The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-10-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES

feet in diameter.
The war in the air goes merrily on.
British airmen claim the destruction
of 30 German planes, with a loss OF
seven. since Saturday.
Every American soldier who is
wounded in the German war viii be
decorated with a red, white and blue
ribbon, says the war department.
That's nice; but we must hope the rib
bon market may remain dull.
No cabinet meeting today on ac-
count OF the absence of four members
on pressing official duty
american troops soon to be on the
firing line in France is the interpre-
tation placed on the weekly bulletin
of the secretary of war
Secretary of War Baker, in his
weekly review, says there will prob
ably be no halt in the campaign III
France during the winter months.
pad weather" now hampers opera
tions along the fighting line in France
They meet Secretary McAdoo in
Atlanta today with a big bonfire and
an Indian war dance-war whoops and
all staged by sure-enough Indians.
Tomorrow is Liberty" holiday-tOr
those who can stop working.
An Idaho Falls dispatch of today
SAYS: AS the result of gun duel on
the ranch of a cattle company near
Dubois, Bob Bogus, foreman for the
concern and Ed browne, an employe
of the company are dead here. browne
was instantly killed and Bogus died
as the result of wounds received in
the battle.
The car and family have been sent
to Siberia-but not on foot through
the snow as former eXiles have gone.
The Russian fleet made its escape
from that of Germany, with damage
to the latter.
The latest figures show that only
one out of every two hundred ships
sailing is now attacked by the subs;
and that but one out of 1875 attacked is
sunk Encouraging if true.
Wisconsin is having a political con-
vulsion over the selection of a sue
cessor to u. S. Senator Husting ac-
cidentally killed Monday. The lineup
will doubtless be La Toilette and An
ti-LaFollette; and if the ants don't
win this time Wisconsin is less loyal
than we think
President Carranza today sent to
congress a bill extending the suspen-
sion of constitutional guarantees to
apply to plOtters in general and to
foes of the government
Fuel, not unnaturally, is furnishing
one of the burning questions Of the
hour just now, although the govern
ment officials think they have the
situation in hand.
Build ships" is what Lord North
cliffe prescribes as the way for Ameri-
ca to win the war.
Hoover announced success of ex-
periments with war bread and let it be
known that a drive would be made
against bread prices soon.
A Portland woman submitted to Of
ficials for analysis safety pins with
black tips. which she bought from a
German peddler and which she feared
were poisoned.
General Pershing issued a stirring
call to troops to invest in Liberty
Loan bonds.
Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the
National Woman's party, with DR.
Caroline Spencer. of Colorado
Springs. was sentenced to six months
in the workhouse for attempting to
picket the White House with suf-
frage banners on Saturday.
Three yeggs bound and gagged the
Waterman. blew the safe at the Grand
Central theater in st. Louis and es-
capped with Sl70O.
Four thousand persons were killed
and ten thousand injured in the ex-
plosion of a powder magazine on June
16 at Steifeld, Austria, according to
official dispatches from Rome. After
the explosion women munitiOn work
ers who escaped injury were forced
to return to work in other factories
by armed Austrian guards, the dis
patch said.
One of the Zeppelins brought down
by the French while on its way back
home after raiding England, landed
near the American camp. The big
airship was practically intact and all
OF the crew were made prisoners. 1t
was the Lac one of the biggest dirigi-
bles The German lieutenant in com
mand explained that the pilot had
lost his way and thought he was over
Holland when the Zeppelin was at
! tackled by French aeroplanes.
American dollars must respond to
the call of patriotism as readily as
American men have responded or
there will be a "selectiye draft of
money as there was of men, This was
the warning sounded in an address
at the IrOquois club in Chicago, by
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy. Secretary Daniels spoke at an
/ informal luncheon and made a vigor-
Gus though optimistic plea for sup
port of the second Liberty Loan. 1--WE
have lived to see the day" said Sec
rotary Daniels, when the great trag-
/ edy OF war enables all Americans to
say, no matter what their differences
were yesterday today we are all re-
publicans we are all democrats