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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
NOW ADMIT kAISER'S
CAUSE is HOPELESS
Captured Hun Officers Say Russian
Treaty Was Great Mistake
Think You So?

British Army HeadQuarters-The
demeanor of hundreds of German Off
GERS taken prisoner recently is in
striking contrast with the attitude of
the officers captured during the Brit
ish retreat last spring. Then Ger
man officer prisoners were arrogant
and meant to crush the British to
earth, but now they are depressed and
very anxious. They appear very will
ing to talk and the tenor of their
conversation may be summed up as
follows:
They say Germany entered the war
with enthusiasm, but this has long
since disappeared and the struggle
has now become an economic one
with Great Britain.
They admit that Germany is in
practically hopeless condition, both
economically and from the man yower
point of view, and ask whether Great
Britain can not now consider Ger
many sufficiently reduced to be no
longer dangerous trade rival or
whether the allies intend to crush
her altogether. In the latter case,
they say, Germany will be forced to
fight to the last, but they make no
effort to conceal their impression of
what this means for the fatherland.
They say they believe there is every
disposition to evacuate Belgium and
northern France and even negotiate
the Alsace-Lorraine question.
They are generally unanimous in
agreeing that annexations thus far
made and the Brest-Litovsk peace
treaty were a great mistake. but
think they can not withdraw from
Russia in the present condition Of
affairs there.
They are awaer that the American
army now has assumed very formid-
able proportions and there is a gen.
eral admission of the seriousness of
this factor.
The submarine campaign they can
not refer to without gestures of i'm
patience.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
AIRCRAFT PLANS SLOW.
We Have Thirteen Squadrons in
France Instead of IT'S, SAILS
General kenIy.

Washington, ID. C.-America's
aircraft program for the great ar
my that is counted upon to win
the war next year calls for $50
complete squadrons of planes, and
the man part of the pragrom al
ready is ahead of schedule with
5000 pilots trained.
This information, given by Ma
jor General Ken,y. chief of the di-
vision of military earonautics, and
many othe rfacts hitherto held Sc
cret, were disclosed this week
when the senate military commit
tee made public testimony given
behind closed doors during three
months of investigation by the avi
alton subcommittee headed by Sen
ator Thomas of Colorado.
General Kenly told the commit
tee there are 13 American air
plane squadrons of 273 machines
now in France, where as there
should be 175 squadrons.
William @. Potter, assistant di
rector of airplane production, sale
General Pershing had called fol
$4,000 planes by July l, 1919, an,
had been told it was hoped to de-
liver $4,000 to 10000. This would
meet replacement demands Of The
squadrons in the field.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

The Huns are digging extensive
trenches between Dinant and Givet,
on the Belgium border.
Without pause the British forces
battling against the Germans are NOV
ing forward in the direction of Ba-
paume.
Germany is still far from starva-
ton or from the limit of its endur-
ance, so far as the civilian population
is concerned.
Seven men were killed and num-
Der are said to have been injured by
the bursting on a steam pipe on an
American transport lying at dock at
an Atlantic port, Saturday.
At the recent annual convention of
the Northwestern Grain Dealers as
ISOLATION in Helena, Mont, officers for
the ensuing year were elected as fol
lows: President, ]. r. Swift, Lewis
town. Mont. vice president, w. t,
Greedy, Great Falls, Mont; secretary
treasurer, H. N. Stockett, Great Falls,
Mont.
The new $50 mileage book, good
for 1000 miles on any railroad in the
United States for any number of per
sons. is now on sale at all ticket of
fices. the railroad administration an
nounces. Mileage books good for SOC
miles and costing SIS will be ready
for sale on Sept 10.
The 5000, 100000 revenue bill, pro
viding for the greatest tax levy in the
history of the United States, was
agreed upon by the house ways ant
means committee Monday, reported
to the house Thursday, and will b'
brought up in the house for consider
alton Monday, Sept. 2.
Three German airplanes brough
down in one day, a record for Amer
lean ayiators, has been credited t
Lieutenant Donald Hudson, Washing
ton, d. c. Official confirmation b.
the French authorities has just bee
made, adding his name to those of tn
other four aces Of the American army
Contracts for six Ferris type YES
sells to be built for the emergenc
fleet corporation at the yards of tn
Tacoma Shipbuilding company wer
brought west this week by Henri
Rhodes, president of the compan,
who has been on a business trip t
the Atlantic coast. The contracts az
gregate between $2.OOO.OO0 and SO
100000, Mr.. Rhodes says.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
AirpIanes Wreck Army.

The area behind the German lines
is damned with men and transports
Never before have the entente air.
planes had such ground targets. A
large number of planes are swooping
over the roads emptying their ma
chane guns and cargoes of bombs into
enemy masses, damming the roads
with dead and swreckage and causing
the greatest confusion.
The allied aviators emptied their
guns and dropped their bombs as
fast as they oculd and returned time
and again for more ammunition.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Honey Valuable Food Crop.

Honey is produced in this country
in ordinary years considerably in ex-
cess of 250,000,000 pounds. Most of
the commercial part of this crop is
now handled in large way as a sta
pie food product. In part this is the
result of commercial beekeeping and
the production of honey as an occu-
patton.
In recent years bee diseases have
been driving out of business the I'M
trained and Indifferent beekeeper and
opning the field to the expert who is
able to overcome these diseases and
who is informed concerning the
sources and times of honey flow and
the details of bee management, ac
cording to a recent bulletin from the
bureau of crop estimates, United
States department of agriculture, from
which the following facts are derived:
The white-clover belt is the most
important honey-producing region, be-
cause it furnishes not only the lead
ing commercial honey but also more
than one-half of the honey crop of the
entire country. This belt extends from
Maine to Virginia and westward to
the semi-arid plains From white
clover alone is secured about one
tenth of the nations crop of honey.
This kind is almost colorless, has a
heavy body, and a distinct butt deli
cate and delicious flavor.
Alfalfa honey is second in CONNER
cial Importance. Its region is mostly
west of the Tooth meridian, and it is
colorless, except in the southwestern
states, where it .darkens to amber,
with distinctive spicy or minty fla
| vor.
Third in Importance for honey pro
| duction is sweet clover, native and
| mostly wild legume growing abund-
antly throughout all of the western
mountain and plateau states and in
less degree eastward to the Atlantic
| states.
About per cent of the surplus
honey-that is, the honey that bees
| do not require for their own susie
nance-comes from the flowers of the
cotton plant, 31a per cent from the
Eastwood tree or American linden
about per cent from the tulip pop
lar tree and buckwheat, and 2 pei
cent from the goldenrod, widespread
plant that produces highly favored
| SOlutu uOutl. lie IlOuutdin od6Cs
of California produce type of honey
of much Importance and, by common
consent, one of the finest of all in
absence Of color, in density, and II
flavor. At least 35 per cent of the
honey crop comes from the clover.
and alfalfa.
According to the census of 1910
California produces nearly one-fifth o
the honey crop, New York and Texas
each about one-eighteenth, and Mich
gan, Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, Mis-
souri,, Pennsylvania and North Care
lima each about one-twenty-fifth.
In the early days of the warfar
against food frauds, when exposure
of authorizations were popular, som
of the California comb honey wa
looked upon with suspicion in tn
east on account of the colorless al
pearance, Wilderness of the wax, an
perfect fitting of all cells, and hone
eaters were known to reject this hone
on the superstition that it was ms
chine work, comb and all, so CON
monty accepted was the widely Gil
culated fiction that honeycomb wa
made, filed with glucose, and capped
all by machinery.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
100000 WHISKY FIRE
Green River DistilIery Burns With
Total Loss.-SpectacuIar Blaze
~. s. Is Out $6,65O,0OO.

Greensboro. Ky.-Fire Saturday
at the plant of the Green River
Distilling company here, destroyed
the entire plant. $4,000 barrels of
whisky and entailed loss well in
excess of 100000. The whisky
alone was valued at $2,S40,000 and
the loss to the United States gov
eminent in taxes is approximately
$3.50, 900.
The blaze started in a pile of
trash alongside the distillery. The
fire was spectacular in the extreme
the flames mounting high into the
air Every few minutes a blazing
barrel of whisky, driven upward
by the explosion of other barrels,
would rise to great height and
then fall. When it struck the whis4
ky it contained would be spread
over the ground in blazing sheet
for many yards. Burning streams
of whisky ran through the bitches
Of the open fields into the Ohio
river, the whole surface of which
seemed at times to be on fire.
The difference in the value plac-
ed upon the whisky and amount
of tax estimated to have been lost
by the government is accounted
for by the fact that the internal
revenue tax had not been paid on
any of it, and the value placed up
on it was the value of spirits, tax
unpaid.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
FOOD PRICES JUMP
66 PER CENT DURING
THE PAST FIVE YEARS

The retail prices of food in the
United States shows an increase of
&c per cent in June last as compar-
ed with June, 1913. For this five
year period every article shows an
increase of "A per cent or over.
The lease advance, A per cent,
is shown in milk. Butter increas-
ed As per cent, eggs So per cent.
Prices of food, according to re-
ports received from retail dealers
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor, shows an in
crease of per cent in the one
year period from June Is, 1917, to
June Is, 1918, and an increase of
per cent in the one-month period
from May 10 to June 10, last.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
LOSS OF LUSiTANiA
WAS NOT cuNARD FAULT
Liability for Deaths and Property
Sunk Is on the Enemy, Is
Ruling of Court.

New York.-The Cunard Steamship
company can not be held liable for
loss of life and property in the tor
pedoing of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, according to decision
handed down in the admiralty branch
of the United States district court by
Judge ]. M. Mayer and made public
this week
illegal Act of Germany
1.-The cause of the sinking of the
Lusitania was the illegal act of the
imperial German government, acting
through its instrument, the subma-
rine commander" declared Judge
Mayer, who held .the fault, there
fore, must be laid upon those who
are responsible for the sinking of the
vessel in the legal as well as moral
sense"
In dismHsing suits against the Gu
nard line aggregating nearly $4,000
900 brought by heirs of persons who
persisted with the Lusitania on May
| Z, 1915, Judge Mayer asserted that
"it is not to be doubted that the Uni
ted States and her allies will well re-
member the rights of those affected
by the sinking of the Lusitania, and
when the time shall come will see to
it that PREPARATION shall be made for
one of the most indefensible acts of
modern times"
Judge Mayer dismissed the claim
that the Cunard line was negligent
with the conclusion that the captain
and members of the crew took every
precaution justified by the then
known facts. both before and after
the vessel was torpedoed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
SMASHING
|. TOO MUCH FORHUNS
ITS DEFENsEs EITHER ARE IA
KEN ALREADY OR IN PRO-
CESS OF CAPITALIZATION.
AMERICANS AND FRENCH WIN
of Towns, Men and Guns-Many
Desperate BattIes-French
Control South of Disc.

With the British Army in France
The British Sunday and Monday con-
tinued smashing the Germans toward
the old Hindenburg line, which al
most has been reached in the north
ern battle zone. The defenses of Ba-
paume have either already been cap
tured or are in process of being cap
tured. Bapaume itself must fall in
a short time.
With the French Army in France
The first phase of the battle of the
Aisne and Disc has put the French
in possession of the entire south bank
of the Disc west of the Ailette and
of the Ailette river from the Disc to
Pont st. Mard.
The Germans are thrown back up
on the billy forest region of Coucy
for communication between their
troops operating on the Disc above
the Ailette and their troops on the
Aisne east of scissors.
Heavy Fighting Going On.
Meanwhile some ON the heaviest
fighting of the war is going on in
this section of the battlefront, for the
Germans are loath to part with the
town, which has great strategic value.
Warlencourt, an important position
just south of Bapaume on the road
to Albert which has been widely
crossed, was taken by the British
after bitter struggle in which the
Germans suffered very severe losses.
Great numbers of the enemy were
captured during the day, among them
large party from the third German
naval division.
So fast was the British advance
Sunday night and Monday that it is
impossible to be certain where the
front lines will be located from one
hour to the next
The Germans exhibit signs of crack
ing at some places, but are offering
some of large caliber, have been ia
ken One British corps alone has
captured 80 guns
There is evidence of confusion in
the enemy rear. Units of the same
division hurled into the battle have
been taken at points separated by
many miles. Quantities of material
are falling into British hands because
the boche has not troubled to apply
the torch or explosives
Pozieres, to the north of Albert, fel
Monday morning British patrols were
seen entering aMrtinpuich, where ap
parently the boche made good his
escape.
Strong Positions Captured.
High wood, strong position neal
Longueval northwest of Combles) il
reported captured, while Eaucour
L'Abbaye, Contamination and Cource
lette have been occupied by the Brit
ish.
Sapiegnies is completely IN British
hands after hard fighting.
At last reports local battle with
in the big battle was being fought a
Mory and its environs, where tn
lines run through the town.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
British Keep Going Ahead.

With the British Army in France
Field Marshal Haig's fighting armies
achieved further Victories Saturday.
They delivered blow after blow to the
staggering enemy, who, in some
places, such as Thiepval salient, was
reported to b Elm state of great
confusion
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Explosion Fatal to Eiaht.

An Atlantic ort.-lnyestigations
show that member of the crew as
well as seven coal passers were kill
ed Saturday by the bursting of a
steam pipe aboard an American trans
port lying at a dock here
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27

Camas prairie is harvesting the
largest wheat crop in it's history.
Mrs. Celia A. Rowland, wife of w.
ID. Rowland, pioneer of Moscow,
died recently.
Fall and winter apples will be har-
vested about three weeks earlier than
usual this year.
The death of Ernest DeHaven, a
Grangeville man, with the 10th en-
gineers in France, is announced.
Cooperative delivery, with but one
delivery each day over each route, was
put into effect August 10 at Kellogg
A survey OF business and crop con
ditions throughout the Lewiston ter
ritory gives little consolation to the
pessimist.
III. II. Simpson has been appointed
chairman for Latah county for the
fourth Liberty loan drive, which opens
September 28.
John Lauterbach, formerly a we'll
known general dealer at Kendrick, is
now a second lieutenant, operating a
machine gun with the U. S. troops in
France
The Occur d'Alene draft board has
received instruction from the adjutant
general to call % men to entrain on
date to be set between September
3 and g..
Twenty-Five Nez Perez county men
who became 81 since June regis
tered Saturday with the county draft
board. 1t is believed that a number
have failed to register.
Ernest Wienss, Nezperce banker,
has sold the Ferdinand Hardware
business to company consisting
largely of Ferdinand persons, and NJ.
PEBBLES will be manager.
II. S. Gray, Lewiston, who ersigned
as county attorney, to take up army
work, left Sunday for Portland, where
he will serve as executive secretary
in a war manufacturing division.
Mrs. Lorena McAtee, of Occur DIAL
enc, drank silver polish containing
the deadly poison, cyanide of potash
in the belief that she was drinking
Pluto water, last Saturday and died a
half hour later.
Lewis county has been called upor
to furnish 80 men for the draft or
September 3. There are only 16 lef
in the county in class l of the orig
inal draft, and IA men will be sup
piled fro mthe 1918 registrants.
The draft board at Moscow has re
ceived instructions from the adjutan
general to entrain 70 men from Latal
county for Camp Lewis between Sep
TENDER 3 and 9. The exact date an,
the train schedule were not given.
Senator Borah says while he favor
} ed having 100000 men on the iron
by June 80, 1919, he does not be
lieve the hearings before the senat'
} military committee disclosed the ne
cessity for calling boys of 10 year
of age.
j. II. freshman OF Leland was Sc
riously injured recently when a larg
automobile which he was driving wen
over the embankment near the top o
Sperry grade, near Kendrick. TIL,
car rolled over five times and lande,
about 800 feet below the road. Mr.
Freshman, who was the only occupan
of the car, was thrown from thu
wreckage near the bottom and foun,
unconscious shortly after. He ha
fairly good chances for recovery.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Letters May Be Fakes.

ANY Information coming from Amer
lean prisoners in Germany is abso-
lutely unreliable. A few letters from
apparently contented American pris-
oners in camps have made their ap-
pearance already in American news
papers.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Can Volunteer for Navy.

Washington, d. C.-Because of the
serious shortage of firemen for the
merchant marine, Chairman Hurley
of the shipping board announces that
men from Is to 35 years old will be
accepted as volunteers. The age limit
had been 81 to 81. Special training
will be given volunteers before send
ing them to sea.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
AGREE TO REDUCE
OUTPUT OF AUTOS
Manufacturers viii Cut Production
Last Hall Of the Year to rs Per
Cent-How Kind!

Manufacturers of pas
senger automobiles and repair parts
have agreed with the war industries
board to limit production during the
last six months of 1918 to rs per
cent of the total production of 1917.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
MEN INTERNED IN
TURKEY ARE WELL
Accorded Excellent Treatment and All
in Good Health, Says the
Navy Department.

Washington. d. C-Officers and en-
listed men of the United States ship
Scorpion, interned at Constantinople
by the Turkish government since
April IL, 1917, are being accorded ex-
cellent treatment and all are in good
health, the navy department an
nounces.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Great Floods in GaIicia.

Zurich.-Great damage has been
caused by the continuous rains and
floods in the country around Cracow,
Galicia, and the vast areas of eastern
Galicia.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Mine Sweeper Wrecked.

Two men are dead and five are
missing from the crew of the mine
sweeper Montauk, which was driven
ashore. and wrecked on the Florida
coast August 81.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27

The salesman who is not enthusiast
tic over his work need not feel bad if
his employer does not get enthusiast
tic over it.-Denver Merchants Index.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27

The shipping board has allotted a
vessel to bring coffee from Brazil to
the United States TO prevent a pos
sible coffee shortage.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27

Costly Blaze in Canton, Ohio.
Canton, Ohio-Fire of unknown
origin RACED a business block here
Sunday, causing loss estimated at
s1,500,000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27

Accept a man at his own appraise-
.1ent of himself until your interests
Require an assay. Then take him at
mint standard, irrespective of face
value.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
NEXT FOUR DRAFTS
CALL FOR 1878
WILL ENTRAIN FOR CAMPS BE-
TWEEN AUGUST 80 AND SEP
TEMPER 6, 1918.
EVERY STATE is INCLUDED
Marshall Crowder Into Four Di-
visions-List Of Western States
Given-One CoIored Men.

Washington, d. C.-Four separate
selective draft calls, constituting the
first of the September calls and re-
quiring 1878 men to entrain for
training camps between August 80
and September 6, have been issued
by Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Every state and the District of Co
lumbia is called to furnish men for
training to augment the forces abroad.
For general military service 125,000
white men and 21,270 negroes, and
are called.
The calls of the western states,
with the camps TO which the men
are to be sent follow:
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Back Wages, $4,000, 900.
Deficits Reported.

Eastern railroads reported deficit
of 1872, 100000; western roads, $751;
171,0OO, and the southern lines, So
$4,000.
For the six months of federal con-
troll operating revenues were reported
as $2,0S1 ,44S,000. or nearly $200,000,-
600 more than the first six months of
the previous year. Operating expen-
ses, however, were nearly $500000,-
600 greater, amounting to $1,S15,706,-
600.
The net amount which the govern
ment will get FROM the railroads for
the entire six months is approximate
ly 1851, 100000 In return the govern
ment will be liable to pay the rail
roads about $475, 900, as half OF
the annual estimated guarantee to the
railroads.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27

Cutover lands have proved of value
for sheep grazing.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
Total
Call Colored Men.

General military service, colored
entrainment September l, 1918.
State and Training Camp Quota
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27

Constantinopie Is Bombed.
Amsterdam.-Two hostile air squad
rons attacked Constantinople, doing
great damage.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-08-27
General Service.

General military service, white, en-
trainment September to September