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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
MONEY MEASURE
BECOMES A LAW
WITH A FEW STROKES OF THE PEN
BY THE PRESIDENT LAST NIGHT.
NEW ERA DAWNS.
Owen Currency Bill Signed in the
Presence of Distinguished
Citizens.

WASHINGTON, Dec 24.-President
Wilson signed the Glass-Owen cur
rency bill at 6:01 o'clock last night in
the presence of members of his cabi-
net, the congressional committee on
banking and currency and democratic
leaders in congress generally.
With a few strokes of the pen. Pres
ident Wilson converted into law the
measure to be known as the federal
reserve act. reorganizing the nations
banking and currency system and fur
nishing, in the words OF the president,
"the machinery for free and elastic
and uncontrolled credits, put at the
disposal of the merchants. and manu-
facturers of this country for the first
time in so years.
An enthusiastic applause ran
the ceremony not only as the
president affixed his signature, but
as he delivered an extemporaneous
speech characterizing the desire of the
administration to take common council
with the business men of the country
and the latter's efforts to meet the
governments advances as "the CON
stitution of peace
The event came at the close of a day
of rejoicing in the national capital
for congress had recessed for two
weeks for the first time since is con-
vened last April. The democratic lead
ers were jubilant because they had
two big pieces of legisla-
Lion-the tariff and the currency re-
form-in nine months, performance
which they considered unprecedented
in the history Of the country
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
LUMBER TRUST
HIT BY COURT
SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI UP
HOLDS CONTENTION OF THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Affirm Prosecution of 25 Lumber COM
panies Doing Business Contrary
To Antitrust Law.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. Dec "a
The supreme court of Missouri upheld
the contention of the attorney general
as to 25 out of the 29 lumber compa-
nies prosecuted under the antitrust
laws and imposed fines aggregating
$436 and custer in 20 cases Of domestic
corporations and a revocation of the
licenses of seven foreign companies do
ing business in Missouri under license.
Judgment of forfeiture was ordered
as to each of the 20 companies. The
fines must be paid within 80 days.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
WILL HOLD REVIVAL MEETINGS
Beginning Sunday, January 4, Method
ist Church VIII Open Services.

The First Methodist church of this
city will open the New Year with re-
vival meetings. beginning Sunday, Jan
uary 4. The pastor, Robert Warner,
will be assisted by other ministers.
The first week the Rev. c. w. Williams,
pastor of the Methodist church in Gar
field, will be present and preach and
after that Rev. W. e. Thompson of Spo-
kane will be here. Both of these men
are able preachers and a good meeting
is anticipated.
Full information concerning time
and character of the services will be
given later.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
TRAGEDY AT CHICAGO
Man Entered Law Office, Shooting Two
Men Then Attempting Suicide.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Before the eyes
OF hundred Christmas shoppers today
Frank L. Klinek, massour, persued
Attorney Charles Alling down a fire
escape of the Title and Trust building,
shot out one of Alling's eyes, wounded
Peter Schwaba, Allings law partner,
then attempted to kill himself by shoot
ing in the chest and throat. He can
not live.
Klinek entered the law offices and
began firing. Schwaba was struck in
the cheek. Alling jumped through a
window alighting on fire escape with
klinek in persuit. Klinek fired a bull
let striking Alling in the left eye.
kllnek then ascended to the office, en-
tered vault and shot himself
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
NATIONAL CAPITOL DESERTED
With Congress Adjourned and Society
People OF for the Holidays all is
Quiet Today.

WASHINGTON, Dec. PA deserted
village has nothing on Washington
Gone were the legislators after weary
months grind on the tariff and cur
rency bills. Vanished were society folks
over holiday trips.
President Wilson and his family are
speeding to pass the Christmas holi-
days in Mississippi. An air of deser-
ton will hang upon the capitol until
January II when congress will recon
vene
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
DRAGNET DRAWS
TEN SUSPECTS
POLICE GATHER IN MEMBERS OF
AN ATHLETIC CLUB IN CHICAGO
IN INVESTIGATIONS.
Men Suspected of Completely in the
Mystery Surrounding Death of
Battle Creek Woman.

CHICAGO. Dec. 24.-Two young men.
members of an athletic club. are held
by the police in it's Investigations of
the death of Mrs. Anna Laughlin Demp-
sey of Battle Creek, Mich.
The girl was found almost nude ly-
ing in an alley in the stock yards dis
trict The police believe the girl was
lured to barn, attacked, stripped of
most of her clothing and thrown in the
alley where exposure caused her
death.
The athletic club occupies quarters
near where the girl was found and the
police believe they are working ON the
right clue
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
VIII Feed Homeless.

PORTLAND, Dec. 24-One thousand
men, not otherwise provided with
Yuletide cheer, will be the guests of the
O--W. R. & n company to dinner to
be served on the steamer Hassalo here
Christmas day. The best cooks in the
railroad company's service will pre-
pare the viands, and music will be pro-
vided to whet the appetite.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
Roosevelt for u. of w.

SEATTLE, Dec. 24-Because the
University of Washington is claimed to
be the most progressive in the coun-
try, and is the second largest west of
the mississippi, Theodore Roosevelt
may be aked by the alumni association
to become president OF the institution.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
PLAIN FIGURES ON
LATAH TAXES
COUNTY ASSESSOR MARTINSON
HAS PREPARED A STATEMENT
OF CONDITIONS.
Gives Comparative Figures and Shows
Where the Money is Derived and
Where 1t Goes.

Because of the close proximity when
taxes are due and because of the spe-
cial interest that the general public has
in this matter, Theodore E. Martinson,
county assessor, has prepared an ex-
tended article on the tax problem as
applies to citizens of Latah county
which The Star-Mirror is herewith
pleased to publish.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
Few Will Be Disappointed.

WASHINGTON, Dec 24.-There will
be- few folks disappointed in not re-
ceiving Christmas presents on time be-
cause of the congestion in the mails.
Postmaster General Burleson said to-
day that despite the unprecedented use
Of the mails this year, thnt the service
In delivering was good.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24

From the above segregations you
will note that the state and county
tax for 1912 was $4.24 whereas this
year, it is $3.50, an increase of only
26 cents for each $1,000 of valuation;
no increase in the general school, IA
cents in the general road, 20 cents in
the county bridge, an increase of $500
in the special school tax in district
number five, and an increase of $500
in the city of Moscow tax.
The following are the taxes for each
$1,000 of valuation in the other towns
and villages of the county, for town or
village and school:
kendrick Tax.
Town of Kendrick for 1913 . $500
School district No. "a, Kendrick. 1000
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
Explosion Killed One.

SEATTLE, Dec. 24.-Jack Johnson,
miner. was killed and Amadia Rossi
and Eugene Tollini were seriously in
jured in an explosion at Black Diamond
near here today.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24

School district No. "a, kendrick. $40
Total state and county tax $50. $50
Total tax in kendrick for 1912 s20.S0
You will note that there is an in
crease of $12.40 in the town of Ken
drick and that of that increase only
an increase of 90 cents On the state
and county taxes.
JuIiaetta Tax.
Town of Juliaetta for 1913. $500
School district No. 43, Juliaetta. 500
Total state and county tax. x.... $40
Total tax in Juliaetta for 1913 $31 20
Town of Juliaetta for 1912. $1,000
School district No. 43, Juliaetta. $40
Total state and county tax 7.60
Total tax in Juliaetta of 1912 $22 80
This shows all increase of $500 in
the total taxes OF Juliaetta of which
so cents is in the state and county
tax
Genesee Tax.
Town of Genesee tax for 1913. $1,000
School district No. 2, Genesee... 1000
Total tax in Genesee for 1913. $500
Town of Genesee for 1912. 2......$ 500
School district No. 2, Genesee.. 500
Total state and county tax. . 760
Total tax in Genesee for 1912 $23 go
This shows an increase of $3.50 in
The total tax of Genesee of which so
cents is in the state and county tax.
Town of Troy tax for 1913. ..... $500
School district No. 81, Troy. 1000
Total state and county tax. x.... $40
Total tax in Troy for 1918 $31 &c
Troy Tax.
Gown of Troy for 1912. $1,000 |
school district No. 81, Troy. 1000 |
'otal state and county tax. . 7.60 |
Total tax in Troy for 1912. .$27.60 !
This shows an increase of $3.50 in |
he total tax of Troy of which 60
ents is in the state and county tax.
own of Bovill tax for 1913 $1,000
chool district No. 81, Bovill -. 800
otal state and county tax. $40
BOyill Tax.
Total tax in Bovill for 1913. $37 20
own of Bovill tax for 1912. :. $4,000
chool district No. 81, Bovill.. 500
otal state and county tax. ..... 7.60
Total tax in Bovill for 1912. $3.50
This shows an increase of $1.60 in
lie total tax of Bovill of which 60
snts is in the state and county tax.
You will find that the facts set forth
2 the comparisons in the above tax
g districts are the same in nearly
yery school and road district in the 8
| l
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
By Theodore 4. .MartinsOn
Assessor Latah County.


AS you are all very much interested
at this time of the year in taxes and
assessment and l know that you are
anxious to know just what you are
paying for and what makes your taxes
higher this year than they were last
year or the year before, wish to pre-
sent to you for your careful considera-
ton some figures, facts and compari-
sons. So much complaint is made be-
cause of high taxes and mostly at
tributed to the state and county, "EX-
pensive Government" but you will
find that if you will study the follow
ing segregation of the various levies
and taxing districts that it is not the
state and county government tax that
is to blame but in every instance it
is the local special levies that are so
much in excess of what they were last
year. | wish to say this, too, that
when you hear any one attributing the
ernment, they are doing that for po-
litical purposes and we have had, too,
much of that in the past which has
kept our revenue law in a turmoil, one
year assessing on a 40 per cent basis,
then the next on a cash basis, etc.
Until we get politics out of taxation
and begin to regard this great problem
as business problem purely, and get
your cooperation in its solution, we
will have the same contention
Low County Levy.
This year we have as low a state
and county levy as you will find in the
of the states, the older states
not excepted I have written for the
segregation of levies and taxes of sew |
,ral states and find that we are be- |
ow the average Our state and coun-
y tax for each $1,000 OF valuation is
;4.50 that is for the maintenance of
he state and county governments.
I wish to ask that you take your
'wn valuation and by use of the fol-
owing segregations, figure out ex-
city how much you are paying into
he various funds and learn where
our money goes, if you are not sat
SIZED come in and allow us to show
ou by use of the records and figures
ust how your taxes are apportioned.
Segregation Of Taxes.
The following is segregation of our
tate and county tax on a valution of
1000 for 1913.
tate tax, current expense. .....$ 2.30 s
ounty tax, current expense. .... 2.20 :
eneral school fund. .......... 200
eneral road fund. d............ LILO
ounty bridge fund. d........... so
Total state and county tax....$ $40 r
pecial school levy for Moscow
ity of Moscow levy 16 mills. -. 1900 +
Total tax in Moscow for 1913 $34.20 p
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
BOvilI Tax.

Total tax in Bovill for 1913. .$37 20
Town of Bovill tax for 1912 $40 90
School district No. 81, Bovill... 500
Total state and county tax. .. 7.60
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24

The following is the segregation of
the state and county taxes for 1912 on
$1,000 of valuation:
State and county current eX-
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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24

Total state and county tax. ... $50
Total tax in Kendrick for 1913 $500
Total state and county tax. -. $40
Town of Kendrick for 1912 IS 500
School district No. "a, kendrick. go
Total state and county tax. x. 100
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
Segregation of Taxes.
The 1912 Tax.

Total tax in Moscow for 1913 ss4.2o
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
Christmas in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Dec. PA great
many elaborate entertainments have
been planned for the Christmas holi-
days by leaders OF the various official
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24

Total tax in Troy for 1912. $27. so
This shows an increase of $3.50 in
the total tax of Troy of which 60
cents is in the state and county tax
Town of Bovill tax for 1913 $4,000
School district No 81, Bovill. 49,. 900
Total state and county tax. $40
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-24
Some Comparisons.

Total tax in Moscow for 1912. .$25 go
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
OLD COINS.

we will pay premium on one and
three dollar gold pieces, also On silver
and copper coins over one hundred
years old. Will also buy $500. and
81, 900. 90 Confederate bills. Com Coz
LEcToRs CLUB, Moravian Falls, N. G.
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
Club Rates!
In Clubs ef Five, l5c a Year.

pilce Oh single subscriptions The
you Will several of
cuD OF nve or more at time
Foo1er
ouced and Union Join the rmv
cub-raisers
THE FOOL-KMLER MORAYIAN FALLS n C.
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
What About that Butter?

Say, Uncle Sam, doggon your
old greedy gizzard, / want to know
If you ate my butter? Now you
needn't try to play off that you
don't know anything about that
butter, for | know you do. Your
memory must be devilish short if
you've plum forgot how you
came honey-fuggling around here
with your parcel post palaver-
ment and wheedled me into giving
you two pounds of good old
country butter which you promis-
ed to deliver to my widder down
in Florida, | packed that butter
in accordance with the Poor Food
Law, and bought some of your
little old red labels to stick on it.
Then l addressed it on two sides
of the box so that if you failed to
see it with one eye you could
twist your head around and see
it with the other.
But after all them precautions,
and my widder down there just
looking her eyes out for that but
ter. she never did see hair nor
hide of it. And the result is that
she is still going through life sad
and BUTTERFLIES.
Now, Sam, you old star-studded
rascal, l want to know what you
did with my butter. You just as
well "fess up" for know you
sat down on q stump somewhere
and creased your old rusty dump
lin-path with it. I found an old
mail sack messed up with molas-
ses, and then l understood. You
took my butter and some other
feller's molasses and treated your
self to one square meal.
Say, Sam, I am not able to
board you, and I amt going to,
either. Do you understand thatg
You seem to be privileged
character and I reckon there amt
no way to make you pay for that
butter, but TIL bet it's the last
butter you ever get from me.
Now wipe the butter and 'lasses
out of your beard and drive on
with your old parcel post. But if
l live two hundred years I will
never hear parcel post mentioned
without thinking of that butter.
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
WELL, HOWDY-DO!


Now, then! You've been want
ing something to howl and cuss
about, and reckon you We got it.
But hold on. Don'tget your back
up until you know what you are
mad about. Then maybe you'll
think over it, and laugh over it;
and decide that The Fool-Killer
isn't such an awful bad paper.
after all.
When I began looking around
for a name that would do to fy
at the masthead of my journal
istic battleship I wanted some
thing unusual something start
ling. | wanted a name that would
first catch the eye of the reader.
then excite his curiosity, then
tickle his funny-bone, and finally
furnish him food for serious
thought.
When you pick up a stray copy
of The Journal, 'or 'The Post"
or The Chronicle or ''The
Herald" or THE Star,'' or any
one of a hundred other over
worked names, you do not exper-
ience any thrill Of excitement
such as a man feels when he has
discovered something. You SIM
ply glance over the headlines and
chuck the thing in the stove, and
that is the end of it. But when
you see for the first time COPY
Of The Fool-Killer this is how it
effects you: You first jump just a
little; then you look again; then
you whistle softly; then if you
are a profane man, you cuss a few
rounds; then you read some more:
then you laugh just moderate:
then you read still more; then Won
hold your sides and just holler:
then you go down into your old
jeans and fish out the price of a
years subscription; by this time
everybody for two blocks has
gathered around you to see what
is the matter; then you read The
Fool-Killer to the gang and they
all want it; then you take their
names and their money and send
in a whooping big club.
And that's what they are doing
all over these United States of
America today. It's all very sim
pie. Get you a bunch of Fool
Killers and try it.
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01

Yes, this is land of liberty, all
right. We are every one free.
The rich are free to rob and ex-
plot the poor, while the poor
are free to slave, steal or starve.
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
An Old Hymn Made New.

Am [ soldier of the Moose,
A follower of Ted?
And shall l always be goose,
Or learn to use my head?
Shall lie down aud go to sleep
On f1owery beds of ease,
While others live like hogs and sheep
In hunger and disease?
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
A Sermon on Ground Hogs.

You will find my text in the
leventy-leventh verse of the lev
enty-leventh chapter of Doctor
Killem's Almanac for the year
leventeen and leventy-leven. It
reads as follers:
And it came to pass on the
second day Of February that the
ground hog came out of his hole,
saw his shadder, and straightway
skooted back into his hole, there
to remain forty days"
Dearly beloved, I feel mighty
little in the presence of such a big
text. Feel sorter like an ant with
a bale Of cotton in it's mouth. But
duty calls, and I must answer.
There's a lot of things in the al
manac, brethen and sisterin, that
we can't understand, and this is
one Of them. The ground hog is a
mystery. We don't know where
he was educated nor how he got
his appointment as chief of the
Weather Bureau. All we know is
that he is on the job seems deter
mined to stay there. The silly
youth of today may laugh at the
ground hog and deny his wonder
full powers, but the old pioneers
OF the back woods will stick to
him like a COB of tar to a pair of
white summer breeches.
Therefore I say unto you, con-
slider the ground hog. He toileth
not, neither does he wear a plug
hat, but he gets there just the
same.
1t has never been quite clear
to me why the ground hog is a.
fraid of his shadder. He must be
a blamed old coward. If he is so
scarey as all that, I don't see how
he ever got to be such a promin-
ent person. His notions of taking
a pleasant morning walk are very
peculiar. If he comes out and
finds it cloudy and pouring down
rain he will take his walk and en-
JOY it. But a little sunshine
scares him so bad that he don't
get over it in forty days.
Po0n1o nr1onoo ov,o,. o%1o -
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
CIRCULATION CHAT.

The circulation of this paper is
still going up like the price Of
eggs at Christmas. We printed
%, 900 for January, and we are
printing $4,000 this time. Most
editors count four readers to each
copy printed, and that means
over 100, 900 people will read this
issue of The Fool-Killer. Hurrah
for you, comrades and club
raisers! You are the best crowd
of workers that ever came down
the pike.
Our circulation is getting too
large to handle by the hand
method that we are now using.
Realizing that I must install a
better mailing system, I first
figured on getting a Mergen-
thaler linotype machine, but I
have found something a great
deal cheaper, and just as good
the Belknap Stencil Addressing
Machine, which l am going to
put in right at once. This ma
chine is used in the mailing
departments of the Curtis Pub
fishing Company, Doubleday,
Page & Co., Harper Bros,
Everybody's Magazine, and
many other large concerns.
With this machine I can do in
two days the work that it takes
two weeks to do by hand, and do
il better. Every name will be
plainly printed on paper or wrap
per, and date Of expiration will
also be given, so you can know
exactly when to renew.
With this mailing system in
operation, we car get along for
awhile without linotype ma
chine, but we must have a larger
and faster press. The big Cottrell
Drum Cylinder that I put in last
March is already calling for help.
And so you see I have to keep
on buying new machinery as the
paper grows. I don't expect to
pile up any fortune for myself,
but | am determined to fit up q
complete printing establishment
here, so as to give you-all the
doggondest best little old paper
that ever circulated through the
mails. Faster machinery to do
the work will give me more time
TO study and write up the doggon
sassy talk and tornfoolery that
you all like so we'll. Now all to-
4gether for big web press and a
sixteen-page Fool-Killer that
will almost curl your hair. Send
in the clubs, boys, and TIL do the
rest. Now altogether!
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01

The Fool-Killer will be furnished
in bundles to one address at the fol.
lowing prices:
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01
20 copies of any one issue, Is cents.

Sample copies in small quantities
will be furnished free of charge.
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01

People glance over other pa
pers and throw them aside, but
every fellow who gets his later
grabbers fastened onto The Fool
Killer reads it from A to lizard
before he turns it loose. That's
the secret of its great popularity.
The fool-killer., 1913-02-01

When you get done reading
this paper, hand it to a friend.
Evening journal., 1913-05-30
SEWING CIRCLE SOCIAL.

The e. McAllister Sewing Circle
celebrated its fifth anniversary on
Wednesday evening at the home of
Mrs Milton Chase, No. SIT w. Fourth
street The features of the evening
was singing by the circle, a song by
Master James Chase with piano ac-
compartment by Mrs Chase. Reading
by Mrs. Ida Windsor. duet by Mrs.
Jonh H. Litz and Mrs. Amos Schlosser
and a recitation by Mrs. Margaret B.
Litz. Those present We're: Mr.. and
Mrs. Milton Chase, Miss Bessie Nc
Allister and George McAllister, the
Mrs Anna Walker. Maggie Davis,
Clara McElwee, Margaret r. Litz.
Martha Thompson. Alice Minor. Mar
tha Van Dyke. Ida Powell. Jennie
Walls, Mary Whaley, Emma Jackson,
May Passmore, Sarah Floyd Ida
Windsor. Mary Shewbrook. Mrs. God
win, Mary Michner. Mrs. Elliot. Rirs.
Murray, Mrs McKeever, Katherine
Postles. Mrs Amos Schlosser. Sr., the
Misses Miriam Walker, Ida Powell.
Elsie Michner Lille Shewbrook, Mas
ters Willie Milner. Herbert Van Dyke,
Arlie Postles and little Master James
Chase. The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Murray. No.
ZIG Vandever avenue. on June 4.