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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

San Francisco has been selected as
the first headquarters of the new Fran
ciscan province of Santa Barbara.
Charles B. Pfahler, former secretary
to the late Bishop Scadding of the
Episcopal diocese of Oregon, is seri-
ously i'll.
The mail carriers who arrived at Sc
ward, Alaska, Sunday, from Iditarod
reported that when the mail was taken
over the trail at Takotna the tempera-
ture was II degrees below zero.
Snow and ice melted rapidly in Port
land Monday under rapidly rising tenn
peratures, and there were certain evil
dences that the cold wave which had
gripped the city for more than month
was permanently receding.
Rudolph Festetics de Tolna, known
throughout America and Europe as a
wealthy Austrian count, was granted
the right in the superior court at San
Francisco Monday to be shorn of his
title by law, and to be restored as a
citizen of the United States.
The Santa Barbara chamber of COM
merce has abandoned a vigorous cam
paign to procure a government subma-
rine base, in Difference to protests of
citizens, who feared that with base
located there, a hostile fleet in time
of war would blow up the city.
The Trades Union Liberty league, -
an organization of men engaged in the
liquor traffic, met Sunday at San Fran
cisco and passed a resolution denounc-
ing the policy of prohibition and urg-
ing Legislators to oppose any attempt
to put California in the dry" column.
A number of persons living by the
ocean near Santa Barbara are report
ed to have been mystified by the
nightly recurrence recently of light
in the sky, apparently operated from
an airship, and which seemed to be
used for the purpose of exchanging
signals with a steamer that appeared
to be keeping pace with it. No expla-
nation has been offered for the un
usual spectacle.
Despite heavy snow the Alaska en-
cheering commission has succeeded
in keeping both sections of the gov
eminent railroad open. Thus far trains
have not missed single trip because
of the snow. Regular trips are being
made between Seward and Mile "a OF
the Alaska Northern line and between
Anchorage and the end of the line be
yond Eagle river on the new Matanus
ka branch.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Paris-Emile Cahen, former grand
rabbi of Lille.
London.-The Right Hon. Sir Cecil
Clement l. Smith.
Leon, Nicaragua.-Ruben Darlo, au-
thor and diplomat.
Archibald Fitzroy George Hay,
twelfth earl of Kinnoull, aged 81.
Passaic, N. J.-Dr. Ira Harris, q
Presbyterian missionary, at Tripoli.
Phoenix, Ariz.-Robert r. Briggs, 81
years of age, in charge of the United
States weather bureau here.
New York.-Robert James Beach,
who commanded the United States
monitor Montauk, during the Spanish
American war.
Clarinda, Iowa.-Colonel William p.
Hepburn, former member of congress
from this district. Death resulted from
kidney and heart trouble. Besides the
widow, son and daughter survive
him.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
FOUND $4,000 IN BANKNoTEs.
Plumber of a Train Robbery Was Hid
in Blacksmith Shop.

San Antonio, Texas.-From under
the dingy floor of blacksmith shop
government detectives this week I'M
earthed fortune in unsigned national
banknotes. When the mass of green
and yellow paper was counted up they
said they had recovered 100000 of the
money stolen October 8, 1915, when
three men robbed a mail car at Rock
Cut, w. Va, and obtained 100000 in
currency shipped from Washington for
the use of banks in Illinois and Indi-
ana.
John Harrison, owner of the black
smith shop, was arrested several days
ago and is being held for transfer to
West Virginia on a charge of having
placed in jeopardy with weapon the
mail clerk on the train and also of hav-
ing stolen currency in his possession.
A fruit jar containing s1755 in ma
tional banknotes had been unearthed
previously.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Killed in Kentucky Feud.

Lexington, Ky.-A general battle
over possession of land in the Ken
lucky mountains IN which one man
was killed and three others badly
wounded was reported here Monday
from Floyd county. Ance Miller was
killed; Louis Miller, Harrison Miller
and Alfred Miller weer badly wound
ed. John Meadows and Walter Os-
borne, members of the opposing fac
ton, were arrested and are reported to
be in Jail at Prestonburg.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMl-
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

Henry Van Dyke, American minister
to'The Netherlands, is at Washington
on leave of absence.
The whereabouts of Francisco Villa
is proving a puzzle to Carranza author
tiles in northern Mexico.
The long looked for offensive of the
Teutonic allies against Salonih may
now be on or near at hand.
Miss Geraldine Farrar, the grand op-
era star, was married to Lou Tellegen,
a French actor, this week in New
York.
Two hundred switchmen employed
in the Chicago yards of the Wabash
railroad are on a strike. They want
recognition.
The body of Miss Hazel Schoenfelt,
river near Pittsburg, Pa, Saturday, a
case of suicide.
Girls in Germany who have beautiful
hair are contributing to the war fund
by selling their locks, according to
Mrs. Frances Bode.
What is believed to have been an at
tempt to blow up the Victoria bridge
at Montreal was frustrated recently by
militia guards, it is learned.
John w. Joselyn of Fort Dodge, Ia,
an electrician assigned to the destroy
err Dale, in the Asiatic fleet, was re-
Gently lost overheard from that vessel
Public hearings on the nomination
of Louis D. Brandeis of Boston to the
supreme court bench will be held by
the senate judiciary subcommittee this
week.
The Pan-American Petroleum and
Transport company has been launched
IN New York city by the filing of in
corporation papers in Delaware. The
authorized capital stock is $3.50, 900
Five hundred workmen employed by
a plateglass company at Ford City
Pa. and Springdale, Pa, have beer
notified of an increase of 10 per cent
in wages. The men affected are prin
cipally laborers.
Seven hundred employees of the Fed
eral Sugar Refining company at Yon
kers, N. Y, who struck recently, re
turned to work Monday when an ad
vance in wages of from 8 to 80 pei
cent was granted.
An official Bulgarian report, as for
warded from Athens to the Temps
says that 40 men were killed an(
more than 500 wounded during the re
cent attack by II French aeroplane'
on Bulgarian camps.
Estimates of exports on the Cubai
sugar crop of 1856 show that /
will be record one. One hundred
and lightweight sugar centrals hav'
begun grinding the sugar, as agains
ITO in operation last season. Tit
cane is said to be the best in qualit,
in years, cold weather having ripene'
it properly and added a higher sac
charine content than usual.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
He Did Not Forget.

Sedalia, Mo.-Mrs. ]. T. Albertson,
wife of a painter of this city, recently
received a check for $500 from Daniel
c. Jackling, known as a copper mag
nate in recognition of kindness ex-
tended to him years ago, when he
worked on the Albertson farm near
here. lacking was left penniless when
his parents died, but he worked his
way through school. He then went
west, and, as an expert mining engi-
neer, accumulated wealth.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Prehistoric Ruin Found.

The most striking prehistoric ruin
yet unearthed by psychologists in
America has been found by DR.. Fewks
of the Smithsonian institute The
mound, the largest of any thus far To-
Gated, was in Mesa Verde national
park in New Mexico, and apparently
was built for religious rites and cere-
monials. 1t has been named Sun tenn
pie. There are rs rooms, and the
walls, which total more than 1000 feet
in length, average four feet thick &C.
dar and pinyon trees growing above
the mound would indicate that the
mound had been built about 1900 AID.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
WALKS BACKWARD ACROSS U. S
Bet of $4,000 Spurs Man to Reverse
His Tread.

Chicago-Walking backward from
San Francisco to New York to win a
bet of $4,000. Patrick Harmon, claim
ing to be champion backward walker
of the world, reached here Saturday.
Accompanying him to see that the
terms of the wager are fulfilled is w.
H. Baltazer of San Francisco.
Rugged up on short pole attached
to his shoulder is a looking glass,
which enables Harmon to see which
way he is headed" The wager is
between two San Francisco men and
its terms are that Harmon must cover
the distance between the two cities in
260 days.
If successful Harmon is to receive
$4,000. The start was made on Au-
gust 5, 1915, and Harmon claims he
is 80 days ahead of his schedule of 10
miles a day.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
GERMANY AND U. S. DIFFER.
One Word Causes Lots of Trouble Be-
tween Them.


tween Them.
Washington. For the word lille
gal," which Germany was unwilling to
incorporate in the tentative draft of
the Lusitania agreement, the Berlin
foreign office has substituted a phrase
which certain high authorities in a
position to be familiar with the status
of the negotiations consider covers all
the principles involved in the question
of submarine warfare.
The language substituted for the OBJ
tectionable word illegal in a tenta-
tive communication now being consid-
cred by President Wilson AYERS that
the killing of Americans in the Lusi-
tania disaster was without intent, be-
cause the destruction of the Cunard
liner was an act of reprisal and the
German government agrees that re-
prisals should not be applied to neu-
trails
From various diplomatic and Off
that the outlook is more promising
for an early settlement 1t was indi-
Gated that the tentative form of set
Element which, should it prove accept
able to the United States, will be en-
bodied in a formal communication
from Germany, approaches nearer the
desires of the United States than any
yet submitted with authority of Berlin
officials.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Ford Has New Peace Plan.

Chicago.-Henry Ford, the Detroit
manufacturer who sent a peace ship
to Europe, has new peace plan. This
much he said to reporters here before
leaving for Detroit. 81 would like to
tell you about the new plan, but l must
wait until my party has returned from
Europe" said Mr.. Ford. He said he
was perfectly satisfied with the results
of the peace crusade abroad.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11

steamship Appam must be considered
as prize of Germany under the Prus-
sian-American treaty of 1928 1t is
stated that this accords with the view
of the state department.
Raider Was the Ponga.
New York.-The German raider that
captured the British steamer Appam
was the Ponga, according to Captain
H. G. Harrison, former master of the
Appam, who reached here Saturday
from Norfolk. With Captain Harrison
were his officers and crew numbering
$50. who probably will be sent to Eng
land.
Captain Harrison said he had no
other recourse than to surrender when
he discovered the warlike character of
the ship that stopped him. When the
cruiser was less than two ship lengths
away he was ordered to board her with
his deck officers and number of his
men.
Captain Harrison Talks.
81 had little time to make observa-
tions, however" Captain Harrison
said. with my men l was ordered be-
low decks and kept there two days,
with the crews taken from ships pre-
viously sunk. While talked with our
guards, and many of them spoke Eng
lish well, they gave no information.
when l was again placed on board
my ship l found it in full possession
of the Germans. Bombs had been
planted on the bridge, in the chart
house and in the engine room and |
was told that at the first sign of
trouble they would be exploded and
the ship sent to the bottom
After the Gold.
Nothing was taken from the Appam
except shipment of gold bars from
West Africa, value at about S180,000.
The Germans evidently knew we had
this gold, for | was asked about it
the first thing when l stepped on to
the deck of the raider.
Well Treated.
81 have no complaint to make of the
| way we were treated by the Germans.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Rescued From Trees.

Twenty-six persons were rescued
from trees Sunday near McGehee,
west of Arkansas City, by motor boats
sent on special train. The town Of
McGehee, where water was never be-
fore known to have entered, was flood
ed.
c. B. Morrison, manager of the Po-
cahontas Light and Power Co., was
drowned in the Black river making a
total of II flood victims.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Can Factory in Seattle.

Seattle.-Henry w. Phelps of New
York, vice president of the American
Can company, announces that the COM
pany Immediately will build a branch
factory here costing sS50,OOO and en-
ploying 400 men. The plant will sup
ply cans for salmon packers in Puget
sound and Alaska.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
concerns Tacoma Street Railway.

San ancisco.-Annulment of 20
year franchise of tile Tacoma Railway
and Power company was upheld Tues
day by the United States court of ap-
peals in decision affirming the hold
ing of federal district court.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Peace Negotiations Deferred.

Vienna.-The Austrian authorities
have evidently changed their minds
regarding the possibility of negotiat-
ing peace with the members of the
cabinet of Montenegro left in that
country. 1t is now announced that the
negotiations have not yet begun and
will be deferred until the ministers are
furnished with indisputable creden-
tails to make binding peace.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Guards for 3. C. Property.

Vancouver B. CA detachment of
40 men of the Seventy-second overseas
battalion are at bennington Falls and
Trail. At Trail they will provide a
military guard for the big smelter Of
the Consolidated Mining and Smelling
company. At bennington Falls they
will furnish guard for the two pow
er plants.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Cambria Steel Sells Out.

Philadelphia.-The entire outstand-
ing issue of 100000 shares of Cambria
Steel company stock will be taken
over by the Midvale Steel and Ord
nance company at $91 a share, or a
total outlay of s72, 100000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Uses Money to Good Purpose,

Tulsa, Okla.-Charles Pages large
private zoo at Sand Springs was de-
stroyed by fire recently. The zoo was
valued at $4,000. Mr.. Page is an oil
millionaire, whose philanthropies have
taken the form of adopting orphans
and providing homes for widows. Last
summer the orphans went to the San
Francisco exposition at his expense.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
APPAM OWNERSHIP
NOW THE QUESTION
CAPTURED BRITISH SHIP TAKEN
TO UNITED STATES PORT FOR
DISPOSITION.
UNCLE SAM IN CHARGE AS YET
May Be an Open Question Until End
of This War-Germany and Eng
land Both Make Claims First
Case of Kind on Record.

Washington. - The question of the
ownership of the British steamship
Appam, brought into Hampton Roads
by German prize crew, may remain
an open issue until the end of the war,
with the ship, in the meantime, held
in the custody of American officials
at NEWPORT News.
Conflicting claims on behalf of Ger
many and England are being consid-
cred by the state department and the
neutrality board, but there has been no
indication of a decision. Officials gen.
orally are inclined to the view, how
ever, that the case must be governed
by the Prussian treaty of 1928, which
grants Prussian prizes free entry to
American ports and declares that they
may be freely carried out again at
any time by their captors to the place
expressed in their commissions" A
literal construction of that provision,
which some officials favor, would per-
NIT the Appam to remain indefinitely
at Newport News.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Minister Shot bv Woman.

Sherman, Texas.-The Rev. H. M.
eagle, widely known north Texas
Baptist minister, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded here Monday by
Mrs. Annie Faust, wife of Finis Faust,
a farmer, who lives near Denison, Tex.
She said he slandered her.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Meet at Tacoma. 1917.

Portland, Ore.-Tacoma was select
ed by the conference of administrative
officers of schools of the northwest as
the place for holding the next confer
ence in January. 1917.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Arrested for Murder.

Buffalo, N. Y.-John Edward Teiper
was held without bail on a charge of
numbering his mother. Mrs. Agnes NJ.
Teiper, one of two victims of the Or.
chard Park highway tragedy.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
GREAT FLOODS HIT
ARKANSAS CITIES
LEVEE ALONG MISSISSIPPI RIVER
GIVE WAY, DOING GDEAT
DAMAGE.
WHOLE COUNTIES INUNDATED
Arkansas City Had Ten Feet of Water
on Main Streets-Over 500 Home
less People observation-disclosures
of Clarendon Escape.

Little Rock, Ark.-Arkansa City
faced destruction Sunday as result
Of the precarious condition of the Chi
cot levee.
Meantime two-thirds of Lincoln,
Desha and Chicot counties are covered
by water, which is flowing through a
dozen breaks in Arkansas river levees
At Arkansas City the levee of the
Mississippi is Is feet above the town
The stage of the Mississippi was 55h
feet, the highest ever recorded.
The water is from six to eight feet
deep in the main streets of Arkansas
City. There are 500 homeless and
hungry persons there
Also at Clarendon.
Clarendon, Ark-The White river
levee broke here Saturday, flooding
this town of 5000 inhabitants. Because
the break occurred near the city linn
its the water was several hours reach
ing the residence section and ample
warning has enabled all women and
children to be moved to the more sub
stantial structures in town and upper
stories. No loss of life has been re-
ported.
Short of Help
Washington. - Official war depart
ment reports on the Mississippi val
ley flood situation indicated that Sc
rious trouble may result in the re-
gion south of the Arkansas river I'M
less the residents there assist in the
strengthening of levees One of the
most serious difficulties, it was said
was the scarcity of labor and there
were limitations that the federal of
ficers would be authorized to provide
rations only for those who showed q
disposition to assist them.
In Arkansas II Lives Lost.
Little Rock, Ark.-The rapidly wild
ening lake in southeastern Arkansas
kansas river pouring through breaks
in the levees had engulfed a score o.
towns Monday, leaving several thou
sand persons homeless, taking a toll
of IL lives, and doing damage estimat
ed at thousands of dollars.
Still greater damage is feared if thu
Mississippi continues to rise.
All Sunday several hundred men WHIT
remained in Arkansas City toiled il
an effort to strengthen the levees ant
at night they were hopeful that tn,
town would be saved. The marrow
strip of levee is the only land in sigh
there. On one side is the great river
swollen until it's surface is 10 fee
above the level of the town. On tn,
other side is a great flood lake, near
ly 40 miles long and 20 miles wide
From it only the upper stories o
buildings in Arkansas City protrude
At the levee are three steamboat
ready to carry the plucky fighters t
safety should they lose their battle
with the flood.
The flood his been the most disas
trous in the last 40 years of Arkansas
history. so far as loss of life and SUI
fering are concerned
Rescued From Trees.
Twenty-six persons were rescued
from trees Sunday near McGehee
west of Arkansas City, by motor boat
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
FEW TRAVELLERS COMPLAIN.
Our Government Makes Investigation
in Foreign Lands.

in Foreign Lands.
Washington. - Richard w. Flournoy
chief of the state departments citi-
zenship bureau, who has just returned
from trip through England, France,
Italy, Germany and Switzerland for In
vestigation of the treatment and vel
fare of American citizens, reports that
nowhere did he find any general COM
plants, although in a few individual
cases dissatisfaction existed because
of the stringent regulations enforced
against foreign travellers. All the bel
ligerent contestants, he said, had tight
ened restrictions regarding the admis-
sion of foreigners and were doing ev-
erything to discourage travel.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Awaiting Settlement.

Wisconsin has 100000 acres wait
ing settlement.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
No Attempt to Deny.

In the latest proposal there is no at
tempt to deny responsibility for the
sinking of the Lusitania. But Ger
many assumes liability for the Ameri-
can lives lost, offers reparation by the
payment of indemnity and assures the
United States that the killing of Amer
leans was without intent. The destruc-
ton of the liner was an act of reprisal
for the British blockade under the or
ders in council, according to the Ger
man view, and reprisals should not be
applied to neutrals.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
President Wilson's Idea.

President Wilson is understood to
hold the opinion that the British
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11
Government Responsible.

The position of Berlin officials is
said to be that the act of the COM
mander of a submarine can be dis
avowed should he violate, disregard or
have failed to receive instructions, but
that a government can not disavow
an act which was committed in ac-
cordance with its instructions, and for
which it is responsible.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-02-11

steamship Appam must be considered
as prize of Germany under the Prus-
sian-American treaty of 1928. 1t is
stated that this accords with the view
of the state department.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16

has gorgeous cup-like flowers, four
inches across, OF yellow marked with
orange?
Many old farmhouses are very poor
INTELLECTUALLY. The ideal Is a new
and better home; the next best thing
is r%emodeling; but If neither is prac-
tical, can't you hide the unattractive
part by planting, and show the attrac-
tive? Even a house that is false and
ugly may have some good detail. Study
once more the house you think hope
less, and hold your hands before your
ayes in such a way as to hide the bad
and show the good. Then see If you
cannot find trees that will do the work
in a reasonable time.
You can greatly increase the value
Of your property by planting the right
sort Of trees at either end OF your
house, so as to frame a picture OF your
home. Many a rich mar pays hun
dreds Of dollars extra for a farm be-
cause the old house Is surrounded by
Century-old elms. He builds a big
new house under the old trees and at
once It looks old and mellow. Tho
pioneers thought only Of shade and
shelter from the wind, and SO they
commonly planted trees all around the