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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-02-01
ElectricitY's Part

Have you stopped consider what Electricity
lea in this war?
Tress day in and day out the Electrical of the
marshng the forces of heat light and the great
economy and efendy Of factories FARMS mines and
homes.
The Power Light Company especially fortunate in
being able to render double service to the great territory
and to the nation BY utilizing the water of
tain streams which would otherwise be totally wasted
Company generated during the year 1917 5O0O0O
watt hours of electrical energy In turning the wheels indus
try operating irrigation systems and in It's service
factories and homes of Central Northern Utah. Southern
Idaho and Western Colorado this quantity pow
actually saved last tons of coal for
sections of the country where hydro energy not
available.
During the year have enjoyed splendid cooperation
from customers which has been of the our
efforts provide adequate efficient and economical electric
service
Whatever part the grim struggle IN which country
is engaged viii find Electricity your willing and reess
servant all times adding the efficiency your work v m
saving of money time and effort.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-02-01

The Examiner ss.OO . year
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
PUNISHMENT FOR
 WAR CRIMINALS
 AYERS MARQUIS
Covernments, and Not Jurists Should Bring Kaiser and Associates
 to Bar of Justice. A..
Associated P-essl

LONDON-The Marquis of Crewe former British secretary of state for the colonies, in a widely pub lished letter, says that the responsi- bility for punishing the former Ger man kaiser and the other German officials for the crimes committed during the war, must rest with the governments, and not the jurists.
 Legal technicalities must not be allowed to interfere with and divert the hands of justice, he says, and these criminals can be put away where they will have no further chance of creating mischief and bringing sorrow and desolation to the worlds peoples.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
EXECUTIVE ORDER EXTENDS TIME OF
 LOT PAYMENTS

Good news for the owners of Ne mana townsite lots is contained in the latest executive order issued by President Wilson, October 25th last, and which has just been received at the Land office at Fairbanks. The executive order has a direct bearing on the payments due on tLe pur- chase price of townsite lots and ex- tends the time limit for one year on all payments on this account falling due subsequent to August 1918. The text of the executive order referred to as received over the telephone late yesterday even ing is as follows:
 President Wilson on October 25, 1918, signed Executive Order No. 2982, through Congress.
 Executive Order No. 2ss2.
 "In and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress of March l2, 1914 (3s. Stat. 305) entitled An Act to Authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct and operate a rail road in the Territory of Alaska and for other purposes, do hereby order and direct that all lot payments falling due ubsequent to August, 1918, in the towns of Anchorage. Matanuska, Nenana and Wasilla, and in any addition thereto, be and the same are hereby extended for the period of one year from the time when same became or becomes due. Lot payments in said towns falling due prior to August l, 1918 are not hereby extended.
 Executive Order No. 2214, is- sued June l9, 1918 and all other orders conflicting herewith are here by modified to conform with this order.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
CONFERENCE NOT ID START BEFORE
 JANUARY FIRST
Getting American Mission Settled Is Long Job; the Informal
 Conferences Continue.
Associated Press)


 PARIS.-President Wilson now thoroughly understands the reason why the peace conference cannot start before January l, as the mere physical proposition of getting the American Peace Mission settled is proving to be a tremendous job.
 Informal conferences for laying the ground work for the peace con- ference are to continue and during these conferences President Wilson is seeking to get more closely ac- quainted with the men with whom he is to deal. His object is to de- velop the value of personal equation.
 The President thinks that many things must be said plainly and he wants to avoid antagonisms. He is confident that an agreement accept able to all will be reached at the inter-Allied conference.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
WARNING ISSUED ARREST SPREAD
 0F iNFlUENZ!A!

George W. Pennington, the local head of the Council of Defense, re- ceived the following telegram this morning from W. A. Clark, the ter ritorial chairman of the Council of Defense, transmitting the contents of a telegraphic message received at Juneau from the National Council of Defense:
 disappearing, epidemic influenza now threatened in many parts of country. Surgeon General of United States Public Health Service has is sued warning. Original epidemic persists widely. Everywhere cpl demic and other abnormal conditions created by war has left millions of people particularly susceptible to the disease. Risks are aggravated by the fact that medical and sanitary facilities have been depleted to meet war needs and cannot be restored to normal for some time nor without concerted effort In view of emer- gency we recommend that entire forces of state division of the women's committee be thrown back of public health authorities. In- tensive work locally with individuals especially called to guard population during coming winter All your branch councils should therefore be instructed to bring together under definite working arrangement rep resentatives of all local agencies touching health and to put at their joint disposal facilities for each en- tire community"
 Unusual watchfulness and care of health is urged for each individual.
 Every precaution to prevent the introduction of the epidemic into Nenana has been taken by the local Board of Health and the Alaskan commission, and the measures taken are felt to be just and adequate. It is up toeach individual Nenanaite to be vigilant and prevent any infraction to each individual Nenanaite to be keep the authorities posted of any thing that may tend to leave the door open for the introduction of the disease.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
ANOTHER NENANAITE
 INFLUENZA VICTIM

In letter received on the last mail locally, the sad news is con tained of the death of Elvin John son of influenza at Camp Lewis son of influenza at Camp Lewis. The date of his death is not mentioned.
 Elven was we'll known in Nenana, where he has host of friends who will be very sorry to hear of his death.
 Prior to joining the army, Elven worked at the Terminal and the Tanana Sheet Metal Works and fin ally as brakeman on the govern ment railroad, relinquishing the posi- tion to enter the service.
 He was possessed of a sunny dis position and was we'll liked by all who knew him.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
HEADS LIST
 IN BOND PURCHASES

The following statement, issued by the General Publicity committee of the Twelfth Federal Reserve dis trict regarding the Fourth Liberty Loan will be read with interest by Nenanaites Nenana has more than contributed her share to the success of the Liberty Loan, and citizens will be gratified to know that Alaska has once again come to the forefront in matters of patriotic endeavor:
 The Twelfth Federal Reserve Dis trict subscribed s459,000,oOO to the Fourth Liberty Loan, or HAP per cent of the quota of s402, 100000,
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
PRESIDENT ENDS
 OFFICIAL. VISIT
 BEGINS BUSINESS
Formal Ceremonies In Connection With Visit of President Wilson
 Are Brought to Close.

PARIS.-president Wilson's off cial visit to Paris ended yesterday and he has already begun the busi- ness that brought him across the ocean. The magnificent reception accorded him by the French people has made a deep and lasting i'm pression on the President and the American delegates to the peace conference.
 The London Daily Mail, Paris edi- tion. commenting on the arrival of President Wilson in France, says that he has had one of the most re- markable receptions ever accorded guest of the French nation, and lays great stress on the fact that in his speeches the President WAS very careful to say that in honoring him in person, the French people were conferring a great honor on the American nation.
 The President said that he, felt that the French people were sincere in their acceptance of his principles as basis for the peace negotiations to follow and that he firmly believed that Premier Clemenceau of France was heartily in accord and thor oughly in sympathy with his ideas.
 Versailles, a suburb of Paris, which has been selected as the meet ing place of the inter-Allied peace conference, was visited by the Presi- dent informally today. Tonight he will attend the reception given in his honor by Ambassador Sharp.
 The king and queen of Italy will visit President and Mrs Wilson at their residence on Thursday, and the President has arranged to meet Premier Lloyd George of Great Britain soon. :.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
YOUTHFUL HUNS
 DEMAND REFORMS
Pa<ade of Boys and Girls Held In Berlin to Demand Votes and
 Other Reforms.
Associated Press


 BERLIN.-Several hundred boys and girls held big parade in this city today The paraders marched to the Reichstag building, where the delegates of the various Soldiers and Workmen's Council were assem- bled in congress, and demanded votes for persons eighteeen years old, abolition of corporeal punish ment and the participation of schools through the scholars in the admins tration of the government
 The school children carried red flags and incendiary banners and placards. A seventeen-year-old lad made an address before the congress and warned the committee of the terrible consequences to follow if the juvenile program is not carried out.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

according to official figures just announced by the Federal Reserve Bank. This district ranks seventh in the United States.
 Alaska leads in percentage of subscriptions in the district, as com pared quota with 156 per cent; Arizona ssecond with 148 per cent; and the state of Washington third with 120 per cent. Northern Cali fornia subscriptions have not yet been segregated but will be an- nounced soon.
 Following is the showing made by the states and territories of the district:
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
KAISER BILLS NAME
 IS CAUSE OF CONTEST

REDWOOD CITY, Cal.-Ballots with the name of William Hohen- zollern written in are made the basis of an election contest filed here by Justice of the Peace George R. Seeley, who was defeated for reelection. BPS to 925, by Ray Griffin. Seeley charged there were several ballots in which votes for MT. Hohenzollern were recorded and that those ballots also carried Griffin's name.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
BOMBARO
 FINNISH COAST
Bolshevih Positions on Gulf of Finland Subjected to Fire
 From Naval Squadron.
Associated Press)

STOCKHOLM.-A powerful Brit ish squadron bombarded the Tol- sheviki positions today and did con- siderable damage, The Bolsheviki shore batteries replied to the fire, but the warships had the range accurately and the heavy fire they poured in silenced the batteries.
 The Bolsheviki positions which were subjected to the bombardment were on the southwestern coast of the Gulf of Finland.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
HOTELMEN AGREE ID DISCRIMINATE
 AGAINST ENEMY

PARIS.-A syndicate of French hotel men has been formed and announcement is made by this sym dicate that an agreement has been arrived at in terms of which natives of enemy countries vii not be re- ceiyed in any of the hotels con- trolled by the syndicate, either as customers or employees, for a period of ten years to come.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
FIRE DAMAGES
 CANADIAN TRAIN Tourist Coach In Canadian Train Is Destroyed By Fire; Thirteen
 Passengers Missing.
(Associate,i Press)

WINNEPEG.-Fire completely de- stroyed a tourist coach attached to a Car,dian Pacific train while trav- cling between Winnepeg and To- ronto, and thirteen passengers are reported to be missing.
 The fire originated in a berth occupied by a family.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
PAPER PREDICTS
 BRIGHT ALASKAN FUTURE

JUNEAU.-Alaska is looking for ward to an influx of returned sol diers seeking the great outdoors. An editorial in the Juneau Dispatch on the coming of peace says: "On every hand there is feeling Alaska will now come into her own. We expect this Northland will receive thousands of young soldiers look ing for the big outdoors"
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
HUNGARY |NTERNS
 GERMAN GENERAL
Request of the Allies Is Honored; General Maekensen ls Now
 lnterned.
Associated Press)

COPENHAGEN.-Accordingt to a report received in this city today the Hungarian government, comply ing with a request made by the Allies, have formally interned Gen eral Mackensen, one of the most famous German commanders.
 Mackensen commanded the Ger man forces who invaded Rumania and captured Bucharest.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
PORTUGAL HAS
 NEW PRESIDENT
Associated Press)

LISBON.-Admiral Canta Castro, commanding the navy of Portugal, has been elected president of the republic of Portugal to succeed the late President Paes, who was assass- mated yesterday
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

The love of money may be the root of all evil, but a man has to marry it to have this brought home to him.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

G. K. Weeks, general campaign manager, says that the final settle ment of adjustment accounts, includ- ing subscriptions by railroad em- ployees in the Twelfth Federal Re serve District which were actually
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
Per cent of Quota

entered in other districts, subject to credit back to the treasury de- partment, is expected to increase the final figure of this district to more than 100000.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

As a general thing, father would rather do without fruit salad than help peel it.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

Herr Himmelhoch, has fled this land,
 In secret he has helped the Hun 1; We tried to get him on the stand,
 That's how we got him on the run.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

Silence is golden. Still, money talks, but there is such a thing as hush money.
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
CONGRESS OPENS
 IN GERMAN CITY

BERLIN.-The Central Congress, composed of the delegates of the Soldiers and Workmen's Councils opened in this city today. Among the fifty-four delegates in congress assembled there were four women.
 The radical Socialists, known as the Spartacus group, attempted to pass a resolution inviting Dr. Lieb- knecht to congress, but they were overwhelmed.
 None of the important govern ment positions were given to any of the radical Spartacus delegates.
 We use the word Lusitania often
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

and glibly. And yet how many of us know that this was the name of what is now Portugal?
The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17
TEMPERATURE

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The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-17

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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
TELL OF ENEMY'S APPROACH
Certain Birds and Animals Make the
Best Kind OF Sentineis That an
Army Can Employ.

A wounded soldier, asked what had
surprised him most in the battle zone,
told of finding a robins nest in an
empty shell case.
AS a rule birds are the finest sem
tinels in the animal kingdom. They
become aware of approaching aircraft
long before man hears anything. Early
IN the war parrots were kept at the
Eiffel tower as sentinels, but they
grew accustomed to the sound Of en-
envy planes and were no longer Of use.
Pheasants always grow restless and
chatter noisily if Zeppelins are APP
preaching, even when they are far,
away, so far that man can hear nc.
sound.
What is perhaps STRANGER is the fact
that such ordinary creatures as pigs
should sight a balloon when it is COM
ing over. The blister" makes no
sound, yet, should one appear against
the sky, miles from a farmyard, the
farmer will be made aware Of the fact
by the curious antics of his pigs and
the clucking Of his hens.
Toy dogs always are susceptible to
the presence of danger, and many a
pet shows uneasiness before a raid.
Cats, too, show fear of gunfire and
seem to know when danger threatens.
Dogs, birds and horses are very SEN
sitlve to sound. Watch the birds dur
ing a daylight raid, listen to the dogs,
and visit 1he stable where the horse
restively stamps up and down. But
that all animals can accustom them
selves to sounds that cause fear is
proved by our cavalry horses, dogs
that accompany their masters into the
firing line and the robins nest in the
| empty shell case.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
GRO BE CoNTINUED.)
Heroism That Is Real.

For heroism when the engine room
of his ship was filed with live steam.
Niels Anderson, chief machinist's mate,
United States navy, has been given
official commentator. The act oc-
Cured when the exhaust lines of the
steering engine were carried away by
the breaking of the tiller, causing the
engine room to fill with steam. With
out hesitation Anderson went down a
ladder to the compartment, but was
driven back. Again he made two more
attempts. The third was successful.
and, cropping his way through the
cloud of steam, he cut 1t off. Ander-
son enlisted in the navy at Norfolk.
Va, in April, 1898, giving as his home
address 2420 South Broad street,
Philadelphia.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
Tommy sized Il Up.

Toms kindergarten teacher took her
class to see the chickens in the school
yard. A homely brown hen was moth
ering a brood of fancy chickens
Matched in an incubator. The aristo-
cratic chicks had tufts of feathers on
their heads. Tommy quickly noted the
difference between hen and chicks and
blurted out "Pshaw, she can't be their
mother" Then, after n moments con-
sideration, he added with an air Of con-
victton: "oh, 1 guess she's only the
nurSegirl."
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
VICTIM OF GERMAN "KULTUR"
Irwin S. Cobb Writes Of Work Of Beast
of Berlin, as He Saw It in
London Hospital.

In a London hospital I saw a little
girl who had been most terribly
manned in an air raid. / am not going
TO dwell on the state of this child.
When I think of her / have not the
words to express the feelings that
have. But one of her hands was gone
at the wrist and the other hand was
badly shattered; so she was just a
wan little brutality abbreviated frag-
ment of humanity, a living fraction,
most grievously afflicted.
Her wounds had ceased to pain her,
the head nurse told me before we en-
tered, and for the rest Of the time she
was a good patient, one Of the best in
the ward.
She was lying, when 1 saw her, with
her head propped upon pillow that
was no whittier than her face was, and
there was a pitiful wrath of smile
on her poor little pinched common
place face, and to her breast, with the
bandaged stump of one arm and with
her remaining hand that was swathed
in clump of wrapping, she cuddled
up a painted china doll which some
body had brought to her, and she was
singing to 1t.
The sight, take it, would have been
very gracious in the eyes Of his impe'
rial majesty of Prussia-except, OF
course, that the little girl still lived
that naturally would be drawback tC
his complete enjoyment of the spec
tacle.-Irvin s. Cobb in the Saturda!
| Evening Post.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
Lonns for a Pislstratus.

Pisistratus, the first lawgiver of
Athens, when asked why he had made
death the penalty for every infractlon
of his statutes, replied that 1t was
none too much for the least crime and
he knew nothing more severe for the
greater. All, if Pisistratus were only
here to judge the Huns at the final
count.-Seattle Post-Inteligencer.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
The Kaiser as [ Knew Him
For Fourteen Years
Seopz1Is6t "a 81 tss MeeIaSs $500 znasatsl

Berlin for reasons of their own and
that nothing could do could mend the
situation, when, early in January, re-
ceived the joyous tidings that could
leave January 21-23. I left on the
22d, and as far as have since been
able to ascertain was the last Amer
lean male to leave Germany with the
consent of the officials.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
shears Made to Last.

George II. Tucker, president Of
Pittsfield tMass.) bank, uses in bush
ness the shears which for years were
on the desk of his grandfather at the
courthouse They have never been
sharpened, and their edges today are
"as keen as a razor" despite the fact
that they have been in constant uss
for 100 years.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27

The kaiser for many years
lost no opportunity to curry
favor with Americans In the
hope, declares Doctor Davis,
that he would reap his reward
when the great war which he
was then anticipating broke out.
When war came and America
did not rush to his aid he was
grievousIy disappointed and took
no pains to conceal his bitter
ness toward this country. Doc
tor Davis tells some interesting
facts about this situation in the
next instaiIment Of his story.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
Doesn't Understand.

Suzette says she can't understand
how small thing like trolley pole
can keep big thing like street car
from running off the track.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-09-27
French at a Glance.

SHow do you pronounce vivandiereT
with pretty one you put the 40
cent heavily on the last syllable"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
Yernon Castle. Patriot

Irene Castle, whose "Memories of Yer non Castle appear in Everybody's, tells of certain newspapers which, in relating the accident of her husbands death, put it that Vernon had made good by his glorious self-sacrifices" To his wife, "Their idea seemed to be that by his death Vernon Castle had atoned for his earlier sins, whatever they may have been It seemed inconceivable to them that a dancer, professional dancer and man of the stage. could be fighter. He was not a fighter in the sense that he liked war. He was not soldier of adventure nor any other kind. He hated discipline, and the narrowness of life in barracks. He loved above all other sur face things, the theatre, restaurants, cafes and other places of amusement All this he gave up gladly because his country was at war, and he was too good sport to shirk his share of the hard ships and dangers that are the lot of a soldier He thought he ought to go into it.
 Speaking before meeting of the Actors Equity association. Francis Will son said that there seemed to be an inn pression that Vernon Castle had re- deemed himself by his glorious death The speaker declared that in his opinion Vernon Castles evolution of the modern dance had brought joy to so many Amer jeans, young and old, that he is to be credited with one of the greatest achieve ments of the day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-17
COLUMBUS, MISS.

% Columbus, Miss, November 16-(Spe- ciaL)-The Medical Military Musical Afnstrels, an organization composed of ihembers of the medical corps and other militray stationed at Payne field. near West Point, as we'll as number of ladies from both the aviation field and the city of West Point, will appear at the Columbus theatre next Tuesday night and will doubtless be greeted by A large audience.
 The company embraces number of Accomplished entertainers, including 9ergeant- Major Stephany and Corp. Johnny Green, who will be on the ends. and George Maroney. who will Appear as interlocutor. The company 3p equipped with gorgeous costumes and
 pecial scenery. and the performance, Inc proceeds of which will go to the Payne field hospital fund. promises to 8c an excellent one in every respect. N A special term of circuit court for Eowndes county will convene at the Courthouse in this city at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. The term was called