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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-05-19

DR.. F. r. Thornton Of Nashville,
Tenn, has leased Offices in the First
National bank building and will en-.
gage in his profession here. He will
bring his family here soon and will
reside in the Newman house on Second
street northeast.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1916-05-19
LEVIN CAPTAIN OF FOOTBALL
TEAM

Oscar Levin was elected captain Of
the 1916 football team, at a meeting
of the high school boys Friday after
noon noon He was recently elected ae to head
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
OVER HALF A MILLION CON-
MUNICANTS is CHURCH'S
GAIN FOR ONE YEAR

A summary of all church denomina-
lions for 1915, Roman Catholics, Pro-
testants and Jewish, give grand to-
tai of 1S0,604 ministers, 225,333 church
buildings and 39,3SO,670 communicates
as compared with 17S,SSS ministers,
225493 churches and 38,72707S CON-
municants in 1914. These figures are
compiled by DR.. Henry K. Carroll, as
sociate secretary of the Federal Coun-
Gil of the Churches of Christ in Amer
tea.
\ The Methodist Episcopal church has
3,657,594 members, net gain of 1,417,
240 in rs years.
Northern Presbyterians have 1,495,
157 members as compared with 1924
in 1890, a net gain of 706,933 in rs
years.
The Methodist church south records
2,O72,O35 a net gain of S62,059 in rs
years.
Northern Baptists have 1,252,633
MEMBERS net gain Of 452,183 in rs
years.
The Protestant Episcopal church re.
cords 1,040,S96 members, net gain of
509,842 in 25 years.
Lutheran Synodical Conference has
1856 members, a net gain of 464, 233
in 25 years.
Congregationalists have T1,362
members, net gain of 258,591 in rs
years.
Returns for 1915 give the Catholics
membership of 14,049,063, a gain of
1917 SAG in rs years.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT.

Bids for construction of the Under
wood road in western Skamania coun-
ty were opened by the county commits
sioners at Stevenson this week and the
General Construction Co. of Spokane
having made the lowest complete bid,
was awarded the contract for $39,5S2.
Actual construction work has com
menced on the dam and power plant
below Metaline Falls, on the Pend
Oreille river, to be used by the Mil
waukee railroad in the identification
of it's Idaho and Washington Northern
line, running out Of Occur d'Alene city.
A water right calling for 100000 GU
bic feet per second of the waters of
Flathead river to be used on $4,000
acres within the Flathead project, for
merly the Flathead Indian reservation,
has been filed in the county clerks
office at Kalispell, Mont, by Project
Engineer e. F. Tabor of the United
States reclamation service.
At cost of $1,294,64S railroads op-
Grating in this section will replace new
ties and rails this year. Most of these
have already been ordered and some
are on the ground ready for the work
to commence as soon as the frost is
out of the ground sufficiently to per-
NIT work to start. One road has al
ready started work on small scale.
The above figures refer to the actual
cost of the rails at the mill at $26 a
ton and do not include the hauling, on
which the freight rate is $14.50. This
will necessitate the employment Of
thousands of men and does not include
wages, other materials required nor
other Improvement work, such as
bridge work or ballasting.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
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.

The Mormon colony of Casas Gran
des, Chihuahua, is no longer in danger
from attack by Villa bandits was was
reported on Monday.
Colonel Winston Spencer Churchill,
who had an interview with Premier AS
quith Saturday, finally has decided his
place is with his regiment.
Snow and floods in Washington
and Montana, but mainly the snow
troubles in the Cascades and the
Rockies, have cost the railroads sew
eral millions of dollars this year.
The marriage of Prince Joachim, the
fifth son of Emperor William, and Prin-
cess Marie Augustine, daughter of
Prince Edward of Anhalt, was cele-
brated Saturday in the royal castle of
Bellevue.
Thousands of state militiamen over
the country could be modified within
a few hours if needed for service in
Mexico, according to dispatches re,
ceived at the national capital Monday
from various state capitals
After more than weeks delibera-
ton the verdict of the Chicago city
civil service commission in the city hall
split-salary scandal is said to allow
the entire matter to revert to it's orig
inal standing.
A balky horse stopping at a cross
three persons on the Pennsylvania
railroad at West Berlin, N. ]. The
dead: Mrs. Sallie Cook, 65 years;
Anna Cook, 81 years, her daughter, anG
Henry Myrtetus, 81, the driver
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
PANAMA CANAL IN NO DANGER
Geologist Asserts the Slides Sool
Will Be Conquered.

Washington. The Panama canal
will not be swallowed up by an earth
quake in the future and the trouble
some slides now being encountered will
eventually be conquered, is the opinion
of Donald F. Macdonald, former canal
geologist and now connected with the
federal bureau Of mines. The results
of his studies on the isthmus are en-
bodied in an official report to the bu-
reau, made public recently.
While through seismic disturbances
the earth's crust on the whole isthmus
is rising at the rate of three feet every
hundred years. this will only mean a
little additional expense in dredging
the big waterway, Mr.. Macdonald says.
The cause of this rising he declares,
is the sinking of the ocean bottom out
side the isthmian shore waters.
Discussing the slides Mr.. Macdonald
states that in many cases the immedi-
ate cause was the over-steepness and
height of the slopes, the blasting and
other work attributable only to man.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
SPORTING ITEMS

Great Falls ball fans are generous
and now Northwestern League base
ball is assured for that city
Nick Williams, the Indians 1916
manager, will arrive in Spokane on
March 20 to take personal charge Of
the situation.
w. s. C. won the conference basket
ball championship on Saturday by a
Al to II victory over Idaho in the final
game of the season.
The infusion of new blood into the
mogul arteries of the national game
surely will bring about a marvellous
improvement in baseball.
Tony Brottem, who caught last sea-
son for the Vancouver club of the
Northwestern league, is going fine for
the ST. Louis Cardinals.
The New York Boxing commission is
spit as, Chairman Wenck and two fell
low members are at loggerheads. He
favors mixed bouts and referees de-
cisions, but is over ruled.
At Los Angeles, March II, Frank
Gotch won two straight falls in his
match with William Demetral, the Chi.
cago Greek. thus clinching his title as
the worlds champion at catch-as-catch.
can.
w. G. Matthews of Ephrata, is con.
ditioning his Russian wolf hounds and
his Chesapeake Bay dogs preparatory
to taking them to the Seattle Kennel
club bench show on the 10Th of this
month.
Jess Willard is a much improved
boxed, says an eastern sport writer
won the championship from Johnson
according to Damon Runyon and is
still very fast.
At Grinnel, Iowa., March II, w. c.
(Billy) Robinson, head of the Grinnell
aero school, was instantly killed when
his biplane, in which he was trying
for an altitude record, plunged to the
ground from height of $4,000 feet.
Perfect scores of 1000 were made
again last week by rifle teams of Mich
igan Agricultural college and Washing
ton State college shooting in the inter
collegiate matches being held under
the auspices of the National Rifle as
ISOLATION.
Frank Gotch has accepted the Offer
of the Copper City Athletic club te
wrestle in Butte some time next
month, his opponent to be selected by
the club. This is a clear-cut an
nouncement that the champion is back
in the game and that he will meet
Joe Stecher Of just as much interest
to the local fans is the announcement
that Demetral, the Greek champion
who was such a drawing card against
Pat Connolly, will meet Joe Steche1
at the Broadway theater, March %.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
england CALLED
TOACCOUNTFORACT
BRITISH TOOK SO MEN FROM w.. s.
STEAMER CHINA OFF THE
JAPANESE COAST.
FIRED A SHOT ACROSS BOW
Protests Were in vain-sobs of One
Germans Wife Moved Boarding Of
ficer to ompassion-captain Re-
fused to Give Details.

San Francisco, CAL, March 1.-The
American steamer China, from which
80 men were taken by a British board
ing party February 1S off the Japanese
coast, arrived here today.
G. L. Brown, special deputy collector
of the port, acting for Collector j. A.
Davis, summoned Captain F. E. Frazier
to his office to make report.
Captain Frazier declined to make
public the details of the boarding of
the China, but some of them were sup
piled by Mrs. w. B. Knapp, a passen-
ger, who said she took stenographic
notes of some of the conversation, and
pictures.
The China was stopped with a shot
across her bow from the British aux
iliary cruiser Laurentic, about 10 miles
out from the mouth of the Yangtse-
Kiang river and boarded by Leuts.
B. Newberry and Steel and detail of
five of the Laurantic's crew, accord
ing to Mrs. Knapp, whose story was
corroborated by other passengers.
Passengers were lined up on the
deck by the boarding party and each
man was asked if he was German"
according to Mrs. Knapp, who said the
Germans, Austrians and Turks were
then segregated. 1.-TWO Of the Germans
taken off-W. F. Schuetter, a mer-
chant, of Tsing-Tau, and Richard Web
Der left their wives aboard the Chi
ma, Mrs. Weber with three children.
The woman were crying and sob.
bing," said Mrs. Knapp, "and one Of
the British officers, touched at the
plight Of Mrs. Weber, said to Weber,
Get out Of here-get below"
Weber, said Mrs. Knapp, was head
strong and protested the right of the
British to take off any Germans. Fin
nally he was removed to the Laurentic,
with the 81 others.
Look Tin Eli, president of the China
Mail Steamship company, owner Of the
China, was at the dock today when the
vessel arrived, but, beyond comment
that "the episode was serious one"
he had nothing to say. Attaches of the
German consulate also were at the
dock to care for the "a German women
and children aboard the vessel.
Seizure of the Edna.
The American steamer Edna. for
merly the Mazatlan, which left here
under charter to carry nitrates from
Chile to the British West Indies, has
been seized by British sruiser and
taken to Port Stanley F. l., according
to a cablegram received tonight by
Sudden and Christensen, the vessels
owners.
The Edna, as the Mazatlan, was
owned formerly by Captain Fred Jeb-
sen Of this city. While owned by Jeb-
sen, German citizen, the vessel was
used in an alleged violation of Amer"
lean neutrality.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
In a Commercial Way.

d. G. Campbell has opened meat
market at Ephrata.
c. M. Forsythe has purchased the
grocery store of j. P. Morton at Ia.
coma.
r. M. Ryan and o. s. Jones, har-
ness dealers at C'olfax, have dissolved,
]lyan continuing.
E. j. Hepburn, jewelry and furni-
ture dealer at Waitsburg, suffered fire
loss last week, practically covered by
insurance.
B. F. Nicholas, OF the Leader store
at Colville, has bought the concrete
residence of George H. Shaver and
will occupy it for home.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
Go Well Prepared.

San Antonio, Texas, March INA
jor General Frederick Funston today
outlined his plans for the capture
dead or alive" of Francisco Villa and
his band of outlaws.
1--WE do not ourselves know just
when the expedition will start into
Mexico, although of course, 1t will be
soon," he declared
1T will go forward Just as soon as
sufficient number of men, with an
adequate commissary, can be organ
lied. 1t will not be held back, how.
to the border have arrived.
There is no use going at this thing
half cooked The task ahead of us will
be long and arduous one"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Wheat is profitably grown in lower

Wheat is profitably grown in lower
California.
George G. Cole, United States consul
at Prince Rupert, has resigned his po-
sition.
The Tacoma Retail Grocers' associa-
ton celebrated it's sixteenth annual
banquet last week.
Albert Fisher, age II, the son of a
ranchman living near Roseburg, Ore,
was found dead, a suicide, at his home
recently with gun beside the body.
The foreign commerce of the GUS
toms district of Washington for Feb
ruary reached in value the sum of $751;
929,292, compared with $16,362, 100 for
January of this year and $10,O62,430
for February, 1916.
Hywel Davies, government concili-
ator, left Lexington, KY, Saturday, for
Alaska, where he will try to adjust the
strike of the employees on the govern
ment railway between Seward and
Fairbanks. Mr. Davies will be joined
by John A. Moffit of New Jersey. also
a government conciliator. They expect
to remain in Alaska several months.
The Washington State Pharmaceu-
teal association will again hold its
annual convention on board steamer
early in June, making three-day trip
on the waters of Puget Sound with a
party Of $50 to 200. This method Of
conducting gatherings was tried last
year, and found so successful in hold
ing the delegates attention and in
terest that it has been made IRE
peater.",
The annual state convention of Ore
CONS chapters, Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, came to a close at
Portland, Saturday, with a dinner.
Salem was chosen for next years con-
vention. With one exception officers
were reelected to serve during the
coming year. The exception was Mrs.
Frank e. Clements of Portland, Ore,
corresponding secretary, who did not
seek reelection. In her place Mrs. La
Nome r. Clark of Salem was elected
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
For Small Country Papers.

ashington.-Senator Bankhead of
Alabama, chairman of the postoffice
committee, introduced Saturday and
had referred to his committee bill to
repeal the law requiring editors, pub
fishers and owners of newspapers,
magazines and periodicals to file with
the postmaster general every months
sworn statements with names of edi-
tors, owners, stockholders, securities,
and in case of newspapers sworn state
ments of average circulation. Senator
Bank head said he was acting on his
own initiative in behalf Of the small
country newspapers.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
Secretary Lansing Wants Light

Washington.-Secr Lansing has
instructed Consul Osborn at Havre,
France, to secure and forward imme-
Gately all available details of the sink
ing in Havre roads of the Norwegian
bark Silius, from which seven Ameri-
can citizens were rescued. Consul Os-
born had previously reported that the
Silius was torpedoed without warning
on the night of March 8. If torpedo
did destroy the bark, which was bound
the government responsible will be
to Havre from New York with grain,
held to strict accountability. Such an
act would be contrary to all the assur-
ances which the United States has Sc
cured.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
LANDS OPEN TO HoMEsrEADINc
Most of 100000 Acres Already Taken
Up by Settlers.

Neutrality-suspicious. than 100000
acres of public lands were designated
by the interior department as enterable
by homesteaders in February. it was
announced Saturday. Some of the land
already has been filed for settlement
on much of the rest.
The land opened is scattered
throughout nearly 200 counties in nine
western states. In Arizona 1900 acres
were opened; in California, 10000;
Colorado, 10000; Kansas, $1,000; Mon
tana, 100000; North Dakota, 25O,OOO;
Oregon, 100000; South Dakota, 1,OOO,-
900 acres in the Bellefourche, Lem
mon and Rapid City districts; Wyom-
ing, 100000.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
BREvITIEs.

The Grangeville flour mill at
Grangeville, Idaho, was destroyed by
fire last week, entailing loss Of about
$4,000, which was insured for $4,000.
Louisiana's cane sugar crop for 1915
amounted to 136,500 short tons, COM
pared with crop Of 242,7OO tons the
year before. In announcing the fig
ures the department Of agriculture
said cool, wet weather retarded the
growth of the cane in some sections
and that considerable, damage was
done by general storm In September
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
GIVE VILLA TO cARRANzA
That is What Former President Taft
Would Do,

Glen Falls, N. Y.-"If l had my way
l would not try to bring Villa under
the protection of the United States, but
l would turn him over to Carranza,
who would know how to deal with
him." declared former President Taft
at the first annual dinner of the Glens
Falls Chamber of Commerce, Saturday.
Mr.. Taft declared that the present pol
icy of the United States was RESPONSE
BILE for the Mexican situation, and as
serted he was heartily in favor of Will
sons present program to get Villa"
He stated that If the United States
could capture Villa and draw his
fangs out" it would remove the chief
cause of the Mexican difficulties and
assure peace in that country. Mr.. Taft
closed his talk with plea for pre-
paredness, and urged the building of
a large navy.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
Buffalo Fire $55o.Qoo.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Fire said to have
been caused by dust explosion virtu.
ally destroyed the fertilizer plant OF
the International Agricultural corpora.
ton here Sunday. The loss is estima-
ted at s550,000. Seven employees who
were in the building were slightly
burned
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
Seven DAYS Too Much.

New York.-The man who works
seven days week and who thus be-
comes so absorbed in himself and his
work that he can talk nothing but
shop" was characterized as super
bore" by former Judge Alton B. Par
ker In paper prepared by him to
be read at a meeting Of the republican
club here recently.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
slide Kills one at Spokane

Spokane.-John Gleason, a well-to-
do member of the squatters' colony. is
believed to have lost his life in spec
tacular manner and others had mar
row escapes when section Of the o.
W. r. & N. big fill, nearly a block
long and 200 feet high, slid to the
rivers edge one-quarter of mile west
of Monroe street, Monday evening.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
NEW SALES PLAN, FRUIT, MEN.
J. II. Lowell Is President; Praise Rob-
bins Work at Annual Meet.


bins Work at Annual Meet.
Spokane.-The new plan of reorgan-
ization of the North Pacific Fruit Dis
tributors, submitted by the executive
council, was ratified in its entirety
Monday at the annual meeting and
election. Several changes in bylaws
were made. Spokane will continue to
be the headquarters of the Distrib.
meet here once month. The full
board of trustees will meet three times
year, in March, August and October
The March meeting will be the an.
nual one, the August meeting falls just
before the seasons marketing begins
and the October gathering at the be-
ginning of heavy shipments.
The special representative in the
European markets will be continued
as before and proper representation
will be Established in New York to
handle the eastern end of the export
business.
New Officers.
President, j. H. Lowell, Parma, Ida.
Vice president, H. e. Tibbetts, Cash
mere. taa
Secretary, F. e. Sickles, North Yak
ina.
Treasurer, w. NJ Sackett, Hamilton,
Mont.
Executive committee, Captain Will
liam Coggins, Omak; d. l.. Ingard,
Fruitland, Idaho, and G. H. Human,
North Yakima.
F. Il. Sickles was also elected execu-
tive secretary and will have his office
in Spokane.
B. A. Perham, sales manager, was
appointed general sales agent at Chi
cago in charge of the territory east
of and inclusive of the Missouri river.
The appointments of the district
managers at Omaha and Minneapolis
will be made later. Mr. Perham will
leave for the east at once to reestab-
lish the old trade connections in the
eastern markets and to establish new
ones in markets not previously ex-
plotted.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
WOULD HONOR SENATOR JONES
Republicans in Senate Favor Him for
Chairman,

Washington.-Am those republi.
can members of the senate who are
regarded as political leader as move
ment is on foot to secure at the hands
of the committee on arrangements for
the national convention the selection
man of that body. This committee is
named by the national committee. Ger
tain middle-western members Of it are
known to be desirious of Senator
Jones selection. Senators Lodge and
Borah have been mentioned for the
Mace
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17

France has one woman Judge, Mile.
Jusselin, whose special duty Is to try
disputes between employers and the
employed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17
U. S. TO MEET cARRANzA TERMS
Troops Barred From Mexico Unless
Equal Privileges to Him.

Mexico City, March 12.-General
Carranza tonight issued a manifesto
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17

Payne & Payne have opened 5, 10
and 15c store at Boomers Ferry.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17

Necessity never made a good bar.
)ain.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-03-17

Great Falls ball fans are generous
and now Northwestern League base
ball is assured for that citH
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-23
ROBT. REYNOLDS and NICK HEM
RICKS AUCTION SALE.


Having sold my farm, known as the
George Garthwaite farm, miles
northwest of Lancaster and miles
south of Mt. Hope, and miles east of
Bloomington, will sell at Public Auc-
ton, commencing at 10 o'clock,
FRIDAY. FEB. %, 1916.
IL head of Horses-Gray mare 6
years old, weight 400; bay gelding
years old, weight 1850; bay gelding
years old, weight 1900; gray gelding
II years old, weight 1900; span of bay
drivers, VT. 2100, one years, and
one 10 years old; dark brown mare 10
years old, weight 1900; one bay geld
ing, 3 years old, weight HOO; l black
filly coming years old, weight 1900;
one bay filly coming 2 years old; one
sucking colt.
IS head of Cattle-26 Milk COWS, to
freshen in spring; 10 yearlings, 10
steers and heifers; one heifer COM
ing 8 years old; one shOrthorn bull,
coming 8 years old; &c calves, IL
steers and IA heifers; 10 yearling
heifers.
Grain and Hay-About so tons of
hay in the barn; 160 blu. barley; 1000
bu. oats, more or less; 200 bu. of mix
ed grain; 40 chickens; 2 straw stacks;
5 blu. clover seed and more or less;
4 bu. seed corn. 81 hogs, four old
brood sows, all to farrow in April, 80
shoats, June and fall pigs.
Farm Machinery-One Deering bin
der, nearly new; John Deere hayload-
er, new; side delivery rake, new; Os-
borne disc, new; John Deere corn
planter; two cultivatOrs, one Elmer
son and one John Deere; two gang
plows, one Emerson, 12-inch, one Mo-
line, 14-inch; one 16-inch John Deere
pillow; one Thomas mower; 3-sectiOn
dray; one harrow cart; seeder; one
manure spreader; wagons; one high
wheel wagon, nearly new; two truck
wagons; one cream wagon; one sur
reg; one single buggy; one hay rack;
one corn shelter; one feed cooker; 2
galvanized tanks; one 1000-lbS plat
form scale; DeLavel cream separator,
capacity 700 lbs; 240 egg Successful
incubator, No. 2; one cook stove; two
scoop boards; sets 1-4-inch har-
ness; one set of driving harness; hay
rope and forks, and other articles too
numerous to mention. Lunch at noon.
TERMS-All sums of $40 and under,
cash; on sums over $40, one years
time will be given on good bankable
notes bearing per cent interest.
ROBT. REYNOLDS &
NICKS HEINRICH'S
J. G. Vesperman, Auctioneer.
L. A. Clark, Clerk.