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THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR
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VOLUME III.
LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1914
NUMBER 111
MEXICO CITY ALL EXCITED
NEW REVOLT APPEARED
DIAZ SAID TO HAVE STARTED INDEPENDENT
MOVEMENT AGAINST FEDERALS AND REBELS.
SOLDIERS SURROUND PALACE
Fédérais Are Mounting Batteries on Roofs and on
Hills Surrounding the Capital—Huerta Ex
pecting a Speedy Attack.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 7.—A crisis |
seemed near today and 2000 soldiers
are camped around the national pal
ace. Inside President Huerta and his
chief advisers were in conference.
It is reported that General Peliz
Diaz is behind the new revolt Around
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the arsenal, houses were cleared of
occupants and many guns were
mounted on roofs. The federal sold
iers slept beside their guns last night.
Mount Batteries on Hills.
A courier from Guadeloupe,
suburb confirmed reports that the
local garrison had revolted. Federal
troops were rushed to the scene in
armoured automobiles and batteries
are being mounted on the hills sur
rounding the capital.
It now seems evident that President
Huerta Is expecting h. speedy attack.
The local police are said to be pre
pared to join the rebels the moment
they enter the city.
Huerta Wins a Point.
Late this afternoon It is reported
that Huerta had gained the upper
hand at the suberb of Guadeloupe
where 20 conspirators were arrested
and a quantity of contraband arms
and ammunition were seized by the
fédérais at Santa Clara.
Diaz Behind Revolt
HAVANA. Cuba, Peb. 7.—Friends of
Felix Diaz today didn't dispute that
Diaz is behind the movement in Mex
President Huerta
ico against both
and General Carranza, designed
place him in the presidential chair.
They added that he believed it would
to
win but that he has made no definite
plans for returning to Mexico.
CONFESSED TO MURDER
Woman Today Admits Shooting An
other Yesterday Because She Stood
in the Way of Her Happiness.
N. J.. 'Peb. 7.—Hazel
NEWARK,
Heldman, aged 25, of Vernon, N. J„
lias confessed, according to the po
lice, to shooting and killing Mrs. Har
riett Manning at the home of the lat
Miss Heidman drank
a solution of bichloride of mercury to
day and her condition is critical.
Mrs. Manning was shot to her death
in the presence of her mother and
sister by a woman who had gained ad
mittance to the home by saying she
was a "friend from Philadelphia." The
theory advanced first was that the
person was a man dresed as a wom
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an.
Mrs. Manning is separated from iter
husband. "Yes I loved Mr. Manning
and wanted to marry him," .Miss Heid
nîan is alleged to have told the po
lice. "His wife stood in the way of
my happiness and 1 shot her."
- Lffesavers Standing By.
MANASQUAN. Fel). T.—The Manas
quan life saving crew is standing by
to save the crew of the English tramp
steamship Queen Louise ashore at
Squan beach in case the vessel be
gins to break up. With her rudder
disabled the Louise drifted most of
the night and was finally stranded in
heavy gale at 4:30. Captain Mc
Donough reported that tho crew of 20
men was in good condition and that
he would stand by the ship so long
as there was a chance of saving them.
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Many Were Asphyxiated.
LONDON, Feb. Illuminating gas
leaking from a broak in a pipe as
phyxiated 41 employees of a Moscow
insurance office, according to a Central
It Is said the |
News dispatch today,
porter found the leak after nearly
all in the office were dead.
Hadley In Maine.
PORTLAND, Me., Feb. 7.—"Pro
gressive Ideals and the Public Prob
lems of Today" is the subject of an ad
dress that former Governor Hadley
of Missouri will deliver tonight as the
guest of honor and principal speaker
at the dinner of the Economic Club
of Portland at the congress Square
hotel. It will be the first time the
Missourian has spoken In this section
of the country.
ELKS ANNUAL BANQUET
'Blgr Brother More meut? Will Be
Launched at Chicago Tonight
hj Members.
CHICAGO. Feb. 7.—A "Big Brother
Movement" will be launched here to
night at the annual banquet of the
Elks. More than 1000 Elks will be
present, and each of the lodges will
send to the judge of the Juvenile
Court the names of Elks who went to
be "Big Brothers" to boys who are
iu trouble.
The grand lodge committee in charge
of the movement to rescue delin
quents, is headed by Edward Leach,
grand exalted ruler of the Elks. The
substance of the movement is that the
judge, in receipt of the names of
Elks forwarding the motion, instead of
committing or paroling a boy to the
custody of a probation officer, will
ask the "Big Brother" to look after
and take care of this boy.
Under this plan tiie little fellow is
not obliged to report to the court or!
to a probation officer, but the report
of the boy's conduct and progress will
be made by the "Big Brother."
only know and realize that it's mighty
easy to be good when you have a
friend to help you.
He'll
VICTIM OF HEART FAILURE
Neis Riirgliind Passes Away at Home
Near Moscow—Well Known in
This City.
At 5 o'clock last evening at his
home about three miles northeat of
Moscow Nels Burglund passed sud
denly away as the result of heart fail
ure. The deceased was apparently in
perfect health and his death came as a
great shock to his family and friends.
He moved to Moscow with his fam
ily from North Dakota about font
years ago and is very well known in
this city. He is survived by a widow,
one son and three daughters. Two of
the daughters, Mrs. C, E. Carlson, and
Mrs, L. J. Carlson, reside in Mos
cow.
FISHING FLEW DOOMED
Government Hus Dispatched Naval
Relief Measure Bnt$,'-*
Hope Held Out.
Tug as
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The de
struction of the American fishing fleet
jammed in the ice in the Bay of
patched as a relief measure but on
account of the vast ice floes, it can
not get within 10 miles of the doomed
The boy is between the west
now
Islands seemed inevitable, it was stat
ed at the navy department today.
The naval tug Potomac was dis
boats.
const of Newfoundland and the east
coast of the Canadian mainland.
GEM'LEVAN'S AGBEEMENT"
Secretary of State Bryan Negotiating
With Japan on the New Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Secretary
of State Bryan is seeking the Tokio
government's consent to a Japanese
exclusion act similar to the Chinese
stated today on
It is said the Cali
exclusion law was
high authority,
forula alien land law is the principal
man's Agreement" by which the Jap
anese
la is raised.
opening the United States for more
Japanese than it does about protecting
those already settled hero.
The house Immigration commjll.ee
today hadn't yet decided whether it
will resume hearings on *he Raker
bill.
obstacle.
Japan is willing to have a "Gentle
land ownership ban in CalKorn
Tokio cares less about
Probe New Y'ork Central.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The resolu
tion Introduced yesterday by Senator
Norris providing for a congressional
investigation of the alleged looting of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad, was adopted by the sen
ate today.
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The Mexican soldiers and civilians who tied from Ojina to American territory are here seen starting on their
long trip to Fort Bliss, where they are now being .cared for by Uncle Sam.
LATAH MAN MAY
SEEK HIGH HONOR
\V. M. MORGAN URGED TO GET IN
NON-PARTISAN RACE FOR
SUPREME BENCH.
Political Pot Already Boiliug iu Idaho
Political Circles—Many Candidates
Mentioned.
By Maze Kector.
Latah county may have a candidate
j n th e coming primaries for tiie Idaho
supreme bench to succeed Chief Jus
tice Aiishie whose term will expire.
Rumors were current today that W.
M. Morgan, one of the best-known at
torneys in the state, residing in .Mos
cow, would become a candidate for
the high office, however, when seen
today Mr. Morgan declared that he had
not made the statement or announced
his candidacy, though he admitted hav
ing said he would not run again for
office unless it be one thing, and that
for a place on the supreme bench. "1
didn't say when I might become a
candidate and at this time have no
idea of entering the race for tiie ju
dicial position in tiie coming cam
paign," said Mr. Morgan when ap
proached for a statement, relative to
tiie rumor.
Judiciary Non-Partisan.
Under tho new law the courts have
been taken from politics and all candi
dates for the supreme bench and for
district judges become non-partisan
candidates and the candidates' names
are placed in separate columns. Mr.
Morgan is a democrat and has repre
sented Latah county in the legislative 1
His acquaintance
several times.
large throughout the state and he
mitted today that he had had many
letters urging him to enter the race
this year.
Kepubllcans Mentioned.
Others who have been spoken
prominently for the supreme bench
are' Judge Edgar C. Steele, now judge
of the second judicial district, and
Judge Alfred Budge of the fourth
dicial district. Candidates for the su
preme bench are not many at the
present time, though it is known that
friends of James E. Babb of Lewiston
have been endeavoring to have him
| enter the race. Judge Warren Truitt,
strongly progressive, has also been
spoken of for the position. The other
three names mentioned are republic
ans.
State Politics Booming.
State politics is beginning to draw
marked attention in this section,
principally because of the recent an
nouncement of Congressman Burton
L. French to become a candidate for
tho United States senate to succeed
Senator James H, Brady. The opin
ion prevails throughout the state that
because of Mr. French's vote-getting
propensities, indicated by the great
majority he received in his congres
sional race in the last campaign, that
he will easily walk off with the repub
lican nomination. His opponents thus
far will be Senator James H. Brady,
Ex-Governor Frank R. Gooding and in
all probability Chief Justice James F.
Aiishie, though the latter has not yet
announced his intentions.
G. E. ('rum for Dark Horse.
It is understood that leaders of tiie
republican party are endeavoring to
bring out a new leader to succeed Sen
ator Brady, in an effort to get a re
organization of the party. It is said
that the choice must come from north
Idaho and it became known today that
the forces were becoming centered on
George E. Crum of Lewiston.
Mr.
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RETURNED HOME
MUCH REFRESHED
FOUND
PROFESSOR E. J. CAREY
GREAT CHANGES IN OLD
ENGLAND,
Had
Hadn't Been There for 18 Years
u Most Enjoyable Time, But Glad
to Return Home.
'Am absence of IS years makes a
heap sight of difference to one's vis
ion and the changes that, had occurred
in that time was almost like visiting
a new country," declared Professor
E. J. Carey, leader of the Moscow
band, and well-known business man,
who has just returned from visiting
his boyhood haunts in Old England.
Mr. Carey left here about 60 days
ago to visit his father at Manchester,
England, and to spend a vacation with
his old bandmaster at Liverpool.
While there, he spent eight days in
London visiting an old schoolmate
and while on the other side took oc
casion to visit many points of his
torical interest. He came back last
night with a fund of stories relating
to liis trip and is today busy greeting
old friends in Moscow, declaring that
ho wouldn't trade a foot, of Inland Em
pire for all the acres in England.
"I had a most enjoyable trip," said
Mr. Carey, "and every moment of my
visit in England was a pleasure I
shall long remember. Just the same
I'm glad to get back at Moscow and
feel that in all the land there is 'no
place life home.'"
Mr. Carey about three months ago
organized the Moscow boys' band,
made up of 45 youngsters of the city.
YYork on Most Expensive Attraction for
Pnnniua Exposition Begins
Today.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 7.—Work
started today on the miniature of the
Grand Canyon of Arizona which is to
be one of the most expensive and at
tractive concessions of the 1 anama
Pacific International exposition.
This concession, which is being con
structed by the Santa Fe Railroad at
cost of exceeding $8;,0,000, will be
the exact replica ol Natures mastei
piece. While it will occupy only five
and a half acres, scientific devices will
show the canyon in its proper per
spective and give the visitor a true
conception of the great heights and
distances. A trainload of red sand
stone from Winslow, Arizona, resembl
ing the native stone of the canyon and
large shipments of sage and cactus.
from which the canyon will be built
arrived sevetal days ago.
is This afternoon as a mark of honor
the leader, the band made their first
public appearance, serenading
Carey in front of his place of business.
The music drew a large crowd and
Mr.
each number was roundly applauded.
"The boys have done fine. I'm sur
prised at the progress they have mad
during my absence," said Mr. Carey.
This evening Mr. and Mrs. Carey will
be guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mc
Cusker at a dinner at the Hotel Mos
Of
cow.
BUILD GRAND CANYON REPLICA
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Shippers Protest Rates.
WASHINGTON, Feh. 7.—Shippers
of wooden barrels, pails, tubs and the
like had an opportunity today to pro
test to the interstate commerce com
mission against a grant of increased
freight rates to the 52 eastern rail
roads.
Fred Schmalz of Ogden, Utah, has
entered the forestry department at
the university, as a special student
during the second semester.
CAMPAIGN ON FOR
i NEW SUBSCRIBERS
j OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG PEO
PLE OR OLD ONES TO GET STAR
MIRROR FREE.
j
I Just a Little Effort Will Bring the
Result—This Plan Would help
the Paper ami Yourself.
If you are so well supplied with
this world's goods that it bores'you to
hear bow you can make fire dollars
with searsely a turn of the wrist, you
had beter not read tiie great news
item tills column contains,
make you yawn. But we figure that
there are a whole lot of wide-awake
people in this man's town that would
find an extra V no serious hindrance
to a good night's sleep or the diges
tion of dinner. There must be plenty
of prsons who. while they are bright
enough and progressive enough to
want to keep up with the times by
reading the daily paper, yet haven't
the money on hand to pay for a sub
scription. We think that we have a
pretty good scheme for those people
by which they can have "all the news
that's fit to print" every day in the
week without spending a nickel for
It will
it.
No Afore Borrowing.
Of course quite a raft of people do
that now by- borrowing their neigh
bor's paper, but we are not making j
any allusions to any form of cheap
skate, skin game. Ours is a straight
business proposition and one that
ought to make'a lot of grown-ups and
children sit right up and take notice
and then get into their goloshes to
tackle the Job.
Here is our offer, tt is not a notice
of a closing out sale, but an opening
up sale. We are not quitting; we are
beginning.
To every person who brings up four
new subscriptions, paid in advance
for one year, to the Dally Star-Mirror,
we will give an absolutely free sub
scription to the Daily for an entire
year.
To every person who brings in font
new subscriptions to the Weekly Star
Mirror, all paid in advance, for a full
year, we will give free of cost a year's
subscription to the Weekly Star Mir
tor.
i The subscriptions must be new ones.
Renewals will not count,
Must Add .Now Names. "
During the next thirty days we are
g 0 j„g t0 a< ( (1 [ W0 hundred names to
our subscription lists for both daily
and weekly papers. We are putting
Qut the kind of paper that ou g ht to
haye supporti and now we are going
to gQ after (he support . We think (hat
we can get some 0 f it by interesting
y(JU , n solidting subscriptions for us.
„ yQ1] gfit a free yearlv sul)BCri p t ion to
(he dai , y or the weekly> !t 0!lght t0 pav
yQU for {he few houl . s of tlmc it will
. ^ tQ ggt four Qf your , ownBpeople
, o put their nameB on ollr ,, ftB . when
\ haye a good thing t0 han , U(! . you
wJU ^ .. ]enly of cal]g f01 , it> aa
eve) . y Bale8lna , knoWB . Yo u won't
fim] anybo( , y t „ at doesn . ; think tho
Moscow Star-Mirror is a good paper
and worth twice what it costs.
Would Re Welcome Visitor.
In the winter farmers have compar
ative leisure. It would be very little
trouble to hitch up the team and drive
out to get subscriptions among the
neighbors. The exercise will do the
horses good, and your friends will be
so glad to have the long, lonesome day
Interrupted by a cheerful visitor that
they will subscribe immediately.
Boys and girls ought to earn the
paper far their fathers and mothers.
RAILROAD FOR WEIPPE
SEEMS NOW IN PROSPECT
SALE OF GREAT BLOCK OF TIMBER IN THAT
REGION STIMULATES ACTIVITY.
SAWMILL IS CUTTING TIMBER
j Bonds For Rural School District Already Voted—
Prominent Moscow People Interested in
Project.
After school hours any bright boy or
girl could rustle up four subscriptions
in no time at all. And it ought to give
any child a lot of satisfaction to know
that five dollars, the money father
works so hard to spend carefully will
works so hard to spend carrefuliy will
be saved if only a son or daughter has
got enough push and unselfishness to
start out after school to get four sub
scriptions.
The price of the subscription is as
follows: Daily Star-Mirror, delivered
by carrier. $5 per year: sent by mail,
three dollars fier year. Weekly Star
Mirror, dollar and a half per year.
BOOST STANDARDS AT VARSITY
Faculty Amends Credit System in Col
lege of Letters and Sciences—
Fewer Credits and More Work.
At a meeting of the university fac
ulty yesterday afternoon an import
ant amendment was adopted to the
"credit" system in the college of letters
and sciences, reducing the require
ments from 16 credits plus military
drill each semester to 15 credits plus
drill. The result is that beginning
with next year only 128 credits will
be required instead of 132.
The change will not, however, re
duce the amount of work that will be
required. It wli, on the other baud,
give an •opportunity for a general
"stiffening" of tiie courses throughout
the college of letters and sciences.
None of the large high standard col
leges or universities iu the country
require more than 128 credits for
graduation from their colleges of let
ters and sciences and it was to har
monize the University of Idaho's re
quirements with those of larger in
stitutions that the change was made.
A similar amendment was recently
adopted in the college of agriculture
so the change will be general through
out tiie entire institution.
TAKE "f'ON" EXAMS
Students Trembling Between Flunks
aud Fussing Marks Given Last
Ulianoe Tests.
The semi-annual condition examin
ations, follow-ups of the regular sem
ester exams, were given at the uni
versity today, opening this morning
and continuing through the afternoon.
These exams, popularly known as
"coil exams," are the horror of the
year's work to the students who are
so unfortunate as to be required to
take them. They derive their name
from the fact that it is only on condi
tion that they are satisfactorily pass
ed that the students taking them are
permitted to receive credits in the par
ticular courses which they cover.
All students who fail to get a mark
of "D," representing a grade of 60
per cent, in the regular semester ex
aminations and yet do not fall below
the 50 line are permitted to take the
"con" exams in the courses in which
they fell in an effort to pass off their
conditions. If in the "con" exams
the 60 mark is not reached the course
must be repeated before credit will be
given for it.
That the school of forestry at the
university is attracting attention be
yond the boundaries of the state of
Idaho is conclusively proven by in
specting the home addresses of the
students composing the present en
rollment. Aside from those enrolled
from Idaho will he found: O, F. Carl
son. Spokane, Win; A. W. Stevens,
Spokane, Wn.: Thomas Lommasson,
Colfax, Wn.; F. F, Schmalz, Ogden.
Utah; W. R. Schofield, El Paso, Ill.;
Fred Ruckweed, Plymouth, Wis. : H.
H. Swan, Sherburne, N. Y. ; Ù. H.
Yates, Whiting. Iowa; W. D. Marshall,
St. John, Mich.
Mrs. Will Kessler and daughter,
Bessie. arrived in the city yesterdaj
from their home at Marcus. Wn. for
an extended visit at the home of Mrs.
J. S. Bumgarner and other friends
Mrs. Kessler was formerly a resident
of Moscow and her many friends
here will be glad to learn that her
health has greatly Improved since her
Igst visit to the city.
Prospects for tile building
branch railroad in the
country for
of a
Clearwater
a distance of 50 or 60
miles to tap an immense body of tim
ber seems almost assured during the
present year, according to L. F. Par
sons of this
city who has just return
ed from Weippe where he is inter
ested in tiie
corporation which
company, a
owns
the Weippe townsite and other valu
able property iu that section.
Mr.
company
vn, formerly of this
city is general manager. The build
ing of the railroad through the Weippe
timber belt is contingent on the sale
of a large block of standing timber
by the forestry department of the gov
ernment.
Parsons is president of the
and E. N. Bi
Contract Fixed Up.
Mr. Parsons states the report has
been received to the effect that the form
of contract to be entered into between
the government and the purchase of
the government limber in that sec
tion has been completed and the
material for the prospectus is now
in tiie bands of the printers. The
data relative to the timber will be
available to the public within a very
short time. It is understood the spe
cific advertisements inviting bids for
the purchase of the timber will be
inserted in lumber journals at an
early date.
Form Rural High School District
Mr. Parsons says the develop
ment of the timber industry will re
sult in the building of a railroad into
(ho Weippe section and the people
of the entire region are preparing for
material developments there. Re
cently a rural high school district was
created at Weippe by uniting three of
the county districts ami a bond issue
for $8000 to provide funds for the
construction of a rural high schhooi at
Weippe was carried by a large vote.
The Weippe district will add $2000
this fund which will make $5000
available for the new high school
building. Tiie recent school cesus
shows there will be about 60 pupils
attend the new school at the pres
ent time, this including the higli
school pupils of the three districts
and the grade pupils of the Weippe
of
development
the timber industry in the district, the
number of pupils will be greatly in
creased and the plan of architecture
for the school will provide for the
construction of additions without de
stroying the architectural beauty.
Sawmill in Operation.
Mr. Parsons reports the Carlin saw
mill has been in operation for the
past two weeks and the contract for
supplying the materials for rebuild
ing the iPerce dredge is practically
completed. The mill has a capacity
of about 15,000 feet a day and the en
tire cut it marketed locally.
Mr. Parsons was accompanied to
Weippe by Mrs. Parsons and reports
that there is now about four feet of
snow in that section and was still
While
vhen he departed.
snowing
there he met M's. C. O. Brown, mother
of E. N. Brown, and Mrs. Griffith,
who are visiting Mr. Brown's fam
lly.
NO MUNICIPAL LEVY
Kendrick Has Funds on Hand to Last
for Two Y ears More—Money
Out on Interest.
KENDRICK, Feb. 7—There will be
no municipal tax levy in Kendrick this
year, the city council announcing that
sufficient funds had been raised
through the 1913 levy to run the city
government for the years 1914 and
1915.
The levy last year was ,10 mills and
was based on the 1912 aasggsmeat
which accounts for the excessive re
turns. The council has made arrange
ments to leave the surplus on deposit,
the money drawing 4 per cent inter
est on daily balance,
Storm YVave Moving East.
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Freezing weath
er prevails today in the central and
middle western states and zero tem
peratures extended as far south as
the Texas coast. The storm is mov
ing east.