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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
STokERS FEAR THE WAR ZONE
British Ship Will Defend Action
Begun by Americans.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sailing Sat
urday for Liverpool the Britien steam
ship Michigan, under charter of the
American line, filed a bond in the
United States district court for ap-
pearance in defense of an action
brought by two young American stok-
ers who refused to sail on the YES
sci because it was going into the war
zone, thus endangering their lives.
The stokers are Arthur w. Palmer of
American Falls, Idaho, and James G..
Winter, Unity, Wis.
In their petition to the court the
stokers said they did not desire to
sail into the war zone on a ship car
rying contraband. The Michigan has
in her cargo motor trucks for mill
tary use.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
WORLDS NEWS
BRIEFLY TENTED
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED OVER THE GLOBE
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

King Constantine, suffering with
pleurisy, is much improved.
The bodies of 2S more victims OF
the Luisitania disaster were recovered
Saturday.
The French government has issued
one billion dollars in treasury notes
since the war began.
German Interior Minister Brueck
told the reichstag recently that the
wheat and potato supplies of the
empire were ample.
Professor Barnard of the Yerkes
observatory at Williams Bay, Wis,
has discovered two companion bodies
near Mellish's comet
Six thousand tramway employees
in London struck Saturday, demand
ing additional wages for overtime
work since the war began.
Merchandise and treasure to the
value of $66,5OO,OO0 moved between
Alaska and the United States in 1914,
an increase of $4,0O0,0O0 over 1913.
A shipment of SIG lambs, averaging
rs pounds, from SCOTS Bluff, Neb.,
sold at Omaha for $11.50 per hun
dred, the highest price ever paid for
wooded lambs on a Missouri river
market during the month of May.
Mrs. E. b. Hutchinson, national
treasurer of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, who underwent
an operation at a hospital in Port
land, Ore, is reported to be much
better, and it is believed that hel
recovery is assured.
Germans and Austrians again be
sieged the American consulate Sat
urday in London, seeking the aid o.
the American officials to preven
their being repatriated in cnnse
quence of the decision of the gov
eminent, announced recently.
William Wilson, who escaped from
the county Jail at Cairo, ILL.,, yea
ago, was killed and Sheriff Kearbe.
was wounded, probably FATALLY, in |
revolver duel at Poplar Bluffs, Mo
Saturday The battle was caused b!
the sheriffs effort to arrest Wilson
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
No Report Tuesday.
AMERICA A HOME OF SPIES
Spanish War Veterans at Convention
Declare Country is Honeycombed.


Chicago.-That the UniteC States
is as honeycombed with spies as any
European nation was asserted by
speakers at the national convention
of the Naval and Military Order of
the Spanish-American War here.
The spy question was raised in the
discussion of a resolution by Major
Edward Schulze of Connecticut, call
ing upon public men to cease blast
ing" the reputation of the United
States as a power. He said when
weak points in the countrys defense
were found the proper authorities
should be notified instead of the ad-
ministration being held up to ridi-
Guile.
Opponents to the resolution said the
country was so filled with spies that
it was of no consequence what public
speakers said about the country's de-
Tense.
Colonel Milton ]. Foreman, com
mander of the First cavalry, Illinois
national guard, was elected comman-
der in chief for the coming year.
Reports of Investigations into
charges of anti-American sentiments
publicly expressed by citizens of the
United States were handed Charles
F. Clyne, United States district at
torney by Thomas l. Porter, in charge
of the local bureau of the secret serv-
ice. Special precautions were taken
to prevent publicity being given the
cases, it was said, for fear that pub
lie demonstrations might follow.
The naturalization of foreigners
since the Lusitania crisis has in
creased more than so per cent over a
like period of time previous to the
ship disaster.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
FRANCE AND SPAIN WANT COAL
Madrid Government Willing to Make
Deposit to Secure Payment.

Madrid-The Spanish government
is so much concerned over the scar
city of coal that the cabinet is will
ing to guarantee the payment of ord
ers placed in the United States by
opening a credit in New York to the
amount of at least 100000 pesetas
$500 0O0). This deposit will be main
tanned as long as necessary.
The object of the government is
specially to enable smaller concerns
to have their American orders filled
promptly The cash thus deposited is
to be used only in the event of pur-
chasers failing to pay
Something like a coal famine exists
throughous Spain and large orders are
being placed in the United States by
Spanish companies.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
Say Germans LOYAL.

Sioux City, Iowa.-Rudolph Beerend,
member of the city council, president
of the national organization Of former
members of the German army, de-
clares that in case of war between
the United States and Germany
German-Americans would be found
standing solidly behind the president
and fighting against the fatherland
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
SPORTING ITEMS

Yale defeated Harvard in the an
nual dual track meet Sc to AS.
James ]. Jeffries, former heavy
weight champion of the world has
been i'll of pneumonia.
The University of Oregon track
team ran away from Washington in
the track meet, winning the meet Sc
to A.
J. G. Griffith's pay was cut Saturday
quit at the close of the present SEM
ester.
Superiority in the longer runs gave
the University of Idaho track team
victory over the University of Mon
tana The score was 80 to 81.
Two conference records were beat
en- and another tied by University OF
Chicago athletes, who defeated Pur-
due rs to 80, in a dual track meet.
Wallace high school athletes, for
the sixth consecutive year, won the
trophy cup in the annual track and
field meet of Shoshone county, Idaho
Winning eight places and capturing
all the points in five events, Cornell
won an easy victory over Pennsyl-
vania in the annual dual track meet,
70 2-3 to AZ Is
Walla Walla speed fans are look
ing forward to some exciting races
Saturday and Sunday, May % and 90,
when the Northwest Automobile as
ISOLATION holds it's meet there.
Cornell defeated Harvard at tennis
winning four of the singles and two
of the doubles matches, while Har-
ward captured one of the doubles and
two of the singles.
In a thrilling contest in which Yale
and Cornell pressed each other to the
limit Yale swept over the line a win
ner by the small margin of five feet
in the triangular eight-oared shell
race.
What promises to be the greatest
trapshooting tournament of the year
in this part of the country will be
staged by the Portland Gun club at its
Jenne station grounds during the
northwest shoot June 6. T. 8 and 8.
The pretty contests between Miller
of w. S. c. and Thompson of Whit
man college in the sprints were the
only thrillers in the meet at Pullman
between W. S. c. and Whitman col
lege, won by the former, 73 to "a. In
both short dashes only inches sepa-
rated Miller and Thompson, the 100
going to the Walla Walla boy in 10
1-5, while Miller, w. S. C.'s Coas. re-
cruit, took the 900 event in :22 3-5.
Six records were shattered and one
equaled in the interscholastic track
meet of the eastern Washington high
schools. Lewis and Clark, Spokane,
26; North Central, Spokane, %; Pull
man, 81; Garfield, 16; Davenport Is;
Walla Walla, 10; Colfax, IL; Ephrata,
8 and Harrington, 1.
120-yard high hurdles-Carl John
son, Lewis and Clark, :16 2-5.
Javelin-Reg Bullivant, North Cen
trail, 1873 feet II inches
Broad jump-Carl Johnson, Lewis
and Clark, 21 feet 9 IL inches.
220-yard low hurdles-Clifford Nor
man, Pallman. :27 flat
440-yard dash-Wslter Squires, Pull
man, so flat
Half-mile relay-Pullman high
school, martini, Squires, Miller and
Norman), 1875 As.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
Italy Has 100000 Troops Ready.

Geneva.-A telegram from Lugano, a
Swiss city near the Italian border,
says that Italy now has 100000 sol
diers modified and equipped.
1t also is said that the Austrian gov
eminent has confiscated the property
of the Rothschilds, as well as that of
various English, French and Russian
families.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
Turks Sink British eattIeship.

Official announcement was made in
Constantinople that the British bat
tleship Goliath was sent to the bot
tom by the Turkish torpedo boat de-
stroyer Mauvenet L. Millet, which re-
turned in safety to its base.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

J. e. Reed. manager Of an employ
ment office in Butte, was found guilty
of sending girls to an alleged house OF
i'll repute in Diamondville, Wyo.
John Campbell, miner, of Potsville
above Mullan, was lodged in the coun-
ty jail at Kellogg Sunday after an un-
successful attempt to shoot himself.
Theodore Martinson, assessor OF
Latah county was arrested after he
resigned office recently. and was
charged with appropriating S137 from
the tax receipts.
While driving a party in the Thorn
creek section about six miles south OF
Moscow, John Vossburg's auto turned
over and besides badly wrecking the
car Mr. Vossburgs leg was broken.
James l.. Nolan. a farmer at Voll-
mer, was convicted in the federal
court recently of introducing liquor on
the Indian reservation. His son, Earl
c. Nolan, Jointly indicted with him,
pleaded guilty
While an audience watched the
show two masked bandits entered the
box office of the Empress theater, at
Butte, at 10 o'clock Sunday night, held
up Manager William Swartz, and got
away with $780, An exciting chase
through one of Butte's main streets
followed. The thieves escaped.
The state utilities commission
closed it's hearing of the application
of the city of Wallace against the
Northwest Light and Water company,
for a reduction of light rates, reserv-
ing decision. The city is given until
June 20 to file a brief and the light
company until July 1 to file an an
swering brief.
Recent rains have been of inesti-
mable benefit to the logging contrac-
tors operating in northern Idaho, hav-
ing swelled the mountain streams suf-
ficient to float millions of feet of
logs that would have remained on the
sideways until next year, or been
transported to the mills by train, ac-
NOAuAn6 " lullbCi
Frank j. Mcbride, Standpoint, is in
receipt of an announcement from Gov
ernor Alexander that he has been ap-
pointed county commissioner in place
of Don c. McColl. McColl is chair.
man of the county commissioners OF
Bonner county. He resides in the
newly created county of Boundary
and has been appointed by the COVER
nor as commissioner of that county
whose legal existence starts July /
In a serious fire at the Washington
Water Power company's warehouse
about mile above Wallace, on Canyon
creek, Sunday, A Wuppe, an employee
received serious burns about the head
arms and hands when he saved the
company's auto truck from the burn
ing building. The loss to the company
will approximate $4,000, as the ware
house was used as a storehouse FOL
supplies for the Occur d'Alene dis
trict
Now that winter has definitely
passed the work of preparation fol
the busy spring and summer seasons
for the forest service is being taker
up by rangers, who, during the las
few months, have been keeping lone
ly vigil in the forests. Though there
are many activities with the coming
of spring, most of them center OF
preparations for the fire-fighting per
iod that is sure to come each dry
season.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
Milwaukee Train Down Bank.

Yankton, S. D.-Eighteen passen-
gers on the Milwaukee railroads
Plate line accommodation train we're
injured Saturday night when the rear
coaches jumped the track and rolled
down an embankment three miles
west of Yankton. None of the pas
sengers were seriously hurt
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
ALASKA is A GOOD CUSTOMER
Dealing With the United States
Shows Healthy Growth.

Alaska's commercial relations are
chiefly with the United States. Ship
ments to the United States last year
were valued at $44,OOO,OOO. Canned
salmon, $1S,000,O00; Alaskan gold
$l4,600,000 Canadian gold, $500, 900;
Alaskan copper, sS.3OO,OO0; fresh sal
mon, $750,000; seal and other fur
skins, 100000; and miscellaneous
fish and fish products, s1,250,OOO
were the largest factors. Our pur-
chases of fish and fish products from
Alaska last year totaled s2O,O0O,OOO,
or five times as much as imports of
this class from Norway. OF salmon
alone we bought from Alaska 200 mil
lion pounds in 1914, or an average of
2 pounds per capita
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
SIR EDGAR sPEYER QUITS.
British PriVy Councillor Called Dis
Loyal by the Newspapers.

London.-Sir Edgar Speyer has sent
a letter to Premier Asquith resigning
his privy councilorship and requesting
also the revocation of his baronetcy
The letter declares that Sir Edgar was
led to this step after nine months OF
charges OF disloyalty by the newspa,
pers. which charges have lately cul
minated in speeches against him by
public men.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
MUSICIANS FEDERATION ELECT
Weber is President and Delegate to
A. E. of l.

San Francisco.-Th American Fed
Grafton of Musicians, in convention
here, elected all its officers: Presi-
dent. Joseph N. Weber, Boston, Mass;
vice president, George w. Bope, Co
lumbus, Ohio; secretary, Owen Mil
Ter, st. Louis, Mo-; treasurer, Otto
Ostendorff, st. Louis; Canadian repre-
sentative, d. A. Carey, Toronto, Can
ada. Cincinnati got the 1916 conven-
ton.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21

the provisions of The Hague conven-
ton of 1900 and revised in 1907.
by the preamble to the conven-
ton the contracting powers, among
which were Germany and the United
States. pledged themselves, by all the
efforts in their power, to the friendly
settlement of international disputes,
recognizing the solidarity uniting the
members of the society of civilized
nations, and desiring of extending the
empire of law"
Governor Baldwin said the question
of law raised in the American note is
just such a question as The Hague
tribunal was organized to determine.
Germany May Object.
That Germany will yield entirely to
President Wilson's demands is open
to doubt. In her submarine blockade
of the British isles she has weapon
whose use she will not readily forego.
1t seems probable that the German
reply will assent to that part of the
American demand which relates to OBJ
servance of previous international
practice of search of neutral ships at
sea-of giving ample warning before
destroying contraband cargo and ship,
and seeing that all aboard con-
demned ship are permitted to pull
safely away in lifeboats. Germany
will probably reply that she will read
lily and gladly pursue this practice
in dealing with neutral ships, since
her submarines can accord that care
to neutral vessels without imperiling
themselves.
On the other hand the German
government may insist that it's sum-
mary method of torpedoing British
vessels is justified by the declared
policy of the British government to
reward merchant vessels that may
ram and destroy German submarines
and by the further fact that many
British merchant ships have been
armed to resist German search at
sea.
No Answer Monday.
Without word from Ambassador &c
rard as to the attitude of the German
government toward the recent Ameri
can note, official Washington attached
much significance today to the intima
tons in diplomatic quarters here
friendly to Germany that the latter
country in it's reply might offer to sus
pend attacks without warning on mer
chant ships while the United States
renewed it's informal proposals for the
unrestricted passage of foodstuffs t.
civilians in Germany.
No Report Tuesday.
Washington.-Ger is expected
to answer the American note of las
Friday before the end of this week. Ii
the meantime the diplomatic activit.
of Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, and DR.. Constantin T
Dumba, the Austrian ambassador, boil
of whom are understood to be endeav
oring to prevent a rupture of friendl.
, relations between Germany and thu
United States, is attracting much at
tention.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21
Way to Arbitration Open.

New Haven, Conn.-Former Gov
ernor Baldwin, recognized authority
on international law, says that he
thought the American note to Ger
many paved the way for an amicable
reference of the matter in contro-
versy between Germany and the
United States to arbitration under
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-05-21

King Constantine, suffering with
pleurisy, is much improved.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-15
R. T. NECK IS NOW
PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL
To Succeed Merriam -Reso-,
lutiens on Death of
Mayor Kennerly.

At the meeting of the city council
on Tuesday night the finishing work
of the body as an equilizing board on
the city tax proposition was complet-
ed, and notice was given that all whs
have objections to the present assess
ment must make them known within
the next few days.
Alderman McNally offered resolu-
ton to effect that committee be ap-
pointed to draft resolutions of respect
to the life and work of the late May
or S. ]. Kennerly. The chair appoint
ed Messrs. McNally, Walton and Da-
Wis. The council then adjourned to
the following night.
On Wednesday the council reassem-
bled and proceeded to elect presi-
dent, in place of Alderman Merriam
who became mayor on the death of
Mr.. Kennerly. Ruben E. Neck was
unanimously elected. Then that gen.
tlemna smiled in appreciation.
Mr.. McNally then offered the fol-
lowing resolutions:
WHEREAS, in the Providence of
God, Samuel Joseph Kennerly was
removed from the labors of earth on
October 7, A. D. 1915.
RESOLVED, that in the death of
Samuel Joseph Kennerly, Putnam
County has lost one of its most dis
tinguished citizens. He was born
in Columbia, S. c., October %, A.
D. 1S48 and removed to Putnam Coun-
ty, Florida, in 1866, since which time
he has filled many high and response
bic positions among them being
Mayor of the City of Palatka which
office he held at the time of his death,
RESOLVED, In any position he was
placed he rendered faithful and i'm
portant service, for which and for his
virtues in private life his name de-
serves to be cherished with grateful
and lasting remembrance by his fellow
citizens,
RESOLVED, that a page of the
minutes of the City Council be de-
voted to his memory; that these res
olutions be spread upon the minutes;
that copy thereof, duly certified, un-
der seal, be transmitted to the family
of the deceased.
WALTER McNALLY,
HOWELL A. DAVIS,
J. V. WALTON,
Chairman.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-15
Court House Square Was
Crowded and Bright With
Color at Morning
Exercises.
Col. Hil5urn Makes Visitors
Feel at Home - Introduces
Speakers in Felicitous Man
ner-Flag Drill.

Of course there were bitches in the
progrGm--it wouldn't have been 4 real
celebration had there not been.
But the Committee was up against
it; the original plans were knocked in
to a cooked hat almost at the last
minute, when the owners Of the great
schooner, for the launching of which
the crowd had gathered, announced
that owing to the lateness of the tide
reaching Palatka they would not be
able to proceed with the launching
| till 4 o'clock. All the fault of the
blamed old tide. Don't lay it to Char
Hey Burt, he did his best under the
! circumstances.
Then when 4 o'clock came and four
thousand or more people were gather
ed for the launching, the blamed old
thing refused to work, though the re-
fuSal wasn't known to the waiting
crowd until darkness had settled upon
lhe scene. Some stayed hopefully
till long after dark, and only dispersed
then when told that the launching
would have to be delayed till this
morning at II O'Clock.
Don't say anything more about it.
We were all disappointed, and so We're
the men who had the thing in charge.
The woods surrounding the ship
yard were crowded with automobiles
and carriages. One man who is used
to seeing big crowds when asked to
estimate the number of automobiles
there, place the number at not less
than 500.
1t was a little after o'clock when
Miss Margaret Willard, with her at
tendants, the Misses Belle Welch, Ma
mie Evans, Helen Cochrane, Grizella
Merrill and Dorothy Davis of Palatka,
and Miss Helen Bours of Jacksonville
Gscended to the ships deck. Thea the
""owd thought sure something wa
coming; but there was another long
wait, till long after dark, when the
forced delay was finally announced.
Yes, the great crowd was disap-
pointed, but good naturedly so; they
knew it couldn't be helped and they
quit the scene with little audible kick
ing.
Of course the failure of the launch
ing spoiled the night dance on the boat
disappointment, but--younG
people have way of getting some
other place to dance.
The band was the only thing on
time; it reached the court house
square on the minute, sat under the
big oak tree and began to blow mu-
sic into the ambient atmosphere and
put a quietus on the little dicky birds
and make 'em cape in wonder. Then
the crowd began to gather. The sun
was warm and waxed warmer, and
men began to peel their coats. Good
men helped to entertain 'em and keep
the people on the ground until
The Palatka school girls began to
march from the east door of the court
house onto the lawn for the fac drill.
1t was a pretty sight-more than a
score of girls in white, each carrying
a small flag marching and going
through a series of evolutions to the
music of the band. When these evolu-
tions were through there was only
such applause as a delighted crowd
knows how to voice.
Then there was another long wait
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-10-15

m the steps of the court house at
the time, and he excused himself for
peaking from that vantage point in
stead of coming down through the
crowd to the speakers table. Gov.
Gilchrist also made a good Gilchris-
tian talk that was in a happy vein
and which was we'll received. He
was followed by Commissioner of AC-
rIcuIture McRae, the last speaker. 1t
was l o'clock before the speaking was
Zone and the crowd dispersed for din
ner.
At 1880 the sportingly inclined went
cut to the baseball park to see the
football game between the teams Of
Rollins College and the State Univer-
sity.
Another crowd hustled for the
board of trade rooms to the big good
roads meeting in the interests of the
National Highway. Others roamed
the streets till after three when the
crowds began its march across the
bridge to the scene of the launching
in East Palatka
The committee in charge of award
lIS pllACS IOI iuG bGSI uGCOtdIBu au-
tos, made its report in the late after
noon at the launching grounds. Hon.
H. H. Lewis Of Jacksonville, U. S.
Internal Revenue Collector for the dis
trict of Florida, was chairman of this
committee and told The News that the
awards were the unanimous decision
of his committee. Mr.. Lewis an
nounced the awards as follows:
First prize, float; car of Mrs. S. ].
Hilburn.
First car-Sponser's car, driven by
Miss Belle Welch.
Second car-Mrs. W. NJ. Surles.
The News would make apology to
the people of Putnam county for its
very poor report of the days doings.
But there seemed to be no head to
whom it could go for exact informa-
ton. No one had list. and even the
chairman of the committee got
explaining mishaps. But despite the
disappointments there was a big
crowd of pleased people; they saw
enough that was pleasing to make the
day one of pleasure.