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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-02-26
WILL SCATTER
GOLDEN DUCATS
Thousands of Auto Travellers to Pan.
ama-Pacific Exposition viii Pass
Through This Section
AFFORDS GREAT OPPORTUNITY
Libby Booster Says Good Roads Nee
essary and Urges Prompt Action

The business men of Libby,
Mont, are real live wires and the
greatest good roads boosters in the
Northwest. Go to Libby and the
first subject the Libbyite will
breach is good roads," Chief
among the good roads boosters is
L. H. Faust, president of the Lib
by Realty Company, who has been
working might and main for a
couple of years to get the Kootenai
valley on the map as a route for a
national automobile highway.
Following is letter from Mr..
Faust which was received last week
by Mayor Fry which tells of the
work on roads which has been
done about Libby and in which
the writer urges that the people of
Boundary county take immediate
steps to put in a standard trunk
line running east and west through
the county:
We are just in receipt of let
ter from F. A. Silcox, chief forest
er at Missoula, in which he says
the uncompleted road through the
Kootenai canyon, some three miles
long, will be completed by the first
of July of this year. He says this
road will have the right of way
over all other roads in this district.
The money is now on hand to COM
mence the work. The road has
been surveyed and cross sectioned.
In connection with the government
the commissioners of Lincoln coun-
ty have appropriated and set aside
the necessary amount to do its
share and the entire road will be
completed and in apple pie order
by July 1st all the way from Glsc-
ier Park and Kalispell to the Mon
tana- Idaho line.
Having got that much prom
ised, we are now bending every
effort to get this work started
right away with the idea of having
it completed by the first of June in
stead of July LIST,
As you know, by reason of the
fortunate situation in which Bon
ners Ferry finds itself, being q
junction point for the road coming
from Glacier Park, from the Ca
madam side and from down the
river, your city is going to be ben
Gifted more than any place between
the Park and Spokane, Kalispell.
maybe, alone excepted. And as an
idea of what the Glacier Park to
Spokane road means to you it may
be pointed ont that estimates made
by the Portland Chamber of Com
merce, the Spokane Chamber OF
Commerce, the Kslispell Chamber
of Commerce, Great Northern Of
ficials and other similar institutions
show there will be between 10000
and IS, 900 automobiles going west
through Montana on their way to
the Pacific coast fairs during the
1915 season. Should one-half OF
them go by way of Glacier Park
and on west through Boomers Fer
ry, and assuming that each ma
chine would leave $40 only in your
town it means cool 100000 oil
good outside made dollars left in
the county seat of Boundary coun-
ty. 1t is worth looking after
That's placing the estimate upor
the lowest figure given by thes<
various institutions.
=" AS an illustration of what Lin
icoln county has done toward GET,
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-02-26
APPOINTMENTS
ARE LEGAL
Much Discussion Prevalent over Quss-
tion Of Validity Of Appointment Of
Officers of New County
SUPREME COURT DECISION CITED
Secretary of State Barker Is Not Hold
ing Up Commissions

Considerable comment has been
made during the last few weeks by
various local people concerning the
validity of the appointments of new
officials for Boundary county which
were recently announced by Gov
ernor Alexander, and also rumor
was passed that the commissions of
the new officials were being held
up in the office of Secretary of
State Barker.
In answer to a query concerning
the last mentioned rumor Secretary
of State Barker informs the Herald
in a letter written February %,
that it is not true that he is hold
ing up the commissions of Boun-
Diary county officers as these COM
missions have not yet left the Gov
ernor's office. Further the tone of
Mr.. Barker's letter is to the effect
that he has no desire or inclination
to hold up these commissions and
that he desires to help the organi-
cation of the new county in every
way possible.
There is considerable difference
of opinion among legal lights as to
the validity of the appointments of
county officials. The question has
been looked up thoroughly by At
torney leighton of this city and
his opinion and citations are given
as follows:
This is controlled by the bill
creating Boundary county, which
provides that the governor shall
appoint officers within 80 days
after the act becomes a law"
The sole question is, When did
this act become lawf
Our supreme court has decided
this question in the case of Idaho
Power & Light Co. VS.. Blomquist
ct al, State Public Utilities Com
mission and Beaver River Power
Co. VS.. Same, al Pao 1888. On
page 1887 Chief Justice Sullivan in
his opinion says;
''Said act 4 \ was passed at
the twelfth session of the legisla-
ture and was approved by the gov
ernor on the 18th of March, 1918.
1t contains no emergency clause,
and under the provisions of Sec.
22, Art. 3 of the constitution did
not take effect until 90 days after
the end of the session at which it
was passed, which session ad-
iourned on the eighth day of
March, 1918; hence the act did not
take effect until the eighth day Of
May, 1913. BY the provisions of
Sec. 10, Art. 4 of the constitution,
every bill shall, before it becomes a
law, be presented to the governor,
and if he approve, he shall sign it
and thereupon 1T SHALL BEcoMR A
LAW Under that provision Of
the constitution, said act became a
law on the 18th day of March,
1913, but did not go into effect un-
til the eighth day of May"
Under this decision the Boun-
dairy county act became a law
when signed by the governor and
required him to appoint officers
within 80 days thereafter.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-02-26

The members of the Northside
School Improvement Club have un-
dertaken to publish a cook book
which will be filled with recipes
given by local women. 1t is
planned to have the book ready for
distribution In about four weeks,
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-02-26
LEClSLATINC IS
SLOW WORK
Representative York Telh How Law
Makers Spend Much Time in
Enacting q Few Laws
HIGH CLASS LEGISLATORS NEEDED
Only Men Of Proven Integrity Should
Be Elected to Office
Boise, Idaho, Feb. 1S, 1915.

Editor Boomers Ferry Herald:
Large bodies move slowly" The
Idaho legislature being a rather
large body, may be one reason why
it seems to move so slowly.
So far over 400 bills, resolutions
and memorials have been intro
duced in the House, and nearly
200 in the Senate. 1t will readily
be seen from this that there are a
great variety of subjects to be con-
sidered. Of course, the majority
of the bills, etc. will not become
laws, but it takes much time to
effectually kill many of them.
We spent almost all of one day
on the fish and game bill and that
time was devoted wholly to max
ing amendments to the bill. Prob
ably when this bill comes up for
third reading and final passage,
several hours more of the Houses
time will be occupied, and if the
bill is then passed it must 60 to
the Senate. Suppose after much
time is spent upon it there it is
passed; then it goes to the COVER
nor for his approval or rejection.
If he vetoes it, in all probability
that will end it. But just consider
the time that has been wasted up
on it, and perhaps an actual cost
to the state of two thousand dol
lars, as the legislature costs ap-
proximately one thousand dollars a
day. Let us hope that it will be-
come a law.
There are several more county
division bills still before the legis-
lature, They are for the creation
of the counties of Butte, Bull,
Gem, Camas and Payette. But !
doubt if more than one or two of
them can pass at this session,
Only very few bills have
passed both House and Senate, and
received the approval of the COVER
nor. Of course there are a num-
Der of them on the way to the gov
ernor, but no one knows whether
they will ever reach him or if he
will sign them when they do ar
rive. Legislation is slow process
and exceedingly uncertain.
! will be glad to know just how
many Cor how few of all the bills,
etc, introduced will actually be-
come laws. We will not know
this until about a week after the
adjourns. l wish l
could write more about the real re-
suits of this session, but that can
not be done just yet.
But there are several other things
that have been forcibly impressed
upon me since becoming a member
of the state legislature. One of
them is that the voters in any and
every locality cannot be too careful
about whom they select. and elect,
to represent them either in the leg
islature or in any office within the
gift of the people. A weak mar
should never be allowed to stand
for any Office whatever. Neither
should a man who has no record
for the highest honesty and moral
ity. The opportunities for graf
and general crookedness in almost
every public position are too many
and too strong for the majority Of
those anxiously seeking election te
Office to withstand. The pressure
from those who want to defeat the
ends Of justice Is not easy to over
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
RUSSIANS
FALLBACK
AS ENEMY
ADVANCES
(By Associated Press.)

PETROGRAD, Feb. 12--Today's Off
cial Russian statement admits retire
ment in East Prussia is under way,
and explains the movement as one die
ted by military preference, rather than
a forced retreat after sustaining Sc
rious reverses. The statement ex-
plains the reasons actuating the retire
ment vaguely, the inference being that
Russia is on the eve of inaugurating
great military operations which must
definitely solve the East Prussian
struggle, and as to the outcome of
the Forthcoming movement no doubt is
expressed in military circles.
Today's statement declares that alb
solute necessity of completing plans
before information of Russian inten-
tions reaches the German precludes
the giving out of information regard
ing coming operations in the near flu
ture, though it is intimated to be the
policy of the czar to protect his army
behind Russian fortresses rather than
attempting to oppose heavily REIN
forced German forces. The continual
shifting Of German troops, it is point
ed out cannot continue indefinitely, and
with great bodies of Russians at nu-
merous points the czar is in position
to strike where the Germans are weak
est, this being signally illustrated in
the encounter before Warsaw, where
Won Hindenburg's weakened army was
compelled to evacuate Lodz in the face
of superior Russian attackers.
The bulk of Germany's eastern ar
my as now concentrated in East Prus-
sia and the Carpathian region, where
with their Austrian allies a tremen-
dous effort is being made to expel the
Russians. These efforts so far have
failed signally, according to Russian
information, and the Pzremysl garrison
is reported in dispatches from Galicid
as even now exhausting itself in fruit
less sorties against the besiegers, who
have succeeded in keeping their line
| of communication cut during more
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
MAKING SUCCESS
IN CULT|vAT|NG
OLD PLANTATION
"BACK TO THE FARM" AND PROS.
PERITY is THE WATCHWORD

If, to attain success, man must be
in love with his work is indeed a tru-
sim, w. E. Brown is going to excel
along agricultural lines this ;ear. AL
ready successful farmer, as we'll as
merchant, he will pay assiduous at
tention this year to his fine plantation
of 1,4O0 acres east of Americus, and
will set a pace in raising grain and
hogs that others here will do we'll to
follow. Mr. Brown made $50 bales
cotton last year, but he will not pro-
duce half that number this year, he
states now.
In fact, he will raise wheat, corn,
oats and hogs, instead, and will make
these crops almost pay the operating
expenses of his large farm.
Today Mr.. Brown is hanging up four
thousand pounds pork, which will go
long way towards supplying his farm
with meat. This year he expects to
kill 125 hogs and, therefore, will buy
no meat in 1916 He has a pasture
of 160 acres under fence, where his
Red Durocs and Poland China porkers
revel and grow fat. Hog-raising is
going to be prominent feature on
the Brown farm hereafter.
Mr.. Brown has planted wheat for
seventy-fve barrels flour, and will be
disappointed if the yield is less. Fifty
tarrels of this -four he expects to sell.
while the remainder will be quite suf-
ficient for his own needs. His wheat
field is solid stretch of verdure now
and promises well, as does his large
field of oats. Corn in sufficient guam
tity will be planted, along with cane,
potatoes and other crops, while cotton
will be surplus strictly
One large field will be planted in
Bermuda for hay, and also as a range
for his hogs and cattle.
To say that Farmer" Brown is in
love with his work expresses the truth
but mildly. He foresees the possibiI-
tiles resulting from stock and grain
raising, and will spare neither ex-
-pense nor energy in attaining rich re-
suits along that line hereafter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
MAY
REGRET ORDER
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 12.-ofi-
cials here are anxiously awaiting de-
velopments they fear may follow the
expulsion from Mexico of the Spanish
Minister, Jose Caro-, under orders of
'Venustiano Carranzo whose faction is
now in control at the capital. Caro-,
it is believed, has gone to Vera Cruz,
where the United States battleship
Delaware has been ordered to take him
aboard.
Carranza charged Caro- with harbor-
ing Spaniards who aided Gen. Villa,
and summarily ordered his expulsion.
The Spanish government has thus far
failed to intimate what course of ac-
tion it will take as the result of sucn
unprecedented methods on the part of
Carranza.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
NEGRO STRUCK
BA|L|FF WHILE
EFFECT|NG LEVY
ATTACK WAS MADE TODAY UPON
BALIFF KLECKLY.

Baliff John Kleckley, while in the
discharge of his official duties this
morning, was attacked by negro upon
whose household effects a levy for sale
was being made, Doubtless angered at
the proceedings which was about to
deprive him of his effects, the negro
struck Bailiff Kleckley stunning blow
ing good his escape. Baliff Kleckley
was not seriously injured by the un-
expected attack and arrived safely at
the courthouse front with the goods.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
by Associated Press.l

LONDON, Feb. IA Rotterdam de-
spatch to a London newspaper says
q German submarine stopped the Dutch
steamer Duiderdijk, while flying the
Dutch flag in the North Sea, and fore
ed her captain to show the ships pa
pers.
When her papers were found to be
regular the Duideddijk was permitted
to proceed to her destination, while
the German vessels disappeared be-
meath the surface Of the sea.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
BACKBONE FESSES
KILLING HUNTER
(By Associated Press.)

ELIZABETHTOWN, Tenn, Feb. II.
Clyde Slower, a negro, held here as
a suspect in connection with the muir
der near Welaka, Fla, of Arthur G.
Gardner, a wealthy resident of Bal
timore, Md, has confessed his guilt,
declares Sheriff Wilson, who has the
negro locked up in the county Jail.
According to Sheriff Wilson, stover
not only admitted the killing of Arthur
Gardner, but also confessed he killed
Horace B. Gardner, of Springfield,
Mass, a brother of the Baltimore man,
who has been missing since shortly
after his brothers death.
In his alleged confession, Stover re-
lates how he piloted the Gardners on
a camping expedition, and shot both
men from behind because they COM
PEELED him, in a moment of hilarity,
to dance at the point of gun. Stover
is being held in Jail, awaiting the
arrival of Florida officers, who will
take him to Jacksonville for trial.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
FIVE KILLED; MANY HURT
BY EXPLOSION IN
ARSENAL
(By Associated Press.)

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 12.-An explo-
sion in local ammunition factory last
night cost five lives and destroyed a
considerable supply of ammunition, but
did little damage to the plant itself.
The accident, it was stated in of11cial
circles early today, would have small
effect on the available supply of am
munition and supplies for the Swedish
army and navy.
An investigation of the affair has
been ordered, and will be prosecuted
vigorously.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
BANKS JOINED
WAREHOUSES; IN
NATIONAL REST

Both in local banking and warehouse
circles a "doubleheader" holiday was
enjoyed today, with little doing in a
business way. Lincoln's birthday, a
national holiday, closed the cotton ex-
changes, while the banks had a double
incentive for closing in the fact that it
was Georgia Day" as well. In this
latter proposition the city schools par
ticipated as well, as, after brief ex-
ercises in the schoolroom, followed by
the Georgia day exercises, half hol-
iday was given the hundreds of pupils.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
UNCLE SAM ASKS
JOHN BULL DELAY
D|SPOSOL STEAMER
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 12.-The
United States has proposed TO England
postponement of the plan to take the
American steamer Wilhelmina before
a prize court, so the owners can pre-.
sent evidence they say proves the car
go is not subject to seizure, and the
proposition is now under considera-
ton by Great Britain.
The Wilhelmina carries a cargo Of
foodstuffs consigned to Bremen, and
intended say the owners, wholly for
civilian consumption.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
'AMER|CUS FREE
FROM CONTAC|AN
CONDITIONS BEST
CITY ENTIRELY FREE OF CONTAG-
IOUS ILLNESS OF EVERY
NATURE.

Doctor Douglas B. Mayes, CITY ply
sician, at the recent meeting of city
council, made official report of the fact
that health conditions in Americus con-
tinued excellent, and that there was
not now, nor had there been recently,
any case of contagious or infectious
disease of any nature In fact, the only
illness Of the kind that has been known
here in a very long while. was an oc-
casional sporadic case of diphtheria,
or infectious fever, but there are no
cases of this nature here now, DR..
Mayes told the council.
Americus' health record will COM
pare favorably with that Of any city
of like population in the South, fact
due to painstaking care and the scrup-
ulous enforcement of sanitary regula-
tions.
And it is the desire and purpose, of
DR.. Mayes, backed by the municipal
authorities, to keep it so.
Not in years has there been even
mild case of smallpox or variloid here,
fact due largely to compulsory vac
cination and strict sanitary regula-
tions. This rule applies especially to
pupils attending the public schools, and
the result is that, with an attendance
of nearly two thousand pupils, a case
l of illness of this nature has never de-
veIoped there.
In his address before the city council
DR.. Mayes asked the cooperation of
that body in enforcing sanitary laws,
and this support will be accorded.
Several important suggestions were
made by Dr. Mayes relative to general
and thorough cleaning of premises and
the elimination of surface closets
wherever possible. He requested the
appointment of sanitary inspector,
and a man with sufficient energy to
enforce these regulations will be ap-
pointed in due time Dr. Mayes pro-
poses to make the Cleanup work"
thorough and complete, and without
fear or favoritism. BY this means, he
feels assured there will be no difflcul-
ty in maintaining our record.
DR.. Mayes was thanked for his ad-
dress and the suggestions presented,
and assured of the fact that the city
authorities would cooperate with him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
BERLIN ADMITS
RUSSIANS HAVE
INVADED HUNGARY
(By Associated Press.I

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE Carpathian
situation apparently favors the Rus
slams today, with Berlin admitting the
Russian invasion of Hungary has pro-
gressed at several points. These ad-
vances, say Berlin dispatches, cost the
Russians dearly.
The Russians are now pressing the
Austrians at three important places,
and fighting between the opposing ar
mics continues, though Austro-German
retirements are under way, and it is
now generally believed the Russians
are soon to be the acknowledged mas
ters of the Carpathians.
Balkan states are reported as trying
TO settle mutual differences prior to
Rumania and Greece casting their
strength upon the side of the allies, and
negotiations to this end have pro-
gressed as far as the tender OF material
territorial concessions by both Servia
and Rumania to Bulgaria in order to
guarantee the neutrality of that ma
ton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
GERMANS LOSE
100000 At LODI
(By Associated Press.)

PARIS, Feb 12-An official statement
issued late this afternoon announces
the complete failure of the German
offensive in Poland, after more than
forty thousand Germans had been
slain. This statement says Won Hin
denburg's position is precarious, and
that his rear is threatened by a large
Russian force operating in northern
Poland, which is about to effect a
junction with another column that has
been pushina forward on the German
right flank.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
RUSSIANS BUSY PREPAR-
INC THEIR SECONDARY
DEFENSE
(By Associated Press.)

BERLIN, Feb. 12.-News dispatches
from Russian border points today tell
of feyerish activity along the Russian
second line of military defense, where
thousands of men have just commenced
the work Of strengthening the works.
Inhabitants of the region along the
East Prussian frontier, where much
activity is noticeable, are reported as
panic stricken, many believing the
Strengthening of these defenses means
an early Russian retirement.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 12--Pres-
ident Wilson this afternoon rejected
the proposed compromise ship pur-
chase bill drafted by democratic house
leaders, and made a counter proposi-
tion, through which settlement of
existing differences may be reached.
This proposition is now being consid-
cred in conference.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
LADIES Of HOSPITAL
PLAN A SILVER TEA

A delightful occasion planned for
Saturday afternoon is the Silver Tea"
under auspices of the ladies of the
Hospital association, and which will
take place at the residence of Mrs.
c. C. Hawkins, on College street. The
hours are three to six O'Clock, and
dainty refreshments will be served
The ladies are desirous of raising
funds for pressing need, and ask the
patronage of their friends upon this
pleasant social occasion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
Germans Free
Newspaper
Girl
(By Associated Press.)

BERLIN, Feb. 12.-Miss Carolyn
Wilson, an American woman arrested
on charges of espionage several weeks
ago, has just been released as the re-
suit of vigorous representations by
Ambassador Gerard.
Miss Wilson was formerly Berlin
correspondent for Chicago newspaper
seeking news was arrested by Ger.
man military authorities. She releas-
ed on condition that she leave Germany
without delay.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-12
Senate Still
In Session
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 12.-Sev-
eral proposals to report cloture rule
to end the republican filibuster on
the administration shipping bill were
discussed without action today by the
senate rules committee.
Following the committee adjourn
ment it was reported in different cir
cles that such a rule will soon be re-
ported unless the filibuster is ended
voluntarily.