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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Railroad Earnings BIG.

With the monthly earnings state
ment of the Great Northern for Octo-
Der, issued last week, showing the
largest gross earnings in any. one
month in the history of the company,
came a preliminary statement show
ing November to have been the most
prosperous November in the history
of the company.
Incidentally, the October statement
shows the first increase in gross since
October, 1913, which has gone down in
Great Northern history as a $9,000,-
900 month. This October exceeded
that of 1918 by large margin, how
ever, showing gross earnings of So
9S5,000 as compared with $S,922,000
two years ago.
Operating income for October was
$730,O0O ahead Of that of October, 1914.
For the fiscal year thus far, operat-
ing income still is $69s,44 behind, but
this loss is rapidly being eliminated
and the showing for the entire fiscal
year should be far ahead of that OF
the preceding year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Charles Nelson, an old resident Of
mitted to the asylum at Orofino.
It is reported Ex-Congressman r. l..
French will be a candidate for the
lower house of congress, subject to
the will of the republican primaries
to be held in 1916.
The funeral Of Thomas A. Smith, a
Moscow district, who died at the age
of 50, was held Sunday at st. Marks
church, conducted by the Rev. J. Wat
SON. The body was sent to Chicago
for burial. He is survived by his aged
widow and relatives in London. The
Smith homestead near Moscow is a
landmark.
The badly mangled bodies Of two
miners named Davis and Morgan were
found in a drift of the Stanley mine at
Burke, Idaho, Sunday. The fatal acct
dent happened during the night. 1t is
presumed that it was either a prema-
ture blast or a supposedly missed hole
which called the two miners back to
the drift and is responsible for their
deaths. Their bodies must have lain
in the tunnel for at least six hours be-
fore being discovered.
Acting upon the request of repre-
sentatives of many cities and towns of
north Idaho. President NJ A. Brannon
of the University of Idaho announces
that he has set the last week in jan
uary for formation of the North Idaho
Municipal league, at the university.
Invitations will be sent to the mayors
of each city, the engineers, possibly
the attorneys, presidents of each com
mercial organization, heads of civic
betterment organizations, delegates of
ministerial associations and others to
be determined later.
Robert Wilson, logger, who was Ia
ken to Wallace some time ago suffer
ing from a fractured skull, caused by
being struck on the head by log, has
been transferred to the asylum at Orc
fino for further medical treatment.
The case is peculiar. For two weeks
following the accident Wilson was un-
conscious and his death was momen-
tarily expected When ne came to, he
had lost his reason and speech and he
has remained in that condition for
practically three weeks. 1t is now
thought that by course of treatment
he will eventually regain his facul
ties.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
LABOR HOLDS KEY
TO OUR VICTORY"
British Unions Must Allow more Un-
skilled Workers"-Now Needed,
100000 Workers.

London.-David Lloyd-George, min
lister of munitions, gave an account OF
his stewardship in the house OF COM
mons Monday night. Beginning with
the story of the insufficiency OF NUM-
lions in the early days OF the war and
the history of the establishment OF his
department to remedy this situation,
the minister gradually warmed to his
subject and reached the climax with
the declaration that the success of the
allies in the war depends on the atti-
tude of organized labor-whether it
will allow the government to recruit
a sufficient number of skilled men for
the factorier which the munitions de-
partment has brought into being.
I'VE want $4,000 skilled men and
from 100000 to 100000 unskilled men
for these new factories" he said. 1--WE
must reduce the proportion of our or
ders which go abroad and develop our
home resources. Upon the supply of
labor depends, l think, our success in
this war. Upon this depends whether
we can reduce the cost of the war by
scores of millions of pounds. Upon this
depends whether we can supply our
troops with the right sort of guns and
enable them to make next years cam
paign a success.
Here only organized labor can help
us. We have done our best to get
skilled labor by the system of mum.
lions volunteers. 1t is no use of my
going into the question of why we got
only 5000 or 5000 men, although that
story may have to be told later.
"The whole question depends on or
ganized labor. Unless it allows us to
put unskilled workers or the work
which hitherto has been the monopoly
of skilled labor, we can not perform
this task. There can be only one ap
peal namely, to patriotism. Victory
depends on this. Hundreds of thous
ands of precious lives depend on la
boris answer.
1T is question whether we are go
ing to bring the war to an end in q
year or linger along In the blood
stained path. Labor has the answer
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
GRAIN GROWERS TO MEET.
Tenth Annual Convention at Pullman
Jan. as.

Tenth Annual Convention at Pullman
Jan. 4-6.
Pullman, Wash.-Professor E. G.
Schaefer, secretary of the Grain Grow
ers, Shippers and Millers' association,
which will hold its tenth annual wheat
convention at the state college, Janu-
airy 4, 5, and 6, has completed a pre-
lfminary program, which includes dis
cussions on wide range of topics per
tinent to farmers, shippers and mall
ers' interests.
Topics and speakers so far arranged
follow
Presidents annual address-R- t.
Lord, Spokane.
Tillage Of the Soil for Wheat-Peter
Jacquot, Prosser.
Railroads and Diversified Farming
#. W. Robinson, Portland
Some new Facts Concerning Wheat
Smut-Professor F. d. Head, Pull
man.
Disposition of the Northwest Wheat
Crop-Leo Peterson, Portland.
LosseO to the Grain Grower and the
Grain Dealer from Improperly Cleaned
Seed-R. ]. Stevens, Spokane.
Financing and Marketing Our Prod
ucts-J. V. Mccall, Hay.
Delivering Wheat. M. LETTERS,
Portland
Live Stock in Connection fifth the
Wheat Farm-Clinton Bennett, Ritz
vile.
Essentials of Efficient Fire Extin-
| guishers for Smut Explosions in
Threshing Machines-Professor o. l..
Waller, Pullman.
Injury of Smut and How 1t Is Han
died in Milling-Sam Glasgow, Spo-
kane.
To What Extent Should Wheat Pro-
duction Exclude the Production of
Other Crops-Professor George Sever
ance, Pullman.
General Problems of the Wheat
Grower-Dan Krehbiel, Lind
Distribution of Grain at Terminals
Sam Armstrong, Tacoma
Prevention of Wheat Smut-H. M.
Woolman, Pullman.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
In a Commercial Way.

Charles Anderson of Spokane has
taken over the bakery at Sites for
merly conducted by Mrs. Hart, de-
ceased.
Erickson & Bay, meat market at
Grangeville, has been succeeded by
Erickson e Callan, and the business
moved into larger quarters.
The Felt Mercantile Co., which has
been one Of the leading business firms
of Nez Perez for years, has ceased to
exist. c. w. Felt has gone east to
confer with the WheelerMotter Co.
who are the other partners in the
business, to either buy or sell his in
terest. At any event. the store will
continue in business, but the style OF
the firm name will not be determined
until after the conference.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
TO QUIT
GALL|POu DISTRICT
WITHDRAWAL is CARRIED OUT
WITH INSIGNIFICANT
CASUALTIES.
WILL HOLD SEDDUL BAHR
Go, but May Meet the Teutons-
Turks Did Not Know of
the Departure.

London.-The announcement of the
British withdrawal from Gallipoli over
Swallowed all other war news Tuesday.
For the British public the abrupt war
office statement marks the end of a
great chapter of the wars history.
The shock of the enws was hardly
broken b ythe fact that rumors had
been current in the street for some
days and the withdrawal of the forces
had been a matter of widespread pro
and con discussion ever since Lord
Ribbesdale's famous speech in parlia-
ment in which he declared that the
withdrawal had been recommended by
high military authority.
Brings Feeling of Relief.
The feeling of the man in the street
was generally one of relief mixed with
regret. A popular half-penny paper
sums up the British public's attitude
as follows:
"Thus ends the enterprise on which
the highest hopes were built and
which, if it had succeeded, would prob
ably have turned the tide of the war
Our troops from the first to the last
were within few miles of victory
The policy underlying the Darda
nelles expedition may yet be carried
to a successful issue in some other
quarter of the near east, but the pros
| pect of forcing a way to CONSTANT
nople through the famous straits is ap
parently relinquished
British Keep Seddul Bahr.
British troops continue to occupy
the tip of the peninsula at Seddul Bahr
commanding the entrance to the
straits, where many British have de
clared new Gibraltar will some da,
rise, The position there is protected
by double line Of ships and it is as
sumed this will be held. r
The war office statement leaves tn.
public to draw it's own conclusions al
to the destination of the. Australasia
land united kingdom forces, which
must be well over 100000 strong. It il
widely conjectured, however, tina
any southwark sweep of the Teutoni'
or Bulgarian armies in the Balkans
whether from the north, west or east
will sooner or later come in contac
with them, and that the transfer il
connected with determination on tn,
part of the entente powers not to re
main on the defensive in the nea
eastern theater of war longer than i
requisite to assure the success of
forward march.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMi-
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

Women are now doing the work of
motormen in the Berlin street cars.
Fire destroyed the Capitol avenue
theater at Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec IS.
The French Cable company an
nounce that its land wires were down
between Paris and Brest, and that all
cable messages must be forwarded to
the coast by train.
Chicago suffragists have learned
that Attorney General p. j. Lucy has
decided that Illinois women have no
right to vote for delegates to presi-
dental conventions.
Cable messages of congratulation to
President Wilson were sent Saturday,
the presidents wedding day by EN-
peror Yoshihito and Baron Ishii, the
foreign minister at Toxic.
Four hundred employees at the West
inghouse company plant at Spring
field, Mass, struck Saturday for in
creased wages, union recognition and
reinstatement of a union shop steward
who has been discharged.
Reports from the section about Meri-
dian, Miss, swept by severe wind
storm recently, indicated that more
than so persons were injured, but that
there were no deaths except at Giles,
Miss, where four negroes were killed.
Five directors of the National City
bank of Cambridge, Mass, which was
wrecked in 1909 by George M. Cole
man, bookkeeper, were found guilty OF
negligence in connection with the fail
ure in the federal court. Under this
ruling depositors will recover approx
imately s265.000
Mount Etna, near Catania, Sicily, is
active again and is emitting redhot la
va which, streaming along the sides Of
the mountain and melting the snow
produces a wonderful effect, especially
at night. In addition glowing cinderE
and smoke form an umbrella-shapeC
cloud above the volcano.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
bereavement MORRISON Dead.

Ex-Governor John. T. Morrison OF
Boise passed away suddenly Monday
morning of apoplexy. Sunday night he
was as active as usual and attended
services in the Presbyterian church
He retired early, complaining of not
feeling we'll A physician was sum
moned, but h lapsed into unconscious
ness from which he never recovered
The body will lie in state in the ro
tunda of Idaho's new capitol building
on the day OF the funeral, not as yet
decided, pending the arrival of a
brother from Pittsburg
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24

The worlds wheat crop for 1918 is
returned by the department of agri-
culture at s,79s, 125. 900 bushels, gain
of 55O,OO0,OOO bushels over 1914. over
one-half Of this increase. or 2s6,OOO,-
600 bushels, is in the United States
and Canada, however, while the in
crease in all Europe is but 100000
600 bushels, with an actual loss, ex-
cept in Russia and the Balkans, from
which there are practically no export
facilities. The statistical showing GER
tainly tends to discourage expecta-
tons of high priced wheat, yet the
distribution of the surplus makes the
most advantageous conditions posi-
BILE for disposing of our wheat in the
markets which we regularly supply.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
PANAMA CANAL AGAIN OPEN.
Vessels Drawing Less Than 20 Feet te
Go Through.

Panama.-The Panama canal, which
has been closed since September is
last by the worst slide in its history
opened again for the passage of yes
sells drawing less than 20 feet Deem
Der 10, when 10 ships, three from the
Atlantic end and seven from the Pa
cific end, made the passage.
Exceptional progress, aided by good
weather conditions, made during the
last Saturday enabled the canal engi
neers and dredgemen to upset the pre-
diction' that the canal would not again
be opened to traffic before next spring
Providing that no further earth slides
occur the canal will be ready for the
transit Of vessels of all drafts shortly
after the first of the year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
EXPECTS UNFAIR TRADE WAR.
Secy. Redfield Urges Congress to Start
Now in Framing Legislation.


Now in Framing Legislation.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO protect
the industrial and commercial markets
of the United States from destructive
type of struggle and unfair competi-
ton" at the close of the European war
was recommended to congress by Sec
Rotary Redfield in his annual report.
Every strategem of industrial war, he
says, will be used by powerful foreign
agencies against American industries,
which may menace large markets
heretofore controlled abroad.
To prevent unfair competition" the
secretary suggested that the machin-
cry of the departments of justice and
treasury be used and that congress
supplement existing laws to give the
federal government adequate means
to protect American markets.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Captain eoy.ed Forced to Go.

Washington.-Captain Won Papen.
the withdrawn German naval attache,
will sail alone from New York on the
steamship Noordam December 81, the
German embassy notified the state de-
partment, and Captain BDy-Ed, the ma
val attache, will follow him on the
steamer Rotterdam December 28.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Pardoned, Freed, Died.

Sausalito, Cal-Executive clemency
won in race with death at San
Quentin penitentiary Saturday. and as
a result Thomas Conwell, victim of
tuberculosis who had served five years
of 50-year sentence for burglary, was
permitted to die outside the prison
walls. When the ambulance reached
the Sausalito pier, however, the at
tendants discovered that Conwell was
dead.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Men Return to Army Life.

Washington.-Of the 40 enlisted
men sentenced to dishonorable dis
charge from the army for desertion,
12S have been reenlisted and 107 now
are serving with the colors.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
GENERAL VILLA IS
NOT IN COMMAND
HIS GENERALS FORCE HIM TO
RESIGN AND HIS ARMY
is SCATTERED.
CROSSED OVER INTO TEXAS
Kilograms Sent to Washington, D. c.,
State "Peaoe Has Been Declared
and There Will Be No More.
ighting'-New Fracas.

V Ell Paso, Texas.-Under pressure of
his generals. the weight of his defeat
in Sonora, and the counsel of his wife,
General Francisco Villa is on U. S.
territory, his title of commander-in-
chief renounced, and his determine
ton to continue fighting the de facto
government of Carranza until death
broken once and for all.
Saturday teelgrams state briefly
that peace has been declared. There
will be no more fighting"
Villa Webs to Avoid Trouble.
Previous to renouncing his command
Villa was united to Mrs. Villa in a
civil marriage. They had been mar
ried by a church ceremony several
years ago at San Andres, but the civil
marriage was required by Mexican
law to make the tie legal.
1t was believed the civil marriage
would remove any moral obstacle to
the entrance of Mrs. Villa and General
Villa into the United States.
While the retirement of Villa was
upon pressure from his generals as
sembled in council of war in the CAPT
tai, it is not generally admitted that
the revolution is ended. Indeed, it is
asserted that the revolution will re.
ceive new impetus from the absence
of Villa and the substitution of a
leader, who is said to be Governor
Avila of Chihuahua state.
Women Bring Household Goods.
The REIMBURSEMENT of command by
Villa has been rumored at the border
for several weeks, but the first indica
ton of it came Saturday in the re
moval of the household goods of Gen
eral Villa to Ell Paso following the sud
den appearance of Mrs. Villa at the
border from Chihuahua
The goods of Colonel Hipolito Villa
financial agent of the convention gov
eminent at Juarez, were next reported
coming across the international
bridge. Later the wives of the broth
ers reached Eel Paso, and the brothers
followed Sunday
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Leo Materials Shy.

ST. Louis, Mo.-The manufacture of
artificial legs for shipment to the Eu-
ropean belligerents has been delayed
by the scarcity of willow wood.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Experts Agree AS to Cause.

Granulation or capitalization of one
Of the chord bars of the first panel
was the cause of the collapse, accord
ng to the unanimous opinion of four
experts who made thorough exami-
nation. No one examining the bridge
the day before it collapsed could have
detected any defects. the experts de-
clare.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
CLAIM TO POSSESS CLUES
TO MONSTER PLOTS
Our Federal Officials Assert Evidence
of Nationwide Conspiracy in
Munltion Plants.

New York=With the arraignment
here Saturday of Paul Koenig, said to
be the head of the German secret SER
vice in this country, and Richard Emil
Leyendecker, a New York art goods
dealer, on charge of conspiring to
blow up the Welland canal federal Of
ficials asserted they had in their hands
the clues to a countrywide conspiracy
TO blow up munition plants which has
already resulted in the loss of many
lives and destruction of millions of dol
lars in property.
Koeniu Was Detective Head.
For several years Koenig has been
the head of a detective force employ
ed here by the neutrality-suspicious.
Steamship company. The company,
which is subsidized by the German
government, was quick to come to his
aid, and through a local surety con-
Germ supplied $4,000 bail for him and
$4,000 bail for Leyendecker
The arrest of Koenig and Leyen-
decker was coincident with the arrest
by county attorneys of Frederick
Scheindl, clerk in the National City
bank. Scheindl, detectives claimed,
confessed that he was employed by
Koenig to supply him with informa-
ton regarding the shipment of mu-
nitions to the allies.
Scheindl was arraigned before a po-
lice magistrate on an affidavit charg-
ing him with suspicion in the larceny
of documents and messages valued at
100000 from the National City bank
He was held in $4,000 bail.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Officers in -anic.

An exodus of Villa chieftans' fami-
lies occurred at the border during the
afternoon, while the word had been
given in Juarez Officers take care of
yourselves" and resulted in a scurry-
ing Of officers in bewilderment. A
number clambered on trains going
south with supplies to the army, and
they were followed by some of their
men. Shortly afterwards rifles and
equipment appeared from hiding pla-
ces and were loaded into cars going
to Chihuahua City.
Among the families to cross the Dor
der with household goods were those
of General Manuel Oachoa, command
ing the garrison at Juarez; General
Fidel Avila, governor of Chihuahua.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24

Geneva, via Paris.-Masses Of Ger
man troops have passed through the
Rhine towns toward the western front
recently.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
BIC STEEL BRIDGE
AT SPOKANE, CAVES
WHILE TWO STREET CARS WERE
PASSING OVER 1T EARLY ON
SATURDAY MORNING.
FIVEPE0PLEINSTANTL YKILLED
While in Water, Striking People in
Stockholders Crawled Out to
Surface Through the Hole.

Spokane, Wash.-Two Washington
Water Power trolley cars fell into the
Spokane river Saturday morning short
ly after o'clock when the north span
of the old steel bridge at Division ST.,
$50 feet or more in length, collapsed.
One of the largest of the bridges steel
Orders fell on top of the inbound AS
tor street car, killing five of the II
men on that car and injuring more or
less seriously all the others. The out
bound Hillyard car, with two passen-
gers, was about to clear the collapsed
section, but slid back as the bridge
fell and ended with its smashed rear
end in the river and it's front trucks
still on the north end of the bridge
No one in the Hillyard car was severe
ly hurt.
Responsibility for the accident is de
MED both by city officials and by the
heads of the Washington Water Pow
er company. The former assert that
the city always had given careful at
tention to the bridge, and the Water
Power company contends that the
company can only be held responsible
for minor details of maintenance that
could not have been factors of the ae
cident The breaking of steel sup
port on the east side of the bridge
was considered by engineers to have
caused the fall.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Huge Pipes Broken.

Probably no disaster locally has
caused so general an upheaval through
out the city. The mains and electric
wires across the river at Division St.
serve a great portion of the North Side
and there was widespread confusion
when hundreds of homes found them
selves suddenly without water, gas,
electric light or telephone service. In
terruption of electric light service was
experienced also in portions of the
South Side.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24

Always try to remember that when
you are kicking you are standing still.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-24
Years Sport Decord.

Hunting-62 killed.
Football-16 killed.
Baseball-59 killed.