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BOISE, IDAHO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916.
Vol. XXXVI
EIGHT PAGES
No. 20
NO RELIEF FROM STORM IN SIGHT
Pfll MR WFÄTHFR AND
u «nt pumij cnnco« pt
FOR SOUTHERN IDAHO
Railroad Traffic Is Almost at a Stand
still Except on Main Line—Street Car
Service Is Resumed in Boise and Sit
uation improves
With all previous records for heavy snowfall broken,
the weather bureau holds forth no hope for an early ces
sation of the storm, which has been almost continuous
since Monday night. The forecast issued today reads,
"Snow and colder tonight; Friday, snow."
The total snowfall during the present storm, up to 11
o'clock today, was 20.4 inches, which is a greater amount
than has heretofore been measured in an entire month,
since the opening of the weather bureau station in 1898,
and is greater than the entire fall for the two years end
ing with I lecember, 1915.
The greatest fall in 24 hours during tho storm was 15.5
inches, which exceeds all previous records for a similar
period.
38 inches, at 2 p. m. Wednesday,
measured in the residence district,
settled the snow rapidly, reducing the depth to about 14
inches, hut heavy snow today promises to make up the
loss-in depth.
Reports received from Meridian about 10 o'clock indi
cated a depth of 24 inches at that place, with heavy snow
still falling.
maximum depth in the business district was
Greater depths were
After that time rain
1(
Superintendent Tells of Conditions.
The following memorad
er conditions on the main and branch
line of the Oregon Short Line Railroad
as received by the public
W. A. W hit
»f wenth
company
utilities commissi«
nev, general superintendent:
froi
"On account of our rotary snow plow.«
being damaged and in the shops until
possibly Saturday morning it will be
Impossible for us to do very much in
the way of opening up the various
branches, but will open up the Wood
river and Hill City branches, then turn
our attention to the Idaho northern
branch. Hope to open the Maekay
branch tomorrow, and as soon as the
storm abates sufficiently to trust the
rotary plow off the main line will en
deavor to open up tho Victor branch
At the present time the entire country
Is involved in hoax y .«now and wind
Btorms, which does not improve condi
tions."
Commissioners Corroborate Report.
Corroboration of the statement by
the general superintendent regarding
the heavy snows and wind drifting the
fall is given h> Axel P. Ramstedt, pres
ident of the utilities commission, and
John W. Graham, a member
commission, who are back from
f the
» 'rip
to Idaho Fall.« and Lorenzo. They man -
aged to reach Boise last night. Heavv
snow was falling all along the main
line of the Short Une and the wind was
blowing, they said. Over at Idaho Falls
and in the southeastern part of th*
state generally they report tho. snow
fall has been heavy and the snow plows
of the railroad are having a difficult
time to keep the track clear.
To Keep Road Open to Mines.
A report reached the commission that
the snow is falling in the Wyoming
mines section and a rotary plow had
to be tidîen fr<
and kept in operation to keep the line
it is important to have the ave
his terri
the Idaho territory
open
nue over which the coal lor
der that there
tory passes free in
will not be a coal shortage through
lack of supply.
The commission also received a re
port from Arco that there are several
carloads of hogs marooned on the
tracks there. This is on the Mockav
branch. It is closed by snow and not
only is it impossible to move the hogs
but it seems equally impossible to get
feed to them.
Conditions in Detail.
Tlie following memorandum of the
weather conditions along tlie Oregon
Short Line railroad is submitted to the
commission for Its information by
General Superintendent Whitney:
Idaho Northern Numerous slides be
tween Big Eddy and Smith's Ferry, a
distance of eight miles, and from
Smith's Ferry to mile post No. 90/ n
distance of seven miles. All of these
slides arc from five to 15 feet in depth,
containing some rocks, trees, etc.
Wood river branch—Numerous cuts
between Richfield and Hay Spur, five
to ten feet deep, very hard and nothing
but rotary snow plow can get through.
Hill City branch—Same condition as
on Wood River branch. A mixed train
from Hill City stuck in snow at mile
post No. 13 out of Hill City since 4
p. tn., Jan. 27. All efforts to reach this
train with wedge plow proved impos
sible, ns sno
deep and very hard. An effort made
Sunday, Jan. 30, to reach this train with
rotary snow plow failed on account of
a break In machinery.
Conditions on Utah-Montana as fol
lows :
Main line open, both north and
south, but experiencing some delays
through Beaver canyon on account of
as from live to ten feet
heavy snow fall; dr ifts in this locality
10 to 12 feet high and heavy wind,
makes bad track conditions,
j n
this
Branch Lines Hit Hard.
Maekay branch—Considerable snow,
Rlackfoot to Maekay. Drifted badly
between Furry and Arco. May open
this branch Friday.
Victor branch — Considerable snow
entire distance with 10 to 15 feet deep
I cuts west of Drummond. May open
branch Friday or Saturday if can
spare rotary from mai
Snake river belt line—Heavy snow
north of Ririe on the east side and
n on the west side. Impossible
edge plow or f langer to get
gh. Will not he able to open this
branch until can run tho rotary »now
plow around.
Yellov., I nnç hranch—Idaho Falla to
Ashton. '-onsiderahtc snow with seven
or right feet at points between St. An
thony an.! Ashton, notary has cleaned
this out to some extent and trains are
brins operated to Ashton. Slight wind
will probably block this part of the
j inP
City Street Car, Resume Service.
VV.tli three scrapers drawn by four
a. b and two snow ploughs at
n.r, urban freight cars, the
.
tght on th" P c"t e v belt
managed to keep up «er
lay by continuous
n both .Idefor the truck snow
s piled deep where It has been scrap
ip
•rviee
. .
the track an ,i
rails with snow
he shoxeled out. Both
forth
strenuous efforts to keep their tracks
oppn and ye«terday the old city line on
Thirteenth and Main street« and
Warm Spring« avenue operated nearly
al! day but waB unable to keep on
schedule time.
no.
Me
for
t j, r
'ache
valley
Trains running
account of excessive s
and Malad valley—
ith some slight delay
ow. Sidings and
»d out.
switches not all cleai
horses
Ida In
Tract to
has becn
lines Jate last
line and hi
vice throughout the
work.
ed, pushed
tracks.
shoveled
and
fr
Several times today,
interrupted,
mobiles running on
again packing the
which had t
ompanies have put
street
car
Interurban Lines Blocked.
Service on the interurban lines he
tween Nampa and Caldwell was
blocked today. Drifts as high as 1 «>
and 12 feet covered the track in sev
uai places and as fast ns they would
lie shoveled out they would fill as a
high wind was blowing. Service be
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Traffic Is Still at a Stand
still but Snow Has Ceased
Falling in the Cascade
Mountains.
Ellensburg, Wash.. Feb. 3.—Snow has
ceased falling: in the Cascade moun
tains. but no trains will be running
until tomorrow. The railroads are try
ing to clear their tracks of slides. The
heavy snow in many places must 1 »h
shoveled, as tho rotaries are unable to
work.
Twenty-nine Inches at Seattle.
Seattle, Feb. 3.—Little snow has fal
len since 10 o'clock last night. The
weather bureau reports 29 inches of
snow on the ground. Street cars are
not running yet and railroads remain
tied up. More snow Is expected.
VERDICT IN INDIANA
Chicago, Feb. 3.—The convictions of
Don M. Roberts, former mayor of
Terre Haute, and 10 others found
guilty of election frauds, were sustain
ed today by the federal appellate court.
Feast of St. Blaise.
New York, Feb. 3.—Rnmnn Catholloa
in this city today observed the feast of
St. Blaise by having their throats;
blessed. Thousands of school children
ne.lt at the altar rails of their paro
chial schools and received the blessing
and thousands of adults Invoked the
saint's intercession. St. Blaise suffered
martyrdom in the year 316 and on his
way to the trial, which ended in his
martyrdom, he was approached by a
woman who implored him to relieve her
child w'ho was choking from a bone in
tHe throat. St. Blaise touched the
child's throat and prayed for her relief
and she was cured.
Pictures Are on Exhibition.
New York, Feb. 3.—The American
Water Color society, now entering upon
its fiftieth year, today opened Its an
nual exhibition at the galleries of the
National Fine Arts club. The display
Is confined to water colors, pastels and
miniatures never before shown in this
city. Experts pronounce the present
exhibition one of the best In the his
tory of the society.
Brandeis, Named for High Court Bench, Seeking More
Just Land System for Restored Jews in Palestine
indicates that the single tax cause will
have a well wisher on the supreme
bench.—Editor.)
By Louis D. Brandeis.
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m P ,'' AN llnk « th «
A ln *\ of Moses with the phll
JA "ti ° ' ,aX '"/l Y
l£±l "T , / " °"C? f ,h * lr
. .. Z, °, n «"'"Prises- P> a "
l * ,he 'tcqulsitlon of land whwlch shall
" eVer '? 7" "'"Z >' llvate
ownership, but which shall remain per
petually as the heritage of the Jewish
people.
Not all of the land being acquired hv
Jews In Palestine will he subject to
,h '" ' f ° rm ° f «»"«^hlp only that
i" ' ? , v h ^ a
" f V' J " w,,h •''•«'">"»1 Fund bureau. •
^ lv f le I'"'' 1 ?" of this land and
security of private Improvements
pr ° vlded by a NystPm °f Th *i
""l? pays *" l Kr ,° Und r f" lal
to the c ° mmunlty ' "hi.h I* u»ed for
-'»"'"'Unity purpose, so that. In the;
?" al he W " pay UlP rp "' '°
; himself. This rent will always be
■ ' arKP pnou R b leave him no "ttn
I earned Increment" in the land. In case
I °' lts ' ransf er, he will simply sell his
* n ' provem * nt! ' " le new P°® se9 * or '
! Bnme of the oldest Ideals of the He
j brew raco are associated with this Idea
of democratl7.ing the benefits derived
| ' ro, n land.
! ,bnt Jehovah gave the land to the chll
j dren of Israel, "one as much as an
(As head of the Zionist movement,
Louis D. Brandeis has been Inspired
by zeal for constructive statesmanship
as much as racial reasons. Among
other things the prospective supreme
court Justice hopes to establish equal
rights In the soil by a system based on
Biblical Ideals. The following article
written for this paper by Mr. Brandeis
is
Thus
e rend In Exodus
i other."
There Is also provision In the ancient
Jewish law for a year of jubilee, fol
I lowing seven sabbaths of years, which I
- moans once in 50 years. At the year I
| of jubilee, all land held by the people j
was supposed to revert to the tribe for
redistribution. It is a question how j
long this law was observed, but it l
shows the democracy of the law giver j
and his recognition that unlimited pri- j
APPAM IS HELD
TO BE PRIZE
OF WAR
..
Question as to the
Status of the Ship
I
1
Says Lansing
HOW TO DISPOSE Of
VESSEL IS QUESTION
Hague Convention, Prus
sian American Treaty and
Action of German Com
mander of Ship Subjects
of Further Consideration,
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Washington, Feb. 3.—Secretary Lan
sing stated today that there was no
i question as to the Appnm's status ns a
prize. The question of disposition still
! involved further consideration. The.
1 Hague convention, the Prussian- Amor
lean treaty and Lieutenant Berg a re-I
I fusai to land British seamen who were
'gun pointers on the British merchant
I nien - wil1 bo ,hc Bllb J ec ' of further eon
sidération.
j SHIP AT ANCHOR
IN JAMES RIVER
Newport News, Feb. 3.—The British
liner Appam, in charge of a Germa;
prize crew, is «till i
James river off here.
nchored in the
Tho passengers
were to be moved on barges and taken
to Norfolk to board nu Old Dominion
steamer for New York. Some of the
more prominent English passengers are
expected to come to Newport News.
GERMANY ENTHUSES
OVER THE EXPLOITS
Berlin, Feb. 3.—News of the arrival
of the Appam at Norfolk and
daring raids by a German cruiser in
the main line
South Africa and Europe aroused an
outburst of enthusiasm for tho navy.
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>f the
f sea traffic between
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Loois D. Brandeis.
vat© property In land hieant class rule,
There is also this injunction attrib
uted to Jehovah, "The land shall not be
bought and sold forever; the land is
min©."
The Hebrew people have shaped the
GERMANS WILL ATTEMPT to
BUST WAY THROUGH TO
CALAIS OR DUNKIRK
London, Feb. 3.—The Germans have begun
an offensive against the allies' left. It is expected
they will attempt to blast their way to Calais and
Dunkirk by the use of strong bodies of infantry
supported by enormous masses of artillery.
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MORE DETAILS OF
ZEPPELIN RAID ON
ENGLAND LEARNED
Fourteen Towns and Vil
lages Suffered From the
Dropping of Bombs From
German Airships.
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I ' onrlon * Feb - 3 —tails of the Zep
,,rl,n lnifl on England continued to
< ome in to(bl > r now that the authorities
h , aV8 renlo 'f d a n " ,nber of restrlc
tlons ' A diary kept by a ' raveler
t, F OU|?h ,hp , re f lons vlsited 8ives a list
of 14 towns and villages in which there
casualties and where damage to
property was d<
Derbyshire, a town in which 10 per
sons were killed. An axle tree factory
and tube works were blown up in one
Staffordshire to* n and 14 persons
killed. In another six were killed. One
Tho list includes
a historic castle, hut no one was in
jured. Three towns in the iron and
bomb was dropped on the grounds of
steel district were visited.
Judson Harmon 70 Years Old.
Cincinnati, Q., Feb. 3.—Judson Har
mon, who was attorney general under
President Cleveland and later served
two terms as governor of Ohio, attained
his seventieth birthday anniversnr.y to
Since his retirement from the
day.
governorship Mr. Harmon has devoted
himself ti
He has also served as professor of law
at the University of Cincinnati,
several years he has talien little active
part In politics, although recently his
name has been mentioned in connection
with the Democratic nomination for
United States senator.
his extensive law practice.
For
moral concepts of the world more than
any other race. It is an interesting
possibility that the Jewish national
fund may be instrumental in showing a
solution to the land question which
still vexes civilization.
SENATE VOTES FOR
INDEPENDENCE OF
Clarke Amendment Adopt
ed, Vice President Cast
ing the Deciding Vote in
Its Favor.
- — —
Washington, Feb. 3.—A definite pol
icy contemplating Philippine indepen
dence within four years, was approved
by the senate yesterday, Vice President
Marshall casting the deciding vote in
favor of the Clarke amendment to the
Philippine bill, directing tlie president
American sovereignty
The vote,
■ed weeks of debate, was 41
An effort to recommit the bill
•as defeated and final senate action on
withdraw
within a four-year period,
which foil
to 41.
the measure, which has not yet passed
the house, was deferred until today.
Administration senators in support
ing the Clarke amendment maintained
tnat some such definite provision was
necessary to square with the indepen
dence declaration In the Baltimore
platform.
President Wilson has made no public
comment on the proposed amendment,
but senators who had discussed It with
him let It be known he was not opposed
to It. Chairman Hitchcock of the Fhll
ipplne committee opposed the arnend
ment and was supported by 11 other
Democrats. Five Republicans, Senators
Borah, Clapp, Kenyon, La Follette and
Works, voted for the amendment. Be
sides Senator Hitchcock, Democrats
who opposed it were Beckham, O'Gor
man, Phelan, Pomerene, Randall, Reed,
Saulsbury and Walsh.
By the terms of the amendment as
perfected, provision is made for exten
sion of time for granting Independence,
if the president should deem it advlsa
hie, until congress shall have had an
opportunity further to consider the sub
ject.
MILITARY SERVICE
MEASURE WILL TAKE
EFFECT FEBRUARY 10
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London, Feb. 3.—King George at the
privy council today, signed a prneja
mation fixing Feb. in as the date on'
which the military service act shall be
regarded as coming into force.
Child Welfare the Topic.
Asheville, N. ( ., Feb. 3. Safeguard
ing American < hildhood is the general
topic scheduled for discussion at t he
twelfth annual conference of the Na
tional Child Labor c
session here.
the conference will discuss local phases
of child labor; its effects on social, edti
catlonal and industrial institutions;
standards of factory inspection, and
mittoe now In
l nder the general head
other matters of vital importance,
attendance at the formal
the conference today Included delegates
The
penlng of
from many states, ^mong them school
superintendents, health officers, factory
inspectors and probation and truant of
fleers.
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London, Feb. 3.—The British e
e ship Belle of France has been e
• sunk. The European crew of •!
• 220 Lascars has been landed. •
• Nineteen Lascars are missing,
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GREATEST NAVY
Of THE WORLD
IS NEEDED
President Is Cheered by
Thousands at St
Louis
draws LESSONS FROM
THE WAR IN EUROPE
St. Louis, Feb. 8.—President Wilson
today told an audience of 15,000 cheer
ing citizens in the coliseum here that
the United States should have the
greatest navy in the world. 'T believe
the navy of the United States should
be unconquerable, the greatest In the
world." he said. F
during his trip the president told how
| one set of belligerents
| the
Refers for First Time to the
Cutting Off of One Set of
Belligerents From the
World — Two Addresses
Delivered.
the first time
as cut off from
orld. He said this "kept the
United States from helping them as it
would like." He made the statement
that he was trying to show that the
United States was really neutral.
There was an overflow of 30,000 per
sons on the outside while the president
spoke.
European War Will Hasten Peace.
President Wilson said in a breakfast
speech before the Business Men's
league that for the most part instruc
tions given to submarines were in ac
cord with international law, but the
act of one commander might cause
trouble. The president declared that
he believed there would never be an
other war like the present one and that
the war would hasten the time of gen
eral peace. He continued: "I am not
looking forward to war, but to times
of peace. People do not hate each
other and therefore they will do busi
ness again together.*' He spoke of the
necessity of representing the facts of
the business as they really are and
said facts were mightier than any oth
er force. "I am ready to match the
business of America against the rest
of the ■world," the president declared.
He explained that the United State«
must keep out of the war if possible In
order to help in the healing processes.
He was applauded when he spoke of
his conviction that a tariff board
should be created.
CHEERING THRONG
AT KANSAS CITY
Kansas City, Feb. 3.—President Wil
son last night demanded that steps b*
begun during the present month to
back him up in defending American
lives and commerce Abroad. His de
inand met with shouts and applause
from an audience of 16,000 persons
who waved American flags, leaped to
their seats and cheered,
When the president ceased.speaking
he leaned forward and asked the great
throng to Join him in singing "Amer
ica.'' The band played softly, the aud
ience stood, and tho words of Amer
tea's national anthem came in a glor
loUS burst of song from 16,000 throats,
The big crowd was for the president
tion
thousand heard him; twenty thousand
were turned away, and ten thousand
more tried to glimpse him us he left
the start. It waited patiently an
hour to see him and cheering Itself
hoarse in a three-minute demonstra
frt
when he appeared. Sixteen
his hotel for the hall.
Can Get the Men.
"Why, some men in Washington aft
hether we could get the
questioning
rive hundred thousand men for which
the government is asking,'' he said at
one point of his address. "Would they
volunteer?" he asked.
A man In the far end of the hall
shouted answer 'yes.'' In a moment
the crowd was in an uproar. Scores
of men echoed the shout "yea! yes!"
President Wilson smiled and held out
"ä .. „. ...
mult died down, "you could raise the
five hundred thousand men in almost
state. I believe you could get five
thousand men right here in this aud
ience.
"I have been thrilled by th© exper
iences of these last few days," the
president said, "and I will go homo to
Washington and smile at the gentle
men who say the United States is not
awake."
Will Deliver the Goode.
"Those gallant men who ait on the
hill In Washington and make our laws
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