IRE IDAHO REPUBLICAN SEMI-WEEKLY Published every Tuesday *nd Friday BYRD TREGO, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the poatefflce at Black toot, Idaho, as second-class matter. Subscription price - $3.00 per Year ++♦++ ♦+ + I » l»l»l + » < • The Idaho Republican never «■ sells, never leases, never dodges • • an election, never hides its pur i • pose to see how public opinion is • > going to go—but says what It • > thinks, takes the public Into Its • > confidence and goes on serving, tf. i + i ♦ i ♦ » KAISER WOULD REPEAT NAPOLEON'S EXPERIENCE When Naporeon Bonaparte was overthrown tue first time, he was banished to the Island of Elba In the Mediteranean sea and made com fortable with all he needed for life. Like any other man of energy and in iatiative, he thought matters over and got up a plan to do something, and back to France he went.. It was rumored that the exiled ruler had escaped and might return to Paris, and a guard placed on the road to see that he did not pass, challenged him as he came along and was ad dressed in such winning words that they rested arms and talked with him. Once he had the ear of these men, his appeal began to grip them, and soon they were "convoying" the returned emperor to Paris instead of bringing him in a prisoner or a corpse. hers as they went along, and he marched Into Paris at the head of an ambitious army. "The Hundred Days," the battle of Waterloo was staged, the fate of Eu rope trembled in the balance and Napoleon was again overthrown, this time for keeps, for he was sent to a place he could not return from. Kaiser Also Trying One hundred years later the kaiser was overthrown, and retired into Holland. After a short time ten tons of money was shipped to him from Berlin. Now an organization is at work to protect and restore the kaiser and at the same time a patient but determined world is preparing to send him to that abode from which no traveler ever, ever returns May the efforts of these last ones be crowned with such success as will give the same degree of satisfaction brought about by Herbert Hoover's message to Reith and Von Der Lacken in reply to their request for food, "Go to hell. If I have to deal with Germans, it will not be with such a pair." The force gathered num Then followed ♦ LOYD GEORGE RE-ELECTED Loyd George, the man of humble birth in England who rose as did our Lincoln in America, has recently been re-elected by an overwhelming vote, notable for the support of the sol diers and workingmen. His opponent was Mr. Asquith who corre sponded to our General McClellan who was an opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential campaign just before the close of the Civil war. In that campaign, McClellan said that if he were elected, he would "give the South a blank sheet of paper on which* to write their terms of peace," and Lincoln said that if he were elected, the war would go on until one side or the othr was ex hausted. In England, Llody George stands for a victorious peace, with pro visions made for full reparation by Germany, "to the uttermost farth ing," and it must be a sweet satis faction to him, after having con ducted governmental policies on this line, to receive such an overwhelm ing vote. ♦ WILL YOUR BUILD. INGS BURN DOWN ? We want to warn our readers once more about fire. Early in the win ter is the best time to consider fire risks, and to take steps to prevent losses. We don't want to hear of somebody losing their home tomor row or next week from a preventable fire, and many fires are preventable. Blackfoot has special reasons to be investigating fire prevention as people will learn when they read up on the lack of-funds to maintain the fire department. People living in the country always have reasons to use care in the prevention of fires, be cause they can call no chemical en gine to save them. Get busy with ladder and tools and see if yOur flue and stove pipe are all right. In ■ spectlon once a year—thoro inspec tion, is only a reasonable safeguard. People often ask what the main causes of fire are: According to the figures for 1916, collected by the National Board of Fire Underwriters defective chimneys and flues caused 6.1 per cent of the fires listed as wholly preventable. Careless toss ing of lighted matches accounted for more than $7,000,000 worth of dam age, or 3.4 per cent. Allowing gas jets to be open near windows so that the breeze could wave the flame on to hanging curtains, careless closing of gas ranges and consequent light ing of matches, thus causing a fire, amounted to almost one per cent of loss. Fireworks, hot ashes and coals, hot or molten metal, and open fires, make up the total of wholly prevent able fires. The damage done in 1916 by these preventable fires amounted to $60,000,000. Partly preventable fires cost the country almost $100,000,000. In this -st, electricity is accountable for almost eight per cent of the fires. Defective wiring, switch boxes, etc., however, are not nearly so much to blame for fires as the amazingly careless use of small electrical de vices, such as electric smoothing irons, plate warmers, curling irons, and so forth. ♦ Miss Grace Peck left last Sunday for Salt Lake, where she will be en gaged lr the adjacent towns with the Ellison-White Chautauqua work. She was -accompanied by her mother Mrs. E. T. Peck, who returned home Wed nesday. UNITS ARB LISTED Following is the complete list of units outside of divisions serving with the Third American army along the German frontier: Army troops headquarters troops; 66th field artillery brigade; 322nd field battalion; 26th telegraph bat talion: 2nd cavalery headquarters; 1st squadron; 2nd cavaiery; 46th engineers; 56th pioneer infantry; 3rd army military police battalion' evacuation hospitals 3 and 12; 314rd remount squadron, army post office 927; sanitary train, third army; 524th, 690th, 601st, 603rd ambu lance service sections, Third army provisional supply train; truck com panies 441, 463, 466, 467, 469; Third army air service headquarters; 1st pursuit group; pursuit squadron No. 4; 4th air park; headquarters bombardment group; day bombing squadron 166; headquarters army observation groups; areo squadrons 9 and si; photo sections 2 and 10; branch intelligence office 462D and 463D; construction squadron; 3rd army regional replacement depot; ordnance depot No. 303. Third army corps, corps troops; headquarters troops, 308th engine ers, and train, 52nd telegraph bat talion, 308th field battalion, signal corps, 3rd corps military police com pany, 1st pioneer Infantry, troop K, 3rd cavalery, motor supply train 415, field remount squadron 302, mobile veterinary hospital No. 1, machine shop truck unit 405, 1st corps artil lery park, .01st mobile ordnance re pair shop, headquarters 3rd army corps air service, 1st areo squadron, 6th photo section, 3rd corps ballon groups reconnaissance, 1st ballon company branch intelligence office, 3rd corps sanitary train, field hos pitals 162, 163 and 332, ambulance companies 162, 163 and 332, sales commissary unit No. 33. Fourth Army Units Given Fourth army corps, corps troops; headquarters troops, headquarters detachments, 51st pioneer infantry, 30ist engineers and train, 310th field battalion signal corps, 405th tele graph battalion, 4th corps air service headquarters, 12th aero squadron, photo section No. 4 branch intelli gence office, ballon group head quarters, ballon group headquarters htth corps, 2nd ballon company, 413th motor supply train, mobile ordnance repair shop, machine shop truck unit 369, 4th corps sanitary train, am bulance companies 301, 302, 303, field hospitals 301, 302, 303, troops M, 306th field remount squadron, de tachments 5th mobile veterinary hos pital, 4th corps military police, sales commissary unit No. 31, 4th corps artillery park. *(-) army corps, corps troops; headquarters troops, military police, 326th field battalion signal corps, provisional motor supply company, 39th machine shop truck unit, 107th sanitary train, less horse section, army post office 792, 308th mobile veterinary section, 88th aero squad ron, 3rd balloon c6mpany, 54th pio neer infantry, 7 th corps field veteri nary unit, 166th field artillery bri gade, 310th engineers, one battalion; 602nd engineers, one battalion; 414th supply train, two companies; 418th supply train, two companies; 312th remount squadron, 310th en gineer train, 7th telegraph battalion. ♦ ANOTHER VICTIM OF "FLU" Frank Vernon Ellis of Gooding, Idaho and grandson of Mrs. C. H. Ellis of Blackfoot, Idaho died of in fluenza in the camp hospital at Ft. Rosencranz the first of December. He is twenty-one years of age and has been in the services since Octo ber. He was given a military funeral at San Diego and buried there, his parents attending the ceremonies, in view of the fact that they expect to move to that part of Californio soon, they decided interment should be made there. He is survived by his parents, two brothers and three sisters and his grandmother Mrs. Ellis of this place. ♦ NEW PHYSICAL DIRECTOR POCATELLO, Ida., Jan. 2.— H. C. Campbell will be the new physical director- in the Railroad Y. M. C. A. in this city, taking up his duties in that capacity today. Mr. Campbell comes from Boise, where he was en gaged in Y..~. C. A. work. He is an experience 1 instructor in physical work, and an active season in gym nasium work is planned for the local institution beginning soon. WOOL GROWERS' MEET ING POSTPONED The National Wool Growers' associ ation were planning on holding a monsterous meeting at Salt Lake City on January 16, 17, and 18 for wool-growers from all parts and divisions of the west, but on account of the influenza epidemic the meet ing has been postponed indefinitely and proper notice will be given when the next date is set. ♦ CARD OF THANKS We take this opportunity, dear fi lends, to thank the children and patrons of school district No. 57, for the beautiful flowers each' sent to Vernon and Russel. We also thank all for their kind sympathy and aid in our recent trouble and sorrow, Mrs. Katherine Rydberg-Keller, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Robins. adv. MACKAY MAN DIES William E. Herrick of Mackay, died in the hospital in Pocatello, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Her rick was at his bed side when he passed away, having been summoned from her home on account of his serious condition. The body was sent to Mackay for burial. ALLRED MOVES TO PRESTON Will Allred and family of Sterl ing left Thursday afternoon for Pres ton, Idaho to make their home. They came from Lewiston, Utah near Preston, and lived in this county a few years, leaving Sterling on ac count of the complications arising in the drainage and P ricatlon of the tract he was l.ving on. IN THE GEM STATE More than 10,000 men- were fur nished un .* the draft from Idaho dur ing 1918. Sixteen cases of whisky was poured into the river at Boise last week, the liquor having been taken from boot leggers at different times. J£ustern buyers who have bought Idaho potatoes are pleased with them und are writing now for the 1919 crop and offering to contract for it In 1918 war efforts of the state, coupled with those of 1917, brought the number of men from Idaho who donned Uncle Sam's uniform to more than 25,000. Fifteen golden stars shine on the Bonneville county service flag, indicat ing fifteen brave sons of that county who have given their lives in defense of their country. Records of the Ada county exemp tion board show that probably only one or two slackers of the Septmber 12 registration will be noted when the books are finally closed. Last week a quarantine was put on at Moscow by which alt churches, pic ture shows, lodge meetings and every other gathering was forbidden in an effort to rid the town of flu cases. Major Herbert C. * Fooks, infantry, U. S. A., for three years commandant of the University of Idaho, died in France from wounds received in ac tion, according to information received at Boise last week. The quota of $300,000 set for Idaho In the Red Cross war fund drive, which began May 20, 1917, and lasted for u week, was oversubscribed by approximately $150,000,. the final sum being more than $440,000. Fred Root, who was tried at Weiser, was convicted and sentenced to a- term of 60 days in the county Jail and to puy a fine of $300. Mr. Root was arrest ed last fall on a charge of bootlegging. The case has been appealed. It will take $1000 more to run the office of secretary of state during the coming biennium than it did during the biennium ending last month, W. T. Dougherty, outgoing secretary of stute, estimates in his biennial report. Lester Harris of Greenleaf was pain fully injured while working on the in terstate highway neur Greenleaf. crew of men, including Mr. Harris, was excuvuting a bank of sand, and it sud denly caved in. All of the men except Harris ran in time to avoid being hurt. A tax levy which will provide $700, 000 annually for road construction and maintenance, a revolving fund of $10,000 designed to make unnecessary delayed warrant payments to labor ers will be recommended to the legis lature by the state highway commis sion. \ A A committee of 93 women of the state has been appointed by the Na tional Woman's Suffrage association, for the purpose of seeing that the com ing legislature ratifies the federal suffrage amendment if it passes the United States senate this session of congress. ill health led Despondency over Joseph Taylor, a sheepman near Buhl, to end his life. Stepping before a large mirror in a sleeping room of his residence and placing the muzzle of revolver in his mouth, Taylor pulled the trigger and died stantly. a almost in After having allowed its contract to lie dormant for 15 months or more without pressing action, the Thousand Springs Irrigation company, whose project is in Custer county, * has ob tained an extehslon until January 1, 1920, on the time when the conditions of contract must be acted upon. Materiul increases were allowed the Adams County Light & Power com pany in its various classes of rates by the public utilities commission. Ac cording to testimony before the com mission, the increases will permit the to earn only revenue suffl company cient to cover operating expenses, and will allow no return on investment. ^A resolution introduced by Commis sioner Bryan of the state board of education at the meeting of the execu tive committee of the State Teachers' association nt Boise was carried, au thorizing a reorganization of the as sociation on the basis of its being an organization of the associated teach ers of Idaho, rather than an annual conference of a few of them. Removal of restrlctfons on lead pro ducers, as announced December 21, and permitting them to quote prices individually, may mean that operators in the Coeur d'Alene district will b« compelled to shut down because ol approach of the price of lead to a figure below the cost of production. It has been decided to carry the case of the Boise Commercial club versus the Oregon Short Line Railway com pany tp the eburt of appeals at San Francisco, charges of local merchants alleging that they had been overcharged on freight rates under the long and short haul schedules, for freight received from the cast. The <«ult arose over With his pardon papers dated De cember 24,.and all his plans made to spend a hnppy Christmas wife and two children in Poefitello, Fritz Schmidt, 36 years of age, died at the Idaho penitentiary before he could be released. Managers or proprietors of five local pool halls at Nampa and the manager of the Majestic theatre were arrested lust week for alleged violation of the resolution passed by the county board of health recently which ordered all public places, Including pool halls and theatres, closed until January 8. with his INLAND NORTHWEST Charles Sales, of Manhattan, Mont, was walking home from Belgrade when he was struck by a train and killed. As a means of providing work for returned soldiers, a number of public Improvements are to be begun at Salt Lake at once. Attorney General Ford has an nounced prosecution in 17 Montana cities of butchers who adulterate lard with beef suet and sell the compound as lard. The meeting of the Lemhi Wool growers' association, scheduled for January 6, at Salmon, Idaho, has been indefinitely postponed on account of the "flu" epidemic. Word has reached Whltefish, Mont, that J. W. Cai*, a former resident of that section, recently committed sui cide in a bunting cabin about 30 miles north of Calgary, Alberta. Catching his left eye on a hook on the bathroom door, 4-year-old Thomas Gourley, of Salt Lake, sustained a se vere laceration immediately below the eye and narrowly escaped losing his sight. Puscual Garrza, a Mexican, swallowed a quantity of carbonic acid in his room at a hotel in Salt Lake by mistake. Garrza was ill and did not stop to turn on the light while reaching for his drink. Chief Moiese of the Flathead reser vation in Montana, the one remaining link on the reservation between the old Invasion of Chief Joseph of Nez Perce-and the present, died of influ enza last week. It is probable that a test case will come up at Kalispell, Mont., to deter mine whether under the new "dry" law the manufacture and sale of beer con taining less than 2 per cent of alcohol will be permitted. Max Schonberger, aged 59, was shot and fatally wounded by his son Henry during a quarrel at the family resi dence in Butte. According to the son's version, his father was beating his wife when he shot him. Butte police and county authorities, in connection with local postal heads, investigating alleged shortage of about $3000 In war savings and thrift stamps, said to have been found in the accounts of two booths at the Butte are postoffice. Miss Alice Chisholm of Bozeman and Miss Gladys Olcott of Red Lodge are the two women chosen by the Women's Division Wur personel board of the Young Men's Christian association to represent Montana in the unit for over seas service. At a state wide convention, probably to be held during the month, the chain and commercial bers of commerce clubs of the state will take action on bringing to Montana a due percentage of returning soldiers Who desire to settle oil the soil. trailing their Sheepherders are flocks into Nevada, due to the scarcity of water holes on the desert In the western part of Utah. Very little snow lias fallen in the western part of the state. Only a few bunches of sheep are now on the Utah desert. The establishment of the Montana Flouring Mills company at Harlow town, Mont., will purchase practically 500,000 bushels of wheat direct from The esti Wheatland county farmers, mated wheat production, of the entire county is 1,500,000 bushels. , Increase in business of the state of ^ »i. and additional work placed upon the office of the attorney general by the various new made the present force entirely inade quate for the proper performance of the duties of the office, it is asserted. Influenza caused 571 deaths in Se attle during the first eleven months of 1918, according to the annual report of the city health commissioner. Since the epidemic started 200,000 doses of vaccine have been given ottt by the city health department, the report showed. Stocks and bonds held by the sev eral state banks of Utah at the close of business on October 5, 1918, amount ed to $15,017,633, according to the bi ennial report of Bank Commissioner William E. Evansi Compared with his first call made June 20, 1917, the in in the amount held is $8,500, commissions' has crease 448. A report issued by the field agent for Utah and Nevada shows farm wages averaging $6^ a month with board and $84 without board. Day In harvest averaged $3.15' with wages board and $3.80 when board was not furnished. Most farmers report that sheepherders and cowmen received higher wages than farm labor and that in consequence help was hard to get or keep. "The most Important achievement of the fuel administration in Montana to supply coal for the steady op was eratlon of every kind of Industry en gaged directly and indirectly in war State Fuel Administrator work," says Gerry, in summing up the work of the federul fuel administration for state during 1918. tbls Among the 20 Montana breweries put out of business permanently is one established at Virginia City that was in 1863—-the year that gold was dis covered there. This brewery Is said to be the oldest business establishment in what is now the stute of Montana. As the members of the Joe Galle family were about to sit down to din ner, Galle, a section foreman on the Northern Pacific at Manhattan, Mont., attempted to cut his throat with the carving knife, inflicting serious in Juries, but it is believed he will re cover. or Real Comfort You, Mr. Man, should wear the original Dry Sox shoe. They are constructed of the best leather obtainable, are thruout and interlined with animal parchment (pig's bladder) which makes them absolutely water proof. They are warm and comfortable, they wear well-better than most shoes are water proof and cost nomore than other shoes of equal quality. You need No Rubbers with these shoes. / Kinney Mercantile Co. *» Blackfoot solid We Appreciate Your Business it Phone 37 w i g IB IHUIE NOTICE FOR BIDS Bids for furnishing the Idaho in sane asylum at Blackfoot, Idaho, with the following supplies will be