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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06
Italy Declares War.

A London dispatch September 2s
announced that Italy had declared
war against Turkey, ignoring the
Turkish conciliatory request for de.
lay. The Turkish representatives 10
Italy were handed their passports
The Italian forces immediatel,
occupied Tripoli and Benghazi, the
Turks Offering little or no resistance.
Turkey has asked the powers t.
intervene.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06
TO SHOOT AT BOISE

| AAA OVAOA
National Guard Teams to Assem-.
Bile October 9.
Orders have been issued by the
Adiutant General for the National
Guard Competitive shoot which i.
to be held at Boise barracks, mex,
week. beginning Monday, Oct. O.
Iwenty-seven enlisted men, three
from each of the nine companies
OF the and Infantry. who partici.
pated in the three encampments
this year, will compete for the
various prizes offered.
AdJutant General Mccall an
nounces that team firing will be
held at the 200, 900, 500 and 300.
yard ranges. while the contestants
Tor supremacy in the matches for
individuals will fire over the 600
and Iooo-yard ranges, oo-yard
rapid fire and skirmish run. At
each range the rifiemen will be
allowed to fire five shots for sight
ing purposes and two scores Of the
same number of shots for record.
In case of tie at any range, the
shooters who have tied will be
allowed to fire as many additional
scores at this range as may be nee
essary to determine the winner.
All firing and scoring will be con-
Quoted in accord with strict mill.
tary regulations.
The list OF prizes and medals to
be awarded for the winners in the
big match is given out as follows:
For the highest aggregate team
score at all ranges, first prize s35,
second prize SIS.
For highest individual score at
all ranges, a medal presented by
the governor.
For the highest individual score
at 200 yards rapid fire, first prize
$3.50, second prize $3.50.
For the highest individual score
at GOO yards, first prize $3.50,
second prize $a.5o; at 1000 yards, !
same prizes; at skirmish run, same
prizes.
A medal will be given to the |
marksman who gets the highest |
Individual score at each of the |
ranges.
The team members will receive |
pay for the time consumed and a |
certain amount additional for ex- |,
oenses on the road.
The teams consist of the three !
men from each company who made
he highest scores at the encarnp-
nents. Sergeant Theo. ]. Nicolai,
Sergeant Floyd McNett and Cor (
ooral Archie Melder go to repre-
tent Company E. They constitute
he strongest team to enter the
contest at Boise next week, !
Private Weymouth, the best
in the regiment, having
iroPped out of the team from
Company G, leaving that team
second by fourteen points on the
cores made at the recent encamp.
nent on the ranges named in the
cam contest. Private Clinton
Shepherd stands fourth in the
company and in case of
he inability Of one Of the team
members to attend the competi-
ion, he would have been sent to
Boise instead. Private Shepherd
S comparatively new man, hav-
ng enlisted last January, and is an
xample of what any new man
dining the National Guard may
'e able to do.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06
CLEANING THE CAPITOL
Annual Task Being Pushed at
Washington.

Annual Task Being Pushed at
Warrington.
When Congress folds its tent and
steals away from It's legislative hauu,s.
the cleaners and renovators get busy
10 Washington, says 4 Washington
letter. The, big buildings where the
senators and representatives have
their offices are scrubbed. mopped,
painted and cleaned from top TO
bottom. The capitol, Itself is put
through similar treatment and the
outside Is subjected to trea tment with
lines OF hose through which Ore Gu.
gines force water to the very top OF
the dome. It's always an Interesting
operation to see The capitol gettiog
It's annual bath. Then the streets
are repaired and the trees trimmed
and everything around Washington
Is got into the best possible shape for
the reconvening Of congress ia De-.
cember. Owing to the extra session
there was little time TO do all this
during the present summer, so there
Is unusual hurry and hustle now.
Some day, when there Is a su nicIent.
ly long interval between the eud uf
short session and the l,cginning ut
the long session OF congress, the. im-
terlor OF the chaInbrr ~ The house of
representatives isto be rcbul!t aud.
the entire plan n'odliied.,, Even with
thea fncteased neu,tjptshIp due To
reapportionluent, the Substitution oe
benches, such as arg, used In the
English house 0f cnmmoDs,,. for tho
individual desks now IN use, will take
up less room aud The size uf The
chamber eau be reduced. This will
De great advantage IN permitting
speakers To be heard ifiore clearly.
Speaker Clark, to be sure, with his
resonant voice and his lavcl, pound
ing on the board provided FOR that
treatment, has been able To make his
voice heard; but the average member
has had q hard time aud the cry Of
"loddcr, louder" has worried mauy u
timid congressman who was trying t.
achieye uudying fame by explaining
the intricacies OF the effects OF the
tariff on wool, cotton, sugar. or some
other article. -
The speaker, II may be remarked.
has succeeded remarkably well la
preserving order 10 the house. lie
should have an easier time when the
size Of the chamber is reduced. But
that can hardly be this year.
Some day, too, there. will be 4
marble dome placed on the capitol
instead Of the iron d, me which now
covers the rotundu. The architects
are practically unit 10 saying that
marble is the only proper material OF
which to construct The dome. Irou
shrinks and expands In manner
which Is distressing. Leaks result.
aud these are patched by strips Of
canvass painted over. Undoubtedly
the dome will he replaced some day,
and'it was Intended to bring this
matter before congress at this session,
but the pressure OF debate on the
tariff caused 1t t. b., postponed.
Possibly 1t may come up at the next
session, and during the long recess
two years from now, II everything
goes we'll, work may actually be COM
menced on the gigantic task Of put
ting a new roof over the great rotunda
where tourists now stand and gaze Ia
rapt awe at the paintings On the
c0ncave surface SO far above their
reads.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06

Fred Gruber. sentenced to hang at
BOISE, Oct. a, for the murder of John
H. Billings at Occur d'Alene, was
saved from the gallows on the last
day by the pardon board, which com.
muted his sentence to life lmprison-
ment.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06

Two hundred people Inst their lives
10 flood at Austin, Pennsylvanis,
Sept. 30, caused by the breaking Of a
reservoir containing 500, 600, 900 gal.
Ions OF water. The town was de-
mOlished.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06
Commissioners Proceedings.

Occur d'Alene, Sept. 9.-The board
OF county commissioners, having fully
decided to issue negotiable coupon
bonds to pay off the outstanding war
rant Indebtedness Of Kootenai county
amounting TO $l35, 900. it was ordered
that the prosecuting attorney prepare
potlce OF the intention of the board
to negotiate and sell such bonds and
invite bidders therefor as provided by
section 1866 of Revised Codes of the
State Of Idaho.
Sept. 1.-The board appropriated
$4,000 from the current expense fund
for bridge across the St. Joe river
at St. Maries, and $4,000 for bridge
at Rose Lake.
The board fixed the state and coun-
ty tax levy for 1911 at 9.8 mills as
follows:
State purposes .OO28
General school .OO245
General road .OO1
Current expense .OO24
General bridge .OO025
Bond and interest .OOO3
Special bridge fund .0O06
Sept. l2.-The certificate of the
county auditor showing the salaries
of county officers and deputies was
duly approved as per list on file.
Bills allowed:
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06

"0"'iJ roUV,U ,UOO.
in an effort to make 1ght against
poor motel service and extortlonate e
rates. the travelling men who cover
tne north Idaho district at a meeting
ne'd 10 Lewiston, Sept. 80, effected a
permanent organization In the nature
OF welfare league. A memorial to
Ine state sanitary inspector. asking
That he investigate conditions iu
some OF the hotels 10 the northern
part OF the state, is being circulated.
ana 10 the event Of nn relief being
secured 10 this manner it is intended
10 send a delegation to Boise to con-
Ter with Governor Hawley 10 regard
to the situation.
A local option election will be
asked for 10 Ada county, but not
until February of next year. That
information is contained in a state.
ment issued by w. ]. Herwig. state
superintendent Of the anti.saloon
league. He explains why the drys
nave decided to wait until the Janu.
ary meeting of the county commits.
Sioners to file their petition for the |
calling OF the election, and he says
mat II the election is called at that
time the drys are prepared to concen.
trate their entire Idaho forces on Ada |
county, and that they are confident
)f winning the election.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06

Gipsy Smith, the famous evauge.
list, is preaching 10 Spokane.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06

merce' and all the directors ia reach
" wallace were placed under arrest
TUESDAY. B. F. O'Neil, former presi-
uenC OF The institution, could not be
'ouho' It's alleged that O'Neil's
personal obligations to the bank total
nearly $500, 900.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1911-10-06

Francisco I. Nadero was elected
president OF Mexico October /.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
New Wars for Old.

Peace, with, its luxury is the corrupt
ef OF nations. ANY Militaris..
Peace? When have we prayed for peace?
Over us burns a star
Bright beautiful red for strife
Yours are only the drum and the fiie.
And the golden braid and the surface OF
life.
Ours is the white-hot war;
Peace? When have we PRAYED for peace ?
ours are the weapons of mem
Time changes the face of the world;
Your swords are rust and your flags are
furled;
And ours are the unseen legions hurled
Up to the heights again.
feace? When have we prayed for peace!
is there no wrong to right,
wrong crying to God on high?
Here where the weak and the helpless
die,
And the homeless hordes of the city go
| by,
The RANKS are rallied tonight.
feace? When have we prayed for peace
care We so dazed with words?
EARTH heaven, shall pass away E@s
/ rIe Tor Your passionless. peace we pray
are Eye deaf to the trumpets that call US
today, tDss -
Blind to the blazing swords?
ALFRED Moves, in Westminster Gazette
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
Education and Money Making.
(Pittsburg Dispatch.)


Mr.. Carnegie is quoted in a New
Haven publication as declaring that
for the young man who will have to
make living in the industrial world
a college education is a waste of time.
But If money making is to be the sole
end of life there are countless ex-
amples which establish that any edu-
cation at all, TO say nothing OF col
lege education, was non essential
Take the two cases reported on the
same day with Mr.. Carnegie's re-
marks. In one case Long Island
man left an estate valued at
si,0O0.000. He came TO this country
40 years ago, without money or edu-
cation, got a job at 81 a day and put
his savings in real estate 1t is un-
necessary to inquire how ne saved on
81 day. The fact that he did is the
important detail. Yet when he died
a millionaire he was so illterate he
had to sign his will with an *" The
other. man came from Denmark
equally destitute of education and
money. He took up a homestead in
Dakota. putting his profits In more
land until he acquired Is, 900 acres
oiN ioo iioi t6dStS Olf tIiouSdHuS more
and is today worth 100000.
Yet who will say that education in
the case of these two would have
been handicap or waste of time,
even from the money making view
point? Might they not with better
education have been worth that much
more? On the other hand, the money
making instinct, the natural business
gifts" possessed by those who accu-
malate riches, is not to be impaired
by education, common or collegiate.
III 1t were the schools that produced
the most miliionaires would establish
the standard of education.
But education, Of whatever degree
is not primarily to promote money
making. 1t is to equip the future
citizens to get the most out of life
and that does not necessarily mean
the most money. Mr. Carnegie him :
self says there is very little satisfac-
ton in the making and boarding OF
money. A proper educational equip
ment enables the possessor of money
TO get the most satisfying results
for his expenditures, to realize the
greatest pleasures of life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
Dirt Flying Faster Every Day.

1t was seven years ago this May
that Lieut.. Mark Brooke, in the name
of the u. S. Government. took posses
sion of the property and rights of the
but few were sanguine enough to pre-
dict that seven years thereafter the
canal would be half completed Ye.
today We are figuring on two short
years for the completion of this Won
derful engineering feat of the age. and
one Of the most pronounced evidences
that the canal is rapidly nearing com
pletion is the work now being done by
the commission In the preparation OF
facilities for shipping when ocean yes
sells are able to traverse the backbone
OF the continent.
AS the work goes on, the cost de-
creases and the amount of work done
by the various departments increases;
that is. with the greater number .oi
cubic yards removed per month comes
u diminished expense per yard. This
comes about through a better or.
ganization of the forces and greater
experience in doing the work, combined
with the determination of the officials
TO do the work as eheaply as possible
The engineers have learned a 10,
about the whims Of Culebra cut, and
during the dry season. which is jus,
ending, they have been making prepa
ration for the slides which appear u
be inevitable during the wet months.
Already engineers and others EN-
ployed In making the dirt As" ar,
looking for occupation at home wheI
they are no longer needed in the cana
zone. Those who thought they had ;
life job when they began their work il
| Panama, now hope to live many year
after traffic is established by ocean
going vessels across the .sthmus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
Editorial Comment
Sleep.


tNew Bedford Mercury
A leading London physician, who is
a mental specialist, discredits the old
pfoverb that Early to bed and early
to rise" win make one healthy,
wealthy or wise" Go to bed as late
as two in the morning if you like"
he says, and If you get eight hours
sleep 1t viii make no difference in
your health. Some people who lead
lives of mental activity make the mis-
take of hurrying to bed at ten or elev-
en- o'clock, because they are obsessed
with the idea that one hours sleep
before midnight is worth two after
ward. They go to bed, switch off the
lights and fiatter themselves that they
are doing the right thing, but 1t often
happens that they begin to worry and
fidget simply because they have gone
to bed too soon-in too much of a
hurry.
It's all right for the working man
to get well to bed before midnight.
his fatigue is purely physical, but
with the mental worker there is
little physical tiredness; his is
mental ethargy-something entirely
different. If he comes home at
half past eleven from a theatre or a
long days work he should take at
least an hour TO go to bed. He should
read something light which will not
disturb him mentally, then go quietly
to rest. For men and women en-
gagged in exacting literary or artistic
work the more sleep they can get the
better it is for them, and ii does not
make a bit of difference at what
hours they get it so long as they get
enough"
In connection with the old maxim.
the modern version may be regarded
Early to bed and early to rise,
But-you'll meet no prominent people,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
In Honor Of the Goat.

CPittsburg Dispatch.)
The goat is as despised as the mule.
Although both have their utility and
place in the scheme of creation, these
animals are looked down upon. ac-
cused of mean traits and dispositions
and generally suffer from the human
unreasonableness illustrated in the
proverb about giving a dog bad
name. The goat from ancient times
has been the butt of man, as witness
the seapegoat. He is mentioned chiefly
in contumely. Where enterprise by
another would be hailed as progress,
in the goat persistence and zeal Is
branded as butting in. Getting ones
goat is another phrase of derision in
which he figures.
Yet even the despised goat has no
bier emotions. Consider that dispatch
from Kansas City yesterday descrip-
ing the fire in the stockyards in WHICH
1000 sheep persisted. In the height OF
the confiagration "one goat was seen
leading Is sheep 10 safety through an
open gate" Thirty other goats used
to lead the sheep around the yards
persisted in the flames, martyrs to
duty For them We can do nothing,
but let us hail the hero goat that. dis
daining to save his own life, stuck he
roically to his post and led those 20
sheep to the open gate and safety.
The Hero Commission should lose no
time in investigating this record ana,
If the facts as set forth in the news
dispatches are found to be correct, In
tying a hero medal to this particular
goats horns. 1t would never do Ia
pin il to his chest, because he might
eat it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
As Ii Is in BANGOR.

dorchester. N. Y. Herald.3
AS everybody knows, there is law
I'm the State of Maine prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of all intoxicat-
ing liquors except cider. and this law
has been put into the State Consttu-
ton. The exception in favor of cider
was made TO get the farmers totes,
for the farmers like to drink cider
and to make money by selling it. OF
course they We're quite willing TO vote
whiskey, beer and all the other wicked
drinks out of the State, so long as
they were privileged to have a liquor
monopoly OF their own, and they so
voted, or. at least a good many Of
them did. But to make Il law Is one
thing; to enforce =. is another.
For a time the law seemed to work
pretty well. as laws go, for while peo-
pie in Maine kept en- drinking just as
though nothing had happened, the po-
lice and the eonstables kept up a great
hullabaloo. and not a man dared to
sell liquor honestly and above board.
Then came change. The people OF
Portland, Bangor and the other larger
towns began to get ugly. They said :
Booze We want, and booze we are GO
ing to have. law or no law, and the
farmers with their cider barrels may
go hang" And the politicians and the
officers of the law, selected by the pol
iticians, said: This is serious mat
ter. We must give the people what
they want and if they do rot like the
law, we must suspend the enforcement
of the law" And so they suspended
it's enforcement.
But human nature is a great deal
like the tides of the sea. 1t has its
ebh and flow. and the one is always
succeeded by the other. After spell
of liberty, there would come again a
call for law enforcement, and then the
cry for liberty would we'll up once
more. Bangor was the city where the
cry for liberty was strongest, and usu-
allv one could get all the whskey and
beer that one wanter in the fiourish-
ing lumber town Nevertheless, BAN
sor has been dry for long time, and
until recently. But since the big fire,
the people have been DESTROYS of pro-
pitiating John Barleycorn, Gambrinus
and other offended gods, and now the
word has gone forth that the saloons
may open up again without being mo-
Tested. Close your saloons at 10
o'clock at night and on Sunday, and
all shall be we'll with you"-,that Is the
word which has gone out from head
quarters. As a result, the people of
Bangor will get another lessen i'm prac
teal anarchy. Just why a man who
is doing an Illegal business should be
compelled to observe the law on sun
day and after 10 o'clock at night, is
diihcuit to understand. But. then, the
hypocrisy of the whole business is diff
fieuit to understand
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
An Economic EM

tAfooStook, .Times)
one OF the chief arguments puf sforth
by those who advocate licensing the
liquor traffic. takes the form of a horri-
NED expression because Intoxicating
ilquors may sometimes be bought in com,
munities where their sale is forbidden
by law
The advocates of freer traffic In alec.
hole beverages go before the people in
magazine articles, In newspaper. edi
torials and sometimes in stump speeches
giving as the reason why the liquor traf-
nc should be encouraged and protected
by law the fact that. in spite of law,
the traffic continues to Some extent 1t IA
as II men claiming to nave at heart the
well being of the community in respect
70 the public health were to maintain
that because there Is some small pox
some scarlet fever. some diphtheria and
some tuberculosis affiicting the people
In spite of all the law which can be
enacted for their suppression, that
therefore all effort on the part of hw 10
prevent the spread of these cont3fkous
diseases ought to be abandoned and That
whatever law on the subject is enacted
suppress, should be of nature to EN-,
courage and develop the spread ofa a.
disease instead of depressing it.
The advocates of the saloon. by1the
form of the argument upon which. they
depend more than anything else to Afiaks
converts to their theory, Acknowledge
the inherent and intrinsic evil which
they ask the public to legalze. Now the
policy of the State, wherever good gov
eminent exists, is not policy of ex-
tending protection to evil. *
Eliminating the moral aspect of the
matter entirely for the time being only
for the moral aspect is one which makes
its proper appeal to our Judgment. the
licensing of the liquor traffic is protect
ing by law an economic evil of vast pro-
portions. This fact Is getting to be rec.
ognized by business men everywhere
and the great manufacturers, the leading
spirits in the business world, stand al
most a unit against the further extension
of system which, under the protection
of the law, must and does interfere with
the regular. normal and proper course
of legitimate business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-31
Municipal Street Cleaning.
Stanford Tribune.)

On Friday OF last week the citizens
of Springvale co-operated with their
local Board of Trade in a cleaning
up day. by which that village was
materially beautified without expense
10 the town, and no great expense to
any individual. The Board of Trade
paid for the necessary advertising
and some of its members, who could
furnished teams; other citizens gave
their services for a few hours. AS a
result, more than 100 barrels of loose
rubbish was picked up from the
streets. sidewalks and yards in diff
fcrent parts of the village The effect
is eHphatically noticeable to@ah pass
ersI by. and the. Sprinbgyale Board pr
Trade has received many compliments
on the success of their enterprise.
This plan has also been successful In