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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02

country. The trees are all laying one
way. The forest was swept and cut
like a sickle mows down field OF
grain.
You will remember that many men
lost their lives fighting the forest fires
Ten miles north of Avery are buried
the bodies of % of the forest fire
victims. And while it is only ten
miles, an idea of the situation may
be gained when it is understood that
last fall eight men had all they could
do to bring out one body. The fed
eral government has let contract to
have the 28 bodies brought out, and
will pay $4,000 for this work Twenty
two head of good mules are now at
Avery and will be used on this work
1t is an almost impossible underta-
king, and yet it is but ten miles. The
bodies will be sowed up in canvas, and
packed on the backs of the mules A
trail will have to be made, and the jol
is big one
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
RAILROADS WITHDRAW
PROTESTS ON PAVING

AS the result of a compromise plan
offered by the railroads last evening
a tentative agreement between the rail
road companies and the city was
reached by which, if session Of the
railroad agents with the council ccm-
mittee this afternoon bears fruit, the
protests of the roads against paving
will be withdrawn.
The railroads position is this At
least one, and probably both the O.-W
R & N and the N. P. have reason to
need an extention of yardage facilities,
and to make changes in their tracllage
through the yards. Because of this
they object to having the street cross
ings paved across the tracks, but no
farther, until after these change are
made On the other hand they offer
to support paving to the tracks and to
plank the streets across the tracks
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
ATLANTIC BALO0NISTS
FALL TO THEIR DEATH

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July q
Melvin Vapiman, his brother Calvin
Vaniman, Fred Elmer, George Foul
tion and Walter Guest, were killed to-
day by the explosion of the dirigable
balloon Akron, which burst while 1000
feet in the air.
The men fell in nine feet of water.
The balloon was being given q try
out preparatory to Melvin Vaniman' s
proposed transatlantic flight The
accident is believed to have been due
to the operation of a new device for
compressing gas. The pressure was
SO strong the balloon gave way.
One thousand persons saw the ac-
cident. When the balloon fell 70 the
earth the men rushed forward and
the women screamed some tainted
The Akron fell far out over the
waters.
Vanimans device for compressing
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
IMPORTANT TELEGRAM
IS RECEIVED BY ELKS

Seven coaches, two diners, an OBJ
servation car, a special baggage car
fer Maud, and baggage and dynamo
car, will compose the train which will
make up the Elk's special out of Mos
cow at $50 O'Clock on the morning of
| July 7. This was made certain this
morning by a telegram from A. NJ. Gle
land, general passenger agent of the
Northern Pacific, to R. W. Morris. To-
cal agent announcing that such equip
ment would be set off here to make
the journy.
Mr.. Cleland also wired to know if
more accommodation would be needed
and assured thefojcal representatives
that everything necessary to the COM
fort of the local delegation would be
provided by the railroad.
If all of the Idaho Elks, who ex-
pect to attend the grand lodge re
union at Portland, July to 10, under
stood the Importance of getting their
uniforms they would at once send in
their orders No Elk can march with
the Idaho deegation except he is in
uniform On the other hand the show
ing which the Idaho Elks will make
at the grand lodge reunion depends
upon the showing in the parade. That
is "all that Idaho is going for" No
officers or honors are being sought,
simply an opportunity to convey to
all Elkdom, and the thousands of
western tourists otherwise in Port
land, the story of Sunny Idaho"
The mother lodge of Idaho is one
of the early ones in the history of
Elkdom on the Pacific coast. The
Idaho delegation, taking rank in the
parade in her position, will come as
a body early in the parade, following |
only those few large delegations from
the bigger coast cities. And, as the
earlier lodges organized where those
of the far east from which few dele |
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gates will be in attendance, the show
ing of Idaho will be by comparison.
weak or strong, as the Idaho Elks
make it. San Francisco and Seattle
both seeking the grand lodge in 1915,
will be in line with a great marching
force, and will have spectacular eff
fects to offer. One of the Oregon
lodges will display fine team of bull
elks, recently captured and broken
for driving in the parade. One Cali
fornia delegation will have a per-
forming elephant. Pendleton, Oregon,
the Roundup" town will have two
boy aud Indian fashion, but if Idaho
Elks do their part, and appear in
their natty uniforms of purple and
white in the number expected, as de-
legation, with Maud, delegate at-large,
and the band at their head, there can
be no doubt of the great impression
Idaho will make.
This state is The only state dele
cation going as a unit, except one
from a far eastern state, which was
TOO small to send delegations from
individual lodges, and Sunny Idaho
if the Elks do their part, and get their
uniforms at once, will outshine them
all.
There can be nothing neater, nor
in better taste than the Idaho Elk's
Duck trousers neatly tail
ored negligee shirt with military
collar, canvas shoes, and plain straw
hat. Added the purple in silk hose,
silk tie, hat band, and leather belt and
the combination is one that will not
only be beautiful in the parade, but
W Ill be useful in all summer outings.
The uniforms are made to each Elk's
and at the price those
the hat. the shirt, the trous-
ers, which each man needs and will
use, cannot be duplicated
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gas and thereby controlling the move
ments of the balloon was to pump air
into the interior of the bag which
would expand, thereby compressing
the gas within the balloon.
Vaniman was chief engineer for
Walter Wellman, who attempted a
flight across the Atlantic.
Whe nthe balloon was descending
from 1000 feet altitude the envelope
suddenly parted and the whole all ship
was enveloped in a sheet of flame,
the balloon dropping earthward.
The bodies were submerged in an in
let about half mile from Beach park
What remained of the burning bag
and frame work fell on the men crush
ing them into the water.
One of the bodies taken out OF the
water, but it was so badly burned
and mangled that it was unrecogniza-
bic.
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fruits and vegetables in green and
ripe stages, SO as to show all kinds
of Latah county and Moscow country
products. The fruits which you bring
will be preserved in glass jars and
albeled with your name We ask you
to help us win all the prizes possible
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
HIS HEART IN IT.

SEAGRIT, N. j., July 2.-GOvernor
Wilson was notified Of his nomination
and said he appreciated fully the hon
or and realized the responsibility. He
said he hoped with all his heart that
the party would never have cause to
regret its action.
If Wilson had not been connected
with the Baltimore by telephone and
telegraph he would have known he
had been nominated for president
within a few minutes by the noise that
Immediately surrounded the "Little
White House."
A forty piece brass band was car
ried into Seagirt in automobiles, play
ing as it went. The band marched on
the lawn of the governors home fol-
lowed by hundreds Of persons from all
over New Jersey.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
OMMERCE CHAMBER
ASKS ASSISTANCE

To the citizens of Latah county and the
Moscow country:
We invite you to start at once send
ing samples of grains, grasses, vegeta=
bles and fruits to the secretary of the
Moscow Chamber of Commerce.
Each sample that you send will be
tagged with your name and exhibited
at the Commerce Headquarters.
You may call for same at any time
If you wish to exhibit by itself at any
fair. If you leave your different sam
piles with the Chamber of Commerce
they will be displayed permanently by
the organization, and at the Latah
County and Spokane and other fairs.
The Chamber of Commerce especially
wishes exhibits of grains, grasses,
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without objection. They go further
and agree to support the paving of
extensions of the streets which c:oss
their tracks, across their tracks, when
the city proposes to so pave, and to
pave between the tracks at such time.
The railroads feel that there will be
nc hardship worked if they are per-
mitted to plank their crossings until
such streets are paved beyond such
crossings, and feel that the planking,
as temporary measure would be a
saving in money, under the heavy t"af-
fic such pavement will have to sus-
tain, until such time as the paving is
extended beyond their track limits.
This stand affects Main street, Sth
street, and 9Th and Sd streets. 1t is
generally greeted with appreciation
among the property owners who will
be affected.
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Woodrow Wilson.

(By the United Press.)
1t was as a lawyer that Woodrow
Wilson made his first bow to the
world, and as president of Princeton
he became more widely known, but it
was as reformer that he achieved the
limelight, and it was reform that land
ed him in the New Jersey governors
| chair.
Born in Staunton, Virginia, Decem-
Der 20, 1856, he was christened Thomas
Woodrow Wilson, but in his youth he
cut off the Thomas" because, IS he
said, he wanted to use only one name,
and Thomas w. Wilson would have
been too commonplace. Graduating
from Princeton in 1879, he practiced
law for two years in Atlanta, Georgia,
before he became an educator. He
taught history and political economy
for three years in Bryn Mawr. col
lege, and was instructor in the same
branches for two years in Wesley uni
versity, before he was engaged as
teacher of Jurisprudence and politics in
Princeton, his alma mater. He became
president of Princeton, August 1, 1902
and held that position until October,
1910, when he resigned to become gov
ernor. In 1885 he married Miss Helen
Louise Axscn of Atlanta Georgia. Gov
ernor Wilson holds ABB, LID, Pb. d,
and other degrees from Princeton,
University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins,
Brown, Harvard, Williams, Dartmouth,
and Yale universities.
1t was as writer that Woodrow
Wilson first got before the people as
a politician. He wrote voluminously |
Of the evils of bossism, the corruption
of politics, and the like, and quite ma
turally glided from the pen to the
platform and banquet table, being ask
ed to speak for various meetings. and
dinners in all the large cities.
"A prophet is not without honor save
in his own country" and through his
writings and after-dinner speeches,
Woodrow Wilson was being talked
about as reformer long before the
people of New Jersey considered him
seriously
AS far back as 1904 people in the
vest were talking about Wilson as
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
FARMERS UNION IS
AFTER NOXIOUS WEEDS

The Farmers union last night join
ed with the City Beautiful movement
in Moscow. and with the Star-Mirror
and its farmer friends in the attack on
noxious weeds in Moscow, when it pc
titioned the city council to draw up an
ordinance prohibiting the growth of
such weeds within the city limits, and
making the property owners RESPONSE
BILE. The petition was referred to the
city attorney for action.
The Moscow Commission company
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Nominated BY Democrats Clark Man.
ager Moves Unanimous Vote
Mate Named Tonight.

son 629, Clark 306, Underwood 80
Harmon 27, Foss 27. Washington de-
mands poll of it's delegation.
Motion to table Washington demand
on the 44th ballot for a poll was car
ried
2:15-Underwood withdraws. Sen
| ator Bankhead of Alabama, chief
Underwood manager, obtained the lh
| animOus consent of the convention to
make statement.
The withdrawal of Underwood is
generally regarded as making certain
the nomination of Governor Wilson.
their instructions.
Official totals 45th ballot: Clark
306, Wilson 633, Underwood 81, Har-
mon 25, Foss 27.
No choice on the 45th ballot.
2:32-Senator Stone asked and OBJ
tanned the unanimous consent of the
convention to make statement.
2:34-Stone announced that Mis-
souri, would stand pat on Clark until
the finish, but if defeated that Clark
will loyalty support the conventions
choice.
Foss withdraws in favor of Wilson.
Fitzgerald comedies Wilson's nom
nation.
Stone comedies Wilson's nomina-
ton
2:45-Fitzgerald of New York,
moves that Wilson be nominated by
acclamation.
2:48-Senator Reed of Missouri
blocks motion to nominate Wilson by
reclamation. Reed said Missouri want
ed to be registered as voting for Clark
to the last.
John J. Fitzgerald of Brooklyn, as
spokesman for Charles F. Murphy of
New York, took the platform and be-
gan speech in which he appealed for
harmony. He made passing reference
to the Bryan episode, declaring that all
democrats should pocket their per-
sonal opinion for the general good
of the party"
Senator Reed explained in his
speech, which showed plainly deep |
emotion, that Missouri was without |
rancor or resentment but
still for Clark.
2:50-WiIson's nomination is now
assured. There is great excitement.
Missouri refused it's unanimous con-
sent.
3:30-Senator Stone moved to make
nomination unanimous. The
notion carried.
3:34-Wilson was formally declared
Convention adjourned until 9 D. m
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presidential possibility, but New
Jersey knew nothing of him or about
it, and again at Denver, in 1908, he was
spoken Of" But it was not until 1910
that the people of the doctors adopted
state "discovered> him. Then the
democratic bosses of the corporation
ridden state decided that it was time
to elect a governor. They had not had
one since the days of Cleveland, and
it was decided that reform was good
platform. Considering reformers, they
picked on Wilson as man of the
hour" and ran him. Wilson was elect
ed, but the bosses were led to believe
no sooner did "Prexy" have his long
lean legs firmly entwined about the
governors chair rungs than he began
loudly to defy. He defied the bosses,
he defied the corporations, he de-
fled everybody while the defying was
good, and he made a noise that was
heard throughout the country.
'The time when you can play politics
and fool the people has gone by" was
one of Governor Wilson's platitudes on
the night he accepted the New Jersey
"call" and there are those who now
paraphrase his remarks thusly: 1.-The
time when you can play the people
and fool the politicians has not come"
One of the most amazing incidents
of Woodrow Wilson's campaign for
the democratic presidential nomination
was his embroglio with Colonel George
editor of Harper's Weekly, |
and Colonel Henry Watterson, editor |
Of the Louisville CONFECTIONERY, over T
the support accorded Wilson's boom
by Harper's Weekly. For months the
publication boosted Wilson in every
ssue, and then came the story in a
Charlotte. N. c., newspaper that Gov
ernor Wilson had broken with Colonel
Harvey and requested him to discon-
inue his support Of Wilson. Harper's
Weekly came out with an explanation
hat it dropped Wilson at his request.
Then Colonel Watterson got into the
same by telling of the meeting in New
FORK of Colonel Harvey, Governor VIII
on and himself, at which Wilson
Luarreled with Colonel Harvey and
!olonel Watterson because they had
nlisted in his behalf Thomas Fortune
syan, millionaire traction and tobac-
o magnate Colonel Watterson main
aimed that at first Wilson took kind
Y to the Ryan proposition. The thing
nded with Colonel Watterson's pro- '
osal that the controversy be referred t
D an old fashioned court of honor.
n incident of the affair was the pub 1
cation of letter that Governor Viii {
on was said to have written to Adrian 1
I. Joline, attacking William Jennings f
ryan and hoping that he could be c
knocked into a cooked hat" Colonel r
ryan evidently did not resent the let t
II, for he apparently was an adTuirer
the eNw Jersey governor at the t
ackson Day diner held shortly there e
fter in Washington. C
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Last Nights Bulletins.

Totals 39th ballot: Clark 422, Will
son 5O11a, Underwood 106, Harmon 80
Kern /, Foss 2S, absent II.
Totals 10th ballot: Clark 1923, vii
son SOL ", Underwood 106, Harmon 2S,
Kern / Foss 28, absentlh.
Totals 41st ballot: Clark 424, Will
son 499k, Underwood 1O6, Foss 28,
Harmon 27, Kern 1, Bryan l, Gaynor /,
absent ".
Totals AID ballot: Clark 430, Wilson
494, Underwood 104, Harmon 81, Kern
10, Foss 2S, James l. ]. Hamilton Lewis
/, Gaynor 1, Bryan 1 ", absent ".
12:39-Adjourned till noon Tues
day.
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house.
Mrs. John F. Yost was confirmed by
the council as a member of the board
of trustees of the public library.
Some of the claims submitted were
passed. The others will be passed at
an adjourned meeting of the council
to be held this evening.
The larger part of the meeting was
devoted to discussion of the with
drawal of the railroad opposition to
paving, upon which no action was ta-
ken
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
WILSON UNANIMOUSLY NOMINA-
TED.

BALTIMORE, Fifth Regiment Arm
Ory, July 2.-GOyernOr Woodrow vii.
son Of New Jersey, received the demo-
cratic nomination for president this
afternoon. His final triumph came as
the climax Of elimination Of days OF
anxiety and wrangling, and the final
vote which determined the contest was
taken amidst scenes that for dramatic
intensity have never been exceeded in
any convention ever held in the Uni
ted States in the memory Of any man
here today.
The storm broke when Senator
Bankhead of Alabama, withdrew Un-
derwOOd's. nomination.
The Clark men had insisted that
they could hold One-third of the dele
gates and block the nomination of Will
son. The boast was idle, and the Clark
men showed their chagrin by demand
ing to know why Underwood had not
Withdrawn when Clark had a majority
of the delegates.
After Wilson's nomination was made
by accIamation there was great DEM
OnstratiOn by the delegates and in the
galleries and order restored only with
some difficulty.
When this was done, Congress Pal
mer of Pennsylvania, moved for re-
cess to 5 o'clock tonight.
The motion carried.
As he was leaving the hall, Charles
Murphy Of Tammany Hall, declared:
81 have nothing to say except that
New York tried to make the motion
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02
POWER BOAT
MAY BE LOST AT SEA

report and the officials of the Ia
coma Yacht club and the power boat
association fear the little craft may
have been swamped and her crew lost
No details are to be had here.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02

riage at o'clock this afternoon in a
quiet welding at the Methodist par
sonage, Rev. Robert Warner officiating.
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this year for our section of the Pa
louise country.
Publicity Committee of Moscow Cham
Der of Commerce.
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TAFT DOMINATES IN
THE STATE OF OHIO

The Taft forces were in control of
the convention which was an adjourn
ed session of the presidential delega
tion convention. The Taft platform
was adopted.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02

TACOMA, July 2.-The cruiser Ysi-
dor, entered in the endurance race of
the International Power Boat associa-
tion from Vancouver, B. c. to Tacoma
which ended yesterday, has failed to
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02

The young people are most popular in
the communities in which they live,
and have the best wishes of host of
friends for their future.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02

COLUMBUS, O., July 2.-Judge Ed
mund B. Dillon of Columbus, was nom
mated for governor by the republican
state convention this afternoon.
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Are Happily Married.

John Balch, son of Postmaster L. M.
Rohlf of Palouse, were united in mar
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Official totals 46th ballot: Clark "a,
Wilson $50, Harmon 12, absent 2.
Wilson nominated unanimously.
COLONEL IS SNAPPISH.

NEW YORK, July al have moth
to say, nOw," snapped Colonel ROOse-
welt, when told by the United Press
of Wilson's nomination.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-07-02

Herbert B. Wright, a municipal
engineer of Spokane, is in Moscow to-
day investigating the paving situation
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-11-22
The BISHOP BUILDING BURNED
Conflagration Caused By Boiling Over
Of Tar Pot-S300 Insurance

A conflagration caused by the
boiling over of a pot of tar on an
oil stove Monday afternoon Quilted
the Mrs. Belle Bishop building on
Main Street. The damage is esti-
mated at about $500. There was
$500 insurance on the building.
No one was in the building when
the fire started. The pot of tar had
been placed on the oil stove in or
der to melt it for use in tarring the
roof of the building. The burning
tar spread rapidly and before the
flames could be subdued they
had almost ruined the building
and burned a number of chairs and
furnishings belonging to the Odd
Fellow lodge and r. R. Belcher
which had been stored in the place
since the fire of November 5th.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-11-22
FARMERS FORM NEW COMPANY
Will Prepare To Handle Crops so as
To Get Best Returns For Rancbers

Representatives from various
farmers unions of Bonner county
met at Standpoint last Saturday to
perfect the organization of farm
ers cooperative company. The
new organization will be capitalized
for IS, 900 and will be known as
the Farmers Union Cooperative
company. Bylaws were adopted
and steps taken to file incorpor-
alton papers soon. 1t is the inten-
ton to conduct a general buying,
selling, shipping business, on the
cooperative plan, to conduct lee
lures and to provide for the educa-
ton of its members and their fam
lilies in cooperative principles. A
manager will have his office in
Standpoint and anything which the
members of the company may have
for sale will be listed with him.
He will, in substance, conduct a
brokerage produce office.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-11-22
PERKY IS IDAHO'S SENATOR
Gov. Hawley Changes Mind About
Taking Position Himself

Gov. James n. Hawley appoint
ed Judge K. 1. Perky of Boise last
Saturday to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of United States Sea-
ator Hepburn. The appointment
came as a surprise all over the state
as it was generally understood that
Gov. Hawley would resign as gov
ernor of the state in order that he
might take the office of senator
himself, The decision to appoint
Judge Perky to fill the vacancy was
made late Saturday afternoon. Mr..
Perky left for Washington, D. c.
Sunday afternoon.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-11-22

the final installment of pay.
ment of SIS, 900 was made yester.
day by Messrs. Thomson, Johnson
and Folsom, all of Spokane, to S.
+. Henry and Jack Nave of this
city for 400, 900 shares of stock in
the H. & NJ. Gold Mining com
pany. With the purchase of the
400, 600 shares of stock the Spok-
ane men secure the controlling in
terest in the II. & M. property. 1t
is understood that the new owners
of the mining property are well-to-
do and that they plan to carry on
extensive development work this
winter. The H. & M. mining
property is among the most prom
ising in this district.