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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
ALASKA BILL A LAW
1T DIRECTS THE PRESIDENT TO
SECURE SOME WAY 1000 MILES
OF RAILROAD.
COST NOT TO EXCEED s40,OOO,OOO
Broadcast Powers Conferred on Presi-
dent Wilson In Carrying Out Plans
Summary of Law Given-Many
Amendments Failed

Washington.-By a vote of 46 to 16
the senate Saturday passed the Alaska
railway bill directing the president to
purchase or construct 1000 miles of
railroad in Alaska as a cost not to
exceed $40,000,000.
The bill places upon the president
responsibility for the selection of the
route from tidewater to the interior
of Alaska and the construction, equip
ment and operation or leasing of such
lines as he may construct or buy to
constitute this route. The broadcast
powers are conferred upon the presi-
dent in carrying out his duties.
Machinery utilized in the construc-
ton of the Panama canal is made
available for the construction work.
Provide Redemption Fund.
The bill provides for a redemption
fund into which shall be paid rs per
cent of all money derived from the
sale of public lands in Alaska or of the
coal or mineral contents thereof.
Unavailing efforts to reduce the
100000 appropriation authorized
for the work were made during the
closing hours of the debate. Senator
Hoke Smith sought to have the appro-
priation reduced to $25,000,000 and
Senator Smoot to s35,000,000.
Among other amendments defeated
were the Norris amendment for gov
eminent steamships to Alaska; the
Poindexted amendment for the sale OF
Alaska coal at cost to Pacific coast
points and the Cummins substitute
limiting the construction to one main
line.
Three Democrats Oppose.
Fifteen republicans and Senator
Poindexter, progressive, voted for the
bill, Senator Bacon, Hoke Smith anc
Williams democrats, voted against 1t
With the consent of the territories
committee the bill was amended before
passage to require the senate's ap
proval of the appointment of civil en-
gineers receiving over $4,000 per an
num- to forbid any payment for the
good will of existing railways; givins
injured employees the right to sue the
government and limiting the govern
ments defense to those provided fol
in the federal employers liability Law
of 1908.
A similar bill is pending in the
house.
Lane Is ExuItant.
"This is the greatest encouragement
the west has received in many years,
Secretary Lane said when informed
that the senate had passed the Alaska
bill
Colonel Cocktails is the unanimou'
choice of the senate territories com
mittee as builder of the Alaska rail
road
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
FUR|OUSST0RMWEST
WORST FLOOD IN YEARS RE.
PORTED FROM MANY POINTS
IN CALIFORNIA.
ALL RAILROAD TRAFFIC WAS TIED UP
"a Hours at Los Angeles-Fierce
Gale Hit San Francisco and
Portland, Oregon.

San Francisco, Cal.-Flood waters,
not as high as those of 1911, which
blocked much overland traffic, swept
down from the Sierras to California )
700 miles of seaboard Sunday as rain
runs off a roof.
Santa Barbara, the winter resort Of
many wealthy fasteners, was entirely
cut off from communication. Water
stood two feet deep on the railway sta
ton platform.
Five washouts on the Southern Pa
cific railroads coast and valley lines
stopped all traffic.
The Santa Clara river is on a ram
page.
Several street car lines we're put
out of commission in Los Angeles
where over two inches Of rain fell in
"a hours.
Further north there was a washout
near Paso Robes, another winter re
sort. The great levees along the Sar
Joaquin river near Stockton stood well
and it was reported that the river
could rise five feet more without great
danger to farmers on the fertile river
islands.
At Antioch, near the mouth of the
river, however, a six-foot tide backed
the waters over levees, and farmers
taking their families and belongings
hunted higher ground. Much damage
to grain fields has been done in thu
lower San Joaquin valley.
Sacramento, at the junction of thu
Sacramento and American rivers, re
ports a flood of water.
Gale Sweeps Portland.
Portland, Ore.-A 70-mile gale swep
over Portland. The barometer regis
tered 28.88, which is the lowest recor'
since January, 1880. Much damage J
reported.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
ON PACIFIC COAST

The seismograph at Chabot observa-
tory. Oakland, showed slight vibra-
ton travelling from east to west Sat
urday evening.
Governor West of Oregon in letter
to DR.. c. ]. Smith, former state sena-
tor from Pendleton, declares he will
not be a candidate for reelection.
J. H. Muir, a solicitor for a San
Francisco hotel, was ground to pieces
beneath the cars of the Portland ex-
press at West Berkeley, Cal, Satur-
day.
Big tides in San Francisco bay that
were caused by the high water lin the
rivers and streams emptying into 1t
have done considerable damage o the
wbarves and piers.
The British Columbia legislature, at
the present session, purposes to ipass
legislation providing for the collection
of special tax against Hindus, Jap
anese and Chinese.
One man is believed to have bee u
killed Sunday when the Third avenue
hotel, three-story structure at Fair
| banks, Alaska, was destroyed by fire,
with loss of s25 900.
Charged with having defrauded many
women through promise of marriage
and many men in other ways, G. Fl.
Knight, promoter of what is called
"million-dollar Pan-American recrea-
| ton tower" to be erected in San Fran
cisco, was arrested recently at Los
Angeles and lodged in the county jail.
DR.. John Grant Lyman, the convict
ed Panama land promoter, who claim
ed once to have been a millionaire,
took the pauper's oath in the United
States district court Saturday at Los
Angeles, preparatory to asking the
government to pay for his appeal to
the higher courts from his conviction.
Estimates place the California orange
shipments at 10000 cars, more than
double that of a year ago, and more
than has been sent east in any year
in the life of the industry. The 10000
cars would average 400 boxes each
and every box would contain between
80 and 100 oranges, making appcoxi
| mately a billion and half oranges
Charged with working firemen a@'
policemen of Portland more than eigh
hours a day in violation of the state
law Mayor Albee was recently arrest
ed by State Labor Commissioner Huff
Police touring car going at high
rate of speed in answer to burglar
call CRASHED into a Southern Pacific
freight train at Portland. Sheriff Tom
: Word sustained broken rib and bad
ly cut face.
Baron Maxine, Japanese foreign min
, lister, made a supplementary state
ment to the Japanese parliament re
garding California land legislation in
tended to show that, according to the
Japanese understanding, there is per
feet harmony of purpose between the
United States and Japan in the nego
tiations to settle the question, anc
that the Japanese government is rely
, ing on assurances to that end from
Washington.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED FROM BOTH CONTINENTS
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

South Carolina is sure ungallant as
suffrage has been denied to women.
The battleship Ohio left the Phil
adelphia navy yard Saturday for Vera
Cruz.
Robbers blew open the vault in the
Farmers bank at Ludlow, Mo, and
escaped with $4,000 last Saturday.
Resolutions authorizing congression-
al investigation of the Colorado and
Michigan strikes were reported from
the house rules committee Saturday.
Woman suffragists met another de-
feat Saturday when the house rules
committee failed to report a resolution
for the appointment of a standing suf-
frage committee.
British politicians of all parties are
seriously discussing the possibility of
Winston Churchill, first lord of the adj
miralty, returning to his original be-
lief. conservatism.
Chicago's first municipal store, which
the city council authorized with an
appropriation of $4,000 and at which
groceries are sold at cost to the poor
was opened recently.
William Campbell, a negro, was
hanged at Montreal Saturday for the
murder of George Muir August IA.
Campbell was wanted in Cincinnati for
the murder of two women.
Special rules to expedite the Bur-
nett immigration bill fixing a literacy
test and the Shackelford bill for $685.
100000 federal aid to state road con
struction was reported by the house
rules committee.
The Rev. David G. Wylie, pastor OF
the Scotch Presbyterian church, New
York, has been elected general secre
tary of the board of church erection OF
the Presbyterian church of the United
States of America.
The inquiry into charges of graft in
connection with the purchase of sup
plies for the British army canteens is
revealing bribery and corruption in
England even more extensive than was
at first believed possible.
The powers of Europe have decided
on an international demonstration il
Albania waters to enforce their de
mands that Essad Pasha give up his
claim to the throne of Albania. Each
nation will send one ship to Durazzo
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
Automobiles Help to Vice.

A. ]. Elliott of Chicago, executive
secretary of the western district, Y.
M. c. A., addressing the conference of
secretaries and faculty members Of the
universities Of Wisconsin, Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, said that the
progress of inventions, especially of
automobiles, had much to do with the
growth of vice among young men.
Their use makes vice easier, he said.
The growth of large cities. where per
sonality becomes submerged, he as
serted, also caused the downfall of
many university students.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
Assistant Postmasters Sale.

washington.-A point of order
struck out of the annual postoffice ap-
preparation bill the rider" TO exempt
all of the country's 2400 assistant post
masters from the civil service law. Ad
vocates Of this provision, which had
drawn emphatic disapproval from
President Wilson, made an Intellectual
attempt TO have reported a special rule
10 head off the point OF order.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30

South Carolina is sure ungallant, as
suffrage has been denied to women.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
Plan is to serve oil to Many.

Washington.-All phases Of the oil
question bearing on the building of a
government pipe line from the Okla
homa fields TO the gulf of Mexico 70
furnish fuel for the American navy are
70 be fully investigated.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
COL. COCKTAILS MAY BE
PANAMA CANAL GOVERNOR
After Job Is Completed He Can Build
D-.I..-.-

After Job Is Completed He Can Build
Alaska Railways.
Washington.-Colonel George w
Goethals will be made civil governor
of the canal zone and when he gets
through with his work there an effort
will be made to get him to superintend
the construction of the proposed Alas
kan railways.
This is the opinion expressed by sew
eral persons close 70 the administra-
ton, commenting on reports that the
chief engineer eventually would be-
come commissioner of police of New
York city.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-30
Names Folks Nephew.

New York.-Frank L. Polk, a great
nephew of President Polk, was ap-
pointed corporation counsel by Mayor
Mitchell.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10
Heirs Of Betsy Ross

New York Herald: Thirty-six de-
scendants Of Betsy Ross, maker Of
the first American flag, and John Ross
have organized to fight for their claim
TO fortune of S20,O00,O00 worth of
property held by the ROSES as a
grant from William Penn, according
to the Baltimore American: The land
is in Philadelphia, Maryland and Eng
land.
The legal battle is TO be fought be-
fore the federal tribunal and the
kings bench, unless the representative
chosen succeeds in negotiating salts
factory terms with those into whose
hands the property has passed.
The meeting of heirs considered an
offer to compromise on a payment
Of one-fourth, or about $5,000,000. A.
Seligsohn of the international Claim
Agency was the representative in
structed to conduct negotiations. No
decision was reached STIMULATING what
sum will be demanded. Should no sat
isfactory settlement be Forthcoming il
is the determination to go into court
The claimants have formed the Betsy
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10
Orchards in Canal Zone

New York Times: The recent issue
of the Canal Record, the official bull
letin of the Panama canal commission,
makes the announcement that the gov
eminent is going into the fruit and
cane raising business on a limited
scale. Already the subsistence de-
partment of the canal government,
the Record announces, has taken
charge of several large estates in the
Canal zone, the title to the lands
having passed to the United States
through awards for damages made to
the owners by the federal joint land
commission. The land lies along the
relocated Panama railroad.
"The production of sugar cane"
says the Canal Record, Twill be sec
ondary to the growing of the most
common varieties of tropical fruit.
During the last two years the supply
of oranges, lines, avocadoes, bananas,
mangoes, etc, has been steadily dimin-
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

ishing. Jamaica was formerly de-
pended on to a considerable extent for
oranges, lines, avocadoes and man
goes, but of late the shipments have
become scantier and of poorer quality.
with the reduction of the duty on
these fruits by the new tariff it is
anticipated that the shipments from
Jamaica to the United States of the
better grades will increase, especially
in the case of oranges, in view of the
shortage of the California crop and
the high prices now prevailing.
There are at present on the farm
considerable number of banana
walks in productive state. The Fri
joles banana is considered superior in
quality to others in this part Of the
isthmus, and for years vendors have
done a profitable business in selling
to passengers at the Frijoles raj.
road station when the trains stop
there. The rise of the Chagres river,
which has drowned out number of
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10
WOMAN'S COLUMN
1855 to Frank Godfrey Quay Umsted,
a lawyer, of Philadelphia.

1855 to Frank Godfrey Quay Umsted
a lawyer, of Philadelphia.
Before her husbands death in 1853
she had published her first novel
"Southwold,' and during the seven
years of her widowhood she supported
herself and her two children by her
writings. Her stories were published
in Harper's, the Galaxy, and other
leading publications, and she wrote
letters to the Evening Post from
Washington during the Civil War.
Her second novel, Rockford" was
published in 1868, and was followed
by trenton Standish, the False KinS-
man," in 1866 This was later dra-
matized by Edgar Fawcett under the
title of "The False Friend"
In 1866 she married Grinfill Blake,
New York merchant, who sympa-
thized with and encouraged her re-
form work. In 1870 she took up the
cause of woman suffrage, and devoted
her time to the effort to better the
condition of women. She was one of
those who secured the appointment of
women as police matrons, not only in
New York, but also in Detroit, and
this in face of the most violent oppo-
sition. She also aided in obtaining
the passage of the act granting school
suffrage to women in New York and
in New Jersey, and was active in Sc
curing the appointment of women as
census enumerators, advocating the
laws providing seats for saleswomen,
enabling a woman to make a will
without the consent of her husband,
and making mother and father joint
guardians of their children. In 1874
her last novel, "Fettered for Life,'
was published. This was written dur
ing her first years of work for women
suffrage, and shows the condition of
the women of that day. Mrs. Blake
leaves two daughters, Elizabeth John
son DevereauX, wife of Professor John
Beverly Robinson, head of the School
of Architecture of Washington Uni
versity, st. Louis, and Katherine Dew
ereauX Blake, principal of New York
public school.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

ailments, if need be, with drastic sur
gical operations.
Exploration is increasingly a matter
of exact science, and geographers do
not give high rating to the trav-
eler who energies from strange lands
with a picturesque narrative and no
technical observations or data for a
map of the country. He is expected
to be something of natural historian
and an ethnologist and dozen other
things-or else to have in his party
men who look upon the flora and
fauna learnedly, and are versed in the
use of recording instruments.
For the British Antarctic expedi-
ton of 1914 there are 1890 applicants
for berths, including 16 peers.
Those eminently fit will be taken
and the others left, and the only
qualifying title will be personal merit.
The ice-bound plateau where lie the
bodies of Scott and his comrades are
no respecters of artificial distinctions
between man and man The geologic
enigmas of the Antarctic are only to
be read by men of the stern stuff of
heroes, with scholars erudition.
Many similar enterprises in all
parts of the world have failed because
of the collapse of some individual be-
lieved reliable. A large proportion of
those who want to go to the Antarctic
are applying for places from sheer
curiosity to "see the world" or from
restlessmess and love of excitement.
Labor at home is prosaic and does not
fire the imagination. There is the call
of the wild and the lure of the I'M
known in the project of exploring dis
tant lands. Hence the overwhelming
rush of applicants utterly Ignorant
and unskilled in their prospective
duties-men who could only hinder
and not help in work that calls for
self-control and fortitude and all the
manly virtues that Captain Scott,
Evans, Campbell, Bruce and the 9th
ers of SCOTS party SO nobly exemp-
flied.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10
THE TWIN NEWSPAPERS.

beginning Of the publication OF the
Tuesday the Press took Its
project which the publishers nave long en-
tertai to when the time should be ripe
the in the newspaper held are won
than from another office and
shared by business houses in lower ad
Nertisng
issued from single plants editions
the morning until late at
of different and the Press
beleve tina is satisfactory plan
should these twin that
the and to get the
night for the morning paper to use con
the
the Telegram will jointly to the people
had, the
will to those wishing publicity the most
carrying their to the people
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

Take the celluloid rattle away from
the baby A child in New York city
was fatally burned brandishing his
Christmas rattle too near the kitchen
range.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

Ross Association. Mrs. G. A. Will
wohl was chosen president; Leo Ross,
secretary; S. s. Ross, treasurer;
Frank Ross, John Ross and Samuel
Ross, trustees.
1t was reported to meeting that
the will of John Ross has been un-
earthed in the Philadelphia court
house. 1t was represented as giving
lease to the city of Philadelphia for
SO years. A provision in the will on
which much stress was laid by those
in the meeting was that ono statute
of limitations shall bar the heirs" from
receiving the property.
The Maryland property claimed BY
the Ross heirs is the site of the United
States Naval Academy The land in
England said to have been granted
to John Ross by William Penn is a
vast estate at present untenanted
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10
Picking Men for Antarctic

Philadelphia Public Ledger: When
Henry NJ. Stanley proposed to go to
Africa on his second venture to find
Emin Pasha, hundreds of persons of
fered to provide a ludicrous variety of
inventions for making his progress
easy in the land of dense malarial
jungles and hostile savages. But he
could only make use of few picked
who knew how to shoot and
a boat and control disaffect-
ed porters and find latitude and longi-
Cude with the seXtant and cure tropical
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10
Mary Really Had Little Lamb.

(Alice Rowland Goodwin in New
York Times)
An article in the New York Times
recently stated that "Mary's Little
Lamb" was written by Mrs. Sarah j.
Hale, who said that it was pure fc-
ton and that no such lamb ever eX-
listed.
On February IS, 1913, the Hart
ford Courant published an article
concerning the same verses, by Fred
erick w. Weber, in the Rutland Her.
aid, which affirms that the child who
owned the lamb was Mary Sawyer,
who lived in Sterling, Worcester
county, Massachusetts. Later she
married Christopher Columbus Tyler,
and assisted him in his work at the
Mclean asylum at Somerville, Mass.
The story of the lamb is true. 1t
really was turned out of school, and
SO impressed John Roulstone, a young
man who was studying for the min
istry in Sterling, that he is the re-
puted author of the verses. The ar
ticle says:
''There has been some question as
to whether or not they were revised
by some other writer"
All this is corroborated by grand
niece of Mary Sawyer. She is now
living in Hartford, the wife of dis
tinguished citizen. She well remem-
bers "Aunt Mary" and the story was
an early household tradition. She
also states that when a fair was held
by the Boston ladies to prevent the
threatened destruction of the old
South church, Mary Sawyer Tyler
took part in the work. She had a
sock knitted by her mother of the
wool of the celebrated lamb. This
she raveled and sold little pieces of
the yarn, and realized 500 for the
cause.
Mrs. Tyler's life was filled with
kind deeds, quality early discovered
by the discriminating lamb.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

small plantations in the vicinity OF
Cruces, has had a tendency to cause
a scarcity of banana shipments down
the Chagres. A shipment of 11O
punches from the farm one day last
was distributed among various ccm-
missaries.
''It is planned to go into banana
culture on a scale sufficient to meet
the eommissary and hotel require
ments, and also to raise an adequate
supply of oranges, lines and avo-
cadoes. To this end over 1000 avo-
cado seeds have already been planted,
all from Jamaican stock Recogniz-
ing the impossibility of at once de-
termining the best grades to adopt,
various kinds will be planted and then
budded onto other stock in a way to
produce the best results. 1t is not
intended to import budded orange
and grape fruit trees from the United
States, as the experience of others has
shown that they do not thrive well
under local conditions, but to bud
from native pedigreed stock. This
plan will give all the better known
tropic varieties trial, and by gradu-
ally eliminating the undesirable kinds,
to arrive eventually at standard.
This high class stock will also be
available for dissemination through
out the republic of Panama"
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10
The Press Guarantees Circulation Greater
than the Combined Circulation of any
Other Three Imperial Valley Papers
rAsIER MONEY CONDITIONS.

IL testimony people the valley who have their pulse
the
the credit of the local banks that there
loans But there
difficult for the farmers to make real estate
av and the again making loans
feeyon valley real
ffcuy
seemed that has taken
session of valley nothing prevent the most rapid
stride
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

Two Main street lots, $4,000 each,
one-fourth cash, balance two years at
7 per cent. Edgar Bros. Realty Co.
Adv. .216
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

See Spikes Detective and Collection
Agency about taking over regular col
lections anywhere in the valley. We
get results. P. o. Box 1872, I'll Centre,
Calif.--Ady. II
Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-10

Wanted-Two passengers for San
Diego tomorrow. Inquire at Denver
rooms. Special low rate.-Adv. x222