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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
GEN. V|LLA'SDEFENSE
SAYS BENTON, BRITISH SUBJECT
WAS TRYING TO "cET" HIM
AND WAS EXECUTED.
ENGLAND DEMANDS ACT Be EXPLAINED
Mexican General Says HIS Action Jus.
titled by Laws and Usages Of War
Secretary Of State Bryan 10
Active In the Case.

Washington.-Gener villa has tel
egraphed R. v. Pesquiera, rebel repre-
sentative here, as follows:
"The attention Of the commanding
general Of the division having been
drawn to the published reports in re-
spect to the recent execution of Will
lam s. Benton, he desires it known
that the authorities in that case was
entirely justified by the laws and
usages of war.
Under article "a Of general orders
100. for the government of the United
States in the field it is provided that
armed providers who come within
the line Of the army of occupation
with hostile intent are not entitled to
the privileges Of prisoners of war.
Article IS provides that persons
within occupied territory who employ
violence toward the established au-
thorities are subject to the penalty OF
death. whether they arise singly or in
number.
There is absolutely no doubt that
Benton, Huerta sympathizer and
murderer Of Mexican citizens, deliber-
ately attempted an act of violence
against the person and life of the COM
handing general and for that reason,
in accordance with the laws and u.s.
ages of war, he was tried by a military
tribunal, constituted for that purpose,
and executed pursuant to it's sentence,
proceeding sustained by American
and European precedents.
Secretary Bryan Gets Busy.
Secretary Bryan has ordered a far
reaching investigation of the killing of
William S. Benton, British subject,
at Juarez. He announces that until
all the facts in the case had been
gathered from all available sources no
opinion would be expressed by the
state department. All information re-
ceived will be transmitted to the Brit
ish government.
Villa Sends Record.
Ell Paso, Tex.-In a telegram to
Thomas D. Edwards, the American
consul at Juarez, General Villa sug-
gests that the Americans reported
missing in Mexico may be included
in batch Of American recruits which
he says he has rejected and will send
back to Juarez by the first troop train.
Villas telegram says that there are
Is of these Americans who wished to
join his forces, but whom he has
found unavailable. At present search
is being made for Harry Compton of
Oakland, Cal; Roger Laurence, an
Englishman, who came here recently
to visit William s. Benton, who was
killed by the rebels last Thursday; a
New Mexico ranchman by the name of
Curtis, said to have joined Laurence
in the search for Benton, and Gustav
Bauch, officially reported to have
been taken to Chihuahua for further
investigation on the charge of being
a spy.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
ON PACIFIC COAST

e. s. J. Krattiger, cashier of the
Melrose branch Of the Fruitvale bank,
California, was held up and robbed re-
Gently of $4,000 which he has holding
in bag outside the bank.
Handsome Jack" Koetters Of San
Francisco has been taken to Chicago,
where he is charged with the murder
of Mrs. e. Kraft, well-to-do widow,
on November IA, 1912. He denies the
crime.
John Klosterman, one of the best
known pioneer merchants of Oregon
died in Portland Saturday, aged "A
years. For A years he was promi.
nent in the mercantile business Of the
northwest.
The representatives of the IL fish
eating tribes of Indians of Washing
ton Sunday formally adopted the re.
port of their committee on organiza.
ton which recommended the name
Northwestern Federation Of American
Indians"
G. Evert Baker Of Portland Satur.
day was reelected president Of the
Oregon Christian Endeavor union in
the twenty fourth annual state con.
vention. Miss Anna Taylor Of Forest
Grove was reelected secretary, and H
H. Rottman of Portland field secre.
tary.
San Francisco closed it's municipal
dining room Sunday and hereafter nc
more free meals will be served the
unemployed. The reason for the &C
ton was that the city's emergency ap
preparation of $4,000 is exhausted
More than 1000 men lined up in a pour
ing rain for the final free breakfast.
G. w. w. Hanger, assistant commits
sioner of mediation and Cancellation
under the federal mediation law, is in
Portland from Washington, D. c., tc
mediate between the Oregon Washing
ton Railroad & Navigation company
and its telegraphers, who have voted
to strike unless their requests are
granted.
Houses were shaken throughout
Portland Saturday and lives endan
gered when the rock crusher at the
municipal rock quarry was destroyed
by dynamite. A heavy charge of the
explosive was set off. Members of q
disgruntled laboring element. the pc
lice believe, were the perpetrators Of
the act.
| Michael Haitsch, who turned up al
San Bernardino. CAL, Friday apparent
ly the victim of abductors, may have tc
learn to talk all over again. At pres
ent he can only indicate that he is
hungry or thirsty and show signs Of
excitement when the name of his sis
ter, Mrs. Martha Kunsch of New Ken
sington, Pa, is mentioned.
Judge Barber of the superior court
of Shasta county, California, has dis
missed all charges against Daniel
Fleming Of Oakland, convicted more
than two years ago of the murder OF
George Waller of Tacoma on the roof
of Pullman car, in or near Redding
August 25, 1910, on account of extreme
high cost of again securing witnesses
for the third trial.
Sentence has been indefinitely post.
poned by Judge Dooling In the case
of James B. Smith, vice president; F.
c. Mills, superintendent, and E. H.
Meyer, chief weigher Of the Western
Fuel company, all of whom were con-
victed in the United States district
court, San Francisco, of conspiracy
to defraud the government of Gus
toms dues and full weight on import
ed coal.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
Grey Nuns Lose Convent.

Quebec, Quebec.-The church build.
Ing and the chapel of the Grey Nuns
convent, occupying a city block, were
destroyed by fire recently, together
with many valuable relics. The con-
vent was badly damaged. The prop
erty loss was estimated at $4,000. The
fire started in the kitchen when a
lighted match ignited benzine fumes.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

w. G. Joslin shipped two carloads of
hogs to Seattle last week from Julia
eta.
Governor John M. Haines announces
his intention to seek denomination on
the republican ticket.
Burglars robbed the Corner drug
store at Moscow Saturday night, TAX
ing 18 bottles of wine and drugs.
At Moscow oats are quoted at 97k
cents. More than rs per cent Of the
crop Is in the warehouses. Last fall
$1.2O was asked.
The International hotel at PASSPORT
had narrow escape from fire Sunday,
thought to have been caused from the
explosion of lamp.
w. F. Joliffe, for several years con-
nected with the schools Of Kellogg,
has been installed as principal Of the
high school at Juliaetta. succeeding
the late A. X. Nelson.
The date of the spring examination
Of candidates for admission to the
Idaho bar has been set on the third
Monday in March. The examinations
will be held in Lewiston.
Before a large and enthusiastic
crowd Of people the second polo game
between the teams representing Spo.
kane and Lewiston was won by the
latter Sunday, score 2 IA to 1.
The Northern Pacific railroad an
nounces special rate on sheep from
eastern Oregon and eastern Washing
ton effective March % to Orofino and
Greer points on the Clearwater Short
line.
DR.. j. F. Hurlbut, a prominent ply.
stefan and surgeon of north Idaho,
died at Lewiston Sunday. The cause
of death was chronic nephritis, from
which he had been a sufferer for sew
eral years.
Patents will be issued to the settlers
of Marble creek, in northern part of
the state, who have held under squat.
ters' rights lands in the st. Joe river
basin that the state has claimed for
many years.
The Hawley forces defeated the NJ.
gent faction of the democratic party
at Boise Saturday in preference cleo
ton for postmaster, by giving their
candidate, P. M. Davis, safe majority
over Curtis s. Pike, the Nugent candi.
date.
Word has been received of the death
of John Parker at Olympia, Wash. Mr.
Parker was pioneer of Idaho, having
been permitted to live on the Fort
Hall reservation long before the gov
eminent forced the Indians to be more
liberal in this matter.
A commission to study the operation
of the federal and state pure food and
drug laws has been appointed by Seth
Low of New York, president of the
National Civic Federation. ]. H. Wal
lis, president of the National Associa.
ton of State Food and Dairy Commits
sioners, Boise, is named as one of the
committee.
A. H. Wilson, state pure food in
spector, was at Plummer recently col
lecting 1914 licenses and looking over
the stock Of the merchants. Mr.. Will
son seized 200 sacks Of flour which
was misbranded under the Idaho laws,
several cases of soda pop and prose-
cuted short weight butter case, the
butter being confiscated and sent to
Boise. He looked over the hotels and
public hall and ordered the doors
changed SO as to open outward, also
fire escapes placed on the schoolhouse.
He also notified all merchants regard
ing the new law effective September
/ which requires all packages to have
the net weight on them.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
Maine Has Three Earthquikes

Eustis, Maine.-Three distinct earth
tremors were noticed in this section
Saturday night. Rangely. Phillips and
Flagstaff were among the towns sha-
ken by the vibrations. No damage was
reported.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
Northern Pacific to Improve 1t. Line,

President ] M. Hannaford of the
Northern Pacific Railway company an
nounces that his company would ex-
pend this year between 100000 and
100000 for betterments, equipment,
safety devices and the carrying out of
construction work already under way.
A considerable share of 1t will be de-
voted to placing approximately 300
miles of the system under the auto
matte signal system, of which 215
miles will be on the western divisions.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
viii codify American Law.

New York.-More than so recogniz-
ed leaders of the American bar have
organized the American Academy of
Jurisprudence. Its purpose is the pro-
daction of complete and compre-
hensive statement in systematic form
of the entire body of American law"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27
President Welcomes classmate.

Observation-Disclosures Wilson broke
the rule of receiving no visitors on
Saturday by seeing DR.. Shosuke Sato,
an exchange professor from Japan, lee
turing In American universities. He
was In the presidents class at Johns
Hopkins university % years ago.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27

The value Of gold produced In the
Gold coast and Ashanti during 1912
was $2,046,465 the largest production
on record.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27

Don't expect to become the owner
OF mansion In the skies II you are an
earthly tax dodger.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27

More things come to those who are
too busy to wait for them.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27

California has 1870 mountains. Twelve
are more than $4,000 feet high.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27

When you meet q woman with q
history she is usually trying to sell It.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27

MRS. q. 4. oO0gN.
A $4,000 defense fund IN being
raised by the women Of Illinois to
establish the validity Of the equal
suffrage law. fight upon which
has been carried to the supreme
court Of the state.
Contributions from women In
lump sums up to $500 are being
made daily. Mrs. @. A. Soden, first
vice president Of the Illinois Equal
Suffrage association, IL chairman
Of the committee raising the money.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-27

You can't avoid duty by taking a
bypath.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
DEVIL DANCERS OF cEYLoH
Natives Have Implicit Faith in Their
Ability 70 curs All Forms Of
ploeaaa. !:

Despite the advance of medicall
knowledge throughout India, says a
writer In the Wide World Magazine,
devil dancers are still called into re-
Quisition In many parts of Ceylon for
curing all kinds Of sickness. When a
native Ii taken Ill his relatives first
apply medical treatment. II, after
some days, this appears to be- ineffec-
tive, 1t is concluded that the sickness
ness Ii one incapable Of cure in this,
manner, but is caused by some inim-
ical influence, and must therefore
be due to either glance Of the evil
eyes the action Of demon, or some
evil planetary action. The soothsay-
er is then sent for, and this worthy
after examining the patient, names
the demon or spirit responsible for
the malady. An Offering is then made
to the demon In the form OF food, q
coin, or piece Of cloth. Then fol-
lows the professional dance, carried
out by the devil dancers. Two men
clad In gorgeous garments and wear
Ing strange headdresses and masks go
through number Of grotesque and
extraordinary evolutions to the beat
Ing OF the tomtoms, making weird
noises the while. This is kept up
for hours, sometimes all night, and ia
always performed within sight OF the
sick person. In the complete cere-
monies Of the demon called Samni
Yaka, who causes Convulsions, severe
toothache, headache, ETC., no fewer
than 80 different masks are worn in
turn by the dancers. Curiously
enough, observers state these strange
ceremonies usually have a favorable
effect upon the patients illness.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
VERY LITTLE HAND LABOR
AZ Least 90 Per Cent. osFaetory Work
Of the World 10 Now Done
by Machinery.

Year by year more and more OF the
work Of the world 1s taken up by ma
chinery. In bulletin recently issued
by the government it is estimated that
4,600.000 factory workers in. the Unit
ed States turn out a aproduct equal to
the hand labor Of 45,000.00O men.
This means that In the factories 80
per cent. Of the work Is done by ma
chinery. A very large part OF this ma.
chinery Is driven by steam power,
which means largely coal power, and
both the getting and burning of this
coal involves terrible waste. In
the United States alone the production
OF coal now reaches nearly 100000, 900
tons, and in the whole world far above
'1,O00,000,000 tons. And it is estimated
that this means the actual mining Of
half again as much coal One-third ia
lost or left in the mines I'm such shape
that 1t cannot be used.
Then OF this net production--the
tWo-thirds remaining 80 per
cent. Is lost In the burning. AT least
this Is true Of the coal used in eHgines.
Even the finest neutrality-suspicious.
engines, with all modern devices of su.
perheated steam and the like to aug
ment their capacity, do not utilize
more than IA per cent. of the energy
stored In the coal, while the average
steam engine Of commercial use does
not get more than six or seven per
cent. In other words, 1t is only about
three per cent. of the chained-up sun.
light In the ground that eventually be-
comes available for human needs.
And, further than this, the mere
hauling and handling and storage and
distribution of this coal costs the
United States alone probably q full
$1,o00,000.000. The coal traffic is, In.
deed, the chief item of railway trans
portation. From all this it is eufii.
ciently clear why the problem of uti
izing coal energy has 30 deeply en-.
gagged the minds of inventors and en-.
gineers, and why ever a relatively
small gain would mean SO much to the
human race.-Collier's Weekly.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
Dug with Wrong Kind Of rooIs.

~So "ssh NbhOuS tNHIo VI t0Oibs
The heirs of the recluse who was
supposed to have buried some money
on his farm near Abilene did not find
the money, although they made sys.
tematic search over the place with
picks and spades. 1.-THE great trou.
BILE with them was that they used the
wrong TOOLS" says the Lincoln Repub.
lican. "If they had taken team Of
horses and plow and had gone over
the land first with that and then fol.
lowed 1t up with another team and o
drill containing wheat and had Just
had a little patience, by next fall they
would have been able to realize some.
thing for their efforts. It has been
demonstrated q number Of times that
therc 10 no gold under the ground in
Kansas, but there are plenty of rich
farmers in this section Of the state
who can testify to the fact that there
is gold In the land II the right kind OF
refining process IL used and q little
patience 10 exercised while the rein.
cry is doing its work."--Kansas City
Star.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
0l042.

Department of the Interior,
U. S. Land Office at Elko, Nevada
January 81, 1914.
Notice is hereby given that John
Paleni, of Elko, Nevada, who on
June 2, 1913, made Carson City
homestead application O7966 now
Elko, No. OlO42 for the SW4 NE3
NW3 Sch; SEA NW3; and NE4
SW4 of Section IL, Township "a
North, Range SO East, Mount Dia-
bio Meridian, has filed notice of in
tention to make final Proof. to es-
taDlish claim to the land above de-
scribed before the register and re.
ceiver of this Office at Elko, Ne
vada, on the twelfth day of March,
1914.
& Claimant names as witnesses:
George Hunter, of Elko, Nevaoa.
Charles Dressi, of Elko, Nevada,
George Banks, of Elko, Nevada.
James Bett, of Elko, Nevada.
John E. Robbins, Register,
First Publication February 2, 1914.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
dissolution OF PARTNERSHIP

.f N
We hereby give notice that the
partnership heretofore existing be
tween the undersigned in the Quail
ity Meat Market is dissolved by
mutual consent.
6 6 Mr.. E. L. Green retires from the
business which will hereafter be
conducted under the naSe of the
Quailty Meat Marke, by Mr.. ]. A.
Wilson. All claims against the busi-
ness will be paid by Mr.. Wilson
and all accounts due the same are
payable to him.
j. A. Wilson,
E. L Green,
Elko, Ney. Jan. %, 1914.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
CornmeaI,

According to the agricultural de-.
partment at Washington, cornmeal
constitutes very nutritiye and cheap
food. In fact. for three cents one can
get more nutriment out Of cornmeal
than he can out of five cents worth
Of flour. That is, 60 cents worth of
meal will give a man more bone, mus-
Gle, nerve and brain than 81 worth
OF flour will.
That iB the commercial aspect Of
the case, but for Joy, satisfaction,
health and hope the cornmeal is as
far ahead. of -four as It is in the
economic estimate. A good bowl of
mush and milk-how good 1t sounds
and how good 1t isl Take a great
spoonful Of 1t, and 1t twangs the
strings Of the harp Of health till every
little hber and nerve falls into q
beautiful melody Of life. Exactly 80.
too. with corn bread, pone and dod.
ger.
In these progressive days one can
find bricks of cold cornmeal mush at
the grNcers. ready for slicing and fry
ing, az much In q brick as will do
for three or four persons, the finest,
happiest, nutritlousest eating under
the sun-for FIVE cents q brick. It
is said that the trouble these days is
with the cost Of Ligh living. We
deny 1t. Here Is the highest kind Of
living at the very lowest cost.-Ohio
State Journal.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
O7OO
Elko, Ney. Jan. %. 1914,

Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office at Elko, Nevada,
January 80, 1914
Notice is hereby given that Alb
ner w. Sewell, of Tuscarora, Elko
County, Nevada, who on March Is.
1912, made Carson City desert
land application O6882, now Elko,
No. O709, fer lot 2; Sci NW4 and
NE4 SW4 of Section z, Township
AZ, North Range 81 East, Mount
Diablo. Meridian, has filed notice nf
intention to make final Proof to es-
tablish claim to the land above de-
scribed before the register and re-
ceiver OF this Office at Elko, Ne
vada, on the eleventh day of March,
1914.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Joseph Currey, of Elko, Nevada.
Richard R. Young, of Tuscarora,
: CD Nevada.
Oscar Miller, of Tuscarora, Nevada,
Emmett L. Bachman, of Tuscarora.
Nevada. i
John E. Robbins, Register.
First Publication January 31st,
1914.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
PrshIstorIe Rnall.h QUARRY.

A prehistoric quarry, believed TO
have belonged to the ancient Britons,
was recently unearthed by accident at
Gaping Hills, Hitchin, Hereford, Eng.
land. A plow horse was walking along
deep furrow in field when he step
ped into a circular hole about two feet
In diameter. Two flint implements
were found, such az were used in an
oient quarries.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14

Postal Telegraph Cable Company.
Fastest in the world. Day mess.
agesoand night letters everywhere
poney telegraphed to all the world.
Gables TO all foreign countries
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
Nothlna m r.

An advertiser calls his patent wash.
Ing nsAchine The ladies' Delight" !"
Now, II there 10 anything about wash
ing TINT delights the ladies', we should
like TO know what IL 10. They are any
thing but delighted on q washing day.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
New Machine Gun.

Having perfected the mechanism OF
the nachine gun for the army after
suany months experiment. the war
department IL prepared to supply the
new weapon TO the militia. wherever
the funds available in the allotmspt'
warrant the Issue.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
About serstohed silver.

Whenever silver has become
scratched make It quite smooth by rub
bing It we'll with a piece OF chamois
leather that has been. rolled into q
tight ball and dipped in sweet oil.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
oleaninn old I..4...

A little o1siic add, dissolved IN
warm water and applied with .
sponge, VIII make old leather Iook iike
the cIass In Enu,lsh.
The editor ct the Wisconsin expert
tnent station. desiring q complete ref
ierence library OF the resources OF the
state, sent circular letter to the ,hors
ticultural, dairying and other egrioul.
tural organizations Of Wisconsin ask.
Ing for copies OF their last reports"
Most OF them came all right. but one
organization wrote: "Our last report
wo hope, is not yet published, but we
tsko pleasure in sending under sepa,
rate cover copy Of our latest report
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
Hurt by lndls,s climate.

Musical instruments composed prin-
cipaily of wood suffer more from the
climate In India than any other wood.
en- articles.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1914-02-14
naIIu rhn,,nh.

Preserving the health by too strict
. regimen is wearisome maiady.---
La Rochefoucauld,