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The midland journal., 1917-12-28
PROHIBITION BILL
WINS IN CONGRESS
Goes Through House With Eight
Votes to Spare.
DEER ADVOCATES LOSE
House Allows Seven Years For Rati-
fication To Upper Body's Six
Wild Demonstration When
Measure Is Adopted.

Washington.-Nation-wide prohibit
ton won its greatest victory when
the House of Representatives by a
vote of 2S2 to 128, passed the Shep-
pard-Webb resolution, submitting to
the states an amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution outiawing the man
ufacture and sale of distilled and fer
mented liquors in the United States
The Senate passed a somewhat sim
liar resolution last summer by a vote
of 65 to 20. The Presidents approval
is not required, and the state Legis-
latures may act as soon as they please
after the signatures of the Vice-Presi-
dent and Speaker Clark have been
attached to the resolution An amend
ment exempting beer and light wines
was voted down.
The action Of the House brings the
United States to the threshold of ma
tional prohibition. The temperance
forces in America have been fighting
for the last 80 years to have Congress
submit to the states nationwide
l..
been in recent years that they have
been able to get either branch of Con-
gress to take vote on the question
Their victory marks the greatest
stride ever made by the prohibition
forces in America.
The House and Senate resolutions
are somewhat different in text and
they must go to conference The House
resolution provides that the states Of
the Union must ratify the amendment
In seven years against time limit of
six years fixed in the Senate measure.
The House resolution also gives dis
tilleries, wineries and breweries a
year of grace in which to close out
their business if the amendment is
ratified. The Senate resolution does
not proide for this year of grace. The
House resolution also provides that
the states shall have concurrent police
power to enforce the prohibition law.
The Senate resolution does not con-
tain this provision.
The vote in the House, taken after
day of debate before crowded gal
leries, was 282 to 1913, with the parties
dividing almost evenly. The margin
for prohibition was just eight votes
more than the necessary two-thirds
of the membership of the House re-
quired for adoption, and &c more than
two-thirds of those voting.
Both vets and drys had been pre-
dieting victory al day, and it was not
until the last few names had been
called that the anti-prohibition forces
conceded their defeat. When Speaker
Clark announced the result the victors
were Joined by the galleries in such
a demonstration as is rarely permitted
IN the House. Former Secretary of
State William Jennings Bryan, an in
terested spectator nearly all day, ap-
peared on the floor and joined in re-
ceiving congratulations with Repre-
sentative Webb, of North Carolina,
who had led the fight.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
THE COUNTRY AT LARGE

Brigadier General John A. Johnson
approved court-martial sentences for
violations of the draft law of 20 years
each imposed on John T. Dunn and
Adolph L. Lyanger, of Providence. and
of Is years on Fritz Stepanovitch. of
Boston
The directors of the German-Amer-
lean National Bank or st. Joseph, Mo-,
voted to drop the word German from
the banks name
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
ANOTHER SPANISH VICTIM.
Steamship Torpedoed BY Submarine
Without Warming.

Paris.-The torpedoing by sub
marine of the Spanish steamship No
viembre, 1854 tons gross, is reported
in dispatch from Biarritz to the Ex-
celsior, quoting advices received there
from Bilbao. Thirty of the crew have
been landed. They say the ship was
torpedoed without warning at night
and that they were all thrown into
the sea. After swimming about for an
hour they were picked up by French
patrol ships, which put the submarine
to flight.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

army, but his youth is not described
in any authentic documents.
The British story is that a lad named
Mackenzie left Scotland years ago,
hunting adventure, and drifted into
the German army. Finding himself In
line for promotion, he changed his
name to Won Mackensen and applied
himself so diligently that he rose
quickly in the ranks and by the time
the war was declared was in gen
erals position.
The story is said to be implicitly be-
seved
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
TRUCE MADE
FOR FOUR WEEKS
Terms of Russo-German Agree
ment Public.
NO TRANSFER OF TROOPS
German Commanders Believed To
Have Already Shifted All They
Planned To-Washington
To Go Slowly.

Petrograd.-The terms of the Russo
German armistice, according to a
statement issued here, obligate no
transference of troops until January
IA (JanIary /, Russian); no increase
of troops on the fronts or on the
islands in the Moon Sound, or a re-
grouping of forces. The Germans are
not to concentrate troops between the
Black Sea and the Baltic east of the
fifteenth degree of longitude east Of
Greenwich. Intercourse between the
troops may be allowed from sunrise
to sunset. Groups are limited to 25
persons at time, who may exchange
newspapers and unsealed mails and
who may carry on trade and exchange
articles of prime necessity.
A special agreement will be made
by the naval general staff regarding
the extension of the armistice to the
White Sea and the Russian coast in
the Arctic zone. 1t is agreed also
that attacks on war and commercial
vessels must stop in these regions in
order to avoid attacks in other seas.
The agreement says:
"The armistice shall begin on De
cember December ~ at o'clock
in the afternoon and continue until
January l (January 14). The con-
tracing parties have the right to
break the armistice by giving seven
days notice. Unless notice is given
the armistice automatically continues.
"The armistice embraces the land
and aerial forces on the front from
the Baltic to the Black Sea and also
the Russo-Turkish. front in Asia
Minor. During the armistice the par
ties concerned obligate themselves
not to increase the number of troops
on the above front or on the above
fronts or on the islands in Moon
Sound, or to make regrouping of
forces.
Neither side is to make operative
any transfers of units from the Baltic
Black Sea front until January l Jan
uary 14), excepting those begun be-
fore the agreement is signed. They
obligate themselves not to concen-
trate troops on parts of the Black
Sea or Baltic Sea east of Is degrees
OF longitude east OF Greenwich.
"The question of release of troops
freed from service vino are beyond the
line of demarcation will be solved dur
ing the peace negotiations. This ap-
plies also to Polish troops.
Immediately after the signing of
the armistice peace negotiations are
to be begun. 1t is provided that meas
ures shall be taken for the exchange
of civil prisoners, invalids, women and
children under fourteen years and for
the amelioration of the condition of
war prisoners. The treaty concludes
with these words:
with the purpose of facilitating
the conduct of peace negotiations and
the speedy healing of the wounds
caused by the war, the contracting
parties take measures for re-establish-
ment of cultural and economic rela-
tions among the signatories. Within
such limits as the armistice permits,
postal commercial relations, the mail.
ing of books and papers will be per
mitted, the details to be worked out
by a mixed commission, representing
all the interested parties, at Petro-
grad"
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
NOT BULLET PROOF.

German Soldiers Armor Pierced BY
American Gunfire.
With the American Army in France.
The German soldiers armor will
not withstand the hard-hitting Amer
lean bullet, it has been shown. A
heavy breastplate removed from a
German prisoner for a test was liter
ally chewed to pieces by machine
gun fire after a rife bullet, fired at a
good range, had torn a hole in the
armor as big as silver dollar. Even
the bullets from an automatic pistol
did the work it was expected they
would in this respect.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
FRENCH TRANSPORT SUNK. :
u-Roat That Torpedoed Her Also
Sent Down.

Paris.-The old French cruiser.
Chateau-Renault, employed as trans
port, was torpedoed and sunk in the
Mediterranean on the morning of De-
cember IA, and the submarine which
attacked her later was destroyed, ac-
cording to announcement made by the
French minister of marine. The pas
sengers on the Chateau-Renault, all
of whom were either soldiers or Off
GERS, were saved. Ten members Of
the crew were lost.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
Seventy Others Injured iK GerI
mans Attack on London.
TWO OF ENEMY SHOT DOWl
British Flyer Fights Foe At Heigh|
Of $4,000 Feet---16 To 20 Planes
In Invading
: Squadron.

LOndOn.-Ten persons were Killed
and 70 injured in London during the
air raid Tuesday night by German
avators.
One of the German airplanes which
took part in the attack On England
was brought down and another is be-
lieved to have been destroyed, the
War Office announced, From 16 to
20 raiders, divided into six groups,
endeavored to reach London. but only
five succeeded in dropping bombs on
the city.
Fight 1900 Feet Up.
There is reason to believe another
raider dropped into the English Chan
mel, says the report
A British pilot fired two drums of
ammunition into a raider as it was
dropping bombs on London from a
height of $4,000 feet.
After the main attacks of the raid.
ers ceased, single airplane few
over London at about 8 o'clock.
The raider known definitely to havd
been destroyed was hit by the fire
anti-aircraft guns and finally droppeY
into the sea off Kent. Two of the
crew of three were captured alive by
an armed trawler.
The Official Report.
The text of the statement issued
by Lord French commander of the
British home forces, reads:
"The latest reports indicate that
from 16 to 20 enemy airplanes took
part in the air raid. Three groups of
raiders crossed the Kent coast be-
tween 6.15 and 625 P. NJ. Three
other groups crossed the Essex coast
between 6.1O and GAS P, M.
"All six groups made toward Lon
don. Most of the raiders were turned
back by gunfire at various places,
only about five machines actually
reaching the capital between and
P. M.
After the main attack. on London
had terminated a single airplane
made its way over the capital about
8 P. M
Two Of Crew Captured.
zone raider, hit by gunfre, finally
came down in the sea off the Kent
coast, two of it's crew OF three men
being captured alive by an armed
trawler There is reason to suppose
that another enemy airplane came
down in the channel, but this has not
been confirmed UP to the present.
"One of our pilots attached and
fired two drums of ammunition into a
raider as the latter was in the act of
dropping bombs on London from
height of $4,000 feet Another OF our
pilots also engaged the enemy over
London and third in the vicinity Of
the capital at 1000 feet All our ma
chimes returned safely.
Bombs also were dropped at vari-
Gus places in Kent and Essex" "a
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
SLEPT ON wAr-zoNE WATCH.

Sailor On Liner Given Four Months
In Jail For It.
Boston.-Axel Jansen, sailor, was
sentenced to four months in jail by
Judge Morton in Federal Court on a
charge Of falling to obey orders and
endangering transatlantic liner by
going asleep in the submarine zone
while supposed to be on watch. "If
you were in the United States Navy" I"
said Judge Morton in imposing SEN
tence, you would be dead now" The
judge announced that in future cases
of this kind he would impose the max
imum penalty of one year.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

London.-The predominant fact as
regards the Russian situation at the
moment is the signing of an armistice,
which is announced officially at the
capitals of all the countries concerned
According to special dispatches from
Petrograd, every one there believes
that permanent peace between Rus
sia and the Central Powers will re-
suit.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
World War in Brief

Rome reports the defeat Of Austro-
German troops which attacked the
Italian lines on the northern froat.
Berlin announces an attack by Brit
ish troops on the Italian front, which
the German War Office claims broke
down before the Teuton lines.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
ScoTs CLAIM Won MAcKENsEN
Rurnor That Famous German Soldier
Was Born In Country North
of the Tweed.

Thousands of people in England and
Scotland believe that General Won
Mackensen, the best tactician in the
German army, and the conqueror of
Russia, Roumania, Serbia and northern
Italy, is in reality Scotchman. Much
mystery enshrouds this soldiers past.
Eor years he has been in the German
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
SAYS SWISS WOULD RESIST.

President Calender Warns Any Pos
sible Invader.
Geneva.-President Felix Calender,
in the first public speech he has de-
livered since his recent election, said
here that the Swiss people were ready
to pour out their blood against any
one who might attempt to invade their
country. Switzerland, declared the
President. would defend her neutrality
to the end.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28

Washington.-Reco of the
Bolsheyiki Government by the United
States is still remote, it was indicated
at the State Department. Reports in
Europe suggesting developing senti-
ment in favor of dealing with the new
regime as de facto government have
found no response here and it was
made plain that the United States
would continue it's policy of awaiting
developments.
The midland journal., 1917-12-28
TlNkHAM ESCAPES DEATH.
coneressman's Auto Falls 20 Feet
Over Italian Mountain Side.

over lta!ian mountain Side.
Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy-An army automobile in which
Congressman George H Tinkham, of
Boston, was riding on visit to Monte
Grappa on the Northern mountain
front, skidded over the mountain side
and dropped 20 feet. 1t made double
turn and was crushed to pieces, but
the Congressman and the other oc-
cupants escaped with bruises, the
chauffeur being seriously but not dan
gerously injured. The car was so
badly damaged that it was abandoned.
Congressman Tinkham, who fired the
first American shot against Austria,
received slight injuries and was cared
for by a military surgeon.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-08-16

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Hooverized Menus and Other Forms of
Food Economy No Terror for Gotham
(Roy X. Moulton in New York SUM

notch. Lately have been thinkin.
That every good meal would be m,
last. So l have been going to it re-
gardless of expense. Now, I'll mattel
you to see who pays for this littl,
bite we have just had"
The little bite cost me 1915.
Always eat la Carte" said Bob
That's my system. They can't dc
much to you a la carte, but beware OF
table d'hote boys are saving enough
take the calories out of meal. The
table d'hotes boys are savign enough
food right now to feed Belgium. When
Uncle Herb Hoover made his first ap-
peal they heard him. They would
have heard him II he had whispered
1t over in Washington. They have
got sharp ears. They jumped to the
conservation Of food like a diving
Venus chorus at the Hippodrome.
Every red ink joint in town cut nine
courses out of it's 36-course dinner the
first day, and more courses the next
day. They didn't need to have brick
house fall on 'em. A hint was enough.
All they wanted was official backing.
Some of them have cut out everything
but the soup and spaghetti Soup and
spaghetti will be the last to 60 Most
OF them have got enough soup sitting
on the back of the stove to last
through this war and two or three
others and a few miles of spaghetti
make no difference whatever
"A la Carte" he continued, "is al
together different. You can order
what you want-one thing at time
and if any one thing is cut down be-
low reason you can make a sensible
kick. They can't slip much over on
you, but when you're up against one
of those table d'hotes good night!
You can't tell whether the soup and
the salad are loyal or whether they
were made in Germany. They now
give you twice as much spaghetti as
usual and only half as much chicken.
hSS u W yOu ext 81 llluCIl
spaghetti that you will take only a
mild interest in what comes later.
They have fooled lot of folks, but
not me.
Boosted the Price at Once.
IAN expert can pull more tricks with
a table d'hote menu than Howard
Thurston can do with poker deck.
Hoover didn't have to speak twice to
those boys. They were ready and
And then, as an added at
traction, they boosted the price all
around. Hoover didn't tell them to do
that did he?"
"They can probably think few
things out for themselves" l replied.
Il suppose Teller would be more
patriotic to save food for the soldiers"
said Bob.
why don't you try it?" l asked.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-08-16
LOST COPPER CARGO.

According to the Daily Metal Re-
porter, a cargo of copper buried be-
meath the waters of Lake Huron sine,
the civil war probably win soon be
raised. Incidentally several residents
of Toledo. Ohio. and Alpena. Michi-
gan, hope to get rich through dividing
the spoils. which they estimate to be
worth under present war prices, at
least 100000. A diver has located
the cargo and Detroit dispatches an
nounce that some of the copper al
ready has been recovered. 1t Is de-
clared this Is a record in deep water
salvage. The effort to recover the val
liable cargo revives again the often
repeated tale of one of the numerous
disasters which help make up the his
tory of the Great Lakes. On August
y, 1865. the steamer Pewabic was
bound down from the Keweenaw PEN
insula with cargo of copper and a
crew and passenger list of more than
125 persons. When seven miles off
Thunder Bay island, in Lake Huron,
the Pewabic was rammed by the
steamer Meteor. and before any of her
boats could be launched she went to
the bottom. OF those on board 1876
persons went to the bottom with her.
Like the lost treasure of Captain Kidd,
the cargo of the Pewabic has time af-
ter time given rise to tales that have
brought dreams of wealth. Until now,
however, the location of the boat re-
manned mystery. According to word
from Alpena. Benjamin Leavitt. a div
er from Toledo, found the Pewabic I'M
der $50 feet Of water and made con-
fldential report to his fellow adventur-
ers 1t is said to have been of such
a nature as to induce his hackers to
lay plans for recovering the million
dollar cargo and such other property
as may be worth bringing to the sur
face.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-08-16
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF
STOCKHOLDERS.

Office of the Park Copper & Gold
Mining Company, Limited, Wallace
Idaho, August 2, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that there
will be regular annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Park Copper &
Gold Mining Company, Limited, held
at the Office of the company, GIG &C.
dar street, wallace. Idaho, on Tues
day, the 2Sth day of August, 1917, at
1880 p. m. Of said day for the pur-
pose of electing board of directors
to serve for the ensuing year and for
the transaction of such other business
as may legally come before the meet
ing.
NELLIE J. STOCKBRIDGE,
Secretary Treasurer Park Copper g.
Gold Mining Co. Ltd; GIG Cedar
Street, wallace, Idaho. A2-23-4t
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-08-16
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office Of the Blue Star Mining &
Milling Company, Limited, King
stpn, Idaho. July II, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting OF the board of directors of
the Blue Star Mining & Milling Com
pany, Limited, held on the 18th day
of July, 1917, an assessment of one
Q) cent per share was levied upon
the outstanding capital stock of the
corporation, payable on or before the
5th day of September, 1917, to A. C.
Morbeck, secretary treasurer, at the
office Of the company, Kingston, Ida
no.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 5th day
of September, 1917, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton, and unless payment Is made be-
fore, will be sold on the LIST day of Oc-
tober, 1917, at 200 p. m. Of said day
at the Office of the company, King
ston, Idaho, to pay the delinquent as
sessment thereon, together with the
costs Of advertising and expenses OF
sale.
A. c. MORBECK,
Secretary Treasurer of the Blue Star
Mining & Milling Company, Limit
ed. Kingston. Idaho. Jy26-A30- Ct
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-08-16
The Lynching of Little in Butte
mining and Scientific Press)

vice. Here Is where the profession, II
1t were Independent, If it did not stand
between the greed of the. capitalist and
the ignorance of the laborer, could
guide public opinion effectively so as
to stimulate both legislation and gov
eminent in the right direction. 1t is
useless to close our ears to the ques =
tons that must be answered sooner
or later, and the sooner the better for
all concerned. Has the worker a right
to combine for collective bargaining
Has the mine owner a similar right ?
Is each restricted to local combina-
ton or may they form extra territor-
ial organizations, so as to bring sec
ondary pressure to bear on a domestic
disagreement? Is a strike no more
and no less legal than a lockout? Has
the employer a right to select his EN-
plOyes, as the employees have the priv
ilege of leaving one employer to go to
another? Is working by contract BEN
eficial to the individual and the in
dustry? Should a mine worker partic-
ipate in the profit of the mine owner,
and, If so. should he accept lower
wages when the profit decreases ?
Should the excessive profit of min
ing company go to the workers in that
mine or to the state, whose resources
are being exploited, or should it all go
to the shareholders? Is it fair that a
copper miner should receive $5.75,
while an equally good gold miner in an
adjacent district receives only $3.50?
In short, is the devil to take the hind
most or is this policy Of laissez faire
to be corrected by recognition of
facts and an effort to make regulations
that will square both with them and
with the sense of fair play? What we
need is sense of social justice and a
deeper interest in conditions that will
imperil our social fabric unless we
give heed to them. To ignore them is
to be ignorant. We invite our read :
ers to state their views.