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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
AWFUL TRAGEDY
IN SEATTLE HOME
GEORGE ROBERTS, PROBABLY IN
SANE, KILLS TWO MEMBERS
OF HIS FAMILY
Wounded Two Others and Then Turns
Gun on Himself-Wife Died at
Hospital
By the United Press Associations.

By the United Press Associations.
SEATTLE, Nov. 5.-George Roberts,
aged As, early today killed two MEM
bers of his family, wounded Two others
and then killed himself 1t is believ--
ed he became insane through dispond-
ency.
Roberts first crushed his wife's head
with a handaXe and then stepped into
an adjoining room where he struck
his son, George, aged 16, on the head.
He encountered his daughter, Ella,
aged %, who was blind, in the hall
way and shot her probably fatally The
next shot killed his daughter, Villa,
aged II.
With the same weapon he shot HIM
self in the heart. Mrs. Roberts, her
son and younger daughter We're alive
when the police arrived, but Mrs
Roberts died at the hospital.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
PAVING DISTRICT
EXPENSE FIXED
City Council Passes Ordinance For
Payment of Paving Of University
District -E. j. Carey Elected Spe-
ciaI Policeman

The council has passed an ordinance
providing for the payment of the cost
and expenses for paving and curbing
and the construction of storm sewers
in local improvement district No. a.,
otherwise known as the university dis
trict The assessment against each
parcel of property is shown in the
published ordinance which will %
printed in tomorrow's Star-Mirror.
The total cost of the improvement is
S12,124.47.
The council has solved the problem
of providing a band leader for the
Moscow musical organization in the
election of E. J. Carey as special po-
liceman Mr.. Carey will actually
perform the duties of special police
man under Chief of Police Robbins,
but will also have time to direct the
band.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
PEOPLE BENEFIT
IN SHORT BALLOT
FEDERAL JUDGE FRANK S, DIET
RICH BELIEVES III BEST FOR
STATE GOVERNMENT
1t Would Definitely Fix Responsibility
-Fanciful And Not Real Danger
Cause For Its UnpOpularity

That the short ballot in state cleo
to the benefit of the people, once put
into operation, is the opinion of Fed
eraI Judge Frank S. Dietrich, who,
while engrossed with the disposal of
Indian liquor violations in the pres
ent term of the court here, yet keeps
in touch with other matters and he
expressed disappointment last evening
over the rejection of the proposed
changes in the New York constitution
the opportunity for a practical test of
the short ballot which provision was
also rejected.
Il have been greatly disappointed in
learning of the rejection of the propos-
ed constitution in New York, particul-
arly because we shall thus be denied
the benefit of practical trial of the
short ballot said Judge Dietrich last
evening in discussing the Tuesday
SlCCllOIo Ill lIO Scot. i1<> l"Si iSiiN y
alone can demonstrate the effect of
such a system in actual operation, but
| am confident that it will work out
successfully and will greatly increase
the efficiency of state government. 1t
would definitely fix responsibility, and
most men, when placed in official po
sition will do their best, if they know
that the blame will inevitably attach
for the wrong they do, and that faith
full and competent service will receive
the reward Of public commendation.
while appreciate the source and
of the sentiment which
makes the citizen hesitate to consent
to the change, / am satisfied that the
peril he fears is more fanciful than
real. Danger from the so-called one
man power, such as the short ballot
implies, is much more to be feared in
the nation than in the state, and yet
in a century and quarter no harm
1as resulted from the concentration
If authority in the hands of the pres
dent of the United States.
IF it is unwise to elect the attorney
general of the United States and 9TH ,,
n heads of executive Departments, why
should it be thought to be necessary
O retain such power in the people IN |
he smaller political unit of the state?
The short ballot is in effect only the |
extension to state affairs of this prin- |
inple Of our national government.
where, after ample trial, it is found
0 be both efficient and safe. In view
f this experience, are not objections
0 the proposed change more sentl-
1ental than logical?'
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
FACTORIES BUSY
ON WAR ORDERS
B. r. BYRNS RETURNS HOME FROM
ANNUAL VISIT TO HIS OLD
HOME SECTION
Big Manufacturing Plants Converted
Into Factories for Turning Out
Munitions

Factories where once humanity
teemed in turning out material for
commercial use have, in many manu-
featuring centers of the east been con-
verted into munitions factories, ac-
cording to the observations made by
B. T. Byrns, who has just returned
home from his annual pilgrimage to
his old home country in Michigan and
New York states. Mr. Byrns states
that business activities are apparently
on the rise, but declares by no means
are men at work. At Dunkirk, New
York, his old home place where loco
motives are manufactured, not wheel
is turning for the building of these
engines, that the factory has been
converted for turning out war mater
ial.
Mr. Byrns visited the live stock
show at Kansas City where he met w.
L. Carlyle of Oklahoma agricultural
college, former acting president of the
University of Idaho, Mr.. Carlyle be-
ing one of the judges of live stock.
He had a pleasant visit with him and
also learned that Pink" Griffith was
making great headway as athletic
coach at the Oklahoma college.
In Pennsylvania Mr.. Byrns noted
the abandoned oil wells, once turning
out millions of gallons of oil, but now
dormant, but that in Ohio the corn
crop is the greatest in the history OF
that state. The Lake Erie grape vine
yards also we're producing the big
gest crop in the history of that section.
While on the journey home he stopped
at Oberlin college to visit old time
friends and before reaching Moscow
spent some time in southern Idaho
looking after his land interests. Alto
gether Mr.. Byrns declares he had
most enjoyable trip
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
KING FIGHTS
WAR MOVEMENT
FORESTALLS THE
PRO-WAR ADHERANTS AND
BLOCKS GAME
To Keep Greece Neutral at Least Two
Months by Calling for an
Election
By the United Press Associations.

By the United Press Associations.
ATHENS, Nov. 5.-Though parlia-
ment expressed disapproval of the
neutrality advocates and forced the
designations of the Zaimis cabinet,
King Constantine seemed bent on de-
flying the Venizelos war party.
Both the press and politicians be-
lieve the king will dissolve parliament
and will force another election in
stead of returning Venizelos to power.
The result will be that Zaimis will
hold office at least two months while
the elections are being held. Mean
while Greece will remain neutral in
keeping with the kings policy. The
pro-war supporters resent the dis
solution move.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
YOUTH HANGED
THIS MORNING
EARL NJ. LOOMS PAID THE DEATH
PENALTY FOR THE MURDER
OF A WOMAN
Defense was "MOral Insanity" But
Was Found Guilty-Appeals For
CIemency Made

BY the United Press Associations.
FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Nov. s.
Earl NJ Loomis, 20 years old, who
paid the death penalty today on the
Folsom prison scaffold, murdered
Mrs. Marie G. Hollcroft in Sacramento
on the night of August II, 1914, after
trying to rob the ice cream parlor
conducted by Mrs. Hollcroft and her
husband
About $3.50 p. NJ Loomis rushed in
to the store, with pistol and ordered
Mr.. and Mrs. Hollcroft and a small
boy to hold up their hands. Hollcroft
and the boy obeyed.
Mrs. Hollcroft, however, raised only
one hand and with the other reached
for a revolver under the counter.
Loomis, with gun leveled at the wom-
an, walked over to the cash register,
opened it and was reaching for the
money. Two shots rang out. One was
from Loomis' revolver, the other from
the womans. 1t is not known who
fired first.
Loomis fed. AS he ran, Mrs. Holl-
croft leaned over the counter, scream
ed: "He hit me-" and fired three shots.
She then fell to the floor and died.
One of the woman's bullets destroyed
the sight of the bandits right eye.
Loomis accosted a man on the street
4 short time later and directing him
% call the police patrol framed up the
story that he had been held up and
shot by two men. Soon afterwards he |
made full confession saying he turn |
ID bandit because he needed money. |
The defense of Loomis was moral |
1t was pointed out that he |
lad only nine months schooling, new
# had chance in life, was only 19 |
ears old when the crime was COM
nitted, and had been spurred on by
rink. Numerous letters, many of
hem stereotyped, were sent by spirit
alists to the governor making plea
Or clemency.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
FINAL STAGE OF
DURABILITY RUN
STUDEBAKER-SIX MADE EXCEL
LENT RECORD TO WAL1A WALLA
AND RETURN YESTERDAY
Four Days Run to Different Points
Averaged Well and Johnson Bros.
Well Pleased
BY F. NJ. HARVEY

The fourth and final lap of the 1000
mile Studebaker Durability Run, from
Johnson Bros. Moscow agency made
yesterday, covered 269.5 miles, Wis
tied Colfax, Dayton, Walla Walla,
Pomery and other towns to the south
west, and was made in a running time
of II hours and AZ minutes The
route covered road as difficult to
negotiate as any outlined for the run.
that section of country about Pom
eroy and Dayton being especially hilly,
long grades encountered, with many
sharp curves, and one could not well
conceive a more thorough test for the
durability of car.
The party left at 6:45 with a heavy
fog giving promise of rain, and damp
roads inviting skids, and the resulting
careful driving. Roads were found
rough from Albion to Colfax, and
hilly and rutty from Colfax to Central
Ferry and on to Dayton. From Day
ton to Walla Walla furnished fine
state road where good time could be
made, the only one of the kind found
on the trip. Wa1la Walla was reached
at 12:4O and after an hour for din
ner, return began, via Pomeroy. Day
ton to Pomeroy was a succession of
long hills, up and down canyons, as
rough a road as could be conceived.
Dark caught the party before reach
ing Snake river and from there pro-
gress was slow over the h11ly, rough
and strange roads, but the car reg
istered into the garage at 9:35, after
an actual running time of 23.6 miles
per hour.
Summary of the days run-Lapsed
time, IA hours SO minutes; actual run
ming time, II hours AZ minutes
miles travelled, 269.5; average speed
per hour, 23.6.
The run throughout may be said to
have been very successful, and has
brought credit to the car and salts
faction to the Messrs. Johnson. The
routes selected we're no doubt as Sc
we're a test as could be found in the
country, and it is doubtful If any OF
the many runs made throughout the
United States will show as adverse
conditions as this. Miles run, run
ming time, and average per mile OF
the four day was:
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
EXPIATES CRIME
ON THE GALLOWS
LOUIS .BUNDY, .- 1S-YEAR-OLD
YOUTH, PAID THE DEATH PEN
Atty FOR MURDER
Strenuous Efforts Made to Save Him
But of No AYail-kilIed 15-Year-OId
Messenger Boy
By the United Press Associations.

By the United Press Associations.
SAN QUENTIN, Cal, CAL, Nov. g.
The pleas of A. j. Pillsbury, chairman
of the California industrial accident
commission, A. ]. Wallace, former
lieutenant governor, Edward w. Hop
kins, county assessor of Los Angeles
county, Rev. Harold S. Tuttle, Rev
Franklin K. Baker and hundreds OF
school children failed to save Louis
Bundy, the youth hanged at San Quen-
tin prison today for the murder OF
Harold Ziesche, a 15-year-old mes
senger boy in Los Angeles
Bundys sister, so Hopkins took a
leading part in the effort to save the
boy from the hangman's moose The
sister also made a desperate attempt
to save Bnndy.
His mother died heartbroken soon
after the murder.
Bundy was 1S years old when the
murder was committed. His age was
the basis of a great number of pleas
for clemency.
The state advisory board of pardons,
however, decided in this case as in the
case of Earl LoOmis that age alone
in cases where the crime is so atroc-
ious is not sufficient to justify a COM
mutation of sentence"
Bundy, a high-schoOl student and
athlete, murdered the Ziesche boy De-
cember 10, 1913, to get money with
which to buy Christmas present for
a girl An axehandle and rock we're
used by Bundy in committing the muir
der. Bundy telephoned to drug
store ordering a bottle of magnesia
and directed that the boy who brought
it should bring change for $40 gold
piece. Bundy gave an address which
proved to be a vacant house.
After telephoning, he walked to-
ward the drug store and saw the boy,
leave. Ziesche, riding a BIZ
cycle, caught up with Bundy with !
whom he was acquainted. They went I
llong together until they reached the
address given by Bundy. Then the
Messenger boy laid down his bicycle
md was about to proceed toward the
louse when Bundy, drawing a sawed
If axe handle from under his coat,
truck him on the head. Ziesche yell
d and Bundy struck him again. Then,
aking the boy in his arms, he threw
i'm into a gully. The boy continued
0 moan and Bundy, seizing a rock
rushed his skull. Bundy then took
he $40 change.
ct killed him because he knew me
nd would have squealed on me" {
undy stated in his confession. J
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05

Yesterdays run carried S. E. john
son, A. L. Reid, drivers; A. S. Tennes,
J. r. Collins, and the Star-Mirror
representative, and all agreed that
they saw more country than ever be-
fore in the same number of miles, and
some of it mighty good country, If
there is five sides to every quarter sec
ton. Winter wheat is coming up
nicely, carpeting the fields with their
annual green and making promise for
the harvest of 1916.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05

Galveston is now considering wheth-
er or not all buildings in that city
should be built of re-enforced concrete
or steel framework. No more timber
shacks are likely. Tornado districts
of the Middle West may get an object
lesson, too.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
Reported Killed, Are Alive

NACO, Ariz., Nov. 5.-Doctors Lii
lac and Thigpen and Chauffeurs Py-
land and Wilson, reported to have been
killed at Aqua Prieta by Carranza
shells, are alive. They are held
prisoners at Cananea and will be fire.
ed today, Villa officials said.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05

Harvest moon," says the New Hav-
en- Register, "is the moon that falls
nearest to the 21st of September
But that's a Connecticut moon.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
BRYAN ON DEFENSE PLAN
DIFFERS WITH PRESIDENT
IN INTERVIEW TODAY INDICATIONS POINT T
A BREAK WITH WILSON
AKIN TO DEFENSE PROGRAM
Views Wilson's Speech With ''Sorrow and Concern''
Feels 1t His Duty to Dissent to the Views Ex-
pressed by Wilson on Preparedness
By the United Press ASSOCIATIONS.

WASHINGTON, Nov 5.-Signs of
break between the president and for
mer secretary of state, William j.
Bryan, over the administration de-
fense program became unmistakable
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
Wholesale Massacre Alleged

ed in the blood of the mass2cred vic
TINS of the Germans more frightfully
than those of Belgium, according to
Swiss newspapers. Wholesale mas
sacres are alleged to have occurred at
Ducica, Yplana, Selvac, Palanka, Sopht
and Lozovic The excuse Of the Ger
mans is that civilians fired on them
from houses. The local authorities
deny the reports. The once rich Nor
ava valley is devasted.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
Kitchener Still in Cabinet

LONDON, Nov. 5.-Prcmier Asquith
is temporarily acting war minister
while Lord Kitchener is away on pub
lie duty. Reports that Kitchener had
quit was officially denied today
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
VILLA FORCES
ON TO NOGALES
Column Moving Forward and Indica-
ti0ns Point to Army Being Well Fed
Men Reported Killed Are Alive But
in Villa Jail

NACO, Ariz., Nov. 5.-Thousands Of
Villistas passed through Naco, Sonora,
today apparently headed for Nogales.
Many slightly wounded were in the
ranks, only the severely wounded be-
ing allowed to drop out They seem
to have sufficient food.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
Bulgars ROut French
Germans Capture ParOci
British Forces EnrOute

ATHENS, Nov. 1.-Two divisions Of
British troops are enroute from Salon
ika to Bulgaria. This means that a
group of 10000 is to resist the advance
of the Teutons across to CONSTANT
nople Other forces are entraihing.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-11-05
FRENCH FORCES
MEET BULGARS
FIGHTING in PROGRESS BE-
TWEEN THE TWO ARMIES
NORTH OF RABROVO
Berlin Claims French Defeated Neal
Prilep-British Forces Rushing
to Aid of SerbianS

By the United Press Associations.
PARIS, Nov. 5.-The fighting be-
tween the French and Bulgarians
north of Rabrovo has been proceeding
since Wednesday, it wos officially an
nounced today. Near Krivolak the
Bulgars are entrenched along the
Nish-S -Salonika railroad within 200
yards of the French. Northwest of
Krivolak the French captured import
ant bridges. The statement added
that fierce attacks were repulsed in the
Disc, Aisne and LaCourtine regions on
the western front.
Bulgars ROut French
BERLIN, Nov. 5.-The French were
defeated by the Bulgarians
northeast of Prilep, it is reported.
Part were routed and others were cap
-ured.
Germans Capture ParOci
BERLIN, Nov 5.-The German cap
ure of Parcai, 40 miles from Nish, was
announced here today.
British Forces EnrOute
ATHENS, Nov. 1.-Two divisions of
British troops are enroute from Salon
ka tn Rulgari9 This mp9ns that
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waging fierce battle against each other
whenever opportunity offered.
Yellow Bear. the century bid brave
who accompanied the Sparty on its camp
meeting trip, told through the in
terpreter that he had fought both the
red and the white man. although his
people were usually at peace with the
whites, but said he became a son Of
peace many moons ago and thought now
only Of the Great Spirit" and the
happy hunting grounds OF the next
world. He said when he dies he ex-
poets to go to . place where the Indians
live as they did in his boyhood and
where the buffalo roam the plains In
countless herds.
Ish-ta-ha Wan-a-ki-ta remembers we'll,
she says, when, as a girl of eleven, she
was stricken with the epidemic Of small
pox which ravaged the villages Of the
Wichitas in 1901. She was strong and
recovered from the disease with but few
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within a year after George Washington
became the first President of the United
States. During her lifetime this nation
has had its entire existence and prac-
tically all of its presidents have been to
her a great white father"
In the days when the belle Of the
wichitas played about her fathers wig
wan members of her tribe had probably
never seen a white man. White settlers
were hugging the Atlantic coast Chi
cago was not in existence. the Rocky
mountains were unknown. and few, n
any, had as yet set foot upon the coast
Of the Pacific.
The many Indian tribes inhabiting
what is now Oklahoma. Kansas and
Texas were warlike and migratory. They
moved about continually, hunting the
great buffalo herds on the plains and
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Indian Woman Is Active at Age of l25

traces Of the affiction upon her skin.
but hundreds of her people persisted.
She remembers also. she said, when.
after the treaty with the whites Tin
1887, her people removed to the wichi-
ia mountains In Oklahoma. settling near
the present site of Fort Sill. She was
sixty-two years old and had grown chill
dren when Captain r. B. Marcy and
Captain George B. Mcclellan (later COM
manding general of the Federal armies
in the Civil var) visited the Fort Sill
region in 1852 and stopped temporarily
at Camp wichitaw"-the first recorded
visit Of white men to the Kiowa-Coman-
che country.
Later, when the Civil war broke out.
the Wichitas took refuge In Kansas, re-
turning once more to~the abandoned
village Of her birth, but after the war
was over they established. themselves on
the reservation they now occupy In
severalty. near Anadayko.
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of tune and smoking tobacco strong
enough to send any white man to his
grave at the first puff.
Whatever may be said as to the morals
Of the Bachokes in their relations to
pipes. women and song 1t cannot be said
tina: their immortality extends to the
culinary line. They have never been
known. despite plenty Of examples to the
contrary. to cook and eat a white man.
The most they have done in this direc-
ton is to make medicine out OF several
venturesome whites who have strayed
into their county unarmed or unattend-
ed. Just what the pharmacologic process
is has aever been divulged; it is q care
fully guarded secret of the suspicious and
erudite medicine men OF the tribe. But
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keep a wife or two to raise his grain and
tobacco for him and secure other neces
stiles of a male existence.
Knowing nothing Of the dire events
that befeIl wealthy Rome or Greece the
Bachokes. nevertheless. followed in the
same path. They became excessively i'm
moral. Pipes. women and song took the
place of the more manly and healthful
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of all the Wichitas. made journey of
500 miles recently in order that she
might participate in the annual camp
meeting of the Creek Indians near Eu-
fapla-
In the musical language of the wichi-
tas this aged woman's name is Prairie
Flower. She claims to have been born
in the village Of rowing Wichita tribe
on the site Of what is now Wichita.
Kan. 125 years ago.
II the story of the old woman is true.
she was born in 1890. shortly after the
close Of the Revolutionary war. and
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exercises Of staying or enslaying their
neighbors. Instead of, hurting snake
poisoned spears and ten-pound. serrated
edge hatchets and knives at their fellow
men the Bachokes have degenerated so
far as to lie indolently sprawled out in
the sun before their huts, playing the
while steel keyed musical Instruments
which sound like music boxes badly out
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-07
American Mining Expedition
Finds the Richest, Latest, Most
Immoral and Most Interesting
Tribe in Africa.

ISCOVERING a diamond field which the
II smartest and widest awake of men in the dia-
mond mining business didn't know anything
about; discovering a tribe OF African
ages the very heart of thu dark
widest awake of professors didn't
about getting shot by hordes of natives
ly escaping being powdered into medicine use
suffering the chs and fevers and
jungle and coming safely through not only
alive and comparatively well but also with invaluable
the chronological standpoint of saw
age musical instruments idols fetiches weaving and
instruments of warfare
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/ LTHOUGH she is 125 years and
n is standing on the very brink Of
the Apply hunting grounds"
Ish-ta-ha Wan-a-ki-ta, most aged