The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-02-22

commanding the Hachfta, N. NJ, dis
trict, has sent orders TO his troops tt
: maintain night and day patrols along
II the border, instead of only day patrols
/ as heretofore.
Persistent rumors that a German
submarine was sighted In the gulf of
Mexico several days ago are being cir
r culated at Guantanamo, Cuba.
The Minnesota senate has passed
the house bill submitting to the people
proposed prohibition constitutional
amendment.
A searching party has discovered
the bodies Of Andrew C. Peterson,
Hugh Accord and Burton Jensen,
American cowboys kidnapped last Mon
day when Mexican bandits raided the
Corner ranch, sixty miles southwest
of Hachta, N. M.
Mrs. Victor E. Innes of Eugene,
Ore, convicted at Atlanta, Ca, of lar.
ceny after trust, was sentenced to
three years imprisonment With her
husband, who already has been con.
ytcted and sentenced to serve seven
years, Mrs lines was charged with
Incorporating more than $4,000 of
funds of the helms sisters of Atlanta.
WASHINGTON.
Federal reserve banks would be able
to increase their gold holdings about
$200,000000 by an amendment to the
federal reserve law which the senate
banking committee has reported favor.
ably.
Applause from both sides of the
house on Friday greetd a declaration
by Republican Leader Mann that the |
first duty Of the United States was to |
look after affairs on the American con. i
tinent, and that he hoped this country |
war.
The assay commission, recently ap- |
pointed by President Wilson to test |
coinage of the United States, has fin |
tshed its work at the mint at Wash
ington and announced everything was
up to the standard of efficiency" The
mint has in its vaults $520,00O,000 in
gold bullion and coin.
The ruthless German submarine
campaign and its effects upon the
United States were discussed on Fri
day by President Wilson and the cab
met The meeting lasted only an
hour, and afterward it was said no
new steps had been decided on.
A perenptory demand upon Ger
many for the release of the seventy
TWO American seamen from the prize
ship Yarrowdale has been prepared
At the state department with Presi-
lent Wilson's approval.
FOREIGN.
Notice of dangerous area in the :
North sea because of operations :
against Germany has been given by =
he British admiralty.
The food situation In Germany can
lot grow worse, but it scarcely can
become better. This is the outstand
ng feature of Germany's great prob
EN-, says Geneva dispatch.
Leonidas Yeroyi, Peruvian writer o
md poet, was shot and killed at Lima.
Manuel Jose Sanchez, a Chilean, is d
'harged with the shooting. S
The American liner Philadelphia v
las sailed from Liverpool, according c
o dispatch received in New York.
'he has on board 237 passengers. II
mong whom are thirty-eight Ameri- s.
an citizens. a
Brand Whitlock, United States min. -"
5ter to Belgium, will continue to re-
lain in Brussels in his diplomatic
apacity, says Berlin dispatch. Bel N
ian relief work will still go on under
ne auspices of the men now in
barge of its administration. re
A severe epidemic of measles has M
roken out in San Juan, P. R., 100 81
ases having been reported Several tn
eaths have occurred. ii,
in spite of a plot against the gov til
'nment, discovered among certain de
embers of the Havana police force, CT
ere was a more optimistic tone in at
'yernment circles, due to the loyalty un
the navy it
General Geraldo Machado. a prom wi
ent Cuban military official and
ember of the Liberal committee, is
ported to have been killed at Las
lllas. tn
The Mexican papers reiterate that us
eneral Carranza's note to neutral ma SCI
ms was based on purely humani- rel
rian grounds and was neither pro- th'
'rman nor directed against the ia
lifted States. NJ
Owing to the shortage of coal for ~o
ating and the production of electric. III
T, a number of sweeping measures
: the cutting down of the consump- =
n of fuel have been adopted by
, city and provincial governments, A.,
Us Vienna dispatch. H. A.
Fhe American schooner Lyman NJ. era
W was sunk by submarine on ed
'nday, according to dispatch from in
Stefani agency of Rome. The the
w, including eight Americans, is
'orted to have been landed
Reuter- dispatch from Berne says o
t the German authorities have sud is
ly called to the colors all officials war
trade unions and socialist organ can
ions These officials, who aggre- seas
e 10000 in number, have previous. tor,
been exempt from military sery. LAX
banC
ritish troops fighting in France
tinue their pecking at the Ger
/ lines at various points, and &C. Va
ling TO the latest British official coal