE. Denver, Colo —The house, by a vote of thirty-five ayes to thirty nays, on. Friday passed the Moffat tunnel MU. The measure now goes to the senate for action The hill authorizes the state to Is sue bonds to the amount of J 4 . 000.000 to be used In the construction of a tunnel through the Rocky Mountain range at James peak. The tunnel will be used by the Mof fat road, which is required to put up a Authorizes Four Million Dollar Bond Issue for Construction of Tunnel Through Rocky Mountain Range. bond guaranteeing the state against loss. A commission of five, consisting of the governor, state treasurer and attorney general and two others to be named by them. Is provided for, to have charge of the arrangements for building the tunnel. The provision most sharply fought was that In which the road guaran tees to build either to Halt Lak<* City Dotsero. a point on the Denver & Rio Grande. This latter provision. It contended, meant that the road to Salt or was would never be «^instructed Ijuke City, but would be built to D«A aero and form part of the Denver * Rio Grande system. Will Ostracise Powers. Washington.—Representative Caleb Kentucky. Republican, Powers of whose Dermxn-atlc colleagues have an nounced that they will not serve with him on any committee of the house, left for Kentucky on Friday to l«H>k The plan of after his homo lnt«;r©Hts. the Democrats to ostracise Mr. Powers, If successful, will prevent the Ken tuckian from serving on any of the Important committees of particular In terest to hls constituents. Relic of Civil War. Atlanta, Oa.—The historic old loco motive "Tftxas." which did valiant service for the confederacy during civil war. will be preserved In a spe cially construct building In this city, according to resolutions adopted Fri day by the city council. Negro Lynched In Georgia. Lawr«;ncevillo, Ga.—Frlilay night a mob ot 200 masked m«Yn stormed tho jail here, simured a negro, Charles Hale, charged with assaulting Mrs. G. C. Williams, hanged him to a tree and riddled his body with bullets. Steamer Crushed by Ice. North Sydney, C. B.—Caught In the field of drifting Ice In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the steamer Harlaw was crushed to pieces Friday. The 130 men on board escaped over the Ice jam to St. Paul's Island. Mrs. Brooks Acquitted. Fort Worth, Texas.—Mrs. T. M. Brooks, who has been on trial here fot a week, charged with the murder of Mrs. Mary Binford on Janaury 16, was on Friday declared not guilty by the jury. 1 j BRAGGED TO DEATH I BRIDE OF FEW WEEKS BRUTAL LY MURDERED BY COWBOY HUSBAND IN MONTANA. Drlven Insane by Marital Troubles, Westerner Runs Amuck, Kills Four People and Then Ends His Own Life. Hillings. Mont.—Driven temporarily insane by marital troubles, and suf fering from an Injury resulting from ! a fall with hls horse early In the, winter. Cliff Roots, a cowboy freighter residing about forty miles | I nnd north of here, on Thursday ran amuck , with a rope and six-shooter and, after killing hls young bride of a weeks, her brother, Andy Uehder, hls own stejison. James Bridges, and hls wife's sister, Mrs W. 8. Thompson, committed suicide. few stones 1 the ' J wa * Mounting hls horse. Roots threw a rope around hls wife's neck and drag ged her at a gallop over hls ram% until the back of her head had been s crushed by striking against and other objects. Ho dragged body back to the ranch bouse and left it In the stable, where it The immediate cause for the act will never l>e know n Rehder was playing cards with a , friend when Roots rode up and. look -1 |ing through the keyhole iin-d three *ho»a through the door killing Reh der Instantly and tearing one of hi*! companion's ears off Roots then went to , he <>f Jamwl , Ir ,dgre, *on of hin flr«t wife, and shot him h, death without warning Prom there h© rode to the ranch of Mrs. W. 8 I Thompson, widowed sister of hls first wifw and a ( Jot h ,, r d,. a <l Returning to hls own ranch. Roots went Into a i flHd and blpw out h|g l)ra|nl) by officers. ; Church Apostle Stricken. Salt I,ake City.—Stricken suddenly with a severe hemorrhage of the left lung. President John Henry Smith was In a serious rendition for several - hours Thursday morning at hls home i ; I I suffering and the hiss of blood Pres- [ Ident Smith was Wt In a weak con- 1 dltlon. It will be several days be fore he will be able to leave hls bed. Dr. H. Z. Lund was called and by j heroic treatment he checked the hem orrhage. On account of the extrem« 1 Russian Council Rebukes Czar. 8t. Petersburg.—The council «.f the empire met In solemn session on nc- ; Mon of the government In prornulgtu Ing the zemetvo bill by Imperial pr«v Western Statesmen Indorse Suffrage ! . «>nn. Meseages from Governor Carey of Wyoming, former Govcrn«»r James H. Brady of Idaho and Governor Jr>hn F. Sbafroth of Colorado. Indorsing woman suffrage as beneficial to the stale and In the Thursday nnd for the first time In its history adopted an Interpellation attacking the government. The v«»te 1 was 98 to 52 and follow«*«! n discus sion devoted to criticism of the rogative during an artificially created recess of the legislative body. Hart.f«»rd, Inlerest of good government, were read on Thursday at the bearing be fore the legislativ«! conunlttoe woman suffrage. on Coloradoan Freed From Mexican Jail Mexico City, Mexico.—J. H Farrell, rjrmerly of Florence, Colo., who was sentenced to Jail three inontiis ago for lending a revolver to a man who killed a Mexican In a mining camp In Zacatecas, was rel«*ase«l Thursday by order of the supremo court. Bill to Prevent Deadlocks. Washington.—A bill providing for the election of United Slates sena tors by a plurality vote of stale leg islatures was Introduced In the senate on Thursday by Senator Root of New York. ' Underground Waters of Utah. Washington,—The chief of the ge ological survey has granted the re quest of Representative Howell and will send an expert to investigate the underground waters of northern Utah, with a view to their use for Irrigation. UR8ES RECIPROCIÏÏ PRESIDENT TAFT ANXIOUS FOR RATIFICATION OF AGREE MENT WITH CANADA In Special Message to Congress the Chief Executive Makes Plea for Speedy Settlement of Question of Great Interest to Americans. Washington. — President Taft Wednesday transmitted to Congress a message urging early action on the reciprocity agreement with Canada. He stated that he bused this on In doferenc© to popular »enttment and duty to th© groat maiwo8 of the* Amer ican people. The message follows: "To the Senate and House of Rep resentatives—1 transmitted to the Six. try-first congress on January 26 last the text of the recoproclty trade agreement which had been negotiated under my direction by the secretary of state with the representatives of tile Dominion of Canada. "This agreement was the consum mation of earnest effort, extending over a period of nearly a year, on the part of both government» to effect a trade arrangement which, supplement ing. as it did, the umlublu seulement of various questions of a diplomatic and political character that had been reached, would mutually promote com merce and would strengthen the friendly relations now existing "Thu agreement in its Intent and in the terms was purely economic and commercial. While the general sub ject was under discussion by the com missioners I felt assured that the sen tintent of the i>eople of Ute Unlt'-d States was such that they would wel 1111110 " ot ,he boundary line, would ojs-n up the reserve productive resources ol measure which would n-sult In the Increase of trade on both side* Canada to the great m iss of our own consumers on advantageous condi tions, and at the same time offer a broader outlet for the excess product* of our (arms and many of our Indus tries. "Details regarding a negotiation ol this Kind necessarily could not bo made public while the conference* When, however, the , * le aKteement, accompany lnt * corres ponde nee and data explain Ing both its purpose and II» scope. became know n to the people through the message transmitted to con gros». p was immediately apparent that the wnr * pending, ripened fruits of the careful labors o( the commissioners met with wide spread approval. This approval has »'••* n strengthened by further ■ '' ratlon n1 •»"» terms of the agreement 1 " Ml thrlr , ^ appreciated and Is r Jponsi .• U> tic popular will the Sixty-first congress, after the full 't* 1 * ot tho arrangements with alt the vU,on * a * were before the American people » b ' ,, f| «"*" r ""?« ,b '' m ' nt "* ***<"'*** " ,r " n " rnlt The volutin "The house of representative* of ili-talls In regard to the different pro congress. "This measure failed of notion la the senate. In my transmitting mes *oge of the 26lh of January I fully forth the character of agreement an<1 emphasized its nopronrlatene * und necessity of a response to the mu tu nI needs of the people of tie- two countries as well ns Its common ad vantages. I now lay that message and ,j,,, recoproclty trade agreement a* part of the present message before the Slxtv-seecmd congress nnd ngvln Invite «tarnest altC-n-Mon to the con»ld eraMons therein ext-ir-vc-d "I am constrained In deference tc «entlmenl and with a reallz Ing »en*e of my dutv to the gr< i «ii mass of our people, whose welfar«- l* Involved, to urg«> on your «vmoldera tion early action on this agreement "In concluding the negotiations the representatives of the two countries bound themselves to u"« their utmost effort» I«» bring about th«> changes provided for In the agreement by concurrent legislation at Washing ton and Ottawa. "I hav«- felt it mv dutv therefore not to "«'nu'esee In relegation of a-' ll«>n until the «»tu ning of the eongres« ) n December hut to use mv const I m tlonal Sixty second e*-ngre u s In extra w-«i» , l«'n in order that there shall he no break of continuity In considering nnd act Ing upon this mH Imoorren* subject (Signed 1 "WILLIAM IT. TAFT. tariff Mu' prerogative nnd convnk«* "The While House. April B, 1911 New Rule* Adopted. Washington.— The members of Ihr house adopted the new rules on Wed nesdny that have l»«*en handed down by many »»ngr«*»»« 1 ». Tit«» Democrat» 'daim their greatest reform Is taking from the si»*aker hls jtower to appoint committees and lo «l«*slgnato chairman of each committee, new rules provide for tho election <»l committees and their chairmen. lb« Th Progressives Given Recognition. Progressiv« 1 Republl Washington, ran srnators were given good repre ■tentation on the steering rrtnimllle* and tho committee on commit!te«'» which were appointed on Wednesday by Senator Cullom. Negro Soldiers Not Wsnted. Eagle Pass, Texas.—At a meeting hero protest was against the aendlng of Ute Ninth rt'gl men! of cavalry (negroes) from th* maneuver camp* at Fort Sant Honst'T to relieve the Third cavalry now Imre mas* entered