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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
REPUBLICAN STEAM ROLLER
RUSHES SUBSTITUTE MEASURE

til 900 o'clock tomorrow morning
There is some question of what the
house will do this afternoon.
There is every indication that Haw-
ley will veto any measure that dis
regards the tax commission and the
republicans have not enough of a ma
jority to get by his veto. The demo-
Gratis in caucus last night bound them
selves to cry for the tax commission
to the exclusion of everything else.
DR.. Piper of Nampa, representing
the state taxpayers league addressed
the house on the district assessor sys-
tenn. Few members favor him, Nor
gan is making an effort to get minor
bills through the house so the senate
can consider them, but the republic
ans have overruled him and the senate
is inactive.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
WOODSHED JURY ROOM
CONVINCED THIS FARMER

Seventeen hours as a juryman in
the Latah county wOodshed settled the
matter of new court house for me" !"
said c. F. Smith, well known farmer
and pioneer of Latah county when seen
by Star-Mirror reporter this morn
ing MIR. Smith is in town for the pur
pose of discussing the proposed new
court house and said that he would
like to be quoted as favoring the pro-
posed Improvement
During the last term of court" said
Mr.. Smith, 81 served on the jury here
in my county, and we had to go out
into the woodshed where we were
locked up for seventeen hours. There
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

were no accommodations, no convent
"The matter of new court house
was then talked over by the jurymen
and we took notice of the building.
became satisfied that the present struc-
ture is no longer adequate for a cOun-
ty like ours, and that our public rec
ords are in constant danger of destruc-
ton from fire. l am therefore in ia
vor of a new building. AS to the cost,
that will not bother the taxpayers. We
will hardly notice it. In five or ten
years we can raise the money without
up the proposed building"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

A bic meeting of the farmers and tax
payers of Latah county and an lnVestl-
cation of the crowded conditions ana
Inadequate protection in the old court
house. resulted today in a decision Dy
a body of representative citizens that
something should be done. What form
of action shall be taken by the meet
ing has not yet been determined upon
hit is being discussed as the Star-Mlr-
ror goes to press. 1t is evident, now
ever, that more room and better pro
lection are needed and the meeting Will
probably take steps toward making
thorough investigation and taking an
enlightened action.
The meeting was called at the court
house at 200 o'clock. AL Morgan OUT
lined the conditions of the court house
and needs of the county and was Iol-
lowed by B. L. Wiswell, former depu-
tv auditor now living in the north part
of the county, who admitted the need
of action but complained of high eX-
penses even now.
A. w. Laird of the Potlatch Lumber
company answering showed that taxes
were not usually high in the county
and that they would not continue TO
he. He declared the main question was
protection and hoped that polltlcs
would not enter into the matter.
Thomas w. BARLEY of near MOSCOW
Mountain, former county commission
-er. J. L. Naylor and EX-Mayor b. L.
Rvrns were other speakers, all in favor
of more protection.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
Meeting of Farmers From All Over the
County Today Find Need of
Protection.

Spokane Chamber of Commerce at the
meeting.
"In comparison with the size of Spo-
kane" said Mr.. Cosgrove, Moscow
Chamber of Commerce shows more
spirit and better in these lunches than
Spokane does. You will find they dc
great good for your community
"The exhibit of crops, from your sec
ton in the Chamber" declared Mr..
Barrett, 'is better. ard of greater
practical value, than the exhibits in
the Spokane Chamber"
Mr.. Smith, who had met with the
Moscow Chamber IA years ago, recall
ed the incident, compared the remark
able strides made by the city in that
time, and complin4ented the progress
sive spirit in Moscow for the valuable
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
The Dinner.

Over a hundred citizens OF LataE
county were present at the dinner te
the court house investigators given al
me Chamber of Commerce. With one
accord the meeting manifested its be-
lief that something must be done
and while no action was taken during
the dinner, the farmers adjourned I'M
mediately after, to meet again at the
court house and after making a care
fri Investigation determining a plan
of action
After The elaborate luncheon, there
was an informal discussion OF the
needs of the county and the absolute
necessity for some protection Tor the
records of the taxpayers. Walter fls-
Gus, Justice of the peace at Potlaccn'
who was in attendance, declared that
it would possibly be best to use the
court room to continue the meeting
and to make a personal Investigation.
This plan was urged by Albert Morgan,
whose study of the situation is per-
haps as careful as any man 5, anu
whose open letter to Bay Clark, pub
ljshed in the Star-Mirror a week ago,
had much to do with the interest that
has res! tied in the meeting. The mo-
tion was unanimously carried.
In the meantime, M. E. Lewis, speak
ing as a property owner, in the coun-
tv. showed the great Importance OF ac-
ton in the matter by demonstrating
the cost to individuals in case OF nre.
Each transfer of title, from the gov
ernment down to date would depend
upon either the original, or the certl-
fed copy, and to secure the certlfled
copies necessary to prove his title TO
his own home, across from the court
house, would cost him, said Mr.. Lewis,
just $121.
Robert Corgrove, secretary OF the
Spokane Interstate Fair, Lew Barrett,
in charge of the dairy and apairy de-
partments of the Spokane Chamber OF
Commerce, and J. L. Smith, also OF
that body we're visitors from the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

BOISE, Jan. 23. Especial to the Star
Mirror.)-The democrats today charge
the republicans with unfair use of the
steam roller in forcing the republican
substitute measure to an issue and
abandoning House Bill No. l. The
committee of Is is considering the re-
publican measure, and rushing through
it, and will report it back tomorrow
morning.
The republicans tried to rush it past
the committee of Is into the commit
tee of the whole but Morgan frustra-
ted them.
Both measures will be in the COM
mittee of the whole in the morning and
something definite will be learned
then.
The house meets this afternoon and
the committee of Is has adjourned un-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

"FOur years ago when l was county
commissioner we thought we would
make some improvements on the pres
ent court house," declared Chris
Hagen at the meeting this afternoon.
eve found it would cost $4,000 to
make even the needed repairs and still
the court house would really be in no
shape. The architects drawings and
estimates made for us at that time are
still in existence. Since then L nave
been unaIterabIy opposed to anything
but a new court house."
George Knapp, the champion grower
also spoke in favor OF new court
house.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
Women Can't Vote.

RICHMOND, Jan. 23.-The women of
Virginia have been refused the ballot
by the house committee on privileges
and elections of the legislature. 1t al
most unanimously reported against
the equal suffrage constitutional
amer dment. There is little likelihood
Of the bill coming before the house
for vote.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
WI Ready to Quit.

SHANGHAI, Jan. 23-The foreign
minister of the republicans, DR.. WI
announced today that he would re-
sign rather than accept personal re-
sponsibility for foreign Intervention
following a row with DR.. Sun Vat Sen
the president of the republic.
The trouble arose over Suns re-
fusal to resign in favor of Premier
Yuan who wanted to assume the presi-
dency until the national convention
chose one. WI favors Yuan.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
KILLED FOR WOMAN
NOW WANTS SYMPATHY

OREGON, ILL.,, Jan. 29.-Hoping for
a pardon after which he declares he
will devote the rest of his life to ben
efltting humanity DR.. Harry Webster,
for bigamy, was today taken to Joliet
prison for life. His parents accom-
panied him to the station
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

I'm ready to pay the penalty he
said, before he was taken to the train.
"But it is hard blow to my relatives.
l sinned. l could do nothing else. I
suppose l killed the woman because
wanted Zoe Varney. Without her life
was not worth living I'm a victim of
circumstances. Some day l hope the
world will realize and understand
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
Is S14,OOO,OOO.

PEKIN, Jan. 23.-Not less than $14,-
100000 could be raised by the sale OF
the treasure. Prince Chung has notified
the dowager empress that he can raise
5000 loyal troops immediately Hun
dreds of Manchus are offering their
services. Yuan is in hiding and the
war department is active.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
FORESTER FAVORING
THE LEASING SYSTEM

concerns. He urges the same action
regarding the forests under the same
circumstances saying that the idea of
the government ownership is theora-
tically desirable but practically not
feasible at this time.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23.-United
States Forester Graves, while attend
ing a conference of the Sierra dis
trict forest supervisors today said that
he favored the leasing of Alaskan coal
lands by the government to private
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
Socialists Will Control.

BERLIN, Jan. pa call for the
reichstag to convene on February
was issued today. From all indications
the socialists will be in control with
l10 members. The exact personal
cannot be determined until Thursday
when there will be reballoting in 33
districts where none were elected on
January IL.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
"MysteriOus Stranger" Now.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23.-Charles
Bohe of Tullshoma, Tenn, who has
been mysterious stranger" here for
some days, hauling about the offices of
the federal grand jury testified be-
fore it today. His testimony was i'm
portant. No inkling was cleaned how
ever whether he even communicated
with the McNamaras.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
HARTMAN GOES
BEFORE THE JURY

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23.-Job Harri-
man, former socialist candidate for
mayor, who handled the Mcnamara
funds was subpoenaed and went before
the county grand jury which is inves-
tigating the dynamitings this fore
noon. Every one was excluded from
the corridors No inkling of the testi-
mony expected from him was given
out
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
After Bath Tub Trust.

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 23-United
States Judge Angel today denied the
motion of the Caldwell Lead company,
a defendant in the Bath Tub trust case,
to luash the indictments against the
corporation Trial starts Janury So
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
FINES STANDARD
FOR REBATING

BUFFALO, Jan 23.-United States
Judge Hazel fined the Standard Oil of
New York $4,000 today for violation of
the Elkin's act. 1t accepted rebates
from the New York Central and Penn
sylvania roads on oil shipments from
Olean, N. Y. TO Burlington, VT, in 1903
4. A motion for retrial was denied
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
Yuan Quits.

LONDON, Jan. 23.-It is reported
from Pekin that Premier Yuan, aband-
Chinese differences has transferred the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
NO ARBITRATION TILL
NURSES ARE RELEASED

PARIS, Jan. 23-The French cab
met in session today discussing the
seizure of the French merchantmen
ships and 20 Turkish nurses, agreed
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
WRECK INJURIES
II; IN CANADA

WINNIPEG, Jan. 23.-Word has been
received that the Canadian Northern
railway express wrecked over an en-
bankment and 27 injured, Conductor
Murphy is fatally injured. 1t happen
ed at Cole, Sask., 273 miles from here.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

not to arbitrate unless the Turkish
nurses were released. The French pa
pers applaud the premier's stand and
LIE Matin" hints that a clash with the
Italians is not improbable.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

alejas, it was announced, today will
again resign from the Spanish cabinet.
1t is reported that Antonio Maura will
assume the premiership. Friction with
King Manuel was the cause.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

many more adherents by his address
last night before the Insurgent club
here when he declared himself un-
Gualifiedly in favor OF initiative, recall
and referendum and also for womans S
sufIrare.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
NEGRO WOMAN IS
LYNCHED BY MOB

HAMILTON, Ca, Jan. 23.-Belle
Hathaway was lynched and her body
riddled with bullets today. Her al
legged accomplices, three men and
women, suffered similar fate today
when a mob stormed the jail.
All were negroes who had refused
to confess to the murder of a farmer
named Norman HadIey.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
Condemn Court House.

3:30-A resolution condemning the
court house as inadequate and of no
value as protection to the records was
introduced by T. W. BARLEY and will
probably pass. 1t authorizes the county
commissioners to take steps necessary
to protect the county.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23

advertising stunts, accomplished dur
ing the last few months
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
MANCHUS SELL THEIR
TREASURE TO FIGHT

General Yin Tchan, it is reported will
succeed him.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-01-23
Think Sentiment Grows.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Friends of La
Toilette are convinced that be- won
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
QUEER CASE OF SMUGGLING
Stolen Partridge Eggs Brought Into
Vienna by Means of Dummy
Baby.

A singular case of smuggling by
means of dummy baby was brought
to light by the city customs officials at
the Northwestern station recently.
Partridge eggs have for long past
been extensively stolen from preserved
estates in Hungary, smuggled into vi
emma and sold to poultry dealers, who
Matched the eggs in incubators, brought
up the birds by hand, and sold them
below the prices asked by more hon
est dealers. A special lookout for
smugglers has resulted in the arrest Of
two peasant women.
Arriving in Vienna in the national
Slovenian costume, each of them car
ried baby, tied according to the in
variable national custom, to cushion,
and so closely packed" that only the
face was visible The women were
noticed to be little agitated as they
passed the customs, and they were fol-
lowed home. 1t was then discovered
that while one baby was a living child,
the other was dummy. 1t consisted
of wax head, partly hidden by a
shawl and cap, while the cushion was
filled with more than 900 partridge
eggs.-Vienna Correspondence London
Daily Mail. &.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
IT IS NOT TO LAUGH AT
Playwright Has Wholesome Fear Of
RldIcuIe, Most Powerful Of
intellectual Weapons.

The playwright's eleventh command
ment is, Thou shalt not get thyseIf
laughed at" Ridicule has always been
a most powerful intellectual weapon
and one against which, when skiIfuily
used, 1t Is difficult to offer an effective
defense. But the playwrights fear OF
getting himself laughed at is not
personal one at all. At least, it is
from purely professional point of
view that ridicule appears to him
most perilous.
Once | wrote novel / never did
SO much work before or since for
$135.75, and yet l sometimes envy
the novelist. At all events, he is mas
ter of his own pages. No cat can
walk into the middle of page 1853 with
out his consent. No laundering fly.
man can ruin the climax of his big
act" by lowering the curtain too soon
or too late. The pet comedy scene of
his book is never spoiled and blurred
by the arrival in the midst of it of
some bibulous party, just from a very
gay dinner, falling over every ones
feet on the way to their seats in the
middle Of row. Fire engines never
shrek past the doorway of his pages
just as the hero is saying plaintively
to the sympathetic heroine, But why
do tell you all this?" Nobody in the
front row ever falls in a fit and has
to be carried out by the ushers right
in the middle Of his funniest para
graph. All his doors close when he
closes them and stay closed till he
opens them. His actors always say
what he tells them to say.-A. l..
Thomas in the New York Tribune.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
AMERICAN DRY FLY FISHING
The Angler Fishes the Water and Not
the Rise as They Do in
England.

American dry fly fishing may be de-
fined briefly as the art of displaying
TO the trout a single artificial fly
floating upon the surface of the stream
In the exact manner of the natural
insect.
Upon occasions, somewhat rare in
deed, but nevertheless of sufficient fire.
Quency to render the fact noteworthy,
the American dry fly man casts con-
sciously to a rising and feeding trout
the invariable custom of the English
dry fly "purist."
On the trout streams of this coun-
try, however, the orthodox manner Of
fishing and floating fly is to fish all the
water as when wet fly casting.
In America, owing to the fact that
the dry fly angler fishes the water
and not the rise. wet and dry fly fish
ang are far more closely related than
as the case in England, where the or
thodox sportsman stalks the trout,
casting exclusively to a rising and
feeding fish.-Outing.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
Change for the Better,

The care of the African population
in the Belgian Kongo in the past has
been so murderously Indifferent that
1t is a pleasure to note a change for
the better. An order has gone into
effect to prevent hereafter the impor.
tation, manufacture and transporta.
ton of saccharine sweets in the Bel.
gian African territory. Saccharine
products and products sweetened with
substances other than cane sugar.
beet sugar, milk sugar and glucose
sugar-particularly those sweetened
with glycerine-shall not be imported.
1t is specified in the order that it is
meant to include in general all syn.
thetic chemical sweetening which
does not possess food value. We wish
we could believe that this tariff anx.
iety to protect the Kongo population
against deleterious sweets was some.
thing more than an exhibition of the
usual protective philanthropy which
bars competitive product to make
sure the sale of something else.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
Bishop RIames His Hair.

Father William j. Dalton of the
-Annunciation church tells this story
OF Catholic bishop we'll known in
this locality. but at Father Dalton's re-
quest, nameless here:
THE bishop is a large man with
bushy back hair" the priest relates.
He often on his tours through Kan
sas wears a silk hat His crosier he
carried in large leather case.
Recently in a jerkwater Kansas
town where silk hats are scarce ex.
cept on the heads of travelling must
clans, the bishop was just alighting
from his train when the negro porter
appeared at the car door waving his
'crosier case.
Hey, boss!' the porter called. q
reckon you all had better take yo fid.
ole wifi you. De company is not
sponsible fo' packages left in de
seats. kansas City Journal.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
Mistake Cost s2o,ooo,ooo.

The temporary loss of an important
paper once cost this country nearly
$2O,000,000. This was in connection
with the famous Alabama incident in
the American Civil war
The vessel was quietly constructed
at Birkenhead, and launched on May
Is, 1852. Then, and not till then,
suspicion of it's true character was
aroused, and case was prepared for
the law officers opinion. But the mes
senger entrusted with the papers put
them in the wrong letter box. Two
days passed before the mistake was
learned, and when orders were tele-
graphed to stop the vessel the Ala
bama had steamed from the Mersey on
a voyage OF destruction for which we
had to pay something more than the
price of elegram.-London Chroni-
Gle.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
Much Like Modern AudieneA

The tricks of theater audiences have
been remarkably similar in all ages.
Alciphron, who wrote OF the later At
tic comedy, shows that the claque was
known then, and also young men of
the town" who took a malicious de-
light in Kissing play Off the stage.
Theophrastus, who died in 2SS B. G.,
sketches among his characters" the
man of superior taste, whose pride it
was to hiss when everybody else ap-
plauded, and to clap when the rest
were silent; and the annoying person
who would hum or whistle an accom-
paniment to every tune that pleased
him. And Aristotle himself refers to
spectators who brought out provisions
during the dull parts of the perform.
ance.-London Chronicle.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
DESERVED TO MAKE A SALE
Book Agent at Least Showed Thar He
Had the Valuable Quality Of
Perseverance,.

The book agent who walked into
Peter Steffen's ONCE looked like an
ingenious fellow, but Steffens, gianc-
ing up in hurry, spied his trade
in a minute and muttered to him.
self:
"Confound that boy. Now, how did
that fellow get in?"
Aloud, he said: You're wasting
your time here. l won't buy anything
today"
IF you'll only let me show you"
mo-" shouted Steffens.
''It won't take a minute"
But, really. my dear sir, this is
something out of the common"
mo use. can't read,' said Stef-
fens.
"But your family, sir, would you de-
prive them"
81 would said Steffens, "if l had
any. I'm an orphan"
well, you might want something to
throw at the cat" suggested the book
agent
do you think" demanded Steffens,
chat 1 would demean my cat by
throwing your miserable publication at
herr"
The book agent was only dashed a
second.
What about me-" he asked, insinu-
atingly. Don't you want something
to throw at me the next time Gomez"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-05-31
DISPELLED DREAM OF WEALTH
Danish Woman Finally Convinced 40
to the Value Of Note Peculiarly
Marked.

The woman handed her friend a IS
bill. "See the number of small flves
engraved on it," she asked. when
l was in Denmark a few years ago
such bill as that caused me a great
deal of amusement, and | had to sur
render one before | could prove myself
clear OF false belief regarding my
finances. An aunt whom l was visit
ing saw in my purse one day num-
Der of these bills, and she asked to
examine one, as 1t was 80 different
from any of the Danish money. She
studied 1t attentively a few minutes
and then asked me how much 1t was.
l told her 1t was IS, and, to my sur
prise, ] saw she did not believe me.
II 1t is only that amount she said.
why has 1t so many little figures on
1T? I tried to explain, but made lit
tie impression on her Later / heard
she had told our relatives that I was
worth thousands and thousands Of dol
lars and was trying to conceal the fact
from the family lest they should ex-
pect some things of me that they
would not otherwise. When / heard
that I was visiting in another part Of
the country and could not very we'll
defend myself, so l hit on the expe-
dent of sending my aunt a present of
a SIS bill. When she went to have it
changed into the money of the country
she was at last convinced, though at
the price of having her dream of
wealth rudely shattered"