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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
STEAMER HIT ROCK;
TAO REPORTED LOST
THE CRACK RED CROSS LINER
FLORlzEL HITS LEDGES
AND GOES DOWN.
DURING TERRIBLE BLIZZARD
Mum, Managing Director of the Line,
and Daughter, Are Among Victims
Were on Their Way to Flor
ida-Navy to Rescue.

st. Johns. N. F.-The crack Red
Cross liner Florizel, from st. Johns for
New York by way of Halifax, with 140
persons aboard, including rs passen-
gers, piled up on the lodges near Cape
Race during a blizzard Feb. "a and it
is believed that all on board were lost.
Naval gunners, sent on a special
train from this city, shot line across
the bow of the partly submerged ship,
but waited in vain for it to be hauled
aboard.
Just before darkness blotted the
wreck from view five men, driven
from the forecastle by the giant seas,
were seen to climb the forward rig
ging, signaling feebly for help. But
it was feared that they had succumbed
to the cold and exposure. Those five
were the only ones visible on board
several hours after the ship struck.
Rescue Steamers Stand BY.
Somewhere beyond the white mael
strom of breakers two staunch rescue
steamers, the Terra Nova and the
Home, manned by Newfoundland sail
ors, lay in waiting for a favorable mo
ment to send a boat through the surf
but, though the storm appeared to be
subsiding, it was feared that it would
be daybreak before the sea moderated
enough to make it possible to approach
the wreck
Among the passengers were IL WON
en- and four children. Among the frs
cabin passengers were John S. Mum
a managing director of the firm O
Bowring Bros, Ltd. owners of the lin
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
GRAIN AND MILLING NOTES.

The B. M. Holt Grain e Seed Co.
will build 100000 elevator and ware
house at Caldwell, Idaho.
Business men of Oroville, Wash,
and a Montana man will construct a
-four mill there with daily capacity
of 100 barrels.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the Farmers Union Grain Agency at
Pendleton, Oregon, it was voted to in
crease the capital stock from $4,000
TO 100000.
At the annual meeting of the Farm
ers' Union of Genessee. Idaho, II. j.
Herman was elected president; Thos.
Dyer, vice-president, and w. e. Tip
ton, secretary.
At recent meeting of farmers in
the Culdesac (Idaho) vicinity, it was
decided to form an organization to
build an elevator with a capacity OF
10000 bushels. w. Lawrence, Theo.
Mattson, c. II. Christie and others
were appointed to secure funds to pro
coed with the structure.
Purchase of the Ladd interest in the
Portland FIGURING Mills Co. by Theo,
b. Wilcox and a number of other Pu-
get Sound capitalists has been con
summated, the price paid being in the
ueighborhood of $l.T50,000. The Port
land FIGURING Mills Co. owns IA mills
and about 200 elevators.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
WILL TRY MONTANA JUDGE
House of Representatives UNANIMOUS
Iy Passes Resolution.

Helena, Mont.-By a unanimous
vote the house of representatives
Saturday voted to file articles of
impeachment against District Judge
Charles NJ Crum of Forsyth. The ar
ticles of impeachment will be sub
mitted by the house board of man
ayers named for the purpose to the
senate, whereupon the house adj
journed sine die. The senate after
receiving the articles adjourned tenn
porarily and the trial of Judge Crum
will take place when it reconvenes.
After taking testimony the senate,
sitting as a jury, will ballot upon the
verdict
The resolution introduced in the
house by Buell. of Gallatin asking
the resignation of Judge G. b. Bour
quin of the United States district
court was tabled without opposition
The house, however, adopted mo
ton asking United States District
Attorney Wheeler to reinstitute the
case against A. j. Just under the es
pionage act, dismissed at the time oil
the decision by Jurge Bourquin in
the Yes Hall case and to prosecute il
to a finish
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26

Washington.-This is the message
from the White. House to the Ameri-
can people in letter to Representa-
tive Albert Johnson:
in reply to your letter of Feb
huary 20 l would say that / should
be very sorry to see Fourth of July
celebrations omitted this year of all
years, but at the same time | think
they should take the simplest and
most dignified form and that 1t would
be in eminently good taste, to make
them as inexpensive as possible.
Cordially and sincerely yours.
WOODROW WILSON"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
NOTED PERSONS DIE

San Antonio, Texas.-Captain Har
ry E. Seebohn of Dayton, Ohio.
Sir Henry Blake, at his residence
Myrtle Grove, Youghal, County Cork
Ireland.
San Diego, Cali. B. (Ham) Clark
one of the founders of the United
Press association
Helena, Mont.-Herman Reifenrath
in point of service one of the Oldest
employees of the Northern Pacific rail
road, age 80.
Garden City, N. "a cable mes
sage from Canton. China, announces
the death there of Mrs. Frank n
Doubleday, wife of the publisher.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED fORQUICKREAD
Brief Notes Covering happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to ali the People.

The Turkish army in the Caucasus
has begun an offensive.
Passports to American citizens en-
tering Canada are not necessary.
The pneumonia plague has broken
out n Shanshi province, China.
Canada is in no danger of a food
shortage, due to railroad congestion
The Ford Motor Company has start
ed work on plant that is to turn out
submarine killers.
Austrian and Ukrainian troops are
nearing Kiev, the Ukrainian capital
now held by the bolsheviki.
In their new invasion of Russian
territory the German forces have
reached Walk in Livonia. 80 miles
northeast of Riga
No French merchantmen and no
fishing vessels were sunk by German
submarines or mines during the week
ending February 16.
Out of 27,309 men drafted under the
military service act 22.999 had been
indicted into service up to February
%, at Ottawa, Ont.
Her royal highness. Princess Pat
ricia, has been appointed as honorary
colonel in chief of the Princess Pats
Canadian light infantry.
David Baird. a republican, of Cam
den. N. j., was appointed senator by
Governor Edge to succeed the late
Senator William Hughes, democrat.
One of the first orders shipped from
this country to France by the nationa
war work council of the Y. M. G. A
was for so tons of lemon drops, 81
tons of chocolates and SO tons of gun
drops.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
NOTES..

The average yield from confiscated
liquor does not exceed per cent of
alcohol.
The annual expenditure of the
United States for candy is approx
mately s400,000,00O.
Before the war the Nays Bureau
of Identification had the finger-print
records of 100000 men. In the last
year the number has increased to
about 100000. In taking the finger
print record of the Navy recruit the
impressions of all 10 fingers are OBJ
tanned.
tween Washington, Philadelphia, and
New York contemplate the use of
machines capable of carrying 300
pounds of mail a distance of 200
miles without stop. A special post
age rate would be charged not ex-
ceeding % cents an ounce.
There is no standard recipe for
victory bread" the only requirement
being that it must contain not more
| than so per cent of wheat flour, the
remaining 20 per cent being com
posed of corn meal or corn flour, rice
potato flour, or other cereals recon-
mended by the Food Administra
ton. Victory" pies and doughnuts
which contain not less than one
third nonwheat flour. may be sold
on wheatless days if the same recipes
are used throughout the week.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
Weekly War News Digest
STORIES OF ACTIVITIES AND CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT
THE UNITED STATES AND ON THE BATTLE FRONTS,
WASHINGTON, DC.

The limit of time for filing income
tax returns has been extended to
April 1.
In order to assure prompt and ac-
curate identification, the war depart
ment has adopted system of mum
bering enlisted men of the army. The
system provides for one series of num-
bers, without alphabetical prefix, for
all enlisted men. The number as
signed to a soldier will become a
part of his official designation, and
will never be changed nor assigned
to another man. 1t will be entered
on identification tags.
New War Booklet Issued.
A War Cyclopedia." providing the
public with information on the great
war in the form of a handbook, is the
latest publication issued by the Com
mittee on Public Information.
The salient facts of the war are
briefly stated in alphabetical form il
300 pages. The cyclopedia also con
tains a chronology of OUTSTANDING
events ranging from the murder al
Serajevo of the Archduke Francis Fer
dinand, June rs, 1914, to the British
national labor conferences approval O.
President Wilson's war aims, Decem
Der 29, 1917.
The volume may be obtained by ad
dressing the Committee on Public In
formation, 10 Jackson Place, Wash
ngton, ID. c.. and inclosing % cents t
cover cost of printing
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
WHEAT PRICE MADE
BY OUR PRESIDENT
CONTINUES 1917 FIGURE FOR
THIS SEASONS HARVEST
So AT SPOKANE.
$2.05 SEATTLE; $3.50 CHICAGO
and Hasten Grain to Market
Threatens Food Plan-Presi-
dent Explains Regulation.

Washington.-A price of 1920 a
bushel-the same as for last year
crop-was fixed by President Wilson
Saturday night for the coming sea-
sons wheat yield. The price is for
No. northern spring wheat at Chi
cago, with scale of differentials for
other markets. The differentials diff
fer to slight extent from those now
operative and range from a minimum
of 81 to a maximum of $22S.
On the basis of No. l northern
spring wheat and its equivalents, the
president fixed the prices as follows
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
AUsTRiANS ARE IN DIscORD.
Will Not Support the War Aims of
the Kaiser.

Amsterdam.-Acco to a dis
patch from Vienna to the Lokal An
zeiger of Berlin, Deputy Daszinski, a
leader of the Galician socialists and
member of the Austrian parliament,
said in addressing the lower house on
Thursday that the declared right of
self-determination of the people has
become IAN untrue and a hypocrisy on
the lips of the ministers of Kaiser Will
helm
He added, sarcastically, that the con-
tract with the Ukranians would be
kept not by the Ukranians but by Gen
eral Won Linsingen.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
Silver Exports in 1917.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. increase
in the exports Of silver to the far east
were shown Monday in detailed fig
ures of the movement of precious
metals in the country's foreign trade
for 1917. China took $12, 106.600,
twice as much as in the previous
year; Hong Kong bought $S.612.-
757 worth. as compared with s3.l97.-
341 in 1916. and purchases by Brit
ish India jumped from $2.3S4.467 to
1924, 392,402. China and India vir-
tually have been denuded Of their sill
yer coinage by high prices for the
metal and by war exigencies.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26

or $2.1S and making proportionate
increase on the Pacific Northwest
interior prices.
Coast Gets Chicago Price.
Another move in the wheat price
tangle came Sunday in the form of a
telegram from Herbert Hoover of the
federal food administration to Charles
Hebberd. food administrator for Wash
ington. in which it was declared that
Coast points would receive approx
mately the Chicago price.
Apparently Mr.. Hoover bases his as
sertion on the promise of ships to
move the wheat. saying he has definite
word on that subject.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
Meat and Butter Scarce.

Persons living in London and the
immediate adjoining counties now buy
meat, margarine and butter, by pre-
senting a ration card before making
any purchase of the aforementioned
articles. which are very scarce"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
HE WOULD NOT FIGHT
AGAINST THE TEUTONS
Captain Henkes Is Dismissed From
U. S. Army and Sentenced to rs
Years at Hard Labor.

New York-Captain David A. Hen
kes, 10th infantry, U. S. A., has been
sentenced to dismissal from the SER
vice and confinement at hard labor for
25 years by a general courtmartial
held at Governors island
Henkes, who is of German descent,
endeavored to resign his commission,
saying he did not care to fight against
relatives and friends.
Captain Henkes was stationed at
San Antonio, Texas, last May.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
FIVE AvIAToRs ARE KILLED
Three Lose Lives in Collision NeaI
Memphis. Tenn.

Memphis, Tenn.-A civilian flying
instructor and two cadets at the
United States aviation training school
at Park field, near here, were killed
in a collision between two airplanes
Saturday. The dead:
Guy d. Reagle of Chicago.
James H. Webb of Rome, Ga.
Robert Gray Jr.. of Long Island
N. Y.
The planes were up about SOC
feet. Both machines crashed to earth
All three bodies were badly mangled.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
10000, 100000 PAIRS OF SHOES
General Pershing Laying in Supply
for His Men.

Although the war department now
has on hand and contracted for a
total of 15,437,O00 pairs of shoes.
Secretary aBker announces that more
than 100000 pairs of shoes will
have to be obtained for the army this
year. This is made necessary by the
building up of adequate stocks of re-
serves, both in France and America.
General Pershing, having in mind
the length of time shoes are expected
to last the men in France, has re-
quested shipments of 1880 pairs
of shoes for each $4,000 men monthly.
or approximately nine pairs of shoes
per man annually. This quantity is in
excess of actual consumption. and
when reserve supply is built up the
quantity per man will be reduced.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
New York Metal Market.

Metal exchange quotes lead firm;
spot, $7.121A @725.
Spelter dull; East st. Louis, spot de-
livery offered at $7.S7h
Bar silver, $3.50.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
Mobilize Colleges for Training.

Mobilize Colleges for Training.
1t is estimated that within the next
six months $4,000 to 100000 men will
be given intensive military training
in schools and colleges They will
be drawn from the armed forces of
the nation, men now in training
camps or about to be called, and
registrants under the selective serv-
ice law.
Little Corn Held.
Small stocks of corn in the hands
of dealers in New England and other
eastern and southern states.
Import or Export Require License.
No commodities may now be ex-
iported from the United States nor
imported without license
War-Savings Stamps Sell
Treasury receipts from the sale of
war-savings stamps are running at
the rate of $11,000,0O0 a week. Saw
ings banks deposits in the last few
years have been increasing at the
rate of 100000 a business day. Treas
ury receipts show the American peo-
pre- are putting their small savings
at the service of the nation through
war-savings stamps at a rate for in
excess of prewar-savings bank &C
cumulations.
Two billion dollars of war-savings
securities will be issued If these
are all sold this year the treasury
will receive about $3.50, 100000, and
at the end of five years the gov
eminent will repay the loan together
with s320,000,000 in interest.
Nine Physical Tests Used.
The director of athletics at one
army camp has arranged a program
as means of determining the rela
| tive athletic caliber of the companie:
in the division. Each man is required
to pass in eight of the following tests
to obtain a positive mark for his unit
Jump 8 feet from a standing pc
sition; chin 10 times; clear bar a
feet 2 inches; throw a 12-pount
shot 33 feet; climb a 20-foot rope il
Is seconds; dash so yards in Z sec
onds; dash so yards in Z seconds
run a mile in minutes; lift a go
pound weight over the head will
one hand; sit up from supine pc
sition with a 50-pound weight sus
pended from the back of the head.
cartoonists Will Help
The work of the foremost car
toonists of the country will be use'
during the sale of the Third Libert,
loan bonds. Drawings will be use'
in a wordless booklet and dali,
cartoon service.
Camp 'ineater Prices
While figures are not yet available
on the proportionate number of 5
and So smilage books being purchases
for use by men at the camps and can
4, tonments, the Commission on TRAINING
Camp Activities. in charge of the sale
states that there. has been unexpecte'
demand for the larger books.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
State Commercial News.

Moore & Murdoch, cigar dealers al
Salmon, have dissolved.
Rue & Anderson, general merchants
at Deary, have dissolved.
Pankey & Gregory have purchased
the cigar business of f. A. Peterson
at Lewiston.
Anderson & Field have purchased
the general business of w. w. Win
Jams & Co. at Cleveland.
Burglars entered the jewelry store
and postoffice of T. ]. Russell at Pos
Falls Wednesday night and got away
with about $3.50 worth of jewelry, S10C
worth of stamps and $50 in cash.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
British Union Labor Loyal.

London.-The Inter-Allied labor con-
ference in session here has reached
an agreement to support the British
war aims program.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26

Three Years More of War.
According to Governor Charles H.
Brough of Arkansas, the judgment of
official Washington is that there will
be three more years of war.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26

The equivalent of No. l northern
to which the same price applies are
No. l hard winter, No. l red winter,
No. l durham and No. l hard white.
The wheat must be harvested in the
United States during the 1918 season
and sold in the market before June
|, 1919
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26

They were going to New York to meet
Mrs. Mum and Sir Edgar Bowring.
one Of the owners of the line. for a
visit of two months in Florida.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
Build Elevators for Wheat.

Harry Calhoun of Spokane has been
engaged to superintend the construc-
ton of two grain elevators, one to be
built at Grangeville and the other at
Fem, Idaho.
The elevator at Grangeville will be
built near the Farmers Union ware
house and will have a capacity of
10000 bushels, while the present
plans call for an elevator of $4,000
bushels capacity at Fem. However,
it may later be decided to increase
the capacity of the Fem elevator
The combined cost of the two ele-
vators will reach $4,000
Erection of the elevators by the
warehouse company, becomes neces.
sary because of the scarcity and high
cost of grain sacks, heretofore used
by farmers on the Camas prairie for
the marketing of their grain, and the
work will be rushed all possible in
order that the elevators may be
completely equipped when the time
arrives for marketing the 1918 grain
crop.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-02-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

w. e. Horstkotte of Potlatch has
three sons in the war.
Mrs. p. B. Whitman. age 80, Idaho
pioneer and resident of Lewiston fol-
many years died recently.
The Rev. ]. Quincy Biggs. of Mos
COW, is seriously i'll with blood pois
ing resulting from a small scratch on
his hand, made while splitting wood
Memorial services in honor of viii.
liam /. Droogs, Tuscania victim. and
John Earl Mcpherson, a United States
sailor who died at Norfolk, Va, both
former residents of Grangeville, were
held last Sunday afternoon.
Cecil Ore, age 10, was drowned
in Lake Pend Oreille recently by
breaking through the ice. The lad
was walking across a small bay near
the south end of the county bridge
alone, when the thin ice broke.
George Price of the Price Trading
company of Edgemere. died recently
from injuries which he received the
night previous when the team with
which he was hauling load of logs
ran away In the spill Price was
struck by falling log.
A portrayal of the finish of a
marathon done in bronze base re
lief and mounted on a heavy oaker
PLAGUE, is to be given the winner
of first place in the University OF
Idaho's annual interscholastic basket
ball tournament March IA and Is.
A. w. Laird, general manager OF
the Potlatch Lumber company, met
with a painful accident at Potlatcf
February %, when he fell about 1(
feet from the walk leading from the
street to the new office building
receiving a compound fracture of the
thigh bone just above the left knee
j. F. McGrew, a rancher of Twir
Falls, was killed 35 miles east OF
there recently when his automobil,
skidded over an embankment His
wife and two-year old child. WHIT
were with him, escaped. McGrew il
survived by six children, two of then
soldiers in France.
Two new field specialists have
been appointed for work in Idah
by the university. r. j. Leth, a grad
uate of the college of agriculture il
this university, class of 1915, VIII
took a postgraduate course at Ames
Iowa, has been chosen as field agror
omist. Ray Cammack, who was
classmate of Professor Leth, has bee
appointed to do field diary work i
Idaho.
The defense council has examine
the first case of violation of the foo
law brought to its attention. Charlie
Gaskell of Lewiston Orchards wa
charged with buying flour without tn
necessary substitute and with havin
in his possession more than 30 day
supply, and l.. S. Larson of the Mo,
ern grocery was charged with havin
sold such flour to Gaskell. Both d.
PENDANTS admitted the charge, but CAV
testimony in the nature of an excus
The testimony will be forwarded
Idaho Food Administrator Bicknell fC
, examination
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-03-28
SPIES WORK IN
CURTISS PLANT
Senator 0verman Assigns Re.
SponsibiIity for Failure Of
AirpIane Program.

Washington. March 2S. Charges
I that German spies were responsible
for this countrys failure TO keep up
In It's nirplane prog. am. were made IN
the senate today by Senator over
man, democrat. of North Carolina. lie
also charged that there were spies In
the Curtiss plant.
III I were secretary of war. | would
commander the Curtlss plant and put
out every man employed there and
hire Americans In their places" do
clarcd Senator Oycrman Senator
Overman declared spies took metal
braces. and saving them into two.
Joined the pieces with lead and then
painted over The fifst BrlStow mn
chine tried fell. An ingestiRation dis
also had been tampcrcd with and. AS
a result. the building of BriHtow ina
chimes was delayed two months. while
inspectors and government agents
went over and closely examined the
various parts 10 replace damaged
pieces.
senator Otcruan stated ~ had been
said there are 100. 900 German spies In
this country. but he believed there are
900. 600 Hr said he wus making no
charge against any cmployc VI the
CurtiHs plant. but asserted some Of
their NAMES sound myHtcriousiy un-
American. and added that we DO
know that spies are in the plant and
they have delayed the delivery of ma
chimes"
Nr Oyrrmhn announced that his
Information had been obtained from
detective. whose name he intended
giving Go Chairman Chamberlain. of
the senate military committee ru that
hr and others can De summoned be
fore the military committee.