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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
STOCK AND CROP NOTES.

Chesaw, Wash, wool growers got
as high as 35 cents a pound for their
wool this season. More sheep are be-
ing raised in the Chesaw country
each season.
f. M. Rothrock of Spokane received
more than $4,000 for 5000 head, a
train of IA cars of Washington sheep,
sold on the Chicago market this
week. The sheep were yearlings and
were raised on Mr.. Rothrock's 100000
acre ranch in Kittitas county.
An average estimate on the fruit
crop of the Yakima valley this year
obtained from the Northern Pacific
Railway company, the Oregon-Wash-
ington Railway & Navigation com
pany, the fruit growers association
the horticultural union, the e. e
Samson company and the Thompson
Fruit company placed shipments at
$500 carloads, including $50 carloads
of watermelons and cantaloups. The
average of anticipated apple ship
ments at $3.50 cars. Fred Thompson
for many years a leading estimator OF
Yakima fruit crops, placed the high
est figure at 5000 cars. Both the
fruit growers association and the
horticultural union estimate only 6,
900 cars.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
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.

Adjournment Of congress not later
than August 20 has been tentatively
agreed upon.
The sinking of an Italian destroyer
by an Austro-Hungarian submarine
was announced Sunday.
Sir Edward Grey, secretary for for
eign affairs, has been created an earl
by King George of England.
Record temperatures for the year
were reported over Kansas and Mis-
souri, Saturday, about SO degrees.
The admiralty announces that on
July IL German submarines sank a
British auxiliary cruiser and three
patrol boats.
President Wilson has nominated
Judge John H. Clarke, of Cleveland,
Ohio, to succeed Justice Hughes on
the supreme court bench.
The official figures on the number
of persons who took part in Satur-
days preparedness parade at Mil.
waukee was given out as 10000.
The entire business section OF
Newhall, Is miles west of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, was destroyed by fire re
Gently. The loss was estimated al
$4,000.
Lloyd's shipping agency announced
Saturday that the British steamer
Antigua, of 2S76 tons gross, is report
ed to have been sunk. The steame
was unarmed.
Paul Smith, aged %. vice presiden
and sales manager of the Chalmer
Motor company, killed himself b
jumping from the tenth floor of tn
Biltmore hotel, in New York. Satul
day.
President Wilson has nominate
Representative James Hay of Mad
son, Va, chairman of the house mi
itary affairs committee. for Judge {
the United States court of claims, {
succeed Judge George w. Atkinson
who retired for age.
Laurence Ginnell. Irish member {
parliament who addressed many que
tions in the house of commons
ministers during the Irish rebellio
and invariably alleged that his coul
trymen who had been arrested wer
mistreated, was himself arrested SUI
day.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
MOVE NO MORE TROOPS
UNTIL BETTER EQUIPPED
War Department Stops Trsnsporta-
tion of Guardsmen to the Mex
lean Border.

Washington.-The war department
has sent orders to all department
commanders to delay transportation
to the border of national guard or
CARNATIONS now mobilizing until they
are thoroughly equipped and organ
lied. The effect will be to revoke
a ruling issued when the Mexican
situation was acute waving certain
requirements. The order affects about
$4,000 men still held in the camps.
The latest information of the de-
partment is that about 100000 ma
tional guardsmen now are at the Dor
der. With the $4,000 regulars there
and 5000 additional men called from
the reserves officials estimate that
there are sufficient forces to cope
with any present emergency.
Reports that national guard units
are being supplied poor and insult
ficient food are not borne out in pre-
liminary telegraphic reports received
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21

A large number of Oregon and
Washington lumber mills which have
been idle for from two to three weeks
are about to resume.
The sale of liquor in the railroad
town of Anchorage, Alaska, is forbid
den by stipulation in the deeds to
town lots sold by the government
The naval collier Saturn is ex-
pected at Seward, Alaska, this week
with men and equipment to estab-
lish a naval wireless station there.
Unusually heavy rains for so late
in the season have fallen over west
ern Oregon lately. In the Willamette
valley, where thousands of tons of
hay are in the fields, considerable
damage was reported.
Thirty-three of about so enlisted
members of the machine gun com
pany, Third Oregon infantry, now on
the border, resent the attempts OF
their parents to bring them home,
ostensibly to finish their education
or for other reasons.
Fifty-five more refugees, including
many employees of the Southern Pa
cific railroad of Mexico, arrived in
San Diego Saturday on the naval col
lier Nanshan from Guaymas and La
Paz. With those who arrived the day
before on the steamer Centralia, a
total of 80 have reached this port
from Mexican points in two days.
An order prohibiting the shipment
of intoxicating liquor consigned tt
dealers over the United States rail
road was issued recently by the Alas
ka engineering commission. The com
mission announcement said no ship
ments of liquor would be accepted
except small amounts from persons
not engaged in the liquor business
and consigned to individuals for thei
personal consumption.
The freight steamer Burlington will
sail from Seattle July 20 with 300
tons of rails and other steel for tn
Alaska government railroad, to b
delivered at St. Michael, near tn
mouth of the Yukon, and thence cor
veyed up the Yukon and Tanana ri,
ers to Nenana. The liner Victori
will sail for st. Michael the same da
with supplies to be similarly shippe
: from st. Michael to Nenana.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
.FLOODSDOWNSOUTH
COST FIFTEEN LIVES
OVERLOOKING RIVERS CARRY
RUIN IN STATES OF CARROLL
MAS AND VIRGINIA.
RUINS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Hurricane Along the Coast Is Follow
ed by Downpour, Swelling Streams
-Rescuers Drowned While
Taking Refugees Food.

Atlanta, Ga.-Serious floods In
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia Sunday caused five known
deaths, rendered hundreds homeless,
damaged property and crops to the
extent of s1O,OOO,OOO, according to
first estimates, and demoralized rail-
way, telegraph and telephone COM
munication. Following the hurricane
that struck the south Atlantic coast
Thursday, unprecedented rains have
fallen, driving rivers and smaller
streams from their banks and imper-
ling many lives.
Swept to Death.
At Biltmore three persons, Captain
G. G. Lipe, Miss Nellie Lipe and Mrs.
Leo Mulholland, were drowned when
the Lipe house was flooded.
Swift streams are flowing down
some of the streets of lower Ashe-
vile.
Throughout western North Carroll
ma the situation is reported serious
Two dams at Hendersonville collaps
ed, releasing hundreds of tons of wa
ter and fears are felt for the big
dam at Lake Toxaway.
Workmen Submerged.
The Southern railway bridge ovei
the Catawba river at Belmont, N. c.
has been washed away, carrying II
or IL workmen into the river. Tn,
Seaboard Air Line bridge over tn,
Catawba river at Mount Holly, n
c., has collapsed as has that owe
| the Catawba on the Salisbury-Ashe
> vile line.
! Practically all railway traffic i
( southwest Virginia and eastern Yves
: Virginia was tied up, telephone an
' telegraph wires were down and heav
: crop damage has been reported. Crop
}, in some sections of South Carolin
d also suffered heavily
s Almost all of the town of Biltmor,
g laid out % years ago by the lat
}. George w. Vanderbilt, is under W;
n ter ranging in depth from three t
o five feet. The town is cut off frol
|. Asheville by water a mile wide.
e The property losses of lumber an
f industrial plants throughout the Sc
n ton will be heavy.
10 Men Missing.
Charlotte, N. C.-Eighteen men, ]
construction officials and employe
+ of the Southern railway and fou
: linemen of the Western Union Tel
j graph company, are missing and ar
believed to be either drowned or mi
g rooned in trees on the Catawba ri
: er, about IL miles from Charlott
s The river is rapidly rising.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
LUMBER AND WOODWORKING.

According to the report of A. w.
Cooper of the Western Pine Manufac-
turers' association, there were 1918
more cars of lumber shipped in May
this year than the same month a
year ago and the cut exceeded that of
year ago by 100000 feet, with SO
mills reporting against 3s last year.
Supervisor M. H. Wolfe of the for
estry service has announced the clos
ing of a contract for 100000 feet
of saw timber in the vicinity Of Lei
berg creek, a branch of the Little
North Fork, with the Rose Lake Lum-
Der company of Rose Lake, Idaho. for
200. 1t is estimated that 35,000,-
900 feet of the total is white pine,
which was bid at $3.50 thousand
feet.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
WASHINGTON STATE PRESS
ASSN. ELECTS OFFICERS
Hold Successful Meet at EIensburq
Next Year to Meet at
Chehalis.

Ellensburg.-W. B. Jessup, editor
of the Bremerton Searchlight, was
elected president; j. G. Kaynor, edi-
tor of the Ellensburg Evening Rec
ord, first vice president; Edward Con-
nor Of the South Bend Pilot, second
vice president, and N. Russell Hill
of the Davenport Times, secretary
and treasurer, Of the Washington
State Press association Saturday
The election was held on the shores
of Lake Gle Elum, where 200 dele
gates to the convention were taken
in automobiles by residents of Ell
lensburg for picnic lunch.
Resolutions were passed thanking
the people of Ellensburg and Roslyn
for the excellent entertainment, Pres
ident Patton and the retiring officers
for able administration for the last
year, and E. e. Beard, Frank Kane
and ]. c. Kaynor, the advertising
committee, for work in arranging for
the convention.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
FREE CHECK CLEARING BEGINS
Federal Reserve Banks Put System
Into Operation.

Washington.-A check collecting
and clearing system became opera
tive July Is in the banks of the fed
eral reserve system. Although no
reports had been received by the
board most of the banks are known
to be confident that the system will
meet with favor at once by both
bankers and business houses.
Banks have been asked to make
a report of the business transacted
during the first few days and as to
the general reception of the new
scheme by the public.
The system provides that every
federal reserve bank shall receive at
par from it's members or from other
federal reserve bank checks drawn
on members of any district and the
checks upon nonmember banks which
can be collected at par.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
SPORTING ITEMS

Pitcher Harry Sallee, who an
nounced his retirement from base
ball recently, when he quit the st.
Louis Nationals, will join the New
York Giants.
The race for the pennant in the
American league grows more exciting
as the season advances, and the end
of the last week found New Rork in
first place and Detroit in fifth place,
separated by less than As points.
Showing a wonderful improvement
in their form, the Occur d'Alene Row
ing club oarsmen won the senior
doubles from the Portland Rowing
club crews in Saturdays events OF
the Oregon-Idaho regatta. Fred Will
liams and G. c. Colquhoun formed
the crew that triumphed over the
Rosarians. Howard Woodruff OF
Portland won the singles event in
easy fashion.
At Omaha, July Is, Dario Resta
driving at the rate of 1885 miles an
hour, won the 150-mile automobile
race on the speedway. A fatal acct
dent marred the event. In the sixth
lap of the big race Alvo Franchi's
car jumped from the raised track al
a dangerous curve, turned over in the
air and struck the ground Is feet be
low. Franchi was not hurt, but Oar
Columbo, his mechanicion was killed
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Chicago.-Norman w. Harris, age
So, banker and philanthropist
Norfolk, va.-Rear Admiral Chas.
Henry Eldred, U. S. ~, retired, age
rs.
st. Paul, Minn.-George S. Lotus.
age 43, sales manager of a grain
company.
n.-Representative Hun
ter Holmes Moss of the Fourth West
Virginia district.
Denver, Col.-Robert S. Ruble, as
sistant general passenger agent of
the Union Pacific railroad.
Parls.-Duke de Rohan, member of
the chamber of deputies from the de-
partment of Morbihan.
Venice. Cal.-Judge Thomas Boyle
Of Butte, Mont, of heart failure. He
was 70 years old and a civil war vet
eran.
Captain Christian BRAND of the
Twelfth cavalry committed suicide at
Hachita, N. M, shooting himself in
the head.
New York.-First Lieutenant Will
liam e. Winant, age so, U. S. NJ, re-
tired, inventor of the Winant ammu-
milton conveyor.
San Francisco.-Captain William
Collier, retired capitalist and for
mer superintendent of the United
States Indian service, in the south.
Milwaukee, Wisdom j. White
| more, age sc, for the last 60 years
connected with the Chicago, Milwau-
gineer, chief engineer, and finally as
consulting engineer.
San Francisco.-William Barton. 67
years old, who was known a genera
ton ago as song writer, a victim
of apoplexy. Barton, a successful
contractor, took up song writing as
a hobby. "The Wild Man of Bor-
neo" was one of his productions.
Paris.-Professor Ellie Metchnikoff
the famous bacteriologist. Professor
Metchnikoff was world-famous as an
exponent of theories for the prolon.
cation of human life. He was most
popularity known as the great advo-
cate of the ''sour milk cure" for old
age, believing that the principal agent
in senile decay was the continuous
auto-intoxication of the body through
the putrefaction of matter in the
large intestines and that the bac
: terra which caused such putrefactior
could be effectively combated by pre-
parations of milk soured by cultures
of selected Tactic acid bacilli. Later
Professor Metchnikoff went so far as
to declare that the large intestine
was as useless in the human body az
is the appendix, and prophesied thai
the day would come when it would bt
commonplace operation to remove
{ it.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
.ORPETMURDERCASE
/. NFREE|NGH|M
NOTORIOUS TRIAL OF VIM. Or
PET FOR DEATH OF
MARION LAMBERT.
BIG MONEY HELPED THE MOST
Says Young Man Proved In
nocent-WiII Take a Rest
for a Few Months.

Waukegan, Ill.-William Orpet, the
university student charged with MUIR
dering Marion Lambert, high school
girl, and his former sweetheart, was
found not guilty Saturday by jury
in Judge Donnelly's court after five
hours elaboration.
Orpet was silent through excess of
emotion. He was barely able to re-
turn the handclasps of his attorneys.
He accepted the hand of a reporter,
but muttered a scarcely perceptible
please DON'T
He made his way to the jurors and
shook their hands one by. one, smil-
ing wanly but saying nothing.
His Lawyer Pleased.
James H. Wilkerson, chief of coun-
sci for the defense, was unable to
keep back the tears and they trickled
from his eyes while he with his as
seciates, Ralph F. Potter and Leslie
p. Hanna, were receiving congrat-
ulations.
Mr.. Wilkerson stated that in his
opinion Orpet had been more than
declared not guilty.
HE was proved innocent" said Mr.
Wilkerson. HE is going home with
his mother now. Then he is going
into the country for a much needed
rest after the nerve-racking expert
ence brought on him by a remark
able, if not unprecedented, series of
? circumstances. Then he will come
back home and make a man of him
self"
At the close of the prosecutors ar
gument, Judge Donnelly delivered his
instructions to the jury.
Counsel for the defense considered
] Judge Donnelly's instructions favor.
able to the defendant.
Trial of the case, including selec
ton of a jury, occupied the better
part of two months. There appeared
in evidence A letters written by Or
pet to Marion over a period Of 6
9 year; bottles and boxes containing
2 cyanide from the Mccormick estate
/ from the Deerfield high school lab
q oratory, from Kraft's drug store a
}, Lake Forest and white powder scrap
ed from Marion's hand and from spot.
on her cloak; the girls garments;
magazine article dealing with the
use of cyanide as a fumigator IL
greenhouses; the chemistry text
> books used respectively by the higl
school girl and the college student
!, a copy of the Wisconsin statute deal
: ing with the sale of poisons, and
bottle of molasses and water.
n Witnesses of Many Kinds.
Five chemists, all of whom wer,
specialists in toxicology, one alienist
n two surveyors, druggists. streetca
q men, an undertaken, school teachers
T. police officers, reporters and friend
h of the Orpets and Lamberts wer
9 among the long array of witnesse
= who testified.
q Ralph w. Dady, states attorney O
4 Lake county; David r. Joslyn, state
n attorney of McHenry county, and Ell
! gene M. Runyard appeared as cour
sci for the prosecution, and James H
Wilkerson, former United States dis
>, trict attorney at Chicago; Ralph +
o Potter, his law partner, and Lesli
= p. Hanna of Waukegan, for the de
" Tense. More than a thousand venirt
men were examined before a jury
" said by counsel upon its selection
% be above the average in intelligenc
and character, was chosen. Judge {
a H. Donnelly presided.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
GRAIN AND MILLING NOTES.

1t is rumored that flour mill will
be erected at Eagle, Idaho.
The Farmers Cooperative associa-
ton of Winifred, Mont, has let the
contract for a 40,000-bushel elevator
to cost $11 900.
The Nampa Flour & Feed company
expects to erect a large warehouse
at Nampa, Idaho, for the exclusive
storage of seed.
The Caldwell Mill & Elevator COM
pany is erecting an elevator at Mid
Vale, Idaho. 1t will have a capacity
of 10000 bushels.
Farmers are planning to erect ele-
vators at about 10000 bushels ca
and Roberts, Mont.
The Farmers Milling & Elevator
company is erecting a $50 0-bushel
elevator at Hobson, Mont, to replace
the one destroyed by fire.
The no-Rochdale company has
awarded the contract for the erection
of a grain elevator at lilo and Cath
Ollie Spur, Idaho. The lilo elevator
will have a capacity of $4,000 bushels
and the other $1,000 bushels.
The Cottonwood Milling company
of Cottonwood, Idaho, has secured
the deed for its new mill site and
soon will begin active operations for
the erection of the new building. The
company, which is Incorporating
with a capitalization of $4,000, held
stockholders meeting last week
and elected the following directors
]. F. Jenny, ]. B. Krieger, Joseph
Ulenkott, George ]. Terhaar, John
Hoene.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
PROBE POOR MOVING OF TROOPS
War Department Looks Into Condi-
tlons En- Route.

Washington.-An investigation of
the conditions under which national
guardsmen have been transported to
the Mexican border has been insti-
tuted by the war department in re-
Spouse to the Moore resolution pass
ed by the house calling on Secretary
Baker for the facts. Departmental
commanders have been instructed to
make special reports, although Off
Gals say the regular report, already
in hand showed that never before in
the nations history had troops been
moved under such comfortable and
favorable conditions.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
Filing for ColviIIe Lands.

Total for first ten days:
Spokane, 34.131; Wenatchee, 1924;
Wilbur, 1,09S; Colville, 1861; Omak,
1,430; Republic, 400; total, 49,994.
There is a noticeable increase in
the registration of people where the
names are being taken of those who
desire share in the Colville Indian
lands.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
Prepare Germany for Peace.

London.-The German national COM
mission which recently was organic
ed under the presidency of Prince
Won Webel for the purpose of pre-
pairing the minds of the German peo-
pie for IAN honorable peace" will
soon begin its labors with a series
Of meetings in various towns in Ger
many.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21

According to the Brewers Review
the production of beer in the United
States last year was 5.2SS,33S bar
rels less than it was the year before,
and the production In 1914 was g.
812,15 barrels less than in 1913.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21
Kitchener Left $s5o,ooo Estate.

London.-The will of Field Marshal
Earl Kitchener, the British secretary
of war, who lost his life in the sink
ing of the cruiser Hampshire off the
Orlmeys June 5, was admitted to pro-
bate recently. 1t shows that he left
an estate valued at approximately
s850,00O, mostly to relatives.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-07-21

The members of the federal trade
commission are earning their salaries
these days. When grievances come up
they at once place a sleuth on the job
to trace the source of the complaint
and are also kept busy handling the
charges of unfair competition.