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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.

Eighty per cent of students of Ger
man universities are serving in the
army.
An epidemic of typhus fever has
broken out in the state of Victoria,
Australia.
A snowstorm occurred at Elkins, W.
Va, Saturday, first time in history at
80 early date.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., has re-
turned to New York after a three
weeks visit to Colorado.
A call for the 1896 class of Italian
reservists to fight in the war has been
received in this country.
The British steamers Silverash of
s753 tons gross, and Scawby of 1868
tons, were sunk Saturday by the Ger
mans.
Alexander Zaimis has accepted the
premiership in succession to M Ven
izelos, at the invitation of King Con-
stantine.
The government of the Philippine
islands is reported to be negotiating
for the purchase of stock of the Ma
Mia railroad.
Secretary Daniels announces that
within year the navy would have IA
cilities for manufacturing all powder
needed for average use and reserve.
Throughout the war the Germans
have fought aggressively and are fight
ing aggressively now. The allies have
contented themselves with the defens-
i've role.
From the beginning of the present
year up to August 81 over $20,00000C
worth of gold was shipped from Aus
tralia, over half coming to the United
States.
Germany's present advantage springs
from the fact that she has generals
who are willing to pay the cost of vic
tory, armies drilled to long obedience
and national spirit to bear the
shock.
Foreign exchange rates went dowI
again Monday in the face of a sue
tGSSlul llOldliOn VI TIC PoOV,VoOfoV'
credit loan to Great Britain ant
France, to the lowest point since Sep
TENDER Is.
Robert p Skinner, United States
consul general in London, who hal
been summoned Immediately to Wash
ngton for consultation on the trade sit
uation between the United States ant
Great Britain.
Darlington, N. D.-Four unidentified
men who held up 80 persons in poo
hall here Saturday, obtaining 5000
were trailed to a rooming house earl,
Sunday by the police, and in gun
fight that followed one robber was
killed and another wounded. Chief o
Police Carl Nelson was probably fatal
iy shot. The wounded robber escaped
with the other two and the three en-
gagged in a running fight with posset
and wounded two of their pursuers be
fore surrendering.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
CHICAGO SALOONS SHUT SUNDAY
Over 1852 Affected-First Dry Day in
Forty-four Years.

Chicago.-Saloon, hotel and restaur-
ant bars were closed here Sunday for
the first time in forty-four years.
Mayor Thompsons order of a week
ago was in conformity with state
law which had almost been forgotten
because of its nonobservance, the 1852
saloons of the city and the restaurants
and hotels operating their liquor priv
ileges under city ordinance requir-
ing closure only between the hours of
a. m. and a. m. According to police
reports, the order of the mayor was
generally observed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
PRESIDENT WILSON TO WE'D
Bride-to-Be 10 Mrs. Gait of the Ma,
tionaI Capital.

Washington, d. president Wood
row Wilson, October 8, announced his
engagement to Mrs. Norman Gait, a
wealthy and beautiful widow of Wash
ington. No date has been set for the
wedding, but it is presumed that the
ceremony will take place early in De-
cember at the brides home.
The bethrothal is the result of a
short and ardent courtship on the
part of the president.
The president has been seen fire.
quently in public Of late with the
pretty widow. Mrs. Calf is a great
friend of the daughters of the presi-
dent, and it was through Miss Mar
garet Wilson that Mrs. Gait became a
frequent visitor at the White House.
Mrs. Gait is the widow of a we'll
known business man of Washington
who died eight years ago, leaving a
jewelry business that still bears his
name. In social circles Mrs. Gait is
considered of striking beauty, with a
charm of manner that will make her
a popular first lady of the land. Her
literary ability is marked, and her
tastes are said to be similar to those
of the president.
With the marriage of two of his
daughters and the death of his wife a
little more than year ago, the life
of the president is said to have been
lonely. The president announces that
he will vote for woman suffrage in
New Jersey. The president will be &C
years of age December %.
President Wilson is a Presbyterian
and Mrs. Gait an Episcopalian, and nc
decision has been reached as yet as
to which service will be used at the
wedding. Mrs. Gait is member Of
st. Thomas Episcopal church here
and is 3S years of age.
Plans for the honeymoon have MOI
been completed, but it was indicated
that the trip might include visit t.
the San Diego exposition.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
MORE DELAY IN PANAMA CANAL
Little Hope of Handling Shipping Be-
fore January.

Little Hope of Handling Shipping Be-
fore January.
Panama. careful survey of the
slide area in the Gaillard cut reveals
that there are probably 100000 Gu
bic yards of earth in motion, which
must be taken out by dredging opera
lions before a permanent channel
through the cut is probable.
This is the conclusion reached by
the canal engineers, who concede
there is now little hope of opening the
waterway, even for the temporary use
of shipping, much before the first OF
the year.
The present rate of wet excavation
is 100000 yards per month and at
this rate it would require not less than
10 months to remove the mass which
is now sliding into the canal consider
ably faster than the dredges can take
it out. 1t is said that often the canal
bottom bulges up to a height of Is
feet above the surface of the water.
due to the tremendous weight Of the
hillside.
The area Of motion is roughly calcu-
lated to be in the neighborhood of IT'S
acres, which constitutes the greatest
slide area in the history of the canal.
1t extends 2600 feet along both banks
OF the waterway, with probably an av-
erage of 1900 feet back of the center
line of the canal prism.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
ALASKA STEAMER WRECKED
The Mariposa Went Ashore on Pointer
Island, 3. c.

The Alaska Steamship company's
iron steamship Mariposa, which went
ashore on Pointer island, B. c.. recent
ly, is resting on the beach with her
forward hold and engine room full of
water. The 70 passengers were taken
off and conveyed to Ketchikan, Alaska.
A survey will be made before attempts
are made to save the boat. 1t is ex-
pected that most of the cargo will be
saved. The mail and express were
not injured
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

England has ordered 165, 900 feet
of lumber from British Columbia mills.
Freight rates on lumber from the
Pacific coast to off-shore points are
now the highest they have been in
many years.
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha, one of
three steamship companies subsidized
by the Japanese government, plans to
put four new boats on the run between
the United States Pacific coast ports
and the orient.
Cigarette smoking among women has
increased to such an alarming extent
in Los Angeles that the police depart
ment announced the establishment of
clinic where women may go secretly
and receive treatment.
The Great Northern liner Minnesota,
largest ship on the Pacific ocean, is at
Seattle from the orient with a cargo
of 5000 tons of Japanese products. The
Minnesota will load now with wheat
and lumber for England. and upon her
arrival there will be offered for sale
or charter as an Atlantic freighter.
One hundred and six dogs, including
seven from the Allan-Darling worlds
champion racing team, arrived in Sc
attic from Nome last week on the
steamship Senator on the way to
France for Alpine service in the war.
The Senator brought also $500,000 in
gold bullion from the Nome placer
mines
The Canadian steamer Otter which
left Victoria, B. C to assist in sal
wage operations on the wrecked Alaska
liner Mariposa, went aground Sunday
on st. James island, B. c., and has
been abandoned as a total loss The
Otter, which was an old wooden yes
sci Of 1886 gross tons, was valued at
$50, 900.
The large Blue Funnel liner Calchas
from Liverpool for Seattle, went
ashore off Point Wilson, near Port
Townsend, recently, but floated off al
high tide.
Some mariners express doubt as tt
the salvors' ability to get the Calchas
safely out of her predicament because
of the many rocks and lodges sur
rounding her.
While he believes that the higf
voltage transformer now being expert
mented with as fog dispeller at the
Panama-Pacific exposition will be abl'
to drive fog from congested city dis
tricts and small enclosed areas, Pro
lessor U. J. Ryan, head OF the cleo
trical engineering department at Stan
ford university, does not think it will
be successful in clearing large tract
: such as San Francisco bay.
Automobile transportation of girl
over state boundaries for immoral pun
poses was held to be contemplate,
within the Mann act, valid under tn
general federal jurisdiction of inter
state commerce, by Judge Maurice I
Dooling, in a ruling on a demurrer il
the United States district court at Sa
/ Francisco. William Burch and Chas
, Rider, accused of bringing two girl
by automobile from Wheeling, Va.
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Double Our Navy.

Washington, Oct 14.-Fifteen to 20
fighting ships of the dreadnaught and
battle cruiser type, with a proportion
ate number of seagoing submarines,
coast submarines, scout cruisers, des-
troyers and enough to
make a new American fleets con-
templated by Secretary Daniels for
recommendation as a five-year build
ing program for the United States
navy.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
General eoethaIs Goes Back.

Panama--In view of the recent
slides in the Panama canal, which has
blocked up the waterway for several
weeks. General Goethals, governor of
the Panama canal zone, announces
the withdrawal of his resignation as
governor. Goethals will remain in
Panama indefinitely.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15

Oakland, Cal.-That the honor sys-
tenn among convicts was a failure and
a crime against society was the dec
laration made Tuesday by Judge ]. E.
Prick of the state supreme court of
Utah in an address before the Ameri-
can association.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
Army Aviator Killed

San Diego.-Lieutenant Walter d.
Taliaferro, stationed ia the United
States army aviation corps school at
North Island, fell 1000 feet into San
Diego bay this morning and was
killed. His body has not yet been re-
covered
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
Restore Sugar Tariff.

Washington.-The announcement Of
President Wilson that the sugar tariff
will be restored leads to the belief that
other schedules of the Underwood law
will be revised in terms which will not
openly confess the inadequacy of pres
ent tariff legislation.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15

Seattle.-Hundreds of delegates to
the forty-second annual convention of
the National Women's Christian Tenn
perance union were in attendance at
the meetings all this week.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
chinese to Rum steamshIps.

San Francisco.-With the formation
In San Francisco Tuesday of the
China Mail Steamship company China
entered into competition with Japan
for passenger and freight trade be
tween this port and the orient
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
FOREIGN BORN TO BE CITIZENS.
Roosevelt Says No Others Can Fight
Battles of America.

New York.-"The foreign-born pop
ulation of this country must be an
Americanized population-no other
kind can fight the battles of America.
either in war or in peace"
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt so as
serted in a speech on "Americanism"
before the Knights of Columbus at Car
negie hall Tuesday night.
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King Constantine GETS Word.

Rome.-King Constantine of Greece
was told plainly by British Minister
Elliot during the audience granted
him recently that Great Britain and
France were determined to push
through the military expedition now
being landed at Saloniki.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
FORGED 500, 900.

Kansas City.-Theodore Peltzer,
wealthy real estate broker, killed in a
fall a year ago, committed forgeries to
the extent of 100000 it is now
learned.
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Portland Banks Merolno.

Portland, Ore.--The Northwestern
National bank Tuesday made arrange
ments to absorb the Merchants Ma
tionaal bank.
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Bio Fire at Richmond.

Richmond, Va--Fire early Sunday
destroyed a block of warehouses in
Richmond's wholesale and tobacco dis
trict- The loss was estimated at about
$3.50, 900.
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.CARRANzA GETS
RECOGNITION NOW
PAN AMERICAN CONFERENCE,
LED BY SEC. LANSING, MAKES
FINAL DECISION.
GENERAL VILLA IS DEFIANT
Says Action of Conference VIII Not
Affect Him and His Army-WiII
Continue Fighting Carranza--
President Has Hard Job.

Washington.-Reco OF the
de facto government in Mexico was
unanimously agreed upon Saturday by
the Pan-American conference as the
step to be recommended to their re-
spective governments.
Secretary Lansing, on behalf of the
United States government, expressed
its intention to recognize General Car
rama, and the ambassadors of Brazil,
Chile and Argentine, and the minis
ters of Bolivia, Uruguay and Guate-
mala, transmitted the decision of the
Washington government, as well as
their opinions In agreement with it.
Mr.. Lansing has obtained the approval
Of President Wilson to the plan, and
before the conference began all the
other ministers in the Latin-American
corps also had given their adherence
to it.
viii Get U. S. Support.
The action of the conference was
regarded generally as the most i'm
portant diplomatic step in the Next
can situation since the United States
decided to withhold recognition from
the Huerta government, more than two
years ago. 1t means that the Carranza
government will receive the moral
support of the United States, and
that an embargo on shipments of arms
to opposing factions will be laid as
soon as recognition actually is extend
ed, which will probably be within a
fortnight.
Officials believe many elements in
Mexico will align themselves with
Carranza, and that the latter will him
self adopt a liberal attitude toward
his opponents, permitting of a recon
Citation of the various branches of the
original constitutionalist party, Of
which he was one of the founders.
Secretary Lansing made it clear thai
while the United States could not con
dition recognition upon the giving o.
amnesty or the settlement of othel
questions of a strictly internal nature
assurances on these and other sub
jects have been received from Car
ranzo government
Villa to Continue Fight.
FL Paso, Texas.-"The war is jus
beginning" said General Francisc,
J Villa, with broad grin, upon receiv
} ing from his representatives at Wash
ington the news of the recognition o
the Carranza faction as the de fact'
government of Mexico.
"Carranza cannot defeat my army,
asserted Villa, TRY as he may, ant
represent himself and his strength al
he will. The recognition of Carranz;
will not affect the constitutionalis
cause"
i President Wilson Approves.
Washington. President Wilson
Tuesday gave formal sanction to tn
plan of the Pan-American conference
to extend recognition to the Carranz
government in Mexico.
Europe Will Follow Suit.
European governments, 1t is under
stood, will follow the lead of the Unite
States and the other American reput
lies.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15

Every time you loan money to a
friend, you damage his memory.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15

Michael Schreck, ST., died recently
at La Crosse.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15
German Paper Had to Quit.

The Nationalist Deutsche Tages
Zeitung has again been suspended.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-10-15

Eighty per cent of students of Ger
man universities are serving in the
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MINISTER, AwAKEs A SEAMAN.
Strange Tale Told by Man Found
Unconscious In street.

A man who was picked up unconscious by
the police at the corner of Fifth avenue
and Forty-second street yesterday after
noon was told when he regained his senses
at the New York Hospital that he was
In New York.
impossible" he eaid. I've never been
east OF Chicago in my life The last
thing he remembered, he explained. was
waking up at his home N Caremont
MINI. one morning In late November or
early December with n fearful headache.
He said he was Walter r. Burton, 80
years old, n minister.
In his pockets were found q. room key
at the Navy Y. NJ. c. A., Brooklyn. tele-
grams and letters addressed to X. Hudd,
one received In Havana, Cuba; steam
chip ticket envelope from Havana and a
picture OF himself with a woman who.
he said, was his wife.
II was learned that he had registered
at tho Navy Y. VI. c. A. night before last
az II. Hudd, sailor from the receiving
ship Maine, and that he had Joined the
crew OF the Maine ne n second class
musician on December 81, coming from
the naval station in Key West
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complete surprise" Mr. Sniffen is reported
to have told n friend yesterday. The last
| heard of my sister she was living hap
PLY with Walters I thought everything
was all right. Recently | got a telegram
from "A friend in this city telling me OF
the attempted suicide OF "A woman named
Snlffon and suggesting that II might be
my sister. / accordingly came here to
investigate. | want TO help her in every
way ! can"
Mrs. George II. OBrien living in the
Beechwood apaitme 1914 Ogden ave
nue. and formerly living in the apart
meut house at 1891 University avenue.
The Bronx. where Mrs Rogers lived. told
a story yesterday which suggested that
Mrs. Rogers was insane at the time she
took the poison.
81 know that she was devoted TO her
babies" said Mrs. O'Brlen to a repre-
sentative OF District Attorney Martin.
But recently she was apparently Ill., She
was high strung and under high ten
sion. She said to me one day: I believe
that am losing my mind. | don't know
what's the matter with me. can't
think
"Mrs Rogers was greatly worried at
times. \ gloomy day would make her
greatly depressed. ! have known her for
two years and believe she is IA beautiful
woman, and that she was absolutely de-
on University avenue she did all her own
work, her washing, cleaning. sewing and
cooking, and she religously spent fiye
hours every day with tho babies In the
open air
"She was we'll read and she had many
good books. | remember one day seeing
she was interested in 'Plutarch's Lives,
and when ! commented about Il che said,
Arthur Walters says you should keep
ON reading rlutarch, for the more you
! read him the better you like him
did not know whether Arthur Walters
was some great writer or critic. and
was curious about him. for she mentioned
him twice in casual way. | did not
lind out who Mr.. Walters was until this
tragedy came.
Mrs Rogerss devotion to her babies
was commented on in University avenue
for all the mothers used to go TO her for
advice when their children were Ill. She
was 80 helpful 10 all Of them"
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CABBAGE HEAD MONUMENT
REALIZES GIFT OF DEPEW
Peekskill Awakes to Find Long
Awaited Figure in Place,
but Not for Long.

PEEKsKiLL n. v, Jan. 10.-Citizons
young and old are much agitated here over
the soldiers monument which was erected
over night at Division and Park streets.
The village awoke yesterday morning to
discover that the monument, which has
been discussed for years, since Chauncey
VI. Depew gave the FIRST contribution
toward It, was b. reality.
But II was a monument OF wood. white
muslin and paint, topped with a large
mead Of cabbage. An American flag
waved above II. Thousands viewed 1t
until noon, when n cart OF the village
corporation took It to the municipal build
ing. Later II was removed to vacant
lot.
Mr. Depew, Peekskills favorite son,
gave the village Depew PARK and a con-
trioution toward the soldiers monument
The fund has never been completed yet,
however. although Mr.. Depew accepted
AN invitation to make the dedlcatory ad-
dress when the stone was scheduled to be
unveiled last Fourth of July.
The Board OF Trade passed resolution
oondemning the proposed letting OF the
contract to builder out OF town. The
discussions have drivelled on. until last
week Isaac II. Smith. president of the
monument fund. resigned. SO did the
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TATUM HOME HELD BY
WIFE; ALL ARRESTED
Continued from First Page.

gan hurriedly' to pack everything that
might serve as a clothes container NO
words passed between the married rivals
for possession of the elaborate home.
But oh, II looks could kill!
The besegers outside, between racing
up and down to keep warm and cycling
every strange machine which swung In
at the gate, could see Mr.. Tatum and his
butler filling trunks upstairs. Soon sew
eral of the trunks were carried to Mr..
Cardee's home At one stage OF the pro-
ceedinRs Mrs. Tatum opened the pianola
and played tune. II did not last long
and was not sad one.
Alan went away to get his deputies,
Mrs Tatum appeared at various win
dows the kitchen lights came on, then
others upstairs In Mr.. and Mrs. Tatum's
adjoining rooms and then out came the
valises, satchels, suitoases. bags, boxes,
fur coats and other personal effects OF Mr.
Tatum.
At . 80 Mr.. Tatum himself, Terence
McManus, his partner and Mrs Brown
got into the automobile driven by Car
dlngton and left. Mr.. Tatum refused TO
talk, but Mr. McMaaua, who came out
earlier. spoke for him. He would not say
where Mr.. Tatum was going, but did
not deny that he was going back to Glen
Cove He denied that Mr. Tatum was
relinquishing his claim to the house and
said he might be back this morning.
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nation meeting on the grounds but failed
to decide on any definite programme.
Mrs. Tatum, II seems. chagrined at tho
failure of her husband TO appear at the
peace" meeting at the Hotel Vanderbilt
at noon, motored to the Great Neck House
in the afternoon and waited for Mr..
Tatum to show up. lie came at 1880
O'Clock. found her in telephone booth
In the house. and according TO tho COM
plant she made to Magistrate Hayden.
knocked tn. telephone receiver from her
hand and pushed her in such a way that
her back was injured and her waist torn
20 the belt.
Macarthur and Mrs. Tatum allege that
three deputy constables and Cardington
tho chauffeur, forced her out In tho cold
without hat or coat, clad only In a
thin black silk dress.
Magistrate Hayden said last night that
Mrs. Tatum had a half interest In tho
Great Neck house under a deed Of the old
English law tenants Dy entirety"