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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
California Rice Crop.

Approximately 34,350 acres were
sown to rice in California in 1915, &C
cording to government estimates.
This is more than double the acreage
of last year and is a remarkable in
crease in the three years since 1912,
when the industry began in a modest
way on abode soil near Bigger in the
Sacramento valley. Since that time
the United States department of agri-
culture has been studying the prob
lens confronting California rice grow
ers and new bulletin of the depart
ment, containing the results of the in
vestigation up to the present time, has
just been, published.
At present the greater part of the
California rice crop is grown on black
abode soil, which is approximately so
per cent clay and very close and com
pact. The Sacramento silt loom,
found over large areas in the eastern
part of Colusa county is well adapted
to the crop, which has also been sue
cessfully grown on the Willows clay
and on the Almo clay-loom adobe. In
general it may be said that rice re-
quires a clay soil with an impervi-
Gus subsoil, lying in level tracts and
capable of good drainage. Shallow
soils are preferable because less
water is needed to submerge them.
In 1913 the average yield from the
5000 acres in rice was 5000 pounds an
acre. In estimating the cost of pro-
ducing rice, however, the government
estimators have taken as a basis d
yield of $500 pounds. On this basis
the average cost per acre is placed at
$36.25.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
CENTURY MAGAZINE.

Walter Hale, the artist, some OF
whose recent work has been appearing
in The Century, will, it is announced,
airy numbers series of personal i'm
pressions from the front entitled
Notes of an Artist Under Fire" The
Century sent Mr.. Hale to France in
June with a commission 30 make a Sc
ries of drawings and Autographs show
ing the German devastations in the val
ley of the Iisne and along the line
north of Compiegne. Br. Hale, whose
reputation is perhaps greatest as an
etcher, was given exceptional opportu
mites while in France by the heads of
the war office and the Minister of
Foreign affairs. He was in Reims dur
ing the Smelling of the cathedral, June
9th, and in the trenches and various
important battery positions throughout
the valley of the Aisne. With Arnold
Bennett and Owen Johnson he was
present at Arras during the heavy bonn
bardment of the city on July Sth, while
the Hotel de Vile was being shelled
and the cathedral was on fire in three
places. They were also at Blangy
where the French and German lines
are only fifteen yards apart, and were
the first civilians to be taken through
the exposed trenches captured from
the Germans on June 18th. Mr.. Hale's
pictures in The Century will, it is sta
ted, be accompanied by his own text
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The contract for the sewer system
for Boomers Ferry was awarded Satur-
day at $24,77s.
Craftsmen at Clarks Fork Saturday
blew open the safe in the general store
of j. b. Whitcomb. Between $50 and
$40 in cash was secured.
Thomas Ranger, lumberpack and
rancher, was crushed to death recent
ly at the Kitchin & Kelly camp at FL
mira while decking logs.
Ogallala Fire, a noted Indian chief
and survivor of Clusters last fight,
is reported dying at Chicago. He is
81 years old His home is on a reser-
walton in Idaho.
If children of Kellogg under Is are
to attend picture shows unattended by
parents they must go to the first show
in the evening or run counter to the
probation officer.
A contract for the manufacture of
munitions of war for the European al
lies, has been received by the Idaho
National Harvester company of Mos
COW. The contract provides for high
explosives and shrapnel, time fuses,
brass cases, gun mounts and machine
tools.
The Lewiston land office has been
advised of the issuance Of patents to
1900 acres of timber land, all of which
is in Clearwater county, except 80
acres in Shoshone county This is all
taken under the law permitting the Sc
lection by the Northern Pacific Rail-
way company of lieu lands.
George Bursell, aged 40, who oper-
ates taxi line in Lewiston, was found
dead recently under his auto between
there and Asotin. When going around
curve the car skidded and rolled
down an embankment. The unfortu-
nate man was pinned beneath the car
and it was found that his neck was
broken.
r. r. Winch, who recently was &C
quilted at Occur d'Alene by grand
| jury of the federal court on the charge
of white slavery, is to be deported
B. E. Gowen, immigration officer, will
take him to PASSPORT, Idaho, where he
will send him back to Canada, whence
he came. Miss Viola Esling, connect
ed with the case, will also be deport
ed.
Files in the supervisors office show
that the Occur d'Alene national fores
reserve has 3,333,000 feet of saw tim
Der, with an annual output of 10000
900 feet. The records show thus ia
the government has estimated 700
! 100000 feet of timber, covering abou
10000 acres. The annual output o
logs this year will be greatly increas
ed from the North Fork and Pin
: Creek districts.
In the federal court at Occur d'Alen
} Judge Frank S. Dietrich appointe
William Thompson of Lewiston an
Frank Robertson of Portland. Ore
receivers for the Lewiston Land an
Water company. The action is the re
suit of a friendly suit brought by Rol
ert Barr, residing in Washington,
stakeholder of the company, who's
attorneys stated that the receivershi
was desired as step toward reorgar
izing the corporation and for the pre-
lection of it's property until the reol
ganization was effected.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Wilson'S Bride to Be Makes Denial.

Washington.-Deni was made at
the White House Saturday that Mrs
Norman Gait, President Wilson's fan
Gee, has ordered any gowns from Par
is. 1t was said that all Of her trous-
seau will be made in the United
States. The denial was issued in con
nection with reports from Paris that
the dressmakers' syndicate there had
blacklisted a New York dealer said to
have been commissioned to buy gowns
for Mrs. Gait
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Chicago Doctor BIameIess.

Chicago.-Six physicians, composing
a coroner's jury, Saturday held that
DR.. H. j. Haiselden, who permitted an
infant, Allan John Bollinger, to die
when an operation might have saved
him to life of unhappiness as a de-
fective, was morally and officially JUS
titled in refusing to perform the oper-
alton which his conscience did not
sanction.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26

An investigation by the pure food
department of Idaho on the sanitary
condition of secondhand kegs used
as containers for cider and syrups at
soda fountains is liable to lead to a
ruling prohibiting the use of second
hand kegs for such purposes. Refer
ring to this matter Commissioner
White says that in his opinion this is
one of the most unclean, if not filth
lest things connected with the bot
Ting business. Nine out of 10 pool
room men take these cider and syrup
kegs when empty, he says, and throw
them in the backyard where mice,
rats, dogs and flies set up house
keeping. Some are taken into old,
dirty, damp cellars or Easements,
where they are used by bugs, worms
and ants as cemeteries. Others will
set them in the rear of the store room
or pool hall where the pool and bill
lard players as well as the loafers
amuse themselves splitting tobacco
juice at the bung hole and throwing
cigarette butts into them.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
GREATER POWER IN NAVY GUNS
14-lnch Weapons for New War Dogs
Equal Bigger Ordnance Abroad.

Washington.-Batt now build
ing for the United States navy will
carry 14-inch, so caliber guns, which
are believed by ordnance experts to be
equal to the 15-inch weapons in for
eign navies, though of lighter weight,
says Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss,
chief of the navy ordnance bureau, in
his annual report. C'Caliber," as a ma
val term, relates to lengthy.
with the object of keeping pace
with the increased range of modern
naval warfare the bureau has in
creased the power of the 14-inch guns
for the California, Mississippi and
Idaho by increasing the length of the
gun to so calibers and enlarging its
chamber capacity" says the report.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
ALLIES DEMAND GREECE TO ACT
Either Join Them and Fulfil Treaty
or Demobilize.

London.-The entente allies have de-
manded that Greece either join with
them and fulfil her treaty obligations
to Serbia, or demobilize, and to inn
press King Constantine that they
mean what they say, the allies have
declared a commercial blockade of the
Hellenic empire, according to dis
patches from Athens.
There is no confirmation of these
statements available here, but 1t is
certain that Lord Kitchener, the Brit
ish war secretary, who had an hours
audience with the king of Greece Sun
day and afterward saw Premier
Skouloudis, took firm stand and told
them what the allies could and would
do unless the demands were conceded
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
ArchboId's Life Endangered.

Tarrytown, N. "a plot to kill j.
D. Archbold, president OF the Stand
ard Oil company of New Jersey, was
frustrated by the finding of dyna-
mite bomb in the wheel rut of a road
way on his estate here leading from
the financier's home. in the opinion of
Chief of Police w. ] Bowles. 1t was
only his delaying his trip to the city
that he missed the missile.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
U. S. Generals CHANGE.

shington.-Brigadie General Tas-
ker H. Bliss, assistant chief of staff
of the army, became major general
Monday upon the retirement of Major
General William H. Carter. Colonel
John F. Morrison of the Fifteenth in
fantry, now at Tien Tsin, China, will
be promoted to be brigadier general,
taking the place of Generel Bliss in
the line.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26

American smoked meats are re-
ported to be achieving a wide popu-
larity in France and England, as a re
suit of increased consumption during
the war. In France our bacon has
been christened 'Larde American,
which is but one step removed from
lord bacon"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Want China In.

Great Britain, France and Russia
have united in an effort to add China
to the entente alliance in order to
prevent possible friction in the future
between Japan and China and to pre-
serve the peace of the far east. If
China agrees to the plan military par
ticipation in the present war is not ex-
Dected.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Federation Against s-Hour Day.

San Francisco.-The American Fed
Grafton of Labor, after a legislative
battle that shook the convention for
four hours, refused by a close vote to
indorse state and federal legislation
for the S-hour day.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Her Cattle Slain; Asks 500. 600.

Waukegan.-Secretary of Agricul-
ture d. F. Houston and Gov. Dunno
were among the officials named as de-
PENDANTS in a suit for 100000 filed on
Monday by Grace G. Durand and Scott
S. Durand, whose herd of valuable
Guernseys were killed because they
we're suspected of having foot and
mouth disease.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Panama Canal Closed for Months

Panama-Owing to the tying up of
the Panama canal by the recent slide,
many employees, mainly in the operat-
ing division, are being furloughed or
given vacations, which is taken here
to indicate that the canal will remain
closed for a much longer time than
was firts expected.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Debs Has Had Plenty.

Terre Haute, Ind.-Eugene V. Debs'
socialist candidate for president of the
United States in 1900, 1904, 1908 and
1912, in a formal statement Tuesday
announced that he had declined the
fifth nomination for the presidency at
the hands of his party.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
GREECE's REPLY FAVORABLE
Allied Troops Get Guarantee of Safety
Blockade Is On.

Allied Troops Get Guarantee Of Safety
Blockade Is On.
London.-Greece's reply to the en-
tente allies demands for guarantees
for safety of the Anglo-French forces
landed at Saloniki and for Serbians
who might be forced over the Greek
frontier is expected to accept the con-
ditions laid down by the entente pow
ers, except that requiring Greece to
participate in the war, and that a so
luton of the whole difficulty may be
expected Immediately.
Meanwhile the blockade of Greek
commerce has commenced, and Italy,
it is reported. is participating in the
measures of restraint decided upon
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Russian Commander pies.

London.-A dispatch from Stock
holm says that Lieutenant General
Samsonoff, who commanded the Rus
sian troops in the battle of Tannen-
berg, died a prisoner Of war in Ger
many.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
WASHINGTON FUNDS FlLcHED
State Accident and Insurance Fund Is
Short $4,000 by Fraud.

Olympia. a day of much
commotion at the state house as the
result of the exposure of the looting of
more than $4,000 from the state ac-
cident fund the industrial insurance
commission announced Tuesday that
]. H. Gillies, claim agent, has been
suspended pending an investigation.
their investigation of 10 forged claims
shows more than $4,000 has been ia
ken from the state, but no class of
funds, other than that for county road
work, has been checked up yet
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26

Manager Mikkelson of the Lewiston
Milling Co. states that about $4,000
is being expended in new machinery
and improvements on the old Do flour
mill, which has been moved to Voll-
mer, Idaho. A grain warehouse COX
1s6 feet is being built around three
sides of the mill and the capacity will
be increased to $50 barrels daily.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
UTAH DEMANDED JUSTICE.
Executed HiIstrom for alleged murder
of ]. G. Morrison and Son.

of j. G. Morrison and Son.
Salt Lake City, Utah.-Joseph Hill
storm was executed by shooting here
Saturday for the murder of John G.
Morrison, grocer, and his son, Arl-
ing, who were killed in Morrison
store, January 10, 1914. Hillstrom's
case attracted wide attention, having
been once reopened by the pardon
board at the request of President Will
son on behalf of the Swedish minister
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
SPORTING ITEMS

Leach Cross defeated Johnny Har-
vey of New York in a 10-round bout
Saturday.
The annual Pacific coast amateur
boxing tournament with the best box
ers of Seattle, Portland, San Francis
co and Los Angeles competing, was
held last week at Los Angeles.
In the first heat of the amateur han
dicap at the opening of the six-day
bicycle races at Chicago, Friday night,
Louis Kuehl was killed when he flew
over the rail and tumbled 80 feet to
the concrete floor below. Herman
Hoffman, who was leading. started to
slip and Kuehl swung high to avoid
him, skidding over the rail.
SATURDAY FOOTBALL GAMES.
Syracuse held Dartmouth, 0 to 0.
Another Harvard football machine
crushed Yale, Al to 0, surprising all
previous scoring records against the
Ellis.
The big Nine" football season end
ed with the championship honors di
vided by Illinois and Minnesota. Both
Gophers and Illini came through the
season indicated.
With the field a sea of mud and g
deluge of rain from start to finish, the
Oregon university eleven outplayed
the Oregon Agricultural college team
the score being 9 to 0.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Japan Has Troops to Snare

Japan can send several hundred
thousand Of the very best equipped
soldiers to Europe if the allies need
them.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
PRES|DENTPREPARES
CONGRESS MESSAGE
PUTS ASIDE ALL OTHER BUSINESS
THIS WEEK TO COMPLETE
ARRANGEMENT
POUNDS TYPEWRITER HIMSELF
VIII Read 1t Dec. TO Outline Reve
nue. Method for Increasing Nation
al Defense-Opposes Bond Issue
Many Problems.

Washington.-Pre Wilson will
put aside practically all other public
business this week and devote his en-
tire time to completing his third an
nual message to congress, which he
plans to read personally at a joint
meeting of the senate and house De-
cember 7.
The president has decided on the
chief features of the message after
careful consultation with close advis
ers and is now writing it out on his
typewriter.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26

A burglar entered the store of the
state college at Pullman Sunday night
and took SIT from the cash register.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
Big Program in Sight.

Although the president may not re-
fer to all of the subjects in his mes
sage at the opening of congress, the
program which the administration
hopes to see disposed of during the
coming session includes:
Strengthening the army in accord
ance with the plans outlined by Sec
ertaries Garrison and Daniels.
A merchant marine bill.
Rural credits legislation.
Ratification of the Haitien, Colon
bian and Nicaraguan treaties.
The bill to give a greater measure
of self-government to the Philippines
and promising ultimate independence
Conservation measures which failed
Of final passage at the last session.
Amendment of the antitrust laws sc
as to allow the use of common selling
agencies abroad by American export
ers.
Legislation to protect the American
market against the Jumping" o.
cheap foreign products following the
European war
Amendment of the Sherman anti
trust law so as to give the federal gov
eminent more power to prosecute
plots to interfere with American com
MERGE by blowing up factories ant
ships.
For Budget System.
The administration is also intereste,
in the efforts to establish a bulge
system for coordinating expenditure
and revenues of the government, AM
in cloture rule for the senate.
The president, however, is not ez
pected to take direct part in the Gle
ture fight.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26

Miss Beale Lang has purchased the
City grocery at Pocatello.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26

George M. Scott, who was the first
Gentle mayor of Salt Lake City, died
at San Mateo, Cal, recently.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-27
BULGARIAN ARMIES
MOVE TO FRONTIER

PARIS, Sept 27-Two Bulgarian
armies are already moving, one to
invade Macedonia, the other to remain
on the frontier of Serbia and strike
that country If it opposes the Bulgars'
occupation of territory wrested from
it after 1t defeated Turkey. according
to dispatch from Milan, today.
The French censor still refuses to
pass dispatches describing the prepa-
rations made to meet the Bulgars, but
the publication Of the following state
ment by Piechon, ex-foreign minister,
was permitted today:
"At this moment the French and
English must already have troops at
the terminus of the Servian line of sup
plies"
Railway service between Bulgaria
and Servia has been suspended by
order of the Bulgarian government
Twenty merchant ships were taken
over by the Greek government for
the transportation of troops Thirteen
others have been ordered to await in
structions. .-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-27
GEM NAMED HEAD
OF WESTCOTT AID

John Gem was reelected president
of the Westcott Mutual Aid society at
meeting of the Y. NJ. C. A. Saturday
evening. Reports of the various of.
ficerss were read. The report of the
treasurer. Fred Kershner shows that
the treasury of the society is in a
flourishing condition.
Charles Wettig was reelected secre.
tary and Fred Kershner will retain the
office of treasurer. James Walter is
the newly elected vice-president to
take the place of Albert Blaesser.
After the business meeting, a short
program was given by the "A. S. M.
quartet. Talks were made by var.
ious members of the society after
which a luncheon was served. The
meeting was attended by fifty mem
bers of the association.
The treasurer's report shows: Re
ceipts-Balance on hand at beginning
Of year, $172.51; assessments, $344;
from A. s. M. company, SIPS; total.
$641.51. Disbursements-Sick benefits.
32O6.75; funeral. 500; floral offerings.
S.: printing, ETC.. $13.25; total, 1924
Balance on hand, $317.61.
During the year the society lost two
members through death, william e.
Russell and Frank Rielage. The or.
ganization extends letters Of sympA-
thy to any OF it's 266 members in
whose family death enters during the
year.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-27
INSIST ON FULL
BUSHEL WEIGHT
FROM PEDDLER

Buy your potatoes by weight instead
of by measure. and be sure to get =
full sixty pound weight for each bush
ell. This advice to Richmond house
holders was given to-day by George
Mckinley, inspector Of weights and
measures.
MANY peddlers are now bringing po.
tatoes into the city and they sell by
measure in nine cases out Of ten, un-
less the purchaser insists on pur-
chasing by weight" Mckinley said.
The peddlers who have full meas
ures do not give purchasers their mon
ey's worth even II the measures are
heaped full. because these measures
will not hold the required weight Of
bushel of potatoes, sixty pounds.
They will short weight between five
and twelve pounds. A number of ped
dlers have been using only seven
eighths bushel measures and the aver
age person can not tell the differences
between these and full bushel meas
ures.
IF a person wants to purchase about
ten bushels of potatoes for his winter
supply he will be cheated out of about
a bushel and a half on the average.
unless he insists on having potatoes
weighed"
Housewives undoubtedly viii take
the inspectors hint. They realize
that he has saved them many a dollar
by his timely warning in the past.