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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
Mexico DRAFTING tor Its Army.

Mexico City-An army draft, begin
ming June l, is authorized by decree
issued by President Huerta. This or
der will apply whenever voluntary en-
listments are inadequate to fill vacan
cies in the ranks.
1t applies to all Mexican males be
tween the ages of IS and 45, regardless
of social standing, except in the case
of heads of families or those who car
show that families are dependent
upon them.
Those drafted shall serve three
years with the colors and three years
in the reserves.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
MORE TIMBER FOR SALE
Forest Service to Handle National
Forest Timber.

FOREST service TO Handle National
Forest Timber.
The forest service has just begun to
advertise the twelfth large lot of ma
tional forest timber offered for sale
within the past nine months. Alto
gether it has advertised. since July l.,
1912, the beginning of the present fis-
cal year, about ,500,000,000 feet, and
has closed contracts for the sale of
1,70O,O0O,000 feet. The latest adver-
tised sale is of approximately $4,000
900 feet of saw timber in the Rainier
national forest, about 35 miles from
Tacoma.
In Offering national forest timber for
sale the government first makes an es-
innate of the quantity of timber on
an area which would naturally form a
single logging unit, and which offers
attractive opportunities for the lum-
herman. The probable cost of logging
and manufacturing by capable lum-
herman is then estimated. On the
basis of these estimates combined
with the figures for market values and
freight charges the timber is ap-
praised and then advertised for sale
Will Inc dppIdloSu fdluO DIS q HILL
mum price.
The minimum prices set for the
Rainier timber vary from so cents to
$3.50 per thousand feet, according to
the kind of timber. These are stump
age prices-that is, the purchaser buys
the trees on the stump and does all
the logging, but pays according to the
board foot measure of the logs.
One Of the provisions of the con.
tract which the successful bidder for
the Rainier lumber will enter into will
be that if the market prices advance
materially the governments chief for.
ester may, after the sale has run three
years, require a reasonable readjust-
ment of the stumpage prices up to an
added so cents per thousand. The OBJ
ject of this stipulation is to prevent
loss to the government-that is, to
the public-and an undue profit to the
purchaser through long-term contracts
entered into on a rising market.
For the Rainier sale the cutting
period allowed is only five years, since
the quantity of timber involved-ap-
proximately 100000 board feet
does not call for an extended opera
ton. Usually purchasers must begin
operating the year of purchase and cut
stipulated amount each year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
wrOnaed Husband Killed.

Chicago-A midnight confession of
an erring wife resulted in the reenact-
ment of the Harry Thaw tragedy, with
but one vital difference, in Chicago
Sunday This difference is that the
wronged husband was killed by bull
lie. from the revolver of the man
named in his wife's story of her mis-
doings.
Harry Leon Lacount, a government
inspector detailer at the Panama
canal, was the husband who was shot
when about to call his rival to account.
Joseph A. Williams, art student, and
an employe of stock yards firm, fired
two bullets into Lacounts heart, he
says, in self-defense.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
10000 Women in Grand March.

New York.-An army of women
marched up Fifth avenue Saturday af-
ternoon, twenty thousand strong, to
the martial music of "The Marseil-
laise," blared from forty bands. In
uniforms of white, cleaning with yell
low streamers, they paraded in the
heat of the midsummer sun for three
miles. A forest of yellow banners APP
pealed for "votes for women" to an
unbroken wall of spectators estimated
at a quarter of a million.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
sIIk industry Amid strIke.

Paterson, N J-Completely para
lying the silk industry of northern
New Jersey. 10000 workers in mills
about this city started a strike May 5
in sympathy with the silk workers
from mills in the city proper. The
strike was called when it was learned
the local factory owners are having
their silk manufactured elsewhere.
Every silk plant in Hudson county is
shut down.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
Lumber business Increasing.

The lumber business of 1912 con-
tinues to hold it's 20 per cent gain
over that of 1912, according to figures
compiled by the secretary of the
Western Pine Manufacturers associa-
ton.
For March the lumber cut by mills
reporting to the association office was
slightly in excess of 5O,000,OOO feet, as
compared with the 100000 for
March, 1912.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
Would Not Lax Women.

Representative William La Toilette
of Washington caused excitement in
the debate on the Underwood tariff
bill in congress Tuesday when he in
troduced an amendment to the income
tax feature of the measure exempting
from taxation all women in states
which have not granted equal suffrage
rights.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
Irriaatlonists Meet.

More than $50 representatives of
water users associations in the irri-
gated regions of the west, senators
and representatives and officials of
the reclamation service and the in
terror department were in attendance
at the conference on irrigation, called
by Secretary Lane last week at the
national capital.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
New YORK PoIice CONVICTED.

New York.-James F. Thompson,
James e. Hussey, John ]. Murtha, and
Dennis Sweeney, the four denoted po-
lice inspectors charged with conspir-
aey-to obstruct justice, were convicted
by a jury in the supreme court here.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
confesses Theft Of $4,000.

Jackson, Mich.-Full confession to
the charge that he had embezzled sums
aggregating $4,000 from the state pen
itentiary board of trustees was made
before the board by its defaulting sec
rotary, Lawrence Yerger.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
British Have Kick Also.

Washington.-The British govern
ment has joined the nations in protest
against that portion of the tariff bill
which extends a preferential differ
ence of 5 per cent on goods imported
in American bottoms.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09

Snohomish, Wash.-Police Judge II.
N. Stockton of Snohomish committed
suicide in his office Tuesday by shoot
ing himself through the head with a
pistol. He was temporarily insane.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
Butte Fire Loss Is $4,000.

Butte, Mont-Fire of unknown ORR
gin Tuesday night swept seven resi-
dences on Minot street in the north
ern part of the city.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
Britain RECOGNIZES Huerta.

Mexico City.-President Huerta has
been informed of the recognition of his
government by Great Britain.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
FREE WHEAT OPPOSED
MINNESOTA PUTS UP STRONG Ar
eUMENT FROM WHEAT GROW
ERs' STANDPOINT.
J.J. HILL SAYS RAISE MORE WHEAT
Minneapolis People Do Not Expect to
Get Flour off Free List In Pro-
posed Bill, but They Do Elk
pect to Have Wheat Free.

st. Paul, Minn.-There is a strong
argument made here against free
wheat and flour considered from the
standpoint of the wheat grower, espe-
cially the grower who sells his product
on the basis of the Minneapolis mar
ket.
The Winnipeg market, like the Port
land market, is constantly on export
basis, while the eastern markets, espe-
cially Minneapolis, are frequently and,
in fact, almost constantly, above the
export basis because of real or i'm
aginary shortage in the supply of
wheat, it having been frequently pre-
dicted by j. J. Hill and other students
of economics that the United States
is destined to be an importer of bread
stuffs, and wheat in particular, unless
something is done to increase the pro-
duction of that cereal.
Flour on Free List.
Minneapolis people, who have re-
Gently come from the national capital,
say, while they do not expect to get
flour off the free list in the proposed
bill, they do expect to have wheat put
on the same basis as flour, and it is
obvious what that will mean to the
wheat producers in this part of the
country.
The West Interested.
The farmers of eastern Washington
and northern Idaho are interested in
anything that affects the Minneapolis
market because there have been sew
eral times during the last few years
when the premium prices offered al
Minneapolis have fixed the price which
the Portland and Puget Sound export
ers were obliged to pay for wheat a
interior points, and 1t is also true tina
there has been a considerable move
ment to eastern markets each year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
DISORDER IN LONDON
FREE SPEECH MEET SUNDAY
CAUSE OF SERIOUS RIOT ON
WHITEHALL SIDE.
POLICE HAVE A TINE QUIETING CROWD
Fighting Was General When Suffra-
gettes Were Ordered Not to
Speak-Government Is
Denounced.

London.-Wild scenes of disorder oc-
CURED Sunday at the demonstration in
Trafalgar square under the auspices Of
the free speech defense committee.
The police tried to prevent speeches
from the Whitehall side of the Nelson
column, and only the Intervention of
James Kier Hardie, socialist and in
dependent labor member of the house
of commons, who was chairman of the
meeting, prevented a serious riot. AS
it was the disorders, many times cul-
minating in fisticuffs between the
crowd and the police, continued for al
most two hours.
BY the time the marching socialist,
labor and other organizations, with
bands playing "The Marseillaise, :"
reached Trafalgar square 10000 per-
sons had gathered there and as many
more in the surrounding streets.
Women Get Into Parade.
Permission to hold a meeting was
given at the last moment on the under
standing that no suffragettes be al
lowed to speak. Unable to secure per
mission to march as an organization,
the supporters of the Women's Social
and Political union marched with the
lockers, their colors flying, preceded
by huge banner inscribed. Where
there's a will there's a way"
Flags of the Womens' Social and Pc
litical association were hoisted on the
plinth, from which they waved continu
ously during the meeting.
Trouble began when a socialist
speaker started to address the crowd
from the Whitehall side of the column
The promise had been given that nc
speaking should take place on this side
because of interference with traffic.
husky police sergeant standing on the
plinth hurled the speaker down on the
heads oil the crowd below.
The crowd then rushed the plintf
and endeavored to replace the speaker
1t looked for a time as If their effort:
would prove successful, but mounted
police ruthlessly rode down the rioters
James Kier Hardie then INTERVIEWED
and the socialist speaker was allowed
to remain his place.
Suffragette Reaches Platform.
In a moment suffragette attempted
to climb to the plinth. The police be
low tried to pull her back, but sympa
thizers on the platform succeeded il
dragging her up after she had sacri
feed some clothes left in the hands o
the police.
In retaliation a policeman snatcheC
a suffragette banner from a girl who
was waving it from the back of tht
Landseer lions. She struck the police
man in the face and her friends re
gained the banner, minus the staff.
This struggle angered the crowd anC
the disorder became so general thai
Commissioner Wells, commanding The
mounted police, ordered the Whitehall
side cleared.
British Women Lose.
London.-The fate of the woman suf
frage bill was sealed Wednesday by
the votes of more than so Irish nation
alists, who voted against it. The bill
whereby it was sought to enfranchise
5000, 900 women, was rejected by a ma
jority of AZ. The vote on a motion tC
reject the bill stood 266 to 219.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09

Paper insulation on exposed electric
wires has withstood % years service.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-09
British Women Lose.

London.-The fate of the woman suf-
frage bill was sealed Wednesday by
the votes of more than so Irish nation
alists, who voted against it. The bill,
whereby it was sought to enfranchise
100000 women, was rejected by a ma
jority of AZ. The vote on motion to
reject the bill stood 266 to 219.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25
BIG ARMOR PLATE
GRAF Fl MAY SOON
BE Ended BY u. s.

Washington, July 22-What sen,
sible objection is there to the pro.
posal that the United States gov
eminent manufacture its W arm
or plate?
United States Senator Henry F.
Ashurst of Arizona declares that
the answer to the above query that
there isn't any sensible objection
and therefore. contends that the
government should hereafter man
u%facture its " armor plate. He
declares, and facts seem to bear
him out. that millions Of dollars
could be saved to the government
annually if a government armor
plate factory is established.
The government now manufact-
ures its " ammunition, yet whcn
it is proposed that the government
should manufacture some arrnor
plate for the use of its own ships.
their idea is boo<hooed by some
statement as "socialistic" patern-
~listic" and ''matcrnalistic"
1t being ascertained n few ear
agu that the powder trust was
charging exorbI,ant prices for pow
der the government constructed its
own plant and now manufactures
much Of its own powder.
The powder which the govern.
ment purchases costs about G5
cents a pound. while the powder
the government makes for it's own
use costs 81 cents a pound.
The government has been in the
habit of paying from $500 to 500
per ton tor armor plate. Expert
witnesses testifying before the Sen
ate Committee on Naval Affairs on.
February II, 1897, expressed the
belief that the government could
manufacture its own Earmor plate
for from $3.50 to $500 per ton.
When it is considered that between
March 8. 1887. and January Is.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25
GIFT BY MRS.. HARTMAN

Mrs E II Hartman, widow of the
late railroad msgnatc, has just
given an additional endowment Of
$4,000 to the fund Of $50, 900
she established in 1911 for the
foundation of meteorological and
pathological research labratory. in
connection with the hospital scr
vice of the Southern Pacific com
pany. This announcement was
made today by DR. + K Ainswurth.
chief surgeon of the railroad. in
whose hands the disposition o. the
funds is placed.
The purpose of the endowment
is to further the progress of medi-
cal research. For the last two
years, the work has been going on
under the direction Of DR. W T
Cummings of the Southern Pacific
general hospital at San Francisco.
DIR Cummings has devoted his time
to a study of serums with spccisl
relation TO typhoid fever and tubcr.
c%uIosis, and has contributed some
valuable experimental data to the
existing store Of scientific know
ledge.
The fund is placed in the hands
Of the Union Trust company Of
San Francisco. the income being
turned over to the hospital depart
ment as it accrues.
This is the second large contribu.
ton to the Southern Pacific hospital
service within the last two years.
the widow of the late Coils P.
Huntington having given S25. $50
for the construction Of a social
hall now in use at the San Fran.
cisco hospital.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25
AVENGES MURDER
OF HIS MOTHER

Sunday morning at Gardnerville,
an Indian known as Benny Pitts, a
visitor from Antelope Valley, cut
throat of another Indian from ear
to ear-the murdered man being
jim Jack, a Gardnerville Indian,
who q number of years ago murd.
cred the mother of Pitts. The
murderer was arrested and lodged
in Jail at Genoa. 1t is said that
the Indian Pitts has stated upon
many occasions that if yer the op.
]portunity arrived he would avenge
the death Of his mother. This was
known to Jack who in every way
avoided the young Indian until
sunday night when he was not able
to escape the avenger. In the In
dian law the action of Pitts was
right and proper aud they are sat.
isfod with the outcome and regret
the fact that he has been arrested
Carson News.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25
CONSCIENCE MONEY


Have the American people sud.
denly become more or less con.
scientlous? How account for the
drop OF the government conscience
!uhd ~ 92S.li? These figures for
the year ending June 80 are the
lowest voluntary ]rcstitutions for
l. years.
A plausible explanation is that
this fund has come largely from
travellers who lied at the custom
house about dutiablc goods, Re.
cent prosecutions no doubt con
WINGED them the game &c mt uoru.
playing.
Conscience must be firmly hand
led to be a successful sinner, If
you give a child candy between
meals once or twice soon he de.
mands daily allowance. If con.
science is dealt with firmly and as
a matter of principle, it soon comes
to know its place. But if handled
IN a lemporizing fashion it becomes
very unruly and pokps its nose into
everything. Many successful
Americans have felt when it came
to a matter Of buying legislatures
or CITY councils that this was realm
In which questions Of conscience
could not enter. The mere fact
that it was business placed it out
side questions Of morality or i'm.
morality
Government conscience fund,
come from un,,ooo..,.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25

1912, this government paid out
S77, l03, 4S3 for armor plate, sthis
state OF affairs becomes serious.
Had the government manufactured
its own armor plate during the
period mentioned here is reason
TO believe that one. third of this
huge sum, or 1855. OF. l6l, could
have been saved to the people.
The armor plate trust has never
played fair with Uncle Sam. When
the Carnegie Steel Company was
selling armor plate to our govern
mont at a figure Of from $500 per
ton to 500 per ton, it was selling
armor plate to Russia at about
$239 per ton, as shown by the re-
port of he Investigating committee
of 1894.
The Senate Naval Affairs Commit
tee which Investigated the subject
in 1897 reported that a government
armor plate factory could be
erected for $500. 600. and that it
was ]eXnedient to establish such a
factory" But the steel trust was
too strongly represented in the
Senate at that time TO permit fav-
orable action on the subject. On
Moy %, 1913. Senator Ashurst in
troduced a bill providing for gov
ernmcnt armor plate factory and
It is now under consideration.
AT present we pay the Steel
Trust two prices for armor" saws
Senator Ashurst, and then trust
to its patriotism as to whether the
armor plate it furnishes contains
blow holes or defects. and that
patriotism has never been above
par. The present contract system
opens the door TO graft and favor
itism. !; is the acme Of folly to
decline to manufacture our own
armor plate when it has been de-
monstra,ed that the government
could save enormous sums of money
in the manufacture Of its own arm
or"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25
An EXPLANATION

BY an oversight the pen made US
say the other day that AL Fisher
Of Wells, was engaged in Dry
Farming. This is a mistake Our
rotund friend is in the irrigation
business while Mr.. Connolly is the
man who should have the credit for
Dry farming and for the bunch Of
splendid rye which reached this
ofhceland the rye was not in a bot
tie either much to the regret of
the Office force.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25

DR.. A. NJ. Cole, the pioneer
druggist Of Virginia City. died
Monday evcUng. He had been a
resident Of Virginia City since 1862
and until two years ago run a drug
store. DR.. Cole was a mar Of ster-
ling integrity and az one time was
possessed of a good deal Of property.
But like many other old timers,
his last years were spent in COM
parative poverty. He will be re.
membercd by all old Comstockers.
lie was n native Of Penn Yam, New
York aged So years.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25
HOTEL ARRIVALS
At the Mayer Hotel

AZ tIs Mayer IlOlCI
Chas. Wilson, TusCarora; +. NJ.
Ayres, Winnemucca; Mr.. and Mrs
Z. J. Scott, Reno; Leon M. Hall,
San Francisco; f. II. Hall. San
Francisco; o. X. Cation, Bullion
Jas. Burke; Bullion.
At the Elko Hotel.
Elmer Peterson, City; Jas. Gill,
Chicago; Ballard, Chicago; John
Mahoney. City: y Doffard A. Pom
os; j. II. Hayward, Lamoille. Lem
mon, Tom Pixley, Jarbidgu; II l.
Alscon and wife, j. Fuller, Elko:
j. Il. Taylor, Salt Lake; Fred
Rerpa; T.. Evans Loyelock S. Gull.
lei; Bert Hicketts.
At the Commercial Hotel
Art Keddie and wife, Gold
Creek; j. a. Faf. San Francisco,
B. NJ. Saunders, Ogden, W. Lyon,
Carson; II. Il. Bodie, Ogden Lynn
Smith, Salt Lake; John A. Jess; w.
Woo: Woo Jack Ling: f. NJ. Miller
J. 3 Webster, Deetb B. NJ. Manic.
T.. l.. Hunt, Salt Lake; Geo d.
Powers. Reno; c Mcbride, Reno
j. Burns. Reno.
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the Matchmaker
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
III The Howell Jewelry Co.

Next year will be the centenary
of the writing by Francis Scott Key
Of the National anthem. 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" It was this
banner floating from old Fort Nc
Henry, near Baltimore during the
British attack in 1914 which inspi-
red Key to write the great anthem
as he witnessed from a British ship
the floating of that banner. 1t is
stated that the historic flag of old
Fort McHenry, which inspired the
Cde "is one of the very few Of
the National flags having Is stripes
as well as IS stars, being issued at
the time just proceeding the stand
ardization Of the number Of the
stripes as 49," But as the New
York Tribune points out, this is a
complete error. At first the idea
in making the National flag was
that the stripes could be increased
one for each State just as the stars
are increased one for each State
The original flag has IS stars and
Is stripes. When two States were
added a flag of IS stripes and 10
stars was adopted on January l3,
1894 by Congress and this flag was
in constant use until July 4, 1918.
AS our New York contemporary
points out. THAT period Of more
than 90 years comprised the war
with France. the second war with
Great Britain, the Florida cam
paigns, the Louisiana Purchase, the
Lewis and Clark expedition and
the Barbary war. 1t is absurd to
say that in all that stirring time
very few National flags were made.
1t was found however that it
would be impossible to add stripes
to the flag for each state as stars
we're added when states were adj
mitted to the Union, since the flag
would be unwieldy and so on April
Ia. 1918, a law was enacted making
the number of stripes l3 as origin.
ally enacted and adding a star to
the field on the fourth day of July
after the admission of any new
state. That has been the form Of
the flag ever since. until now we
have the field covered with six
rows Of stars. eight stars to the
row, and probably complete; for
there seems no likelihood at this
time of any further additions to
the number of the States.
But since the flag of Is stripes
was 10 long in use and was carried
through strenuous war times. it is
not likely that the number of such
flags is small. 1t is quite to be
supposed that the identical flag
floating from old Fort McHenry,
carrying Is stripes may be unique.
But of other Is stripe flags there
must be many in the different
States and ~arsenals of the Ropub-
lie.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-07-25

Postmaster Doughty announces
that the insurance fee on parcels
under the valuation of $25 is 5
cents instead of 10 cents as hereto
fore. Parcels valued more than $25
up to $50 the insurance is 10 cents.
c o ID parcels can be sent for 10
cents extra, which includes insur-
ancG.