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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
GRAIN AND MILLING NEWS.

Construction of the $4,000 mill for
the Miller Flour Mills Co. started Au-
gust 5. at Yakima on the site of the
old Yakima mill. II will be ready
for operation November and have
capacity of 800 barrels daily.
Farmers of the intermountain states
are refusing to sell their wheat at
the government guaranteed price and
several mills in this district are idle
because of inability to get grain, ac-
cording to authorized statements Of
Ogden, Utah, grain exchange Off
Gals August 5.
Work has begun on a $4,000 ware
house for the American Falls Qdaho)
Milling Co. The new structure will
be 57x42 feet, two stories high, of
brick and concrete, and will add stor-
age space for 20 carloads of flour
In addition, the milling company is
making improvements to present
equipment amounting to $4,000.
Stanley Scearce's Aug. l report
lower Fla0ead, Montana, says: The
month of July in the lower Flathead
was practically a repetition of the
month of June; 81 cloudless days;
precipitation the same as June, name
ly IL inches. The total precipitation
of June and July compares with 2.33
inches for the same months last year
and All inches for the normal. These
conditions resulted in a further de-
terioration of the dry land wheat,
also some Of the irrigation wheat
where sufficient water was not avail
able The condition of winter wheat
on July / was As per cent; spring
wheat 25 per cent, indicating a total
yield of 100000 bushels. Threshing
OF winter wheat is now in progress;
milling quality extra fine; will grade
No. 1 and dark hard winter Ele-
vators are bidding S213 for basic
grade wheat. Prospects are for a
decline to government prive during
the heavy movement.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
U. S. FOOD PROBE MAY
BRING GOOD RESULTS
Many Prosecutions Are Expected, as
People Demand 1t Now-Congress
Will Act Promptly.

Washington, d. C.-Tangible results
from the investigation of boarding and
profiteering enitiated by Attorney
General Palmer are expected to oe'
velop in the immediate future as the
result of recent order directing the
entire secret service of the bureau
of investigation to assist the forces
now at work trying to uncover III
stances in which the public has Deen
gouged by the illegal control OF prices
Officials of the department Of JUS
tice said reports from many SECTIONS
of the country show the search ior eN
idence of extortion in the necessilles
of life is proceeding vigorously, ana II
indicated that many prosecutions may
come soon.
Announcement also is made lna'
congress will proceed promptly WIN
legislative measures recommended "
President Wilson as necessary 10 s'0p
the vicious practices" which ha'o.
been largely responsible for the risins
cost of living
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
BIG FAMINE STALKS
THROUGHOUT EUROPE
Or. AIonzo Taylor Says Millions Of
Persons Have No Food and They
Look to United States.

New York.-Dr. Alonzo Taylor, pro-
lessor of chemistry in the University
of Pennsylvania, chairman of surveys
for the American relief administra-
ton, has returned to the United States
after eight months work in Germany,
Austria, Hungary, Rumania and Ser
bia.
There are millions of people in
Europe who have no food he said,
and who look to the United States to
supply it. Growing of crops abroad
is curtailed pending territorial adjust
ments. Governments will not spend
millions of dollars for farm imple-
ments, even ii they can obtain them,
to be used on land that may shortly
be given to neighboring nation.
Central Europe In Chaos.
There are nearly one hundred mil
lions of people in central Europe" he
said. The armistice left these in po-
litical chaos, divided into new states,
struggling with inexperienced govern
ments, their transportation disorganiz-
ed, with scarcity of coal, great depre-
citation of currency, acute struggles
between labor and capital and all over
the pail of war fatigue.
Food was the immediate problem.
If they could be carried into the new
harvest this would afford time in part
for their governments to become sta
bilized, their communications to be
restored, their railways reorganized,
their supplies of fuel established. This
would give six months for the study
o ftheir problem of currency and for
the re-establishment of industry in or
der that interstate commerce might be
resumed.
THE great defect in central Europe
today, indeed, in Europe as whole, is
the failure of production"
His report and Britain's delegate is
about the same.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
Preventing Grain Fires.

Plans of organization for the grain
dust explosion and fire prevention
work of the United States grain cor
poration. for which and appropriation
of $4,000 was made recently at the
suggestion of julius II. Barnes. Uni
ted States wheat director, were an
nounced today at the corporation of
fees, AZ Broadway.
This campaign is being carried on
in cooperation with the department
David ]. Price, of the bureau of
chemistry, in charge. DR.. Price is
the engineer in charge of the grain
dust explosion investigations carried
on by the agricultural department.
He will have the assistance of DR..
II. II. Brown, organic and physical
chemist, also of the bureau of chem
istry.
In order to carry on the safety first
program for the grain trade the en-
tire country has been divided into
four districts. These will be the
eastern, central, northwestern and
Pacific
evrnon Fitzsimmons will direct the
work OF the northwestern section
from Minneapolis, MINI. With him
will be associated Paul E. Brady. I'm
der Mr.. Fitzsimmons will be carried
on hte grain dust explosion proven
ton work in zone 4, and IA Of
the graf Incorporation.
Grain corporation zones 10 and II
and the state of Utah viii constitute
the Pacific section. Headquarters
will be at San Francisco and Port
land. NJ. E. Mcclellan, assisted Geo.
p. Bodnar will be in charge.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Juneau, Alaska.-Charles y n
son, territorial surveyor general ''io
Bovill, Idaho.-George Riv,s
Sc. pioneer farmer of Garfield c ose
Wash. 20
Rome.-Ruggiero Leoncavauo
composer. He was born in Nan,o. ne
1856. p'es IN
Jena, Germany.-Professor H..
Heinrich Haeckel, professor NJ Hs'
ogy at the University of Jena '0''
Chicago.-John S. Shauebnes.
brother of Lord Shaughnessv cb.,
man of the board of directors 90 :.
Canadian Pacific railroad. Wv
New York.-Ralph A. Blake,oo,
whose power as a painter was ~
ognized only after he had been coas
mitted to the Middletown asylum g.
the insane. 0'
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
OUR ARMY SUPPLY
PRICES ARE PUBLIC
STORES TO BE OFFERED TO THE
PUBLIC THROUGH AGENCY OF
THE PARCEL POST.
THIRTEEN POINTS ARE NAMED
Municipal Selling Agencies Also to
Participate in the Distribution Of
Foods-Prces Quoted Are
r. o. B. Storage Points.

Washington, ID. C.-The war depart
fnent has made public a complete price
list on all subsistence stores available
for sale to the public through the par
eel post or through municipal selling
agencies. Costs of the commodities to
the government, the department said,
had been disregarded entirely in fix
ing the prices of sale which are mate
rally lower than prevailing market
rates.
The prices quoted are f. 0. b. and
from storage points in each of the 10
districts into which the country is di-
vided for war department subsistence
purposes. The department now is re-
distributing the food supplies in the 10
areas in order that each may have its
proportion per population of the 70 ar
ticles offered for sale.
Price to Consumer.
The price tables include the price
per can or individual units in each
large containers. They also show the
gross weight per can and per case in
order that the public may arrive at
the price they will have to pay by adj.
ding parcels post rates from the near
est distributing points to the home of
the consumer to the t. o. b. prices quo
ted
Municipal selling agencies will com
pute freight charges on these ship
ments, to be added to the price quoted
by the war department. On the par
cells post distribution no orders will be
received direct by the war department,
but only through the postoffice depart
ment which will requisition the sup
plies by case or larger package, the
postmasters in turn breaking these
shipments up into unit packages of a
single can or several cans.
Date of Sales.
Sales to municipalities at the new
prices will begin as soon as the sur
plus property officers at the various
zone supply offices and depots have
received the quotations made public.
Sales to individuals through the par
cells post will be inaugurated Aug IS.
Quotations on some of the leading
commodities are:
Bacon, $4.15 per can of II pounds;
corned beef, So cents for can of 1876
pounds; baked beans, cents for can
Of Ia pounds; sweet corn, 10 cents
per "a pound can; dry beans, $6.49
per 100 pounds; crackers, and cts
a pound; army flour, Sc for 100 lbs;
macaroni, cents for " pounds; roll
ed oats, II cents for two pounds; seed
ed raisins, 10 cents a pound; rice, 1914
for 100 pounds; tomatoes, cents for
two-pound cans, and white corn meal,
$3.50 for 100 pounds.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
MARKET REPORT
Chicago.

Chicago.
Corn. No. 2 mixed s1.97@1.9S; No
2 yellow, So. Oats, No. 2 white, ~
@75Ac; No. white, 70AQ742c.
Rye. No. 2, s150@L5015. Barley,
si.3161.4O. Timothy, s9.50@11.50.
Glover. nominal. Pork, nominal. Lard,
S31.75. Ribs, s25.50Q26.5O.
Butter, higher; creamery, 4SQ5Sc.
Hogs-Mostly 25c to soc higher
than yesterdays average; top, S22.65
heavy, s20.25@22.50; medium, s2O.5O
@2265; light, $2015@2250; light
light, $19.50@2125; heavy packing
sows, smooth, s19.25@20.25; heavy
packing sows, rought, $15@1s; pigs,
$1SQ1950.
Cattle-Strong; beef etsers, $17 40
@19.25; medium and good, $13Ql74O;
common, $1050@13.50; light, good
and choice, $14.25@1S.25; common
and medium, s9.50@1425; butcher
cattle, heifers, $740@15; COWS, $725
@14.50; Gamers and cutters, SEQ
725; veal calves, light and handy
weight, $1S.50@19.50; feeder steers,
$8@13.50; stocker tseers, $7@11;
western range steers, $9@16.50; cows
and heifers, $7.25@13.
Sheep-Strong; lambs S4 pounds
down, s13.75@17.25; culls and com
mon, $9013.25; yearlings wethers,
$9.75Q13.50; ewes, medium, good and
choice, $7.25@9; culls and common,
s2.75@6.75.
Portland.
Oats, No. white feed, S54.50. Bar
ley, standard feed, $64; No. 3 blue,
$64.50. Corn, No. 3 yellow, S72. East
ern oats and corn in bulk: Oats, No
3 white. $51; 3S-pound clipped, $53.
Corn, No. yellow, $3.50. Barley
No. 2. SCI.
Butter-Prints extras, SIC; cubes
extras, 561zc; prime firsts, sec; dairy
42c. Butter fate, Portland delivery,
No. l sour cream, 62c.
Cattle-Steady. Steers, best, 500
11.50; good to choice, 5000 so; me-
dunn to good, $4,000; fair to good
$7.75@S25; common to fair, $40
$780, good to choice cows and heif-
ers, $500; medium to good, $7@725;
fair to medium, $450Q5.50; Gamers,
1904; culls, $5@7.50; calves, $9@15
Hogs-Lower. Prime mixed, 5000
20.50; medium, S1925@19.75; rough
heavies, $16.50@19; pigs, $3.50 1880.
Sheep-Steady East Oregon lambs,
$12@12.50; valley lambs, $11@115O;
fair to medium, 5000; yearlings, Sc
@S.5O; wethers, $7@75O; ewes, SEQ
$50.
New York.
Spot coffee dull; Rio Is, 221Ac;
Santos As. 291ac.
Spot cotton, quiet; middling, 31.5O.
San Francisco.
Butter, 561sc. Extra eggs, Gle; pull
let's, sec.
Duluth.
Linseed, S6O6M6O7.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
WASHINGTON STATE FACES
$2,1s3,527 DEFICIT NOW
Shown by Estimates for Equalization
Board-Amount Must Be Covered
by Warrants.

Olympia.-Settlemen day for the
legislative appropriation program of
last winter is approaching, and the
result is an apparent deficit of ST.
1S3,527 for the biennium ending with
next year. even IL the limit of mills
tax is levied in 1919 for state purposes
ON a total state valuation of $1,050,-
100000, which is $50,000,000 increase
over last years total valuation.
These estimates have been prepared
by the bureau of inspection for consid-
GRAFTON by the state board of equali-
cation, which will begin its annual SEES
sion Sept. /. They are accepted as
meaning that the deficit will have to
be carried on warrants until the next
legislature makes an appropriation to
retire them, which. with other state
expenses to be provided for at that
time, will probably insure indefinite
continuance of the 3-mill limit levy
for state purposes.
Has ss5s,2eo in General Fund.
In detail the bureau finds a credit
of $S5S,29O general fund cash in the
state treasury on April /. to which is
added $3.232.200 incoming revenues
other than taxes and $3,150,000 which
the 3-mill levy would produce on the
S1,05O,000, 900 valuation figured. All of
the uncollected taxes included will
have to be collected to prevent the
present deficit estimate from growing
still bigger.
AS it stands the total of available
revenue falls more than 100000
short of the total of s10, 507, 1923, appro-
priated last winter under a signed-up
appropriation committee program that
permitted no amendment and little dis
cussion of the general appropriation
bill on the floor
In the bureau estimate detail the
public highway fund shows a deficit
OF 1854, TAG, the university $231,S1
state college s114,004 All the nor
mails are behind from s52,S54, Cheney's
deficit, to $76,140 for Bellingham and
S46,31S for Ellensburg.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
New York.
Duluth.
Linseed, S6.06@6.O7.
MARKET AT SPOKANE.

harvesting of the wheat crop is
progressing favorable, with some fur
Their reduction in the yield due to
drouth in June and July, but still the
crop in the aggregate is a bumper
one. In this section there is improve
ment in mining and numbering.
In groceries and produce, advances
are noted in corn meal, canned milk,
lima beans, rice, lard, chewing gum,
cantaloupes, bran and shorts, barley
and corn, with declines noted in beans,
hogs, calvse, lambs, mutton. hides,
watermelons pears, grapes potatoes
onions green corn, tomatoes and oats
Provisions
Butter-Quotations are unchanged
at 60 cents for creamery and butter
fat and AZ cents for country butter.
The market is regarded as firm under
seasonable conditions.
Cheese-Full creams are unchanged
at 36037 cents and the other items in
the list are also apparently steady.
Eggs-Production continues light
under hot weather influences, and the
prices are firm at $14.5O@15 to the
producer, S16@17 wholesale, with
eastern fresh and local storage offer
ing at SIG.
Poultry-No changes in this depart.
ment since the slight advance in hens
and decline in geese noted last week.
Fresh Meats-Receipts at the union
stockyards for the week ended August
were sos cattle, 176 calves, liza
hogs and 2l34 sheep. The market in
general is easier. Hogs are down so
cents to top of $2225. Cattle are
unchanged except calves, which are
off 81 to a top of 1880 Lambs are
lower with sheep yearlings unchanged.
In the dressed list the only change is
a decline in mutton.
Lard and Cured Meats-This mar
ket continues firm with lard up u
cent to 37ia cents and hams and ba-
con generally unchanged. The out
look, however, is manifestly easier.
Hides and Wool-Prices on hides
had reached too high a level to with
stand threats of governmental inves-
tigation and interference, and today
quotations are going off from TO 5
cents throughout the list. Wool I'M
changed.
Fruits and Vegetables.
There is continued good move
ment of seasonable stuffs, both as to
receipts and demand, with prices in
general lower on height of season
stuffs.
Melons-The movement of water
melons. still largely from California
is now at its height, and quotations
are lower at 194Q2h cents. Ice
cream melons are offering at 3b
cents. Catalogues, California, are
firmer. with standards up to 81. ponys
unchanged at So.
Applicability apples are now COM
ing from nearby and other sources as
well as from Wenatchee and the ear.
lier districts and quote unchanged at
s.. so.
Other Fruits-Pears and grapes are
lower. Gooseberries and currants are
practically gone. Other fruits in sea
sonable supply and demand without
material change in prices.
Potatoes-Old potatoes are still
quoting at s2.25, but are dragging in
view of prices on new. However.
there are very few old spuds offering.
News, from California, are lower al
3 cents, local potatoes unchanged at
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
Sixty Killed in chemnitz.

Chemnitz, Saxony-Sixty to so sol
diers were killed and 200 wounded in
the fighting during food riots re-
Gently. Ten civilians were killed and
90 wounded. The city now is quiet
and trains are running.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
THE ITALIAN PREMIER
PRAISES AMERION
Expresses Desire for Closer Econo""'
Relationship Conflict oil IN
terests-Markets Ready.

Rome.-Francisco Nitti, Italian piv
mier. in an interview recently ues's
at length with Italy's efforts III "
war and her ambitions for the iu'u.o'
Particular stress was laid by tne ~
mier on Italy's desire for closer 80. 80
nomic relations with the On'.s
States. He declared that ltaiy "@
ripe for exploitation for Amei''N
business.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
Tacoma Milk Prices Up.

Tacoma.-Seven large dairies in Ia
coma raised the price of milk on the
same day and three more will have
their prices boosted by Aug. 5. OF
course they were not organized.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
MINING NEWS

The Silversmith mines produced five
carloads of ore in July OF which three
were shipped in July and two on Au.
president. Four carloads were ship
ped in June.
The 150-ton mill of the Nabob Con-
solidated Mining Co. has been com
pleted and in practical operation. The
annual meeting will be held in Kel-
logg, Idaho, August 20.
The Red Monarch Consolidated Min
ing Co. is preparing to resume opera
tons on its property. in the Beaver
Creek district of the Occur d'Alene re-
gion. Dan NJ. Drumheller, Jr.. a min
ing engineer, has been appointed SUI
perintendent.
The Standard Silver-Lead Mining
Co. doubled its milling operations on
August l when work was placed on a
two-shift basis, says Silverton, B. c.,
report. The increase is made to han
die the increased quantity of zinc ore
being broken. The mill will receive
100 to $50 tons daily.
An expenditure Of 81, 00O, 900 or more
will be made in the development of
the Red Ledge group il warranted by
the conditions, according to a report
from Homestead, Ore. The property
was acquired recently under a bond
and lease by iron operators of Min
nesota. II is copper proposition.
The Electric Point Mining Co.,
Northport, largest lead producer in
Washington, has added another source
of ore to its mineral assets, in the
strike Of a new ore body in chimney
form, so feet wide. The Electric
Point is reported to have closed a con-
tract with a Salt Lake smelter for the
purchase of stipulated quantity of its
ore.
The Caledonia Mining Co., operat-
ing at Kellogg. Idaho, had a surplus of
$642,010 June 80, according to a report
from Stanly A. Easton, president, re-
ceived with the monthly dividend
checks August 6. This is an increase
of s196,61S over the surplus Decem-
Der 80 last. The dividends paid in the
first six months of the year aggre-
gated s156,300.
New York Metal Market.
Bar silver, $1.10.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
Wood Alcohol Kills Five.

Hannah, ~ D.-Joe Morrow, one of
the participants in a wood alcohol
drinking bout staged here recently,
died six days later. making the fifth
victim of the tragedy.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
Spokane County Raises salaries.

Spokane Salaries of all county az
ployes, excepting the elective ne' A.
were raised SIS a month SATURDAY,
fective August /, until Jahual, Ia.
when a revision will be consiue' ~
About IT'S courthouse employees are
fected.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
100000 FIRE, HARRISON, IDAHO.
Blaze Destroys Russell and Pugh
Lumber Plant. 49,

Harrison, Idaho.-Fire originating
in the engine room of the Russell &
Pugh mill at midnight Sunday COM
pletely destroyed the entire plant, in
GLIDING the box factory, with a loss
estimated at 100000. The fire spread
to 10 residences on the hill side,
which were burning at 2 o'clock on
Monday morning. 1t was expected
at that hour that the blaze would
soon be under control.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12

The partnership between George
Burkhard and A. A. Flesher, known
as the Emmett Meat Co. of Emmett,
has been dissolved and Mr.. Burk-
hard takes over the business.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12

212 qS cents. Market sgenerally are
irregular and in some sections higher.
onions = Markets generally are
trending downward in spite of reports
that many heavy producing states will
not porduce their normal Quotas"
this year. California onions offering
IN this market are down to 81. Green
unchanged at 30 cents a dozen.
Other Vegetables-Local cucumbers
are appearing and the dollhouse varie-
W is due to take a tumble. Green
corn and tomatoes are lower. Casaba
melons from California are arriving
other vegetables seasonable and un-
changed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
Prices Not Justified.

President Wilson told congress: Il
have sought this opportunity to adj
dress you because it is clearly my duty
TO call your attention to the present
cost of living and to urge upon you,
with all the persuasive force of which
/ am capable the legislative measures
which would be most effective in con.
trolling il and bringing II down.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-08-12
WILSON'S MESSAGE
ON HIGH LIVING COST
SAYS THEY HAVE IN MANY CASES
BEEN CREATED ARTIFICIAL.
LY AND DELIBERATELY"
CONGRESS GETS HIS VERSION
son Urges Increased Production
and Careful Buying-No Single
Interest Should Control.

Washington. d. C.-President VIII
son laid several specific proposals be-
fore congress Aug. for checking the
high cost of living, but at the same
time declared permanent results could
not be expected until peace time ba-
sis were fully restored by ratification
OF the peace treaty.
High prices, the, president told con-
gress, We're not Justified by shortage
of supplies either present or prospect
i've. but were created in many cases
"artificially and deliberately" by wi
cious practices" Retailers, he said,
were responsible in large part for ex-
tortionate prices.
Strikers, the president warned the
labor world, would only make matters
worse and those who sought to employ
threats or coercion were only "prepar-
ing their own destruction
Make Recommendations
General recommendation included:
Increase of production.
Careful buying by housewives.
Fair dealing with the people on the
part of the producers, middlemen and
merchants.
That there be no threats and undue
insistence upon the interest of a sin
gle class.
Correction of many things" in the
relation between capital and labor in
respect to wages and conditions of La
Dor.
Unbalanced World Looks to U. (.
In concluding the president made a
plea for deliberate, intelligent action
reminding congress sthat an unbalanc-
ed world was looking to the United
States.
1--WE and we almost alone,' he said,
now hold the world steady. Upon
our steadfastness and self-possession
depend the affairs of nations every
where. 1t is in this supreme crisis
this crisis for all mankind-that Amer
lea must prove her metal"