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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
ITEMS Of COUNTY TOWNS
What Neishboring People Arr
Doing.
FROM The EXCHANGE TABLE
Brevities Of Kootenai County Com
munities.
cGUR D'ALENE

OuTiuk tne recent not Gays Cne
water company has disconnected the
water service OF number OF con :
sumers on account OF violation Of the
company's rules as regards sprinkling
hours.
County Commissioner Esgate left
Wednesday for Boise to represent
Kootenai county before the state
board Of eQualizati IN. He stated he
will oppose any increase IN the as
sessed Valuations OF this county.
The abstract OF the assessment roll
for kootenai county, forwarded to
the state board Of equalization last
week, shows y total valuation of
SIS, 10000, not including railroads.
telegraph and telephone lines which
will add about $4,000. 900 to this
amount.
County Superintendent Egbers
announces that u ioint teachers
institute OF KoOtenai and Bonner
counties viii lie held at Standpoint,
beginning Sept. 7.
Serious forest fires are reported on
the Little North Fork and on Copper
creek
Chester Cutler, telegraph operator
at Standpoint, spent a few days
recently 10 the home Of his father
who Is electric railway agent at
Hayden Lake. rccuperating from
severe injury to his scalp sustained
last Friday from diving into the
water Of Twin Lakes. Mr.. Culler's
head struck snag 10 the water,
which lacerated his scalp painfully.
Many men have been rushed to
fight a forest fire 10 the Wolf Lodge
district.
Chief Of Police George X. Evans
will spend his annual vacation OF two
weeks campaigning throughout the
county In behalf Of his candidacy for
republican nomination for sheriff.
Among the marriage licenses issued
by the county recorder Aug. 10 was
one to A. j. Schneider uf Rathdrum
and Ethel Dawson OF CHur d'Alene.
The couple were married In CHur d.
Alene Wednesday and left for the
east on wedding tour. They will
reside IN lsathdrum.
The county commissioners Tuesday
granted the petitions OF ST.. Maries
and Plummer asking that the
questions Of forming the proposed
new counties of Benwah and Occur
d'Alene be submitted to vote Of the
!, people.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
Says Taxes Too High.

M. + Lewis Of Moscow, one of the
republican candidates for governor. Is
an extensive land owner In northern
and southern Idaho, having farming
interests 10 Latah county and Hy4
farms ut Emmett comprising SIS
acres. He is interested In reducing
taxes and 10 his announcements has
the following to saw ou this point:
Taxes are too high. We have
loaded the tax rolls with more duties
to perform each year, more people TN
the pay rolls, until we cannot stand
the burden. 1t Is time to cali ahali,
Cat the pay roll, reduce the sala-y
list. and return To the sIWple life ia
pu 1lic afIa IS"
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
The STATE CANDIDATES
Complete List For the September
Primaries.

Following is the complete list of
candidates for state office in Idaho,
subject to the primaries Sept. l:
REPUBLICAN.
u. s. Senator: Burton L. French, James H
Brady. Frank r. Gooding, James + Ailshie.
Representative in Congress: JONES'
r NJ McCracken, Miles johnson, Thomas +
Kerl, Addison L Smith.
Governor: John NJ Haines, NJ e Lewis, J
M Stevens.
Lieutenant governor: NJ J Sweeley, Geo
w Edgingtoh, II Taylor W r Smith.
Attorney general: J II Peterson.
Secretary of state: George II Barker
Erwin w Johnson, Otis M Van Tassel, Chas
d Story.
State auditor Fred L Huston.
State treasurer: O V Allen. John W
man.
Superintenden mt Of public instruction: Miss
Bernice Mccoy.
Mine inspector: Robt N Bell, Stole.
PROGRESSIVE.
u. s. Senator: Paul Clagstone.
Representative in congress: G W Luck, E
II Rettig.
Governor: Hugh E McElroy.
Lieutenant governor: G E B Roberts.
Attorney general: William E Lee.
Secretary of state: Samual Jordan.
State auditor: Clarence Van Deusen.
State treasurer: c. o. Broxon.
Superintendent Of public instruction: e
w Morrison.
Mine inspector: James W Caples.
DEMOCRATIC.
u. s. Senator: James Il Hawley, John +
Nugent VIC Whitwell.
Representative in congress Dow Dunning,
J II Forney, Bert II Miller.
Governor: Moses Alexander, w Clark.
Lieutenant Governor: w Tanner.
Attorney general: A Walters.
Secretary of state: W 7 Dougherty.
State auditor: A Lelhiquet.
State treasurer: M Capps
Superintendent of public instruction: No
nomination.
Mine inspector; II Norquist.
SOCIALIST:
Governor: A Coblintz.
JUSTICE SUPREME COURT. Non partisan:
VIM NJ Morgan, Warren Truitt. Ben
Tweedy, Edward A. Walters, W.Beale.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
PLUMMER

The village trustees are having q
we'll drilled, the spribes hfinH made
quate to supply the tuw0 with water
during the summer months.
Several homesteaders have narrow.
ly escaped losing their homes by
forest Hres lately.
Worley and vicinity have decided
to hold a Harvest 'arnival and bah
some time IN Scpttmb r.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
News Of the State.

N. ]. Sweeley of Twin Falls, one of
the republican primary candidates
Tor lieutenant governor, is said to be
a good, moral man, thoroughly
competent to Oil the Office.
The total assessment On timber
holdings, lumber, sawmllls, ETC., in
Bonner county Is fixed at approx
uately ave million dollars. At the
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
ST. MARES

The council Is discussing the
advisabllty OF installing a new pump
for fire protection.
Governor Haines visited st. Marie.
last week. While here he Informed
those he met that he thought Koot-
enai county should be divided and
that the measure would have his
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
BLOODY BATTLE At uE(E
Summary Of the War In
Europe.
GERMAN ADVANCE BLOCKED
British Driving German Commerce
From the Seas.

| ~AVAu TIC 0eaS.
The following summary of tie
war news from Europe is contin.
ued from last weeks issue:
All the great and important
movements are taking place be-
hind a veil of mystery. Owing to
the military censorship only few
reports come from Germany, Aus
trla and Russia to the outside
world, and from these it is evident
that the mobilization of vast armies
is progressing steadily behind the
screen OF minor preliminary opera
tions already begun all along the
frontiers.
One report stated, Sunday, that
Germany had modified 600, 900
men, sending part of them against
Russia and the rest against Bel
glum and France. Retiring from
Alsace before superior French
army, the Germans are massing
among the hills and Notifications
at Neu Breisach, toward which
place an Austrian army of 10000
is moving to join them. The
French, under General Joseph
Joffre, on entering sace-Loraine,
engaged the Germans in a sharp
encounter at Altkirch, driving
them back and entering the i'm
portant city of Muhhausen of 1oo,-
900 inhabitants. Alsace and Lo.
raine are French provinces taken
by Germany in the Franco Prus-
sian war Of 1870. The population
is French and greeted the French
| army with enthusiasm.
By far the most important of the
preliminary operations of the great
struggle have been taking place at
Liege, Belgium. Here the Ger
man advance army seeking a
pathway into France found its
progress barred, Aug. 4 and S, by
an almost impregnable chain Of
forts. Under General Won EN-.
mich the invading force, said to
number 12o, 900, made repeated
assaults in heavy mass formation
against the Belgian position held
by 40, 900, and were repulsed with
great loss. The carnage around
the forts, among the entanglements
and on the banks and bridges of
the Meuse is said to have been
frightful. Reports indicate that
the Germans lost more than IS, 900
men in three days fighting. The
Belgians took several thousand
prisoners. On the 9TH the Ger
mans received heavy reinforce
ments, and the Belgian army
withdrew leaving the forts gar
risoned. The Germans invested
Liege the same day, cutting it off
from communication with the
government at Brussels. Confir-
nation of the report that Liege
had been taken by the Germans,
Aug. I, apparently was given by
dispatches received from Berlin.
The invading troops entered the
city j in good order, their COM
mander permitting no depredations
although he seized prominent
citizens as hostages to prevent the
Belgian forts from turning their
guns on the city. A dispatch from
Brussels, Aug. 10, stated tha,
Liege was invested but that the
Belgians still held the forts. The
Germans began to place hea,y
guns with which they would renew
the attempt to reduce the fortifica.
tions.
The dispatches of Aug. II stated
that the delay of the Germans al
Liege had enabled France to throw
FIVE army corps into Belgium
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14
At NATIONAL CAPITAL
Paragraphs on Important Gov
eTnment Affairs.
THREE NEW DREADNAUCHI
Contracts Let.-War Spirit
Eastern Roads Lose.
The Tribune Bureau.
BY j. e. JONES

Washington, d. C.-Many people
who cannot understand the war
enthusiasm Ia the different European
countries ought to refresh their
memories regarding their own war of
"watchful waiting time" Very
recently the United States was partly
ablaze with enthusiasm for war, and
the government held 1t of with
ditficulty.. On a former occasion.
President Mckinley stood as a check
to this same war spirit, and only let
loose the guns OF battle when our
Justification to take Up arms against
the enemy had been fully established.
Americans who are wondering wheth.
er Europe has gone crazy should
recall their own excited mental con-
dition when the question OF war or
peace confronted the United States.
Contracts have been assigned for
three new dreadnauRhts for the
United States navy. These new
instruments OF warfare will be forty
one feet longer and of $500 tons
greater displacement than any now in
the United States service. 1t may be
that before Europe gets through the
question of what country has the
greatest navy will be settled, as our
'anccs for first place are very good.
About the same time that the con-
tracts were let for the new dread
naughts, Major General Leonard
Wood submitted his annual report to
the secretary OF war. 1t shows that
the actual strength of the army is
4,306 officers and 80, 900 enlisted men
scattered over the world. The gener.
al declares that to maintain the force
10 the United States for even a small
expedition In police work of the
department it Is vitality import
ant that the regular army be sub
stantially increased.
A fund OF about $4,000, 900 has
been accumulated through the sale of
public lands which under the old law
IS 10 the hands OF the interior de-
partment for expenditure in reclama
tion projects without congressional
limitations. Congress recently be-
came somewhat jealous Of this method
OF expenditure, and the house pro-
vided that all expenditures in future
saonld be limited to appropriations
male from the reclamation funds by
congress. Representatives from
public lands states have vigorously
opposed such a change, but the
powerful democratic leader Under
wood with his southern democrats
are having their own way.
Sandwiched Ia among the news on
the back pages has appeared the
decision Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission In reference to the
application of the eastern railroads
for a flve per cent increase 10 freight
rates. The application was made by
the railroads four years ago, and the
decision Is 10 effect a denial of the
petition OF the roads, although per
mission for increased rates on some
commodities 10 palts of the territory
involved have been granted. In New
England 10 the trunk line territory
everything has been denied. 1t is
estimated that the average increase
will amount to one and one-half per
cent, adding about Sis, 900, 900 TO the
annual freight revenues of the eastern
railroads.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14

The remains Of Mrs Woodrow
Wilson, wife OF the nations president.
were biried Aug III in Myrtle cemo-
terry. Rome, Ca. her former home.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14

approval should II pass the legisa-
ture.
The Cherry Creek sawmill WIS
burned last week; less $4,000.
The water supply has become 81,
short that the council! has served
notice upon all to cease sprinkling
lawos until further supply can be
obtained.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1914-08-14

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of the Nisigoths. its bastions of charlemagne and its Narbonnaise gate. It Is the jewel of Languedoc and in olden times was an Albigensian stronghold
 Homer sang of Crissa, the Divine, abut the dream of the troubadours was to be- hold at least once in their lives their in comparable Carca ssonne. The fortifica- tions date from the fifth century, are built in the form of a square about a mile in circuit and contain 54 towers, with the approaches. gates Indictments and all the defensive devices evolved hy mediaevai military engineers ina perfect state of preservation. Even the churches are hattlemented. To know and feel how the town people lived and defended them selves Il centuries agone is the experi- ence of those who visit Carcassone. It has about sO,ooo inhabitants. but the pecu- liar feature of the place is that it is divid- ed by the river Aude into two portions, the upper and the lower town. The up- per town has bean practically abandoned and is veritable deserted village where one may wander amid castles, walls. homes and magazines and not encounter a human being for hours. It is pi.g that its singular beauty Is so little known. From the tower of it's Gothic church or St, Vincent the site of the meridian of Paris was calculated by Meehain and D Elambre. Mechain obtained immortal ity through the great number of comets he discovered. l know of no more lovely or so intensely interesting spot in all Europe than this sweetheart of the troubadours, fair Carcassonne.
 In the orient one encounters most pe- culiar phenomenon of nature from the fact that several large rivers emerge sud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
When the Ocean Covered the Land

recent United States geological survey press bulletin says:
 Most people know in a general way that large parts of the United States have in the past been covered by the ocean. but it is perhaps not so gene,<, ally known that the continent is now rising in some places and sinking in others. There Is every reason to be- heve that minor movements of the land are constantly taking place. Not so long ago. in a geologic sense. the Hudson river flowed through a deep canyon or gorge in New York city Soundings show that this gorge eA- tends through the harbor and far out to sea. It Is evident that the land surface has been lowered in this re- zion, allowing the ocean t9 creep in on the land. fill the old ri channel ana Tn places wholly sut1De. l;ed. The sopmergence of the land Aus greater at one time than Il is now In exca- Vatlng Tor some of the New York sky serapers remains of oysters and other salt water animals have been found.
 AS rule the only available knoAei- edge in regard to the former submer- sence of an area Is derived from tn. marine shells and other animals found in deposits laid down by the sea. By ''' haeait VI tnt ipSS1iS RPOloRISIS arc able sto tell approximately when the ocean invaded the land They have found evidence of suhmergence of much greater magnitude and much old CT than that which now floods the Hudson valley. Gothamites and oth- CTS need not. howeevr. feel alarmed al this statement of the ups and downs of the continent for while geological- " this submergenee is not so very old the geologist thinks and speaks in terms of thousands, if not millions. of years.
 Along the Atlantic coast, from New Jersey southward. it is not unusual to find quantities of sharks teeth and other marine fossils in the green sands that are now located far inland and arc used for fertilizers. In certain sec tions of the southern Mississippi val ley. where limestone is not readily ae- cessible, farmer will go out and gath CT a wagon load Of fossil oyster shells 10 burn for lime. The shark bear ing rocks of New Jersey and the oyster beds Of Tennessee are of the same general age and represent one of tho later of the great invasons of- thea ocean on the North American eonti- nent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10
Czar Nicholas More e Hern1it Than Euer

political police feared they might turn koff to organize the national sports on "safe.' that is a reactionary level. The church was to be asked to help. yoyei- koff did this very well. being sports man, not a bureaucrat. Then he was called to the palace to succeed Diedulin.
 His first action was to deal a blow at the monastery system. For a fortnight
 Nicholas appeared daily in his motor car on Tsarskoe Selo roads. This sud- denly ceased. The "Okhrana' invented the usual revolutionary peril, and Nicho- las retired to his cell
 Diplomats, high officials, and the chiefs of the army regard the imperial seclu- sion as scandal Angriest of all are the diplomats. Some of them have been in St. Petersburg a whole decade, and during that decade there have been only two court entertainments The ievees, drawing rooms, and court balls have en- tlrely ceased. St Petersburg. once Eu- ropes uveliest city, is now the duiiest Big nob1es without official positions save taken to living in Moscow as the li>ier town. This is reflected in the reports of the police building department which show that since 1905 there have been seven times as many large villas and good class apartment houses put up in Moscow as in St. Peterspurg. High po- litics are seriously affected. Under AL exander III and his predecessors the for eign diplomats had opportunities of talk ing to the Car every week: and Bis marck when ambassador at St. Peters burg carried on his most important ne- gotiations with Alexander II direct. Such thing is no longer possible.
 Ministers also have cause of complaint. Twice during the present reign their op- portunities of talking politics with the autocrat have been curraiied. Up to 1905 every minister had one weekly auc.Nnce, when the Czar was at St. Petersburg or at either of his suburban palaces: he was further summoned for special au- diences two or three times month and he had the right, when affairs were pressing, to demand special audiences After 1905 the weekly visits have been cut short On the da.s appointed for audiences the czar's aide-de-camp tele- phones to the minister's quarters, asking if there is anything rs essing, as If not, the audience may Be delayed or a mcrno- randum may be submitted, on the margin of which the Cxar will write his views.
 All this is the result of Nicholas now chronic dislike of seeing the human face When Minister of Education Casso went to Tarskoe selo immediately after the restaurant scandal. in which he was pub llcly boxed by two young men, he was not received. casso thought this was a hint to resign; in reality it meant that Nicholas was in one of his antihurnan moods Even Premier Kokovtseff was sometimes turned away. When witte was premier he had audiences three times week, and stolypin had two weekly audiences. Now tho head of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-10

France, and but few miles removed rom Aries. where was round the famous Venus that bears its name. It's castle in notable and it's church of Ste, Msrths attracts many visitors. In fact. it was this church which took me to the place but l found the. simple minded peasants Tn their primitive costumes a most de- Asht-ul feature of my visit.
 IL nas been my custom to studiously avoid foreign cities when they are hold ing rational or international exposi- tions, as they are always so greatly thron5ed with visitors from America and other countries that they for the time lose all local characteristics, but the visitor IS fortunate who happens to enter the town, the smaller the better, which is holding a local festival or native celebration. have seen the celebration of the feast of St. John as f'lorence l have viewed the Lady Godiva pageant at Gov entry. the Whitmonday procession at Rothenburg, and the folk dances at Stratford-on-Avon. I have seen the exc eution of Senor May in Brazil, and the regattas at Henley. but l deem myself doubly fortunate in having been at Ta- rascon when the villagers were holding
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book Relations between the Czar and the state departments are confused On important matters ministers find decis- ions unexpectedly made against their projects, and discover that the Czar him ble. When the Dumas vodka bill came self is not clear as to who Is responsi- up last month in the council of the em. pire Premier Kokoytseff got orders from isarskoe Selo in the morning at 10 o'clock, and while he was in the middle of his speech he was handed d tele. phone memorandum countermandine these orders in the name of the Czar.
 St. Petersburg's ruling circles are all the more displeased because Nicholas as trey know. makes an exception for fav- ored individuals. He detests seeing new faces. but he is accessible to the palace crowd. and he receives certain class Of intruders from outside These are re- ligious fanatics, mystics and sef-styled prophets Numerous dislllusions with the late Father John of kronstadt, Philippe. Father vos,orgon. Iiodor. Rasputin and other men who proved to be fools or swim dlers, have not cured him. St Peters burg talks of new holy men who have the entree at Tsarskoe Selo The latest Is vassili Gristohenko. formerly q gardener at the Grand Duke Constantine's Strelna Villa. Grlstchenko lately turned holy man. and had an audience with the czar on the day on which the Minister casso was turned away. Most of the current stories about Gristchenko are inventions: but there is no doubt that half the time which Nicholas II spares from ambassa- dors ministers, and generals is spent in talking to religious humbugs, and talk ing politics with courtiers who are un- qualified. The grand ducal regime has entirely ceased. Of all the grand dukes the young Dmitri Pavlovitch is the only one who now goes to the palace Dmitri Pavlovitch is son of banished Grand Duke Paul He was carefully brought up by the Grand Duchess Marya Pavlova. If the present Czarevitch does not re- cover, Dmitri will probably be appointed heir During the last few weeks he has been at the palace almost daily He skates with Nicholas and Nicholas rewards him by paying his debts. Dmitri Is distrusted by the Czarina, who regards him as rival to her own son. As 8 result of Nicholas ITS hermit life,
 
 Russia has now the cheapest court in Europe. The winter palace and larger palaces at Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof are both unoccupied and are looked af- ter by a handful of caretakers who are : mostly pensoned ex-noncommissione officers whomv the Czar need not pay. The palaces and grounds are neglected. The Chinese village at Tsarskoe selo when damaged in the heavy snowfall of 1911 was repaired so cheaply that there was another collapse last winter The hne Siberian marble bridge in the parx was split by frost and has not been repaired. Nearly the whole court per sonnel consists of army. gendermerie. or police officers and men who are paid. not from the cxar's s<vate purse. but from the departmental votes The vast sum spent on guarding Nicholas during