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The Da ily Star-Mirror
__ MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO WEDNESDAY, JANU ARY 15, 1919
VOLUME VIII
NUMBER 92
BOLSHEVISTS ARE DEFEATED IN BERLIN
The Bolshevists have met a decided and crushing defeat in Berlin and
Professor Liebknecht, the leader, who would murder
every one who had
more than 30 cents and destroy all government, has fled for his life, while
his son and daughter are held prisoner in Berlin. Liebknecht has followed
Kaiser Bill s example and fled to save his own hide, leaving his victims to
pay the penalty.
. The German cabinet met yesterday and is trying to organize a government
that can treat with the allies in the settlement of the peace terms.
The supreme war council has been busy getting in line for the great work
of the conference. The league of nations question is to be the first on the
program.
Von Hindenberg has taken the command of the German army to march
against the Poles in eastern Germany.
Hun£ w r er riots are growing in Petrograd and the people ask the soldiers to
' ' "* * -iem and save them from starvation.
A rebellion has broken out in Portugal and is assuming alarming propor
tions.
The cable and telegraphic news received today follows:
Bolshevists Badly Beaten.
BERLIN.—(By Associated Press.)—Berlin's long week of Bolshevism has
finally ended. Here and there scattered desperadoes, mostly youths, still
1 fire occasionally from house tops and small bands of Liebknecht's followers
during the night attempt to revive terrorism, but they are insignificant,
however. Liebknecht's sister was arrested today and several hundred of
the rebels are prisoners. The losses inflicted on each side during the last
week are believed to greatly exceed 200 dead and 1000 wounded, an over
whelming majority of these being Bolshevists.
German Cabinet Holds Meeting.
COPENHAGEN.—The German cabinet met yesterday to discuss the new
constitution and consider proposals for a meeting of the national assembly.
Germany's participation in the peace conference was also taken up. The
meeting is being continued today.
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League of Nations Comes First.
PARIS.—(By Associated Press.)—The work before today's session of the
supreme war council comprised the completion of the allotment of repre
sentatives of the various nations and the further consideration of the ques
tion whether Russia shall have delegates. The council will continue to work
continuously with the expectation of finishing by Saturday, when the first
formal sitting of the peace conference will be held. The program commonly
agreed upon provides the primary consideration of the formation of a league
of nations. The congress will work on this to the exclusion of all other
subjects.
Hindenberg Takes War Path Again.
COPENHAGEN.—Field Marshal von Hindenberg is soon to take command
of the German forces opposing the Polish forces in eastern Germany, say
Domberg advices, quoting Posen newspapers.
Starving Russians Ask to Be Shot.
STOCKHOLM.—Hunger riots took place in Petrograd Saturday and Sun
day according to advices received here. Ten thousand persons paraded the
. streets shouting for bread. They were fired upon by the Bolshevik troops.
It is said that in Letts, people desperate from hunger, formed in crowds
and asked the soldiers to fire upon them.
Dispatches says not a single piece of bread can be found in Petrograd and
the people are being given unground oats, the only food available.
Luxemburg's New Woman Ruler.
LUXEMBURG, Tuesday.—Princess Charlotte, sister of Grand Duchess
Marie, has been chosen as the latter's successor by the chamber of deputies
which met immediately after the abdication of the grand duchess was an
nounced. Princess Charlotte assumes office Wednesday.
Rioting in Portugal.
LONDON.—Revolutionary forces at Santare, northeast of Lisbon, Portu
gal having refused to surrender, government troops surrounded the town
and commenced a bombardment, according to a wireless dispatch from Lis
bon today.
Northwest Soldiers are Coming Home.
NEW YORK.—The United States Cruiser St. Louis, bringing the 346th
field artillery with 45 officers and 1,255 men, arrived today from Brest.
Twenty-six are sick and wounded. This regiment is one per cent regulars
and 99 per cent drafted men, who were trained at Camp Lewis and who saw
■ service in Belgium With the 91st division.
Bolshevism Breaks Out in Mexico.
EL PASO, Texas.—Hand bills printed in Spanish and signed "Mexican
Bolshevists," were distributed here today urging the death of President
Cäranza, Villa, Felix Diaz, Governor Cantu, of Lower California, Dr. Vas
quez Gomez, Francisco Delà Barra and all o„her political leaders and rich
men of Mexico.
LEGISLATURE ASKS MILLIONS
BOISE.—One million dollars
asked of congress for the north and
south road from Orangeville to Boise,
in a meomrial introduced today
Senator Nash, of Franklin county,
Senator Nash asked for the suspen
sion of the rules and the immediate
passage of his memorial. It will be
taken up tomorrow morning.
A joint memorial was introduced
the house by the committee on Indian
agents, asking congress for a big
construction policy on reclamation of
lands in this state.
A memorial to congress asking for
the passage of a bill permitting 75
per cent aid for roads in sparsely
settled states, introduced yesterday,
passed the house this morning.
Lewiston Normal Cared For.
The committee on appropriations in
the house this morning introduced a
bill appropriating $160,000 for the
Lewiston normal school; $84,000 to
cover the loss of the administration
building, and approximately $66,000
to complete the building. The com
mittee plans to rush the bill to com
plete the building by September.
Taft Telegraphs Governor.
A telegram to Governor Davis from
noted easterners, including William
Howard Taft, ex-president, asked the
general state observance of Roose
velt day. The memorial was submit
ted to the house for action.
Wants Lists of Soldiers.
Congress was memorializ a
proposed joint memorial to gi. i
plete lists of all soldiers and sailors
from this state, who served in the
war or were drafted or volunteered.
To Protect the Flag.
A uniform flag law was introduced
In the house. This bill makes it a
misdemeanor to use the emblem in
any advertisement or name, but doe?
not restrict its use on jewelry if no
( words are on the piece,
This 18 ,,
I The £ h °st walked" this' morning
j and warrants for mileage were dis
i tributed among the members of both
j houses, together with the pay checks
! making th ® lar & es l t payments that will
j d c ® 0 ^° g members until the legis
j women" Want Quarantine Laws.
The two women mem bers, Mrs.
D ra j^ e an( j ]y[ rg# white, introduced a
bffl in the house providing that the
j bea ]th board or chairman in an emer
j gency can makë rules to guard
: against or stop contagion and enter
j quarantined cities and towns. The
| bill gives the board powers not held
heretofore.
House bill introduced by Bellett
; provides for the forming by counties
of.soldiers relief commissions of three
members, two to be veterans of the
world war, and taxing for the pur
poses of relief for soldiers, up to
■three-tenths of one mill.
MEXICO CITY. — According to
plans of the war department the Mexi
can army, in 1920, will contain 100,000
men. Recruiting has been stopped,
Only native Mexicans will be admitted
into the military service. Soldiers of
immature years are being discharged
and other reforms calculated to in
crease the efficiency of the troops are
being adopted,
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MEXICO TO HAVE AN
ARMY OF 100,000 MEN
These facts were given out for the
announced purpose of disproving ru
mors that the government planned to
increase the army to 400,000. One
hundred thousand, it is said, are suf
ficient to maintain order in the re
public.
JOHN CONE HEADS
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John Cone, who was reelected coun
ty commissioner and began serving
his second term last Monday, has been
elected chairman of the board, suc
ceeding Arnold Lyon, who was chair
man during the past two years. Mr.
Cone is the only one of the com
missioners reelected. Mr. Lyon was
not a candidate for any office and
Mr. Woody was elected sheriff. The
other two members of the board are
Elmer A. Paulson, of Thom creek pre
cince, commissioner for the Second
district, and Columbus Clark, of Juli
aetta. All are republicans.
The board is still in session and
will continue in session several days.
There is a vast amount of work to
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be planned for the coming year.
People are clamoring for better roads
and the government urges the building
of good roads for the double purpose
of providing better highways for post
roads and government work, and to
give the returning soldiers employ
ment. There is much routine work to
be done, also.
Mr. Cone has had two years ex
perience as commissioner and under
stands the work thoroughly. The other
two members are taking hold like vet
erans and the prospects are that the
county will have a strong board of
commissioners working in perfect bar
mony
PURE BRED BREEDING
STOCK IS WANTED
O. S. Fletcher, county agent, is
anxious to get the names of every
breeder of registered cattle, sheep
and hogs who have these animals for
sale, and also the names and address
es of any having high grade dairy
cattle for sale. He has many inquir
ies for such animals, especially dairy
.cattle and registered beef cattle and
hogs. Any one having any of these
animals for sale is requested to send
a description of the animals, the num
ber, and price to Mr. Fletcher, at
Moscow and he will probably send
buyer. Mr. Fletcher is doing all he
can to eneburage the breeding of bet
ter stock in Latah county and has a
list of farmers who want to get bet
ter animals for breeding purposes.
Mr. Fletcher being employed by the
county is doing this work without
expense to the farmers, thus saving
commissions and "middlemen's profits.
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McCannell Brothers Heard From.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. McConnell have
received word from their son, Serg
eant W. J. McConnell, that he was
honorably discharged from the serv
ice while in Connecticut and expects
to be home the last of the month.
Their other son, Ed. McConnell, is
with the third army of occupation
which is now in Germany. Ed says
he is anxious to get back home, there,
is no place like the good old U. S. A.!
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INFLUENZA WORSE
III IW PUCES
PORTLAND, SPOKANE AND VAN
COUVER HAVE NEW OUT
BREAKS—NO CASES HERE
Witji no new cases of influenza re
ported in Moscow for six days up to
last hight; without a single
among the hundreds of students in the
University of Idaho, the high school
and the seventh and eighth grades,
conditions here are better than at any
time since the epidemic first reached
Moscow. But it is worse in many
places! Portland established a new
record yesterday with 422 new cases
in one day and Vancouver reports 27
deaths in two days. Spokane had 62
case
new cases Monday and 54 Tuesday
and the death lists in these places
are growing rapidly. Spokane reports
people having the second and even
! the third attack of the disease, thus
' showing that people do not become
immune by having the disease once,
In fact the Spokane health officer,
in his report intimates that people
who have had the disease once are
more apt to take it later.
Spokane's Last Report.
SPOKANE.—Fifty-four cases of in-...
flucnzj^, and two of pneumonia were
reported yesterday to the city health
department. Influenza has-shown a
slight increase during the last two
days, but does not yet give cause for
alarm, Dr. J. B. Anderson, city health
officer, stated. He says that there j
h as boon a third revival of influenza ;
i n various cities adjacent to Spokane ;
an d that some of this is bound to
enter the city. I
"The danger in influenza is the
walking carrier, or the person in the I
early stages who thinks he has not i
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By tomorrow night the United States will have been voted "dry" by the
leaves but four more to make the necessary three-fourths vote.
action of three-fourths of the states in the nation ratifying the bill making
prohibition national and forbidding the manufacture or sale or intoxicating
liquors anywhere in the United States. It requires the votes of 36 of the
48 states to carry this constitutional amendment and only one or two are
lacking today.
CHICAGO.—Within 24 hours, possibly sooner, the United States will prob
ably have been voted "dry" by the action of the legislatures of 36 states
which constitute 75 per cent necessary to put prohibition in the federal
constitution. At 2 p. m. today 34 states had ratified the amendment. The
states ratifying today are Colorado, Iowa, Oregon and New Hampshire.
SALEM, Oregon.—The senate today approved the federal prohibition
amendment following the ratification of,the amendment by the house last
night.
CONCORD, N. H.—Both the senate and the house of New Hampshire
today ratified the federal prohibition amendment.
DES MOINES, Iowa.—The Iowa legislature today ratified the federal
prohibition amendment, making the thirty-first state ratifying.
DENVER.—The Colorado senate today approved the federal prohibition
amendment which the house passed last week. This is the 32nd state and
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RURAL TELEPHONE OUÏES IN
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MOSCOW SAID TO BE TOO LOW
WELL KNOWN MERCHANT HAS
SECURED FOUNDATION HERD
OF FINE ANIMALS
The biggest sale of purebred, reg
istered Shorthorn cattle made here in
a long time was closed today when
E. W. Downen & Son, of Pullman,
sold to N. Williamson, of Moscow, 12
head of purebred, registered Short
horn cows and heifers. The list in
cludes nine cows, two yearlings and
one two-year-old heifer. All but the
two yearlings will bring calves next
spring. The price paid is in the neigh
borhood of $600 for the cows and cor
responding prices for the heifers. Mr.
Williamson has been proprietor of the
largest mercantile establishment in
Moscow for the past 15 years, with
branch stores in other towns, but is
closing out his stock and gives pos
session of the store building on Feb
ruary 15. He will then devote his time
to raising purebred cattle. He had
bought some other animals before
this. The cattle will be placed
his farms, of which he has several.
They will be sent to Far View Farm,
on the Palouse river between Palouse
and Garfield for the summer. This
farm contains 600 acres and is to be
fitted up for an ideal stock farm.
The cattle bought by Mr. William
on
son are of the most noted strains of
Shorthorns, from the "Prince of
Orange,'' "Young Phyllis," "Nonpa
| reil" and "Red Durham" strains. Fol
' lowing are the registered names of
the animals bought: Princess of Or
ange, Becky's Pride, Red Rose the
Third, Major's Roan, Glen's Princess,
Roan PauTine, Young Mary's Pansy,
October Maid, Lady Crystal, Red Vio
let the Third, and Princess of Dun
carven.
An agreement, optional on -Mr. wil
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_ nls< ? n r f ronde whereby he
se " a ,.°T J'"® i em ale calves for
$„00 and all oi the roale calves at
The calves will all be from
Downen & Son s famous Scotch bull,
valued at $2000.
W • Bowmen & Son are pioneer
breeders of Shorthorn cattle, living
Pullman but having a faim or 1400
aeres ln ° ae of the coulees near W ash
tuena. They have about 80 head of
rcg-istcred SHorthor-ns, having- built
U P the nerd from a modest start of a
few cows bought when Mr. Downen
was farming near Pullman and his son
and partner was a mere child.
VANE'S CONVICTION
UPHELD BY HIGH COURT
SPOKANE.—The supreme court of
the state of Washington has affirm
ed the judgment of the Spokane su
perior court which declared William
Vane guilty of perjury and sentenced
him to from one to 15 years in the
penitentiary, according to information
received Monday by Charles M. Levy,
deputy district United States attor
ney.
Vane is alleged to have been
drowned in the Pend Oreille river
last Thursday night. Federal officials
doubt his drowning and search is be
ing made for him by officers of the
service.
Another conviction of from one to
15 years for horse stealing was ap
pealed at the same time and a de
cision is expected daily.
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Explosion Kills Twenty.
BOSTON.—Fifteen to 20 persons
are known to be killed and 50 to 75
injured as the result of the explosion
of a storage tank of molasses near
Cutts wharf today. The explosion
demolished several buildings.
That the rural telephone charges
from Moscow are lower than in any
other town of this size in the north
west is part of the evidence that will
be introduced in the hearing of the
plication of the Moscow Telephone &
Telegraph company for permission to
increase its rates on these lines from
|3 to $6 per year. The hearing will
be held before the public utilities
commission. The company had asked
permission to Increase its rates on
residence and business telephones in
Moscow but when the former hearing
was held and this was rejected and a
new .hearing ordered the
ap
company
dropped its efforts to secure increas
ed rates in town but has filed
amended application asking permis
sion to increase the rates on the rural
lines only.
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The statement of conditions prevail
ing in the northwest upon which this
application is based, shows that no
town the size of Moscow has as low
rates on the rural lines. Farmers have
connection with 1700 telephones at a
cost of 25 cents a month or $3 per
year. The farmers own the rural
lines, which are inexpensive in
structlon and are built to the city
limits where they connect with the
city lines and the city exchange. There
are 550 of these telephones and they
pay $1650 per year for service. The
folowing table showing
charged by the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph company in all of the ter
con
the rates
submitted
as justification for the asked-for in
crease. The rates charged are based
upon the number of telephones in the
exchange with which the rural lines
connect. The list follows;
Charge
Per Year.
....$ 3.00
No. of Phones.
300 or less...
300 to 500.
500 to 750.
750 to 1000....
1000 to 2000...
2000 to 4000...
4000 to 6000...
6000 to 8000...
8000 to 12000..
12,000 up.
3.60
4.20
5.40
7.20
8.40
9.60
10.80
12.00
15.00
These rates are subject to a 10 per
cent discount when paid a full year in
advance.
The statement shows that under the
above schedule the farmers connect
ing with Lewiston pay $6.48, net and
the same at Colfax, while at Walla
Walla they pay $7.54, net and connec
tion with the Spokane exchange costs
$13.50 per year. Under this schedule
which has been in effect for many
years, the rate for Moscow would be
$6.48 per year, which is 48 cents more
than the company is asking for the
In nearby towns where lo
cally owned exchanges are operated,
$6 per- year is the charge for rural
lines although the towns are much
smaller than Moscow and have a much
smaller number of telephones,
is the rate charge at Garfield, Tekoa,
Davenport and several other towns
service.
This
ly. Some smaller exchanges, such
Cottonwood and Troy charge the $:j
rate which has been the rate in Mos
cow for many years, but Troy has
application for an increase to $6 per
year and this application will be heard
at the same time the Moscow hearing
is held.
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A statement of these facts will be
submitted to the farmers who own the
various telephone lines centering at
AIoscow.
A few of the farmers are
protesting strongly against the in
crease asked for which they point out
as an increase of 100 per cent, but at
that it will be less than the charge in
other towns no larger and some of
them much smaller than Moscow.
Several farmers have expressed them
selves as favoring the increased rate,
one of whom said; "I do not use my
telephone as much as I would like to
for I feel that I am 'sponging' when
I pay only 25 cents a month for the
service on my ranch where I need the
telephone worse than I do in town,
and pay $2 per month for the service
in town.
The rates in Moscow are about on
a par with those in other towns, al
though slightly below the average for
towns the size of Moscow. When the
proposition was made to increase rate
on the business and residence tele
phones the people of Moscow prepared
to make a fight and raised $150 for
the purpose. Only $5 of this was
spent and the remaining $145 is still
in the hands of the treasurer. A sug
gestion has been made that this be
given to the Armenian relief fund as
the subscribers have no intention of
carrying the fight any further.
HIGH COST OF LIVING
HITS MEXICO HARD
MEXICO CITY.—The department
•:nd commerce reports
living in Mexico has
The figures
quoted comprise prices paid on food
stuffs that enter into the ordinary
workman's fare. Among the increases
noted are beans, 12 to 45 cents; lard
60 cents to $2.26; beef 42 to 60 cents;
rice 15 to 34 cents; rent, $6 to $7;
clothes $5 to $7.
of i
that l._ .
doubled since 1910.

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