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The Daily Star-Mirror
TOLUME VIII
MOSCOW. LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1919
NUMBER 96
RUSSIAN SITUATION UP TODAY
BEFORE PEACE CONFERENCE
Russian Situation Up Today.
PARIS.—The Russian situation is
today being considered by the su
preme war council of the peace con
ference. Joseph Noulens, the French
ambassador to Russia, is present at
the conference. The next meeting of
the council will be held at 10:30 to
morrow morning.
PARIS.—The supreme council of
the Peace Congress resumed its sit
tings today and marked progress is
being made in the business of compar
ing the various plans for the forma
tion of a League of Nations, harmon
izing them into a unity of ideas which
can be taken up as a concrete propo
sition. Much headway was made last
night at a conference at the Murat
residence. This conference was at
tended by President Wilson, Lord
Robert Cecil, British representatives
charged with the task of working the
plan for a league of nations; Leon
Bourgois, French proponent of the
plan for an organization, and General
Jan Christian Smutz, who is said to
have already formulated a plan for
the formation of the league.
Guest of French Senate.
PARIS.—President Wilson was the
guest of the French senate at lunch
eon today. He was greeted by An
tonin Du Bost, president of the sen
ate, who made an eulogistic address,
saying among other things that the
French senate heartily welcomed the
president and his ideas. In reply to
this greeting by the president of the
senate, President Wilson expressed
his pleasure at the cordiality of the
welcome extended him, and added: "A
new world is coming into life and the
world was awakened to it by a com
munity of interest and knows that
its future depends on this community
of interests. The future of free in
stitutions and civilization itself de
pend upon it.
More Fighting in Berlin.
LONDON.—Fierce fighting occur
red in Berlin last night, after the
Spartacans had made an unsuccessful
attempt to destroy the ballot boxes
used in Sunday's election, according
' to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen. The fighting took
place in Wilhelmstrasse, Hedemann
strasse, and Hollesche Tor. The Spar
tacans also attempted to storm the
Vorwaerts newspaper office, but lit
tle damage resulted from the effort.
Independents Badly Outvoted.
BERLIN.—Only scattered returns
from Sunday's Berlin election were
available at noon today. In one dis
trict the regular socialists received a
majority of 1,02§ votes, while the in
dependent socialists received a total
of only seven votes.
Germans Accused of Selling Arms.
WARSAW.—Bolshevist troops have
Blackened their advance at the Polish
LONDON.—An official wireless
-dispatch from Berlin today states
that the proposed new German con
stitution provides that the empire
shall consist of the former component
states, besides any territories which
by virtue of right and self-determina
tion refused to be forced into the em
pire. The imperial president is to be
elected by the people, he must be at
least 35 years of age before he is
eligible to the office, and that he
must have been a resident of Germany
for ten years prior to the election,
Declarations of war, conclusions of
peace, the proposed constitution pro
vides, shall rest with the reichstag.
frontier . -The Germans are delaying
the evacuation of Grondo for several
days, although General Falkenhayn
has retired to Suwalki and General
Hoffman to Koenigsberg. The Polish
leaders accuse the Germans of sell
ing arms to the Bolshevists, and have
issued proclamations to the effect
that they have come to restore order.
Dispatches state, however, that the
Bolshevist soldiers have been seen
carrying banners bearing the inscrip
tion: "Long Live Red Terror." and
"Death to Non-Workers."
Provisions of New Constitution.
President Wilson Approves.
WASHINGTON.—President Wilson
has cabled his approval to Secretary
Tumulty of the proposal to hold
Roosevelt memorial meetings through
out the country February 9th, simul
taneously with the joint memorial
services in congress.
Serbian Premier Resigns.
SALONIKA.—Nikola P. Pachitch,
the Serbian premier, has tendered his
resignation, which has been accepted.
Prince Regent Alexander has asked
Stoyan Protitch, the minister of fi
nance of the Pachitch cabinet, to form
a new cabinet for the Serb-Slovene
kingdom.
Royalists Provoke Revolution.
LONDON.—A revolution has broken
out in Portugal, according to a wire
less dispatch from Lisbon. Paiva Con
ceiro, has placed himself at the head
of a royalist revolt at Operto, Braga
and Viscus, and has proclaimed for
mer King Manuel king of Portugal.
Government troops are on their way
to these places to suppress the con
spiracy. The dispatch further states
that ex-King Manuel has sent a tele
gram to the Portuges government dis
approving the attempt being made In
his behalf.
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To Senator Borah, Also
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T "OlbE.—A joint resolution to
t the members of the United ♦
+ States senate asking for a favor- +
T e v0 ^ e on national woman suf- +
♦ frage, passed the house of rep- ♦
T r 5 s ?? tatlv 1 es under a suspension ♦
♦ of the rules this morning:. The ♦
♦ peculiar wording of the memorial +
t became a subject of some debate. *
♦ Mrs. Carrie Harper White, the +
+ woman member from Twin Falls +
♦ county, who introduced the me- *
+ morial, made this statement on +
the floor of the house. This ♦
♦ memorial is directed to Senator *
Borah as well as others. The ♦
t wom f en °. f Idah0 are sorry their *
t | enat or is against national suf- ♦
♦ frage. The memorial had been +
♦ previously passed by the senate. +
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ARCH CRIMINAL
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DIES OF POISON IN NEWPORT
JAIL PROTESTING HIS IN- |
JNOCEJNCE j
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NEWPORT.—Death by suicide in 1
the county jail at Newport was the
fate of William Vane, escaped federal
prisoner, who was captured Friday
while asleep in a lonely cabin near
Bead lake by Deputy United States
Marshal Fred Thorp and Special
Agent E. L. Wells.
Dr. J. W. Wallace, who was called
to attend Vane by Sheriff F. A. Deer
ing of Newport, thinks that the pris
oner took strychnine. An autopsy to
determine this will be held today and
the body probably brought to Spo
kane. Miss Ruby Vane, a daughter,
who died last November, is buried
there.
TAKES OWN LIFE
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Besides his widow Vane is survived
by two children, a son, Alex, age 21,
and a daughter, age 18, living on a
farm in southern Oregon.
Murmurs, "Mama, Forgive Me."
When Sheriff Deering entered
Vane's cell at 8:40 a. m. yesterday!
and talked with him for several min
utes Vane seemed to be normal. Ten
minutes later Sheriff Deering heard
him moaning, and found the prisoner
partially conscious and repeatedly
murmuring, "Mama, forgive me." rr '~~
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sheriff thought he was chocking, and
He revived some
loosened his tie.
what, and when asked if he had ta
ken anything, replied, the sheriff I
says: I
"I have taken nothing. God gave
me something. I am innocent."
How Vane got the pqison is not
known. He died in convulsions. The
coroner has decinded not to hold an
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inquest.
. Suspected of Many Crimes.
William Vane, convicted stage
coach robber and perjurer, had for
years been a thorn to the federal
state and! coun/.y officials of this
region. Although a man of wealth
a justice of the peace and a lawyer
of professed high principles, he was
suspected of complicity in a wide
variety of crimes, but sufficient evi
dence was never obtained to convict
hkn.
By his own statement, he variously
claimed England and Scotland as his
birthplace. He came to Newport
from Oregon some 18 years ago, but
had previously resided in California.
At Newport he first took a home
stead near the head of Indian creek,
a f ew m iles from where he was cap
tured Friday.
Vane was once the owner of the
Newport townsite on the Idaho side of
the line. In 1907 he sold a part of
this to the Idaho & Washington
Northern, which was then building
north, for $70,000.
The money obtained from the sale
0 f b j s j an d to the railroad company
and other funds he loaned on first
mortgages, charging never less than
jq per cent and usually more. Stories
current among the officers of Bonner
county in which he resided give him
credit for practices that would dis
grace a Shylock.
Money Made in Dives.
The Vane property in Newport was
largely a redlight adjunct to the
town of Newport, Wash., and during
the construction of the Great North
ern and the Washington & Idaho
Northern, with the saloons wide open,
he reaped a harvest. It is told of him
that he would sell one of the women
the shack in which she lived, allowing
her to make the payments monthly.
Then when one of these contracts was
nearly completed, he would either
through fines by virtue of his office
as justice of the peace or through
other means, make it impossible for
her to finish payment, regaining the
property himself.
Beats His Creditors.
In 1912 he became interested with
relatives in a mercantile business in
Brockton, Mass. In 1913 the business
failed and Vane turned over all his
mortgages to third parties and his
real estate to his daughter Ruby,
since deceased, and to his wife Mary,
before eastern creditors could start
suit to collect $13,000 on notes which
he had indorsed.
At the time of his death Vane was
under conviction to the penitentiary
under both federal and state charges,
and had sentences hanging over him,
(Continued on page 4.)
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REFERENCE COMMITTEE MOULD
NOT EVEN RECOMMEND PRINT
ING—BILLS INTRODUCED
BOISE.—The final vote on the
♦'adoption of the memorial to the Uni
ted State senate, asking for favorable
consideration of national woman's
suffrage, stood 50 to 12. Beecher
Hitchcock of Bonner county stated
that j ie favored the attitude of Senator
Borah, and was against interfering
states'* rights
The ' code measure by Featherstone,
passed the enate this morning after
5eing in the committee's hand for fen
da The clark county biu also pass .
ed the senate today with only two
votes against it. One of the two who
voted nay was Robe rtson of Washing
to county, who stated that he favored
the enabling act in all county divis
liong and cr | ations .
The committee on county lines and
boundaries of the house reported fa
forably on the Clark county bill today,
Twq house bills were squashed by
the reference committee, which de
dared them unconstitutional. Both
the measures were introduced by non
partisan members. The committee tjd
vised that the bills be not printed.
No new bills were introduced in the
senate this morning, but three were
introduced in the house. The commlt
tee on public health sent in one pro
viding for Jhe licensing of "lying in"
hospital and providing regulations for
such hospitals. Another bil provides
f or the making of an allowance to in
digent women about to be confined,
the allowance to be limited to $25
weekly and to be passed upon by the
probate judge. Representative Weeks
introduced a bill providing mechanics'
liens for blacksmiths; auto
shops and garages.
journed at noon today until tomorrow
morning. The senate remained in
session until 2 o'clock this afternoon,
Division and Readjustment of Lines
Are Sought,
repair
The house ad
VARIOUS COUNTY BILLS UP
(Special Correspondence)
BOISE, Jan. 17.—Failure by Sen
ator Turner of Minadoka county yes
terday afternoon to present amend
ments to the proposed Jerome county
bill may lose the people of the af
fected counties a chance to vote on
the division.
The senate listened during the af
ternoon session to the debate between
Senator Heiss of Lincoln county and
Turner of Minadoka. The former had
introduced the measure several days
ago.
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_ He presented figures showing
that the division would leave the four
counties with assessed valuations as
follows: Jerome, $4,594,000; Gooding,
$6,387,000, and
$6,325,000; Lincoln,
Minadoka, $6,352,000.
The senator from Minadoka had
amendments to offer asking that it be
settled by referendum but failed to
get them in shape for the action of
the committee of the whole, altho
Senator Nelson, who was in the chair,
offered an opportunity.
Several minor amendments were of
fered by the senator from Lincoln
and the bill was ordered printed with
amendments and recommended for
passage.
BOISE.—Another county division
plan has made its way into the Idaho
legislature but the measure, known as
, house bill No. 27 askes for a special
; election in November, 1920 in Blaine
! county to determine whether part of
; this county should go to Camas coun
. ty. It was introduced by Representa
; tive La Valle,
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! a decree of divorce was granted by
Judge E. C. Steele to Cora Knight
against E. J. Knight. The couple
were married at Flora, Oregon Feh
ruary 12, 1907. The complaint for
divorce was given as wilful neglect,
The three children, aged eleven, nine
and four, were given into the custody
of the mother,
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District Court Notes.
In the district court January 18th
Another case of a statutory offense
against Thomas Culbertson of Bovill
was disposed of. Mr. Culbertson was
permitted to pleaed guilty in the dis
trict court to simple assault, which
he did. He was then fined $50 and
costs, which amounted to $87.50. This
was paid and the defendant was dis
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BOISE, Jan. 1/. A bill making
a misdemeanor for anyone to take
an automobde, bicycle, or motor-cycle
without the owners consent for tern
porary use was introduced in, the
senate during the short afternoon ses
smn yesterday.
The measure was placed before that
body by Senator Wedgewood. It car-|
nes a penalty of a $200 fine or im
pnsonment of not more than ninety
days or both This was the only
measure read to the upper house in
th e afternoon.
BOISE, Jan. 17.—A. H. Morgan,
hanker from WeiseT, and member of
the house of representatives of the
Waho legislature wants to know all
about the expenditures and receipts
of state departments in the past few
years. , , , ,
Being a banker he says each mem
ber must know what the appropria-!
tions are for and what expenses ought
to be cut down and what receipts are
to be had to off-set them.
He introduced a resolution in the
house yesterday asking each depart-.
ment of the state government to give
each legislator a.detailed^account of
their business. He lost his point on
the floor, but won when the apprqpri
ations committee chairman said this
information would be given any mem
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Morgan said he would not vote in
telhgently on appropriations without
the information he asked for.
No Immediate Investigation of Mich
igan Election Planned.
WASHINGTON. — In the Ford
Newberry Michigan senatorial elec
tion contest the senate elections com
mittee decided today to have the sen
The first case of influenza to
reported to Moscow authorities for
twelve days was that of Cecil Ryan,
son of Mrs. G. C. Ryan, 106 S. Polk
St. Physicians state that the case
is not serious.
A ban on all dancing, public and
private has been issued by Dr. W. A.
Adair as an additional precautionary
measure against the disease. Persons
who are reported as violating this
order will be quarantined for a period
Dr. Adair wishes it made clear that
private dances are included in the
ban. City health authorities have
prohibited public dancing for some
time, but despite this ruling several
informal dances have been held. These
must be discontinued, says Dr. Adair
until all danger from the epidemic
past.
of four days.
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FOR PROTECTING AUTOS, BIKES
Banker Wants to Know About Ex
penditures and Receipts of State
Departments.
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HOLD EVIDENCE IN COURT
of all ballots, poll books and other
documentary evidence to be held for
further examination; An immediate
investigation is not planned.
To Extend Foreign Markets.
NEW YORK.—Preparations for a
combined effort linder the Webb act
to extend the foreign market for Am
erican textiles were completed today
by the textile alliance export corpor
ation of this city, which filed organiza
tion papers with the federal trade
commission, as required by law. Four
of the great textile associations of the
combination.
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Aged Lady Makes. Second Donation,
Rev. H. O Perry, chairman of the
Armenian fund drive in this county,
reports the receipt today of $33.25
from Pine Creek precincts. No other
outside remittances were received to
day but the reports from many places
were most encouraging. One aged
lady in this city today made her sec
ond donation toward the fund, and
sent the folowing note together with
a ten-dollar check to Rev. Perry:
I am distressed that the Armenian
fund is coming in so slowly. So I
send another check and hope it can
be hurried along.
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E. E. ANKENEY.
LIABLE TO EXTRADITION
Former Moscovite Dies in Norway.
Myklebust brothers and their sister,
Anna, all residents of this city until
recently, when they removed to Troy,
were advised by cablegram from Nor
way Wednesday of last week of the
death of their brother, Albert. De
ceased formerly resided here and was
employed in the department store of
N. Williamson until he returned to
Norway in the fall of 1913. The cable
gram did not state the cause of his
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1 Rlv J ? mTR apint ROI SHFV
IS ENCOURAGING BOLSHEV
ISM IN AMERICA
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, The Daily Farm Journal of Souix
Falls, S. D an official organ of
( the Non-partisan league in that state,
publishes the following editorial.
Our laws have all been made by
the direction of the- robbing class
which is the ruling class and are so
interpreted and enforced by our
courts of state and nation so as to
; protect the malfactors and send their
victims away without redress.
! "The only way out of this is to
chanp the rules of the game; change
the laws Abolish all special pnvi
leges. Take over by the state all the
banks, the money, the public utilities
! the markets and all the enterprises
concerned with service of the public.
Take back the land titles the val
ues of which the labors of the people
have created Take them all back in
' the name of the people, in the one
body called the state, the nation.
In other words democratize the in
dustnes and all the means by which
the goods we all need and in the pro
duction of which fully 85 per cent of
the people are directly engaged and
upon which all the people are depend
ent Democratize them so that they
^ be the common propelty o a
the people—as our public roads and
our public schools and our postoffices
and our municipal lighting plants
Democratize their control, so that no
j one class nor clique shall be able to
I use them for private gain, but only
for the public service and public good,
Democratize the distribution of the
i product, so that each' worker shall
receive back from the state in social
; goods a full equivalent for the wealth
: his labor has produced."
! Is it any wonder that such red flag
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death, but his relatives here believe
| it was due to influenza, which they
learned he had contracted early last
I fall and which left him in a weakened
| condition. During the past five years
i he was employed as a msisionary for
| the Chinese Mission staioned in Nor
' way. The young man had a number
1 of friends in Moscow who will regret
j to learn of his untimely death,
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DIGGING OWN GRAVE
shevism in America ?
j Democratization of industries is a
: fine phase but why not use plain
j English and say destruction of in
: dustries.
| Thinking men have long pointed out
1 that the campaign of the Non-parti
san league if successfully carried out
could have but one end, complete de
j struction of American principles of
j government and the establishment of
socialism.
! It looks now, however, as if the
plan of the league was to go a step
j farther and follow in the footsteps of
; the Russian Bolshevists.
j The American citizen who follows
i this lead is pimply digging his own
j grave so far as security for himself,
his family and his property are con
cerned for once such a program is
| established the rights of the individ
j ual are completely j,wept
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away.
According to yesterday's Spokes
man-Review forty-five officers and
1255 men of the 91st division, who ar
rived from France last week will be
the guests of Spokane for two hours
■ next Thursday afternoon. They are
1 members of the 346th field artillery
I and açe on their way to Camp Lewis
I for demobilization. Through the ef
I forts of Secretary James A. Ford of
! the chamber of commerce, who is in
j Washington permission has been ob
tained from the war department for
a two-hour pause in Spokane, during
which the soldiers will parade and be
given a rousing welcome. >
This will be the first strictly north
western unit to return frpm France
as the 91st was organized and trained
at Camp Lewis. While the 346th field
artillery had not seen much actual
fighting, the other units of the 91st
division went through the heaviest
fighting in the Argonne forest and
were later shifted to Belgium.
The Spokane military band of 30 or
35 instruments will give its services.
A number of Latah coutny men are
said to be in the 91st, but the names
of these are not tvailable to the Star
Mirror today, and no doubt many local
relatives and friends of the men are
planning to go to Spokane Thursday
to witness the parade.
JUST BACK FROM FRANCE—
WILL BE IN SPOKANE
TWO HOURS
PARIS.—(By Associated Press.)—
Some points in the report to which
Premier Clemenceau referred yester
day when he said he had consulted
two eminent jurists on the penal re
sponsibility of the former German
emperor were made public today. The
report was drawn up by Ferdinand
Larnaude, dean of the Paris law fac
ulty, and Dr. A. G. DeLapradelle,
professor of rights of nations in the
same faculty.
The object of the inquiry was ta
investigate from a purely jurisdic
tional point of view whether the
crimes committed by the German
government and army involved the
penal responsibility of the former
German emperor, what tribunal
should judge him and whether his ex
tradition could be demanded.
New Tribunal is Needed.
The authors of the report gave a
long argument against bringing the
ex-empéror before a tribunal of com
mon law, because his will command
ed, but his hand did not execute.
They say that he was not the prin
cipal offender and that therefore he
could only be punished as an accom
r plice. An international tribunal con
sequently must be found. They con
sider The Hague arbitration court
founded at the 1899 conference incom
patent to t him> ag the court was
meant for cases where no penalty is
to be a lied Th argu " that an
entirely new jurisdiction must be cre
ated J hich s jl ould be the fir3t instru .
ment of a lea of nat ions and in
wWch should app ear exclusively the
stateg which fou ht Germany,
The t French jurists prove that
the extradition of t he former Ger
man j can not be refutted as he
. not a political refugee . The re
rt savs .
' r f w p 0 iit;,..,r
„ It ig anti . juridical to assimilate
war wjth conspiracy . Crimes of war
are crimeg of public Iaw and inter .
national law not political crimes."
The authors of tl f e repor t commence
fa establishing that no penalty is
ible against a nation any more
than against a company> but that the
ma or d i rect or of a company
can b | pun i sbe d
- The emperor, in the first place,"
ga th re t « as king of p russ ia
is president of the confederation by
virtue f pecial ]aw in which hu _
man win do( £ not ent ' er . The Ger .
man soverei depen ds only on God
and th sword . With such a con .
ception of power it would be un j urid .
j ca j the highest degree to allow
the em ror to escape responsibility
for hig actions; his responsibility for
the war for which, under the consti
tution, the decision belonged to him
alone; his responsibility for viola
tion of Belgian neutrality, which was
willed by him; his responsibility for
acts of terrorism by his troops, which
he willed and ordered."
Letter is Quoted.
The report quotes a letter from the
former emperor to the emperor of
Austria in the early days of the war,
in which the German emperor wrote:
"My soul is torn asunder, but every
thing must be put to fire and blood.
The throats of men and women, chil
dren and the aged, must be cut and
not a tree nor a house left standing.
"With such methods of terror,
which alone can strike so degenerate
a people as the French, the war will
be finished before two months, while
if I Use humanitarian methods it may
prolong for years. Despite all my
repugnance, I have had to choose the
first system.''
The words "I" and "m" in the let
ter are italicized in the report.
"Moderh law," the report continues,
"does not recognize irresponsible au
thorities, even at the summit of
hierarchy. It brings a state down
from its pedestal and makes it sub
mit to the rule of the judge.
"There can therefore be no question
of saving from the judge a man who
is at the summit of hierarchy, either
by the application of internal law or
of international law."
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I OF INTEREST TO W OODSMEN
Sale of Equipment for Logging and
Milling at Portland, Feb. 15.
Catalogues containing listings of
the component- parts of the United
States Spruce Production Corpora
tion's>machinery and equipment, ag
gregating a value of $10,000,000 have
been completed and persons interest
ed in bidding on any article may ob
tain one by applying to the sales
board, in the Yeon building, at Port
land, Oregon.
All kinds of machinery and equip
ment necessary to the conduct of log
ging and milling operations on a large
scale, are to be found in the list. Bids
are being received by the board up to
and including February 15 and there
is every indication of widespread in
terest in the sale, which is the largest
in the history of the United States. _
The machinery and equipment is
stored at Vancouver, Wash., and may
be inspected upon certification at the
offices of the sales board. Much of it
was never put into use by the corpor
ation, owdng to the abrupt ending of
the war. That which was used is also
in- good condition, having received the
best of care while in operation.
A wedding was performed January
13 by Judge Adrian Nelson at the
court house. The contracting parties
were LeRoy Hume of Elberton, Wash.,
and Evelyn Engle of Farmington.
County Commissioner Paulon and
Surveyor H. J. Smith acted as wit
nesses.