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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
MEN OF MANY NATIONS
IN GRAVES At NIsH
Germans. Buried in Cemetery
With French, Serbians
and Russians.

There is cemetery at Nish In which
| Is epit0mized the entire history of the
! great war in the Orient. In II the yari-
Gus groups of soldiers. prisoners and
refugees have their separate plots.
Largest of all is that of the German
soldiers and officers. Each grave is
marked by permanent. heavy. solid
cement stone, roughly in the shape of
an iron cross. A neighboring factory,
formerly devoted to the manufacture
of briquets for fuel, was diverted to
the manufacture of these tombstOnes.
Next in size Is the Bulgarian, each
grave being marked by heavy wood
en- cross These timbers were requ-
sitioned by the Bulgarians from the
houses of people of Nish and each
cross represents not only the grave
OF Bulgarian but the partial demoli
ton of the home of citizen of Nish.
These wooden crosses are. SO numerous
as to almost give the effect of a forest.
The group of Austrian graves is con-
siderably smaller. Separated from
these are the plots for the allied SOL
diers. Here are to be found much
smaller number of graves of the
French and the Italians. On the hill
side. was a large number of new
graves, those Of the Serbian soldiers
who died in the final capture of Nish.
The Germans made one of the last
stands here and Nish was taken only
after five assaults with the bayonet.
Here are three queer-looking plots.
One includes the graves of the Rus
sian prisoners of war who were
brought here to work, by the enemy.
They are numerous. Another is that
of the ROumanian prisoners of war,
also numerous. Less numerous are
those of the Italian prisoners of war;
Nearby are two newer groups of
graves. One includes the grave of the
Greek refugees. who died, many of
them from the influenza, as they
passed through Nish on their way back
to Macedonia. Another is that of
Serbian refugees who met similar
fate In the course of their wanderings
toward their homes either to the north
or south.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
A BLACKFOOT
STORYIN MUCH DEMAND

Blackfoot, Idaho has the name in
commercial rating, of being con-
sentative old burg that pays its bills
and does not rush into ventures till
| it knows where and how it will get
off. 1t has the reputation of passing
up some good things that it might
better act upon, and thereby losing
some very good opportunities. 1t
has the reputation of using it's head
to keep itself out of difficulties and
losses, and of securing advantages
for the people of the town and
county, by moves that are not al
ways at first endorsed by those af-
! fected.
Blackfoot merchants have a good
standing among the wholesalers, and
Biackfoot as a town gets a hearing
when it recommends anything, or
when. it undertakes something. 1t
is not considered radical and liable
to 60 off on tangent. There Is a
story coming up, in connection with
the management of the road bond
proposition that will make interest
ing reading some time next month.
It is not quite ripe enough to pluck
yet, but it will be to the credit of
the commissioners and few others
when it is told.
A Blackfoot newspaper opposed
building a municipal electrical plant
a few years ago and was generously
complimented and as generously,
criticised for it. Last winter the
editor wrote rather lengthy article
on electricity and it's uses, and told
things with a frankness that people
said made it strike home.
Requests for extra copies of the
paper came from unexpected sources
far and near. till the edition was
exhausted, and then some. orders
were booked for copies of 1t In case
it was reprinted at any time. It was
reprinted In the special road bond
edition and the current orders filled
from It.
A few weeks after that edition
went out, the editor received an
order for $4,000 copies Of the article
made up in the form Of q folder for
use in mailing to people who are sup
posed to be sufficiently interested to.
want to- read what the experts say
people can afford to depend on in
electrical matters till something new
is discovered that men do not know
about now. A press In the Republic
can office printed the order this
week.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
CHILD KNOWS OPERAS
Familiar With the Music in 200 Of
Them.

Familiar With the Music in 200 Of
Them.
!, Octavius Roy Cohen, Jr., three-year
old son of Octavius Roy Cohen, author
and playwright of Birmingham, Ala.
proved before jury of educators an(
musical critics that he knows zoe
operas by heart. The baby in for
NAL test identified and lisped the
names of opera after opera unerring
ly. as photographic selections chosen
by the jury were played.
Nicholas Bauer, acting superinten
dent of New Orleans public schools
headed the examining body and pro.
nounced the exhibition the most phe.
nomenal in his experience. The three
year-old child capped his operate test
by identifying score of operate Sc.
iections, beginning with the "Peer
Gynt" suite, when his father tapped
the rhythm of the music with a coin
on a table.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
sAWYERs GET HAREs
Men Found Seventeen of Them in One
Large Hollow Log.

Men Found Seventeen Of Them in One
Large Hollow Log.
Tad Dumps of Dumps Mills, N. Y,
went into his woods and hauled sew
eral large logs to his house for fire.
wood. The next morning Mr.. Dumps
and his hired man started saving the
logs into stove wood. &
They were working on a large log
and discovered that although it was
hollow 1t held a commotion. A few
seconds later a large rabbit left the
log and started to run. Mr.. Dumps
threw his ak at It and killed it.
According to Mr.. Dumps he and his
hired man were kept busy for several
minutes killing rabbits as they
emerged from the log. He says the
log was alive with them, that they
killed II and that three squirrels and
a skunk got away.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
INDIANS SEEK UPLIFT
Those Living in One Village Would
Better Themselves.


Natives Of Hoonah, an Indian vii.
lage near Juneau Alaska, have recent
~ taken such radical steps toward an
advancing trend of civilization that
other native villages are wondering
what they will try next.
First the Hoonah tribe abolished the
cider business, an apparently harmless
one, but one which was said to have
caused much trouble among the ma
tives. Next the Hoonah natives de-
clined to attend an Indian feast at
Swanson Harbor, thereby hoping to
discourage the giving of feasts- and
continuing of ancient customs.
After electing native council Hoo
nah built Jail and a hospital.
Whether as reward for these signs
of progress or not, the forestry depart
ment has agreed to, send an agent to
survey HOonah townsite, so that each
native may receive title to building
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
WILD ANIMAL $ FREAK
Had Dogs Head and .WoIf's Body, and
There ls a Question About It.

When is wolf? This question. Is
puzzling county officials of Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, who are hoping that a
new Solomon will come forward with
the correct solution.
G. M. Spurbeck of Kinross township
recently came across a pack of red
wolves. A huge animal In the middle
of the pack attracted his attention and
he killed it. The beast was freak.
1t had dogs head, but the body of a
wolf. Spurbeck brought the carcass to
the county clerks Office. There is a
bounty of $35 for wolves in this coun-
ty, but the bounty on dogs is nothing.
The law does not definitely authorize
a county officia. to pay bounties on
half-wolves. 1t is believed that col
lie dog was one Of the parents Of the
animal which Spurbeck shot, but that
has nothing to do with the bounty
problem.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
AMERICAN FRAME
NUTS" FOR ITALY.
Possible Solution Of Housing
Problem by Municipality
of Milan.

The municipality of Milan Is now
examining offers from several Ameri-
can firms to supply wooden huts for
homes for the laboring masses. The
house famine Is as acute as ever and
Is further complicated by lack of con-
crete, brick and other building mate
rial, to say nothing of overland trans
port difficulties. In fact, it is easier
and quicker to ship huts from Amer
lea to Genoa than thence by rail to
Milan.
Italian labor does not take kindly
to wooden huts. 1t prefers brick or
stone. and public authorities also find
stone better in districts where the
peoples habits are very unhygienic.
But American huts have the great
advantage of being cheap, solid and
easily fixed. and have stood the test
OF hard usage in Messina, Avexxano
and other districts where entire vii
lagos were destroyed by earthquake.
American business enterprise will find
full scope in this direction, for thou
sands of cheap homes are urgently
needed all over the country.
The Italian government has as yet
assigned only $S,O00000 to meet the
cost Of putting up homes now; but as
this sum will not even cover the needs
of devastated districts, other grants
will certainly be made.
Housing conditions meanwhile grow
daily worse. Demobilization swells
the city populations. In Milan more
people are now sleeping in the open
than week ago. In Rome, with that
Indifference to facts which too often
marks municipalities all the world
over, the authorities have just demol-
ished several rabbit warrens which,
bad as they were, gave shelter to
large number Of families.
The consequence is that some forty
families, averaging ten members each,
have absolutely no roofs over their
heads at all.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
ENGLISH MIDDLE
CLASS FORM UNION
Combine to Protect Selves From
Aggressions Of Capital
and Labor.

Members of the great middle class
of England at last haE taken steps
to organize to protect their own inter-
ests against the aggressions of cap
ital on the one hand and increasing
wages of workmen on the other Lead
ers of the middle class declare that
only by organization can they escape
an unfair share cf the burdens of
life.
English people of education and
moderate incomes have felt for some
time that they were being ground be-
tween the upper and neither millstones
operating in the social mill. Profits
of capitalists from war contracts have
increased and the wages of workmen
steadily advanced. But nobody had
to have the services of the professlon-
al man, the small business man or the
schoolmaster.
A preliminary meeting was held un-
der the Craftsmanship of Maj. J. r.
Pretyman Newman, member of parlia-
ment. 1t was decided to call the or
ganization the Middle Class union"
Among the purposes Of the union ares
ITO remove undue burdens upon the
middle class, including the cost Of liv-
ing.
ITO protect the middle class against
bureaucratic and Industrial tyranny.
TO combine for common protection
Of those members Of the community
who have no organization to safeguard
their interests"
Letters appearing in support Ut the
union show that many army officers
and other soldiers are deeply inter-
ested in the movement. One soldier
wrote:
"Unless we of the middle classes or
ganize and combine to thwart and de-
stroy the anarchical aggressions of GER
tain communities in the industrial
world we will sooner or later be Dol
shevikied out of existence"
How the middle class union will be
received in the political field by the
capitalists and the trade unions which
now monopolize 1t remains to be seen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
Muscular Thief.

A Herculean burglar. who walked
away with $50 pounds of rolled oats
which he distracted from warehouse
10 being sought BY the police Of San
Francisco.
One night Max Miller, night watch
man for the company, missed II sacks
Of rolled oats, weighing 60 pounds
each. The burglar must have carried
the sacks some distance. the police say,
as there was no wagon or automobile
near the warehouse that night.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
Moved the Baby.

The police Of Steubenville, O., are
looking for burglar experienced in
the handling Of babies. In order to
search cradle In which he evidently
thought valuables were secreted, the
intruder removed the infant from the
cradle sand placed 1t In the bed where
the parents were sleeping without
awakening them. The parents were
amazed to find the baby lying between
them when they awoke. The disorder
in the room indicated what had hap
pened. n 4
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
SEALS LURED BY MUSIC
Commission Hunter Used a Phone
graph and Rifle.

Photograph music lured scores OF
seals of the Lower Puget Sound to
their death last summer, according to
Ed. Corfee, who killed seals that prey
upon salmon.
Corfee Is hunter employed by the
Washington fish and game commission.
A monograph and rifle were the
principal items in Corfee's outfit. The
seals came out Of the water to listen
to the music. Whenever a seal put
his head above the surface Corfee's
rifle spoke and the seal dropped. Each
seal is said to be able to destroy 81, 900
worth Of salmon a year.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
bUrrALU SIUPS IRAIN
Gets Off Ranch and Runs Ahead Of
Locomotive.


The ferry train between Pierre and
Fort Pierre, s. D., was compelled to
stop when a young buffalo bull, which
had been running ahead of the train,
turned about and planted himself on
the bridge crossing the Missouri River.
Efforts to dislodge the animal for a
time were frultless, but finally certain
intrepid members of the crew attacked
and caused the bull to leap from the
embankment at the approach, rolling
to the base OF the steep incline.
Owners Of herds north of Fort Pierre
have been experiencing difficulty in
keeping the animals within bounds and
1t has been necessary to kill some Of
the straying animals that have men.
aced residents of this region.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09

Indians Took Ammunition to Mexico.
/. ,YaQui Indians who crossed the
boundary from Sonora, Mexico, have
obtained a large amount Of arms and
ammunition In the United States
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
HUGE Death Toll Amono PrussIans.

Huge Death Toll Among Prusslans.
Prussia's losses in officers and men
during the war have been made pub
lie by a staff officer, who based his
figures from the official casualty lists.
The report shows that 82,454 officers
and more than 1880, 900 soldiers were
killed, wounded or missing.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
Marble In an Edo.

Even hens play marbles in the
spring, says Mrs. Rohles Of Kenosha,
Wis. While preparing cake (not
q marble cake. either) she cracked
an egg and out rolled a hard marble.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
OBJECTED TO ENGINE
Buffalo Did Not Like Locomotive and
IA. Stopped Train.

Stopped Train.
Denver and Rio Grande officials are
wondering just what certain huge
buffalo thinks Of it's passenger trains.
The beast recently tried to stop a
train over La veta pass at night, but
found the locomotive stronger than its
head. Undaunted, he came back and
rammed the train again and second
time rolled Off into the ditch.
The train was running slowly, 9TH
erwise 1t is believed the buffalo would
have been killed.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09

Thomas Policy of Duquoin, NJ.
didn't hike to the Rhine, but he esti-
mates he's tramped> 10000 miles for
Uncle Sam In carrying mail for 10
years.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09

Former Missouri Judge Is Indicted.
st. Joseph, Mo.-Indictments have
been returned by the grand jury
charging William Bub and Marvin
Kirkman, former judges of the county
court, with conspiracy to extort money
from saloonkeepers at Winthrop, Mo.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-09
Would Melt All Statues

Berlin.-Socialists in Bavaria have
demanded that the government melt all
statues of former royalties and states
men, including that of Bismarck.
Materials of the statues, they ask,
shall be given to industry.
Apology is Made to missionaries.
Constantinople. - Advices received
here few, days ago are to the effect
that Premier Eliptherios Venizelos Of
Greece has personally apologized to
the three American missionaries ar
rested in Saloniki on February 18.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-21

are men in the town who have or
ganized their business affairs SO they
cannot leave for a day In busy times,
they should revise: their methods and
get to organizing on a different
basis. The way to do that is to dele
gate responsibility to the helpers who
are young and anxious to help. The
way to have them anxious to take
responsibility is to keep laying il
upon them from day to day thruout
the business year until they have II
all and deliver it the way you wan,
it delivered.
The man who keeps saying he just
can't get away, confesses to the
weakness Of his business policy. He
forgets that the day will eventually
come when business will go on with
out him whether he is willing or not
and 1t will probably go, on better
without him. The average. man
should keep telling himself that bust
ness is attended to better when he is
away for the day. When he stays
away day and returns he finds out
just how strong or how weak his
corps of workers is, and he more
readily sees what is the matter with
it. When he knows that, he has q
chance to apply the remedy.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-21
THE MCKAIG-GOODING
DAMAGE SUIT

Give rogue time enough and he
will hang himself.
That was what Ray McKaig did at
critical time in his suit against
Gooding.
McKaig judged that he had been
maligned when Gooding said that he
was lacking in loyalty to our govern
meht and that he did not respect
the courts.
The whole case hinged upon that
question of loyalty and respect. He
was appealing to Judge Mccarthy s
court to remedy wrong that he
claimed had been done to him in
saying he did not have those quail
ties.
And in the presence of that court,
in the very process when the court
was conducting an inquiry into that
very matter, McKaig proved his lack
OF respect for that court by signaling
curse at the witness who was tell
ing of an act of McKaig's in another
court that denoted lack of loyalty
and lack of respect for the courts.
In utter contempt of the court, while
the judge was looking elsewhere, he
glared at the witness till he caught
his eye and then with active but
silent lips, signaled his curse as if
to intimidate the witness so he would
be afraid to tell any more.
When he was caught In the act
and accused Of saying something
different he apparently forgot him
self and disputed by telling just what
he did say in the lip movement, and
thereby inadvertently confessed.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-21

One also notes among the new toys
a large number most admirably de-
signed for educational purposes-the
class Of thing which Is first and fore
most toy to delight the youthful
eye, yet at the same time calculated
to develop the youthful mind. In a
circular issued by the association
mention Is made Of the fact that the
industry provides splendid oppor-
tunity for living by those who have
,een crippled in the war or in other
activities. and this is given as rea-
IN for due consideration of the in
dustry by congress when the time
comes for framing or reframing the
tariff.
The reason for the crater develop
ment Of the toy industry in Eu-
rope has been almost entirely one of
wage cost of production. The cheap
er labor Of Europe has meant the
cheaper product wherever the article
is one which must be made almost
entirely by hand. When machinery
is required, the American article can
be turned out as cheaply as the Eu-
ropean, and often cheaper. How
ever, the human hand will always
enter largely into toy finishing, and
it is for congress to see that our
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-21
LOCAL MEN SHOULD
BECOME INFORMED

The editor of this paper urges To-
cal men to enrich their Judgment and
understanding of the larger things
ahead by attending gatherings of the
men representing the big ideas. We
deplore the lack of attendance by
our active fellows, when there are
such gatherings as the irrigation
congress to be held at Idaho Falls
next Monday, and the big winter
gatherings Of the civil engineers and
the pure seed growers such as will
assemble at Pocatello on January 70
to II.
The older men should cease from
their labOrs to make themselves
more valuable to their communities
by reason of the counsel they can
give. The middle-aged men should
go because they are in the midst of
their undertakings and the progress
i've ideas gathered at such places will
help them put it over. The young
men have more reason to 60, because
they are apt to be laying out their
plans by the old methods just when
better methods are demonstrated
and when the means are at hand to
succeed with the newer methods or
newer and more modern equipment
The community whose ADLER men
do not get out and rub shoulders
with the leaders in various lines. is
not itself providing the best oppor-
tunities for the coming generation
and the whole population falls be-
hind in the race. Only once in a
very long period have Blackfoot' S
men turned out and shown their in
terest in some big movement affect
ing their future, and that was the
reclamation meeting at Pocatello last
February. In June there was an
echo of that in the reclamation
meeting and banquet at Blackfoot,
and 1t was fine thing for us all
and for our community because it
brought us into touch with what is
coming. and gave us the broader
comprehension. It helps us to ig-
more the petty matters that we are
all too apt to rivet our attention .on
when big things are approaching or
passing.
We hope Blackfoot's men will be
in evidence at Mondays meeting.
Business will go on without us and
we shall benefit by going. If there
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-21

make substantial increases In the do
nestle goods. Wonders were done in
the time, but by the following year
new plants had sprung up all over
the country. No less than "a new
firms started in business after 1913,
and they produced 100000 worth
in 1917 and 1850, 900 in 1918. The
total production is now in the region
Of $30,000,000.
1t was simply the old story of
America demonstrating her ability to
anything as well and even better
than any one else the moment there
IS any necessity for doing 1t. The
centuries of toy making in Europe
! sased to count as soon as the Amer
lean makers saw that there was the
necessity for turning out all classes
Of goods. And our native inventive
ness did not stop at duplicating toys
which had always been imported, but
, work on entirely new devices,
SO that today infant America has a
wider choice than ever. A study Of
the catalog of the toy manufacturers
Of the Y. S. A., Inc, which comprises
over hundred firms, shows prac-
tically every class of plaything ever
seen on the market and wide va
riety of entirely new designs.