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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-06
MADE REPORT ON
SEWER CONTRACT
CITIZENS COMMITTEE NAMED BY
COUNCIL THEIR. LABORS AND
FILED WRITTEN REPORT
Secured Some Valuable Data in Con-
nection With Their Investigations
-City's Interests Protected

The citizens comittee composed of
M. E. Lewis, B. 7. Byrns, and Fred
Veatch, who reported on behalf of the
city on the work complet-
ed in sanitary district No. 3, made a
comprehensive review of the investig-
ations made, the substance being as
follows in part:
To the Mayor and Council, Moscow,
Idaho. Gentlemen: We, your com
mittee to whom was referred the build
ing and accepting of the sewer known
as Sanitary District No. 8, beg leave
to report that the work of construct
ing the said sewer has been complet-
ed, and the sewer has been accepted
by your committee on behalf of the
city.
Your committee has tried to serve
the interests of the city first, and
while doing SO to be just and court
eous to all with whom they have come
in contact. If there has been any
oversight on the part of any one Of
us whereby any one feels aggrieved,
we certainly beg their indulgence for
the same.
At the time of accepting the sewer
by your committee the total cost has
been as follows:
Contract price. ............ $40, ,943 so
Extras, due to errors in ori-
ginal figures ............. $40
Extras, ordered by this COM
mittee ....... 14.55
Engineering, printing, steno-
graphic work ............ 623.75
Cost of connecting water to
flush tanks ........ 300.5S
Cost Of supervising construc-
t1On -....... - ....-.... lff.Vo
Engineering work during
construction ............. 311.95
Total cost of sewer. $500. s12 2,346.56
Amount Of bond issue. ...... $12 10000
Less cost of seWer.... 12,346.56
4
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-06

An elaborate new central railroad
station has just been completed in
Toxic. 1t is in the style of the French
Renaissance The total floor area is
$4,000 square yards.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-06
Swedish Steamer Sunk

COPENHAGEN, May 6.-The SweG-
ish steamer Vanadis was tarpedoed
and sunk by the German auxiliary
cruiser Sylvania The vaaadis car
ried cargo Of coal.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-06

police apologized profusely and Young
proceeded to Berlin.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-06
HEARD IN AMERICA

WASHINGTON, May 6-Dispatches
telling of Japans decision to send al
ultimatum to China are believed to
have reached the state department
When asked this afternoon if the gov
ernment had received news of the
ultimatum, Secretary of State Bryan
replied: "That is going too deeply
into the matter" From this it is In
ferred that notification of the ulti-
atum has been delivered to this gov
ernment.
Overwhelming the Russians
AMSTERDAM, May 6.-The Cologne
Gazette correspondent confirmed the
storming of Gorlice by the Germans in
a dispatch from the southeastern
front. The dispatch stated that the
Germans were steadily advancing in
the Galician campaign and were over
the Russians.
Americans Were Held
LONDON, May 6.-Lafayette Young.
former United States senator from
Iowa, and companion, were arrested
at Innsbruck, Austria, Tuesday and
held under surveillance before being
released several hours later, accord
ing to adyioes received from Vienna
today The men were detained be-
cause Young's companion was sus-
pected of being a foreign spy. When
Youngs identity was established the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-05-06
FAILURE TO ACCEDE TO THE MIkADO DEMANDS
WILL RESULT IN ENFORCEMENT BY ARMS
UNITED STATES MAY MEDIATE
Germans Making Gains in the Southeastern Front
Against the Russians-Pars Admits the Teutons
Have Crossed Hill 6O-Submarne Hits TrawEers
(By United Press

TOXIC MAY G.-JApAN TODAY DISPATCHED THE THREATENED
ULTHIATUM GOVERNMENT BEEN
GIVEN JAPAN
CESSIONS CHINESE EMPIRE THE REFUSAL
DEMAND
WILL BELIEVED, ORDERS
FORCE
PREMIER OKUMA BELIEVES HIS GOVERNMENT
TO COMMERCIAL DOMINATION.
Differences Wiped Away
TOXIC 6.-ALL DIFFERENCES EXISTING BETWEEN
"a
KEN AS A RESULT OF CHINAS REFUSAL
MANDS JAPAN WERE ADJUSTED DURING AN EXTENDED
ING PRESIDED OVER BY PREMIER OKUMA. A UNITED FRONT
PRESSING
ACCEPTANCE MIKADOS
OR FORCE HAS BEEN LEARNED THAT EFFORTS TOWARD
MEDIATION is GENERALLY ANTICIPATED GOVERNMENT
Giles. EXPECTED THAT UNITED
STATES OFFER SUCH SUGGESTIONS
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
GERMANS STILL PAY
ATTENTION TO ARTS

That science and art are by no means
being neglected by Germany. notwith-
standing the war and its enormous cost
is indicated by figures from the Prus-
sian budget. which provides 5000 marks
for scientific acquisitions in Egypt,
) , 1000 marks for excavations i'm Meso-
potamia. and 10000 marks for similar
work in Samos.
The sum of 3S7. 23O marks is provided
for the support of artists. servants and
literature. For the purchase of works
OF art for the National gallery, in Ber-
lin. and the advancement of painting
and sculpture. 342. 800 marks are pro-
vided. and for musical purposes 81. ZIP
marks.
For the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
S3S. $50 marks are set apart. while for
similar institutions throughout Prussia,
their maintenance or reconstruction,
sums a~ggregating 1.435.416 marks have
been provided. +,
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28

Mr.. Hart, in his chapter on the
'Outcome OF the War" says: Among
the various powers Austria is likely to
be the first to come to a state of eX-
fAustlon, because it is poorer than it's
western neighbors, and because it
stands more chance of invasion and
capture of its capitals than any other
power. Germany. though d very rich
nation. has the most expensive, be-
cause the most efficient. army and
unless II can get control of the sea,
has the least chance of relief from out
side. France has great accumulated
capital. but very large sums have been
lent to Russia. Great Britain has enor-
nous productive Industries in all parts
of the world. but If her fleet should be
crippled, would collapse sooner than
any continental country. because the
United Kingdom could not then feed
or defend herself. Russia alone of all
these countries can keep up war for
several years without ruin. because
while several million men are fighting,
100000, 900 people will be working to
support them"
The fairest way to restore peace. the
most equitable way. the most prac-
ticable way. the best way both for the
combatants and for neutral nations.
would be to restore AS near AS possible
the status in quo ante bellum. Let
there be no war indemnities paid. no
acquisition OF territory, and no cnanSe
in boundaries. Let the conditions of
last July be restored as nearly as pos
siblc. Let each nation bury it's w
dead, care for its own crippled, pay
it's w debts, disband it's w armies.
dismantle it's own frontier ports. ham,
mer it's own swords into reaping hooks,
remove the floating mines 1t has sown
on The waters. change its ships OF
war into carriers of freight and pas
sengers, make fishing boats of its sub
marines. and mail carriers of it's Yep
pelins.
Then rad and m would
be again opened to all nations on about
the same terms as before. The surplus
OF 100 years labor would, it is true,
have been swept away, and Europe
would begin a process of hard work
and saving. rebuilding, slow rising in
population and wealth.
The task would not be so long as
it was after the Napoleonic wars. for
since hen invention and discovery
have paved and illuminated the path
of progress. The example of France
after 1871 shows what a nation can
do by sitting tight for a few years,
earning much and spending little. The
control of the forces of nature and
the use of machinery would. in the
lifetime of the present generation, en-
able Europe to come back to it's pre-
vious wealth and population.
All that is needed to accomplish such
beneficent results is Il desire of all
parties to accomplish them. There's
a way wherever there's a will"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
OLD PANAMA FORT
May SERVE AMERICA
San Lorenzr Ruins at Mouth
of Chagres Are to Be
y Rebuilt.

Panama. (by mail).-Fort San
Lorenzo. an ancient fortress which
stands OF a high bluff at the entrance
to h arb at the mouth of the
Charges river. probably will again play
a part in the defense of the Isthmus.
Canal authorities are trying to obtain
from Panama the right to ~re-establish
the old fortress. rebuilding it and
placing therein a number of modern
n high-power coast defense guns.
The site of the ancient fortress is inn
portant because it stands at the en-
trance of a deep water a from the
Caribbean sea to the Gatun locks. dam
n spillway. 1t is declared that the
Chagres river is easily navigable for
small torpedo boats and submarines.
The only obstacle is a bar at the mouth
OF the river. however. his may be
passed at high tide.
The castle of a Lorenzo was built
by order of Phillip II. of Spain in 1897
and for many years was considered
practically im%pregnable. John Morgan
and his buccaneers. however. almost
destroyed the fortress and the Eng
lish under ADMIRAL Vernon captured it
In 1740 blew the fort skyward. Since
then 1t has been an historic ruin.
The American government has long
regarded the mouth Of the Chagres
river as an important point In the
coast defenses Of the Panama canal.
especially In view of the accessibility
OF the locks. dam and spillway at Gatun
through the stream. The nearest forti-
fcatiOns Of any strength and i'm
%nortance are now at TOro Point, near
Colon. which is about eight miles east
Of San Lorenzo.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28

Conclude with Cupid's curse.
They that do change old love for new
Pray gods they change for worse"
of the wives OF business men what they
would be, could they but be touched
by some good fairy's wand and turned
into what they would. it is not a queen
of fashion they would yearn to be-
come, nor yet a glorious star in the
theatrical armament, or silver-throated
songstress' laurels would they crave.
If their n aspiration could be real
lied. it would be to become a stenog-
rapher in hubby's office. He pays 500
per week to the other arm in his Of
fice;" WHEY would gladly assume the
he need pay her only what he had a
mind to if business was dull.
The average wife wonder why nus
bands would not jump at such an Of
fer from their heartmates. She could
hang family pictures around and
the world like home. He would have
some n to confide in when perpleXed
and needing advice, such as only an in
terested woman could give; hold his
head when it ached dreadfully, and
whisper CHEEKY consolation when he
was most in need of it. 1t would do
away with the necessity of his having
to explain at home why he remained
In his office so late, N allowed his
soft a to be touched by Mrs. Tom,
Dick and Harry, who wandered into
his office according to mis- story to
collect money for distant heather, this.
that and the other thing to which he
could not well help contributing.
And then his business affairs. The
majority of wives are usually at sea
and in a fog concerning that which is
of such vital concern to them. If they
were but his stenographers, they could
keep a bead on his income and what
the outgo was for. He wouldn't have
to e out for ice cream and cake for
luncheon for his wife--a sandwich
and a cup of tea would suffice her.
And then wouldn't it be delightful
to have wife coming and going with
him.. Hubby then could have the
backbone to resent Indignantly the
ogling and smiles cast his way on
street and In car by designing females.
He'd save temper, money and honor,
perhaps. by such an arrangement.
OF course, she'd have to run home
now and then to see IL the baby in
nurse girls charge was all right, and
an hour or so on the day the Dun
cans or somebody else were to call.
h couldn't miss the Wednesday
matinee. and then the marketing
she'd have to slip away from the Of
fce awhile every morning to attend to
that.
One week in hubby's office would
teach the average wife that there's no
place like dear. old, sweet home for
her.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
Unite the United States judiciary.

From the Kansas City Star.
While in the business of Matchmaking
legislation, why not nationalize our ma
tional courts?
1t is strange that in spots the national
probation and in other spots a different
Interpretation. 1t is equally strange that
in spots the national migratory bird law
is unconstitutional and in other spots
constitutional
State legislatures and state courts pre-
sent so many difficulties that methods
of getting concerted action engage much
attention. The move for uniform state
legislation is one of these. The several
! efforts to amend the national constitu-
tomas to suffrage. income taxation.
elections. etc.-are another. The extern
sion of national legislation, through ex-
tending the interstate clause
and through extending the national police
! power. is a third.
Even at the beginning of the republic.
when the original states were Jealous
guardians of their sovereignty. 1t was
acknowledged that some centralizing BODY
should have discretion to weld the ma
ton closer. The, national, or federal.
judiciary supplied that need-more than
adequately. some may think.
1t Is rather ironical that a %disrupting
force should arise through the Individual
opinions of the national judiciary. That
judiciary has not hesitated to unite the
states. 1t might help now to devise
some means to unite itself.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
North African Slavery.
From the Christian uerald.

From the CHRISTIAN Herald.
Slavery is practically abolished in ev-
cry civilized nation on the earth. There
are some relies of it yet in certain colo-
MES. which the home governments are
striving earnestly to sweep away. 1t is
reported that the French colonial office
has at last succeeded in abolisiling the
slave markets of Morocco. A Paris
paper charges that 5000 slaves are inn
ported into Morocco every Year. Re-
Gently. Premier Asquith. of England,
received a memorial signed by such
names as Lord Cromer. Lord Curzon,
and Mr.. Bryce. asking for some govern
ment action to suppress this traffic,
which is conducted over boundaries
controlled by England. Nowhere has
our modern civilization or our modern
christianity more powerfully manifest
ed itself than in the destruction Of
physical slavery. and the guarantee of
intellectual. political, moral and relig-
ious liberty. God abolished the slavery
of Egypt many centuries ago whe he
took his people from the bondage of
Pharaoh.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
Need Of = Budget system.

President Wilson has long been on rec
integral part of a responsible. party gov
inner People who are always look
ing at the political side of questions are
pointing out just now that to Initiate a
budget movement Mt this time would UNI
questionably be an asset for the admin
istratiOn. Criticism Of the extravaganza
and inefficiency OF congress has reached
Z climax during the last two years.
When congress comes together again it
revenue to make up u serious deficit.
Now is the time. It IL argued. to discard
old. clumsy and costly methods. to wipe
the slate clean n revise the entire sys-
tenn Of federal accounting. While there
in the budget idea. nevertkeIess there IL
good ground for belief that business men
throughout the United States would feel
attracted to an administration which
would put III a busincs8like basis the
hitherto a~mateurish system Of running
the federal government in q way tina no
corner drug store or Industrial corpora
ton would dare to run It's Affairs.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
The School. of Porto Rico.

The government of Porto Rico con-
sists of a governor appointed by the
president of the United States and a
legislature with an upper and lower
elective house. The former is COM
prised nearly all of Porto Ricans and
the latter Americans. n the Porto
Ricans are naturally anxious for a
larger OF self government.
They celebrate political victories there
In good old American style.
The pride of Porto Rico is the
schools. The teachers there insist that
they prefer to teach Porto Rican chill
dren to American children because
they seem more eager to learn and
the increase in attendance at schools
has beer without a parallel. An Incl
dent related by the author shows that
he has not entirely forgotten the coun-
try of his school days. He met an
Englishman in Porto Rico and after
comparing what had been done in
Porto Rico In IL years with the ad-
vancement of English colonies in the
same time. the Englishman simply re-
sponded: You Americans are a won
derfuf people
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
Novel. But usefu, Diseases.

From an Article on Pork Barrel PEN
sions.' in the March World Work.
The records of the pension office
comprise many curiousities of medical
literature. Our civil war apparently
gave rise to many new and amazing
disabilities. Many of these reports We're
illiterate. the physicians not being able
to spell the name of many of our COM
monest complaints. Soldiers were PEN
stoned for "protuberant abdomens."
tenderness over the spleen" ''crepita-
ton of shoulders and elbows" normal
heart" 'lumbago. alleged periodical
vertigo" "sallow skim" distended ston-
ach." thin. flabby muscles" "tremul-
ousous tongue" slight numbless Of
right leg'-all acquired in the service
of their country. 1T was a pretty vigor-
ous veteran who. under the scrutinizing
and far seeing eye of an examining sur
geon. did not disclose some p~ensionable
complaint.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
SEEK TO FOOL CENSOR
IN FORTY LANGUAGES
Some Job It Is to Investigate
the Mails of War Stricken
Austria Hungary.

Vienna, Special: Forty thousand
letters. in more than 40 languages and
dialects. to be read daily, secret mes
sages written in cipher with invisible
inks to be discovered and puzzled out;
all name of questions from distract
ed parents about the whereabouts of
their sons to be answered.; thousands
of complaints from Austrians regard
ing their treatment in foreign deten-
tion camps and prisons to be investl-
gated.
These are some of the duties of the
censors-between 200 and 300 of them
who form the personnel of the CEN
sorship bureau of the Austrian m
pfre, which is located in the war min
istry. and which has been dubbed the
organized babel:" Both incoming and
outgoing letters have to be scrutiniZed
carefully and the variety of dialects
in the empire, in addition to the large
humble of tongues spoken by the AUS
trian prisoners. make it necessary to
keep the largest bureau in Europe.
The staff includes more han 200
voluntary workers, who are divided
into groups according to their famili-
arity with Russian, Czech. German.
Slav, Serbian, Croatian. Italian, Ruma-
MAN, R%uthenian, Polish, French and
English languages and dialects. The
Russian censors in turn are divided up
into groups who know the Esthenian.
Finnish, I4ettish. Armenian. Persian,
Turkish. Tartar and Hebrew tongues.
The Russian prisoners even receive
letters in B~essarabic ard Sanskrit.
At the head of each group is a re-
sponsible official. before who must be
laid each suspicious letter. and Zach
missive containing useful information.
He in urn makes a monthly report to
the chief censor and the latter reports
to the minister of war.
More or less innocent attempts to
deceive the censor, especially in notify
ing friends and relatives of their ex-
act location and condition, are made
repeatedly. particularly by the Rus
SLAMS. Ninety per cen of such efforts
originate among the Russian prison
ers who appear from earlier exper-
fences in their own country to be fa-
miliar with the ways and means of
sending out secrets. and who think
that even innocent information must
be sen in this way.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28

! WHERE THE WOOD
: PICKER CALLS YOU
: IN THE MORNING


Francis f. Clark in the Countryside
There Is always something new on my
small farm. Its infinite variety largely
monotonOus. 1t never repeats Itself. Ev-
cry morning in summer i go out with
eager anticipations to see what new de-
%velopment the new day has brought; what
new green shoot has pierced the brown
soil: what new bud has opened; what new
fruit has begun to ripen; what new flavor
odor comes from the flower bed. The
Psalmist's words are true of all growing
things. as they are of the heavens:
Day unto day uttereth speech.
And night unto night showeth knowledge.
There is no speech nor language.
Where their voice is not heard.
Their line is gone out through all the
And their words to the end of the world.
And then the animal life of my small
farm. 1t is as much fun as a ~menagerie.
Every morning the big woodpecker wakes
me up at sunrise. or IA little before.
Tap, tap, tap ,d he nc calls on the old
hiding beneath. 'Tap tap, tap. you lazy
fellow, he says. the sun is up; why are
not you? l have been awake since dawn.
getting grubs for my little ones. Get up,
get ny, get up
obey his summons and watch him fly
down from the roof and %disappear In the
old apple tree which I have left standing
for his behoof: OF Giotto. the famous
DullQer or the Deautliul catneSfai and cam
pantle In Florence. it was said that his
work was as perfect as the round O in
Giotto. The same can be said OF the work
of my friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Yellow Ham
mer, or Mr.. and Mrs. Highhole, or Mfr.
and Mrs. Flicker by whichever name you
care to call them. The hole they have
made is as round as the o in Giotto. 1t
could not be q. more exact circle. l can
not quite put ray hand In. but know the
cavity is full OF their offspring, for when
I tap on The bark and put my ear close to
the hole I head a kissing sound. as tense
and sibilant as though a whole crowd of
gallery gods was trying to drive an actor
off the stage.
After a while a great. fat. goggle-eyed
youngster will come to the hole. filling 1t
completely up. and, like all "end-seat hog
In the street car, preventing any others of
the brood from crowding by or coming to
the front. But he dares not leave his hole
in the apple tree yet. His wings are weak
and untried. In a few days. howe.er.
when l go to visit hin again, he IL not
there. Suddenly he mustered up courage
to try his unused powers, and a quick dart
from the big apple tree. a CLEAN of NOTED
yellow, ficked through the light and
shade of the orchard. and he is gone L
nope he Will come against next year to
hammer on the roof of the old farm house
to wake me up. AZ his father and mother
did this year.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-28
ROTARY is INTERESTED
IN THE INDIVIDUAL

The founders of the Rotary clubs,
now scattered through the country as
GASES of fellowship. must have been
thinking more of the shortcomings as
sociated with specializing than of the
things to be said in its favor. Whether
they had that intention In mind or
not. one of the striking products of
these club has been a broader inter-
est on the part Of individual mem
bers in the work and everyday life of
other individuals. One can well believe
that men have come to it wholly alb
sorbed In their own personal affairs
and have from contact with other
members. developed an outlook that
made them broader and more neigh
borly citizens. This is to be gathered
from what Rotarians - as they call
themselves-say of their organization.
Within these clubs have been devel-
oped widespread public movements.
Better h this, perhaps have been de-
veloped personal unselfishness and
even feelings that cross into the Dor
derland OF nobility. It is no little thing
for man to discover that he is one of
the many In a world very wide.
Just what the Rotary idea may rep
resent-whether a rebellion against
concentration. or whether the instinc-
tive drawing of one man to another
possibly doesn't matter. ROtarians
may not have gone so far as to philo-
sophie as to their being. But the idea
would seem tremendously useful, IL 70,
no other reason than that 1t sets itself