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Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
STEPHENS STEERS
A MIDDLE COURSE
Nebraska Congressman Says Paid
Preparedness Propaganda is
Frightening Nation.
WOULD MUzzLE FEW ADM1RALs
IF'rom star correspondent.l

FROM Stati correspondent
WASHINGTON. Dec. 26.-(Spe-
ciaD Representative Dan Stephens
whose position on preparedness has
been the subject Of some specula-
ton. this evening gave out a general
statement OF some Of the features
he will support when the subject
of military preparedness comes be-
fore congress.
Mr.. stephens said The presi-
dent has taken the middle ground
and on the side OF conservatism as
between the small navy men and
the mi,itarysts. lie has no doubt
been compelled by the circumstances
TO take this advanced position as
compared with his former attitude
in order to prevent the millitarists
from forcing their program upon
congress. The country has been mis-
led by the paid preparedness propo-
gRnda into believing that the nation
has no defense worth mentioning
against the attacks Of a foreign foe.
Coast Defenscs Good.
"The people have been led to believe
that nothing Ia being done TO increase
tho strngth OF our army navy and coast
defenses
Nothing could be farther from the
truth than this. Coast defense experts
claim that our coast defenses are the
L.. Al. - \ -.
these claims are correct and when We
round out our fleet with more submarines
and air craft and plenty OF ammunition
we are doing well enough"
ITO the battle fleet" said the Fremont
congressman, II would add a great mer
chant marine. government owned, as at
auxiliary to the navy In time OF war. I
: would give the navy an air of usefulness
! that Il does not possess now and would
serve commerce and steady freight rates
In time OF war II would he tremendous
asset.
! IL would take all profit out OF war by
building all war craft In government
yards. and manufacturing oil arms and
ammunition in government arsenal
Il would repeat the war stamp tax and
rate on incomes without lowering the
| exemptions. Let these with great In.
comes pay a rate sufficient together
with an inheritance tax. to pay for the
Increased cost defense.
1 Then would muzzle fighting admirali
and cocky diplomats who are thrilled
with the sheen OF greet power in thei
hands.
No admiral or diplomat should issu
demands that might lead to war upo
representatives OF other governments un
till he has orders to do so from congress
II would get rid of the PhilIppln,
Islands at the very earliest possible con.
sistent with honor and the needs OF the
natives. These possessions are stand
Ing menace to our peace and welfare
| They impoverished and ruined Spain an,
have cost us TO date million OF dollar
In one form and another.
Have we lost our sense Of proportion
and are we drifting back into barbarisn
| from which we Gamer Let US hope not
and let us hope that we may calmly fac,
a bleeding world again TO establish I'm thu
world a sane and wholesome course 70
nations TO pursue"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
Postal Service Has
Doubled in IL Years

WASHINGTON. Dec. 26-rhe postal
service has doubled in the last twelve
years and during the last fiscal year
audited transactions reached the s2OO0.-
900. 900 mark for the first time. according
10 the annual report OF Charles A. Kram.
auditor for the Postoffice department.
made public tonight. Sales OF Stamps.
postal cards and stamped envelopes. the
great source OF income netted t25s O0O. 900
for the year About teO0.OOO.OOO was paid
out IN salaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27

AWARDS IN HARRISON
COUNTY CORN CONTEST

LOGAN. Ia, Dec. )-Ac-
cording to information received BIZ DR..
M. A. Humphrey. county acre corn leader
In Harrison county, the gold watch Of
fered by Louis A. Wilson. live stock
salesman at Logan. viii go to Fred Fore
man at Missouri Valley. and the SO gold
piece offered by the county officials for
best quality without reference to yield
will go 10 Ray Mahoney Of Mondamin in
the county prize contest. Local prizes will
be awarded as follows;
Woodbine-Glenn Lewis. first; Leslie
Davis, second.
oSss sseSsSS . Andy r' esa s nd thTS
Missouri Valley-Howard Jones. first;
Roy ChamberB, second.
Modale-W Willie Looking. nlEat.
Mondamin- t,yerett Wallace. uI1li Bert
Gammcts second
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
Col. Welsh Orders
Up Cold Wave Flag

cold wave swooped down on Omaha
and vicinity beginning Sunday afternoon,
and within a short time a big drop in
temperature was felt.
Colonel Welsh. forecaster OF the
weather bureau. ordered the cold wave
flag hoisted at noon. and issued the
accompanying prediction OF strong north
erly winds. with probably snow and a
drop OF Is to 20 degrees within "a to 50
hours.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
Kaiser's Condition
Is Exciting Alarm

LONDON. Dec. S.-Alarming rumors
probably OF an exaggerated nature. are
being circulated In Switzerland today con-
corning Emperor Williams illness. ac-
cording TO the Zurich correspondent of
the Exchange Telegraph Co. The dumors
state. says the correspondent that the
emperors condition Is causing profound
anxiety IN Berlin.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
Turks Await Reports
On Woes of Armenia

ROME. Dec. 25.-While reports con-
tinue TO be received here OF the suffer-
ings Of the Armenians the representa-
ton made by Monsignor Dolci. apostolic
delegate at constantinople to the Turkish
government so far have not produced
the desired effect. The Ottoman officials
have replied that investigations have
been ordered and they are waiting for
reports from those entrusted with the
inquiry.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
'. 3. CALDWELL'S CONDITION
IS STILL VERY SERIOUS

II is reported that Victor B. Caldwell.
president Of the United states National
Bank. who Is m Al his home. SO South
Twentieth street, with asthma and
Brishts disease. Is reported 10 be hold
ing his own, although his condition ID
very serIoua.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
Entente Allies
Win in Persia;
Form Cabinet

LONDON. Dec. 96.-"The Persian
cabinet has fallen" says the Teheran
correspondent of Reuters Telegram COM
pany. prince Firman Firma has been
nominated premier by the Shah. This ia
considered great diplomatic victory for
the entente allies"
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
Purian Begins Work
On the Second Note

BERLIN. Dec. 26-(By Wireless to Say
Vile, N. Y)-The Vienna Nett says the
Overseas News Agency, announces that
Baron Burian has already begun work
upon the answer to the second American
note on the Ancona and that the Austrian
reply will be handed during the next few
days to the American ambassador at
Vienna
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
Az Closer ReIatIons.

BERLIN, Dec a.-(By Wireless. 1.-The
professors OF the Austrian universities
according 10 the Overseas News Agency
have signed a manifesto asking the gov
eminent 20 eata blish after the war, per-
manent and close commercial relations
with Germany.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
The Weather

For Observation-Disclosures; much colder.
Temperature at Omaha Yesterday.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27

Temperatnre and precipitation depar-
lures from the normal:
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27
,IToR WHO ATTACKED WAR

NOIGU |1IOh WdO AIIAVAGU WIN
LEADER = sorthcliffe, in the papers under his
control ha - ed attack against Lord Kitchener
and Sir John FRENCH the commander at the front.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27

temperature
for the day
-rsT a.ff,aau,.r 80.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-27

Advertising 10 the Psndu.
LuH that keeps buying
and selling in motion.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Funeral Of J.B.
SARGENT at Spokane

Word was received here Tues
day of the death of J. B. Sargent
Sr., which occurred at the Dea-
coness hospital in Spokane at six
O'clock that morning from val
vular heart trouble. He had
been very low for several days
and his death was not unexpect-
ed and his family had been sum
mOned and were present at his
bed side. He has been having
much trouble with his heart for
several weeks and became so
much worse while on a business
trip to Spokane that he could not
be brought home and was taken
to the Deaconess hospital where
he died.
Mr.. James b. Sargent was
born at Oakland, H., Dec. %.
1874. He spent his boyhood
days on the farm near Oakland,
i'm. AT the age of "A he united
with the Methodist Episcopal
church of which he remained a
faithful member until his death,
I'm 1869 he graduated from DE
pauw University and was united
i'm marriage to Miss Florence C.
Farrow. They began, life to-
gether on a farm adjoining the
lold homestead of his father ant
in 1882 moved west and located
i'm Spokane where he had a very
successful business career unit
the crisis of 1898 when he me
with financial reverses from
(which he never fully recovered.
He was always greatly inter.
esled i'm the cause of Christian
Education and was one of tn
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
R v. GTieeS Is
Installed As Pastor

Rev. Roy Archie Griggs, who
has acted as pastor of the Pres
bylcrian church for the past year
was regularly installed as such
Thursday evening.
Rev. Dr. Hunter. pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of
Occur d'Alene, presided and
preached the sermon. Rev.
Livingston, pastor of The presby-
tcrian church at Harrison, de-
livered the charge to the pastor
and Rev. A. Tweed, formerly pas
tor of the church here and to-
whose able efforts the city owes
its fine church building deliver
ed the charge to the people. A
good-sized audience attended the
services which were very impress
sive.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30

first trustees of the Old Spokane
Methodist College. He was ac
tive i'm church matters and lived
to advance the cause he loved and
the community in which he lived.
He was a member of the First
Methodist church of Spokane for
thirty years and served we'll in
almost every capacity in which a
layman can serve.
For several years he was sec
rotary of the Spokane School
Board and was chief deputytreas-
urer of Spokane County under
Mir. George Mudgett. About
three years ago he moved to St.
Maries and has given The same
thought and service to both town
and church here that character
ized his earlier life.
He is survived by his wife, four
sons, w. f. Sargent, Court M.
Sargent, J. B. Sargent, Jr., all OF
ST. Maries, and S. G. Sargent of
Salem, Ore, and one daughter,
Mrs. Charles Gleeson of New
York City. These, together with
q host of friends mourn the de-
parture of one of the truest Of
men, a faithful husband, and a
kind and indulgent father.
The funeral services were con-
Quoted from Smiths undertaking
parlors in Spokane by Rev. A.
Monroe of this city, who was as
sisted by the Rev. b. +. Short of
the First Methodist church OF
Spokane. The intermenl was at
Greenwood cemetery in Spokane.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Meet Here to
Recommend Member
NORTH AND SOUTH RY. COMMISSION
Governor Alexander Will Appoint Man Selected By
People Of the Northern Part Of State

Governor Alexander has senl
word that if the Commercial
clubs of North Idaho would get
together and recommend a mehl-
ber for the north and south rail
road commission he would be
pleased to appoint him. The
matter was taken up by the COM
mercial club here and cores
pondence had with clubs of the
other cities i'm the north part OF
The state and as a result a meet
ing of delegates of all the COM
mercial clubs i'm this part of the
stale was called for next Satur-
day i'm this city.
Coeur dAlene has appointed
three delegates 10 attend this
meeting and it is expected that
delegates will also be present
from Harrison, plummer, Kel-
logg, Wallace, Moscow, Lewiston
and possibly other cities.
This project of railroad con-
necting north and south Idaho
has been before The people for a
number of years but nothing def
irile has been done until the last
legislature authorized The ap-
pcinlment of a commission to-
look into the matter. That such
railroad would be Of great
benefit To the state and would do
more to develop it than any other
one thing is generally recogniz-
ed. The trouble i'm the past has
been to get any railroad company
to take the matter up as it would
be costly bit of road TO build
and the question with the rail
road companies has been whe-
iher it would pay.
A railroad has been built from
the southern part of the state lo
within about sixty miles OF
! Grangcville to which town the N
! p. has a branch line. The Elf
River branch of the Milwaukee is
also in striking distance and il
is believed that with some as
sistance from the state one OIL
the other of these companies car
be induced to build the connect
ing link.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30

correcting. Many of the prop
erly owners will find a marked
difference between their valua-
tions this year and last. Some
will find their valuations nearly
cut in two while others will find
theirs nearly doubled. These
changes are being made to make
the assessments equal so that no
person will be compelled to pay
more than his just proportion of
the taxes.
If Assessor Reynolds uses the
same good Judgment and carries
out the same policy i'm assessing
personal property, merchants $
stocks and mill property that he
is using i'm assessing real prop
erly his assessment will be the
fairest and most equitable ever
made i'm ST. Maries and if his
deputies are using the same good
Judgment i'm their WORK outside
This city, the people of Benewah
county can count ON having the
fairest assessment that they have
over had.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
By Switch Engine
ACCIDENT AT TIE DEPOT CROSSING
Henry Penning Thrown Thirty Feet, His Ribs
Broken. Wagon Completely Wrecked.

Henry Penning, who lives on
the Hallack place west of the
Townsite store, met with quite e
serious accident Tuesday He
was driving across the railroad
track near the depot when he
was struck by a switch engine.
The horses were across the track
and the wagon fairly on it when
the engine struck it with such
force that Mr.. Penning was
hurled about thirty feet.
He struck on his side breaking
two ribs. lie was picked up and
after having the fractures re-
duced was taken to his home.
The wagon was a complete
wreck and was scattered along
the track for quite a distance.
This accident will serve to en-
phasize the need Of guards not
only at that crossing but al the
one on First street as we'll. The
city council, at meeting several
weeks ago, directed the city at
icrncy 10 take the matter up
with the railroad company and
see that they had guards put i'm
but up to the present time the
company has made no move i'm
the matter.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Grade Pupils 10
Give 0peFeil8

'In a Flower Garden" juven-
lie Operetta in two parts. will be
presented by the pupils of the
eight grades of the Central School
in the High School auditorium
on Friday evening, May 9TH.
The Operelta represents one
day i'm the life of the Flowers of
the Garden. They are awakened
by The Bird Voices, given a drink
by The Dews; they play with the
Sunbeams and then greet the
Dawn. Fair Weather comes and
brings with her Little White
Clouds; Butterflies visit the
Flowers and then Noon arrives.
Winds whisper to the Flowers OF
the approach of the Storm Clouds
and Rain, the enemies of Fair
Weather and the Little White
Clouds. The latter are driven
away for a while but soon return
with the Rainbow Tents. Then
sunset and Dusk visit the Flow
ers, who are finally lulled tC
sleep by the Firenies.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Alleged BOOtle9Ser
In Tolls
McNAUCHTON IS ARRESTED BY SHERIFF
Had Sack Of Liquor In His Possession Which lie
Throws From Car Window.

William Nc NaughtOn of Fern
wood is i'm The county jail here
awaiting a preliminary eXamina-
tion ON the charge of bootleg
ging. He was arrested We'd
nesday by Sheriff Leaf and
brought to this city.
1t is alleged that he has been
making a practice of going up to
Clarkia, which is in Shoshone
county, and securing a quantity
of liquor which he would peddle
among the lumber jacks in the
camps and around the small
towns on the branch line 1t is
said that at the time of his ar
rest he had a sack of bottles of
whiskey with which he was on
his way to Fernwood from
Clarkia but he succeeded in max
ing away with this discriminating
evidence while on the train.
After making the arrest and
while on the train coming to this
city Sheriff Leaf left Nc Naugh-
ton alone in the seat for a few
moments and left the sack con-
tanning the whiskey in the seat
with the prisoner. When he re-
turned he found the whiskey
missing. While he was away
Ne Naughton had raised the
window and thrown the whiskey
sack and all, out of the car.
Arriving here the sheriff lock
cd Nc Naughton in a cell. Wher
he went to give him his break
fast the next morning he founC
him i'm a very bad condition. H'
had been drinking heavily anC
being deprived Of his morning
drink his nerves were all an
strung and he was on the verge
Of delerium tremens and it wa
necessary to call in Dr. Kinsol
wing to prescribe for him. Ever
with The assistance of the ply
sician he was in no condition Il
be brought before the court am
his preliminary examination wa
postponed.
Nc Naughlon is said to bea
an unsavory reputation. Whc
the county was dry three year
/. ago he lived here and is said G.
have made his living by boot
, logging. The officers, however
: were unable to get any evidenc
against him and he was fnall
arrested as vagranl and tore
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Property Assessments
Progressing FavOFab'y

County Assessor Reynolds is
pushing the work of assessing
as rapidly as possible, consistent
with doing good work. He has
four deputies at work outside Of
the city but is doing the work
here himself in addition to SUI
pervising the work OF his depu-
ties.
In making his assessments Mr..
reynolds is not relying upon the
work done by former assessors
and copying their valuations but
he visits each description Of
property and puts his own valua-
ton upon it. In doing this he
takes the city block by block and
is endeavoring to make The as
sessments equal and uniform
taking into consideration the To-
cation and lay of the property
and he is assessing each lot sep
erately from the improvements.
In looking over the old assess
ments he found many glarine
discrepancies and inequalities IN
the assessments which he is
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Gun Club TO Attend
Trap Shoot

A large number Of the mem
hers of the St. Maries Rod and
Gun Club are planning upon CO.
ing TO Occur d'Alene Sunday and
taking part in the first annual
trap shoot to be conducted under
the direction of the Spokane Gun
club and Coeur d'Alene Rod and
Gun club on the lake on that day.
The meet will attract shooters
from st. Maries, Spokane, Wal
lace, Kellogg, Wardner, Lewiston
Harrison and Coeur d'Alene. TheS
will compete from two barges
which will be towed by the steam
or Georgia Oakes Of the Red Col
lar line and the traps have been
installed on barges anchored in
the lake.
Tom Ware of the Spokane Gun
club is chairman of the executive
committee in charge of Che meet
and Al Weiseman of the Spokane
club is score keeper. The pro-
gram of events and the prizes Of
fcred follow:
Individual handicap, so birds
First prize, Winchester pump
gun; second prize, box of cigars; !;
third to eight prizes, gun cases.
accident policy fully paid for one
year, Stetson hat, sack of flour
and box of stationery.
Old timers event-Prize, en-
lgraved silver spoon. To be ell
gible it will be necessary to testi-
fy that the entrant has shot over
the traps for at least IS years.
WOmen's shoot, 25 birds
First trophy. engraved silver
spoon: second prize, two-pound
box of candy.
Team shooting, five-man shoot
of 10 singles each-Five trophies
will be competed for to be known
as the st. Maries Kellogg, Wal.
lace, Spokane and Occur d'Alen'
| bankers trophies, respectively.
Professional exhibition shoe
Thirty five birds.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Auditor Discovers
Forged DeeG

A few days ago deed was re-
coived from Spokane at the Re
corder's Office for record. The
fees for recording did not ac-
company il and is usual in such
cases the recorder acknowledged
the receipt of the deed and stated
that it would be recorded as soon
as the fees were received. This
letter was sent to the purported
grantor in the deed, A. A. Hunter
of Spokane
a few days afterwards a letter
was received from Mr.. Hunter
stating that he was the owner Of
the property in question but that
he had executed no deed on it and
lhat the deed in question must
be a forgery and asking for par
liculars. The auditor replied
giving the name of the grantee
and the notary in Spokane be-
/ fore whom the instrument was
acknowledged. Yesterday the
auditor received a letter from
the notary stating that Mr.. Hun
ter had called upon him in re-
lation to the deed, and explained
how he had come to take the ac-
I Acknowledgement.
He stated that two men came
into his Office, one of whom i'm
troduced himself as A. A. Hunter
and said that he had a deed which
he wished to acknowledge. Hav-
ling no reason to think anything
amiss he suElhe acknowledge
ment. Hs said further that tn,
deed appeared to be a forger,
and was probably the work of q
man who had been passing forged
checks i'm Spokane and is now il
the jail there awaiting trial.
ID certainly was clever bit O.
work and if the fees had accom-
panied the deed when il was sen
here for record it would prob
ably not have been discovered.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30
Light Vote at
City Election

There was an extremely light
vote cast at the city election
Tuesday especially in the first
and second wards where there
was but one ticket in the field,
only fifty votes being cast in the
first ward and one hundred and
fifty in the second ward. In the
third ward there were two indie
pendent candidates for aldermen
which brought out a larger vote
in comparison than the other
wards.
There was a total of i2i votes
cast in the third ward, three of
which were spoiled and were dis
carded. Hail y, for mayor re-
ceived 'ii7 votes; clint, for treas
urer, iii; Schultz for clerk, 40
and Russell for engineer, i0S,
For aldermen Litwin received
iO5, Bunt &c, Mashburn 45 and
Henderson ~.
The following are the officers
elected: O. E. Haley mayor, G.
6. Flint treasurer, Chas. r
Schultz clerk, Paul Russell, en-
gineer. Aldermen: First Ward
A f. Stickney w. H. Hanscom
Second Ward, C. w. Lewis, L
Cormier: Third Ward, A. p. Bunt
A. j. Litwin.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30

Mrs. A. Martinson has taken
back the st. Maries Hotel and
Cafe from Louis Birkhofer who
the business about ten
days ago. Birkhofer failed to
make the payments as agreed
and he also ran up a number of
bills i'm the city besides giving
checks without having money in
the bank TO meet them. He
left the city Wednesday after
turning the business over TO Mrs.
MarlinsOn.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30

ed TO leave The city, since which
time ne has made his home along
the branch line.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-04-30

Tom McHale, hotel keeper at
Herrick, came down Thursday
evening from that place and en-
tered platts hospital to be treat
ed for diabetes.