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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
2
The council plans to canvass Tuesday’s bond election which defeated the sewerage plan. They consider refunding bonds without a public vote and review Murray’s amended water franchise offering 100000 in extensions to Mink creek. The proposal pledges enhanced connections and standpipes to improve Pocatello’s water system.
The council resists a new franchise valuing the water plant at 600000 over its 50 year term amid a push to settle matters directly with Mr Murray after Superintendent Winter facilitated talks. Proponents argue the system is vital and worth far more, with potential city purchase rights and ongoing improvements forming the core dispute.
The Pendleton East Oregonian argues thornless cactus could transform stock feed and range in eastern Oregon and adjoining Idaho. If yield drops from 80 to 40 or 30 tons per acre, major changes in intermountain stock raising may follow. Sunflower and rubber plant crops offer additional profitable arid land opportunities. People cling to old crops while new profits lie nearby.
The chessboard of Europe tightens as the Shah of Persia seeks to dissolve parliament and relies on Russian Cossacks to rule. General Liakhoff heads the crackdown while France faces a Tangier loan bid of 600000 dollars secured by government properties in Lebuan Rabat and Safi.
The sultan remains ill and the Turkish state grows more desperate as Russia tightens grip to the north. England France and Germany race to deepen the financial entanglement of the indebted realm. The Mediterranean crisis looms with decisive moves ahead.
A street observer asks a group of boys what they are doing and learns the game is Automobile with roles for driver and passengers. Another boy sits sad, explaining he is the smell, highlighting a humorous contrast in play and imagination.
A colonel in the Philippines stumbles on an officer who trains a monkey to perform the manual of arms. The officer urges secrecy, joking that if the War Department heard, the simian could be made a brigadier general.
A comic anecdote alerts Rash Rogers boasting of a fifty dollar incubator and fifteen dollars in eggs that hatched a bluebottle fly, declared as the only sixty five dollar bluebottle fly. The piece parallels Poultney Bigelow's farm experiences and quotes a light exchange at a suburban train stop.
A concise list notes Frederick Klopstock born 1724 and died 1803, Sir Robert Peel born 1788 died 1850, President James A. Garfield shot in Washington in 1881 with assassin Charles J. Guiteau, Harriet Beecher Stowe died 1896.
Insurance table listing entities Seong oath and Seattle Fire and Marine with assets and surplus figures as of April 1 1908 including Farmers & Merchants of Lincoln Neb and Wey Connell. Figures show 469 042 00 surplus to policy holder 207 552 00 Seattle Fire Marine 346 011 34 Wey conneN cane 298 933 74.
A notice lists PMO 05.63 vices cee ceed 2 500 000.00 CL 2 500 000.00 as surety bond figures attributed to American Surety Company of New York. The entry records bonds totaling two and a half million dollars.
Germania Life Insurance Company of New York established in 1860 reports total assets of 66,983,965.00 with additional figures 38,983,965.00 and 5,062,296.45 listed in the life insurance asset statement.
The sun sets at 7 31 p m rises at 4 29 p m the earth is at aphelion farthest from the sun and the moon is at apogee farthest from the earth all noted for the day.
All union barber shops will stay open Friday evening until 10 oclock and will be closed all day Saturday July 4 by order A E Harris secretary.
Tickets go on sale July 3 and 4 with limited validity through July 6. See agents for rates and further particulars.
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