OCR Text |
Show Inter-Mountain Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. B. W. Price has a doctor who boasts that lie never has made a wrong diagnosis. Poker hand? Price (Utah) Sun. Doctors are waging a war on h!?h heels. Cut none of them objects to having a patient well heeled.r S.-nt Li'ke Telegram. It is all very well to talk about a flat tax on incomes, but what about a tax on flat incomes? Twin Falls (Idaho) Times. What's the matter this winter? We haven't seen a story about the deer lighting in the streets for months and months. Nampa (Idaho) Free Press. One person, more or less concerned, who is apt to consider the coming inaugural in-augural festivities amply sufficient, no (natter what their nature, is President Wilson. Butte (Mont.) Miner. In good times the movies prosper because everyone hasplenty of money to spend on entertainments, and In bad times they prosper because people peo-ple go to the pictures when they can't find any work to do. Richfield (Urah Reaper. That was a- pretty piece of devotion devo-tion on the part of the wife -who gave a piece of her jawbone to repair her husband's broken leg. Now of it will only be still long enough to knit with the other bone, all will be well. Km-mett Km-mett (Idaho) Examiner. Farmers who have hesitated about signing up to raise beets on account of difficulty in securing labor in the past are now assured there will be plenty of beet field workers available and those who have been holding back on this account are now signing un. Fallon (Nev.) Eagle. J. Ogden Armour says newspapers ought not to print unverified rumors, and to judge from the mere sound of his statement you would guess that Mr. Armour wants the newspapers to print the truth about everything, including the packing business. Idaho Falls (Idaho) Times-Register. The proposed plan of the Nevada legislature to advance the cost of a fishing license from $1 to $2 will not meet with serious objection, provided that the Nevada! fish commission will expend the extra- revenue thus obtained ob-tained in restocking the streams. Gardnerville (Nev.) Record-Courier. Investigations develop the fact that some of the big contractors who robbed the country and the people were Republicans, Re-publicans, some were Democrats, some Episcopalians, some Hard Shell Baptists and some not much of anything. any-thing. It was not a case off creed or politics, but of all-round general cus-sedness cus-sedness of human riature. Brigham City (Utah) Journal. The cry "hard times" was not borne out by facts at the Peterson auction sale Tuesday. There was a good crowd and bidding was lively everything every-thing bringing a good price. Cows selling at unusually good figures, ranging rang-ing from $100 to $147, and other stock In proportion, 75 per cent of the purchases pur-chases being paid for in cash. Parma (Idaho) Review. Other things to be avoided in times like these are the, efforts of impromptu im-promptu statesmanship. That means that one should not draw up a bill for this or that without thinking it over. Often there is much mischief done in such ways. Men and classes of men should not be humored to believe be-lieve that everything they want can lie given them by statute. Goldfield (Nev.) Tribune. A federal prohibition agent of Seattle Se-attle reports that after two years' search a still was found which was underground and could only be ap-p-oached by going through a hollow log, the entrance of which was concealed con-cealed by stumps and briars, says an exchange. Water was piped from a spring to a room 10x14 feet, from which a sewer led to the river. Vir- g'nia City (Nev.) Chronicle. v It is said that the former German kaiser employs more than sixty sen-ants, sen-ants, and is regularly supplied with huge sums of money from the fatherland. father-land. Of course it is a coiiiiiienilnlile endeavor to raise money in the I'nitofl Stales to feed the destitute populating i f Europe, but zes would bo added to the campaign for funds if a little different dif-ferent treatment were accorded the man responsible for their deplorable condition. Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune. An English lecturer says that to in sure wedded bliss a woman should tell her hu'band frequently that he is a very e'ever person, but a good mlinj women. apparently, would rather wreck the marital boat than tell an untruth. Carson City (Nev.) News. And still, we might solve our pei plexing immigration problem by annexing an-nexing all of Europe. It is doubtful if any of the fellows on the othet ide would object except the offlce lold'jrs. Winaemucca (Ner ) Star. |