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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
MAJOR BROWN TO
INSPECT COOSA DAM
Army Officer Will Make Re-
port of Observations to
the Government

Montgomery, May -(Special)-Maj.
Earl 1. Brown, United States army en-
gineer, stationed at Montgomery, has
gone to Ocampo on the Coosa river, to
inspect the dam and construction work
at Lock II, the site of the Alabama Pow
er company. Major Brown has made
several visits to Lock 12, and is familiar
with the various details of the develop
ment at that place.
Major Browns inspection of the work
at Ocampo will be in the interest of the
government, to whom he will render a
report of the work that is being done by
the Alabama Power company 1t Is un-
derstood that the dam which is under
construction will be completed within
the next few months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
MISS SUSIE NEWMAN
APPOINTED SPONSOR

Montgomery, May 6.-(SpeciaL)--
John H. Wallace. Jr, state game and
fish commissioner, and commander of
the Fourth Brigade. Alabama division
United Sons of Confederate Veterans
has appointed Miss Susie Newman OF
Huntsville sponsor for his brigade tc
the reunion that will shortly take place
in Chattanooga.
Commander Wallace announced that
the other official ladies of the brigade
are Miss Anna Margaret Newman, Miss
Bessie Cruise. maids of honor; Mrs. w
w. Newman, chaperon, and Mrs. Felix
z. Baldridge, matron of honor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
TABLET TO INVENTOR
|OF HEAVIER THAN AIR
MACHINE UNVEILED
The Smithsonian Institution
Pays Tribute to the Late
5. 2. Langley-Curtiss
and Eiffel HOnOred

Washington, May 6.-Three workers
n the field of aviation, one dead, the
Iother two living, were honored here
Today by the Smithsonian institution
(which unveiled a tablet to the memory
Iof the late DR.. Samuel Pierpont Lang
Hey, inventor of the first heavier than
Iair machine to fly and presented Lang
Fey medals to Frenchman, Gustave
IEiffel, for his valuable experiments In
Iaerodromics, and Glenn H. Curtiss, the
young American who has been a leader
tn hydro aeroplane invention.
As M. Eiffel could not be present the
French ambassador, J. J. Jusserand, re-
lceived his medal. Another feature of
the celebration of Langley day, SO
Icalled because on this date II years
Iago Langley's first fight of a heavier
Ithan air machine, propelled by it's own
power was made, was an exhibition OF
Eeroplane and hydro -aeroplane maneu-
IVers on the arm ywar college grounds
assistant Eceretary of War Brecken-
Fridge expressed his desire to make a
Plight and was taken up by Lieut.. John
|lI Towers, navy aviator, in the Curtiss
plying bodl II was just like riding III
= ferryboat," he said after returning to
1.-THE dock.
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell, a regent
|of the Smithsonian institutions, pre-
scented the medals.
In accepting the medal on behalf OF
M Eiffel, the French ambassador spoke
|of the way in which this country and
his had been vieing with each other
|in aviation experiments as well as in
Imany other fields of science.
Mr. Curtiss, in accepting his medal
praised highly the work of Langley.
Hanging in the hall where the exer-
|cises took place was the machine which
made the historic first fight II years
|ago today. DR.. Charles d. Walcott, Sec
|retary of the Smithsonian instition, in
(which position he succeeded DIR. Lang
Hey, presided
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
j. H. BIXBY BEFORE
JUSTICE REEVE
Answers In Response to Citation for
Contemplate Evasion Was
Intended

Los Angeles, May 6.-George II. Bixby,
the Long Beach banker indicted on two
charges of having contributed to the de-
linquency of minor girls, appeared be-
fore Justice Reeve today in response to
a citation in contempt. issued when he
failed to answer subpoena requiring
hsi presence in the hearing of Mrs. Emma
J. Goodman, alias Josie Rosenburg, in
dicted on two charges of pandering
Bixby told the court he had been l.
formed by attorneys that his presence
was not required until they gave him
a date on which they wanted him to
testify. He said he had not intended to
evade or ignore the sumons. The hear
ing was continued until May Is. Several
more arrests were made today of wo-
men and girls said to have frequented
disorderly houses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
Considering improvements

Anniston, May 6.-(Special AS soon
as c. B. Henry now in New Hampshire,
returns to the city, it is probable that
the property of the Jacksonville Oil Mill
and Fertilizer company at Jacksonville
viii be considerably improved and put in
operation again. w. l. Greenleaf, Mr..
Henrys agent, who purchased the prop
erty for $4,000. says that an inspection
will be made this week with a view 10
making Improvements wherever neees-
sary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
JOHNSTON
VISITS WEST POINT

washington. May Especial )-Senator
Johnston and several members OF The
military committee of the Senate will
visit the West Point Military academy
either the latter part of this week or
the first OF next. At this time the aead-
emy will be entertaining visitors and
the military committee is especially urged
to come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
Executive Committee OF State
Good Roads Association Meet


ton would actively canvass the state and
address the people on the subject of good
roads, and make an effort to increase the
membership.
The time and place of holding the next
meeting was discussed. but it was decided
to defer action Four cities are desirous
of entertaining the next convention.
The following telegram of congratula-
ticns was forwarded to oscar w. Under
wood:
1.-The Alabama Good Roads association
extends to its vice president, honored
and active member on this, his fifty-ffrst
natal day our hearty congratulations and
wish that his journey shall be 90 more
over better roads that he has ,championed
with his colleagues of the Alabama Good
Roads associations for go years.
JOHN CRAFT, President
JOHN w. O'NEILL. Vice President.
81. A. ROUNTREE, Secretary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
SEND TELEGRAM OF CONGRAT-
ULATIONS TO CONGRESSMAN
OSCAR w. UNDERWOOD ON
51ST BIRTHDAY

meeting of the executive officers of
the Alabama Good Roads association was
held yesterday afternoon at the Florence
hotel. There was a full attendance of
the committee. John Craft, president,
presided. e
The work of the association during the
coming summer was thoroughly discussed
and many details were gone over and
arranged. It was decided that President
Craft and other members of the associa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
Application Osulled

Montgomery. May 5.--1special) THE
supreme court has overruled an appli-
cation for rehearing in case from
Morgan county which attempted to I'M
peach the jury commissioners on the
ground that they withheld names from
the jury box. The lower court i'm
peached the men, but the supreme court
decided in their favor and dismissed
the charges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
LEWIS MARKHEIM
SENT TO PRISON

New York, May 6-Louis Markhem.
proprietor of one of the largest lace and
embroidery concerns In the city, was sent
to Tombs prison today in default of s25.
900 bail on indictments charging attempt
ed grand larceny and filing false claims
Of loss he estimated at s131.OO0 in con
nection with fire in his esta blishment
on April u.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-07
CONVICTION SCHOOL
WILL COST $4,000
Building Committee at Meeting in
FlOrala Decides to Select Archi-
tect and Plans at Once

Florala, May 6-(Special)-Th building
committee, which has charge of the erec-
ton of the new building for the proposed.
Covington County High school, held a
meeting in Florala yesterday afternoon
and decided to proceed at once with the
selection of an architect and plans for
the new building. Fifteen thousand dol
lars will be used in the erection of the
building and about $1,000 used for equip
ment.
The Rev. r. S. Gavin, pastor of the
Baptist church of Huntsville, has been
conducting a successful series of meet
ings in Florala during the past week.
Work is being pushed on the large store
building to be coupled by Lamar -Britton
Mercantile company on Fifth avenue.
The walls are almost up and soon the
glass front will be put in. The front
is modelled after the most up-to-date city
store fronts and the interior is arranged
to best meet the needs of modern de-
partment store.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT.

c. H. Seeley is preparing to build a
$4,000 theater at Pomeroy.
A new $4,000 high school building
is being erected at Harrington.
Plans and specifications have been
completed for the new $4,000 high
school building at Wallace, Idaho.
The county commissioners have de-
cided to have plans prepared for a
100000 court house at Walla Walla.
The school board of Kellogg, Idaho,
has called for bids on a new school
building to cost about S14,500, to be
completed about January l.
The Puyallup & Sumner Fruitgrow-
ers association has decided to insti-
tute a new departure next season by
the installation of presses for the
manufacture of berry juices. During
The $4,000 bond issue for a new
high school and gymnasium at Wal
lace, Idaho, has been approved by the
purchaser, c. H. Coffin of Chicago,
and the trustees will advertise for
bids soon.
At the closing session of the good
roads meeting at Eureka, CAL, last
week, the Pacific Highway association
was organized to carry on the work
which has as an end the building of
a system of highways connecting Ore
gon, Washington and California
George e. Boos of Medford, Ore, ia
secretary.
John Scott Mills, a special writer
employed by the Washington
Railroad & Navigation Co., has pre-
pared the following estimate OF the
fruit crops of the Yakima valley for
the present season: Apples, 1900
cars; peaches, 1000 cars; pears, ESQ
cars; prunes, 1875 cars; miscellaneous,
so cars. The report states that there
are 200 mich cows in Benton county
as against 1900 last year, while Yak
ina county has total of 1000 dairy
cows
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
SPORTING COLUMN

The grouse season in eastern Ore
gon opened September 1.
The Giants and Athletics have safe
leads in big league pennant races.
Derby day at the Spokane fair this
year will be on Wednesday, Sept. II.
Entries in the dog and poultry shows
at the Interstate fair close Monday,
Sept. 8.
At Saratoga, N. Y, August 80, Pen
nant won the $4,000 futurity at six
furlongs.
Manager McGraw of the Giants is
after Ed Konetchy, the crack first
baseman of the st. Louis Cardinals.
Many fast horses are stabbed at the
Spokane Interstate fairgrounds in
training for the opening of the speed
program September Is.
Seattle's new ball park is fast ap-
preaching completion, and there is no
longer doubt that it will be ready for
occupancy early in September.
Sam Hildreth, perhaps the most sue
cessful trainer in the history of the
American turf, is back in Saratoga af-
ter sepnding two years in France
Jim Logan, the greatest favorite
California ever had in harness horse
dom, crushed the Coast record at
Woodland recently by pacing a mile
in 2:O9%.
In the final of the ladies' open
championship of lawn tennis tourna-
ment Mrs. Robert Williams of Phila-
delphia defeated Miss Mary Browne
of Los Angeles, the American national
champion, Sc. 2-6, GA.
George w. Chesley of New Haven,
Conn, made a worlds record on the
rifle ranges when in the Palma match
elimination shoot he made a run of
224 out of a possible 225 on the 800
yard range. His total in the elimina-
ton shoot on the S00-yard, the 900-yard
and 1000-yard ranges was 43S.
Tom Burrows, the Australian all
around athlete and champion club
swinger, collapsed at the Earls court
exhibition, London, in an attempt to
swing three and one-half pound clubs
100 hours continuously. He had been
keeping the clubs in motion for 81
hours and 80 minutes and then dropped
over.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
PACIFIC INTO CANAL
OCEAN WATERS FOR FIRST TIME
BUMP MASONRY OF GREAT
LOCKS.
TERRIFIC BLAST TEARS GREAT GAP
High Tide Enthusiastically Tons OF
Explosive Throw Vast Earth Heaps
High in Air-Dredges Pass
Through.

Panama.-The last remaining bar
rier at the Pacific end of the Panama
canal was blown up by dynamite Sun
day morning. At $3.50 o'clock an cleo
trio switch was turned on and hun
dreds of tons of mud and stones were
thrown high in the air as the thunder
Gus roar of the explosions reechoed
in the nearby hills.
About 20 long tons, equivalent to
44,S00 pounds of As per cent dynamite,
constituted the blast, which was one
of the largest ever set off in the canal.
Tears Big Gap.
The charge, which was planted in
SAL holes at an average depth of 30
feet, tore big gap in the barrier, but
not to a sufficient depth to permit
water to flow through, as the tide was
low
Equally as interesting as the explo-
sion was the actual breaking OF the
barrier in the afternoon, the tide creep
ing steadily up until, at 1:35 o'clock,
it was level with the top of the gap.
A workman seized a shovel and made
small trench, through which rill
of water trickled. Gradually it wild
ened until an hour later a raging tor
rent, with a 35-foot fall, roared through
an opening 400 feet wide into that part
of the canal between Gamboa dixie and
the Miraflores locks, which previously
had been excavated by steam shovels.
Pacific Flows In.
This cut, which is 5000 fee thong, 500
feet wide and Al feet long below mean
sea level, was entirely filled by 3
O'Clock, when the waters of the Pa.
cific laved, for the first time, the solid
masonry of the Miraflores locks.
Dredges passed through the opening
at night, and in few days the last
vestiges of the barrier will be re
moved, establishing practically com
pleted channel at the Pacific end.
The dredges will begin on Septem
Der to remove the last barrier of the
Atlantic channel When this work is
accomplished ships may navigate tC
the locks form both ends.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM THE DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED FROM BOTH CONTINENTS
happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected Tor Our
Many Readers.

John w. Davis of West Virginia was
Saturday sworn in as solicitor general
Of the United States.
Il am now definitely candidate for
the presidency of Mexico. "-General
Felix Diaz, now in England.
The National Federation Of Retail
implement and Vehicle Dealers asso-
citation meets at Chicago, Oct. IA, IS
and 10.
The problems incident to residence
in the same land of whites and blacks
are becoming as acute in South Africa
as in America.
A visit to West Point was foremost
on the program of Viscount Haldene,
lord high chancellor of England, who
is visiting America for five days.
Dairymen Of st. Louis have notified
their customers that the price of milk
would advance l cent quart, Hence
forth it will sell for 8 instead of 8
cents.
With few traces remaining of the
fire which damaged her hold last week
and cost the life of one of her officers,
the Imperator sailed from New York
Sunday.
The bullet wound which Mayor Gay
nor of New York sustained just three
years ago this month, when an at
tempt was made upon his life, still
causes him trouble.
So many of the young men of Aus
tria and Hungary have emigarted to
America that the armies OF the dual
monarchy lack from $4,000 to 100000
soldiers this year to bear arms.
An inspection tour of the Panama
canal is being made by Captain Hal
sey and officers of the British cruiser
New Zealand Lieutenant Prince
George, a cousin OF King George, is
one of the officers.
Detailed reports regarding the ty
phoon which last week ragged over
Japan shows that it was more serious
than at first believed and that the
fatalities perhaps will aggregate 1000
There was tidal wave at Miyado.
The members of the commission ap
pointed by the Carnegie peace endow
ment to investigate the alleged Balkan
atrocities have decided to abandon
their probe. Servia and Greece OBJ
jected to certain members of the com
mission and declined to recognize it.
Knoxville, Tenn.-A wireless mes
sage from President Wilson was the
signal for the opening in this city OF
Monday of the National Conservation
exposition, the first in the history O.
the country devoted to the cause o.
conservation.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
HE ADVISES WINTER WHEAT
Lincoln County (Wash.) Agriculturist
Points Out Advantage Over
Sprinu VARIETY

In a series of articles VIII j. Jones,
county agriculturist, takes Raising
Winter Wheat" for his second subject.
If everything is favorable, he says,
winter wheat will make a better crop
than spring wheat on account of its
being able to withstand a severe
drouth. The agriculturist says in part
when successfully grown winter
wheat possesses many advantages over
spring wheat; such as better distribu-
ton of labor, earlier maturity, greater
drouth resistance and larger yields.
Do not plant fall wheat unless you
have sufficient moisture present close
to the surface to terminate the grain
and keep it growing vigorously"
Mr.. Jones states that the farmers
can not depend on September rains to
start the fall wheat, so a system of
tillage must be followed in order to
insure the retention of sufficient mois-
ture so that when the time comes to
SOW wheat it can be planted without
having to depend on rains. He fur
ther states that this tillage provides a
good firm seed bed with the moisture
close to the surface, and the farmers
are advised to seed shallow and not
to work the soil after the drill.
Mr.. Jones advises the farmers to
give turkey red a thorough test and
to SOW between 20 and 40 pounds to
the acre.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
c. A. R. National Encampment.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-Former United
States Senator Newell Sanders, gen
eral chairman; John A. Patten, execu-
tive director, and Fred Arm, chairman
Of the assignment committee. Chatta-
nooga Encampment association, which
will entertain the 47th national en-
campment of the G. A. r. here Sep
TENDER 1920, have issued a statement
assuring the Grand Army and the 9TH
ers expecting to come here that all
would be properly cared for.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
FIERCE STORM IN OGDEN
Streets Flooded, Street Cars Stopped
In Retail District.

Ogden, Utah.-An electrical storm
which lasted only 20 minutes here Sat
urday flooded the retail and wholesale
business district, put the street car
service out of commission and para
lyzed business while it lasted. The
water flowed downhlll from the resi-
dence section. flooding the ground
floors of the stores in the shopping
district. Passengers were marooned
on the stalled street cars and were
carried in automobiles and wagons
through the freshet in the streets.
The streets of the business district
were Sunday night again turned into
rivers which oyerflowed the curbs and
flooded easements.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Grain men In the section around Pot
latch report the grain market some
what dull, wheat prices ranging around
n and IS cents. Farmers do not seem
anxious to sell.
While out hunting near the GENE
terry at Occur d'Alene City. Clare Sny-
der, the 12-year-old son of Peter Sny-
der, was accidentally shot through the
abdomen and almost instantly killed.
Governor Haines has accepted the
invitation to act as official starter at
the war bonnet roundup to be held in
Idaho Falls for five days, beginning
September and continuing to Sep
TENDER IL.
The unwritten law was upheld at
Pocatello when a coroner's jury exon
Grated Sam Geordana for shooting and
killing Louis Schifano, who forced un-
welcome attentions on the slayer's
sister-in-law.
A long search had to be made for
the bodies of the two victims of the
disastrous cavein at the Gold Hunter
mine at Mullan before they we're
found. The unfortunate miners were
William Mayor and Helmar Nelson.
George MCGOWAN, timber man for
the Rose Lake Lumber company of
Rose Lake, Idahe, says that his com
pany is making preparations to do ex-
tensive logging operations on the
North Fork of the Occur d'Alene river
The Northern Pacific railroad will
commence immediate construction
work upon the proposed new steel
bridge across the Clearwater river at
Spalding. The new structure will be
about 1000 feet in length and will cost
approximately $150.000.
Hepburn park on Lake Chatcolet,
Hidden lake, St. Joe river and Lake
Occur d'Alene, consisting of 10000
acres, the largest and most valuable
park owned by the state of Idaho, is
Lake Chatcolet and Hidden lake, wide
enough for the passage Of houseDoats.
The state board of equalization
placed the general tax levy of Idaho
for 1913 at 81 mills, raising 100000,
as against $7$20,2S3, the sum fixed by
the board in 1912; the general interest
and sinking levy at 2 mill, identically
the same as the last board, and the
public building endowment fund at
one-half tenths of mill, as compared
to 5-10 of mill fixed by the 1912
board.
The general interest and sinking
fund levy fixed this year and equal
red among counties reaches total
of $50, 100, compared to $2O1,0 09 raised
by the levy in 1912, while the public
building endowment levy this year
raises $6O,176, as compared to $780,
the total raised by the former board
last year.
The 1912 board placed the total as
sessed valuation of railroad lines al
S4,5O6,573; Pullman and private cal
companies at 1851, 1874; telegraph lines
81, 1872 55; telephone lines, 1$,430, 499
and the total valuation of the prop
erty reported by the several counties
at 1881, 32S,S42.
The total assessed valuation of the
state was found to be 1898, 552, 564
added to which will be S20,000,000 tc
be reported in by the subsequent as
sessment rills, making the grand tota
about equal to that found by the 1915
board, or $41S, 7S0,394
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
MEXICO REARRANeEs ARMY.
Will Protect Coast and Northern
Frontier Points.

Mexico City.-With the negotiations
between the United States and Mex
leo looking to a continuation of peace
at a standstill, Mexico has issued or
ders for a new disposition of the troops
and for the INFLAMMATION of all able
bodied men in that portion of the re-
public under control of the central
government. There will also be a
general shifting of headquarters to
cities along both coasts and the north
ern frontier
The war department. in explanation
Of these changes, says that the revo-
lutionary conditions no longer demand
the presence of these men in the in
terror and that their new positions
will enable them better to guard
against smugglers.
Recently orders were issued to every
governor and jefe politico to organize
and drill all able-bodied men under
their respective jurisdictions, for the
ostensible purpose of taking part in
parades September 16, national indie
pendence day.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
Horse Now Out Of Fashion.

Chicago.-There will be no horses
In use in Chicago so years from now
If the annual decrease of 2 per cent in
the use of animals in this city con
tinues. The decrease has been com
puted for the years between 1907 and
1913. which shows a total falling off
In horse-drawn vehicles of II per cent
for that period. while the use of auto
mobiles has increased $40 per cent.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-05
French Lady Acquitted.

Agen, France.-Mme. Crespy, the
poetess, after trial full of dramatic
Incidents, was found not guilty of the
murder of the Able Chassaing, the
young priest with whom she confessed
she had had relations. Her defense
had been that he har committed sui
eide. The charge Of the prosecution
was that she shot him dead.