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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02

What's the use of talking unless
you say something; there are too
many blank cartridges fired, just to
make noisel Give us the shot that
hits the bulls eye-or. at least strikes
the target-and somebody will surely
sit up and take notice. Practice
makes perfect. Try it,
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
OUR GOLD COMES BACK.
Gold Eagles Paid France for Panama
interests Are Back Home.

New York-The largest single days
importation of gold into this country
was received Saturday with the de-
post of $33,000,000 by j. P. Morgan &
Co. between New York and Philadel
phia assay offices. OF this amount
$25, 100000 deposited here was in the
form of American eagles, being the
identical gold which was hipped to
Paris in April, 1904. by this govern
ment as part of the payment of $40,-
900, 900 made to the old French Pana-
ma Canal company for its equities in
the canal.
Return Gold in Same Boxes.
1t was brought back to this coun-
try in the same boxes in which it was
sent abroad and in which it has been
kept for nearly 10 years. This gold
represented the first importation in
the form of American gold eagles since
the present movement began, but the
bulk of the previous receipts was in
bar gold and other forms.
These last consignments bring the
to $67S,000,000, exceeding by several
hundred millions the inflow for any
previous year.
The movement was interpreted here
as indicative of the efforts being made
by Great Britain to improve the ex-
change situation and to keep money
rates in the New York market favor
able for borrowing purposes.
Expect Canada Will Borrow Here.
The heavy influx of gold has
strengthened materially the credit po-
sition of the allies, it was said. par
tieularly in view of the diversion to
Canada of munition contracts for 1917
to the amount, it is estimated, of be-
tween s3OO,OOO,0OO and s40O,OO0,O0O.
Canada is expected soon to enter this
market for the honey required to car
ry out its contracts.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02

Director-Has Adler a good men,
DRY?
President - Should say he has.
Why, he can name the last six vice
presidents of the United States
Puck.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
Santa Fe to Enter St. Louis.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad will be operating freight and
passenger trains to st. Louis by Jan
uary 1, 1918.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
Loan Limits Set.

Before any farmer can borrow, at
least 10 must organize a national
farm loan association to borrow a
minimum of $4,000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
Preliminary Treaty Proposed.

According to the German diplomats
the plan Germany is proceeding upon
would provide that the delegates
should first agree upon territorial and
Immediately connected terms and that
a preliminary tentative treaty then
should be settled upon. This complet-
ed. the German idea is to have all the
neutrals called on to participate in
consideration of the question of guar
antees for the future.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02

The Hub general store at Troy,
Idaho, was broken into Wednesday
night and several articles stolen.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
Farmers Must Organize.

The initial terms of office are eight,
six, four and two years, but when the
first term expires the uniform length
of eight years will prevail. The fed
eral farm loan board will name five
directors for the Spokane bank to
serve temporarily. When the subscrip-
tons of the associations to bank stock
reach 100000 the board will be in
creased to nine, six elected by the as
sociations and three by the farm loan
board, and their terms will be for three
years each.
1t is indefinite just when the bank
will be open for business, but there
will be nothing for it to do until the
farmers have organized associations.
No stakeholder will have a vote out
side of the government and the asso-
citation stockholders. The bank may
pay dividends, providing it earns
them. The government stock will
gradually be paid off as the subscrip-
lions increase.
Each borrower must subscribe to IS
of stock in the bank for every 800 he
borrows. He can dispose of this at par
when his loan is paid out or use it as
the last payment on his loan.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
Germany's Views.

IF the entente considers that
guarantees for the future are the prin-
cipal elements to be achieved, and
lacking confidence in the German gov
eminent, insists upon knowing some
thing of the guarantees that Germany
is willing to give, the Berlin govern
ment might make some declaration re-
garding the principles to which she is
willing to subscribe, leaving details
for settlement at the proposed confer
ence. The German government considA
ers that there is but little to be gained
by going into any lengthy discussion
of guarantees for the future with the
present war in progress.
''In this connection Germany, 1t Is
asserted, never has intended that the
conference suggested should result
Immediately in the establishment of
peace. 1t is considered that It neces-
sarily would be of preliminary ma
ture to determine whether it might noe
be possible to end the war"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
OUR PEACE MOVES
TO Be KEPT DARK
ALL FURTHER STEPS ARE TO BE
REGARDED BY PRES. WILSON
AS CONFIDENTIAL.
GERMANY GIVES HER VIEWS
Secret Exchanges Between the War
ring Nations Hinted as Reason
Willing to Declare General
Principles If Allies Shy.

Washington.-A policy of absolute ST
lence regarding the peace negotiations
has been adopted by President Wilson
and Secretary Lansing. 1t was stated
officially that all steps henceforth will
be regarded as confidential, that no
comment will be made on any develop
ment, and that rumors will not be dis
cussed in an yway.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
Deals With Associations.

The board elects a president and
other officers, but the members do not
draw regular salaries, receiving a per
diem remuneration with expenses
while in session. Stenographic and
clerical help will not be extensive and
it is expected that the bank will Sc
cure quarters above the street level in
a downtown location.
The district bank does not deal d.
rectly with the farmer who wishes to
make a loan. He must act through his
association. Only farmers or those
actually intending to purchase farm
land can take advantage of the farm
loan bank facilities. The federal farm
loan board of five men, named by the
president, the federal farm loan bank
and the national farm loan assertion
are the three units in the new system.
The board at present comprises
George w. Norris, Herbert Quick,
Charles E. Lobdell and w. s. A. Smith,
who sat OF the Spokane hearing, Sep
TENDER 4, w. w. Flanagan, secretary,
and Williame Gibbs McAdoo, secretary
of the treasury, ex-officio member.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02
FEDERALFARM LOAN
BANK AT SPOKANE
MAKES CITY AN AGRICULTURAL
CENTER OF NORTH PACIFIC
sTATEs-DIsTRlcT IL.
FARMERS ONLY TO GET MONEY
Stock Subscriptions Open in january
Capital to Be $3.50, 00o-DeaI With
Associations of Producers
Minimum Loans $4,000.

Spokane, in district No. 70, is the
selection of the federal farm loan
board for the northwestern land bank
for the territory comprising Washing
ton, Oregon, Montana and Idaho. The
announcement was made in Washing
ton, d. c., by the farm loan board.
Other Western Districts.
District No. 7, ST. Paul, M:nn.-Mich-
igan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North
Dakota.
District No. 8, Omaha, Neb.-Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming
District No 9, Wichita, Kan.-Okla-
homa, Kansas, Colorado and New Mex
leo.
District No. 10, Houston, Tex-Tex-
as.
District No IL, Berkeley, Cal.-Cali-
fornia, Nevada, Utah and Arizona
The new bank in Spokane will have
capital of $750,000 and loaning ca
pacity of $15.O00,000. 1t will be put in
operation just as soon as the federal
farm loan board names the registrar
and directors. Stock subscription
books will be opened, it is expected,
soon and they will remain open for
public subscription 30 days. All stock
outstanding at that time will be taken
up by the government.
In the meantime national farm loan
associations can be organized among
the farmers to take advantage of the
loaning facilities of the new bank. Ten
farmers can organize such an associa
ton to borrow minimum of 100000
at per cent on the long time, amorti
cation plan.
The district bank is not large in
stitution in point of employees, as the
bulk of the machinery is centered in
the farm loan associations. According
to the federal reserve act, the Spokane
bank will have a registrar, who will
be the governor. He must be an at
torney to examine titles. Another sal
aried position is that of the secretary
treasurer, who will virtually be gen
eral manager. Then there will be 6
federal inspector appraiser and at frs
organizers to assist the farmers il
forming the local associations. The
board of directors at the outset viii
comprise five men and all the officials
will be named primarily by the fedora
farm loan board.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-02

So far as the ententes government
are concerned it is understood that lit
tie if any confidential information has
reached here to shed more light on
their attitude than has been given
publicity in the speeches of their pre-
miers and the comment of their press.
Consequently, there is no disposition
here to doubt that the allies unani-
mously will refuse to enter into an
sort of peace conference until Ger
many has indicated clearly on what
conditions she will stop fighting.
On the Teutonic side, while the re-
ply to President Wilson is regarded by
the German embassy as complying
with President Wilson's suggestion in
offering a method of procedure, Ger
many is said to be willing to consider
other suggestions regarding methods
from any quarter, including her enc
mics.
The views of the German govern
ment further are represented as being
as follows:
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
RAILROAD MAN TALKS

G.. H. Baker, foreman of engineers
for the Montana division of the
Short Line, was in Blackfoot, Tues
day, and stated that the freight traf-
fic on the Mackay branch had
doubled in the past year. They are
now operating two freight trains and
he half expects to have to put on an
other. He says the main increase is
in shipments of ore, livestock and
lime rock. The lime rock is brought
from Arco and is used at the sugar
factories all up and down the valley.
The waste or small screenings from
the rock quarry at Arco is being
shipped for surfacing roads.
Mr.. Baker says the road is hand
ling the traffic better than ever be-
fore, and the prospects are that If
shippers continue to give them CO.
operation as to quick loading and
unloading of cars, the car famine
will not develop enough to be SER
ious. The greatest thing the roads
ever did to increase efficiency, he
said, was to put all roads under one
management, which was done i'm
mediately when we entered the war.
1t was against the laws providing
against monopoly, but 1t took the
thrust of war to bring the American
people to their senses and get them
to operating their roads the best
way. They had been hampering
business with restrictions till COM
merce was nearly paralyzed in times
of peace.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
FARM BUREAU
PLANS EXCURSION
(Contributed)

Saturday, September 29, an excur-
sion of all Bingham( county farmers
interested in silos and livestock i'm
provement will leave Blackfoot to
visit the silos now in operation near
Idaho Falls.
The main purpose Of the excursion
as planned was to visit the silos now
in operation near Idaho Falls and
give those interested in silos q
chance to see the silos and get first
hand information from the men who
are operating them, but owing to
the limited number of silos in this
section the farm bureau thought 1t
advisable to make the excursion q
general one and visit as many points
of interest as possible in route to
and from Idaho Falls.
The following schedule will be fol-
lowed as closely as possible:
9.SO-Leave Blackfoot from coun-
ty agents office.
10-Baraclay sheep ranch.
11-Jofferies pure bred Jersey
herd.
12-Idaho Falls. Lunch.
1.30-Wilson's pure bred Duroc
Jersey hog farm.
2-Warchows Holstein dairy herd.
3-Johnson brothers Holstein
dairy herd and silos. The Johnson
brothers have two 200-ton concrete
silos and have gotten very good re-
suits from feeding silage. They will
be glad to give you the results they
have gotten from their silos.
4-Readons' Jersey herd and ST.
los.
4,30-Beasley's tuber united Meth
cd of growing potato seed.
5.30-Quiggs' hog ranch and new
style hog houses.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
BLACKFOOT BOYS MET

P. A. and ]. NJ Johnson are broth
ers who grew up at Blackfoot, and
have been separated for many years.
Saturday J. M. was working in the
express office at Blackfoot auditing
it's business, and said he would be
busy there for couple of days.
Monday afternoon P. A. Johnson
stepped off the train to look for
familiar faces while the train was
standing at the depot. An editor
man chatted with him a minute and
then told him he thought his brother
was inside the express office and in
vited him to stick around a minute
and see if the brother could be
found. The office doors were lock-
ed, but the editor man hammered
on the glass door and made a lot
of frantic signs till Joe opened the
door and discovered his brother.
They stood around comparing
notes till the train pulled out, and
one told stories of the express busi-
ness while the other spoke of man
aging saw mills and railroad shops
on the coast. P. A. is the other
brother, and has good position
in the o. w. R. R. & N. shops at
Portland. He visited his father, P.
M. Johnson at Shelley and brother
at Arco before going home.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
THE PRICE OF HAY

B. H. Alfred, of the state farm
markets bureau advises the farmers
Of Bingham county to hold their hay
for SIS ton, and assures that he
can market any amount Of it at $17
ton baled and on cars at Black
foot.
The superintendent Of county
agents, w. HI. Hochbaum. reports the
sale of 5000 tons in Shoshone coun-
ty, (north Idaho,) and 5000 tons
in Lincoln county at SIS ton, and
sales in the Minidoka country gen.
orally at SIS.
Sales in this county have been few
and at prices ranging from $40 to
$13, excepting in small quantities
w. H. Scott, of Pingree, reports that
e. M. Davidson was at his place on
the thirteenth of June and phoned
his wife at Rupert to buy 1000 tons
at SIC.
Sheepmen report the range very
fine on the American desert, and
some are arranging to take their
flocks there and ship in corn and
oil cake for emergencies. Alfred
advises that there is sufficient de-
mand for hay to omit consideration
of those who may go to the desert.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
JUDGE STANDROD CHATS

Judge D. w. Standrod was in
Blackfoot, Monday AFTERNOON, and
remarked about the fine rain. He
said it was much appreciated by the
Pocatello folks because it settled the
dust of summers construction
work in the streets. They had been
relaying water pipes and tearing uL
pavements and cement walks to take
out the old cluster lamp posts and
to put in new ones and to lay wires
underground to feed them, and IL
had kept the streets in a muss all
summer.
The judge said the city had ex-
pended an immense amount OF
money changing it's municipal mind
and rebuilding things. When they
laid their sewer system they had to
sink as much as 18 feet thru rocks
and boulders in the high places, and
everywhere they encountered the
same material in laying all pipe
lines. It meant not only making q
trench but the Irregularities Incl
dent to getting out large boulders
that had to have excavations all
about them. Whenever any one
makes a basement they have rock
and boulders to contend with all the
way, and it takes little fortune tc
get ready to build. At Blackfoot
he said, it ought to be almost a pas
time to carry on construction work
the materials are so easy to handle
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
NEWS FROM CAPTAIN PATRIE

The southern hospitality and sun
shine is the cause of much joy to
the members of the First Idaho field
hospital corps at Camp Greene,
North Carolina, according to lstters
received from Captain W. E[Patrie.
From Louisville, Kentucky. .Tthey oc-
cupied a special train and were al.
lowed to stop wheneverg the COM
manding officer, Captain Patrie,
deemed it right. At one stop the
ladies of the town served ice cream
and cake to them, at another place
they delayed long enough fer all
members of the unit to take swim
and at still another an informal re-
ception and rally was rendered them.
The latter proved a long-to-be re-
memberd occasion and before they
had been there long the boys were
strolling with the southern girls,
famous for their charm and beauty.
Camp Greene is ideally situated,
is new and when completed will be
one of the largest camps in the
United States. At present the Idaho
unit is located at the base hospital
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
NEWSPAPER PARTY IN TOWN

James H. Wallis and sons, Robert
Arthur and William were in Black
foot, Wednesday, travelling By auto
thru eastern Idaho seeing the coun.
try and their friends.
Mr.. Wallis was for many years in
the newspaper business at Rexburg
and is now publishing The Times
at Vernal, Utah. His son, Arthur,
is in partnership with him; Robert
is in the law office with Senator Col
ton at Vernal, and William is book
Keeper for the Consolidated Imple-
ment company at that place.
Mr.. Wallace and his sons have
grown up in the newspaper business
and they looked forward to their
visit at Blackfoot with anticipations
of seeing and studying the arrange
ment of the new Republican office.
After seeing it, Mr.. Wallis having
seen practically all of the offices in
the state, said emphatically that
Blackfoot is in the lead in the ar
rangement and beauty of its print
ing house
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
AROUND THE COURT HOUSE

The new vault built under the
court house has been completed, and
the records that were in the old
damp vault have been removed to
the<hew one. *
/Fhe new road drag that has been
standing at the corner of the court
house all summer has been ordered
out on the road, and since the re-
cent rains it appears that nobody has
time to~use it.
The Postal Telegraph & Cable
company have 80 miles Of line in
Bingham county, and they have been
resisting the payment of taxes since
1911. When their representative
protested to the state board of equal
ization, that they were being taxed
for pole line and wires when they
had nothing but wires on rented
poles, one member of the board re-
marked that If they had no poles
they ought to have, and nothing was
done about adjusting the tax. The
company refused to pay till it was
adjusted, now the county officers
and the ~company's tax man are try
ing,~to affect compromise. The
>apednt involved is 1922.
Now that the irrigating season is
about over, the waters of Sand creek
are again rising and overflowing
where water is not wanted. It>gfves
trouble to the farmers living along
it's banks east of Shelley, and causes
sub-irrigation in the country below
that as far down as the Wicks dis
trict east of Blackfoot. Lands on
which crops are matured became too
wet and there was no way for the
owners to shut it off. A meeting
was held at Idaho Falls, at which a
plan of drainage was considered and
when it was shown that it would
cost about $S5,O00, the slightly in
terested men became Indifferent.
County Agent Groninger went out
along the line and arranged with the
various water masters to shut off all
the water they could that was flow
ing into Sand creek, and in that way
the flood was greatly reduced.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
NAMES CERTIFIED TO
THE DISTRICT BOARD

The local board of Bingham coun-
ty have certified to the district board
at Boise, the following list of the
names of persons who have been
duly and legally called for the mill
tary service of the United States,
and who have not been exempted or
discharge: Lane Shelman, Jesse H..
Sommercorn, Thomas William Paul,
William Delmar Hanks, Dewey Earl
Blackburn, William R. Carroll, John
Henry Hammond, Jacob G. Toevs,
Patrick O'Brien, Arthur James Tay-
lor, Victor Sundquist, George Find
lay, Henry Lemke, John V. Flaherty,
James Russell Lindsay, Albert
Gerdes, Edward H. Hansen, Milton
John Kelley, Roy V. Nelson, Lesley
H. Lewis, James W. Less, Jr., Guy
E. Neyman and Lyman Anderson.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
RED CROSS AUXILIARY
/ ORGANIZED AT TABER

Taber, altho small and compara@
lively young, aptly exemplifies the
spirit of patriotism that should exist
in all American towns at the present
time. This feeling was made mani
fest Saturday when with the aid Of
Mesdames Good, Albertson, Early
and Curtis, members of the Black
foot Red Cross chapter, they enthus-
iastically organized themselves into
"a permanent Red Cross auxiliary
The officers are Mrs. r. e. Hughes,
chairman; Mrs. Kramlich, vice chair
man; Miss Hampton, secretary; and
Mrs. Davis, treasurer Already they
have membership of so and will
commence Immediately on their Red
Cross knitting and sewing.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
HUNTING PARTY RETURNED

Mayor A. B. Stephens and wife,
his sons, Dorsey and Ray, City En-
gineer James Young and wife and
City Clerk R. S. DeKay and wife re-
turned Monday from hunting trip
on Fall river. It was too early to
preserve game, the weather being
warm, so they hunted and flshed
only for what they could use. They
bagged one deer and one elk, and
were unable to use all Of the meat.
They report game plentiful but very
high up in the mountains. II they
had waited till there was snow the
hunting would have been better, but
they went early so they could take
their wives and show them the coun-
trV
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
POLITICAL STAR HERE

Representative Ernest Anderson,
of Parma, Canyon county, was in
Blackfoot, Monday. Mr.. Anderson
was the Republican candidate for
speaker of the house last fall against
B. Harvey Alfred, and went down
in defeat before the man from Bing-
ham.
The first week in December The
Idaho Republican announced the
candidacy of Alfred and said he
would be made speaker, and the first
week in January witnessed its full
fillment.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
FRUITS OF CoRNICOPIA

The Republican office received
very fine specimen Of Hubbard
squash and some blue plums and
whitney crabs, brought in by Miss
Amelia Kirkpatrick.
The Whitneys, besides having
adopted the complexion Of the rose,
have eating qualities that make
them so superior that each time one
finishes crab he repeats what the
little boy said to his waiting COM
panion, "They amt a goin' to be no
core"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
DIVORCE SUITS

The following suits have been re-
Gently filed at the Bingham county
court house: Pearl Houston vs..
George Houston; Wendell P. ST.
monds VS.. Olive May Blacke ST.
monds; Estella White VS.. Clarence
White; Vera Fackrell VS.. Willard
Fackrell; Cora A. Webb vs.. George
H. Webb; Arthur Eichelberger vs..
Emma Eichelberger.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-28
CIVIL SUITS FILED

A. S. Fullmer sues Bingham coun-
ty for 1925 on account of alleged
loss of crops due to a county cul-
vert or syphon retarding the flow of
water.
John F. Gustin appeals from the
judgment of the board of commits
sioners in creating a herd district.