The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-02-03

LONDON, Feb. 3.-While the United
| States has been making bids in the
: open market this week for wooden ma
terials to be used for sailors uniforms
/ allowing foreign countries to make
offers under the new tariff ruling,
much comment has been occasioned
: here by the action of the Port of Lon
{ don authority in placing contracts
: with German firms for the construc-
/ ton of lock gates, a vascule bridge
swing bridges and a caisson, all of
, which works are connected with the
building of the Royal Albert dock ex
tension (South) and the East India
} dock improvement works
At the headquarters of the Port OF
London authority, it was stated that
the contract was a purely business
transaction which had been influenced
by the saving of nearly &c per cent
when compared with the lowest British
tenders.
the loss of the contracts to British
firms is due to the high price of ma
terial and labor in England, and to the
keenness of German firms to secure
business abroad.
Gar to Visit France.
Although the visit does not take
place until next autumn there is much
speculation over the purpose of the |!
Cars trip to France. 1t is believed |
that France and Russia are planning |
some fixed political program that will |
bind the interests of the two countries !
more closely than they have been here
tofore. The czar will. in all probabili-
ty, go to Paris in time to witness the
military manoeuvres on large scale,
for in the fall there will be three
classes of trained men serving with the
French colors. President Poincare
will probably go to Russia before the
rumored that NJ. Poincare contem-
plates trip to st. Petersburg as early
as April next
Richest Woman Taxed Heavy.
The heaviest contribution toward the
special levy of $250,000,00O made on
German taxpayers for the increase of
the army, fails on Frau Bartha Won 30
hol IF to For
turing firm. The levy amounts to 81,
$4,000. Frau Won Bohelen is easily
the richest woman in Germany and it
is reported that she would be pleased
to pay almost any kind of tax to re-
gain favor with the royal family. Since
the scandal regarding the Krupp firm
paying the newspapers to start war
rumors, for the sake of selling guns
One seldom sees the Frau or her sis
ter at public affairs any more. 1t is
said that they are too proud to be
snubbed and many of their friends
would be compelled to treat them with
the scantest courtesy for fear Of Of
Tending the kaiser.
Tribute to Jeanne dare.
Rouen, in France. plans to pay a new
tribute to the city's great heroine,
Jeanne dare On one of the arches
of the Boidelieu bridge, which occupies
the place of the Three Arch bridge,
from which the ashes of the heroine
were thrown into the Seine, it is pro-
posed to place tablet commemorative l
the death of the martyr This fact is
attested by Thomas Basin, Bishop of
LisieuX who wrote:
"All the ashes that the fire had left :
those of wood as well as of Jeanne
d'Arc's body, were gathered together
and thrown fom the bridge into the
Seine, so that the crowd, promoted by
sentiment could not gath
er up or preserve any of the remains T
Thus is disproved the legend that tho
ashes of the martyr were thrown to the
our winds :
Rome Parliament to Open.
Parliament opens in Rome next
week and it is reported that the ses-
ion will be lively. The socialists are q
gaining such foothold in Italy that
hey will be in position to make
greater demands on the government