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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02
ROCK CREEK.

Notices are posted for an election
to be held at Banner school house,
May 24rh, to determine whether the
district will agree to the division OF
school district number Al. 1t is
hoped that all voters will be out to
vote at this election and that they
will inform themselves as to what
they are going to give away in as
sessable property and how much will
be left them.
Another shower Monday night
makes the prospects for bumper
crop all the brighter.
Sunday morning a number of boys
and girls gathered at the school
house, in spite of drizzling rain,
and muddy roads, and organized a
Sunday school. w. R. Johnston of
the American Sunday School Union,
came up from Lewiston to direct the
work. Mr.. Henry Colvin was elected
superintendent; Thelma Sittkus, sec
rotary, and Mrs. Koberasky, organist.
Sunday school will be held at 1890
each Sunday morning and as there
are classes for every body, we hope
to have a large attendance.
Rehearsals began this week for the
pageant to be given the last day of
school by the Banner school pupils.
W. r. Johnston, Sunday school or
sanizer from Lewiston, was guest
# Alex. Weeks, Saturday night, and
Sunday was entertained by Mr.. Col
in and Mr.. HOlderreed.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02

from the Harvard yards last week
when Johnson Brothers sent car
load to Palouse, reducing the amount
of wood here to the lowest stage 1t
has been since the spring OF 1920.
And the coming year will see less
wood shipped than in a number of
years past, as there ~was less wood
cut here last winter than in former
years, and this time a year ago more
than one hundred cords of held-over
wood was piled in the local yards
waiting for q market.
Mrs. Frank Cockrane and daughter,
Miss Zerma, and son, York, drove to
Spokane Friday, returning Sunday.
Mrs. A. r. Bass and daughter,
Oracle, are visiting in Palouse this
week
John Shadduck of Potlatch, was a
visitor up the river Monday.
Mrs. Fred Parcher and children of
Bovill, are visiting at the E. c.. Will
son home.
The infant son OF Mr.. and Mrs. w.
r. Hanger died at the family home
on Maple Creek, Tuesday and was
laid at rest in the Woodfell cemetery,
Wednesday afternoon.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02

Spokane, Wash.-A. P.)-Make way
for the oil can corps. A barrage OF
kerosene is to be poured on all mos
breeding swamps in the vicinity
of Spokane by so members of Profess
sor r. T. Large's zoology classes at
Lewis and Clark high school of this
city Professor Large will be general
of the army. I'VE will make peace by
totally destroying the enemy" he said.
:" During the past two months we
have had an excessive amount of
moisture, with the result that many
small ponds have been formed"
Spokane citizens were asked to con-
tribute ammunition in the form of
kerosene.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02
& CATCH MY SMOKE"
COMING TO LIBERTY SOON

A treat is in store for the amuse-
ment lovers of Moscow. For on next
Saturday there will be shown for a
three day run, the William Fox pro-
duction of Catch My Smoke" Tom
Mix's latest starring vehicle which has
been the talk wherever it has been ex-
hibited. Not only does the story ap-
pear interesting but the acting, direc-
ton and photography are of an excep-
tionally high calibre, according to
the producer There are also left
touches of comedy throughout
Catch My Smoke tells the tale
of a returned soldier from France
(Tom Mix who, upon arriving at his
ranch, discovers plans afoot to do
away with him when his enemies dis
cover oil upon his property How
he eludes his enemies with the able
assistance of his equine pa1-Tony
rescues the girl of his dreams and
comes into his own ought to pro-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02
MOSCOW and PULLMAN
COMBINE RIFLE TEAMS

Moscow and Pullman military rifle
stars are out to win the trophy Of
fered by the Spokane chamber OF
commerce at the annual Northwest
Military Rifle tournament at Fort
Wright, Spokane, May 6. The best
shots from both cities have been
picked on team to be taken as the
Moscow-Pullman rifle team.
In past years the tournament has
always been won by a Spokane club.
Pullman and Moscow stars, realizing
the possibility Of winning the tourney
with a combined team, agreed to put
their best shots on the one sixman
team.
H. D. Powell of Moscow has been
made captain of the team and DR.. T..
B. McBryde of Moscow has been
elected coach. The other Moscow
member of the first team is Glenn
Hallam. The team will leave Satur
day for practice shoot Saturday af-
ternoon on the Fort Wright range
before entering the tournament Sun
day.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02
TROY men OPERATE
MOSCOW MOUNTAINEERING

George Saad, well known Troy
business man, and one of the owners
of promising gold and platinum
prospect on Moscow mountain, OPP
Grated under the name of the Saad
Mining company, was in Moscow
Wednesday, having brought a sample
of sand to be assayed by the metal
lurgical department of the state
bureau of mines, at the University of
Idaho.
Considerable work has ben done
on the property the past year, and
a crew of five men has been en-
ployed since the snow left, making
preparations for the first placer wash.
Fumes have been completed and
while the water is available, it is
probable that crews will be kept busy
day and night washing dirt. The
owners of the property expect to get
good returns from their placer cp-
erations, but at the same time, are
working on the ledge. Sand which
has already been assayed, showed
$145 to the ton. Platinum has been
found on the property, but it is not
known how extensive the deposits
are.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02

vide six reels Of absorbing action.
The situations are said to be re-
plete with excitement and the entire
plot ENORMOUSLY constructed. If this
p11otoplay is as interesting as the
others in which Tom Mix has ap-
peared, the Liberty theatre will be
damned to capacity, especially in view
of the producers promise that this
photoplay is an exceptional one.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02
Returns From Oregon Trip

Leland Burr has just returned from
an automobile trip into Oregon,
covering some 684 miles. The trip
was made in his new Gardner tour
ing car, and he believes that he made
something of a record, using but 33
gallons of gas and one quart of OIL
The roads were for the most part in
good condition.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02
Daughters Confederacy to Meet

Berkeley, Calf. - ca. P)- The
twenty third annual convention of the
California division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, will be
held here May Gil.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-02

Every woman will want pair or two
Imported Turkish Slippers. $40 pairs
made in sofia, hand embroidered
trimming, with pompOms, pink,
Copen, dark blue, purple, red, rose,
tan, black Big special in the
shoe department, a pair -----------------9Sc
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
FEW WOOD ENeRAvERs

The real art of engraving has
been supplanted by the half-tone
process, and those artists whose
skillful hands and accurate ewes
traced lines on apple-wood and box
wood and wrought them into pic
lures that could be reproduced in
magazines, are disappearing. Mil
waukee, which was once the center
OF this branch of the arts in the
United States, has but few of them
left. Wood engraving as an art has
come and gone. Those in posses
sion OF representative prints from
blocks will sometime in
the future have cause to congratu-
late themselves on the possession of
what Du Fresony says is "a sane
example of the combination Of art
md mechanical skill"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
TO READ YOUR BAROMETER
Not Every Person Correctly Under.
stands the Real Meaning Of tho
slGns It pispIayA

The barometer behaves in an I'm.
expected manner sometimes, going
up or down, as the case may be, with
results quite different from what we
anticipate.
When the mercury has fallen very
low continuous rain is the natural
expectation. But that is where YOU
will be at fault. On the contrary,
there is not likely to be very much
rain-only short, heavy showers,
with squalls OF wind. The mercury
drops because the air is either very
warm or very moist, or both. But it
viii not part with its moisture in
the form of rain until cold air comes
along. This will condense the
vapor, rain win fall, and the glass
win rise.
Moisture in the atmosphere keeps
the air light, SO that there is yery
littie pressure on the mercury. |
When the atmosphere is dry the air
becomes heavy, and as the mercury
is subject to more pressure, it rises.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
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MILK IN SHIPMENT

1t ls now possible to ship milk
several hundred miles without hay-
ing it spoil. The old-fashioned
milk can has given way to huge
glsss-lined tanks similar to the fa-
miliar vacuum bottle. These tanks
are mounted on trucks and are in
sulsted from the heat BY the use Of
cork packing Less than two gal
Ions of milk stick to the sides Of
these 5,000-gallon tanks. Milk has
been handled in these tanks over
distances of more than 100 miles
with 9 rise Of less than two degrees
IN temperature on hot summer
nights when the outside atmos-
pherIe temperature stood at SO de-
grees,
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
AND THEREFORE

Two young surveyors working IN
Louisiana swamp spied what they
at first thought was hoop snake
but at second glance they saw that
two snakes, each with the others
tai In its mouth, were strenuously
trying to swallow each other.
On reaching camp that night.
they told their snake story to the
cook, a gray-hsired veteran of the
swamps.
That was a mighty curious sight,
boys, said the old man, "a mighty
curious sight. | reckon you wouldn't
have believed it if you hadn't seen
it, would you?"
Probably mott agreed the bows.
Well" said the old man, II
didn't see it. "--Y Youths Companion.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
oeYsER AND VOLCANO AKIN
hot Lava the Cause Of the Eruptisns
OF Both Water and Molten
Rock. ~

Geysers have often been compared
to volcanoes, presenting in minia-
ture as they do, with water instead
OF molten rock, all of the char
acteristic phenomena of a volcanic
eruption. The source of the heat
which causes this outburst is the hot
lava, lying beneath the earth's sur
face, and which is part of the vol
canic nature Of the region wherein
geysers are in evidence. The water
that is forced out at the ground
level flows back again into the gey-
ser tube or percolates through the
porous lava, descends, is again heat
ed, and the cycle starts anew.
Small geysers gush every few
minutes, depending on the intensity
of the promoting heat; while the in
terval between the eruptions of
larger geysers may be matter of
days or even weeks. "Old Faithful"
in Yellowstone National park, usual |
ly performs every So minutes; and
in an interval of four minutes it will
throw about 100000 gallons of
water skyward to a height Of from
100 to 40 feet.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
ALPINE NEWS.
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The people of Alpine welcomed
Aaron Wimpy and bride with q hearty
charivari on the evening Of July 10
A large crowd was present, appropri
ate treats were served by the bride
and groom and every one thoroughly
enjoyed the event and wished the
newly welded couple many years of
uninterrupted happiness.
We are glad to see Mr.. Topper rap
idly recovering from his severe ae-
cident.
Miss Lulu Upper has returned
home to spend her summer vacation.
Simon Matthews has returned safe
ly from his Fourth of July celebra-
tion.
Bert Strong and George Koepl have
been putting some finishing touches
on their road into six-mile. 1t would
surprise you TO see what fine grade
they have built.
E. B. Carey is back from his auto
tour in Washington. He claims TO
have enjoyed the trip immensely but
feels as if he had contracted the |
fakima fever. Sunny Jim.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
JOKE ON THE COMPANY

Senator Green of Vermont \,
credited by the New York Herald
with the following anecdote.
Zone of the funniest stories /
know is that of a friend of mine--a
lawyer-who was retained by the
Pullman company to look after q
certain case.
The work necessitated his trav-
cling around the country to some ex-
tent, and it enabled him to play
considerable joke. And this is the
joke he played: He tipped the Pull
man porter 81 every time he got on
a train and then put it on the ex-
pense account of the Pullman COM
pany."
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

Ancient Egyptians Certainly Left
Nothing undone in Their Prep
arations for Great Event.

The less costly methods of num-
mifying in ancient Egypt did not
necessitate cutting the body, but in
Guided the picking in natron solu-
ton. There were many gradatlons
in the complicated process of num-
mifying based upon the rank of the
deceased and the ability of the rela-
tives to pay.
The care and Identification of the
mummy was matter of the great
est concern and anxiety. A detailed
set of directions and rituals for the
soul, called "The Book of the Dead"
was placed with the mummy, and
many inscriptions we're written on
the coffin and tomb. 1t was thought
that the deceased would be asked
perplexing questions in the ordeals
of his initiation to the other world,
besides having his heart weighed by
Osiris. He might even forget his
own name and wander forlorn
through all the hereafter. Tiny
statues of the deceased, sometimes
to the number of several hundreds,
were inscribed with his name and
responses for the questions he
would be asked, and were buried |
with the body.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
QUEER STRAIN OF HEREDlTY
Striking Example of Principle Which
Patient Investigator Had Long
Before Demonstrated.

One of the most striking instances
OF the Mendelian principle Of
heredity is that which is exhibited
by the breeding properties of the
Andalusian fowl. The blue Anda-
lusian fowl owes its popularity with
the public, and its interest to the
student of heredity, to its color
This is slaty blue-gray. If two
birds of this strain are mated, it is
found that they do not breed true.
Besides the blue birds which hatch
out, there will also be certain
number of blacks, and of whites,
with occasional black points. If the
blues thus produced are mated the
odd-colored ones will again appear
among their offspring, and no
amount of breeding from the blues
alone will rid them of the black
and white blood which will crop out
at every generation, although blue |
birds only are mated every time. |
The principles involved are
called the Mendelian principles, |
after their discoverer, Gregor Jo- |
ham Mendel, abbot of monastery /
1t Brunn, Austria, after eight years
y patient experimenting in his
'loister garden with plants, chiefly
edible peas.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
MODERN SLAVERY


Human slaves are sold on the
block in Abyssinia, according to in
formation reaching the League of
Nations. Humans are caught in
the open, chained, grouped and sold
into slavery for rich slave holders
living in the interior Of Asia Minor.
The latest 1923 quotations are as
follows: Able-bodied male slaves,
Sc to $24, according to age,
strength and productive ability.
Female slaves, demand slight, Sc
down. Child slaves, absolute drug
on the market.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
Notice of Time Appointed for p,o,.
ing VIII.

In the probate court of the eonn.,
of Lewis, state of Idaho, in the mo,
ter of the estate of Oscar Yates. DE-.
ceased. 10
Pursuant to an order of said ~.
bate court, made on the 18th dav :,
July, 1923, notice is hereby o;res
that Friday, the srd day of Anons,
1923, at 10 a. M, of said day 81 r.,
courtroom of said court, in the WI
lage of Nezperce, in the county -
Lewis and state of Idaho. has boon
appointed as the time and place e..
proving the viii of said Oscar Yates
deceased, and for hearing the ami;
cation of Charles Yates for the i
suanee to him of letters testament.
tory, when and where any person, Z
terested may appear and contest samo
SO II. W. Niles, Clerk.
Dated this 10Th day of July, 1923.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
THE HOTTEST PLACE

Ten years of record obtained at
the United States weather bureaus
sub-station at Greenland ranch, in
Death valley, CAL, indicate that
this ia the hottest region in the
United States, and, so far as ex-
treme maximum temperatures are
concerned, the hottest region on
earth.
The temperature of 1874 degrees
+, recorded July 10, 1913, is be.
iieved by meteorologists to be the
highest natural air temperature
ever recorded with tested stand
ard thermometer.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
SNAKES FRIENDS ORGANIZE

The Reptile Study Society Of
America, Inc, the purpose of which
is to preserve good snakes, il there
ara any, and to eIterminste danger
Gus snakes, was Incorporated in the
New York Supreme court.
The incorporates are Raymond
Lee Ditmars, curator Of the Brons
zoo; Miss Nellie Louise Condor, Il.
Gilbert Pearson, Arthur L. Gillian
and Raymond H, Torrey.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

In the wake of the weather man 3
prediction that this was to be calm
summer week, with nice behavior on
the part of the elements, came one of
the fiercest wind, hail and thunder
storms last Monday afternoon the
Nezperce prairie has ever known, and
this was followed by one Of much less
violence ON Tuesday afternoon. All
Of which shows that the weather in
this mountain country is exceedingly
hard to prognosticate.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

practices Of Telling Fortunes by Tea
Leaves Can BE Traced Far
AZ into Antiquity. ia

Telling fortunes by means of tea
leaves is q polite form of sorcery
with which we are all familiar.
Having drunk your tea, turn the
cup upside-down in the saucer and
whirl it around three times Turn
the cup again and examine the leaf
fragments clinging TO the bottom
and sides. There, say the super
stitious, lies your futurel
In this magic rite we have COM
bination of two ancient systems Of
divination, hydromancy and cero-
NANCY.
Hydromancy was practiced in
ancient Egypt. A bowl or cup was
filed with water and a boy gazed
into it until he became hypnotized
and "saw things" The magician
interpreted what the boy thought he
saw. The strolling magicians of
North Africa perform the same
trick today by means of a drop Of
ink in boys hand. When Joseph
sent his messengers to find his silver
CUP in Benjamin's sack, he in
'tructed them to say: '.Is not this
ny lords cup in which my lord
irinketh and wherein he diyineth p
Hence the mystic qualities of the
up.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

Foremost in the minds of the prairie
folk this week is the destruction of
crops wrought by Mondays hail, wind
and rain storm over some 80 square
miles Of our rich country. The loss
is hard to estimate. 1t runs, into the
hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
falls heavily upon those who had no
insurance on their grain; so heavily
in some instances that it will be hard
to recover from the blow. In this
great land of plenty, where Injuries
are so common that to be deprived of
them calls forth much murmuring, it
seems that there should be ample as
sistance at hand to put the more UNI
fortunate back on their feet and give
them courage to strive on; to make
back right here in this land of promise
and delivery what they have lost
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
Notice of sheriff's Sale Uunder Eve.
cution District Court

Under and by virtue of an exson
ton issued out of the district con,t
OF the second judicial district of tbo
state of Idaho, in and for the eountv
OF Clearwater, and to me directed md
delivered, for a Judgment rendered IN
the district court of Clearwater conn.
ty, Idaho, on the 4th day of April
1928, IN favor of Jack Crabb and
against E. w. Jewell and A. E. Hinek.
ley fir the sum of $3l9.27, lawful mon.
ey of the United States, together with
costs of suit and interest, l have lev.
led on all the right, title, claim and
interest of said defendant of. in and
to the following described property
to-wit:
The south one half (S1k) Of the
northwest one fourth (NWA) of sec.
ton one (1) and the south one half
(S1a) of the northeast one fourth
(NEA) of section two ~, township
thirty-five $3.50 north, range one (l)
east of the Boise meridian, in Lewis
county, Idaho
Public notice is hereby given that
on Saturday, the 18th day of August,
1923, at 10 o clock, a. m, of that day,
At Nezperce, in Lewis county, ] will
N obedience to said writ of execution
sell all the right, title, claim and in.
crest of said defendant, of, in and to
he above described. property, or 50
much thereof as may be necessary TO
atisfy plaintiffs claims, besides
osts, interest and ACQUIRING costs, to
he highest and best bidder for the
awful money of the United States
A. W. Mitchell, sheriff.
BY L. Brown, Deputy.
Dated July 18th, 1923. 81
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

tits surely patent to the leaders of
the Republican party in Idaho that in
its support of Senator w. E. Borah
and the things he stands for lies the
secret of its continued dominance. If
there is sustained effort in that
party to shelve our senior Senator,
who is the preeminent figure in this
states public life, it takes no sage to
see the handwriting on the wall for
Republicans in our commonwealth.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

making communities similarly located
practically fire proof. Built at the
bottom of mere cleft In the hills a.
these towns were, there is small
chance of saving them once fire
breaks out at either end, if the wind
happens to be in the right direction.
After the experience Wallace had
with her bad fire of 1910, and other
similar warnings of lesser moment, it
seems that those interested in such
localities would find it expedient TO
leave "the line of least resistance /"
and cease to use the inflamable build
ing material at hand. And, no doubt,
in the rebuilding of Burke this idea
will be kept in mind. The thought
here advanced, however, is not with
out a keen feeling of sympathy for
hose who have suffered in this recent
catastrophe.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
HAS EXTENSIVE VIEW

The lookout man on the liner Ma.
jestic, the worlds largest ocean
greyhound, is 1870 feet above the wa.
ter level and in clear weather he ba,
q view covering some 900 square
miles of ocean.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
WHAT A BLUFF

'Is your new typewriter named
Alice?"
Yes; why%
+. You always use that name when
you talk in your sleep"
We'll, she does such poor work that
she is always on my mind"
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

The sad toll from our young life
that the swimming season" is tax
ing should make parents all the more
cautious about letting their children
have access to water that is beyond
their depth.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
SINGING AGAINST TIME

she-Are you familiar viii, =
score Of this operas ~ mo
He-No. But never mind /,
seore-just so it doesn't % = - 'iis
innings.-Life. eA'ra
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
OF COURSE SHE WAS

Grocsr-That bread costs II
cents, little girl. Where is the /
cent?
Little Girl-But / was the one
sent, mister.--Judgs.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19

A half million dollars are being ex-
pended in rebuilding and improving
the long distance telephone lines of
the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company in southeastern Washington.
This is exclusive Of similar work in
other parts Of the state.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-07-19
CAUTION TO wouLD.sE ~, :.

He-ssy, Name, | don't like vO.,
she-Well, you needn't think ~,
can rule the waves around bsrs '0a
Judge. 's'--