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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05

French "marche" is a great word In
Alaska. Everybody "mushes," which
means ito walk" ito tramp" Ito
hike"
"A fair days mush," says Mrs. Pier.
son, who looks, from her patent
leather pumps to her made-in-Paris
hat, as II she never had travelled in
anything less luxurious than limou-
sine, rs 80 miles, though swift teams
do CO.
Crude But Real Hospitality.
1--WE put up at night at the road.
houses, which dot the trail Is miles
apart. Alaska roadhouses have to be
seen to be appreciated. They are cab
ms with two or three rooms. They
are always run by men, and you can
imagine arrangements are simple, to
say the least.
There is usually a living room, a
room reserved for women travellers
and bunk room for the men. If the
women's room is filled by first corners,
those who arrive later take places in
the common bunk room, hanging a
blanket on a string as a portiere. This
was our lot.
mo one apologies, asks questions,
complains or explains Life is taken
for granted in Alaska. And, l repeat
woman can travel thus alone and un
der the crudest conditions with per
feet safety, receiving courteous treat
ment and protection from every one
Would that be possible in the east
Equality for Women.
Il have known sturdy women to
mush many days through the widest
trails, driving their own teams, carry
ing freight, stalking claims, trading and
trafiicking just as men do, In perfect
safety and confidence.
"One of these women now runs the
biggest boarding house in Fairbanks
and is making golden livelihood
Money is plentiful out in Alaska. One
sees nothing smaller than quarter
You pay a quarter for spool o.
thread; two spools if you want them
they cost the same. Rent, clothing
and food cost fabulously. But earn
ings are CORRESPONDENCE big.
"One thing is cheap-game. Moose
caribou and deer are there for the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Double train service between Spo-
kane and Wallace was resumed Mon
day by the O.-W. R. & N. company.
Clarence Parks, an employee of the
Hercules mine at Burke, was severely
injured at that mine recently when
he was crushed between heavily load
ed ore cars.
The coroner's jury at Standpoint re-
turned verdict Saturday of justifia-
BILE homicide in the case of the shoot
ing Febeuary 26 of A. c. Henry by
W. B. Mabie at Sunnyside, on Lake
Pend Oreille.
The county commissioners at Mos
COW have authorized Improvement of
the county poorfarm and the replac-
ing of the scrub cattle with a better
grade in order, it is said, to make
the farm self-supporting
An injunction has been served
against the school districts of Troy
and Kendrick restraining them from
paying out the money which the North
ern Pacific has filed suit to collect, for
alleged excessive taxes levied and col
lected by the county for those dis
tricts.
Stephen Madagan, age 20, and single
laborer working on construction
gang on the Milwaukee road, was in
jured in a dynamite explosion near
Avery Saturday He was holding a
stick of dynamite in his hand when il
exploded. His hand was blown off
one eye was destroyed, and both ear
drums are supposed to be broken. II
is doubtful if he will live long.
The Stack-Gibbs sawmill at Gibbs
Idaho, opened Monday with full crews
both a day and night shift being put
on. The company only has about l.,
100000 feet of logs in storage and is
depending on getting more logs il
Immediately. However if cold wealth
er continues the plant may have tC
shut down for few days after the
present supply of logs is exhausted.
1t is announced that the new boarC
of control of the Blackfoot insane
asylum has removed from office DR.
George E. Hyde, medical superintend
ent of the institution, the order to
take effect March 5, because bills t
the amount of $4,000 on the institu
ton for 1876 had been approved b!
him. DR., Deorr Poyner of Montpelie
was appointed superintendent to sue
coed Dr.. Hyde. George H. Fisher o
Bancroft was elected president of tn
board.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05
ASK PEACE CONFERENCE.
Emergency Federation Formed at Chi
Enormous Amount.

Chicago .-Resolutions asking Presi-
dent Wilson to call a conference of
neutral nations to attempt to end TIE
European war were adopted by the
Emergency Peace Federation at
meeting here Sunday, and plans were
made for the organization of a perma-
nent body to be known as the Nation
al Peace organization. A resolution
protesting against any increase in ar
mament in the United States also was
adopted.
The new organization committed it.
self to these principles:
1. Favoring a concert of nations,
instead of alliances, providing for a
balance of power.
2. Abolition of armament and pro-
hibition of the manufacture of ammu-
milton for gain.
8. Protection of private property at
sea.
4. Self-government and universal
adult suffrage.
5. Prohibition of the transfer of
provinces except by consent of the
people
6. No alliance to be entered in by
nations except after approval by the
people.
1T is not war of patriots; it is a
war of traders" said Morris Hillquit
of New York, speaking at the meeting
Miss Jane Adams was named per
manent president of the newly organ
lied society and Louis f. Lochner, sec
rotary of the Chicago Peace society,
was chosen secretary. A committee
was selected to carry the resolutions
to President Wilson.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05
UNCLE SANS FINANCIAL NEEDS
Congress Called Upon to Supply an
Enormous Amoutn.

Congress Called Upon to Supply an
Enormous Amoutn.
Washington.-Thi week is winding
up the life of the 63d congress, both
houses prepared to sit almost contin-
uously until noon, Thursday, March 4.
The senate and house will be busy
considering conference reports on the
great supply bills, which, when all have
been enacted, will aggregate approx
imately $1,000, 100000, to defray the
expenses of the government for the
next fiscal year.
The beginning of the week saw the
senate yet to dispose of the $11,000,0 900
Indian bill and the rivers and harbors
bill That it will be impossible to
pass the senate river and harbor ap-
preparation measure, carrying $3S,000,-
600, has been conceded for several
days. 1t is probable that a joint reso-
luton appropriating a lump sum of
30,000,000 will be substituted to take
care of existing projects.
Little difficulty is looked for with
any of the other supply bills, although
senate increases for submarines in the
naval building program may require
some concessions and the fate of the
agricultural bill is somewhat in doubt
owing to the McCumber rural credits
rider, which was attacked unexpected
ly in the senate.
The 18th hour effort to accomplish
farm credits legislation is expected tc
leave little opportunity for considera
ton of other general legislation, in
Guiding the Philippine self-governmeni
and the water power dam site bills
and will operate to hold back the last
desperate effort of party leaders tC
put through the government ship pur
chase bill.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05
New Torpedo Explosive.

A new submarine mine explosive
called "trotol" which cannot be set of
by percussion, but which has to be
confined and fired by electricity, was
employed in the recent annual war
test of submarine mines off Sandy
Hook. Trotol, it is declared, can be
melted and handled without any dam
ger. Mines loaded with 100 pounds
of the new explosive and fired during
the recent test threw columns of wa
ter and pieces of targets two hundred
and fifty to three hundred and fifty
feet in the air. Each mine was al
lowed to remain in the water two
hours before being exploded in order
to test the water-tight joints in tho
cable containing the firing circatt--
Electrical World.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05

toward the ceiling in an expressive
gesture of superlativeness.
"One cannot keep housemaid. She
remains a housemaid only long enough
to be spied by some lonely claim
taker. After that, as the claimstaker's
wife, she becomes an employer of
housemaids. who in turn become mine
owners wives, who in turn employ
more housemaids, who in turn marry
on and so on!
Il used to invite school chums to
visit me, and before had a
chance to show them around they in
formed me they had met their ideal
man and we're going to be married
right off.
Il never saw such an active matri-
mopial market. And | cannot say too
positively that the Alaskan men are
the most worth while of any in the
world. They have to be fine men
physically and morally to overcome
the hardships of Alaska's wilds."
Hard But Gallant Trail.
To prove her confidence in Alaskan
men and Alaska ideals. Mrs. Pierson
and the wife of comrade army Of
icer made seventeen day trip from
Fort Gibbon through trails by dog
,ledge to Fairbanks and Chenoa Hot
Springs, where in the midst of glacial
.oldness gush streams of boiling cura-
i've waters.
There were five dogs to each out
1t, part st. Bernard, part "malmute, ="
part mastiff and part plain wolf, with
n whose reach it is none too safe to
stub your toe. The sight of person
or animal lying prone acts upon these
wolf dogs, puts keen and sudden edge
ipon their appetites and makes them
forget they are decorous doggies
whose profession is sledge hauling.
Each of the traveller women had a
soldier from Fort Gibbon to "mush"
or her. driving the team by gee"
and "haw" and riding on the runners
When convenient down grades ap-
seafsd. "Ainsh" corrupted from the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05

charge, and if convicted may be SEN
fenced to hard labor in the peniten-
tiary
The congressional district bill, Civ
ing to the eight northern counties, to-
gether with Adams, Washington, Can
yon, Boise, Custer and Lemhi coun-
ties, a separate congressional district,
to be known as the first district from
which to elect a congressman, and to
the southern Idaho counties, to be
known as the Second district. from
which the other Congressman is to be
elected, was recommended out for
passage
Governor Alexander signed senate
bill AZ, the Bowman employment
agency act.
complicated situation developed
in the legislature over senate bill 1903,
carrying a $4,000 appropriation for
the King Hill and King Hill extension
irrigation projects, which measure the
governor approved in part and vetoed
in part
The governor vetoed house bill 1854,
appropriating s12,500 for the erection
of five bridges in Custer~county.
The senate passed house bills 250
and 251, enlarging the eminent do
main act to build logging roads and
giving county commissioners supervi
sion over the same.
Bill 204, by Conner, providing the
organization of rural fire districts
Joint memorial by Kribs petitionine
congress to reclassify agriculture
. lands in Shoshone county.
House bill 1914, by Randall, creating
state board of accounting.
The house passed a joint resolution
= appropriating $1,000 for state represen
tation at The Dalles-Celilo canal open
ing, and establishing the Bertillon sys
tenn of measurements at the peniten
tiary.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05

- VIEW YORK has too much ciyili-
IN cation, too many chaperons
IN and not enough romance. The
first loads us with useless GUS
toms and Intellectual laws The
second robs us of "palship" between
the sexes. The third causes a fever
ish rushing about after any and every
diversion which momentarily feeds the
soul and senses, But Yukon way, it's
different. People live only in the
things that count-courage, work, love,
human sympathy. And there is lots
of it going begging, especially love.
So declares Mrs. Robert H. Pierson,
wife of captain in the medical corps
of the United States army, who has
lately returned from Alaska to east
ern civilization. She spent two years
at Fort Gibbon, a post so near the arc
tic circle that you have to wear a
bit of rabbit skin on yor~ nose to
keep it from freezing And when you
put pan of boiling water on the floor
for the puppy dog to drink, it is
solid ice before he has taken three
laps of it.
1T sounds frightsome," laughed
Mrs. Pierson, "but Alaska has so
much to recommend it that a trifle
like 60 degrees below zero can be
forgiven.
In the two years I was there I met
more real people and learned more of
the big, fundamental things that make
life worth living than in all the rest
of my existence put together.
Opportunity and Romance.
Alaska is a land of opportunity
especially for women. A woman can
go anywhere alone, whether through
the wilderness driving her dog sledge
or in the sturdy young cities like Fair
banks and Nome.
Women and men pal together out
in the big northwest. They are
friends, not commercial rivals or sex
antagonists, as so often happens in
eastern civilization. Chaperons are
unknown and unneeded. / have new
ser seen disrespect shown to a good
woman, and rarely to an unworthy
one.
"As for romance!" Mrs. Pierson
closed both eyes and raised her hands
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.

Failure on the part of the present
Legislature to cut the general appro-
priation bill now pending will result in
a call for an extra session of that body,
according to reports.
When our state becomes a prohibit
ton district, January /, 1916, as pro-
vided by the terms of house bill No.
142, which passed the senate and was
signed by our governor, and the terms
of senate bill No. so, which also pass
ed the legislature making enforcement
of statewide prohibition possible, this
state will probably be under the strict
est dry laws ever enacted by any state
in the union. If the constitutional pro-
hibition amendment question is acted
on favorably in the fall of 1916 amend
ing the constitution of the state to
make Idaho permanently prohibition
territory the last word in dry legisla-
ton will have been said in this state,
and the saloon banished forever
Passage of a stringent act, the Iowa
abatement law; recommendation for
passage of the Common workmen's COM
pensation act, drafted by a commits
sion appointed two years ago by the
governor; and calling off of the con-
| flict between the two factions for and
against the public utilities commission
act and passage of a compromise meas
ure amending the utilities law, were
features in Saturdays long session of
the legislature. The senate authorized
the appointment of joint sitting COM
mittee of five senators and seven mem
bers of the house to sift the calendar
and bring before the Legislature bills of
the greatest Importance to the state
at large.
Legislative leaders in both parties
Monday viewed with seriousness pros
poets of an extra session of the legis-
lature in the event that a deadlock
develops between the lawmaking body
and the governor over the general ap-
preparation bill.
The governor is insisting upon the
general appropriation bill being item
lied for each state department. AS in
troduced it carries blanket appropria-
lions for them. I'll carried a grand to-
tai of $66S,126. In addition there is a
$4,000 deficiency bill The educa
tional budget carries over 100000
The governor is satisfied with the
last-named budget. The house wants
to pass the general appropriation bill
unitemized and without material re
duction.
The senate cut the educational bud
get $177,000 and the house has still tc
concur in the amendment.
Although threatened with death by
a fanatic who declared in an anony
nous letter that he would kill him Il
he signed the statewide prohibition
bill, Governor Alexander attached his
signature to the measure at O'CLOCK
Monday afternoon, as he publicly de
clared he would, and all doubt abou
Idaho becoming dry territory Januar,
1, 1916, was removed.
The house rejected by an overwhelm
ing vote the proposed constitutions
amendment to abolish the state sen
ate and to provide for one house t
constitute the legislature.
In future husbands who desert thei
wives in this state will be subject t
arrest and extradition on felon.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05
Liverpool Ship Congestion Great.

Liverpool.-Never in the history of
this port has the congestion of ship
ping been so great, nor have the Liv-
erpool warehouses ever been SO cram
med with foodstuffs as at present. 1t
is the consensus of opinion of import
ers here that even should the German
submarine blockade prove effective
there is enough food now stored here
to feed the country for a year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-03-05

Some people never do any good at
all because they won't do little at a
time
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-07-16

fhs; she hssssors y eussre.s s.aesas><.~c
" tns ea.srss of sae ternssD.stsso " sns
n.sasrc. and thai essu " excessss<
s.ssstItl.s q ass ~ sszm e<Geps ~ sse
lsrsa q " lnsens.sa ~ ass.Eey Chsck-
sns psassne N nasalre treated ~ssA u
suffer ~ ~ effects.
Ons half yso.sna u p~s~acrsd nes~esrx
msxsd sI.h ~ gallons of water ~ suGs
caeuf - kin the lsrvse IN bsshess. or
~ CUBIC feeI Of msnurs. The msxssre
sho.sid hs -prinkied carefully over ths
pile. especial stsontIon being pad 10 the
oster edges. IN mo~s places neIses,ors
u obtaInabis "a irp-pound lots At . Cost
Of n cents posna. This makes the
cost 81 the treatment astse less than
sesen-tenths Of cent per bashel of
manure. A liberal estimate of the ouf-
%; of mansre e bashels . day per
Morse. The money involved rs therefore
trIfling " eomparison with the benefits
to the individual aud the community
from the practical elimination of the
disease spreading fy.
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-07-16
the HUnUs That Wfs K
CROPS

l.. G. Campbell.
Daring the last year or two we ranch
men and farmers gp here in Fremont
county, Wyoming, have been getting
some idea as TO the real value of nitro
gen in our soils which are naturally fer
tile and very rich in phosphate and
potash. While our crops have been
making very satisfactory yields with
comparatively little attention, we have
been slow to realize the much greater
possIbihties IN the acre yield by proper
crop rotation and the addition of abun-
dance Of humgs TO the soil Last sea
son instead Of following the usua
method of planting potatoes in the same
old patch broke up third of an acre
OF alfalfa ground in a corner of the
meadow and planted the potatoes there.
just over the fence from the old patch
This old patch had yielded at the rate
of about 5, 900 pounds to the acre during
the previous season.
On the alfalfa ground the potatoes
were given two irrigations and only one
cultivation. They yielded approx
mately 5000 pounds, or at the rate of
24.OO0 pounds the acre. As it happened
some of our neighbor ranchmen planted
seed from the same source but on old
spud ground which lacked humus and
which had never produced q legume
crop. The yield WAS very light and be
fore the winter WAS over they bought
potatoes from our bin for family use.
For experimental purposes planted
some different varieties of wheat on a
piece of land that had formerly been a
bedding ground for sheep and conse-
quently WAS well supplied with nitrogen
from the decomposed sheep manure and
from weeds and grass which had been
plowed under the previous year On a
one-tenth acre plat our John Brown
wheat produced at the rate of sixty nine
bushels the acre; on plsts of similar size
Marquis wheat produced at the rate of
sixty bushels, and Minnesota Fife No.
f'' iSiutu at tuc Tatt VI nIlN-
three bushels the acre. The yield on
land in the same neighborhood and not
well supplied with humus is generally
about thirty bushels. find that soil
plenty of humus conserves
the moisture and requires much less ir-
rigation water than does adjacent
ground in producing crop. This little
demonstration has given us an object
lesson in what may be expected of our
soils and crops if we only supply the
humus or nitrogen with crop rotation.
We have been reading about these
things in the Field and Farm for several
years and now we are beginning to
realize what it all means.
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-07-16
AESlO 0sH
Elk Mountain f,ss.

81 Mountain fiiot.
karl aaa Fred ZlGesasar sf suuas.au
sze PiassersaG ~ tbs sspsrmssassxus >
hos % the c. q 4 hi..
0-1o Mcdonald wss k,cssa IA ma.
faae ng q horse Tnursa~y. NJ ~s. un-
cuHscIoss from the bsow bas later ne
sas aide so rses ae~u to the a..csor-
from Gothic where the scc.a.uf ts,ss
piaee.
Mrs. Hattie Mace suffered a very
scsere attack II ptomasne POISONING the
latter part of the week. caused ey
canned tomato soap. she Suffered IN
tsnsely for some time bst rs much i'm
prosed at present.
Just as ws go 10 press We learn that
ksseiia Thomss suddenly became verse
last nIght and died this mornIng at four
ciock- Funeral services viii be held
81 the Residence Of Air HI. p. smith to-
morros Afternoon al two CLOCK.
Ten of the leading csttiemen Of the
Gannison County Association. we're here
thursday TO ioos after the distribution
of some lsoo head Of cattle on the
iorestry ranges above the city of
orested Butte. Otto Mcdonald will be
range rider for the district this summer.
sIth headquarters at Gothic.
Mrs. W. X. Mcdonald last SATURDAY.
received the sod word that her father.
Mr.. K. X. Kelley. had died at San
Diego. on the 2sth of June. Mr.. Kelley
was well known here, having been en-
gagged IN business here and in Irwin
since in the early eighties up to the
time of has going to California some
three years ago.
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-07-16
lll LODGE LMO clUD PROP
tRTY MUST De ASSESSED

County Assessor w. T. Hartman has
been instructed by the state state tax
commission to assess all property owned
by fraternsl orders and clubs.
THE assessor has no voice in the
matter of these assessments said Mr..
Partman and regardless of what one
may desire to do, this rule is laid down
by the state tax commission for all to
follow.
THE assessment of church, club and
lodge property should be made as reason
able rs possible. Many of the clubs
and fraternal organizations are chari-
table institutions. -
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-07-16
ks1ics e Final Sstsle~est

In the matter cf the estate of Theodore
keuner. decreased.
Notice is hereh, given thai on Montiav the ptb
day oi August, A. y 1915. being one of the reg
uiar days OF the June term II the county
court Of Gunnisnu County IN the state os Cs,l',,
RADIO, |. Hebry I. lake. administrator ~ said
estate. will appear before the Judge of aid
Nonrt. present my hnsl settlement such sd
ministratof pray the approval 81 the sa me and
VIII then apply 10 be discharged as such adj
ministrat"r at which time aud place any per.
son IN interest may appear and present obiec.
tons 10 the same II any there be
Dated at Gunni-on. toiurado, July 8, lsI5
HENRY y LAKE
Ahminl-trator 81 the estate of Theodore Rem
ner Deceased.
First pub July o. 1913. Last pub. Aug. 8. Is.
Gunnison news-champion., 1915-07-16

~ pooriy that my folks thoaght wss
going mto consumption. One day 1
found piece Of paper blowing around
the yard aad picked It ny and read IT.
Ii SAID Saved from the Grave and
tosd what ,yeha l.. PEkhsm S kegesa-
bic Compound has done for women. l
showed u b my husband and he said.
Why don I yos try 1t? SO did and
after ! had taken two bottles ! felt
better and ! said 70 my husband, i don q
nd any more. and he said a ou had
iatter take i little longer anyway
30 tsck h. for three months and got
well and strong. " - Mrs. ALoNzO l..
EAxER, 3 Tecumseh St, Adrian. Mich.
Not Well Enoagh te Work.
In these words is hidden the tragedy
of many q woman, hoasekeeper or wage
Garner who supports herself and Is often
helping 10 support family. on meagre
wages. Whether N house, office. fac
tory, shop. store or kitchen. woman
should Remember that there Is one tried
and true remedy for the ills to which all
women are prone, and that is Lydia T..
fInkhaB' 5 Vegetable Compound. lt
promotes that vigor which makes work
easy. The lydia l.. Pinkham Medicine
Co. Lynn, Mass.