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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1899
Page
4
The Journal Publishing Company issues weekly editions every Friday in Snoahona, Lincoln County Idaho, delivering local news and notices to residents and businesses.
Official directory listing United States Senators George L. Shoup Henry Hertfeld Governor Frank Lane Llout Gov Joseph I Hutchinson Secretary of State Mart Patrie Treasurer LC Rice Auditor Bartlet Sinclair Atty General H Hays Supt Pormesl French Supreme Judges d W Huston J x Sullivans R P Quarles Congressman Edgar Wilson.
Lincoln County outlines its roster including assesor L Jones, district clerk Frank Gwin, probate judge A S McMahon, school superintendent C L Eveleth, treasurer Leah M Burnside, coroner Dr. W H Baugh, surveyor J W Waldron, commissioners 1st C Hansen and 2nd D B Bliss and 3rd PM Niles, precinct officer W J Smith, justices T I McMahon and Charles Burgess, and constable.
Readers urged to honor returning volunteers with civic fervor as they faced death and disease abroad. The piece condemns a hostile editorial tone, recalls treasury gold figures, and attacks journalists from the Independent for insults toward Idaho and democratic prosperity debates.
A sustained argument urges vigorous advertising to sell stock and highlights the growth of electric and telephone industries since 1880. It calls for interior expansion, storage reservoirs, and reaffirms Protection as the path to prosperity, citing William R Grace’s admission of Protection's merits over Free Trade.
A ill wolf asks Ian Idaho sheep to nurse him but the sheep, peering through a wire corral, rebukes the offer. He says under democracy he might have helped, but under the republican administration a sheep is now too valuable to risk life for a wolf. The sheep refuses to nurse the wolf.
The Great Northern chief James J. Hill told a Chicago Inter Ocean reporter that idle men in the United States choose to be idle. He cited job openings from $1.25 to $2 and $40 daily in the Northwest and urged young men to seek work, live prudently, and show enterprise. He said labor shortages exist for trusted roles like foreman and superintendent, and that help for capable workers is available if they pursue it. Hill is described as relentlessly industrious and influential with his staff.
Aug 18 notes several visitors including Martin Johnston of Wapi and James Nevin of American Falls. A work train repaired gravel walks for a new passenger line. Sears family from Albion begins an overland trip to Salmon City. Sweetser Burroughs Mining Co. received machinery and two large boilers. Residents from Indiana and South Dakota survey mining prospects. Hf. Burroughs of Pocatello and W. Sparks of American Falls with families settle in a new river houseboat.
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