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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10
Congress Urged to
Favor Idaho Farmer
In lie gislation

Congress is urged to pass all meas
ures, now pending, that would tent
to protect the Idaho farmer from
foreign importations in senate join
memorial No. 2 which passed the up
per house of the sixteenth legisla
ture Thursday. The memorial widens
the scope of one introduced by Sena
tor Clark of Clark county at Wed
nesday's session which urged con
gress to act favorably on the Fordney
emergency tariff measure, with the
amendment on beef and hides.
Senator Van Hoesen of Adams
county, minority leader in the SEN
ate, opposed the measure. He said
that there were many laborers idle
in the cities and did not want to vote
for any bill that would tend to in
crease living conditions. He ex-
planned that he himself was an Idaho
farmer and stood for the farmer, but
felt that they were better able to
bear the burden than the men with
out employment in the cities.
House bill No. 1 providing for the
appropriation of $72,000.25 or so
much of it as was necessary to de-
fray the expenses of the legislature,
was passed by the senate at the
Thursday afternoon session.
Idaho's statutes will be revised If
a bill providing for a constitutional
convention, introduced by Senator
Thomas of Bingham, is passed by
both houses. The constitution was
adopted thirty-one years ago and
economic conditions have changed
considerably since that time, the
measure states. The bill requires
the submission of the question to the
voters of the state at the next elec-
ton. Senator Thomas introduced
the bill four years ago and it passed
the legislature but at that time it
was not deemed advisable to call
constitutional convention.
Members of the sixteenth session
were Thursday presented with copies
of the revised statutes as provided
for in senate bill No. 2 which passed
both houses and was signed by the
governor.
The committee on mileage made a
report and an order was issued for
warrants to defray the expenses of
the members.
The afternoon session of the sem
ate adjourned after the passage of
house bill No. 1, until 10 o'clock
Friday morning.-Idaho Statesman.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10
----sts--
NO WEDNESDAY PAPER NOW

The Republican will now publish
on Monday and Thursday until busi-
ness picks up enough to again justify
the publication of the Wednesday is
sde.
This arrangement is made to save
the publisher loss while there is
very little business and the subscrib-
ers will share in the economy. In
computing subscription accounts al
lowance will be made to offset the
price of the Wednesday for the
period during which it is not sent
out. Those who have paid in advance
will receive an extension of dates to
correct the account.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10
Review of the State of Idaho
BY R. KENNETH EVANS

rise in granduer to an elevation of
! $4,000 feet. Their rugged character
and Alpine scenery are famous. They
present very jagged outline.
The larger lakes in Idaho are
Bear, Coeur d'Alene, Grays, Pend,
Orielle and Priest. The state is rich
in fossil remains including elephants,
mastodons, tapirs and saurians.
The State Drainage
The state is drained by tributaries
of the Columbia river. The Snake
is the principal river Rising in
Wyoming it courses southern Idaho.
After turning north it forms one
third of the western boundary of the
state.
A large area north of the Snake
river drains into streams whose wat
ers sink into the ground. Among
them are big and little Lost rivers,
Birch and Camas creeks. They ap-
parently reach the Snake river by
subterannean channels. This is
thought to account for the abundant
water supply of the Thousand
Springs and other springs tributary
to the Snake river.
The drainage from the Bear river
basin empties into the Great Salt
Lake.
The most CONSPICUOUS physical and
geological feature of Idaho is the
vast lava plain extending across the
state extending along the Snake
river. The length is $50 miles and
the width from fifty to seventy-five
miles. 1t is built up principally of
Tertiary lava outpoured in great
horizontal sheets. Lakes, streams,
and wind deposits are contemporane-
Gus with the lava flows. The Snake
river traverses much of this plain in
box canyons. In some places it's
walls are almost perpendicular and
not over 200 feet apart and usually
Continued on Page 8,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10
BERT ANDERS0N'S
BODY SENT Home
American Legion to
Conduct Funeral
of Comrade

The body of Corporal John Albert
Anderson will arrive from France on
Wednesday, Jan. 12.
Corporal Anderson enlisted on
June 20, 1917 at Mare Island, Calf.
sailed for France in January, 1918
and was mortally wounded at
Chateau Thierry in the famous ad-
vance of the 140th company of the
third replacement battalion in the
following July Six men out Of every
nine in the company were killed or
wounded in this engagement, where
the German advance was stopped and
turned back at the turning point Of
the war. 1t =, was that engagement
that convinced Ludendorff, Hinden-
burg and the kaiser that the war was
lost for Germany. Up to that time
they believed they would win the
war and were actually winning it..
When their troops were turned back
at Chateau Thierry they knew they
had lost the war and were actually
losing it.
Corporal Anderson was taken to a
hospital, where he fingered for some
time and then passed away After
two and half years the body will
be returned home, where the funeral
will be conducted under the auspices
of his comrades in the American
Legion.
All ex-service men are requested
to met at the American Legion hall
before the hour for the funeral and
all persons sending flowers are re-
quested to send them to the Ameri-
can Legion hall.
The funeral will be conducted
Thursday from the Lutheran church
at 2 o'clock.
Word has just been received that
Mrs. Anderson, who is now residing
in California, will be unable to at
tend the funeral Of her son, on ac-
count of illness.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10
Land Commissioner
Will Ask Relief
For Landholders

The Idaho state legislature will be
asked within the next few days to
grant relief to holders of state land
leases, new applicants for leases and
holders of state sale certificates, 1t
was announced in statement made
Friday afternoon by l. H. Nash, state
land commissioner, who has pre-
pared recommendations to submit to
the lawmakers.
Mr.. Nash recommends that the
legislature be asked to grant to the
state board of land commissioners,
discretionary power to extend the
time for payment of leases to October
1, 1921, and that interest be paid at
the rate of Z per cent from January
1, 1921.
Innumerable petitions have reached
the state land office setting forth
that on account of the depressed con-
dition of the money market it is i'm
possible to make payments as re-
quired by law. The complete text
of the commissioner statement is
as follows:
"Innumerable petitions and letters
from holders of state land leases,
have been received by the state
board Of land commissioners, setting
forth that on account of the dis
tressed condition of the money mar
ket, it is absolutely impossible to
make payments as required by law,
and requesting an extension of time
or some relief on payments due for
rental. I would recommend that the
legislature be asked to grant to the
state board of land commissioners,
discretionary power to extend the
time for payment of said leases,
when petition shall be filed by the
applicant, to October l, 1921; and
that interest be paid at the rate of
Z per cent from January l, 1921 to
date of payment.
THAT where new applications are
filed for the leasing of state lands
and the applicant is unable to make
the payment of rental as required to
furnish two reliable bondsmen, who
will guarantee the payment of said
rental on October 1, 1921, with in
terest at the rate of per cent from
January l, 1921, until date of pay
ment.
THAT in cases where holders of
state sale certificates are unable to
make payments of the amounts due,
that the state board of land commits
sioners shall be given discretionary
power to withhold the cancellation
of said sale contracts until such time
as they deem the financial condition
of the state will justify demand for
said moneys; that such an extension
of time shall not, in any event, be for
a longer period than two years, and
that interest be- paid at the rate of
7 per cent per annum for the period !
of such extension.
l. H. NASH
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10
NEW OFFICERS INSTALLED

The county commissioners met
Monday morning to install the new
county officials and to take up the
work of the regular quarterly ses-
sion. The forenoon was taken up
with details and the new officials
waited until the afternoon to take
the oath of office.
Mrs. Margaret Ward is the new
county treasurer elect, and when she
leaves off in the county clerks office
her place will be filled by Miss Julia
Sutton, who is in line for promotion
Mr.. Wilson Of Aberdeen will be a
deputy treasurer and T. B. Daily is
dropped from the payroll in the
sheriff's office, leaving only Sheriff
Simmons and Deputy George Ezell to
handle the work that has been done
heretofore by three men.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10
FRAME PETITION
AT, RATE MEETING
Citizens Seek to Have
reight Rates
Reduced

With the adoption of a resolution
requesting the public utilities COM
mission of Idaho to file complaint
with the Interstate commerce COM
mission demanding a reduction in
freight rates on farm produce at a
meeting held Friday at the court
house, the citizens of Idaho Falls
hope that this step may result in
lessening the freight rates now in
effect Carl Johnson, president Of
the farm bureau of Bonneville
county, presided.
Statewide Movement
This meeting is one of several that
are being held thruout the state in
an endeavor to force the railroads
into reducing their rates At the
meeting recently held at Pocatello
an attempt was made to present the
case of the farmers of Idaho to the
Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line
railroads. After listening to this ap-
peal on the part of the agricultural
interests, the railroads decided that
they could not properly make any
reduction. With this defeat the
farmers and business interests of the
state are trying to place the matter
in the hands of the interstate COM
merce commission.
Reduced Production
A. H. Beasley spoke on the produc-
tion outlook for this year: "If the
present freight rates are maintained
the farmer will produce just what he,
himself, can take care of. He will
not dare to plant crops with no mar
ket in sight. With the experiences
of the past year before him and with
no alienation of the burdens, which
have been his, in view, a decimated
production may be looked for"
Fred Gustafson addressed the
meeting taking up the subject of
Continued on page four
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-10

In starting this series of indus
trial articles exploiting the possibil
tiles in Blackfoot and Bingham
county it is we'll to give a genera
summary of the State of Idaho il
which Blackfoot is located to show
that the general conditions of the
whole state are prosperous and at
tractive- and that the possibilities
that are SO extensive in Blackfooi
and Bingham county are just as ex-
tensive in the surrounding territory
In fact there is not a state-in the
union that offers a wider diversified
field of endeavor than does the State
of Idaho with it's many resources
lying dormant and waiting for the
hand of development to loose these
riches to the world.
Statistics of the State
Idaho became territory in 1853
and was admitted as state in 1890.
The length of the state north and
south is 483 miles. The width at
the northern boundary is forty-eight
miles and at the southern boundry
is 800 miles.
The land area is S3,354 square
miles and the water area is 534
square miles.
The population is half a million
souls. Boise is the state capital.
The Syringa is the state flower.
The state is bounded on the east
by the Rocky mountains and the
Bitter Root ranges. Several i'm
portant spurs extend westward and
divide the surface of the state into
large basins.
The general elevation of the state
varies from 1000 to 1000 feet above
sea level. The lowest point is at
Lewiston, 742 feet The northern
mountains are seldom higher than
1000 feet.
Toward the south the snow capped
peaks of the Sawtooth mountains
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Three Held i'm 100000
Plot to Bribe Dry Agents
Attempt to Flood Chicago With
Liquor During Holidays Re-
norted frustrated

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.--Exposurc of one
Of the most thoroughly organized liquor
rings ever operated in Chicago was ac-
complished here to-day, according to
Federal prohibition agents, as the re-
suit of the arrest of three men and
the confscation of tWenty-one barrels
of whisky,
The liquor ring was exposed, accord
ing to Federal agents, after attempts
had been made to bribe prohibition
agents with view to flooding Chicago
with whisky during the holidays.
The men under arrest are DR.. |. Val
Freedman. Samuel D. Freedman, his
brother, and David Blumie1d, all of
Chicago. According to Edwin L. Weisl,
Assistant District Attorney, warrants
are being prepared for the arrest OF
several other persons, including num-
Der of prominent politicians.
The liquor ring was brought to light,
according to Federal authorities, when
an attempt was made to bribe Colonel
A. C. Earnshaw, chief of the intelli-
gence unit of the Revenue Department.
A fund Of 100000 had been raised for
bribery purposes and 100000 for the
purchase of the entire product of three
distilleries in Kentucky, Colonel Earn
shaw SAID he was told. He said he was
offered $65,000 to allow the plan to
proceed.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Burns, ON Christmas
Visit Here, Marking
Time i'm Bomb Case
Acquaintance Says Linden
field Was Campaigning
for Socialist Aldermanic
Candidate Day of Blast

William j. Burns, chief of the Bureau
CT Investigation of the Department Of
Justice, camc up last night from Wash
ngton to spend Christmas with his
family at Scarborough on Hudson.
7 here wasn't a thing he could add, he
FRO and con. regarding the arrest and
reported confession of Wolfe Linden
field in connection with the Wall Street
bomb plot.
"Lindenfesd's statement has not yet
been Strengthened out" he said. when
il is, perhaps Attorney General Daugh-
erty will make d statement on the
case"
Another acquaintance of the prevari-
eating bomb suspect took a kick at his
various and conflicting stories yester-
Gay. Instead of being in suburb of
New York, as he declared in Warsaw, it
is said he spent most of the day work
rig III the interests of Louis Waldman,
ar the time Socialist candidate for re-
election to the Board of Aldermen
Alderman William Beckerman, who
lnew Lindenfeld as Linde, says the al
l2EeU terrorist was as surprised as any
body when news of the disaster became
known.
The night before the explosion, Beck
erman says, Linde passed at the Broad
way Central Hotel. The register there
Inspected yesterday, shows an entry
wv. Linde."
con the day of the explosion, which
| remember we'll because it was the day
of the special election Alderman
Beckerman continued, at was neces-
sary for me to 60 in a hurry to Public
School No. 10, in Fourteenth Street
near First Avenue, where there was
said to be some trouble about votes.
'Linde jumped in the car with me
without invitation, and insisted on ac-
companying me. 1 remember having
some argument with him. He used the
words: Don't be a fool, Beckerman,
and said to him: Don't be pestl II
you make any trouble up here I'll kick
you out. This was in the afternoon
about o'clock, should say.
when we got to the school I re.
member the chairman of the Election
Board saying in a laughing way: What
have you fellows been trying to do
blow up Wall Street, We asked hin
what he meant and he told us of the
explosion, which had occurred at noon
/ That was the first any one of us-in-
| Guiding Linde-had heard of it, and
am sure Linde looked and acted jus,
as surprised as any one else"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Major Brands Story He
Killed Soldiers False
Battalion Commander. Cited
for Heroism in Action, Offers
to Aid Senate Inu,Iiry

From, The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. = Emphatic
denial of the charge made in testimony
before the Senate committee Investigate
ing Senator Watson's allegations Of
brutalities by American army officers
is contained in a letter received to-
day b. the War Department from Lieu
tenant Colonel H. L. Ope, of Staunton,
Va, who as major commanded the
third battalion of the 116th Infantry
during the war
Private Henry l.. Scott testified that
major Opie shot down a sergeant and
private during the Argonne fighting"
Colonel Opie's letter, which declared
this is "emphatically untrue" is as
follows:
"The Associated Press has just in
formed ME Private Henry L. Scott,
of Ohio, testified to-day before the
Watson committee that he saw Major
Opie, of the third battalion, 116th In
fantry, shoot a sergeant and a private
or orderly, during the Meuse-Argonne
fighting. This is emphatically untrue
was in command of this unit during
most of its war service in France and
not only were there no men summarily
shot or executed but there is not a
single man of the regiment unac-
counted for, J am informed. My most
priced possession is the good Will of
the officers and men with whom |
fought, many of whom are again with
me in the service. If l can be of any
use in refuting these and other idle
charges | am at your command
Major Opie was wounded and awardel d
the Distinguished Service Cross by the
government and the Croix de Guerre
with two palms and the Legion of
Honor (Chevalier) by France for gal
action
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Ban Put OH Police Concerts
Orders Issued TO Remove Pianos
From Stations

Orders have been issued to abolish
police station concerts. Pianos in
stalled in numerous stations are to be
removed.
Where the order originated is not
known to the rank and file, but it's first
manifestation appeared yesterday when
Captain Thomas "Jigs' Donohue, birth
control nemesis, ordered the squadroom
piano at the West Forty y-seventh Street
station locked in a cell. 1t was an
nounced that the nightly sing songs
which have been held by reserve patrol
men and detectives will no longer be
permitted.
1t was said last night that the order
abolishing concerts would be strictly
enforced, though some stations posses
sing instruments presented by form
er Deputy Commissioner lrodman Wan
amaker have not yet heard of the man
date. There as said to be general dis
satisfaction at the new rule, which is
regarded as arbitrary
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Taylor, Ready for Snow Storm,
Clears Streets With 1895 Men
Fall OF Two and Two-tenths Inches Gets Scanl Half
Hour Start Commissioner, but He Soon
Sweeps 1t Away; Elevated Lines Use ssFeeler''

ihe snow which fell early yester-
day morning, to the official extent of
two and two-tenths inches, had q start
OF exactly half an hour on Alfred A.
Taylor, Street Cleaning Commissioner.
1t was the first snow storm of any
Importance since Mr. Taylor took office
and he was looking forward to it with
something akin to exaltation. He was
up at o'clock, and by o'clock 1885
men were at work clearing the streets
IN Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Mr. Taylor said yesterday that it was
the purpose of his department to have
the snow off every street in the CITY
to-day unless another snow storm in
terfered in the meantime. He said
that 5000 emergency men and 400
regulars would work all night to clear
the streets
All the appliances for the quick re-
moval OF snow were put to use before
the snow ceased to fall at S:l5 o'clock
yesterday morning, giving way to ff-
teen minutes of precipitation. which
was classed as rain. There were $50
tractors. 215 trucks, with scrapers. and
moro than 1000 ash trucks removing
snow.
The traction companies got out their
snow cleaning cars and kept their
tracks clear. The elevated lines in
troduced novelty known as "feeler. -
TINS is device attached to the "brush'
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24

OF the cars. On meeting any obstacle
on the tracks the "feeler' Immediately
recognizes it as such and releases a
scraper in front of the brush, thereby
removing the obstacle.
1t is not recorded that any great
hardship was worked upon the vehicu-
lar traffic. There was no congestion,
and the difficulties experienced by
motor car drivers were no greater than
those encountered on rainy days
Pedestrians were more put about than
any one else, because the pavement
they walked upon was sloppy.
The only worth while delays to traf
flc were reported from Brooklyn. The
third rail of the B. r. T. line was af-
fected by snow, and one train on the
Brighton line was stalled from sos to
6:20 o'clock yesterday morning near
the Sheepshead Bay station.
Traffic both ways between Kings
Highway and Brighton Beach was
stopped from TAB to 84o o'clock. and
on the Culver Line, between Kings
Highway and Coney Island, the course
of travel was delayed from $3.50 to 9:15
lock
The locks on the Long Island Rail
road East of East New York froze
shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday
morning. Trains using that route were
ff I'm thirty to forty minutes late
Then last night it rained But the
,air was entirely uncalled for, because
by that time Commissioner Taylor's
night workers had been flushing the
streets for more than an hour.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Dry Aid Charges Slander
By Anti-Saloon Lacquer
Maryland Director Sues State
superintendent for $4,000
Because of Speech

BALTIMORE, Dec % Charging
That ne had been slnndered in an ad-
dress by George W. Crabbe at d con-
terence of the Anti-Saloon League SUI
perlntendents held in Washington, Ed
mund Budnitz, prohibition director for
maryland and the Districtsof Columbia
,o-day entered salt against Mr.. Crabbe,
1or s25,000 damages.
The case was docketed in the Su-
Peror Court of Baltimore city.
The speech to which Mr.. Budntz
lsSes exception was made by Mr.
Sraboe December / and was reported
~ newspapers. Crabbe, superintendent
81 o. the Maryland branch of the Anti
saioon League, afterward wrote Bud
altz am letter in which he qualified his
shegec statements by saying they were
hos aimed specifically at the incum-
bent of the office.
.she The declaration of the plaintiff
saarges that the defendant did falsely,
.Iaaiiclously and with design" impute to
sae plaintiff ''unftness to discharge the
aasles Of prohibition director" as we'll
a. a. want of dignity on his part in the
ddscharga of said duties" in that the
sssisendant ss spoke of outside influences
90 coercIng the plaintiff"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Reserve Policeman Held
AS Swindler of Woman
Aged Mother of Boy Who Was
Arrested Declares She Paid
$50 TO Sergeant

Joseph Edelheit, of 84s East 163d
Street, sergeant in the police re-
serves, was arrested at 1928 Second
Avenue last night by a patrolman of
the East Eighty eighth Street station
on the complaint Of Mrs. Kate Schweit,
seventy years old, Of 220 East Seventh
eighth Street, who charges the prisoner
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
Mrs. Schwcit told Lieutenant Cra.ner,
Of the East Eighty-elghth Street sta
tion, that two weeks AGO Edelheit ap-
peared at her apartment dressed in his
police uniform and said that he had a
message from her son, Max, who was
then being held in a Brooklyn jail in
connection with the loss of an auto
mobile.
She said that Edelheit promised to
have her son released if she would pay
him $50. Mrs. Schweit said that she
pawned a ring and a watch and gave
the money to Edelheit She said that
neither she nor her son had seen him
from that time until she got word that
he was at the Second Avenue address
last night.