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The Daily Star-Mirror ' ~Y - VOLUME VIII MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO .TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1918 NUMBER 15 WILSON REFUSES TO TREAT WITH THE KAISER President Wilson rejects Germany's offer to accept his terms in exchange for an armistice and announced to the German people and to the world that the allies refuse to treat with the kaiser or his representatives. Only by removing the kaiser can the German people secure peace. His answer is regarded as a master stroke of diplomacy and puts it up to the German people to take control of their own government. It is believed that this reply of the president, who speaks for all of the allies, will result in the unconditional surrender of the kaiser or a revolution in Germany. In either case the fate of the Hohenzollem dynasty is sealed. While the world has been waiting for the president's reply which was put on the wires within 12 hours after the note from Germany was officially received, the forces on all fronts made splendid advances against the Ger mans and placed the kaiser's armies in dire périt. The Germans are-evac uating Zeebrugge and Ostend, their submarine bases, by sea as the Allies have cut off their only railway lines to the Belgian coast. Following is the president's reply to Germany and the cable and tele graphic dispatches received today: Text of President's Answer. "The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and by a large majority of the reichstag of the terms laid down by the president of the United States of America in his address to the congress of the United States on the 8th of January, 1918, and in his subsequent addresses justifies the president in making a frank and direct statement of his decision with regard to the communications of the German government of the 8th and 12th of October, 1918. "It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions of an armistice are matters which must be left to the judgment and advice of the military advisers of the government of the United States and the allied governments, and the president feels it his duty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the government of the United States which does not provide absolutely satisfactory safeguards and guarantees of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of the United States and the allies on the field. "He feels confident that he can safely assume that this will also be the Judgment and decision of the allied governments. "The president feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the gov ernment of the United States nor, he is quite sure the governments with which the government of the United States is associated as a belligerent, will consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Ger continue the illegal and inhumane practices which they still persist in. "At the very time that the German government approaches the govern ment of the United States with proposals of peace its submarines are en gaged in sinking passenger ships at sea, and not the ships alone, but the very boats in which their passengers and crews seek to make their way to safety; and in their present enforced withdrawal from Flanders and France the German armies are pursuing a course of wanton destruction which has always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules and practices of civilized warfare. Cities and Villages, if not destroyed, are being not only stripped of all they contain, but often of their very in habitants. to agree to a cessation of arms while acts of inhumanity, spoliation and desolation are being continued, which they justly look upon with horror The nations associated against Germany can not be expected and with burning hearts. "It is necessary also, in order that there may be no possibility of mis understanding, that the president should very solemnly call the attention of the government of Germany to the language and plain intent of one "the terms of peace which the German government has now accepted. It contained in the address of the president, delivered at Mount Vernon on the Fourth of July, last. \ "It is as follows: - »Ht t " 'The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world; or if •can not be presently destroyed, at least its reduction to virtual impotence.' "The power which has hitherto controlled the German nation is of the sort here described. It is within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The president's words just quoted naturally constitute a condition prece dent to peace, if peace is to come by the action of the German people them selves. The president feels bound to say that the whole process of peace will, in his judgment, depend upon the definiteness and the satisfactory character of the guarantees which can be given in this fundamental, indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond & peradveriture with whom they ate dealing. "The president will make a separate reply to the royal and imperial gov ernment of Austria-Hungary. "Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration. j ROBERT LANSING. It is "(Signed) "MR. FREDERICK OEtiERLIN, "Charge d'Affaires, ad Interim, in Charge of German Interests in the United States." Americans, With Tanks, Defeating German Forces. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN.—(By As sociated Freas.4 — Noon, today.—Tanks brought into action by the Americans to break through the enemy wire entanglements west of Ramage. Despite German I resistance the Americans made satisfactory progress. The Ger mans are apparently ready to contest the ground as stubbornly today as they did yesterday. Enemy artillery is being freely used to hold Americans by Yankee gun V ners are doing much to break down the German resistance. Units of the second American army which began operations on October 12 under ■ the command of Major General Bullard repulsed strong German raids on their positions. Belgians Crowding Germans Near Menin. LONDON.—Belgian troops are on the outskirts of Menin and within two ■miles of Counrtai. The allies are in effective artillery range of the rail roads from Lille to Thourour by way of Courtai. This means that the allies dominate the connecting link between the German troops around Lille and those in Ostend sector. French Make Important Advances. PARIS.—(Official.)—French made important advances toward Rethel and captured the town of Nanteuill-Sui-Aisne. In Argonne the French reached the Aisne river west of Grandpre and captured the villages of Olizy and Termes. Nearly 800 prisoners were taken here. South of Serre the French took the towns of Remies, Barenton Cel and Monceau-le-Wast. Germans Deserting Zebrugge and Ostend. LONDON.—Several of Germany's largest torpedo boats recently left Zee brugge during a stormy night, according to a Dutch frontier dispatch. The German warships were filled to capacity with German soldiers and they pro ceeded to Germany. The Germans are also reported to be evacuating Ostend. It Was Hindenberg Who Asked for Peace. WASHINGTON.—It was Field Marshal Von Hindenberg himself, and not suposedly the pacifist Maximilian who caused the German government to accept President Wilson's terms and seek an armistice, according to advices reaching Washington through official sources by way of a neutral country. Germany Threatened With Revolution. -From the same source that the state department se cured its information that Hindenberg had forced the government to agree to accept President Wilson's terms, the department has received by cable a prediction that the 'German defensive cannot be continued more than three months at the outside without a debacle. (Webster gives the defini tion of debacle as "the sudden breaking up of a government.") This statement comes from a well informed source regarded as semi . official and is based upon the belief that a great revolution is pending in WASHINGTON. NORTH ORGANIZED TEN NORTH IDx\HO COUNTIES ORGANIZE TO CARRY ON AN j ACTIVE CAMPAIGN Republicans of the 10 northern coun ties of Idaho have organized a district and made arrangements to carry on an active campaign for the election of the state, congressional and legislative tick ets of the republican party. Moscow is to be made headquarters and Arnold S. Lyon, of Moscow, was selected as chair man. R. F. Kercival, of Coeur d'Alene was made secretary. The organization is formed for the purpose of combatting the activities of the nonpartisan league and helping to elect the men who are not affiliated with that organization or with the I. W. W., both of which organizations, it is claim ed, are working together to get control of this state. Senator Nugent, who has been indorsed by the nonpartisan league, is to be opposed as is Samuels, who was nominated by the league as a democrat. Representatives from qach of the 10 counties were here in consultation with representatives of the state committee and arrangements made to have the dis trict chairman and committee cooperate with the county organizations. Mr. Lyon issued the following letter to the republicans of the district. I have been chosen as the chairman of the republican central committee for the ten northern Idaho counties. I have been a resident of Idaho for thirty-two years and have always been a farmer and have taken a great deal of interest of Latah county have had sufficient confi dence in me to continue me as president of the Latah County Farmers' Union for the past eight years. During my con nection with this organization I en deavored to avoid, and have succeeded in avoiding, the use of the union as party political organization, and I want it understood now that by accepting the position which I now occupy, I do so merely from p personal standpoint and not as an officer of the Farmers' Union. We are facing todav a situation which should cause every citizen to study very carefully before casting his vote. A new element has entered into the political life of Idaho_namelv, the non-partisan, league " I want to appeal to you to study the situation very carefully before election day. It is my aim to make this an edit cational campaign in the 10 northern counties and to that end I shall from time to time send you certain facts from this office jq the way of literature, and earnestly invite your study of both sides of the questions at issue. I art not par ticularly interested in party politics,, put are all interested in the future of our state. The literature which you cäti look for in your mail will be a true statement of the facts and if you have any question about the truthfulness of any matter coming to you, this office will furnish you with the necessary proof. Loyalty to our country, to our state, and especially to our soldiers and sailors, rill be the key note of the republican campaign ; but when we win the war, we still lose, if in our carelessness m voting we foster legislation in the state of Idaho, which will impair the savings pf years of toil and our independence as, individuals. . ■ , ' 1 ° AT It is fiiy belief that this is not trie unie tö divett the minds of the people from the one big issue—-the winning ,of the war. New economist theories and a hew constitution call well be deferred until the return of onr brave men after the unconditional surrender of the enemy. we V Aged Woman Buys a Bond. Mrs. Phebe Dygert, mother' of A. Dygert, bought a Liberty bond for $50, yesterday. Mrs. Dygert is 93 years old. She said she wanted to do "her bit" to help win the war. Germany where a majority of the people ate' determined to have peace at any price. Wilson's Reply Meets Approval of French People. PARIS.— President Wilson's reply to Germany was given to the public by this afternoon's papers. It became the absorbing topic of conversation and'discussion. The tone of sentiment is distinctly favorable to the reply, the prevailing spirit being one of jubilation. American Troop Ship in Distress. (Editor's Note.—The following telegram evidently deals with an American troop ship in distress but what caused the trouble is not shown in the dis patch. This is evidently a "follow up" of a dispatch which has not reached here yet.) HOBOKEN, N. J.—American transport Amerika is at a pier here. All troops taken off safely. Ship undergoing repairs. This may have had some thing to do with water entering the hold. Most of the troops aboard are still in their berths. Many had no time to don clothes. Red Cross distributed clothing to shivering soldiers. The transport wds formerly the Hamburg-American line passenger ship Amerika. She registers 22,622 tons and is 669 feet long. Americans Cross Selle River. LONDON.—American troops on patrol have crossed the Selle river in the St. Souplet neighborhood, south of Le Gateau, yesterday and took 30 prisoners, Genera) Haig announced. American Casualties 995. There are 995 names in the casualty lists issued today. The list issued for morning papers follows; Killed in action, 47; missing in action, 49; wounded severely, 185; died of wounds, 24; died of disease, 34; died of accident and other causes,' 4; wounded, degree undetermined, 136; wounded slightly, 22; total, 601. Afternoon List.—Killed in action, 47; missing in action, 49; wounded verely, 184; died of disease, 34; died of accident and other causes, 4; died of wounds, 26; wounded slightly, 15; wounded, degree undetermined, 136; total, 494. se Idaho's Roll of Honor. The names of two Idaho soldiers appear in today's casualty lists. Albert Wickberg, of St. Maries, and Clifford T. Burtt, of Twin Palls, are both re ported as wounded severely. WEST FRONT WRITES FORMER STUDENT OF U. OF I. TELLS OF DODGING AIR PLANE BOMBS Mrs. John Byers, of Viola, is in re ceipt of the following very interest ing letter from her sister. Miss Jennie Cuthbert, well known in Moscow, where she attended the University of Idaho. She is now a Red Cross nurse in the thick of the fighting zone in France and Bejgium and tells of some of the exciting times she has had there. Her letter follows: Somewhere in France, Aug. 26.— Dear Fannie: Your letter written July 10 was here for me when I ar rived back at the base a few days ago. 1 was away for five weeks of excitement at the front and it seems quite nice to be back here again, where we don't hear the guns and the noise. I was quite tired when I got back and now after three days am just beginning to feel rested. I wrote you letter just before I left the front but lost it in Paris before I got it mailed so don't know whether you will get it or not. It was written August 17. I celebrated my birthday by writing you, then we were moved rather unexpectedly. I did not get mailed. We had a very exciting time our last week at the front, we were very close to the lines. They told us closer than they had ever let girls go be fore and we were too close to do much good as our operating room and tents _ • Tell mother I have made good use of my sweater as it is quite cold ev enings but it is very warm during the day. We lived In tents part of the time while at the front and some times we lived in old ruined villages which had been deserted by the French people. - — - So it seems very good to be back here where I can sleep in a bed with a pillow. I have been using my gas mask for that purpose I had nothing else for a pillow, and the other be cause it was the only way I could yemçniber to take it when we got a call to rush to the cane which was at the foot of the hill and when we heard the boé'he over us we rushed down there and quite often we had gas j shells exploding around us so had to be always prepared. Well must close and go see if I am to work today. Love to all, Jennie. were too good a mark for Fritz and we seemed to be in his way and he tried to get us, but by first bombing us with aeroplanes, they dropped two but neither exploded then they turned the guns our way and fired a num ber of shells over us, but no one was hurt. We stopped one day in Paris on our way home but I was too tired to enjoy it much. I went to the theatre in the evening and enjoyed it as I had not been since I left Am A. Dygert returned today from his 40Û acre farm near Strathmore, Al berta, where he went to look after his share of the crop. This is the first crop harvested on the land which i was sod broken last year. It was I planted to spring wheat (Marquis) f and yielded an average of 13 bushels per acre. Mr. Dygert had 800 acres about 70 miles south of Calgary which he sold last spring for $55 per acre, Last year his farm there yielded 13,000 bushels of wheat of which he got oriê-Third. He sold his wheat last week for $2.03 3-4 cents per bushel, in bulk. ■te. MOSCOW MAN RETURNS FROM FARM IN ALBERTA RENDERS DECISION JUDGE STEELE DECIDES CASE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THE MINING INTERESTS Judge Steele, of Moscow, today ren dered an opinion in the case of Mary A. Jorgenson and the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company vs. the Seattle Mica Company and others. The judge holds in favor of the plain tiffs in all points and gives to them com plete title to the mine. The mica from this mine has been I tested by the United States government and it is found to be the most valuable in the world. It rivals the famous mica from India and Korea. The claim was located in 1883 and a patent thereafter issued to the plaintiffs. Subsequently the same tract of land was clear-listed by the government to the state of Idaho. "It is claimed also by the defendant that because the government issued this patent in accordance with the rules which patent unsurveyed mining claims, there fore this is such a finding and such a decision which will prevent the courts from finding that the Last Chance min ing claim, which is now in dispute, is n 1 the same land as that transferred in the patent. It is very evident to the court, that when the government came to the con clusion from the facts before it, that this was unappropriated public domain, that the government overlooked its own rec ords. The claim had been surveyed, which was thereby segregated from the public domain, because it had been filed ,,pon as the Last Chance mine prior to ^jj^t time. The filing of a mining claim. and the steps which are followed by the government in proceeding to push it to patent, segregate it from the public do, main. In clear-listing this land, it was stated that it was only listing any unappro priated government land, and yet the evidence shows, without controversy, that this mining claim was appropriated prior to this clear-listing. One who filés a mining claim, acquires a vested interest in the claim, which cannot he taken away from him by others. We are all familiar with the pule, and of what the different statutes provide wtllr reference tq contracts dis turbing vested rights, and it is hol lieéêS j sary to cite authorities upon this point. Judge Dietrich in deciding the case in regard to the title to the Moscovite mine, which is in this same locality, held that it could not be questioned but what the Moscovite mine was a. claim of known mineral character, and the court, can't get away from the conclusion that the government, and everyone else must nave been held to have known that the Last Chance mining claim was {mown to he mineral, and that it was so known when thq government attempted to clear list the land to the state as non-mineral. unappropriated public lands. To hold anything else would be to hold that the government can disturb vested rights by giving the land to someone else. Such is not the policy upon which the gov eminent not upon which tlm courts pro ceed. " * *r'; Judge Deitrich. in his tltTi'dibii, "It is familiar law that a valid location confers upon the locator and his gran tees or successors in interest, a vested interest. It is_ sometimes referred to as a qualified title, hut whatever it may be called, it is a vested interest, and can not be divested without due process of law. ;(ys : ■ '* , .Lj 'v* Therefore the governtUém . Cfillflöf di vest one who has a valid mining {oration of his interest in the mining claim, iff sn ex parte proceeding, to which the locatoi of the mining claim is not a party. The coil ft compliments a counsel upon their research, find upon their presenta tion ol this case., hut it feels hound to come to the conclusion that the state of Idaho never acquired any interest to this mining claim through the dear-listing of the lands to the state, and that these defendants are in no better position than the state. The state cannot give any better title than the state itself had, and with the views and conclusions at which I have arrived and heretofore stated in this opinion, I feel that counsel for plain tiffs can draw a proper decree, award ing this land to the plaintiffs, and their interests appear in the evidence, and the counsel for plaintiffs will prepare proper findings of fact, conclusions of law and decree for my signature, in accordance with the conclusions herein reached. Judge J. H. Forney appeared as coun sel for the plaintiffs. The defendants were represented by Suppiger & Ogden, of Moscow, and F. E.- Wheeler, of Seattle. Merry-Go-Round club has donated five sheets, 30 handkerchiefs and six hand towels to the linen shower for 1 the Red Cross. RED CROSS WANTS MANY MORE HAND TOWELS The local Red Cross has been given a quota of hand towels to be com pleted by next Saturday. Up to to day the chapter is short 225 towels and asks that every one who can do so send towels to the headquarters at once. The towels should be 18 by 30 inches. Mrs. Meeker will be at headquarters Wednesday and Thurs day afternoons to receive them. The Latah county had bought $530,550 worth of Liberty bonds of the fourth issue when the totals were footed up last night. Of this sum the county, outside of Moscow, had taken $230, 000 and the city had taken a trifle over $300,000 This leaves the city with practically $100,000 to raise and the county, ouu>ide cf Moscow, must take practically $170,000 worth of bonds before Saturday night to com plete their quotas. Today the work of canvassing the county began in earnest. The cham ber of commerce took the matter up at its noon luncheon and started out men and women to see all of those in Moscow and in every precinct who have not done their full duty in the loan. These will be given an oppor tunity to "come through" with their quotas and if they fail will be report ed to the county council of -defense. The county council has taken up the work of handling those who fail to take their quotas and these will be shown no mercy. Several of them have been cited to appear before the council tonight. The meeting will not be public but the men cited to ap pear will be given an opportunity to take their quotas and if they show a disposition to do this they will be given help. If they do not steps will be taken to turn them over to the federal government and their names, with the facts in their cases will be given to the public. The council and the loan commit tee are determined that the county and city shall both raise their quotas and that those who are pro-German will be known as such and that the people will know where they stand. Instructions were sent this after noon to every precinct captain to call upon the delinquents personally and give them one more chance to take their quotas and if they refuse to report them at Ohce to the county council of defense which is empowered by federal law to deal with them. The subscriptions received in Mos cow up to last night and not previ ously reported follow: Alexander, M. ...... Arnold, L. D. ....... Bartley, Mrs. Mary E. Byers, H. C. ....... Byers, Johfl Cole, Gèo. A. ....... Cornwall, A. Mary .. Cornwall, M. H. Harper, Ollie E.-^. d.. Haynes, Louie' . j. Haynes, N. Johnson, Mrs. N. and Robert.. Kesel, Fred ..... i'v. .. Moore, Mrs. Julia A. Overby, Mary H. .. Owings, Samuel T. . Reilly, John . Sanders, Mrs. Andrew Burt... Sanders, G. H. .. Schrack, Charley Vernon .... Sheets, W. A. . , ; ! s . ; . Snow, Leila .. Tesch, Fred . Frei, Edward . Belles, C. E.. Woodworth, Jay . Havens, Ira W. Grice, Glen (additional) . Moore, R. J. (additional). Anderson, Carl F. (additional) Hobson, Rhoda .. Bentçn, Clarke L. Biggs, J. Quincy .. Day, Jérome J. Mix, Abbie (additional) . Day, Jerome J. Jr.(additional) Day, Bernice (additional).... DermottjVirginia (additional) Day, Lucy M. (additional)... Nessley, J. E.. Mix, f. e. :.;.; ; ; 50 200 4.poo 100 100 20 ? 300 200 . 1,600 150 250 60 100 1,000 mo 100 300 50 100 'oO r - 100 2o0 400 60 300 200 50 200 50 250 450 50 ioa 30,000 50 50 50 60 3(T , " TOO 100 Strong, Mrs. J. R. Sprouse, Mrs. E. F . Erickson, Frank M.. Soulen, Phillip . Burkfirt. F. L.. Shapiro, Herman . Lowry, E. M. ,. 50 50 / 300 300 50 60 50 !>• ADOLPH HENDRICKSON DIED AT JEFFERSON, MO. A telegram was received today by Mrs. Adolph Hendrickson announcing the death of her husband at Jefferson, Mo ot Spanish influenza. Mr. Hendrickson left hero October 3 with the soldiers, although he was drafted from Clear water county. Mr. Hendrickson's pa rents live at Troy and about Christmas he was married to Mrs. Scluimacker, who has three children. Mr. Hendrick son was twenty-four years of age. * FARMERS AUTOMOBILE SMASHES ELECTROLIER When the brakes on his six-cylinder Buick car failed to work, V. L. Stahl, a farmer living near Moscow, ran into one of the electroliers in front of the Collins & Orland hardware store, breaking the electrolier post off and smashing it bad- ly. The car was but slightly damaged. Mrs. Stahl and baby were with him in the car, but all of the occupants escaped* injury. -te Prof. Soulen returned yesterday from a week's session of the Lemhi county teachers' association at Salmon City. A fine spirit and good attendance char acterized the sessions until Thursday, when the meetings were terminated by a message closing all public gatherings on account of the prevailing epidemic, No influenza cases were reported over the divide in Lemhi county.