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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28
Names is Names. ~
Razor Hurt runs a sawmill al Hailev

Our Democratic friends are in a
great quandary on this revenue omes =
tion," said an Ohio Conpressman 70
a. group OF his colleagues who were
.h the resolution continuing
the war tax for another year. The
trouDle is they do not know what to
40. some OF the Democrats want to
issue ponds to meet the big deficit that
eonlronts the administration, but
mere mere are whole lot of members of
mat party to whom bond issue looks
IKE a nightmare. These latter want
something devised in the way of di-
rect taxes in the way of revenue pro
queer and they are laying awake
nights trying to discover Something
10 tax that will not tread too hard
on the toes of the American people.
II is really amusing to see them trv-
ing 10 paddle to safety and it is in.
tenseley calling to them to realize that
mao the duties been prevailing under
tne provisions of the Payne-Aldricb
pm, present importations would have
nuilished enough revenue to meet the
running expenses of the government
ihotwithstanding the extrayapant and
lavish expenditures of the sixtv-tb;rd
congress. #.4- 49,
The Pennsylvania State GRANGE b,.
ADOPTED resolutions condemning The
changes made by the Post Ofice De-
pdltment IN the rural service in thar
sh The resolutions declare thai
.i changes have cost the farmers of
.he state $8,OO0,000 besides adding 70
20 soo thc inconvenience of farm life 70
state oranges in other jurisdictions
N were en- in session; doubtless similar ex.
RTTtesslons would be heard from them.
mere might be an exception in the
case OF Texas. for Postmaster Rrri.s
so nails from that state and il said
10 TO- contemplate running for the sem
IT Is a dull month when this adj.
cannot scare I'm n "tens.
This will probably cnns
,hn Tor fourteen months more Then
.ne administration will itself lance IN
tense. !" the past
can't see why the bedbug wa.
Ave. , GlI.eated' But that is lust what a
nea thinks about hairless doc
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28
Van Deusen and His Blaine Count,
Friends.

On page four of of this issue OF
The Tribune will be found the opinion
OF the prosecuting attorney of Blaine
county on the work Clarence Van
Deusen did at Haley. AS throwing
additional light on the motives and
methods of Mr.. Van Deusen we re-
print the following from the HALEY
Times.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28

+.bsr d.v NV dav The two factions of the Democratic
,arv are drifting apart There be but one result
the election of the candidate of the Republican party al
the election in November.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28
Weekly Health Hint.

Never sing God Save the King" at
a German picnic.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28

strongly Democratic and as | am
going to run for state auditor
they would all vote against me.
did not dare do so.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28
Had The Right Kind.

4 young preacher went fishing for
trout, accompanied by a couple of
girls from his parish. A farmer who
was also fishing called out to the
young clergyman;
"Ketchin' many trout"
Il am fisher of men," said the
young preacher with dignity.
WELL" the farmer smiled, and then
looking at the girls, said Il see you've
got the right kind of bait with YOU"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28
Our Weekly Snecial

When you are talking you are not
learning anything.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28

Things to Worry About.
"A newly born giraffe is six feet tall.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-28
So They Are.

Says Luke McLuke: There are not
many. sure things in this world. But
here is one of them: "A woman is al
ways older than she thinks she looks"
Sos a man. People are a great deal
alike.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
Progress Of Fight
Against H. c. Of L.

Developments yesterday IN the
movement for higher salaries for
Federal employees:
Legislative bill with 5 and 10
per cent increases for employees
debated in House.
Representatives DILL Austin,
Cooper and Van Dyke urge greater
Increases.
aRepresentative Byrns, of Ten
nessee, announced that he will ask
for a rule to protect the increases
already reported against parlia-
mentary objection.
+Conference Of Federal employees
with labor leaders and members of
Congress decide to compromise on
the IS 1-S general increase in favor
Of a modified amendment to be Of
fered by Representative Keating.
IRepresentative Nolan will try
to have his bill granting s. mimi
mum wage for Federal employees
accepted as an amendment to the
legislative bill
eSenators Shields and Chamber
lain. Representatives Gallivan,
Taggart, Van Dyke, Nolan and AS
sistant Secretary of Labor Louis
F. Post accept invitations to speak
meeting.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
MAKE D. c. A STATE,
GOVERNORS SUGGEST
Proposal Made at Conference Prior TO
Dinner Given at White House.

President and Mrs. Wilson were hosts
at dinner last night at the White House
In honor of the Governors Conference
now in session at the New Willard Hotel
Nearly score of governors and gov
ernors-eleCt, and several former State
executives were present
After the get-together preliminaries of
the morning session. the chief execu-
tives settled down yesterday to discus
sion of the merits of executive budget
system. An address delivered by Gov.
Harrington. of Maryland, the only State
in which such a system of appropriating
and expending public moneys Is in effect
He praised the plan.
Neither flesh. fish. nor fowl, is the
District of Columbia" said Commissioner
oliver P. Newman. at the opening session
yesterday morning.
Well. let's see If we can't make it
a State" virtually responded the con-
ference. when former Gov. John Franklin
Fort. of New Jersey. suggested that
Commissioner Newman be admitted to
the conference.
Then Utah spoke. in the person of
Gov-elect Simon Bamberger, and upon
his motion the matter was taken under
advisement by the executive committee
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
z ON H-3 SAVED
Breeches Buoy Rescues Sailors
from Imperiled Submarine.

CBy the International News Service.
Eureka Dec. 1.-THE crew Of the H.;
Is safe. Two Iieutenants and twenty
men who fought death for hours as the
submarine. which went ashore early to-
day. pounded on the rocks, were brought
across the $50 yards Of water separating
the stranded boat from the beach in a
oreeches buoy early tonight.
The rescue came after day Of alter
nate hope and fear for the lives of the
divers crew.
Inc H-S commanded by Lieut. Comma n
DER II. r. Bogusch, grounded in a heavy
Iog on SAMOA. two miles north Of the
humboldt Bay Bar. The vessel lay some
distance on shore, and at II O'Clock was
rolling at an angle OF forty-five degrees.
TO watchers on shore the news that
those aboard the diver were alive came
IN blasts from the vessels whistle.
through the same signals, they told that
Two Of theirSpumber had been injured.
Al nrst there seemed little chance Of
the divers crew reaching land alive.
Later. with the rising of the tide. the
H-S was swept lS0 feet up the beach. This
enabled the shooting of the line to her
that carried life to the seamen tonight
Death in a worst form than drowning
was near when gas was generated in
the interior of the submarine, They es-
caped asphyxiation only by budding to-
Sether In the coming tower.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
ACTION ON RAILROAD
BILLS SEEMS REMOTE
Senate Committee Decides to Hold
Hearings on Measures.

Prospects Of early action on President
Wilson'S railroad legislation, program
went glmmering yesterday when the SEN
ate Interstate Commerce Committee de-
cfded to hold hearings on the bills pro-
Tding compulsory arbitration of strikes
and authorizing the taking over of the
railroads in case of military necessity or
in other emergency.
The committee set January as the
date for beginning the hearings.
The opposition of the railroad brother
MOODS ana organized labor to the pro-
posed legislation prompted the commit
tee to vote for a full investigation.
Senator Newlands. chairman of the
committee, announced that the three
parties. namely, the railroad employees,
the railway executives, and the general
public would be given ample oppor-
tunity to discuss the Presidents program.
The Senator laid before the committee
tentative drafts OF the compulsory arbi-
tration bill and the measure authorizing
the taking over the railroads.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
COMPR0MISEPAY
BILL PROPOSED
Employees Union Will Offer
Measure to Revise Sala-
ries Upward.

! Congress yesterday witnessed the first
skirmish in the fight to have higher sal
aries written into the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial bill, and advocates OF
a greater advance than the and 10 Per
cent graded increases, served notice that
they would endeavor to revise the sched-
ule upward when the real fight comes to-
morrow.
1t was announced last night, following
conference between President Samuel
Gompers, Of the American Federation of
Labor labor members OF Congress, and
delegations from the Employees Union,
that compromise bill, reducing the
higher salary schedule adopted by the
Board OF Representatives of the Fed
eral Employees Union, will pc introduced
In the House tomorrow
Representative Keating, Of Color
ado, was chosen to draw up this bill,
which will be offered as an amend
ment to the committee report Its
terms will provide:
Twenty per cent increase for all en-
ployes receiving $500 or less.
Fifteen per cent for employees be-
tween $500 and $500
Ten percent for all employees between
81 200 and 5000.
This amendment reduces the figures of
the Board Of Representatives, which IA
vored 80 1-3 per cent for employees receiv-
ing 1890 or less, and was graded down.
ward to 10 per cent for employees receiv-
ing $500 or more. 1t was the opinion
Of the conference that these terms were
too drastic.
Nolan StilI I'm Fight.
At the same time 1t was announced
that Representative Nolan will make an
efrort to have his 50 a day minimum
wage bill added as an amendment to the
legislative measure
Representative Austin, of Tennessee,
led the debate yesterday
Il give notice now," he said. that
when section is reached l shall offer a
substitute providing the following scale
of increases for all government employees,
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
PESTHENCE and crime
reign in GUANAJUATO
American at Ell Paso Tells Story of
Misery of Beautiful Mexican CITY.
international News Service }


FL Paso, Texas. De-. A-Farnine dis
ease immortality and Iawlessness reign
In Guanajuato, is the report made by an
American mining man who has Just re-
turned frQm there. His story, supported
by afridavits was forwarded to WASH
ington by the United States military
authorities today. Scores of poems.
swarming about the city soup kitchens,
were shot down to get rid of them.
adobe huts. :JLsing poverty-stricker.
families. have been sealed up at night
by soldiers, leaving the helpless oc-
cupants to die by suffocation," he said
Other counts in his indictment. are:
SOLDIERS raided convent, forced
sisters of charity to don poems clothing
and work.
Many nuns have committed suicide to
escape mistreatment
Soldiers raided and looted the Church
of Our Lady of Guadaloupe. one of the
most beautiful in the city killed priests.
converted the interior OF the building into
a bull ring. and later a barracks.
twenty-five carloads of grain, sent by
the Red Cross to starving populace, were
confscated by soldiers. The governor
sold it at $3.50 a bushel.''
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
LINKS SUFFRAGE
and PROHIBITION
Lively Senate Debate Reflects
Varied Views-House
- Gets Webb Bill.
By e. JESSE CONWAY.

Prohibition and woman suffrage. fol
the last four years the kiIIjoys of old,
time politics and the nightmare of pres.
ent day politicians, are running full speed
ahead in both houses of Congress and
keeping the membership of both ends OF
the Capitol in a tormenting struggle be-
tween their honest-to-goodness opinions
and their wishes for the continued good
Will OF their several constituencies.
In the Senate the long heraIded peril of
the Sheppard bill for a dry District of
Columbia is up for final disposal. The
preliminary debate of it pro and con
lasted throughout the afternoon session
making about as much progress as the
average argument on the liquor question
IN any gathering where there are men of
olstnctVely individual opinions
10 the average observer the Sheppard
Dill Is mysterious bit Of legislation. to
begin with. and after the combined as
sault on 1t by several well meaning SEN
ators and their amendments, Il becomes
such complicated puzzle that Il Is free
N predicted that before the Senate de-
Date ends the vote will be on a Simon
pure proposition OF making the capitaI
VI the nauon as dry as the desert of
sahara' with no ''Ms." "ands,'' ''buts, {"
exceptions, provisos or exemptions.
Suffrage Rider Proposed
And to make the Sheppard bill the
1ehicle on which will ride its twin sister
IN moral progress, woman suffrage, Sen
ator Kern, the Democratic majority
leader at the adjournment Of tbe seS-
sion. offered an amendment to grant the
women vote in Washington IN the pro-
htoition referendum proposed by Senator
oscar Underwood, OF Alabama
All Of which means that the Senate
may or may not enter into q protracted
debate on both questions.
The House. not to be outdone by the
elder statesmen. also has prohibition and
suffrage on its hands, but because of the
uncertainty of the proletariat and its
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
SCHOOL MARKETS May
REDUCE COST OF FOOD
Women at Thomson Building Meeting
Will Investigate Economy Proposal.

Means of reducing the high cost of
living were discussed at the December
meeting of the Thomson Home and
School Association, in the Thomson
School, last night.
Mrs. N. H. Darton. president, discussed
the establishment of the school as a dis
tributing center of foodstuffs,
1t is said, that by buying large uuan-
titles of foodstuffs at wholesale prices
and by having the parents patronize the
school market and paying cash, the cost
Of food may be reduced. Authority was
given the president to appoint a com
mittee to investigate the advantages of
such a system.
Charles K. Finkel, principal of the
Thomson-Franklin Schools, pointed out
the advantages and disadvantages of the
teachers pensions measure The society
adopted a resolution approving the bill.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
RUMANIA CONQUERED;
ATTACK RUSSIA NEXT
Teutons' Strategy Accompanies Pur-
pose and Allied County is,
Overwhelmed.

The Rumanian campaign is approach
ing its hnal phase as shown by yester-
days official reports. The Teuton tide
Is steadily sweeping on in the direction
OF MO!oaNia. Buzeu. the important rail
head, is being surrounded from three
sides.
1t is the keynote poy.s z For an estsp-
iishment Of an ATTACKING front against
the northeastern province OF Rurnania,
the only part not yet overrun. That
front established. the campaign will have
ceased to he directed against Rumania,
nd will be the first move IN a huge
offensive against Russia.
That this is the Teuton aim has been
known since the fall of Bucharest. IL
rs confirmed in an article by the Berlin
Overseas News Agency yesterday.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen's Danube
army has crossed the Jalomita River,
joining the armies moving against MOI
davis. All of Southeastern Rumsnia, BE-
low the Bucharest CernRwoda Railway
has been cleared OF defenders. The Petro-
grad war Office speaks of fighting west
and southwest OF Buzeu."
In the Carpathians and Transyi-
vania the Russians continue to attack.
No new successes have been claimed BY
Petrograd. Berlin reported costly but
absolutely unsuccesSfur' Russian at
tacks.
An entirely new element In the situa-
ton as developed by the continuous
TeUton advance in Eastern and North
efn Rumania Is the fianking menace pre-
sented to the Russ0-Rumsnisa hnss n
ths Dobru6tA-
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
TRUE SYMPHONY IN COLOR.

The Washington Herald will enclose
free with each copy OF the December II
edition, an expensive art calendar. as a
goodwill offering for the New Year.
This calendar has received much favor
able mention by artists and masters of
line and color in New York.
II is a separate shee. s S-4 X "A inches
OF e~tra-quality, heavy white paper =.
bearing gold oval in which the full
length figure of lovely Annette Keller
mann. featured in William Fox's million
dollar picture beautiful, "a Daughter of
the Gods" Is posed against an outfung
drapery.
This picture was selected from more
than 300 charming photographs as the one
anording the best medium for color
tint. 1t Is a symphony in six rich oriental
shades
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
MOB STAMPS OUT life
OF MAN in new YORK
Lone Policeman Unable to Save Pistol
Wielder in Greenwich.
(By The Internauon.r New, s.-,,,,,

tBy the International New, Service
New York. Dec lL-For the first time
IN h1ty-three years lynch law held a sec
tlon OF New York in its grip early today
when an enraged mob of go men and
boys stamped out the life Of PauIo BoIet a
as a penalty for trying TO shoot up his
toric Greenwich village.
Boleta pulled revolver in a crowded
thoroughfare and one of his many bull
let's wounded archibald Madison. Tben
ne ran An angry crowd pursued
dragged him from the single officer thai
tried TO protect him. and trampled him
10 death Police reserves dispersed the
mob
Police today conducted a vigorous
search for leaders OF the mob but failed
to find them.
The fury of the crowd was intensified
ny Boletas hrinE at two little girls He
oldnt hit either. but the act drew down
OH him the anSer of scurryiny pedestrians
and the chase started.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
U. S. SHOULD ACT
Senator Stone Urges America
to Intervene in War.

(By the International News Service D
ference between the European belliger-
ents by the United States was voiced
here tonight by Senator William ]. Stone.
of this State. addressing the convention
OF the League to Enforce Peace, The
Senator is chairman of the Foreign Re-
close touch with International questions
Our relations to the combatants are
such and our interests so involved" the
Senator said, that 1 think we have a
right to speak-a right 50 clear as to en-
title us to speak without asking and
E'thout giving offense."
He pointed out that the United States
'ould not speak as an intermeddler, but
would occupy the position of the law-ob-
serving element of a community that in
terfered in a fued between families when
the fued was carried to the point where
it was disturbing the peace and menacfng
the safety of the balance of the COM
munity.
why should not the same law apply,
morally and legally, to the family of ma
tions?" he asked.
II Is sufhclent to say, that our mails
have been seized and destroyed or mis-
used; our ships have been arrested on
the high seas and sunk; passengers and
sailors have been taken from American
ships in sight of American territory; our
peaceful commerce with neutral nations
has been indredicted; American citizens
men. women. and children-have been
killed without warning or Justification
These are the wrongs We have suffer
ed" he said. There have been times
when our peace was preserved only by
the clear vision. the steady hand. the
resolute heart of single man.
DO not such things give US some right
# our own to speak a kindly word in
behalf of peace?''
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
$4,000 Dinner GIVEN
IN HONOR OF EDITOR
Window Full of JeweIry Also Handed
Hotel Mems Guest.
CBy the International N.m. 81,

NY a"e huNcfnutlOnaI News Service,
! New York. Dec. H-One Of the most
lavish dinners on record was given to-
night at the Biltmore Hotel in honor OF
Charles E. Hehring. Hotel men from all
over the country were hosts The ban
Quet for 600 cost S25.coO. Gehring is head
OF the Gehring Publishing Company and
managing editor OF the Hotel Review
During the dinner Gehring was present
ed with a fortune in jeweIry. He was
almost overcome. There was a Swiss
watch. platinum watch chain. set with
diamonds; a platinum knife and pencil
set of sleeve links: four waistcoat but
tons. three studs Of cut emeraIds and
diamonds.
After Mr.. Gehring's speech, the or
chestra struck a lively tune and 81. .Ono :
COO worth of talent burst in Cries Of
"Wux-try: wuXtry: wuxtry'' were the
signal for the entrance Of a beyv m
heauties from so Long Lefty selling
papers.
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
U-BOAT SLAUGHTER
ON after new YEAR
Rotterdam Dispatch Tells of Renewal
of German Submarine Warfare.

CBy the International News. Service
London, Dec. 4.-Germany is preparing
for great submarine activity, accordina
to the following dispatch from Rotter.
dam to the Daily Telegraph:
According to reliable indications there
may be expected early in the new year
resumptfbn Of ruthless submarine war.
fare.
THE German admiralty Is concentrat.
ing enormous efforts on the building of
U-boat cruisers and their crews,
"A 'sink-at-sight' policy must be an
ticipated and on the allies rejection of
the peace proposals the blame win he
thrown for the loss OF lives of neutrals
that may ensue."
The Washington herald., 1916-12-15
Telegraph Tips

New York, Dec A-Rodman wanna
makers big steel yacht, the Nirvana
was destroyed by fire of undertermine6
origin today while moored in the marins
basin at GraVesend Bay.
Chicago, Dec. lahore than two score
clersymen will meet with prominent
business and professional men and officers
OF tne second Illinois Infantry next
week to discuss a bill permitting box
ing which the soldiers will offer the next
legislature.
Baltimore, Nd, Dec. H.-Col. Charles
Page Brian. of Chicago, former United
States Ambassador to Japan, Is seriously
Ill in John Hopkins Hospital here.
Baltimore, Nd. Dec. A-Foxhall P.
Keene, the New York sportsman, who,
on December fell from his horse while
riding with the Hartford Hunt Club, has
almost completely recovered.
New York. Dec. 14-Magistrate Joseph
E. Corrigan was awarded $4,000 damages
Merrill Publishing Company, of Indiana
polls. and George Bronson Howard,
novelist. He sued for $3O,OOQ
London. Dec. H-The appeal of Col.
and Mrs. C. H. r. slingsby, OF San
Francisco, who sought the estate Of the
late Rev. Charles SIingsby for Teddy"
slingsby. their supposed son, was dis
missed today by the House Of Lords.
New York. Dec. I4-Mischa EIman,
noted Russian violinist. suffered a severe
scalp wound today when the taxicab in
which he was riding hit a cross town car
at Forty-second street and Seventh ave-
nue..
Tokyo, Dec. A-BeIief was expressed
in official circles today that the war will
continue despite the peace proposals of
Germany and her allies. No Official no
tification of the proposals have been re-
ceived here yet.
Philadelphia, Dec. H.-The 11Sth death
caused by automobiles in the streets of
Philadelphia since the first of this year
occurred today when Teddy Rodowitz,
s years old, died in the Children Homeo-
pathic Hospital
Petrograd. Dec. 1.-THE influential
newspaper Ncvoe Vremy3 states that 1t
has received information from a high
source that the allies will
continue the war despite Germany's peace
proposals.
Petrograd. Dec. H.-It was semi-official-
ly announced today that NJ. Pokrovsky,
of the empire, has been ap-
pointed foreign minister in the Russian
Cabinet.
Copenhagen, Dec. H.-"Despite the |
press opinions from enemy countries OF
a discouraging nature, telegraphed to (
Germany. 1t is hoped they do not ex-
press the opinions OF the respective gov |
ernments, says a Berlin dispatch to the |
Politiken today.