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THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR
VOLUME I.
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1911
NUMBER S
ITALY PREPARING TOR ARDUOUS CAMPAIGN
Forts of Tripoli Occupied By the Italian
Marines = Turk Garrison
Fled.
ROME, Oct 6.—More than 60,000*
troops are marching to southern ports
In Italy, from which they will he trans
ported to Tripoli. Italy is preparing
for an arduous campaign.
had stricken from it about twenty
cases. He has notified the attorneys
who have defaults to enter to have
them entered without delay, as he de
sires to dispose of all such business
the first week of the term.
The calendar comprises 68 cases,
and of these 36, or over one-half, are
actions for divorce.
Judge Steele has just concluded the
term of court at Oroflno and will re
main in Lewiston during the coming
week. On account of the public in
terest always shown in the affair.
Judge Steele has deemed it advisable
not to hold court during fair week.
BERLIN, Oct. 6.—The forts of Trip
oli are now occupied by two battalions
of Italian marines,
found a number of corpses in the
fortifications, but the garrison had
fled. Dispatches say that the Italian
reservists in Switzerland have re
nounced their allegiance to the United
Kingdom and refuse to return to their
former colors.
The invaders
ROME, Oct. 6.—It is learned here
tally wounded in the bombardment of
Tripoli. These are the figures given
out in an official announcement of the
loss of the Turks.
LONDON, Oct. 6.—The strained rela
tions between Austria and Italy were
somewhat relieved today when Italy
ordered that the navy cease all op
erations along the Adriatic sea coast as
demanded by Austria.
This means that Italy will confine
her war operations to the occupation
of Tripoli unless the Turks should be
come aggressive elsewhere.
36 WANT DIVORCE
IN NEZ PERCE CO.
LEWISTON. Oct. 6.—Judge Steele, of
the district court, stated yesterday
that he had reviewed the calendar of
the coming session of the district
court, which opens on October 16, and
ROYALISTS ARE GAINING STRENGTH
IN NORTHERN PORTION OF PORTUGAL
hours. Two thousand peasants are re-*
ported to have joined a force at Aye
monte in the march toward Oporto.
VIGO, Spain, Oct. 6.—All the north
ern portion of Portugal is revolting
from the government and is joining the
movement to reseat Manuel on the
throne again. Two detachments of
J. J. Keane was one of the Moscow
people who went up to Spokane to
day on the special "College Day"
train.
GERMANS AND
AMERICANS MEET
W. A. Lauder was a passenger up
Royalists numbering 3000 each have
crossed the border in the last 24
to Spokane this morning on the spe
cial train which left at 7 o'clock.
NINETEEN PRISONERS
ASK FOR PARDONS
BOISE, Oct. 5.—Nineteen applica
tions for pardon filed by prisoners in
the state penitentiary await the con
sideration of the state pardon board,
composed of Governor Hawley, Sec
retary of State Gifford and Attorney
General McDougall,.
Included in the list of petitions
are four murderers, one under a
death penalty, another serving a life
sentence, another 25 years and the
remaining one 18 years.
The names of the 19 petitioners,
the county from which they were
sent up, the crime and the terms are
as follows: Ben Olney, Nez Perce,
statutory offense, five years, now at
Lewiston on parole; Marshall Ham
mock, Washington, statutory offense,
5 to 20 years; Thomas Marren, Blaine,
second degree murder, 18 years;
George Shapely. Ada, grand larceny,
four years; Albert Moore, Bingham,
LAURIER OUT;
BORDEN STEPS IN
OTTAWA, Canada, Oct. 6.—After be
ing in power for 15 years as premier
of Canada, Laurier today stepped
down and Borden, the conservative,
took up the administration of affairs.
Last night Laurier's cabinet complet
ed its business.
Laurier's valedictory upon leaving
office was that "our record speaks for
itself."
Death of Wm. I. McElroy.
William I. McElroy, president of
the Carpenters' Union local for Mos
cow, and a prominent citizen of the
town, passed away at his home on
South Logan street this morning at 3
o'clock from an attack of pneumonia.
The deceased was born on Septem
ber 8, 1864, in Ohio, and was 57 years
of age at the time of his death. He
grand larceny, 10 years; Julius C. D.
Pratt, Twin Falls county, grand lar
ceny, 1 to 14 years; O. M. Osgood,
Kootenai, robbery, 20 years; Arthur
W. Hecknor, Ada, abduction for im
moral purposes, three years; Frank
Fleming, Bannock, robbery, five years;
David Waller, Shoshone, robbery, 14
years; Arthur K. Goode, Shoshone,
murder, life; William J. Stephens,
Bannock, statutory offense, 10 years;
George C. Clark, Nez Perce, arson;
two to five years; Franz J. Binggell,
Oneida, statutory offense, one and
one-half to three years; George
Horsley, Bingham, burglary, 1 to 15
years; Fred Gruber, Kootenai, first
degree murder, death; Clyde Shaffer,
Nez Perce, murder, 25 years; Clarence
Rousch, Canyon, Injuring a public
jail, one and one-half to five years,
and Ernest Hunter, Washington, at
tempted burglary, one and one-half
to two years.
RAILROADS
SUE
CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—Seeking to assail
the striking shopmen on the Illinois
Central by prosecution under the
Sherman anti-trust law, attorneys for
the railroad today are endeavoring to
find grounds on which they may pro
ANSWERS ATTACK
ON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 6. —
Charging George Perkins, former
business partner of J. P. Morgan,
with trying to reform the trust laws in
the interests of the trusts, National
Secretary Martin of the American
Anti-Trust league today Issued a state
SEARCH FOR
CONTINUES
AUSTIN, Pa., Oct. 6.—Besides 50
bodies which were recovered today, it
is estimated that 36 are missing.
Search still continues for bodies in the
wreckage.
Although search for victims of the
flood disaster will be prosecuted vig
orously, it is believed that many bodies
will not be recovered as the author
ities are considering burning the
moved to Moscow seven years ago with
his wife and son, both of whom sur
vive him. His son, Corliss McElroy,
in the plumbing business in this
city.
Mr. McElroy was a good and useful
citizen. He was a member of the
Modern Woodmen of America, and this
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Hundreds of
Germans are here to attend the Na
tional German-American alliance con
vention which convened today. The
last session of the convention will be
held Monday.
Vice President and Mrs. Sherman,
Mr. and Mrs. Champ Clark and many
other persons of note will be the
guests of the alliance at a banquet
Saturday night.
TO INVESTIGATE
RAILROAD MERGER
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6.—The suits to dis
solve the alleged merger of the Gould
lines and the ouster suit against 16
railroads doing business and other
companies in Missouri for alleged vio
lation of the anti-trust laws in com
bining to fix passenger and freight
rates, will be taken up at the October
teim of the Missouri supreme court.
McKenzie and Moore, who will be
remembered as having been in Mos
cow upon several occasions with their
shows, passed through the city yes
terday. They are negotiating another
visit to Moscow in the near future
START TO
THE STRIKERS
ceed on the specific charge of con
spiracy in restraint of trade, accord
ing to rumors current here.
The exact grounds the railroad will
take, if such a step has been decided
on, is not known.
MADE
REFERENDUM LAW
ment replying to the speech made by
Perkins the other day in Detroit. In
his reply Martin said that "the Per
kin's crowd demand an amendment to
the Sherman anti-trust law which
would practically destroy the law's ef
fectiveness."
BODIES
AT AUSTIN
debris. This it is said will be neces
sary as the bodies are decomposing
and the authorities do not wish to
take chances of any disease epidemic.
Owing to the bitterness against of
ficials of the Bayless company, the
inquest held today was in session with
guards stationed around the school
house where it met. Witnesses who
were summoned to appear before the
inquest were summoned secretly.
order will turn out in full force Sun
day to pay tribute to their departed
member at the funeral. For 35 years
he has been a member of the Methodist
church, and the funeral will be con
ducted from that church Sunday after
noon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Robert Warn
er will conduct the services.
WISCONSIN TOWNS ARE
FLOODED—LEVEE BREAKS
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., Oct. 6.—The
big dam of the La Crosse Water Power
company at Hatfield, Wisconsin, broke
today, following a rain storm. The
damage done by the water which was
released when the dam broke was
immense.
The town of Hatfield was flooded,
and cities below it were warned. Wires
are down leading into the town, and
it is impossible to tell how many fa
talities resulted from the flood.
C. H. Bratton, a former resident of
Moscow who went to Lewiston last
spring to engage in business, has re
turned to this city with his family and
will make his future home here. Short
ly after leaving Moscow Mr. Bratton's
health began to fail and he sold out
his business at Lewiston and took a
trip east. He has just returned from
this trip, somewhat improved in
health.
G. W. Robinson of Seattle, was a bus
iness visitor in the city yesterday.
PRESIDENT
FENDS
POCATELLO, Idaho, Oct. 6.—Presi
dent Taft arrived in this city early
this morning. He made an impassion
ate defense of the rulings of the Uni
ted States supreme court, and it
generally regarded that this defense
was inspired by the attack made yes
terday by William Jennings Bryan
the Commoner. However, Bryan was
not mentioned by the President in his
speech.
Speaking earnestly. President Taft
said that there had
printed condemning the court, but that
no specific instances of wrong doing
had been mentioned. He then declar
ed that it is time that the enemies
the court should begin to deal
facts, saying; "When a court is doing
its duty and trying to teach the law
as it should be, to have it condemned,
attacked, and its motives questioned
been columns
for mere political purposes without a
solid ground for such attack goes to
ularized by reiteration and by explain
ing it.
ANSWERS PERKIN'S AT
TACK ON SHERMAN LAW
SALEM, Ore., Oct. 6.—The state's
brief in the case of Oregon vs. the
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph
company which will be filed in the
United States supreme court answering
the one by that company alleging that
the initiative and referendum law is
in violation of the federal government,
is in the hands of the state printery
STRIKERS TO
FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6.—The Harri
man strikers of the middle west are
soon to become enmeshed in law
through the action of the federal
authorities who are preparing to cite
them for contempt of court on the
charge of violating the federal in
junction issued to restrain them from
interfering with railroad property and
other employees.
The strikers are incensed and are
being aroused to the fighting pitch.
They protest indignantly against the
Deny Dam Broke.
LA CROSSE, Wis., Oct. 6.—Damage
to the extent of several million dol
lars to this section of country was
caused today on account of a rampage
of the Black river, swollen because
rains. The Mississippi river is rising
rapidly and a big flood is expected.
special train is being rushed to Hat
field, which is the hardest hit by the
flood, to remove citizens from the dan
ger. The town was almost submerg
OBJECT TO BE
ING LEFT OUT
TACOMA, Oct. 6.—Because of a
change made in the route of the spe
cial train of President Taft thus pre
venting the scheduled 10-minutes'
talk of the president at Puyallup, the
citizens of that city today have sent
in a protest against the change.
TAFT DE
SUPREME COURT
is
my heart and I resent it with deep
indignation." Continuing, the Presi
dent said: "What distinguishes this
country from all others is the United
States supreme court at Washington,
which has so often stood between us
and errors which might have been
committed which would have been
greatly injurious to the country. To
turn upon that court, to question its
motives, to attack it, is to me to lay
the axe to the root of the tree of
civiliization."
He concluded by declaring that the
attack of the muckrakers should be
disregarded and more trust put in of
ficials. He made two stops today; two
hours here and two hours at Boise.
It is generally believed that Presi
dent Taft will discuss international
peace during his coast trip. He be
lieves that this policy can be pop
today. It contains 30,000 words, writ
ten by the attorney general of Ore
gon.
The brief denies the assertion that
it is "unrepublican and is government
by force," as the company alleged and
declares it checks corrupt legislation
and gives an opportunity for the peo
ple to enact good measures denied to
them by the legislature.
BE CITED
government's order. Thus far the in
junctions have prevented rioting, but
it is feared that rioting will soon
break out.
Idle Cars at La Grande.
LA GRANDE, Ore., Oct. 6.—Seventy
cars are idle here because of the want
of repairs. Several engines are also
on the sidetracks from the same
cause. In the last 24 hours several
strikebreakers have joined the strik
ers. who now number 130.
of
A
ed when the levee above the town
broke.
The La Crosse Water Power compa
ny denies that its dam broke. The
company declares that the river cut
the channel around the west end of the
dam.
Towns below Hatfield are flooded, in
cluding the following: Halycon,
Wright, Black River Falls, Irving, *
Melrose, North Bend, Stevenson, Noi^h
La Crosse, and several others.
DUKE CONNAUGHT
ON WAY TO CANADA
LONDON, Oct. 6.—Duke Connaught
started today for Canada, where he will
become governor general. In accept
ing this office, the duke is fullfilling
the wishes of his brother, the late King
Edward.