Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-01-02
OBATTLE
PRESIDENT OF MEXICO TO TAKE
AN ACTIVE PART IN FIGHT
ING REBELS.
LATEST REPORT FROM MEXICO CITY
Enrique Gerostleta, Minister of Jus
tice, VIII Become President Early
in New Year-tiuerta DEGREES
Holidays to Save Banks.

liCCs VIII DcNOfUC FIcSiucul
in New Year-Huerta DEGREES
Holidays to Save Banks.
Mexico City.-EnriQue Gerostieta,
minister of justice, will become pres
ident of Mexico early in the new year,
and General Huerta will take the field
against the rebels, who refused to
conform to his arrangement, accord
ing to report that was received with
credence by some OF the diplomatic
Representatives here.
Gerostieta is to be named minister
of foreign affairs, according to the
version of the story in circulation.
and General Huerta will retire from
the presidency, in which case the for
eign minister succeeds him.
Senior Gerostieta is well along in
years. He was a lawyer at Monterey,
who was brought to the capital to
take the portfolio or finance, but in
stead was appointed minister of JUS
tice.
BY a presidential decree every day
until January / was made legal holt
day in order to check the run on the
banks here, particularly that on the
Bank of London and Mexico.
General Villa Defiant.
chihuahua, Mexico.-"Nothing less
than the fall of Huerta and his ban
ishment from the country will ever be
considered as a preliminary toward
peace in Mexico" said General Fran
cisco Villa Monday. ANY overtures
for a compromise would be treated
with contempt by the revolutionists.'
Although recent price trends indi-
cate cheaper marketing for the ulti'
mate consumer, very high prices for
a comparatively few commodities OF
general use prevent Bradstreet's in
dex number from receding, according
to that journal. Thus, the influence
of markedly higher prices for eggs
combined with those of butter and
cheese, of which commodities there is
[ said to be a relative scarcity, is pri
marily responsible for the failure Of
the index number as a whole to fall
On the contrary, barely perceptiblt
advance is shown. For example, the
index number based on quotations
prevailing on December l works ou
at $9.229O, which reflects a very Sigh
rise, viz, .004 per cent, over Novem
Der /. Since compiling the data OF
: which the index is predicated, matters
marketwise have shown further ease
AS illustrating the broad movemen
= manifested over a months time, it il
apropos to point out that of LOG com
+. modities, seventeen advanced, thirty
!. four went down and fifty-five remained
unchanged. Therefore, the trend ha
J. not been without considerable stead
!. ness, and whereas most of the indi
l. vidual declines have been of a frac
b tional character, save as regards thu
e metals, several of the advances hav,
i carried goodly gains. However, thu
index number just given indicates
drop of 3.3 per cent from December
1912, when the figures compiled b.
a this journal reached record higl
3 point. Yet it is noteworthy that fol
# ty-three commodities were higher OF
December 1 this year than they wer
h at the corresponding date in 1915
S though at the same time fifty wer
s lower and thirteen did not record an
change The index number for tn
II first of the current month reflects a
G. advance of 81 per cent over Decen
If Der /, 1911, and of 5 per cent owe
(, that time in 1910, but of only IL pc
cent over the like time in 1909.
IS short, the present level is the highes
=, with one exception that has ever bee