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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings IN
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

London.-A fog which settled over
London Saturday was described as
being the most dense in SO years.
President Wilson plans to spend
Christmas nj Washington this year
with the members of his family.
Half a million dollars to insure
grand opera to Chicago for the next
five years has been pledged by Chi
cagoans.
The Aero club of New England
has presented to Massachusetts its
first tractor biplane for military
training purposes
A room in the new home at Wash
ington, D. c., of the Sational Amer,
lean Suffrage association was dedl-
Gated Sunday to the memory OF SUI
san B. Anthony.
Three prisoners in the Illinois
penitentiary are dead, as result OF
drinking wood alcohol which they ex-
tracted from shellac in an effort
to satisfy their cravings for liquor.
The Zeitung am Mittag OF Berlin,
Saturday published a message dis
patched on a post card from Chicago
on November 2 and now received in
Berlin. The card was carried from
Chicago to New York by airplane, and
to Bremen on the submarine Deutsch,
land.
The United States Steel corporation
announced it's intention to distribute
its usual Christmas bonus to employees
in cash and preferred stock, and to
offer them the annual opportunity to
subscribe for $4,000 shares of stock
at price somewhat below the market
In addition some Of the employees will
get salary increases on January l.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
FRENCH VICTORY
GAINS TWO MILES
FORCE GERMANS BACK ALMOST
TO POSITION THEY HAD
BEFORE BIG DRIVE.
VICINITY OF vERDUN FORTS
Over $500 Teuton Prisoners Captured
and More Are Coming-Several
Villages Now in French Hands
Advance On Whole Front.

Verdun Front, Dec, 16.-A short,
sharp battle brought to the French
Saturday their third smashing victory
within two months in the vicinity Of
Verdun Every objective of the
French commanders was obtained.
They are now nearly back to their
original positions
Although the Germans offered a
desperate defense, the attack was so
powerful there was no withstanding
it, with the result that the Germans
were pushed back along the line by
the French, who only ceased on orders
when the detectives had been gained.
Thousands of German prisoners
poured into the French lines during
the day, including 200 officers and are
still thriving. The total count already
is 1900. One division alone captured
more than 1900 Germans within an
hour. More than 80 canon were cap
tured or destroyed.
The villages of Vacherauville, Louve-
mont and Besonvaux and Hardaumont
wood are now in French hands
The front was 10 kilometers long.
When the fighting ceased, owing to
darkness, the French advance had ex-
ceded an average Of three kilometers
along the whole front.
French Winning at verdun.
London, Dec 18-The French are
continuing their great offensive in
the Mouse sector of the Verdun front
and have made further gains. The
British also have made progress and
succeeded in Saturday night engage
ments in raiding enemy trenches near
Ransart and southwest of Wytsch-
acte, gaining foothold in both cases.
The German war office admits the
loss to the French of the village of
Bezonvaux and wood to the west
Of that place, but aserts that the
French thrust further to the north
ward broke down before the German
fire on height north of Bezonvaux
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
ENGLAND IN DOUBT
AS YET, ON PEACE
CITIZENS WANT FURTHER LIGHT
ON GERMANY's PROPOSAL
TO END WAR.
RUSSIA STRONGLY OPPOSES
Premier LIoyd-George May Delay the
First Appearance Until His Cow
eminent Pronounces Definite
Statement of Policy.

London, Dec. 16.-The foreign office
announced before closing today that
1t had not yet received the peace note
and the prominent officials disclaim
ed knowledge of it's contents beyond
what the newspapers had published
The French victory at Verdun is
acclaimed by all the London papers
as the French reply to the German
emperor's speech to his troops in
Alsace and Chancellor Won Beth.
mann-Hollwegs claim of the irwin.
cibility of German arms.
Would Ask Terms.
The opinions in the British press
as reflected in the latest editorials
are almost unanimous that the least
the government can do is to make a
statement of the allies aims and OBJ
jects and ask for the presentation
of the German terms.
The weekly reviews, including the
financial organs, take the same line
as do also the provincial papers. The
only notable exception has been the
Northcliffe group, which Immediately
urged that Great Britain should ig
more the overtures.
Should Know Policy.
There appears to be consensus OF
opinion that the allies should not con
slider entering into a conference un
til they know approximately the cen
trail powers policy and unless they
consider that that policy contains the
seeds for agreement.
The Russian rejection of the over
lures was published too late for com
ment by the morning papers. All the
afternoon papers refrain from ex
pressing their opinion thereon.
Premier Lloyd Georges first ap
pearance in the house of commons in
his new capacity as prime minister
may be delayed until the government
is in position to pronounce a def
mite statement of it's policy toward
the negotiations.
Wants Soldiers Considered.
Sir Hedley le Bas, who is retir.
ed soldier, writes to the papers urg.
ing that the men in the trenches
have the highest right to speak on
the question and that their views
should be obtained before any meas
ures are decided upon.
Dispatches from Switzerland say
that Count Tissa, the Hungarian pre-
mier, has gone to Berlin to use his
Influence for peace.
Germany Urged to Help.
Amsterdam, Dec. 19.-The Frank
furter Zeitung in an article on the
peace proposals, says:
Germany must try to prevent the
entente from giving an evasive an
swer. We expect wide cleavage o.
views at the outset of the negotia
lions, but great apparent divergen
cies Of opinion will have less signi
ficance when the oral explanations
are offered. The standpoints of bott
parties are already partly Identical
as regards the general fundamental
aims of the war and the German note
must be understood as meaning thai
part Of the German proposals refer
to the reestablishment of Information
al conventions for the avoidance Of
international conflicts and guaran
tees of international peace"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Railroads and Men Meet

cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad,
who was chairman of the committee
of railroad executives which met
President Wilson and the brotherhood
officials in Washington last summer
when railroad strike was threaten
ed, confirms that an informal confer
ence had been held recently by rail
road representatives with the brother.
hood officials concerning settlement
out of court of the controversy be-
eween the railroads and their EN-
tween the railroads and their en-
ployes,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
New York Metal Market.

The metal exchange quotes lead
$7.62h @7.s71a. Spelter weak. Spot,
East st. Louis delivery, offered at
1870.
Copper firm; electrolytic, first quar-
ter, nominal; second and third quar-
ter, $32.5O@34.
Tin quiet; spot, $42.75@43.25.
Bar silver, 75Bc.
Mexican dollars, 5s1ac.
Iron steady and unchanged.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22

Washington.-Wit holiday re,
cess planned to begin next Saturday
and extend until January 2, congress.
sional leaders do not hope to accom-
plish anything before adjournment ex-
cept the passage of a few appropria-
ton bills in the house and possibly
the disposition of the Sheppard pro.
hibition bill for the District of Co
lumbia in the senate. Consideration
of railroad legislation and corrupt
practices legislation measures already
have been deferred until next month
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Tacoma-A. P. Powelson, IS, Con-
gregational minister.
London.-George H. Pownall, presi
dent of the institute of bankers.
Cambridge, Mass.-Hugo Munster
burg, professor of psychology of Har-
ward university.
East Liverpool, Ohio.-George Per
ry, member of the old Baltimore ORR
ole baseball club.
San Francisco-John H. Keefe, for
"a years port captain of the Corin-
THAN Yacht Club.
Arcadia, CALL. A. Unruh, bust.
ness associate of the late e. j.
cLucky'') Baldwin.
Denver.-William T. Duncan, So,
for many years proprietor of the
"Silver Dollar" saloon in Denver.
San Francisco-Col. Henry S. T.
Harris, chief surgeon of the western
division Of the United States army.
ASloVllle, IN. C.-fteaF Admiral JOuu
II. Hunker, retired, who served with
distinction under Admiral Sampson
during the Spanish war
Fredericksburg, Va.-Captain Dan
lei M. Lee, brother of the late Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Gen
eral Robert E. Lee, age II years.
Salem, Ore.-David Watson Craig
age 81, known as the founder of the
republican party in Oregon" a per
sonal friend of Abraham Lincoln and
pioneer newspaper man Of the state
He was born in Mason county, KY.
July 25, 1929.
Missoula, Mont-Judge Frank H
Woody, first mayor of Missoula, dice
Saturday. He was SO years old last
Sunday Judge Woody came to Mis-
soula county in Oct, 1856, behin6
an OK team, which he drove from Sal,
Lake. No other man now living has
been a resident of Montana as long az
he had.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
cLEMMER THEATER, SPOKANE

"The Victoria Cross from the play
by Paul Potter, featuring Lou Telle
gen, will be the attraction this week
for the first three days. 1t is drama
founded on the massacre of the Eng
lish at Cawnpore during the Sepoy re-
bellion.
Paramount photographs and Burton
Holmes travel pictures will supplant
the feature photoplay.
Pauline Frederick will be seen the
last four days in "Nantette of the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
FOREIGN TRADE GROWING
Most Prosperous Nation in the World
Secretary Redfield Says

Secretary Redfield Says
Washington, D. C.-Unprecedented
growth of the country's foreign trade,
the commercial advantages which
will accrue from peace and the oppor-
tunity presented for a heavier export
business and greater investments
abroad are set forth by secretary Red
field, of the department of commerce,
in his annual report. The report
gives figures showing the nations
trade expansion of two years and sums
up the country's commercial doml
nance as follow:
"Our foreign Indebtedness has been
reduced possibly three billions. DE
have loaned abroad total sum since
the war began on August /. 1914, esti-
mated at $1,500,000, and increasing.
We are the wealthiest nation in the
world and the most prosperous one.
We have not wasted our men or means
in war Relatively to our fiscal power
today our debts are trifling. Nations
less wealthy than some of our individ-
ual states bear a heavier burden of debt
and interest than we.
1--WE are the only one Of the great in
dustrial peoples at peace. Nations
turn to us for goods and means with
which to pay us for the goods. None
of us, in our widest financial fancies
five years ago, would have dreamed
that things could be as now they are.
ITO protect our reserve of gold
which is the ultimate base on which
our domestic credits rest, we must
maintain our export trade and must
continue to increase loans and invest
ments abroad. The work of the bu-
eau of foreign and domestic commerce
is devoted to these important duties.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
ltaly In Bad Way.

forbidding for two weeks the manu-
facture of candies or cake or their
transmission by the post or railroads.
The decree further forbids hotels to
serve meals containing more than one
meat course. The decree will prevent
the sending of an enormous number
of Christmas dainties intended for the
soldiers at the front.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Meat Packers Pension Employees

Chicago.-Nelson Morris, chairman
of the board of directors Of Morris &
Co., meat packers announced recent
ly a gift of $175,O00 to the pension
fund, to which employees have con-
tributed for years, has reached $685.
20S. The gift, he said, enables an in
crease of 25 per cent in all pensions.
Under the rules any employe is now
entitled, upon retirement, to pension
of 21a per cent of his salary for each
year of service.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Gore Would Bar Alien Voters

Neutrality-suspicious. Gore has in
troduced resolution proposing a con
stitutional amendment to restrict the
vote for presidential electors and
members OF congress to native and
naturalized citizens. In 10 states
aliens who have signified their inten.
ton of becoming citizens vote now
under certain circumstances.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Bio Increase in Paw

Atlantic City, N. IAN advance
Of 18 1927 per cent in their wa
ges was granted $4,000 stove and
foundry workers throughout the coun-
try under an agreement ratified by
representatives of the manufacturers
and the International Moulders' union.
The work day will be reduced half
hour. The new scale will become ef-
fective January 1.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Garrison For Preparedness

New York.-To question the power
and imperative necessity of the nation
al government to make preparation
for defense sis little short of treason"
it was declared here Saturday by
former Secretary of War Garrison in
an address on "Nationalism" before
the lawyers club. He reviewed the
passing of many powers and duties
from the state governments to the
national government.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Allies to Pass Tarnowski.

Washington.-Amb Page al
London Saturday officially notified
the state department that the allied
naval commanders had been instruct
ed to grant unhindered passage to
Count Tarnoski, the new ambassador
to the United States from Austria
Hungary. The entente powers reced
ed from their refusal to do so on
representations by the American gov
eminent
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Good Christmas Motto.

peace on earth, and good
will to men," is the Christmas
motto, and the Christmas spirit
should ring in our hearts and
find kindly expression in acts
and words. What a joyful thing
for the world it would be if the
Christmas spirit of peace and
good will could abide with us
all every day of the year. And
what beautiful place this
world would be to live in. And
it might be so if each one of us
would resolve in our hearts that
peace and good will should be
our motto every day, and that
we, individually, would do our
best to make the Christmas
spirit last all the year round.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22

Wild" by Willard Mack, story which
deals with the Canadian northwest
mounted police. Willard Mack will
play opposite Miss Frederick.
The advance seat sale for the Clar-
ence Eddy organ recital, January 4, is
now on.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Missouri Makes Them Pay

jefferson City, Motive packing
companies each paid $12,5OO into the
state treasury here Monday, 1t was
announced, in settlement of fines Of
$62,5O0 imposed upon them by the
Missouri supreme court for violation
of the state antitrust laws.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22

The temperature of new electric
flatiron can be regulated to four diff
ferent degrees.
William H. Garrett of Augusta, Me-,
is building one-room house in large
tree on his estate.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Railroads Nav Compromise

shington.-Reports are out that
the railroad and Brotherhood heads
in peace conferences have planned to
propose the repeal OF the Adamson
act and the substitution Of a work
ing agreement of their own making
for It,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Aaataaa,aeM,aatsssas,asasssse,aa,se
eenevoIence VS.. Extravaganza

The greatest obstacle to charity in
the Christian church today is the fact
that men expend so much on their
table and women so much on their
dress, they have got nothing left for
the work of God and the worlds bet
terment,- Talmage.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
German Women to Help.

The first appeal for volunteers to
the civil army to be created at home
as an auxiliary to the armies in the
field has been posted in Magdeburg,
Germany
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
everything Matters.

Christianity is not mans confession
to God that nothing matters, since man
is what he is. 1t is Gods shout to
man that everything matters, since
God sees in man what man may be-
come.-W. FL. Blake.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Aged Couple slain.

Mason City, Ill.-John P. Becker
So, and his wife, SO, were found muir.
dered Sunday morning at their home
near here.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
Women Cab Drivers

Women cab drivers are stated to be
a success in Glasgow, Scotland. One
firm has about 40 women driving cabs.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
ALWAYS New.

"You surely don't give your husband
a necktie every Christmas?"
ooh, yes, do! And the poor dear
never seems to know that 1T Is the same
onei"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
"She's afraid 1 wasn't going to give
anything to her."
What He Missed.

Groans-Old Adam was lucky man
in one respect, anyway.
Grins-What's the answer?
Groans-Eve never gave him box
of bargain-counter cigars for Christ
mas.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22

Spray From Pipe Lines
California orchards are piped for the
purpose of conveying spraying solution
to the trees.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
State Commercial News.

state COmmerClaI NeW6.
e. w. Springer of Spokane has
purchased the pool hall of w. V. Van
Etten at Adrian.
DR.. C. w. Driesback of Boomers
Ferry, Idaho, has purchased the drug
store of DR.. G. w. Farmer at Green
acres.
]. A. Nusbaum, contractor, has
traded his farm near Canyon for the
Albert C. Schultz harness shop and
residence at La Crosse.
Yeggmen blew the safe in the gen.
eral store of William Porter at Mo-
ran Wednesday night and secured $500
in cash, notes and checks.
The Union Supply Co., general mer-
chants at Almira, which recently sus-
tanned fire loss, has purchased the gen.
eral stock of T. B. Anderson at that
place.
In fire at Adrian Saturday the
Adrian pool hall, the w. d. Gose gro
Gerry and the residence of G. A.
Wigs, grocer, were destroyed. Mr..
Wigs store was also damaged. The
Gose stock of goods was fully GOV,
cred by insurance and the pool hall
was valued at $500 with $500 insur.
ance. Mr. Wigs residence was un.
insured.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-22
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

The Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
has lifted its embargo in gulf route
east-bound freight.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-28

an. instant, but Peter saw it and acted.
In a moment there flashed through his
mind an incident that had occurred
about three years before in his own
home. He remembered his mother-in-
laws raging fever and illness, and how
Jesus had come into the room, and told
her to rise. and had reached over and
taken her by the hand and lifted her up.
So Peter followed his Masters example,
and reached down and grasped the man
by his right hand and helped him to
his feet 1t didn't take but moment,
but the man was entirely changed In
that moment. DR.. Luke tells us, as he
makes the record of it, that Immediately
his feet and ankle bones received
strength, and he stood, and then walked,
and jumped, and shouted. Right up the
steps he ran through the Beautiful Gate
into the court of Israel (for being lame
no more he might enter now, leaping
and praising God as he went.
He was as well known to the worship
pers at Jerusalem as the old cripple
beggar is in your town, and he attracted
a great deal of attention. People could
not believe their eyes as they saw him
in the court of Israel leaping and prais-
ing God, perfectly whole. Naturally he
hung ON to Peter and John, and a great
crowd gathered about them, on Solo
mons porch near the eastern end of the
court, which gave Peter another splen-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-28
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GHOSTS AND WITCHES.

l do not believe that / have ever writ
ten on the subject above named i'm the
columns of The Semi-Weekly Journal,
and yet the subject is Obliged to be of
interest TO all persons who are in any
wise familiar with past history l have
always been interested i'm the Witch of
Endor. Ever since L read in the Book
of First Samuel, where Saul consulted
with the Witch of Endor and when she
told him. You know what Saul hath
done, how he hath cut off those that
have familiar spirits and the wizards
out of the land; wherefore then layest
thou a snare for my life to cause me
10 die" | have been more or less curl
Gus on the witch question. Were those
familiar spirits ghosts or were they
witches?' Or were ghosts familiar spir-
IT'S and the witches children of the devil
in woman's form as named at that
time? History tells US that demonology
and witchcraft reached a supreme crisis
at the end of the fifteenth century. A
Jesuit writer in 1917 in a published book
still extant says there were five hum
dred executed in Geneva within three
months One Jesuit boasts that he, by
his own sentences. within fifteen years
burned nine hundred witches.
They were generally burned, some
times strangled before the torch was
set. AS one of the best kinds of tor
ture, sharp pincers were recommended,
inserted between the nails and the flesh.
II was valid proof when woman could
not be found in her house with the
door locked. 1t was a reign of terror to
womenkind. Joan of Arc was born in
1412 i'm the department of Vosges in
France. She led French troops to vic
tory and saved France from English
rule. She was taken prisoner on May
"a, 1890, and sold to the English for
16 900 francs. She was later con-
demned as a witch and brought to the
stake May, 1881, and burned. In 1856
the courts pronounced her formally IN
nocent. Now monuments are erected In
her honor. For nearly a century Scot
land was terrorized in this way. Sir
Walter Scott tells where large numbers
persisted in Edinburg in 1890. The earl
of war I'm 1908 recorded the burning OF
numbers of women near Edinburg. Some
that were half burned were forced back
into the blaze screaming and consumed.
In forty years a total of 5000 persisted
within forty years in Scotland From
1908 to 1880, some seventy thousand
suffered. The witch act became law
in 1904. Bishop Jewell preaching before
Elizabeth, told her that witches and
soceress marvellously increased In her
realm.
II will write again of this subject)