Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-11
Big Crowds See Trophies Car
ried When Train Stops at
Weiser and Payette-Itiner-
ary for Southern and East
ern Idaho Announced.
ITINERARY FOR WESTERN IDAHO
FOR SATURDAY

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The victory loan trophy train spe-
cial will come into Idaho late this af-
ternoon after a long run through Ore
gon for it's tour of This state Boise
people will be given an opportunity to
view the trophies Saturday evening
between $50 when the train arrives
at the Short Line depot and II o'clock
when it is due to leave. 1t will be
brilliantly lighted.
The train will pull out of Ontario
sometime after midnight for the run
into Emmett, where it will make it's
first stop under the auspices of the
Idaho state liberty loan committee. 1t
will remain in Emmett from o'clock
until s:20.
Stops were made late Thursday af-
t@rnoon in Weiser and Payette under
the oregon itinerary where it was
greeted by big crowds. Six thousand
people visited the trophies at Payette
and more than half that number saw
the exhibits when the train drew into
Weiser. despite hard rain and hail
storm.
Monte B. Gwinn, state chairman of
the liberty loan committee; Joel t.
Pltest, general agent for the Oregon
Short Line and Rev. Willsie Martin
We're with the train at Weiser and
Payette. They will join it again to-
night at Ontario for Saturdays run
through western Idaho and come into
Boise with it at 80 Saturday night.
Lieut.. James Boone of Caldwell, Capt
Ed Hawley of Boise and other returned
soldiers and Earl NVayland Bowman
will also be with the train all day
saturday and leave Boise with it
early sunday morning when it be-
gins a Today tour of the state.
IDAHoANS TAKE CHARGE.
At Nampa most of the speakers and
soldiers and the guards sent out with
the train by the Oregon state commit
tee will quit it and return to Portland,
leaving the special in the care of Ida
hoans. Will Hiatt, chief deputy of the
state constabulary, and a force OF
picked men will go aboard the train at
Nampa for the purpose of guarding
The trophies. They will continue to
stand guard over the train for the en-
tire trip through this state.
Speakers will be provided at every
stop and the county Chairmen have
Lcen asked to arrange for music and
singing by the crowds. Efforts will be
made TO have the visitors at the train
sing while waiting TO see the exhibits
me state committee mas received
shipment of star shells and thunder
and lighting bombs for use in the
trench mortars which are being car
ried on the train and it is anticipated
that some excellent displays of fire.
works will be seen during the Idaho
trip.
Governor d. w. Davis will be aboard
the train during the tour of southern
Idaho. He will leave it in the east end
OF the state and return to Boise.
CARRIES GIFTED ORATORS.
interesting personalities are at
tached to the train. One of the most
gifted orators of the Pacific north
west, b. +. Irvine, editor of the Port
land Journal, is with the party and
VIII deliver an address here Satur-
day evening. Mr.. Irvine is blind. but
his eloquence has swayed thousands
upon many occasions in Oregon and
washington. In many patriotic cam
paigns incident to the was Mr.. Irvine
has been in the front
There are two young lieutenants on
the trophy train that fate has touched
peculiarly during the great war John
clark Burgard, Portland, and Ben Dor
IT'S or Eugene, were close friends at
the University of Oregon. While they
were not members of the same fra
ternity, they became intimate and
when the war clouds broke went into
the first training camp a. the Pre-
sidio, where they were commissioned
first lieutenants. They went overseas
together with the 91st division, and
were together in the battles of the
forest of the Argonne in the same reg
iment, though In separate companies
Of infantry. When the Dist was moved
into Belgium they fought shoulder to
shoulder, and on a fateful day last
September Burgard was severely
wounded and Doris was assigned tn