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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02

Wheatless rations for commercial
or coop fieshing of young chickens for
market offers to commercial feeders
singularly efficient and economical
rations for rapid gains in weight. In
tests conducted by specialists of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, report of which has been pub
lished in a professional paper, Bulle-
tin 657, a ration composed of corn
meal and fresh buttermilk, fed again
and again throughout the whole feed
ing season, produced in IA days coop
feeding an average gain of a pound
for every SIS pounds of wet feed con-
sumed. Still better results were OBJ
tanned with distiller's grains. In the
tests the highest and cheapest gains
were made by birds having an initial
weight of two pounds or less.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEmi.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FORQUICK READING
Brief Notes Covering happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate interest
to all the People.

The suffrage vote has been post
poned in congress until August
Uruguay has made July a per
manent national holiday in honor oil
the United Stats.
washington is expected to be made
permanent headquarters OF the ma
tionaI republican campaign commit
tee.
Major Henry Crosby Emery, who
was seized on the Aland islands by
the Germans last March, now is in
Berlin.
Five bodies of the IS miners killed
by the powder explosion in the silver
mine of the M. A. Hanna company
near Hibbing. Mimi, have been recov-
cred.
r. II. May, vice president and cash
Ter of the Citizens bank. is held in
Jail at cambridge, Ga. charged, after
a coroners inquest, with killing II. >.
Richardson, architect and contractor.
Four British torpedo boat destroy
ers fought a long-range engagement
with a German destroyer force off the
Belgian coast recently The action
was broken off before any decisive
result was attained.
Alexander Kerensky, the former
Russian provisional premier, has ar
rived in Paris from London. Shortly
after his arrival he had long con
ference with M. Maklajoff, the Rus
sian ambassador in Paris.
After an unsuccessful effort by
Senator Martin of Virginia, democrat
ic leader, to have the senate abandon
its proposals to increase the govern
ment minimum guaranteed whea
price of $3.50 an agreement has beel
reached to take vote on the ques
ton this week.
Alvin Adams, a soldier from For
Casey. Wash, was arrested in Por
land recently, charged with the mul
der of Milton Raynor, a Seattle cha
feur, who was was found slain nea
Redmond, Wash, June 2S. Adam
was driving Raynors car when a
rested. The police say he made a d.
tailed confession. According to tn
police Adams said his home is
Grandview, Mo.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Army Bill to Conference.

In passing the ,O00.0O0,OO0 army
appropriation bill the senate empha-
sized sentiment for enlarging the ar
my beyond the 3.OOO,OOOO men pro
vided in the measure, but declined,
while awaiting the war Department.
new expansion program, specifically
to direct the president to raise an
army of 100000
After a weeks debate and without
a roll call or dissenting voice the
huge supply measure-a worlds rec
ord breaker-was sent to conference
between the two houses, with a view
to its enactment when the appropria
tions are needed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
BUILDING CAVES IN;
SIX BODIES DUG OUT
Death Roll of 10 Is Expected in Crash
at Sioux City, Iowa.

Sioux City, Iowa.-The toll of dead
in the Ruff building, a threestory
brick structure at Fourth and Doug
las, which collapsed Saturday after
noon, is estimated at 10 to 20. with a
score or more injured. Most of the
injured are not seriously hurt. The
financial loss is placed at 100000.
The Ruff building was being remod-
eled and the collapse is believed to
supports. The structure was elected
nearly so vars ago.
The Dead.
Louis Soiseth, Walter Nelson, Roy
Ostranger and Charles Kugel, all of
Sioux City.
Louis Schiller, Lemars, Iowa.
One unidentified man.
Otis Boruff. critically hurt, was dug
out at 10 o'clock tonight
The Missing.
Alfred Hanson, one of the owners
of the Ruff Drug company.
Five stailors employed on the third
floor OF the Ruff building are be-
lieved TO be buried in the basement.
They are: Herman Feddern, Olof
Roisum, John Stutz, John Louma,
Olof Running.
Two other tailors, Louis Fretheim
and Nels Vindine, escaped. They fell
clear of the ruins when the building
toppled over.
When the Ruff building collapsed
the east wall fell on the Chain gro
Gerry and Beaumont and Braunger
meat market, two stores, crushing
lieved to be buried in the ruins of
these buildings. Fire which broke
out in the ruins of the Ruff building
added to the peri1s of those impris
oned All the fire departments in
the city, assisted by hundreds of vol
unteers, aided in fighting the flames
and in searching the ruins.
AS Reported Later.
Burrowing deep under tons of the
wreckage, firemen and volunteers or
Sunday removed 80 more bodies from
the wreckage of the Ruff building
which collapsed Saturday at Fourth
and Douglas and announced that the
toll of the disaster may reach so
1t is probable several persons wer,
completely incinerated, judging from
the condition of most of the bodies.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Our Troops in Italy.

Washington.-The first American
troops landed in Italy June 20, Gen.
March, chief of staff, announced Sun
day. These are not the force sent
by General Pershing, but consist of
units shipped from this country. The
troops consist largely of canitary
units, but include other special or
CARNATIONS, General March explained
On the whole, however, it is made
up mostly of noncombatant units
The combatant troops will be sent
by General Pershing as previously
announced.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Government Gives Railroads Back.

About 100 short-line railroads were
turned back to private management
Saturday by the railroad administra-
ton. a few hours before congress
passed legislation intended to pre-
vent the REIMBURSEMENT of many of
them. Between 300 and 400 of the
roads relinquished had sought to re-
main under government management.
About 400 short lines were retained
as part of the national system.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
$4,000 Men at Camp Lewis.

Camp Lewis, Wash.-A decrease in
the number of contagious diseases
reported in Camp Lewis for the week
ended midnight, June 81, is noted
in the weekly report of Major L. L.
McGlasson, camp sanitary inspector
The strength of the camp is given as
34,029 men.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
q GERMAN PLANES
DOWNED BY ALLIES
HUN PRISONERS SAY CASUAL
TIES HEAVY AS RESULT OF
ACTIVITY IN WEST.
DROP SO TONS OF BOMBS
Our Men Wreck Three-By Desper-
ate Fighting Foch Wrests Ibpor-
tant Points From Foe-Ger-
many Helps Italy.

London.-British aviators in aerial
combats on the western front recent
ly shot down II German airplanes
and sent six others down out of con-
troll. Three British machines are
missing as a result of the combats.
Twenty-Five tons of bombs were
dropped during the day on enemy
targets and 14ls tons during the
night.
Intense activity has been marking
the work of the royal air force. Pris-
oners state that German casualties
have been very heavy as the result
of the aerial raids.
Italians Bomb Enemy Troops.
The Italian war statement says of
aviation:
Railway centers and enemy troops
in movements were bombarded by our
own ad allied airmen. Three enemy
machines were brought down.
Huns Put in Quiet Week.
Another week has passed without
the Germans resuming their offens.
i've. The entente allies have shown
the greatest activity during this pc
riod and in several parts of the bat
tie zone have carried the fight to the
enemy.
Italians Win Defense Victory.
A short time ago the Austrians be
gan their flight across the Piave riv
er from the western bank where they
had received a sanguinary check al
the hands of the Italians. 1t is pos
sible now to view the event in it:
true perspective and estimate thu
I victory of the Italians as a great de
fensive triumph General Diaz, thu
Italian commander in chief, has no
pursued the Austrians further thai
of strong bridgebeads on the eastern
banks of the river.
/. There is still danger of another al
tack being launched against Italy, thi
time from the mountain front an
with German forces leading their a
lies in their attempt to force thei
! path down into the Italian plains
= For this reason, apparently, Genera
, Diaz is content to hold the Piav
= strongly and to wait, for the momer
[ at least, any further attacks agains
his vital mountain positions.
Americans Down Three Foes.
4 Capture of 300 German prisoner
a and the destruction of three Germa
[ airplanes by American aviators wa
: reported by General Pershing in a
n official communication.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Montana Bankers Organize.

Helena, INSTRUMENTATION of a
state association of bankers was de-
cided upon at a meeting of state
bankers with State Bank Examiner
Magraw. Delegates will attend a
meeting to be held in ST. Louis July
Is for the organization of a National
Association of State Banks, designed
to look after the interests of such
institutions in Washington. d. c.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02

Superior, Wis.-Sixty saloons, two
Wholesale liquor houses and six brew
cry agencies in Superior closed their
doors Saturday night as the result
of the cityN being voted dry at the
spring election.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Some Shooter.

Fort Smelling, NINA perfect
score of 200 was made here Sunday
by Dave Fauskee of Worthington,
Mimi, who won the Famechon trophy
at the annual Minnesota trapshootIng
tournament He broke his last 20
targets in downpour of rain.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Effect on Inland Empire.
EUGENE v. DEBs UNDER ARREST
Socialist Leader Faces Charge of Vio-
Iation of Espionage Act.

Cleveland, Ohio.-Eugene V. Debs,
four times socialist candidate for the
presidency of the United States, was
arrested here Sunday by the United
States marshal as he was about to
deliver a speech. The arrest was
made on a warrant in connection
with his speech at the socialist state
convection in Canton, Ohio, June 16.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Class Pool Halls as NonessentiaI.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-The state coun-
ell of defense has classed pool hall
employees as nonessential and at a
meeting to be held July 5 all pool
halls in the state will be ordered
closed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
THE TOTAL AMERICAN
CASUALTIES NOW 1888
Over Half the Number Wounded in
Action-7Army Has s131 and the
Marines 1852.

Washington, d. Casualties in
the American expeditionary forces so
far reported total 1888, summaries
reported Monday by the war depart
ment and marine corps shows. OF
this number 9131 were in the army
and 1862 in the marine corps.
Army casualties, including those re-
ported Monday, were summarized as
follows:
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
w. U. T-LEGRAPHERs OUT.
Members of Operators Union Are to
Strike on Monday, July 8.

Chicago-S. j. Konenkamp, presi-
dent of the Commercial Telegraphers'
Union of America, Sunday night an
nounced that he had issued a call for
a strike off members of the union en-
ployed by the Western Union Tele..
graph company, effective at Z a. M,
eastern time, Monday, July 8.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Russian Soldiers Give Guns to Huns

San F'rancisco.-The Russian army,
in its retreat from Persia and the
Caucasus, sold its entire equipment
to the Persian Moslems, the allies of
the Turks. at prices ranging from 81
for a rifle to 81 for a machine gun.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02

Columbus. Ohio.-Streetcar service
in Columbus was at a standstill Sun
day owing to a strike. Of union car
men.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Congress Ends Session.

Washington, d. C.-Congress has
begun clearing up legislation prepa-
ratory to a recess this week until
early in August.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
WAR IS PRODUCING
GREED FOR MONEY
MAD PROFITEERING IN ALL BA-
SIS ARTICLES IN UNITED
STATES is CHARGED.
LOOKS NOTHING BUT ROBBERY
Miller. Packer, Shoe Dealer and Steel
Man Amass Vast Wealth and
Would Evade Tax--ln Flour
Industry 1870 Cleared.

Washington.-Pr ofiteering on ire
mendous scale in virtually all the ba-
sic commodities of life was reported
to the senate by the federal trade
commission as the result of an ex-
haustive investigation.
'Inordinate greed and barefaced
fraud" as well as war pressure for
heavy production, the commission re-
ported as the cause.
Pad Out Expense Schedule.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS of properties were
made by great concerns when t be-
came evident that the government
was about to fix prices on basis of
return on investfent, the report said,
and salaries, allowances and expenses
were in many instances padded to
show increased costs of conducting
business.
The outstanding feature of it's in
vestigation, the commission reported,
was the evidence of a tendency to in
crease and maintain prices against
the forces of competition.
OF all the big profits disclosed by
the investigation the report said the
profits of the meat packers and those
allied with them and by the flour
millers, stand foremost, despite the
fixing of prices by the government
AIeee Packers Disregard Law.
Manipulations of the market by the
five great packers-Armour, Swift
Morris, Wilson and Cudahy-the com
mission asserts, embrace every de
vice that is useful to them without re
gard t. law"
The report charges that the fiv'
concerns have monopolized control o
the meat industry and ARE reaching
for like domination in other prod
ucts."
During 1915, 1916 and 1917 the re
| port said, these companies ''pocketed
= $4,000, 900.
1.-The experience with steel, flou
, and coal" says the report, referrin
| to price fixing, shows that hig
l stimulating fixed price, while stabi
= izing an ascending market, produce
7 an economic situation which
= fraught with hardship to the consun
S ing public and with ultimate peril
e the high cost companies through il
e creasing power of their low cos
competitors.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
Salaries at High Tide.

Where the government has fixed
prices on the basis of fair return on
net investment, the report hints at
padded depreciations, increased salar-
les of officials, new construction
charged off as repairs, fictitious val
ues on raw materials and manipula-
ted inventories.
Pacific Northwest lumbermen have
not sought to profiteer, but Pacific
Northwest salmon packers, or rather
some of them. have been gathering in
profits above normal This is the
conclusion of the federal trade com
mission.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Mrs. M. II. Amsden, age 92, died
recently at her home in Lewiston, fol
lowing a stroke OF paralysis on June
%.
William Clyde, well-known farmer
of Moscow district, stricken with apo
plexy recently recently and is in a
critical condition.
A large assemblage gathered at the
Union station Lewiston Friday to bid
farewell to the draft men of Nez
Perez, Lewis and Idaho counties who
departed for Camp Lewis.
James Trebithick of Standpoint, was
instantly killed and Mrs. Charles
Good, all of Park city was badly cut
and bruised when the automobile in
which they we're travelling near Bill
lings overturned.
kootenai Men to Pocatello.
The following eight Kootenai men
have left for Pocatello, to enter the
technical training school for military
training service:
Arthur Adams, Spirit Lake; Arthur
Bevard, Astoria, Ore. Glen Foley,
Occur d'Alene City; Harry w. Need
err, Harrison; Oliver Henry Acton,
Ray Kincaid, Leo Rambowski, Nor
man Tallmadge, Occur d'Alene City.
Five men have been called to re-
port before the board. From them
three men will be indicted into the
spruce production division at Van
couver. The men are. Herman Graf,
Paul Graham. Gustaf Morley, Pat
rick Whalen, Paul Grimm and Rich
ard Renenger There are about 100
men available for general military
service in class |.
To Reclaim $4,000 Acres.
The war department has issued a
permit to improve the outlet OF Occur
d'Alene lake and the Spokane river at
the Post Falls dam. The commission
ers of Benewah and Kootenai coun-
ties will complete assessment rolls in
the two counties. Consulting Engin.
eer NJ. S. Parker has practically fin
ished the rolls of Benewah county
and is working in district No. 6 in
Kootenai county 1t is expected that
bids for the work will be called fol
early this fall The improvement tc
the outlet of the lake and the chan
mel will make possible the reclama
ton of $4,000 acres of bottom lane
in the St. Joe and Occur dAlene val
leys The widening and deepening o
the outlet will hasten the discharge
of water and relieve pressure on thu
bikes.
State to Build Hepburn Road.
At recent meeting of the Heyburl
park commission held in Boise, al
tended by Governor alexander, j. {
White, commissioner of Hepburn parl
and w. II. Thorpe, game warden,
, motion was adopted that the Heybur
: park road construction shall be ca
= ried out through the state highwa
, department and that the highwa
, commission should advertise for bid
and specifications at once One of tn
clauses in the contract let must b
that the work will be completed b
July l, 1919.
The money for the construction
this one and one-half miles of road
available through the sale of timbt
in the park. Fourteen thousand dc
lars will be derived from the sale
+ this state timber. The piece of roa
to be constructed is from the mort
ern boundary of the park to I'll
camping site at Chatcolet, and wi
- connect up the Worley and Plumm'
districts with the main travelled roaC
and will be of added value to motto
= lists who wish to reach the park fro
st. Maries and other districts.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02

Don't pass up the nickels and dimes
they have just purchased the former
summer home of the president.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02

the marines, which also included
Mondays list. follows:
eDaths, 407; wounded, S42; in the
hands of the enemy, /; missing, 2
Four hundred and ninety-seven cas-
ualties in the army ware reported
during the week, including 179 killed
in action, AZ died of wounds, 10 died
of disease, 10 died of accidents and
other causes, 213 wounded in action
and 20 missing in action, including
prisoners. The week before SAC cas-
ualties were reported.
The marine corps summary did not
show how many of the deaths re-
ported were in action, from disease,
accidents and other causes. 1t did
divide the officers and men, showing
that IA officers have died, 30 have
been wounded and one is missing.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02

H. A. Jewell, grocer, at Centralia,
was burned out recently, loss $4,000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02
$500 WHEAT PRICE
/. SETBY GOVERNMENT
NEW PRICES SET BY FOOD AD-
MINlSTRATlON GRAIN
CORPORATION.
LITTLE MORE THAN IN 1917
Advanced Freight Rates Call for Re-
adjustment-Not Hurtful to the
Farmers-Better Than in 1917
1t Is Now Believed.

New York.-New wheat prices, ne
cessitated by advanced freight rates,
have been announced by the food ad-
ministration grain corporation. 1t
was stated that a minimum price OF
50 a bushel for NO. l wheat aboard
cars in the intermountain territory
will be made effective. eDtails of
the plan will be made public soon.
Prices for No. Wheat.
The corporations announcement
said No l wheat of the northern
spring hard winter, red winter, du-
rum and red and white grades will
be sold in the various markets at the
following prices:
Duluth and Minneapolis .....-....$2.21M
Chicago zzS
Kansas City and Omaha .......-.-- 2.18
Galveston zzo
Tacoma, Seattle, Portland, Ore
Astoria, San Francisco and
Los Angeles ........--.---..--..-..--..... 2.20
The price basis Off No. wheat
will be three cents below No. l and
for No. four cents below No. 2.
Grades below No. 3 will be dealt in
on sample.
Schedule for Special Classes.
Special classes of wheat, the com
mission said, will be sold on the fol-
lowing schedule:
Dark hard winter, two cents above
hard winter.
Dark northern spring, two cents
above northern spring.
Amber durum, two cents above du-
rum.
Yellow and winter two cents under
hard winter.
Red spring, five cents under north
ern spring.
Red Walla, seven cents under red
winter.
Red durum, seven cents under du-
rum.
Soft white, two cents under hard
white
White club, four cents under hard
white.
Changes in federal grading stand
ards previously filed with the trade,
it was declared, are expected to re-
suit in production of more high grade
wheat than in 1917.
Effect on Inland Empire.
The grain prices announced by the
grain corporation should mean ap-
proximately SO a bushel at his ship
ping point to the grower in the In
land Empire. This has been the great
point contended for by the growers
OF this region since the food control
law went into effect. The working OF
the food control act was somewhat
: obscure on this point as affects this
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-07-02

Capture of 300 German prisoners
and the destruction of three German
airplanes by American aviators was
reported by General Pershing in an
official communication.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-11
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, April ll.-Thcrc seemed
to be "A good deal Of pressure against
the cotton market at the opening TO-DAY
Selling orders hud apparently accumulat-
cd over night. the first prices were ~
to % points lower In response 10 weak
cables. liquidation and scattered selhns
The weather map showed undeslranly
low temperatures In the south, nut
seemed to make little impression on sen
tlment. which was unsettled and before
the end Of the first hour July had eased
OF TO 30 SIC and October to 30Slc, or ~
to I2 points net lower The decline was
accompanied by reports that spinncrH
had pretty well secured cover against
their moro urgent requirements, While
there was evidently nervousness over
price fixing prospects In the goods trudc
and the war zone.
The weakness Of the late Liverpool
cables and heavy Liverpool selling mere
were prominent factors on the prenk
during the middle Of the morning. july
sold Off to 32.2jc and october TO 30 bbc,
or "a to % points under last nights CLOS,
ing figures After the close abroad
prices here stcndied on covering and re-
ports OF n sharp reduction In British
marine war risks, which was considered
largely responsible for the break IN tht
English market
Trading was comparatively quiet dur
ing the carly afternoon with rallies or IN
or ~ points from the lowest followed 10y
rather narrow and irregular fluctuations
July ruled around ~ 3ic and October IN
30. 70, or about i3 to " points net lower