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THE WORLD OVER
IWPOSTANT news of both
hemispheres boiled down
to last analysis.
ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING
Brief Note* Covering Happening* In
Thl* Country and Abroad That
Ar* of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.
Wilson Takes Up More Work.
WASHINGTON—Woodrow Wilson's
first appearance thin week at his law
offices hero was taken by his friends
as evidence of the former president's
improving iphysical condition.
Store Stops Bobbed Hair.
NEW ORliBANS.—Bobbed hair, lace
stockings, rolled down stockings,
short skirts, lattice work sweaters and
makeup were Included in the prohibi
tion and restrictions placed on the
girl employes of the city's largest
department stores here.
Suquamish Indiana IPow Wow,
&EATTL0. —'A ceremonial flag-rais
ing, clam-bake and the Tahmanawus
war dance featured the annual pow
wow of Suquamish Indians a/t the
Port Madison reservation, near here
Saturday in honor of Chief Seattle,
famous member of the tribe for whom
this city was named. The city and
societies of the state were represent
ed at the exercises.
Soldier*' Bonu*.
Fourteen states are already paying
cash bonuses, eight others will do so
if the people approve by referendum
vote, and bonus legislation is pend
ing in two more. Only eight states
have considered, but failed to pass, a
law of thlB kind. The total amount
of money voted for cash bonuses so
far is more than $184,000,000.
Number of Idle Reduced.
WASHINGTON.—Increases in the
number of persons employed in July
over the number employed in June
were shown in eight out of 14 indus
tries, for which the labor department
publishes figures. The greatest de
crease was shown in the number em
ployed in 118 iron and steel factories,
which in July had on their payrolls
100,778 persons, as against 115,411 in
June, a ddecrease of 12.7 per cent.
Hosiery and underwear factories cut
their forces from 27,628 in June to
26,677 in July.
Half Shaved by Lightning.
BOZEMAN, Mont.—Lightning has
done some freakish things, but teve
O'Donnell, one of the best-known
ranchers in the Gallatin valley, de
clares that the bolt which came his
way recently has the record. It
struck the hayrack on which he was
riding and shaved all hair off the
right side of his head as clean as a
razor would have done but left the
hair on the left side untouched. The
fleBh was only slightly burned. Mr.
O'Donnell was «tunned, but recovered
consciousness and hurried to the
house, where his injures were attend
ed to.
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Lumbar R. R. Rat** Upheld.
W1ASHINGTON.—Rates charged by
the railroads on lumber and other
forest products in carloads shipped
* from points in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana -to St. Paul, Min
neapolis and Minnesota and there re
shipped to other points, were found
not unreasonable by the interstate
commerce commission in a recent de
cision.
Japan Accepts Invitation. <
WASHINGTON.—Japan's "hearty
and appreciative acceptance" of Pres
ident IHarding'a invitation to .par
ticipate in the Washington disarm
ament and far eastern conference
Nov. 11 was expressed in a note re
ceived at the state department re
cently from the Japanese minister of
foreign affairs.
Montana Leads in Hospitals.
MILES. CITY, Mont.—Montana, with
seven deaconess hospitals erected by
the Methodist Episcopal church, leads
the United States in the number of
Institutions erected to the sick.
Marshal Foch of France will visit
America during national Legion con
vention at Kansas City.
SEEK DISARMAMENT VIEWS
U. S. Unwilling to Frame Confer
ence Without Discussion.
WASHINGTON.—Although nego
tiations to define the scope of the
disarmament conference have not
yet reached a formal stage, it is
understood preliminary steps to
obtain he views of the other pow
ers as to what subjects they be
lieve should come before the con
ference have been taken.
The state department, it is un
derstood, has been unwilling to be
placed in the position of taking the
lead in framing the
agenda, preferring informal conser
and the other foreign offices
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through their representatives
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OVER 45 MEN LOSE
LIVES IN AIR FIRE
ENTIRE U. S. NAVY CREW, BUT
ONE, LOST IN BRITISH GIANT
DIRIGIBLE DI8A8TER.
CRAFT BLOWN APART IN CENTER
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Hull, England, Crowd* Stand Aghast
aa Wreckage Smothers Trapped
Men In River—Exact Cause
May Never Be Known. •
HULL, England—Sixteen officers
and men of the United States navy
and 27 officers and men of the British
navy met death August 24 in the
collapse of the great dirigible ZR-2,
over the city of Hull.
All but one of the Americans on
board the ill-fated craft perished.
Only five men of the 49 who were
making the trial trip In the dirigible
prior to the vessel being turned over
to the United States navy are known
to have been saved.
The American officers who started
the trip included Commander Louis H.
Maxfield, Washington, D. C.; Lieu
tenant Commander Emory Coil, Mar
ietta, Ohio; Lieutenant Henry W.
Hoyt, Clearwater, Fla.; Lieutenant
Marcus H. Esterly, Washington, D. C.;
Lieutenant Commander Valentine N.
Bieg, Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Lieuten
ant Charles G. Little, Newburyport,
Mass.
The American enlisted men who
went up with the craft from Howden
were C. I. Aller, Denver, Col.; Robert
Coons, Owensboro, Ky.; L. E. Crowel,
South Carolina; J. T. Hancock, Lon
don, England; William Julius, St.
Ixjuis; Maurice Lay, Greensboro, N.
C.; A. I,. Loftln, St. Louis; A. J.
Pettit, New* York; W. J. Steele, Bain
bridge, Ind.; George Welch, Elgin, 111.
The British losses Include the fa
mous air veteran, Brigadier General
E. M. Maitland, and all the other
officers on hoard except Lieutenant
Wann, the commander of the ZR-2.
8hip Aloft 34 Hour*.
Starting from Howden on a test
flight to Pulliam, the big aircraft had
been afloat for 34 hours, at times in
bad weather, and was returning to the
Pulbarn airdrome t the time of the
disaster, which constitutes the most
terrible of its kind in peace times.
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The geuticuiau in the high liât, who
looks like Raymond Hitchcock, really
Is one of the most famous of British
flghters—Admiral Earl Beatty,
and his friend Major Courage
snapped at the international polo
matches.
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Mad* Dictionary of Surnames.
Henry Harrison, an English author,
who died recently, spent 80 yean com
piling a dictionary of surnames of the
United Kingdom.
mous R-34, the first dirigible to cross
the Atlantic, was on her final test
trip prior to being accepted by the
United States navy and taken across
the Atlantic by an American crew
especially trained for that purpose.
She was 695 feet long and was built
to carry a crew of 30. Her speed
was estimated at 70 miles an hour.
The American navy was "to pay $2,
000,000 for the craft.
Buckle* Amidships.
While flying at about 1,000 feet
over Hull, spectators saw the ZR-2
seemingly buckle amidships and
plunge downward over the city and
into the Humber river.
One theory of the cause of the dis
aster is that while the ship's rudders
were being tested the giant craft
took a sharp turn, which oaused her
framework to 'buckle and that the ex
plosion of a gasoline tank completed
the tragedy of the air. The actual
cause, however, may never be known.
Tens of thousands of spectators
saw several men climb outside the !
balloon and drop from the falling '
mass, which was enveloped in smoke, I
and others jump into the Humber as
the crippled craft came over the wa
ter. As the dirigible struck, the ' ker
wreckage above water _ was burning
and there was slight chance for any of
of the men caught inside to escape, the
Tugs immediately put out into the
stream and brought ashore the sur
vivors, who were taken in ambulances
to hospitals.
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One American Escape*.
Norman O. Walker, a rigger, was
the only American to escape when
the ZR-2 was destroyed.
LONDON. All England, profoundly >
stirred by the destruction of the tion
giant dirigible ZR-2, is giving ex
pression to its deep feeling of mourn
ing for the victims and sympathy
for those bereaved.
Sorrow Over England.
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Warship to Bring Bodies Back.
WASHINGTON.—The state depari
ment has accepted the English gov
ernment" offer to return to the United
States on a British warship the bodies
of all American dead recovered from
the wreck of the airship ZR-2.
Cost U. 8. a Million.
The United States government will
lose $1,000,000 through the destruc
tion of the dirigible ZR-2 under terms
of an agreement entered Into with
the [British government.
The
agreement provided "that In
the event of the total loss of this air
ship (ZR-2) while under construction the
or during trials the two governments and
would jointly bear he loss on an equal
basis."
The United States has paid $1,500,
000 to the British government on the
contract cost of $2,000,000 for the
ZR-2, the statement added,
ingly the British
turn back $500,000 to the United Ing
States.
Accord- ;
government will long
TRAIN THROUGH BRIDGE
to
man
Two Killed, More Than 50 Injured,
When Span Breaks at
Gale, Col.
GRAND JUNCTION, Col.-—Douglas'
Armstrong, engineer, Grand Junction, 1 high
and William Redfern, 52, La Havre, |
Cal., a passenger, were killed and
than 50 injured recently when pian
a Denver & Rio Grande Western jg
passenger train plunged through a
bridge into a creek at Gale, Cel.,
near here.
more
The wreck was due to a tlon
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washout which had damaged
bridge.
Signs Grain Control Bill.
WASHINGTON.—The
Capper-Tln
cher bill for regulating trading on
grain exchanges was signed recently
by President Harding. The bill im
poses a prohibitive tax upon "puts
and calls" and other speculative trans
actions, and upon all grain exchanges
which do not become "contract mar
kets." Exchanges and their individ
ual members are required to report
fully to the secretary of agriculture
on all transactions they handle. Cer
tain exemptions from regulations of
the act are granted to co-operative
sociatlons.
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CHAIRMAN LASKER SAYS MAIL
LINE FLEECED IMMIGRANTS
OF $1,200,000.
feet
and
and
GET BOATS BACK FOR AWHILE
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as 111.2°°,000 obtained from immigrants
were made Monday by Chairman Las
the ' ker of the shipping board after the
government had regained possession
of nine ships originally chartered gy
the company.
Nine Former German Steamers Are
to Be Operated Under Committee
—To Keep .Flag On Sea—
To Protect Innocent.
NEW YORK.—Charges that the
United States Mail ßtemship com
pany had diverted through prior uses
Mr. Lasker announced that, with
the vessels restored to the board by
court order, they will be operated
by a special committee .until the
heard decides whether to sell or
charter them to another company.
Wa* Advance Money.
He declared that the $1,200,000 rep
resented advance money collected
from immigrants for passage, hotel
> expenses, railroad fares and Jmmlgra
tion head taxes, and that decision
temporarily to operate the vessels as
a .patriotic service was reached be
cause "the government feels that it
could not permit fraud and hardships
to be worked on thousands of immi
grants."
Diversion of the funds, he asserted
was an "unconscionable act."
The fight for possession of the nine
vessels has been in progress since
they were seized by the board last
month on the ground of nonpayment
of rental.
The committee which wili operate
the vessels comprises W. Averill
Harriman, Kermit Roosevelt and A.
V. Moore, who will serve without
compensation,
statement, declared that the board
had started its action "to maintain
of
is
Mr. Lasker, in his
In
the American flag Hying on the seas
and to protect innocent immigrants
vvho were being fleeced."
Keep U. S. Flag On Seat.
Ing and able to operate
"No so-called 'alien shipping' in
terests will be permitted to drive the
; American flag from the seas—not so
long as American citizens are will
American
ships for Americans," Mr. Lasker
added.
The nine vessels ordered returned
to the government are former Ger
man liners.
Grammar n High Schols.
OLYMPIA.
Radical revision of
English courses in elementary and
1 high schools of Washington
| nounced by the state department of
public instruction.
pian teaching of technical grammar
jg transferred from elementary to high
a schools. It will be confined to the
necessities of the student's composi
is an
under the new
a tlon work, but correctness of habitual
speech and writing will be an import
ï ant factor in promotion.
Forbe* Come* West.
Colonel Charles
R. Forbes, director of the veterans'
bureau, left on September 1 for the
Pacific coast, spending two days each
In Spokane, Seattle and Portland, in
specting local offices of the bureau
and gathering views 'of the veterans
on questions of soldier relief admin
istration.
WASHINGTON.
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Action in Malabar, British India.
MADRAS, India.—Ttoe Malabar dis
trict of IBrltlsh India bas been pro
claimed a military area.
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happening* In Thl* State
Given in Brief Item« for
Bu*y Reader*.
Grangeville Pioneer Woman Oies.
GRANGE VILLiK.—M rs
Smith, a. pioneer, use 72. died reeent
Krautes
J.
ir.
Mr*. Byron Defenbach Dies.
-.Mrs. Susie Wise Def
enbacli, age 51, wife of Byron Def
enbach. died Saturday after an illness
of several weeks.
Buys Land Near Culdesac.
OULDESAC
LEWISTON.
All
Peter Johann has pur
chased from Gee Phinney 40
adjoining Culdesac on the north for
$14,000.
acres
New Ore in Morning Mine.
MULLAN.—The Morning mine of
the Federal Mining
company is the scene of an ore strike
of importance to its owners and the
district.
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in
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Fair Buildings Finished.
LEWISTON.—Workmen at the Lew
iston-Clarkston tri-state fairgrounds
have completed erecting the grand
stand and other new buildings for
the big fall show.
the
Vote $20.000 Street Bonds.
COTTONWOOD—At
village
election recently the street improve
ment bonds carried, 102 to 47. The
proposed issue is for $20.000 for gen
eral street improvements.
the
Drove Auto Into River.
BOISE.—Deliberately driving
an au
tomobile in which he was a prisoner
into the Snake river near Caldwell
Saturday night John McGee, former
Utah penitentiary ronvict,
from Sheriff Kinney.
escaped
File* 20 Oil Leases.
D ALENE. —Twenty
leases were filed recently with the
county recorder on lands on Rath
drum prairie, between Rathdrum and
Post Falls, by E. T. Caldwell of Grey
bull, Wyo., an oil man.
COEUR
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Car Shops Closed.
SPIRIT LAKE.—The Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railway shops here
closed from August 27 to September
7, affecting over 100 workmen. This
suspension is caused by lack of funds
with which to maintain the shops.
Mercantile Firm Closing Out.
CRAIGMONT.—The Stevens Mer
cantile Company, operating stores at
Craigmont, Winchester, Westlake and
Ferdinand, has decided to quit busi
ness and close out the stocks, valued
at $125,000, and will re-establish at
some other point under one roof.
Mysterious Disappearance.
LEWISTON.—Mystery surrounding
the disappearance from Seattle
August 12 of Walter E. Daggett, form
erly of this place, and pioneer of
this region, was cleared recently by
identification of his body in a morgue
at Bellingham, Wash. He killed him
self by shooting.
Raises Alfalfa Quarrantine.
BOISE.—In a proclamation the gov
ernor of Montana raises the alfalfa
quarantine in seven counties in Ida
ho. The counties are Lemhi, Latah,
Benewah, Shoshone, Kootenai, Bon
ner and Boundary. They were form
erly, with the rest of the state, not
allowed to ship alfalfa into Montana,
due to the alfalfa weevil.
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Strike at Kellogg,
KELLOGG.—Six feet of milling ore
has been struck on the Hilarity mine
of the Pine Creek Mining Company,
on Pine creek. The ore is a clean
galena and while it contains zinc the
zinc is free from the lead. The body
is in quartzite, which is unusual
many ore bodies of the Pine creek
district have been in slate. The
strike was made at a depth of 200
feet.
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News is a big winner.
French to jGet Degree.
BOISE.—Governor Davis announces
that he will address the opening
sion of the University of Idaho Sep
868
in
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Malvina Remsberg of Santa Ansa,
Cal., sister of President Harding, who,
It 1* said, Is planning to accept her
distinguished brother's Invitation to
pay a visit tr> the White House.
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BOUND BV LEAGUE
GERMAN TREATY SIGNED IN
BERLIN, PUBLISHED
IN CAPITAL.
J.
YIELDS TO NUMBER OF FAVORS
All Advantages Given to America at
Versailles
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WASHINGTON.
-The treaty with
Germany, which was signed Friday
in Berlin, was made public by the
state department. It puts into force
the economic, reparations, military
and other provisions of the unratified
treaty of Versailles, hut provides spe
cifically that the United States shall
not be hound by the covenant of the
league of nations or by the other
enumerated parts of the Versailles
settlements.
I» a state department statement is
sued to announce the signature of the
treaty, special mention was made of
the reaffirmation of this
ment's share in the renounced Ger
man overseas possessions, the state
ment declaring that this provision
''confirms the rights of the United
States with respect to Yap and other
former German overseas possessions
upon an equality with the other
powers."
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Get All ^vantages.
The department's
oil
statement re
viewed the treaty in detail,
sizing that any advantage which
might have been gained by ratifica
tion of the treaty of Versailles is
fully preserved under the present in
strument.
empua
Regarding sue* further
settlements as may be necessary be
tween the two nations, the state
ment said:
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at
of
by
"It is understood that diplomatic
relations will be resumed upon the
exchange of ratifications of the
treaty and then negotiations can be
undertaken with respect to
and other matters through the ordi
nary diplomatic channels."
Administration officials are under
stood to feel, however, that commer
cial questions between the United
States and Germany are as fully cov
ered as seems necessary for the
ent by the reaffirmation of the finau
cial and economic clause of the eVr
sailles treaty.
there Is a provision in the
reaffirming the present attitude
this government toward the r
tions commission, by declaring
the United States reserved the right
to participate In the commission's i
liberations, but would not be bound
to any such participation except bv
its own decision.
commerce
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tember 21 at Moscow. At that time
an honorary degree will be conferred
upon Congressman Burton L. French
On September 22 the governor is to
address the annual meeting of the
Idaho county commissioners in
sion at Sandpoint.
ses
Mill Fire Loss I* $100,000.
MISSOULA.—Fire of unknown
igin Sunday destroyed the Donlan
Henderson lumber mill and a large
stock of lumber and logs a mile north
of Pablo, Mont., according to advices
received here. The loss is estimated
at $100,000, partially covered by in
surance.
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Erzberger, fx-FInance Minister, Shot.
;BERLIN.—Mathias Erzberger, for
mer vice premier and minister of fi
nance, was assassinated near Offen
burg, Baden, where he was sojourning
with his family. There were 12 bul
let wounds in his body.
Beer Bill Safe Yet.
WASHINGTON.—Congress has
cessed for 30 days after a determined
fight against the anti-beer bill had
forced those in charge of It to with
draw it for action by the senate next
!>'
fall.
MINT CUTS U. S. DEBT
Philadelphia Instttution at Top
Point in Production.
PHILADELPHIA—The Philadel
phia mint, which now has reached
the greatest production in Its his
tory, is cutting down the Interest
bearing debt of the United States
$5,000,000 a month, according to
officials of the institution,
dentally, a new record of 260,000
silver dollars coined each day has
been set in efforts to replace the
350,000,000 dollars melted during
the war and sold to the English
as bullion.
Silver certificates
Incl
representing
the dollars melted had to be called
in and short term certificates of
indebtedness with interest at 2 per
cent were issued. New dollars are
being coined to retire the certifi
cates of indebtedness.
The Philadelphia plant 1 b turning
out as much as the government'*
two other mints, San Francisco and
Denvett .combined, but
it probably will take two
years to replace the coins melted.
neverthe
less