INAUGURAL PARADE
EIGHT GRAND DIVISIONS EACH
IN CHARGE OF AN ARMY
OFFICER.
GENERAL WOODTOBE GRAND MARSHAL
Regular Military and Naval- Forces
Will Make Up Five Divisions—
President and Vice-Elect to
Have Personal Escorts.
Washington.—There will be eight
grand divisions 'of the inaugural pa
rade, each in charge of an army officer
as division commander, according to
the announcement by Major General
Leonard Wood, grand marshal.
The first division will be made up of
the regular military and naval forces,
commanded by Major General W. W.
Witherspoon. The military organiza
tions from the states will form the
second division, in which will be in
cluded the various military schools. A
battalion from Culver Military acad
emy of Indiana will form the personal
escort of Vice President-elect Thomas
R. Marshall.
The various civic organizations will
be in the fourth division, which also
will contain most of the democratic
organizations which will be present.
The makeup of the other divisions
has not been determined, but one of
them will contain the Princeton stu
dents, who will escort the president
elect from his home to the capital on
March 3.
In this same division probably also
will be 150 members of Governor Wil
son's class at Princeton, who are to be
in Washington March 3 for the Prince
ton smoker.
The Mose Green club of Louisville,
Ky„ announced that it was coming in
force to the inaugural parade and that
it intended to bring its "Kentucky
hospitality" with it. At the same time
arrangements were made for a place
in the line for the Temperance Pioneer
league of Pittsburg.
TURKS STAY IN LONDON
Their Army Ordered to Await Attack
of Allies Before Firing a
Shot.
The porte has ordered the Turkish
plenipotentiaries not to leave London
until hostilities are resumed and has
instructed the army to await the at
tack before firing a shot. Thus, the
Ottomans, with the exception of the
Montenegrins, the only delegates left
in London, remarked that nobody
could accuse them of not having done
all humanly possible to come to terms.
Animated by a humanitarian spirit,
they added, Turkey wished to avoid
useless carnage and wished also to
show deference to the advice of the
powers, although Europe had been un
fair toward Turkey.
I IDAHO^NEWS NOTES |
A determined effort to finish the
second trial at Coeur d'Alene City of
B. P. O'Neil, the Walalce banker, this
week will be made by both prosecu
tion and defense.
With the ending of January the
town of Wallace completed a snow rec
ord for itself which, in the opinion of
the oldest residents, has never been
exceeded. The total for the month is
placed at near nine feet.
Dr. W. L. Carlyle, director of the
Idaho experiment stations and dean of
the college of agriculture of the Uni
versity of Idaho, has been elected act
ing president of the university by re
gents to succeed President James A.
MacLean, who resigned the presidency
to accept a similar position at the head
of the University of Manitoba at Win
nipeg, Canada.
REORGANIZATION OF U. S. ARMY
Three Infantry and One Cavalry Divi
sion Created—Will Put Troops in
Better Shape for War.
Washington.—Provision for the tac
tical organization of the United States
army into three infantry divisions and
one cavalry division is made in a re
cent order issued by direction of Pres
ident Taft and made public by Secre
tary of War Stimson. This plan of
reorganization becomes effective Feb
ruary 15, and includes the entire mo
bile army within the continental lim
its of the United States. Hitherto
there ahs been no tactical army or
ganization higher than a regiment.
There have been no brigades or divi
sions existing in time of peace.
J. V. WELCH, CONTRACTOR, DEAD
Had Helped Build Many Railroads in
Northwest.
. Winnipeg, Manitoba.—James V
Welch, a well-known railroad contrac
tor, who assisted in building many
railroads in Oregon, ' Washington,
southern British Columbia and west
ern Canada, died Sunday at Port Ar
thur, Ont., on which district he had a
contract to build a portion of the Cana
dian Northern line east to Sudbury.
He was 52 years old.
President's Term Six Years.
Washington.—An amendment to the
constitution which would restrict the
president to a single term of six years,
and would bar Woodrow Wilson, Theo
dore Roosevelt and William H. Taft
from again seeking election, was ap
proved Saturday by the senate by the
■arrow margin of one vote.
[ MINES AND MINERS
The German Mountain group neat
Ainsworth, B. C., has been bought by
Arthur Wheeler, son of Captain Wheel
er of Victoria, from Charles Khun.
John Tinsley, a young miner, and a
husband of but a few weeks, was fa
tally injured near Wallace when he
attempted to board a freight train.
Since other ore treating concerns
have entered the Coeur d'Alene field
in competition with the Guggenheim
interests the smelting rates have been
reduced approximately $0 a ton.
Fee owners of the Norman mine
near Virginia, Minn., have settled and
withdrawn the $1,000,000 suit for dam
ages which they brought in the dis
trict court several mouths ago against
the Oliver Iron Mining company.
The San Poil Consolidated Co., at
Republic, are making improvements
on their mill which will raise the
capacity to 100 tons daily. The mill
is now handling 60 to 70 tons of gold
bearing ore daily. About $3,000 worth
of gold is melted weekly.
Through the operation of the "com
panies' act" 2000 companies, in many
of which are stockholders from this
side, have been denied the right to
transact business in British Columbia
and will have to be reincoiported at a
cost to each of the companies affected
of $5000.
Rumors are current in the Coeur
d'Alene region that the Fedeial Mining
company is endeavoring to secure con
trol of all the mining claims between
the Morning and the Frisco ground,
with the intention of continuing the
Morning main tunnel, now into the
mountain two and a half miles from
Mullan, through to Canyon creek by
connecting with the Frisco under
ground.
Large figures, some of them clean
record-breakers, have been attained in
the mineral output of the United
States for 1912, according to the spe
cialists of the United States geological
survey. The figures of coal produc
tion are the most sensational, all pre
vious records having been surpassed
by about 50,000,000 tons, an increase
equal to the total production of the
country 40 years ago. The production
for 1911 was 496,221,168 short tons;
the estimate for 1912 is 550,000,000
tons, and the final figures may even
reach a still higher mark.
The production of copper was also
the largest in the history of the in
dustry. The output of blister and
Lake copper was 1,249,000,000 pounds
in 1912, compared with 1,097,232,749
pounds in 1911, the respective values
being nearly $200,000,000 and $137,
154,092. The production of refined
copper is estimated at 1,560,000,000
pounds in 1912.
Alaska's mineral output in 1912 is
estimated at $21,850,000 in value, an
increase of $1,200,000 over the figure
for 1911. Of the total for 1912 the
gold production was valued at $16,
650,000. The total value of Alaska's
mineral production since 1880, when
mining began in the terriotry, is
stated in round numbers at $229,000,
000, of which $202,000,000 is represent
ed by the value of the gold output.
That is the country the United
States bought for $7,000,000. It pro
duced a strong protest at the time,
but William H. Seward carried the
transaction through against all odds.
The United States continued to lead
the world in petroleum production in
1912—in fact, produced more than all
the rest of the world—and is estimat
ed to have about maintained the tre
mendous record of 220,449,391 barrels
made in 1911. The geological sur
vey's estimate for 1912 is 220,200,000
barrels. The estimated value of the
1912 output, however, is much greater
than that of 1911, the figures being
$150,000,000, against $134,144,752.
York.
New York.
Copper—Steady; standard spot and
January, $15 bid; electrolytic, $16.50;
lake, [email protected]; castings, $16®
16.25.
Tin—Weak; spot, January, $50®
50.40.
Lead—Firm, [email protected].
Spelter—Easy, [email protected].
Antimony—Dull; Cookson's $9.75.
Copper arrivals, 2040 tons; exports
this month, 22,471 tons.
Bar silver, 62c; Mexican dollars,
48%c.
National Chamber of Commerce.
There are three great elements in
our national life which have much to
do with its future development—com
merce, labor and agriculture. There
are more than 2,000,000 of union work
ers engaged in the industries of our
country, and they are a cohesive body.
From their local groups to their state
and their national organizations, they
speak with a common voice of those
things which they desire as being ben
eficial to labor. It is equally true of
the agricultural interests. They are
formed likewise into their local and
up to their national groups until they
also have a voice which, both in our
state legislatures and in the national
congress, is heard and obeyed, be
cause of the cohesive force that these
elemets have brought into our na
tional life.
In the past ten years chambers of
commerce and boards of trade have
been formed in cities large and small
over the length and bredth of this
land, yet they have never operated ex
cept as independent units. Here and
there they have recently gathered
themselves together in state organiza
tions, but for the most part these or
ganizations, speaking to their state
legislatures or to the national con
gress, have been able to speak with
the individual voice of a section or
community or a single business in
terest. Is there any wonder that leg
islation has been enacted helpful to
labor and to agriculture, while the
commercial interests, organized as in
dividual units, have been almost dis
regarded?
GRIDIRON BANQUET
CLUB'S ANNUAL WINTER AFFAIR
BROUGHT FORTH MANY .
NEW "STUNTS."
PRESIDENT TAFT GETS GOLD PRESENT
As Token of Friendship From the Club
—Many Notables Werg Portrayed
During the Evening — There
Was Large Attendance.
Washington.—President-elect Wilson.
President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt,
William Jennings Bryan, Rip Van Win
kle and a lot other notables were por
trayed to the Gridiron club and its
guests Saturday night at the annual
winter dinner when many men of na
tional size sat at the banquet board
and saw themselves frolicking about
to their own amusement.
The dinner took the form of one
graceful tribute to President Taft and
another to President-elect Wilson.
An incident to the drinking of the
single toast of the anuual dinner—the
president of the United States—was
the bestowal upon President Taft of
the large gold gridiron, bearing this
inscription: "To William Howard Taft,
president of the United States, as a
token of friendship from the Gridiron
club of Washington, February 1, 1913."
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N. P. TO SHORTEN LINE
Many Changes Proposed in Washington
State.
Extensive building of new first track
line on the Northern Pacific system in
the state of Washington during the
year is contemplated and under way
according to projections shown on
company maps filed at Olympia recent
ly.
The main branch announced is the
Ritzville-Ellensburg cutoff of 100 miles
whereby transcontinental trains will be
routed directly across the central part
of the state instead of detouring to the
south.
Another line which will be built this i
year is the extension from Kelso on j
the Columbia river through Brook
field, Oneida and Nema to Willapa har
bor and north to Grays Harbor.
The third extension is that of the
Sunnyside branch from Grandview to
a connection with the main line at
Gibbon.
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KILLED BY TRAINS AT BUTTE
Pioneer Policeman and Lamplighter
Victims at Butte.
Butte, Mont.—Jess Otto, a pioneer j
policeman of Butte, and William Bell,
lamplighter for the Butte, Anaconda
and Pacific railroad, Sunday were
killed by trains. Officer Otto was
struck by a Northern Pacific train as
he was walking down the track, and it
is believed he became confused as to
what track the train was using.
Bell was attempting to remove a ve
locipede from the rails when he was
struck.
BANDIT GOT $89,000 PLUNDER
—
Bold Train Robbery in City of Chicago
Results in Big Loss.
Chicago.—The bandit who robbed
the stockyards special of the Pennsyl
vania railroad Saturday obtained $80,
000 in checks and $9000 in currency.
The express company transporting the
checks and money had told the police
that $1500 was the amount stolen.
Largest Building in World.
What will be the largest building in
the world is to be constructed in New
York on the site held by the Equitable
building, which burned a year ago.
The new structure will be 37 stories
high, occupy an entire block, and cost
about $14,000,000. There will be 46
public passenger elevators, and any
concern occupying two or more floors
may have its own private elevator.
Font of Youth—the Potato.
Prof. Elie Metchnikoff, of Paris,
apotheosized buttermilk as the font of
perpetuated youth and pointed to Bul
garia. Dr. J. H. Kellogg, famous or
iginator of breakfast foods and health
regimens, apotheosizes the potato as
the true enemy of old age and points
to Ireland, says Park & Tilford Quar
terly.
A prejudice against starchy foods
has caused science to disparage the
potato unjustly, according to Dr. Kel
logg, who insists that the popular
predilection for the vegetable is a
trustworthy index of its merit. The
starch of the potato has much greater
dietary value than the starch of ce
reals or arrowroot, he says, being
more easily digested. That the pota
to is not a perfect food owing to its
fat unit deficiency is conceded; never
theless its qualities as an old age pre
ventive are established by reasoning
as follows:
It contains just below the skin a
greater percentage of certain alkaline
salts than any other vegetable used
as food by civilized folk. These salts
check tendencies toward a lowered al
kalinity of the blood caused by meats.
Lowered alkalinity is the chief cause
of gout, rheumatism, Bright's disease,
and especially that hardening of the
arteries which is old age's distinctive
sign. "The proportion of centen
arians in Ireland is more than ten
times as great as that of England,"
says the doctor. "There can be no
doubt that the free use of potatoes
by the Irish is In a large measure re
sponsible for the remarkable longev
ity of this nation."
Electrocution has been substituted
for hanging hi Vermont
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MARKET REPORTS
Dispatches concerning other quota
tions, conditions and phases are as
follows:
Chicago.
Butter—Steady; creameries, 24®
34c.
Eggs—Easier; at mark, including
cases, 19@2lc; refrigerator firsts, 1G
@16%c; firsts, 22%c.
Cattle—Market, steady; beeves,
[email protected]; Texas steers, [email protected];
western steers, $6.50®7.30; Stockers
and feeders, [email protected]; cows and
heifers, [email protected]; calves, $6.30®'
10.25.
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Hogs—Market fairly active. Light,
[email protected]; mixed, [email protected]; heavy,
[email protected]; rough, [email protected]; pigs,
$6®7.40; bulk of sales, [email protected].
Sheep—Native, $4.50® 5.85; west
ern, [email protected] ; yearlings, $6.25®
7.60; lambs, native, [email protected]; west
ern, [email protected].
Portland.
Wheat—Track prices: Club, 85®
8%c; bluestem, 95@96c; fortyfold,
87c.
Butter—City and country creamery
extras, solid pack, 37%c.
Portland Union Stock Yards Co. re
ports receipts for the week: Cattle,
1,747; calves, 30; hogs, 3,887; sheep,
3,611; horses, 48.
The cattle market is steady to firm
in all lines. A third of the week's re
ceipts was contracted stuff from Cali
fornia and Utah points, leaving an in
adequate layout for the buyers and
bulk of beef offerings were only fair
to medium quality. Beef famine still
acute, with prime stock at a premium.
Best steers sold steady at $8; cows,
$6.75@7; heifers, [email protected]; veal
market was strong at $9 for choice
light calves; bulls and stags steady.
An "up and down" hog market in
fluenced by size of receipts. Demand
for swine broadens towards the week
end. Monday's run of 2,742 head
broke all former records for a single
day and lowered prices a dime. Re
action set in after Tuesday and top
grade were selling freely at $7.50®
7.75 Thursday.
Sheep house business was limited
only by the size of receipts. Mutton
values had a strong upward tendency
as the week advanced. Prime wethers
sold $6.25 to $6.50, and ewes, $5.50, a
quarter over former prices |. The lamb
market is steady to strong, [email protected],
with demand far exceeding supply.
Available Grain Supplies.
Special cable and telegraphic com
munications received by Bradstreet's
show the following changes in avail
able supplies, as compared with pre
vious account:
Wheat, United States east of the
Rockies, decreased 1,352,000.
United States west of Rockies, de
creased 951,000.
Canada decreased 524,000.
Total United States and Canada de
creased 2,887,000.
Afloat for and in Europe increased
1,800,000.
Total American and European de
creased 1,807,000.
Oats, United States and Canada in
creased 253,000.
SPOKANE WEEKLY LETTER.
Provisions.
Butter—With the exception of quo
tations on ranch butter, which has
taken a slight decline, the market re
mains unchanged and firm. The de
cline in ranch butter is due to a good
amount of local produce coming in.
Eggs—With the exception of a de
cline in eastern storage eggs the mar
ket remains unchanged. Local deal
ers, however, expect a break in the
market as soon as weather conditions
relax. At New York the market was
weaker and the movement fair. At
Chicago the situation was somewhat
unsettled but seemed firmer.
Poultry — Quotations remain un
changed. The market, however, is
weak and dealers expect a drop as
: soon as the snow disappears. At pres
ent the snow is retarding farmers in
! marketing their produce.
I Fresh Meats—The market in gen
| eral continues strong. Steer beef and
; cow beef have taken an advance and
there are prospects for still higher
I prices on account of many cattle and
[ sheep having to be fed until the snow
' leaves. According to buyers in Lewis
1 ton there is less stock in the North
west now than in many years. Quo
tations on live cows and sheep have
I also advanced.
I Lard and Cured Meats—Quotations
I on both eastern and local products re
I main unchanged. The market, how
! ever, on all lines is firm, due to short
age of supplies. Dealers predict an
I advance.
Hides and Wool—Although there
has been no change in quotation the
! market is weak and a decline can be
! expected at any time. Prospects of a
1 tariff reduction are tending to depress
wool quotations.
Fruits and Vegetables.
} Apples—No improvement is noticed
! in the situation. Quotations still re
j main at the same level and there are
at present no prospects of an ad
vance. At New York the market was
firm and the movement good. Some
j dealers have predicted that the turn
I ing point in the apple situation there
j had been reached and expect that
! from now on the market will be good.
Oranges—Navels have taken a
slight decline during the week and are
now quoted at from $3.50 to $4.00.
Other Fruits—Quotations on other
fruits remain the same, with prices
J steady and a normal volume of busi
} ness being done.
Potatoes—No change is reported in
the local situation. What business is
being done is confined mostly to ped
lers and farmers. Quotations are un
changed. Reports from Chicago state
that the market was inactive, with
prices steady. At New York the mar
ket was strong, but very few pota
toes were moving on account of a
strike on the Bangor & Aroostock
railroad.
Onions—Onions are getting scarce
and both the local and the California
products have taken an advance.
Celery—Owing to the frost and
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At
snow very little celery can be gath
ered from the ground and brought to
market; this has caused an advance
in prices.
Other Prices—With the exception
of quotations on cabbage, head lettuce
and cauliflower, which have all ad
vanced, other quotations remain un
changed with market steady.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat—During the fore part of the
week wheat was changing hands quite
freely and prices continued to go up
until Red Russian was quoted in the
country at 73% in sacks; Club at
74%, and Bluestem at 84%. The mar
ket at present is uncertain. Wheat
is now at such a high mark that it
has caused a depression in buying ac
tivities and a decline can be expected.
Flour—The market took another ad
vance during the week in sympathy
with the wheat situation.
Feed—Quotations on hay have tak
en a further advance this week, due
to the difficulty with which farmers
bring their produce to market on ac
count of the heavy snow. Baling is
also difficult under the present wet
conditions. Prices on barley and bran
have also advanced in sympathy with
the wheat situation. The probability
is that these products have reached
their top price.
Use the Parcel Post.
Since the inauguration of the par
cel post, mail-order business is every
where springing Into existence. En
terprising houses, both large and
small, are experimenting with the new
scheme. Wide-awake farmers of the
East are soliciting the patronage of
urban people, and are arranging to
have orders for eggs, butter and other
ranch products sent in over the tele
phone daily. These will be filled im
mediately by parcel post. Department
stores in all the largo cities of the
United States are beginning to estab
lish mail-order departments. Big
Eastern catalog houses are contem
plating the establishment of branch
offices in various parts of the United
States, including Spokane and other
northwestern points.
The advantage to these big institu
tions in doing this lies in the cheaper
transportation obtained by sending
their goods by freight to these branch
houses, which will be then distrib
uting centers, and in the lower parcel
post rate due to being in a smaller
zone with the consumer. Then, too,
goods will be delivered to patrons in
a shorter time after the receipt of
their orders than would be possible
by sending all the way to Chicago.
In the face of all these things it is
imperative that you country mer
chants revolutionize your own meth
ods of doing business. Meet the cata
log trespassers at his own game: es
tablish a small mail-order department
in your own store. It can be done.
Partition off a small part of the back
of your store and place some one in
charge. Then go after business. You
can reach a great many of the rural
residents by telephone, and you can
also communicate with them by let
ters, circulars and advertisements.
If these medium do not prove effec
tive get out and see them yourself.
In fact, the more time you can devote
to calling on your patrons, the better
it will be for business. In this phase
of the contest you have a distinct ad
vantage over your big eastern com
petitor: he cannot possibly come in
contact with all of the customers in
your field. And hanging in the bal
ance before the eye of the consumer a
cold combination of words and figures
will be forced sky high by a living, re
will be forced sky high by a living, re
sponsive personality.
Summing it all up, the catalog
houses cannot compete with the wide
awake country merchant. There are
too many things operating in favor of
the latter. He has the advantage of
position, of personal supervision, of
direct knowledge of his people and
their needs. What the dealer has to
do, though, is to educate the people;
to show them that his goods are of
superior quality; that he stands back
of them and is ready to make good
any defect that may creep in, and that
by utilizing the telephone and the
parcel post his patrons can get quick
er, more efficient service than can be
had at the hands of the foreign con
cerns. Get busy!
APPROVE THE INCOME TAX
Ratification of Constitutional Amend
ment Expected.
Washington.—Ratification of the in
come tax by the necessary three
fourths of the states in the Union will
be accomplished this week, favorable
action by only one more state being
necessary to make possible the amend
ment which will become the sixteenth
of the constitution of the United
States.
Either New Jersey or New Mexico,
it seems probable tonight, will join the
ratification column before the end of
the week, the New Jersey assembly
and the New Mexico senate having al
ready taken favorable action on the
proposal as adopted by congress.
PICTURE SHOW FIRE
Terrible Panic in New York City
Takes Lives of Two.
New York.—A boy's cry of "fire"
and the smoke from an exploded reel
of a motion picture machine in an.
East Side theater resulted Sunday
night in a panic among the audience
of 4000 persons and a rush for the
exits in which two women were killed
and 11 other persons were so badly
injured that they had to be sent to
hospitals.
Rev. Dr. Daniel W. Fisher, father of
Secretary lusher of the interior de
partment, is dead.
IDAHO NEWS NOTES |
Frank E. Parkyn, a prominent busi
ness man of Lewiston, is dead.
Good roads committees have bee»
appointed at Lapwai to push the work
of improving the highways.
The Peck Farmers' union, through
their manager, Mr. Teats, has placed
an order for 75,000 grain bags.
Not over 15 per cent of the wheat in
the Lewiston, Clearwater and Camas
Prairie districts stiil remains in th«
farmers' hands, according to grain
dealers'' figures.
Billy Powell, formerly of Spirit
Lake, and associates have purchased
a line of lumber yards in and around*
Butte. Montana. The deal involved!
the expenditure of $60,000.
The soliciting committee which in
now at work securing the balance o)f
$60,000 for the Johnson railroad re
ports that it is meeting with a heart'y
response from the citizens.
The Coeur d'Alene city council now
permits the opening of the motion pic
ture theaters on Sundays. The pro
prietors will pay a license of $25 s*.
year which will allow them to reniai»
open seven days a week.
Governor Haines has appointed the»
state horticultural inspection board as
follows: Robert Schleicher, Lewiston:;
B. F. Hurst, Boise; D. L. Ingard, Pay
ette; John D. C. Kruger, St. Anthony;
Henry W. Dorman, Caldwell.
Jay Kerlee, aged 20, of Orangeville-,
is dead and his brother Dee, aged 18„
is seriously ill, caused by strychnine,
supposed to have been mixed in a.
package of wheat flakes, some off
which was eaten by the boys for break
fast January 31.
James A. Murray, owner of the Poca
tello Water company and multi-mil
lionaire of Butte has been cited to ap
pear before the supreme court of Idaho
to show cause why he should not be*
found guilty of contempt of court for
failure to obey the mandates of the»
highest tribunal of that state.
A large number of settlers on the.»
public domain and a smaller number'
of settlers within the Coeur d'Alene»
National forest will have an oppor
tunity March 10 to file on lands withim
the Coeur d'Alene land district, the»
plats of survey of which will be filed:
in the Coeur d'Alene land office on»
that date.
The final chapter in the famous
newspaper contempt case of Boise, irw
which the supreme court of Idaho was
accuser, judge and jury in the trial oS.
Richard Storey Sheridan, C. O. Broxonr
and A. R. Cruzen, was closed February'
1 when the newspaper men paid their
fines , of $500 each, assessed by the»
court, with 178,300 penny donations re
ceived from every state in the Union»'
and many parts of Canada. The de
fendants also served 10 days in jail.
They were found guilty of contempt
for criticizing the court's decision in
striking the Roosevelt electors fronts»»
the general election ballot.
The State Legislature.
The State Legislature.
The Fields anti-gambling measure
designed to abolish the Alan race
track, will be favorably reported bv/
the senate committee.
Thomas H. Goodin and Walter A..
Heiss have been appointed county com
missioners for Lincoln county to filS
vacancies caused by the county divi
sion.
The senate has postponed action pro
viding for submitting to the voters a
constitutional amendment to increase
the number of supreme court judges
from three to five, which passed the
house and was favored by the gov
ernor.
Representative Lawson of Ada cou®
ty has intioduced a mothers' pension,
bill. It provides that the pension shalk
apply to mothers whose husbands are
dead or in the penitentiary and who
have children not over 14 years of age.
The pension is $10 a month for the
first child and $5 a month for eacW
additional child.
The governor has appointed the fol
lowing officers of new Gooding coun
ty: County commissioners, Frank R..
Gooding, Fred W. Hastings and Charles.
M. Dilatush; sheriff, Fred A. Bliss;
clerk, Frank L. Bower; assessor, W. P.
Kennedy; county treasurer, Fred A.
Clark; coroner, J. H. Cromwell; sur
veyor, E. S. Smith; probate judge,.
Ezra E. Brandt; county school superin
tendent, Mrs. Louise M. Dodge; prose
cuting attorney, Percy T. Sutphirx.
It is reported considerable pressune
is being brought to bear agatnsfi the
appointment of Dwight E. Hodge' as
judge of the new judicial district of
Nez Perce and Lewis counties, provid
ing the bill for making two districts
out of the present district passes.
Radical departures in assessment
taxation and the collection of taxe»
are made in the new revenue law fo«
this state, which has been reported
by the state tax agents and which hass
been adopted by Governor Haines aes
the administration meature. The mea/
sure is strictly an original revenue
law, patterned after no other state. It
was prepared by A. P. Ramstedt off
Moscow, James A. Purtill of Mountains
Home and John D. Robertson off
Weiser, who were employed by the
state for this work.
"Men's Trousers" Her Right..
Chicago.—Dr. Mary Walker of Wash
ington, suffragette and woman's right
agitator, was arrested Saturday by ai
policeman because she was dressed rai
masculine clothing, which she.- da»
worn for many years. In the jjaiiose
station Dr. Walker exhibited s«nnie-
sion, said to be from the Unites! Rate*»
congress, for her to wear "nsesi* troev
sers." She was allowed to départ, ÿtm
charge was entered against *»»»