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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
Pass Under Spokane.
DATA ON GREAT PROJECT.

Construction cost-$79 per acre.
Estimated additional cost of canal
and main lateral construction-$2G
per acre for farm latrals and land
preparation, thus making a total de-
velopment cost of $1O5 per acre.
Project covers areas in Whitman,
Spone, Adams. Franklin, Grant and
Lincoln counties.
Total area under project-4,OOO,-
600 acres
Area planned to irrigate-2 OOO,-
600 acres of first-class land.
Seventy-five per cent of this area
is or has been in wheat.
Lands lie between elevation of 500
to 1900 feet above sea level.
Drainage features ideal, prevent
ing necessity of constructing drain
age works.
Water supply-Pend Orielle river.
Intake-Albeni Falls, about two
miles east of Newport
Water required 100000 ocre-feet
gross; four ocre-feet per area.
Amount of storage water required
100000 acre feet. to be held in
Lake Pend Orielle. Water level of
the lake, when holding this amount
in storage, will be lower than the
normal high water level
Secondary storage on project
100000 acre-feet This takes up all
peaks Of seasonal crop demands
Main canal-From Albem Falls on
Pend Oriele river in Idaho. about
two miles above Newport. Wash, to
Bonnie lake, tributary to the Pa
louise river in the Columbia basin.
Distance, 50 miles
Longest tunnel-1G miles. Over
burden is lighe and may be con-
structed from a number of portals.
Number of tunnels-SM.
Shortest tunnel-Three miles.
Total length of tunnels-39 miles.
Length of canal and flumes-43
miles.
rCapacity of canal-16.7OO second
feet, or 100000 ocre-feet per month.
Annual duration required for oper-
alton of canal-Eight months.
All canals concrete lined and the
fumes of REINFORCED concrete con-
structiOn.
Velocity-1S feet per second main
tanned
Bottom width of canal-45 feet,
side slopes IL.
Depth of water-20 feet.
Gradient-2.64 feet per mile.
Tunnels-Two compartments, COX
3S feet.
Gradient-Four feet per mile.
Length of distribution canal-90
miles.
Many paralleling water courses
TO be employed to deliver water to
aterals.
Four months, during nonirrigating
period, water may be discharged into |
Spokane river for power purposes.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
THE YANkS HAD BIG
ARMY IN FRANCE
American Army on Western Front
Second in Strength Only to
French Army.

Washington d. C.-On the day the
armistice was signed the American
army on the western front was sec.
ond in strength only to that of France
itself. General March said recently
that on November II the United
States was represented on the west
ern front by 1,95O,1OO men.
France on November /, the last date
for which official figures were avail
able. had 2,559,OOO. The British army
totaled l,71S,OOO. while the Belgian
and Italian forces on the west front
aggregated about 100000 Up to Jan
"a the United States had actually dis
charged 1886 officers and S5S,1l7
men. The British on Jan II had dis
charged 1888 officers and 6ll.95O
men. The total ordered for discharge
in this country now is 100000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
RUSSIA'S FACTIONS KEEP
PEACE CONFERENCE WAITING
But Opposition Wanes at Paris on
Method of Approach-Can't say
When League Perfected.

Paris.-The peace conference is
watchfully waiting for answers from
the various Russian governments to
the invitation to the Sea of Marmora
conference. Meanwhile, what opposi.
ton was stirred up by the method o,
approaching the Russian situation ap.
pears to be fast subsiding. That part
Oh the French press which at first as
sailed the war councils decision is
changing. On second thought they
are realizing it is a common sense
treatment of the complex situation.
Approval is now almost unanimous
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
filters CAN TELEGRAPH
TO EACH OTHER NOW
wireless Telephones on Planes Car
rying Peace ENJOYS to the
Peace Conference.

The airplanes which are carrying
the peace conference delegates and
important documents between Lon
don and Paris are being equipped
with wireless telephone apparatus.
This will enable the pilots to speak
to one another while in the air and
Will also enable them to receive fire.
quent weather reports and instruc-
lions from the ground.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
Shoots Whale From AirpIane.

San Diego, Cal.-Lieutenant James
Mccullough, attached to the army's
aerial gunnery school at Ream field.
near this city, shot and killed a small
whale with the machine gun of his
airplane off Imperial beach The broad
back of the whale looked like a sieve
when he had finished firing. Resi-
dents of Imperial beach towed the
whale ashore.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Helena, MOnt.-General Lester II
Wilson, a leading citizen of Boze
man for so years.
Dallas, Texas.-Colonel Christopher
c. Slaughter, pioneer cattleman, In
dian fighter, banker and philan
thropist
Summit. n. frederick A. Dune
ka, vice president and general mana
ger of Harper & Brothers, publishers
of New York
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
Flies 90 Miles. % Minutes

Oklahoma City, Okla-Flying at the
rate of 80 miles in % minutes, an
average speed of approximately 26O
miles an hour, was the feat accom-
plished by Lieutenant Robert b. Ba-
ker, stationed at Post Field, Fort
Sill, Okla.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
wilson's Visit RattIefleIds-

Paris.-President and Mrs. Wilson.
accompanied by Rear Admiral Gray
son and a small party of American
and French generals, left here at s
o'clock Sunday morning by automo-
bile for a visit to the Chateau Thierry
and Rheims regions.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
Report Escape of Trotzkx

London.-A dispatch says that Leon
Trotzky, bolshevik minister of war
and marine, escaped from Narva be-
fore the town was captured, but that
regiment of the red guard and a
number Of its officers were made pris-
oner.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
POSTAL WORKERS ARE
TO GET AN INCREASE
Higher Salaries Carried in Annual
Appropriation Bill Reported
Out to Senate.

Washington, ID. C.-Besides recon.
mending salary increases for virtually
all postal service employees, the an
nual postoffice appropriation bill as
revised and reported out this week
by the senate postoffice committee.
proposes appropriations of 5000. OOO. 900
during the next three years for con
struction and maintenance of roads.
To the house bill which carried
$780,, $4,000, the senate committee
added the bill of Chairman Bankhead
to appropriate S5O.OOO,OOO this year
and S75,000,0OO each for 1920 and 1921
for road work. The amendment also
would provide 100000 each year for
roads in national forests.
Provides for Air Service.
The senate committee added an in
crease from 100000 to SS5O.OOO in
the appropriation for postal airplane
service, authorizing the postmaster
general to establish new routes and
to secure airplanes from the war de-
partment
Inc house appropriation for extern
sion of parcel post farm to con-
sumer' express route was reduced
from S1,OOO,OOO to 100000.
Railway Clerks Get Boost.
In providing employees pay increases
the committee added an amendment
TO increase the per diem allowance for
railway mail clerks from 80 cents to
81 per day. Appropriations for rural
route and city letter carriers were
increased, respectively. from SOL, 300
600 TO $6S,SOO,OOO and from $4,000
600 to $50 ,5OOOOO The house increase
OF 20 per cent in pay of rural car
riers on standard routes was raised
to % per cent Pay increases for in
spectors, assistant postmasters at
first and second class offices. super
intendents of mail and delivery.
clerks watchmen ana other employees
also were approved
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
EXPLOSION KILLS SIX PEOPLE
Every Building in Oklahoma Town Is
Damaged yb Dynamite.

Muskogee, OKLA wagon loaded
with high explosives for use in the
nearby oil fields struck rut in the
street as it was being driven through
the residence section of the little
town of Big Heart Saturday, and as
a result four persons were killed and
several others injured, three perhaps
fatally. The explosion rocked the en-
tire town. Eight houses were com
pletely demolished and some of the
dead were killed by the falling de
bris. Not a building in the town es-
capped damage. A hole big enough
to bury a half dozen wagons" was
torn in the street
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
Arrest Chief Of Police

Helena, Mont-John P. Croft, chief
OF police on the Blackfeet Indian
reservation, is in Jail at Great Falls
in default of a bond og $4,000 fol-
lowing his arrest on the charge OF
bootlegging on the reservation.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
King Manuel Back.

Vigo, Spain.-Former King Manuel
is reported to have entered Portugal
at o'clock Sunday morning. having
crossed the Mineo river at Caminea
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
League Of Nations Committee.

Striking phases characterized the
situation in Paris at the close of the
conference of the associated powers
First-The development of a def
mite conference committee program
by America.
Second-The practical cessation of
the activities of the supreme inter.
aimed council, due to the suppressed
ing committee on program.
Thlrd-The evolution of the con.
ference into an actual peace-mak-
ing body, and the issuance of a
communique which said substantially
to all those still resorting to force.
Lay down your arms"
Fourth-The exposure of what is
held to be a widespread anti-Wilson
propaganda.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
Would Enlarge U. S. Hospitals.

Washington.-A bill to appropri-
ate $1O,5OO,O0O for charging hospi.
tails to De conducted by the public
health service was reported favor.
ably to the house by the building
committee.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28

Il wonder why the American troops
are called doughboys?"
Probably because the secretary of
war is Baker. Judge.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28

peace conference unless thew GOT fun
ther recognition than was accorded
them.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28

Michael Madden was buried at Lew.
iston recently.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
GIGANTIC IRRIGATION
PROJECT ANNOUNCED
DEVELOPMENT COST PER ACRE
is PLACED AT s1o5 BY STATE
HYDRAULIC ENGINEER.
MAKE BIG DAM NEAR SPOKANE
Hangman Creek Bed Would Become
an Impounding Basin 7 Miles Iona
Report of Engineer Chase
to the Legislature.

Marvin Chase, state hydraulic engi
neer, has completed maps and de-
scriptive details of what is believed
to be the most feasible route for
the Columbia river basin irrigation
project. This map and detail will
be submitted to an open hearing of
joint house and senate committees.
in support Of the project generally,
and particularly of the Bassett bill,
already introduced in the house, TO
appropriate 100000 in state funds
for prosecution of further research
and presentation of data by which
it is believed the federal govern
mont will be convinced Of the neces-
sity and financial advantage to the
entire northwest of promptly finan-
cling and carrying through the con-
struction program outline
Pass Under Spokane.
Fuller details will be presented to
the joint legislative netting in a re-
port made on the project by State
Engineer Chase and Henry Landes,
state geologist. This report was
made formally to Governor Lister
following preliminary examination
and survey of the proposed canal
routes and selection of one leading
from Albeni Falls, Idaho, two miles
from the Washington line on the
Pend Orielle river, southwark to and
beneath part of Spokane to Hang
man creek.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-01-28
Belgium Has a Kick.

Belgium and Serbia intimated Mon
day that the smaller powers might
organize a separate session at the
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-01
Books and Authors.

;, Robert n. Mcbride & Co; announce
he ne foi1 LEVIN books for early pubiica.
aa,h S s of h sEyn by Sax b2
Fu Manchu": The Second bullet" BY
Robert Orr Chipperneld; personal Ell
Purinton. author he' Of "Eficiens r Llr sias
and The Triumph OF the Man Who
The influence Of French Literature
on On Europe. by Emeiino NJ. Jansen. Ph.
Badger. Boston. The world war has
shown us much OF French courage
lamentably true. very little is known
Of what may DO called the gcntler
side of the French character, that
lure. The author gives a scholariy
account OF the great achievements or
Diderot, Rousseau. De staei. Chateau
the powerful coloring their works have
given to the thoughts OF other ma
tons.
%,McTeague.", by. Frank Norris CBon.
g. S, iiyerighns Modern L!brsTy2. geneT,
novel. is the work OF a vigorous mind
and 2 vigorous spirit. Norris Is one OF
yne new american ana authors who took
and considered literature to possess a
far higher FUNCTION than merely that
works we meet with men and women
Of real flesh and blood. and with events
that are perhans not fnvorite topics
which nevertheless, happen in actual
human relations and are vital. In
none OF the he novels Of Norris Is this
ntcd with the quality of genius as In
Of the best literary products 'O Of
Europe.
The Paris constitution OF the league
OF nations creates an entangling alli-
ance. not real league, says Alfred
New York;. Mr.. Crozier. who is
prominent lawyer and writer on inter
true league Of nations. and Is said to
nave been the first man in this country
TO suggest and formulate a plan for
the recurrence OF another world war.
PTssiden, yilso1 in August. 1sli, and
ume. called Nation of Nations" con-
1 tai tentative draft Of com
eminent of the family Of nations. TN
is present form" says Mr.. Crozier Of
the rroposed covenant. the league Of
Washington. Jefferson, Monroe. Jack
son and Lincoln. In no legal sense
would the league be n government as
tive. judicial and executive functions
of modern representative government"
a ann Gr"z,fr o, makes AK +. plea for the
as as,t to set up limited international
government possessing power to bind
late their eonduct. toward each other
Of nations. he adds. should be restrict
ed by its constitution to the inter
national field and have no power 10
interfere In the domestic affairs Of any
country. Mr.: CroZier makes a complete
and full ANALYSIS of each of the twenty
six articles Of the league constitution
read by President Wilson to the SUI
premc peace congress on February "a,
1912 In many cases constructive sug-
gestions are, added. with criticisms
bearing on the LEGAL aspects OF the
points involved. He believes that the
document IN Its present form Is sun
clean vague. complicated, unsafisfac-
tory tory. and in some resnects. dangerous"
triotic. and progressive people Of p ali
countries can unitedly support the
league Of nations plan. the war will
left ENDANGERED, by universal Boil
shevist anarchy"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-01
News of Fifty Years Ago

The new chief of police has issued new in
structions to the force under which police
man Is allowed to enter any barroom or other
place where liquor Is sold except in the strict
discharge of his duties; no smoking Is allowed
while duty; lounging on street is
asking questions are required at all times.
cign missions OF the Presbyterian Church Of
the United states will address the people at Dr.
Hoges church one or more nights this week
The first address will be tomorrow night Sew
eral young men who are going to foreign fields
with him.
readng-room to be known as Mocha MICS
Exchange is being established in the basem ent
of Thomas II. Price e. Co.'s building, corner OF
Eleventh and Main Streets.
Rev. George Jacobs. late OF this city has been
duly installed to the ministry of the Franklin
Street Synagogue in Philadelphia.
Married On the Goth Of March at Grace Street
Mary Bates Priddy to Thomas e. Taylor; ali Of
Richmond.
Married: On the 25th of March. at the resi-
Gates, James NJ Chalkley to Miss Elizabeth v.
Scott; the former Of Chesterfield County, and
the latter OF Richmond
"a Memoir OF tho Assassination of II. Rives
Pollard" is the title OF pamphlet which has
just appeared. 1t was printed in Lynchburg
and first circulated there.
President Grant favors policy for Misss-
sipp similar to that proposed by the Commit
tee OF Nine for Virginia.
James NJ. Mason, OF Mason Slideil fame will
leave Canada In a few days and expects to be
~ MS old home In Winchester In short time.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-01
Preserve the Desroyers

OFFICIALS OF the Navy Department have
~ admitted that serious controversy has
been aroused in the navy over the use TO
which something like 800 new destroyers are
10 De put, now that the war is over and the
submarine has been conquered. One group
OF ofhcials favors placing the new craft in
reserve, withdrawing the expert crews for
employment elsewhere and the maintenance
or only enough destroyers on the active list
10 give Daiance to the two battle fleets into
which the navy is now being divided
Another group Of officials takes the view
that the destroyers should be kept in the ac
tive service at all costs; that if necessary
men should be taken from larger craft in
order to provide destroyer crews. and that
IL would be serious blunder for the navy
10 allow the new, or the old destroyers for
'hat matter, to lie idle and rusting while in
reserve merely in order that larger feet
OF capital ships might be kept on the active
list.
OBVIOUSLY this is a question for e1pert
judgment 10 answer. The layInan can
scarcely be expected to know the inside naval
circumstances which have caused this dis
pute, but there are some facts which non
navy man can understand just as readily as
the man in uniform. One Of these facts is
that the dcstroyers defeated the submarine
Nothing else did it. To that extent. il might
be added. the war tide was turned against
Germany. In accomplishing this mighty re-
suit, the destroyer established its value as
an effective naval weapon beyond all cues
ton OF cavil.
The same cannot be asserted with respect
10 capital ships. No test OF their value ever
came Only in the battle Of Jutland was
there an engagement, upon a large scale
between capital ships, and the destroyer was
cab In nla
either OF the battle fleets had been without
the support of destroycrs it probably would
nave been destroyed. The navy must have
capital ships, certainly as long as any other
navy has them, but 1t should not keen on
building them at enormous expense, IL by so
doing 1t puts the destroyers in reserve. The
smaller craft should be kept on the active
list, come what may Neither this govern
inent nor any other knows how soon II NAV
be necessary for those swift and dangerous
engines OF destruction to face another epemv.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-01

siderable attitudes Tho aero telephone
cameras pho,ographed the entire %ar
tail OF tho country. Of friend and and Zoe Zoe
was thus preserved. The position Of
bridge was thus Clearly Ind aesa T End
value OF such information is price,
less sIGh MAPS MAPS to- are made with
ward is. flown back and forth in
p hina cr Lines much as reaping ma
contrived clockworks are set to take
the pictures automatically. II the
area Is quickly accomplished.
The exposed films arc then brought
Wien Developed sSns 0T The op pctares a1e
matched together into what. is called a
mosaic nrnnh map. Recently ss such photo
and harbor. developed printed and
ready for exhibition In less than four
rate as any the '' ol d. mapma ateq
might draw. but It contains a wealth
OF detail no other map could rival.
country. with such guides before him,
SHOULD mover lose his way.
II has estimated that ut the rate at
winch unknown parts OF tho world now
are being explored il Will require 200
years to complete tho work. The air
years. with great eeon M OF money rsw
and Of human life. Exploration, aided
by aerial mapmaklng. Will become a
very simple matter. These new maps
made so swiftly and accurately from
the sky. Will reveal unknown sources
OF wealth. also many new trade routes
From the perfection of the air camera
dates new era in tho worlds develop
mcpt
BY employing the movinf, picture
camera In such exploration a new feld
Of exploration is made possible. Then
from the comfortable seat OF q theator
ono Will be able to 500 pass before him
on tho screen hitherto unknown or
uneIpiored areas OF tho world Here
Is neld which invRes tho adventurous
camera man.-Copyr!Eht 1919.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-01
Once Overs, One a Day.
Lending n Hand to the Boy.

Mr.. Good Fellow. do you want to know how,
to make yourself more useful and at the snnne
time do something for the benefit of humanity
at large? ''S
Then be a big brother" to some younes,.r
in your neighhorhood who L. fatherIess or Wbo
seems to be hayward wild ~ VIZ
Why not ptos take Ike, the he; boy with you on some
know would Interest him and gradually break
selves.
You may be the father of grown bovs-vor
be single manIbut none Of these conditions
Think back to your own youthful days pam
Would you not be moro respected more q, :,
real man today if certain you remcmhar
had taken your welfare to heart enough to act
as big brother to you? ~
You felt something lacking. did not know
what, and thought It was excitement You need
ed, and you had taste OF wild oats iii
something taught 20. tho difference between
But. you cant BIO sure that something will
stop that boy in your neighborhood unless You
do It. BEGIN today.-Copyright, 1919.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-01

not gay they would not hAve done their
part II sont but each should DO honored
for the service performed. so I think
with mo that had they gone through
what we have they would willingly
decorate us with all tho honors that
can be put on soldier for bravery
or foreign service.
/ hopo that some OF OUT friends will
look into this matter. our Senators and
Representatives. OF Old Virginia cs-
pecially, and protect us. II will provo
TO tho boys over here that you are still
on the job backing US ND In our rights
and appreciate our work.
They can take my service and wound
cheVrons from me. but they can not
take the knowledge from my brain or
the scars from my body received on
the battle helde on the fronts fought
on: PRIVATE FRED w. BARNES,
Company X, Threo Hundred and
seventeenth Infantry. A. L. +.
Etais, France. February 5. 1919.