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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10

cry, ETC.. at exhorbitant prices. which
upon investigation has been done.
We further find upon investigation
that the county offices of the auditor
assessor. treasurer, prosecuting attor-
ney, probate and county superintend-
ent are in good up-to-date order and
system respecting all books, files, etc.
and found that every office was in
good sanitary condition.
Respectfully submitted.
]. P. Monks, A. A. Merritt, w. w
Brannon, Fred F. Reem, s. S. Johnson
r. b. Hines, j. j. Hurm, Fred Gleed
James Fitzpatrick, Alfred Youker
August Fuchs, Ed Gilbert, George
Wearson, Charles Charbonneau
Charles Blum, Matt Ahlskog.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10

had kill Shipley and Welch bore a
slight scratch as though made by
an imperfection of the barrel from
which they were fired. Several
bullets fred by Sheriff Remer from
the. Mauser carried the same kind
of scratches.
The piece of rope Leppel used to
tie up his camp outfit and blanket
was found to correspond with the
rope which had been cut off from
|Shipley's boat. The watch found
on Leppel was also positively iden-
tilted as one having belonged to
Shipley.
1t has developed also that man
answering Leppel's description was
seen in Hope before Shipley and
WEIGH were killed. He had called
at the home of George Persons and
received some food, and the Per
sons family recalls not only his
personal appearance but also re-
members that ne carried such
weapons as were found upon Lep-
pei. Last Saturday a week ago
Lapel was seen in the vicinity of
Naples and because of his peculiar
actions the sheriff's Office was mott
fed and Deputies Bush and Mulca-
by visited the village and vicinity
in search of him.
Leppel's father was notified OF
his death, but the answer came
back that he would be unable to
furnish funds either for the ship
ment of the body or burial expense
The body was buried here last
Friday afternoon at the expense Of
the county.
John Rhodes, the Moravis
rancher who was shot by Leppe
and who afterwards killed hi,
assailant, is resting easy at tn,
Boomers Ferry hospital and has ;
good chance for complete recovery
II. Z. Storm. of the Farmers &
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10

Ray Cullen, an employee of the
Boomers Ferry Lumber company,
leaves today for eastern points on
a business trip.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10
Good Game For Sunday

Baseball fans are looking forward
to rafting good game Sunday at
the Eagle park when the Boomers
Ferry team will meet the Spokane
international Railway company s
team of Spokane. The Spokane
team has the reputation of being
one of the best city league teams
in Spokane and the local boys are
expecting a hard battle. The
game will be called at 2 p. III.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10
Medicos Form Association

A county branch of the State
Medical Association was formed at
Standpoint Monday and DR.. o. F.
Page, of Standpoint, was elected
president, DIR. l.. ]. Stauffer, OF
Boomers Ferry, vice president, DR..
c. P. Stackhouse. of Standpoint,
secretary treasurer.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10

H. E. Storm, of the Farmers &
Lumbermens State Bank, spent the
Fourth of July at Glacier Park
Mont.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10

Mr.. and Mrs. George R. Gray
left last week for Boise, Ida, to
visit friends and before their return
the latter part of the month, will
make a tour of Yellowstone Park.
Mr.. Gray went to Boise as dele
gate to the republican state plat
form convention.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-07-10

Mr.. and Mrs. L. N. Brown spent
the Fourth of July visiting rela-
tives at Rexford, Mont.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
A Man of Peace.
OF the House

Optmists Of every degree counsel avoidance Of
the retrospective habit and invite turn our gaze
futureward, with perhaps a casual glance into the
present if we able to do so without detracting
too greatly from the JOY of looking ahead. 1t is a
cheerful philosophy doubt but the fact remains
that now and then it is possible to extract crumb
of comfort from the past For example, it must
bring infinite satisfaction to those who were arrayed
against Secretary Bryan in his several attempts TO
get there recall the fact that he did not succeed
that he failed in every instance and the country was
saved temporarily at least
Had it been possible for those who worked like the
traditional beaver to keep Mr.. Bryan from getting
what he wanted to look far enough into the future
to see him at the head of the Department of State
at period too, when practically all the remainder
of the civilized world is trying its best degenerate
into barbarsm, would they have regarded it as the
end OF all things created? Should surprise and
delight them find that the bugaboo was but crea-
ture of their imagination that the real William
Bryan is the very apotheoss of peace and concord
instead OF menace to the established order of things
1t is no longer the fashion to regard Mr. Bryan
political frebrand One lacks the courage nova
days to term him a reformer. He really deserves
better than that from his countrymen. About the
only available weapon against his invncble paci6city
which we have at hand is the accusation that he is
irregular in his Office attendance and that he has
strange intolerance of alcohol as beverage Secre-
taries of State have not usually been provokngIy
free from vulnerable spots certainly few of his pre-
decessors were Political critics in the do of
Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams were not
driven to the of silence by lack of opportunity
Phiander c. Knox, with his dollar diplomacy" and
Eihu Root, with his alleged afliation with the cap
taistc oligarchy far less difficult in this respect
Viewed dscreetly and with some regard for the
facts in the case is not snap judgment to conclude
that the country is in peril account of the 'inac
tivity" Of the Department of State?
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
New York a Danger Center.

New York City seems once more to be a center
of danger. Between the bomb-throwers and the
incendiaries small reign of terror has been estab-
shed in certain sections; but the worst feature of
it all was the assassination of Barnett Baff the
independent poultry dealer, who was shot to death
Wednesday by two men who coolly made their
escape in an automobile awaiting the conclusion OF
their deadly work. While it crime very SINH
lar IN its details to the Rosenthai murder it did
not have its roots in the protection Of unlawful
practices, but was the result of enmties incurred
in perfectly legitimate business. Moreover, the
victim was not crook but a man of good stand
concerned 1t may be difficult to obtain a
clew that can be followed to practical conclusions
than it was in the case of the Rosenthal murder
but the regulations of the guardians of law and
order are at stake and apparently they can have
- motive to keep them from doing their best for
the detection of the criminsls.-Boston Transcript
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Unimportant If True
By DR.. ERITAS

If you it in some papers it may be 50.
can't a fool by sending him to school =
best a wedding is generally the minister
Virginia will probably of this Christmas.
About deadiest machine is a German submarine
Everybody is knocking prize fighting days
Some people know they wrong go anyhow.
There's little interest in that from Vera Cruz
Perhaps Col Roosevts dissatisfaction merely psychological
Just steps fashions will with the
looks if you've bet if did not back old Gen. de Wet
hadn't wouldn't have lasted long
But by the
allies.
Some they
a full dress suit
How do Mexico republics and
let go that?
odme merchant who used advertise by
of hand bills?
don't know how long the will last but quite will
half the that
dispatches.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
The Rejuvenation Of MIR. Morse.

Charles w. Morse, whose sentence of fifteen
years in Atlanta penitentiary for violation of the
national banking laws, was commuted by Presi-
dent Taft after he had served two years. is actively
engaged in establishing the Bermuda-American
Steamship Line. Not only does he expect to de-
velop Bermuda as the American Riviera, but he is
keenly interested in the development of an Ameri-
can merchant marine. President Taft released Mr..
Morse in January, 1913, after Surg. Gen. Torney
and other physicians had reported that the prisoner
only had six months to live. This remarkable case
seems to suggest that freedom has wonderfully
rejuverating effect released from prison
or that patient need not despair because learned
scientists place brief limit upon the number Of
his days. And now that the elamor is over it i
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
THE OPEN FORUM.
Belgium's Fate if Germany Triumphs
in the War.

Editor of The Washington Herald:
was pleased TO read your excellent edi-
torial entitled "Germany's terms" 1t
has appeared plain to me for some time
that one Of Germany's main objects, IL
not the main object, in the present war,
was the annexation OF Belgium BY
Germany / mean, not the Gsrman people,
but the military element that rules the
nation. To be sure neutrality had to
be invaded and treaties dishOnored in
order to accomplish the above object. but
military necessity was considered a
good enough pretext to cover tn perpe-
tration of this colossal crime. When we
consider what has already been done to
Belgium in the furtheranCe Of this object.
when We try to measure the o1ense in
terms of human suffering. wanton de-
struCtion. famine, and utter ruin of a
people that did absolutely nothing but
try to defend their native soil, surely
this thing bids fair TO be the greatest
crime OF all the ages.
Sometime after the invasion of Belgium
We are informed the Germans discovered
so-called military convention among
the archives in Brussels. whereby British
forces were to be used in Belgium in the
event OF certain contingencies arising
several years ago This was hailed as
the savior of the situation. 1t was claim
ed that Belgium neutrality did not exist
because OF this convention. This being
the case is it not remarkable that the
exact terms of this important document
are not published? Why do We not get
the full text OF II. We have been inform
ed on the other hand that it was merely
a tentative agreement between minor Of
ficials with the sole object of lending aid
to Belgium in case OF an attack by Ger
many, which was thought at that time
lin 1906. I believed, to be threatening.
What more natural than to try and pre-
pare for a calamity which. although ii
did not occur at that time. actually did
take place later. Apparently the Ger
man contention here is just as thin A
prctext as the above mentioned military
necessity" Even il We took the Ger
man view OF it, at best It would only
Condone a crime after it was committed.
Where is the ethics OF this?
II is inConceivable TO me that the Ger
man people as a whole will countenance
these acts of the ruling powers. 1t is
true most of them are just now carried
away by the military element and are
military mad" but there must be others,
and especially those in this country. who
should see that there is a far greater
Germany in the future than can ever be
reared upon the struCtive OF militarism.
These are GerTnanys = real patriots, the
element that will eventually make Ger
man "Kultur'' conform to Christian
idealism and that will restore the ma
ton to its high standing in the arts of
peace.
The immediate question. however.
which concerns the world is this: Should
Germany win in this war, it can clearly
be seen what is to become Of Belgium.
Could the civilized world help 1t or undo
it after II has been accomplished? Can
the civilized world prevent it now?
1t is well for us as citizens OF this coun-
try to be neutral. But neutrality should
not preclude the discussion Of a great
moral question. JR.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
JAPAN GRATEFUL TO U. S.
Our Ambassador Obtains Release of
Prisoners in Germany.

Our Am mbassadOr Obtains Release of
Prisoners in Germany.
We have had occasion before to put on
record our sense of high appreciation Of
Americas good offices in getting deliver
ance Of Japan's nationals in Germany. 1t
is our pleasant duty again to give eX-
preston to further feeling of gratitude
for similar service. Baron HayaShi, jap
anese Ambassador to Italy, haI tele-
graphed home that he has received let
ter from Rinichi Makita, a japanese
subject OF switzerland. which tells OF
the endeavors Of the United States
Ambassador to Germany in securing the
liberation Of japanese. With others of his
countrymen. Makita was taken into Gus
tody in Berlin on August 20. and was held
there till September g. On the latter date
he was removed to a race course near
Spandau and kept there till October 2.
and the next day he was set free and al
lowed to return to Berlin through the in
tercession of the American Ambassador
At Berlin he had to report himself TO the
police every day. In addition to this
striction there was always the danger of
meeting with violence. He was persuaded
by the Ambassador to leave Berlin on
the 10th for switzerland. where he
reached on the 18TH. Makita says that
the American Embassy ook the utmost
care of japanese leaving Germany and
caused one Of its stan to accompany a
party of them. So goes Baron Hayashfs 5
dispatch.
This story is also the story OF many
japanese who failed to leave Germany
before August Il, and they have all
been saved from a perilous position
through the kind offices of the Ameri-
can Ambassador. until as We believe.
there are no longer any japanese in
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14

Germany. This is a great debt We owe
to the United States. Germany is under
doubtedly most anxious to retain
Americas friendship and would listen
to most of her representations. Never
theless Germany seemed to be unwill-
ing to release the Japanese she had
arrested. when the American Ambassa-
dor first applied for their release in
response to the instructions of his gov
ernment. 1t is evidently the result OF
the Ambassadors strenuous efforts, as
much as out of respect for Americas
maintenance of strict neutrality. that
Germany has been finally reasoned into
emancipating Japan's imprisoned ma
tionals. One cannot but do great tn
justice to America in doubling the sin
certify of her neutrality and II would
be objectionable for US to make light
of the obligation she has thus put us
under in rescuing our cOmpatriots--
Japan Times
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Credit to Whom 1t Is Due.

Secretary McAdoo, with supreme assurance,
takes to his department large measure of the
credit for maintenance of financial order in the
United States in the crisis caused by the war In
deed, he acknowledges cordial and intelligent CO.
operation of the banking and business interests OF
the country" but he places first "the prompt and
effective action Of the Treasury Department" But
public consensus will be that the larger measure
of credit belongs to those interests to which he
gives credit only for cooperation. For instance,
the prompt closing of the stock exchange did more
to avert "a panic Of cataclysmic proportions" than
any step taken by his department. And but for
the emergency-currency law which a Republican
Congress some years ago enacted, the Treasury
Department would not have been able to give re-
lief by of emergency currency, for this ad-
effective when the war broke out-Albany Journal.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Fatalities in Baseban.

According to Chicago statistician thirty-hve
baseball players killed and 9I8 injured in the
year 1914. If the figures appall closet humani-
tarians they must consider that the casualties were
comparatively light after all 1t may be assumed
that several million Americans play baseball every
season, and there are forty-eight States in the
union. Less than one death to each State seems
negligible. AS for the injuries sustained, the vic
tins surely proud of them. movement to
abolish baseball because these casualties are re-
ported would excite good deal OF opposition. 1t
is doubtful if any reformer in the land would have
the hardihood to lead it.-New York Sun.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Headed Toward Chaos.

After the House of Representatives in Com
mittee of the Whole on Saturday had adopted the
Ben Johnson amendment to the District of CO.
lumbia appropriation BILL recklessly destroying the
foundation of the organic act of 1873 Representa-
tice Mann, who is deserving of his reputation on
both sides of the chamber calm, thoughtful,
constructive statesman found forceful illustration
in the bill under consideration of the condition of
utter chaos which would instantly be substituted
for order in the government of the Capital should
the Johnson amendment become law. Mr.. Mann
thus called the attention of the few of his col
leagues who were present to the immediate menace
in the Johnson measure, adopted with almost no
amending an appropriation bill, Johnson declares
repealed or amended all the legislation of years,
based upon a sound principle in continuous and
effective operation since 1873. 1t is not inviting
disaster; it is rushing forward to meet it. John
son has hurled the monkey wrench in the direction
chinery. His aim must be diverted, or sudden
smash is inevitable.
So vital change in an organized system as
Johnson seems to contemplate cannot be safely
inaugurated in hot haste and without decent and
orderly consideration of the result Yet Johnson
was enabled to take the first step in his ruthless
purpose on Saturday in the absence from the
House of three-fourths of its membership
1t is not hazardous guess that this could
never have been done with half the membership
of the uouee Dreeept Auopg that number of
Representatives there would surely be more than
enough interested and clear-visioned statesmen to
compel the deliberation and consideration so I'M
portant proposal demanded before action was
taken. But conditions were in Johnsons favor and
against justice and common sense. The indications
are that today the District bill with the Johnson
amendment will come before the House itself The
amendment should be defeated there. 1t should
never be permitted to go to the Senate. Its pro-
gress undoubtedly be checked if a majority
of the members present, and the friends of the
District of Columbia and of orderly legislation in
sist upon separate vote the amendment 1t
is doubtful whether very many more members than
the seventy-three who voted for the amendment in
Committee of the Whole would permit themselves
to be placed record as favoring such measure
were they fully aware of its purport and effect.
1t is earnestly to be hoped that empty benches
in the House today will not leave the way open
to the further advance OF Johnson's destructive
purpose. Everybody who lives in Washington is
interested in the Capital and its progress There
are many who personally acquainted with men,
bers of the House, and these arc in a position to
help avert the wrong that is threatened. They
should make direct appeal to such members to in
form themselves to the purport and effect OF the
Johnson amendment and to attend today's session
OF the House.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
LIT HIS PANTS, NOT PIPE.
Dave Hit a Grease spot and Neither
Garments FIared Up.

Port Clinton, O.. Dec. l3.-Dave Boslsr.
an employee Of the Mathews Boat Com
pany, had a peculiar accident recently
which might have proved serious. Bos-
Ter was sitting on the pier and attempted
to light his pipe with a match, which he
struck on his trousers. He had Just had
a grease spot removed from the trousers
with gasoline which was not thoroughly
eyaporated. When he struck the match
the fireworks started
BosIer jumped into the river to ex-
tinruish the flames. He was slightly
burned about the body and the trous-
ers were reduced to an irreducibls frac-
ton,
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14

As witness in Chicago court on Saturday
Joseph Letter related the interesting details of his
failure, twenty years ago, when he was scarcely
more than youth, to corner the country's wheat.
Mr.. Letter explained that it was because he was
double crossed" that he was compelled to make
$Io,oooooo or SIz,oooooo dent in his fathers pile
Much more interesting would have been the story
of the transaction from the late L. z. Letter who
had to sell large holdings of Chicago real estate to
pay for the lesson his son learned
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14

Some OF the fashionable women of London are
reported to have abandoned their knitting and
taken up the rolling of cigarettes for the soldiers
The sentiment attached to either task is all right
but the Soldiers will not benefit greatly from the
products of any social fad that undertakes to
pete with machinery. The money wasted in wool
and tobacco would produce ten times the results
if practically applied Perhaps the most practical is
the employment of poor women to do really use
full work for the soldiers.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14

The assignment of extra policemen to the shop
ping district during the Christmas rush is a wise
precauton on the part of Maj. Sylvester. Wash
ington has no cause to complain of excess of
crime but this winter the number of down and
out" wanderers, among whom there of course
lawbreakers, is above the normal and it is we'll to
provide ample protection in those sections which
for the next ten days will be frequented by women
with purses and valuables temptingly displayed
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Constituting the Income Tax Law.

The new income tax blanks require the victim
to specify whether he was living with his wife on
December 81, 1914 Surely this is not the question
If the wife died on December go would the Treas
ury Department attempt to rob the husband of his
exemption? Assuredly no court would uphold it
The statutory question is broad one covering the
entire year and not one day of It Why does official
dom strive so hard to place virulent construction
on the laws it has to administerf-NeW York Sun
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Hostility Among the Races.
ny JOHN ID. BARRY

ONE day, many years ago,
~ during a winter that /
spent in Paris, as / was walk
ing along. the street / was
surprised to meet a Japanese
workman. A French work
man in a blouse was also sur
prised.
When we had passed the
Japanese the Frenchman
spoke to me, his eyes bright
with interest and his large
mouth widening in a smile.
"You don't see MANY Tananese
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14

DR.. Charles w. Eliot, president emeritus Of
Harvard, says John D. Rockefeller is the best bust
man this country has ever produced, and that
have lost sight OF the fact that corporations are
the greatest and most efficient means of carrying
on business" 1t seems strange to again contem-
plate a distinguished citizen giving voice to such
sentiments without running the risk of being
lynched or apprehended as dangerous maniac
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14

The District Commissioners pared their esti-
mates OF appropriations needed for maintenance of
the city down to a poverty basis, asking for $I2,
100000, which the House District Committee re-
duced still further to SII3oo,ooo Postmaster Cen
cral Burleson asked for $2o9oooooo for the postal
service, whereupon the House Committee added
$23ooo,ooo to the amount The Commissioners
would have been justified in reposing faith in
the District Committees ideas of economy.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-14

If the House of Representatives accepts as ac-
curatc Representative Proutys figures purporting
to show the per capita tax in various cities in the
United States it ought to at adopt resolu-
tion providing for investigation of the Census
Bureau. Either Mr.. Prouty's figures worthless
or those of the Census Bureau worthless. In
the latter event there is a remedy and redress.