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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
Tariff Provision Void.

Washington.-Attorney General Nc.
Reynolds has decided that the sub.
section of the new tariff law author.
izing discount of 5 per cent on all
goods imported in American vessels
is nullified by it's proviso that moth
ing in this subsection shall be so con.
strued as to abrogate or in any man
ner impair or affect the provisions OF
any treaty concluded between the
United States and any foreign ma
tion."
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
Lone Overdue Liner Arrives.

Boston. The long overdue Ham
burg American liner Aragonia, con-
corning which considerable anxiety
has been felt. crept in through the
fog Sunday. She had been 121 days
on the voyage from Yokohama. Cap
tain Enigh said the steamer was
forced to put in at Alden on the Red
sea for repairs to leaky boilers, and
at Ponta Delgada for coal, and water
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
Bloodshed In Colorado.

Denver.-Five nonunion men killed,
two perhaps mortally wounded, one
less seriously hurt, four troopers of
the state militia deported by strikers,
two nonunion miners badly beaten and
an attack upon the state troops at
Forbes and four railroad bridges were
burned on the Denver & Rio lines
marked the resumption of hostilities
by the strikers in the southern Col
orado coal fields on Saturday.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
New Made Land Washed Away.

Chicago Several feet of newly
made land along the Chicago lake
shore was washed away Sunday by
the storm on Lake Michigan. The
park commissioners have spent eight
years in the construction of the land
by pumping sand from the lake bed
upon the beach. The damage was
estimated at $150,0O0.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
OFFICER shot hu Ex.convlot.

Boise, Idaho. Deputy Sheriff viii.
liam Clawson is lying at the. point Of
death with a bullet in his neck from
the gun of Clarence Roush, an ex-
convict, whom ne attempted to arrest
for forgery.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
Princes Car Kills Child.

Pottsdam, Germany-A 4-year-old
girl knocked down by an automobile
IN which Prince Friedrich Leopold of
Prussia was driving near here died
after the prince had conveyed her to
hospital.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
Orderly Shot BY Countess.

Genoa.-The Countess de Polo,
member of noble Venetian family
and wife of Captain oggioni, quarter.
I'D at San Reno, shot an orderly Sat
lrday. The countess said the man
had attacked her.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
PRESIDENT WORKS ON SABBATH
Senators Summoned for Conferences
on the Mexican Problem.

Washington.-Con to his usual
custom of putting aside official bust
ness on Sunday, President Wilson
worked all day on the Mexican
problem. He summoned Senator'S Boz
rah and McCumber, Republican mem
bers of the senate foreign relations
committee Sunday afternoon and dis
cussed the situation with them for al
most two hours. He had conference
with Secretary Bryan at night.
From the way the presidents call
ers talked the situation is rapidly APP
preaching a climax and some definite
developments are expected immed-
lately.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
Attacks Wilson's Policy.

Cleveland Henry Lane Wilson,
whose resignation as ambassador to
Mexico was accepted by President
Wilson. criticised the administration
Mexican policy in an address before
he Union club here Saturday.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
viii Force Huer;a to Resign.

Washington Notwithstanding in,
timations that Provisional President
Huerta would refuse to resign, Ameri-
can officials said Sunday that his
elimination would be accomplished Sin
one way or another" They asserted
that every opportunity would be given
him to retire peaceably, and that dras-
tic steps would be avoided if pos
sible.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
suffraeets Interrupt Services.

London.-Suffragist made another
demonstration Sunday at the service
at st. Paul's. At intervals they sang
God, Save Annie Kenney and Sylvia
Pan%hurst. who are being prosecuted
for conscience sake"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
smusgIer Shoots inspector.

San Diego, Cal.-Customs Inspector
w. B. Evans was shot and seriously
wounded at an early hour SATURDAY
morning at National City by one Of
three Mexicans suspected Of opium
smuggling.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
Train Ban Into Tres.

Utica, N, Y,-Three of the train
crew were killed when a locomotive
pulling work train on the Raquette
Lake railroad ran into tree which
had been blown across the tracks
early Sunday evening.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
MessIna Shaken Aanln

Messina, Sicily.-A strong earth
quake shock took place here Saturday.
u was followed by two shocks of less
severity No damage was done, but
the people are greatly alarmed at the
frequency of the disturbances.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
sendlna supplles 10 Mexion.

Washington.-The navy department
has ordered the supply ship Culgoa,
now at Norfolk, to steam to New York
to take aboard meats and other pro
visions for the fleet at Vera Cruz and
rampico
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14
More MllItlamen Needed.

Denver.-The 921 militiamen now in
the southern strike zone are not suf-
ficient, Governor Animons comedies,
to control the situation if riots be-
come widespread.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-14


Nine ringleaders of an abortive plot
discovered against the reigning ameer
of Afghanistan, Hablbullah Khan,
were executed at Kabul, the Afghanis-
tan capital. The conspirators we've
blown from the mouth of a cannon.
The, long string of bank failures in
India is causing much alarm and the
government is contemplating leglsla.
tion restricting the use OF the term
bank" in that country. The govern
ment has no intention OF imposing irk,
some restrictions on solid banking In
situations conducted py either foreign
or domestic capital.
AT meeting of the International
Boxing union at Paris the worlds
heavyweight championship was de-
clared vacant on the grounds OF Jack
Johnson's conviction in the American
courts and his repeated refusals TO
fight.
A Russo-Chinese agreement by
which China recognizes the autonomy
OF Outer Mongolia has been signed
at Pekin. Russia continues 70 &C.
knowledge Chinese suzerainty and un.
dertakes to refrain from colonization
or military occupation OF the country,
aside from consular guards.
The inane King Otto of Bavaria
was deposed on Wednesday from the
throne OF the kingdom of Bavaria,
which he has occupied for twenty.
seven years without being aware OF
bis position. Prince Regent Ludwig
! proclaimed himself king.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
A FREAK OF FASHION.

Few men can offer any sound criticisms of women's clothes Not one man in fifty has any conception of harmony of color or design While by ages of struggle for phys ical attractiveness, at least the ma jority of women have fairly good intuitive discrimination of the true and false in form and color.
 Once in a while, though, some bubble on fashions swift and siim- mering stream floats along, which tells a story of human character, that even a man can interpret. Such one is contained in the news dis patches cabled from Paris, saying the women are wearing rubies, opals and emeralds on their boot heels. skirts being short to show them.
 The bright colors of bird plumage are said to result from the effort to attract the male And no doubt the Champs Elysees girl cobbles her boot heels with jewels for the
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08

condition. The chances are that a few of the young ladies of the club may wait a long time to find the two-thousand-a-year man who will have the initiative to secure the re- quired income. As the members of the club grow older and their chances of becoming connected with any sort of an income dubious there is every reason to believe that they may make some slight reductions.
 The theory on which the club is based is pretty good one, but, like many other plausible theories, it has its weaknesses. It is fine for the members, but young men who are already pressing their noses to the grindstone may not see its beauties and that is one of the requirements for its success.
 It is safe to predict that five or six years will disclose the fact that a large percentage of the members of the Five Thousand a Year Club have resigned. Also we will hear of an opposition organization composed of ex-members and called Any Old Income Club. Then there is the ad- ditional possibility that interested young men will form an opposition organization-say the Anti-nose-to- -grindstone club-and levy a sue cessful boycott on the Five Thou sand A Year Club. It is impossible to remove the element of chance from matrimony. All brides are gamblers and probably will remain gamblers.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
THE ALASKAN PURCHASE.

The products of Alaska for the year just ended were valued at more than forty-three million dollars. In the year 1867 the United States bought Alaska from Russia for the sum of S,200.000, and most people regarded it a bad bargain for this country. In fact, the excuse for the payment of such price was to reim- purse Russia for the service she ren- dered this country at a critical mo- ment during the civil war.
 England was favorable to the con- federate cause, and when ar Ameri- can war vessel overhauled the Brit ish mail packet Trent and took therefrom Mason and Slidell, two confederate agents en route to Great Britain, war was imminent between the United States and that nation.
 While the crisis was acute Russia sent her navy to New York and, it is alleged, placed it at the disposal of President Lincoln. At least it was regarded by Great Britain as a threat, and the result was an adjust ment by diplomacy of the Trent affair"
 Soon after the civil war negotia- tions were begun for the purchase of Alaska. Opponents in the United States called 1t Stewards folly" and that was the view generally taken, but the measure was approved with little positive opposition, it being understood that it was to reimburse Russia for the expenses incurred by
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
MATRIMONY AND FINANCE.

Laying the blame on the increased cost of living, a group of California girls has formed plan to put mat rimony on a practical financial basis. The club is to be known as the Five Thousand A Year Club, with its avowed object the protection of po- tential brides enrolled. According to agreement no member of the club is to marry man whose income is less than five thousand dollars a year.
 In defending the club one of the members says: "It is the only sen sible plan to raise the stnadard of marriage and happiness to the prop er plane Love will never change Sel6shness, which is stronger, can never be obliterated The thing to do, then, is to mix a little money with love. There are thousands of five-thousand-a-year men. There are also thousands of wo-thousand-a- year men who lack only the initiative to get into the former class"
 
 This is comforting se1f-assurance. Perhaps there are a limited mum Der of average young men who will speed up the grindstone to a gear which will net the amount required with matrimony the object, but sta tistics seem to indicate the contrary
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08

same reason that the Senegambian belle wears nose rings.
 How quickly a style of that kind IS drowned down by American sense of humor, not to say good tastel Your shoe is the most workaday ar ticle of your clothing. Created to take the brunt of the earth's buffet ings from a too tender flesh and skin, the sensible shoe is built hard and strong. Decorating it as if it were a circlet for the neck, is about as if a woman wore ball gown to do the family wash in.
 If men were asked what style of dressing they liked best in women, they would give little favor to the elaborations of the average dress maker. These bewilder his eyes and suggest the futile extravaganza of the times. From mans point of view, nothing is so effective as a simplicity of dress that throws the attention from women's clothing to the face. If that face has the color the health and the serenity of good temper, the mere fact that age. or toll have taken away the toy sym metry called prettiness, detracts mo- thing from its charm.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
ler naval demonstration.

her naval demonstration.
 Last year the gold production of Alaska was S17,OO0,OOO, and other productions were valued at S26,000,- 900. making a total of about six times the sum paid for that 100000 square miles of forbidding land in the extreme northwest.
 Also it is claimed that coal and copper and oil lands held held by the United States have values aggre- gating up in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
 Uncle Sam has the reputation of being very shrewd real estate deal CT, as has been demonstrated by the purchase of Alaska and Russia and Louisiana from France. Louisiana as then known, has since been cut up into twelve of the great states of the union.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
SURPRISE IN GOODWIN
 CASE

GLOBE, Jan. 6.JIt is reported that if John B. Goodwin is executed in this city it will take place on the north side of the court house. There is quite large space there and this may be walled up in front and in back so that the interior may not be seen. There IS no convenient place in the basement of the court house or the jail where the execu- ton may take place and the space mentioned seems to be the only available spot where it may occur. The United States marshall or a deputy marshal will have charge of the matter.
 Many people in the city believe that Goodwin will not hang on March 14 and that some surprise is to be sprung which will give him d new trial.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
A FINE NEW YEAR CUSTOM.

Over in China and Japan the so- called barbarians have some GUS toms that seem quite civilized. One of them is the habit of cleaning up as an expression of New Years feel ing.
 The contrast reminds one of re- mark once made by Ii Hung Chang, one day when he was attending a church service in this country The minister read the Ten Command ments. Ii leaned over to his neigh Dor and whispered, Haven't you quit doing those things yeti"
 Over in this country, a raft of bills are sent out January | A large proportion of them go to the waste basket unopened. It is generally felt to be imprudent to disturb the serenity and optimism of a new era by anything as irritating as debts.
 Few people stop to think of the waste involved. Every merchant has to make an allowance for his. bad bills, and it all comes back to the debtors in the end. It produces business catastrophes, forced sales, and is a continuous drag on the confidence and enterprise of the community. Business men do not feel inclined to make improvements and add new lines, as they would if the obligation of debts was keenly felt.
 Tradesmen say that some Of their worst slow pay customers are peo- pie who have plenty of money. The sight of such persons floating lazily along in fat luxury, while their ere ditors are working nights and lying awake because they cannot collect the money that would pay their bills, is about as fine an example of hoggishness as anything the Ameri- can menagerie produces.
 Few things fritter away the en- ergy of business men like the work of collecting small bills. It calls for constant strain of energy and expense in tying up loose ends. In no department of business is that truer in collecting newspaper sub People who allow such bills to run along do not realize how their reputation for efficiency and honor suffers.
 Wherefore remember the butcher, the grocer, and the printer, while you are saying your Happy New Years!
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08

ton evolved in that state had made little impression elsewhere. It was considered only one more of those political experiments based upon an impractical theory But such a de- monstration as this, such a reyolu tionary proceeding, drew all eyes up on Oregon and stimulated interest in the new plan.
 Now Oregon is about to give still more impressive demonstration. A successor to Jonathan Bourne is to be selected. At the last election a Legislature was chosen so strong ly Republican that there are only eight Democrats in a total of ninety members Yet, at the same election, Dr. Harry Lane, Democrat, received the popular preference vote for sen ator, and his overwhelmingly Re publican Legislature is going to elect him instead of the Republican nomi- nee Dr. Lane is a son of Gen. Joseph Lane of Mexican war fame and the first governor of Oregon. pr. Lane was superintendent of the insane hospital under the eccentric Governor Pennoyer, noted among other things for telling President Cleveland to mind his own business and refusing to leave the capital to welcome President Harrison. Dr. Lane has also been mayor of Port land.
 While the popularity of Lane ac counts for his large vote, it can not explain his election by Republican Legislature. That is explained only by the high regard the Republican members have for the spirit of the law and the right of the people to have their expressed wishes carried out. It will be observed that, thus far, only Republican legislatures have been called upon to elect senators from other parties, and this but half proves the working value of the new plan Until some Democratic Legis- lature-in Missouri, for instance-al- SO takes action so contrary and re- Dulsive to the instincts of bourbon sm, the Oregon plan will have to remain under suspended judgment.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
STARTING A DIARY.

January first has always been the favorite date for beginning a diary which was once about the most gift on the Christmas tree.
 There is always something invit- ing about the fresh emptiness of a diary's pages. As you look through these blanks, life looks like new country, untrodden. delightfully."- DOT tentous with big things you hope to do and unforeseen experinces, all to be recorded therein.
 The modern form of journal, com pact. with a few lines set apart for each date the same amount for the ordinary day at the office as for the day when you are married, represents all that this hurrying age cares to record of its history The real old time diaries bulging with heart throbs were built or fat blank books, undated, with il- space for the chronicle of emotions.
 The fine art keeping a diary is too little attempted in our hustling bustling days With active young persons, the entries soon dwindle and scatter after the manner of a boy hero of Susan Coolidge's:
 Jan. 10-Forgit what did.
 Jan. 12.-Pleasant Went skating.
 Jan. l4-Forgit what did.
 Jan. H.-Stormy.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
Jan. 20.-Forgit what did. Jan. 25.-Forgit what did.


 Jan. 25.-Forgit what did.
 Youthful persons or seriously in irrespective habits must have been influenced by those standard ex- amples. the Diary of Miss Thing umbob" or somebody else, formerly found on every book shelf These ominous volumes bound in black partly a story of times of laborious toll, were still more a record of morbid consciences. You read about the funerals attended, melancholy contemplation and over critical self examination.
 Perhaps these bilious records led to a decline in the habit of diary keeping And this is an age of an ticipation rather than retrospect Even the octogenarian may read the base ball scores rather than dream of the past in the chimney corner. A diary need never be morbid A well kept journal written in cheery style keeps alive many golden hours, and will give our lives human inter est to our grandchildren.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
FRIGHTFUL COST OF WAR.

While the diplomats are haggling over the terms of peace, the cost of the Balkan war continues to pile up. According to the Economist, the cost of the war for the nations in volved already has reached sum in excess of $l75,OOOOOO. The total for the war, including the expenses for nobilizing armies in Russia, Austria and Italy, is estimated at something like S4OO,OOOOOO. This is looking merely at the sordid side-the actual cash which is expended on the su- preme human folly Moreover, the stupendous losses are merely for the moment The greater losses which will ensue as a direct result of the war in the Balkans are beyond com putation.
 There is no market value for hu man lives, and the drain upon the vitality of a nation cannot be put iato dollars and cents as readily as the expenses for war engines. In this regard the nations involved in the Balkan war have lost to an ex- tent which will never even be ap proximated for decades. To all in tents and. purposes the war still is being waged. Disease, the ally of Mars and a more voracious devour- CT of manhood has only just begun its work Even when there is an armistice declared the evil forces of the conflict continue their deadly work. The armies of the Balkan states and of Turkey, resting in the
 field while the diplomats haggle, are still contributing their enormous toll of victims of warfare. In spite of modern progress in medicine and sanitation the cholera is moving down men on the Balkan peninsula. Modern methods for preserving life and health are of no avail when men lapse into a state of barbarism, and the Slavs and Turks did so when this war began.
 If the full cost of the Balkan war could be put before >the civiliz- cd world in brief space of time the result would be a shock which would demonstrate the folly of warfare so clearly that nations would never go to war again But the details of the more than enormous total appear l enly by degrees and are not appar- ent when they are spread over de- cades Europe will feel the damage wrought by this war nearly a cen tHry. The rank and file of the arm ies engaged will feel it the hardest | Both the victors and the vanquished | vii suffer for years from priva- tions due directly to this folly, and | their children's children will suffer from it. But that is no sign that the world will take a lesson from the Balkan war. Man is not quite the reasoning being described in the definition of the genus homo.
Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-08
NOT YET PROVED.

Oregon IS soon to give a second demonstration of the famous Oregon plan of electing United States sena- tors by the votes of the people, without waiting for an amendment to the constitution establishing that principle. When former Governor George E. Chamberlain, a Democrat, was chosen by a Legislature having a large Republican majority, there was general astonishment. Until then the new system of popular cleo
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-07-11
NEWS. OF THE OLD DOMINION
MAY ESCAPE CHAIR.
Harve Looney is Granted Another
Trial.

Richmond, Va, July II. = Have
Loonsy, the Craig county man who
shot and killed the town sergeant at
Newcastle some time ago, has been
granted a new trial by the Supreme
Court of Appeals. Looney is in the
death row at the prison, having been
sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Several weeks have elapsed since the
ection of the court, and as yet no
word has been received by the prison
authorities, and until the papers are
received the man will doubtless re-
main in the detention cell where he
has had a chance to see those VINO
ego through the door" to the char.
The general belief is that Looney
is "looney." He has thrice made at
teanpts to end his life. He killed the
officer, while ina drankcd debauch.
He denies that he recalls anything IN
connection with the murder.