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The Daily Star-Mirror ▼OLUMB VIII MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1919 NUMBER 9» a LEAGUE OF NATIONS" NOW BEFORE PEACE CONFERENCE PARIS.—Having disposed of the Russian question for the time being, , the supreme council of the peace con gress today is giving its principal at tention to the vital object of its work, the forming of a-league of nations. This question now promises to vir tually command the undivided atten tion of the delegates until such time as their action regarding the Russian problem begins to show results in one way or another. As the delegates appointed to investigate and report upon the Russian question are not ex pected to reach Marmora Islands be fore February 16th, it means that the whole attention of the peace congress will now be directed toward the for mation of the league of nations until the time of President Wilson's return to America. Make Up Joint Allied Commissions. PARIS.—With replies from the various factions in Austria to its pro f posai for a conference being awaited, the supreme council of the peace con ference met at 10:30 today. In the meantime joint allied commissions are being made up. The personnel of these commissions have not yet been " announced. All members of the coun cil were present when the meeting began this morning. Wilson to Meet Swiss President. , PARIS. — President Wilson and President Ador of Switzerland have arranged for a meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30. President Ador, who arrived here from Berne, Switzerland today, will also confer with President Poincaire and Premier Clemenceau of France, and possibly Premier Lloyd George of England, while in the city, and before he meets President Wilson, Majority Socialists Have 164 Plurality BASEL, Switzerland. — Reports from all of the twenty-seven election districts of Germany, returning the ' full number of 421 members of the national assembly, show that the Ma jority socialistst have a plurality in the assembly of 164 votes. The next strongest party in the assembly will have a membership of 88, according to • these returns. These represent the Christian People's party, formerly known as the "Centrists." Russian Elements Will Support Movement. PARIS. — Representatives of the various Russian governments now in Paris met today with Sergius Sazan off, the former Russian minister of foreign affairs, who is now represent - ing the Omsk government in the same capacity. The meeting was held for the purpose of discussing the decision of the supreme council of the peace conference to send a commission to the Princes Islands to meet the repre sentatives of the various Russian ele ments. • without exception decided to urge up on their friends in Russian to support the movement for the proposed con ference at the Princes Islands. Italians Accused of Hauling Down American Flag. WASHINGTON.—According to a report made public here today by the official information bureau of the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slov enes, a Serbo-Croatian vessel flying the American flag and possessing a navigation license issued by the Am naval commander in the Adri atic, was seized at Jelsa on the 16th of January by Italian forces who haul ed down the American flag and car ried off the ship under the Italian colors. The Russian represenatives encan Bolshevik Surrender Reported. LONDON. — The Bolshevik forces who recently made an attack on the American position in northern Rus sia have been defeated, according to late dispatch, which also reports that a large part of the Bolshevik forces have surrendered. It is fur ther reported that a very large num ber of peasants in that portion of Russia, controlled by the Bolshevik • forces, have revolted. Louis F. Swift Makes Denial. WASHINGTON.—Testifying before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce, Louis F. Swift, president of the Swift meat packing a company, today entered a series of denials to the statements concerning the packing industry emanating from the Federal Trade Commission. He further asserted that the legislation proposed in the Simms and Kendrick bills now before congress would com pletely cripple the packing house in dustry of the United States. Another Transport Starts for Home. WASHINGTON. — The transport Martha Washington has embarked from France carrying 2,400 returning troops, including 250 sick and wound ed soldiers. The Martha Washington is expected to reach her destination at Newport News on the 28th of this month. Bolshevists to Surrender Petrograd. - LONDON.—Leon Trotzky, the Rus minister of war, has ordered sian Zinovieff, the Bolshevik governor of Petrograd, to surrender the city peaceably in case of an attack by the * northern Russian forces. Stock Dividends Not Taxable. NEW YORK.—United States Dis trict Judge Julius M. Mayer, in a test case brought before him, today de cided that stock dividends are not subject to the federal income tax law of 1916. BOISE.—That the sportsmen of the ^ss.-susasr^-a.'assî'j tration measure centralizing depart 11 T u . measuie centralizing uepaii ments is assured by action already ta ken by a number of men who love the fishing and hunting game. The terms of the bill provide for the collection of the fish and game funds and putting them into the general fund. Then appropriations would be made for the- fish and game depart -1 ment by the legislature. j According to sportsmen there would be a desperate time getting sufficient : money out of the legislature to take care of the real needs of the depart ment. They claim this has been tried be fore. About 10 per cent of the legis lators are nimrods. They would vote to appropriate needed monies but the ' others would be continually fighting the amounts asked. "Leave the money the way it is," said one of the enthusiastic hunters of Boise today. "We pay the money in and we are entitled to its use In the game department." It is known that Speaker Kiger is interesting himself In the case of the sportsmen and that the new game warden, Otto M. Jones, sides with him. What the results will be cannot, of course, be forecasted, but certain it Is that the Isaac Walton's of Idaho, as well as the shooting enthusiasts will "die hard" if die they must. PRECIPITATES DEBATE SENATORS LOCK HORNS OYER GAMBLING NUISANCE MEASURE BOISE.—A sharp debate resulted yesterday when Senator Witty of Ban nock county titled with President pro tern Whitcomb on the provisions of. Senate bill No. 16 which makes gambl Ing places a nuisance. So decided were the opinions ex pressed by the two solons that mem bers mark this exchange of words as the first fire of the session. The debate occupied the senate, when In committee of the whole, un til considerably past noon and then was unfinished. A motion to adjourn until Wednesday forenoon, broke up the affair. The measure would make it the duty of the prosecuting attorney to bring a suit in equity against a place harboring any gambling as a nuis ance and join as defendants anyone having any connection with the prem ises or their use as a gambling place, and if the court finds liability under the act to enjoin them. Senator Witty stated on the floor that he was aiming at some of the "Oriental dives" in his home county. He also said that the bill was pat terned after the present liquor law and said he thought that Senator Whitcomb knew this, position was that there was no cause In equity in the situation, again come up before the committee today. The bill Whitcomb's BOISE.—In the debate yesterday over the recommendation in the Idaho senate before the committee of the whole, of the measure by Senator Seever allowing 10 per cent of the assessed valuation of cities and towns to be bonded, the author of the bill stated that most towns were assessed for only 40 per cent, or there about, of their actual cash value. It was Senator Thrailkill of Ada county, who "called" the man from J Twin Falls. When pressed for the name of the county which actually did assess for full cash value, Senator Thrailkill modestly answered, "Ada." Senator Seever explained his remark by saying, property has so raised in value In most Idaho counties in the past few years that it was impossible to raise the assessed valuation in its actual proportion. Corporation to Increase Commerce. MEXICO CITY.—Twelve freighters of 4,000 tons each will be bought by the proposed Latin-American Inter national Commercial Alliance, if the plans announced are put into effect. The project presented by Jose A. Lavalle, commercial delegate from Peru, which has been approved by the Mexican government anil which will, if approved by enough other Latin-American governments, result in the formation of an international corporation to increase commerce be tween the countries forming the cor poration, is said to be on the verge of consumation. The Tehauntepe rail way, now completely controlled by the Mexican government, will figure as the keynote of the proposed com mercial structure. Mexican General Uses Airplanes. MEXICO CITY.—General Candido Aguilar, chief of military operations in the gulf regions, is using airplanes with success in his campaign against the rebels, especially in the state of Vera Cruz. Not only are the aviators doing valuable reconnaoisance work, but one recently dropped bombs on a party of bandits who believed them selves safely ensconced on the top of a mountain near Orizaba. COMMITTEE HOLDS IIS FIRST SESSION APPOINTED TO HAVE CHARGE OF THE SOLDIER LABOR PROBLEM The committee appointed by L, F. Parsons, U. S. Employment Agent, to assist in and take charge of obtaining employment for returning soldiers held their first meeting at Mr. Par son's office Wednesday. They organized by electing F. A. David chairman and J S. Heckathorn secretary and treasurer. Several Ideas were presented and discussed as to the best way of handling this problem, n was pointed out that the federal sîssss fore decided by the committee that thin „ : h „ t thov . t ne best thing that they could do for immediate results was to support this P^lic improvement plan. There has sprung up among the farmers in this community a big de mand for better roads. Petitions for aew "Jsuway districts have already been filed with the county commis sl , one E, s . and oth f, r . s are bei . ng circulât The committee unanimously en "orsed the forming of highway dis tnct f- A committee consisting of T. A - Meeker, Ben Bush and A. S. Lyon was appointed to assist in organizing Highway District No. 2. The chair ™ an and secretary were instructed to ®j v . e fbeir assistance to any one de siring information regarding the form ins of highway districts. As the work of this committee will cover the en tire county, it will be necessary to get in touch with other communities and it was sugested that the number of the committee be enlarged and addi tiqnal members appointed represent i n & aI l partf of the county. This will be taken up in the near future, Other public work will be consid ered and the committee will be glad to have suggestions from the press or other public spirited citizens as to th eir ideas to promoting this work, Organize Colonies In Mexico. MEXICO CITY.—A project for the division of national lands of Mexico among small farmers and ranchers is expected to be presented by President Carranza to the present session of the congress. It is proposed to organize agricultural colonies with state support and supervision in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Chi apas and Chihuahua. The plan In volves the development of irrigation projects Which already have been pro posed by the department of develop ment and to comprise conservation of natural resources. The outline of a new series of laws to govern the relations between m ployers and the employed and to limit the working day to eight hours has been submitted to the representatives in congress. The proposed laws are intended also to protect the wage of workmen, provide hygenic surround ings for workers, compensation for in dustrial accidents, protection of wom en employees .and arbitration of in dustrial disputes. Ravages of Influenza in South Africa. CAPE TOWN.—It is authoritatively stated here that the epidemic of in fluenza in South Africa has resulted in a financial loss to the leading in surance companies of approximately $7,500,000. One insurance manager said it was a startling fact that in the course of a few weeks the epi demic had cost the companies more than they had been called upon to pay for all of their war risks. -BS Oil Statistics. LONDON.—The world's production of natural oil last year was estimated at more than 60,000,000 tons in a statement made by Dr. F. Perkin in an address delivered recently before the Institution of Petroleum Tech nologists. This would be an increase of 10,000,000 tons over the production of 1913, he said. Kill the Dogs. A number of people who are rais in grabbits, have recently lost their rabbits by the ravages of dogs at night. It seems too bad that dogs that would be guilty of such depre dations are not kept chained at night by their owners. Keeping the Home Fires Burning 3 /STbP YoocTr eRUMPLIhfe i VWLUAM ! I JM[a\n ctEVinizïO mm ÊI/ÉRYtlME I WAmW mg 00 SKATIN' WITH I WÛ fn'KiP*- {ûom l mah OÊfCOAL 0R5ITT ) Msljtfl don't Wfrt <U i a ''V I 0$. r (S 1 1 I s V Ü li Æ ro mise mux LEVY ROAD PURPOSES LAW WOULD RAISE LIMIT FROM 25 TO 50 CENTS PER $100 TAX ABLE PROPERTY BOISE.—Two road measures were introduced in the senate this morning by Nelson of Kootenai county. One of these measures raises the maxi mum tax levy from 25 cents per one hundred dollars of assessable prop erty to 50 cents, while the other measure gives the county commis sioners the power to repair and keep in repair trunk roads in the county whenever the highway commission has been notified and does not take ^hartmie^the^cost* of* such renairine the highway commission. The placing of memorials in each, , ^ in honor of the . made the sunreme sacri fi ? ce ?n the late war il the D^rDose of , ; ntro ^ ure u ; n + b e house todav , thirtv-three of its members. The wou j d cre ate a commission of members to be appointed bv the „ overnor and ^ se rve without pay ° hose duty it wou id be to pick a suit ab j e memor ] a i j n eac h county. The a j go carr j es an appropriation of one thousand dollars to defray the cost of the memor i a l in each county, the counties being required to pay an e „ ua i amount. . A countv division enabling- act made equal amount. . A county division enabling act made its appearance in the house today. It is similar to the measure before the legislature two years ago and which failed to pass at that time. failed to pass at that time. It pro vides that sixty-five per cent of the voters of the district to be created into a new county must sign their names to a petition before an elec tion can be held on the question. ; 1 ! FIRST PAYMENT COLLLECTIONS EQUAL TO ABOUT TWO-THIRDS ! OF TOTAL TAXES IN COUNTY 1 Ba REPORT OF 1011918 IH COLLECTIONS Miss Ruth Broman, former treasur er of Latah county, who retired from that office on the 13th of this month, reported the 1918 taxes paid into the county treasury tip to January 4, 1919, as follows: Personal property taxes....$ 17,383.35 State and county taxes.... 252,098.24 Paving and sewer taxes in Moscow 12,967.59 13,195.63 This leaves approximately $110,000 of the 1918 taxes to be collected in the second half of the year. Of the state and county taxes the amount already paid in is equal to about two-thirds of the total from that source, which is about the usual proportion of such collections, the law making it option al with the taxpayer to pay only one- ; half of his taxes before the first Mon day in January, or all as he elects. | The amount of delinquent taxes is i unusually large, due in a measure to the Inland Empire Railway company passing into the hands of a receiver and also to the failure of the Wash ington Water Power company to pay, Its taxes on account of alleged .un just assessment by the public utilities ; committee, and the power company is : expected to take the matter Into court; for final adjudication. ! The county has no outstanding in- ; debtedness and the levies are intend ed to be made just large enough to ( meet the current expenses of the year, - with no extra monies accumulating | in the various county funds In excess of probably a few hundred dollars to Delinquent taxes the credit of the school districts of the county. England Appropriates Money for Roads. LONDON.—Announcement is made here that the government has set aside $50,000,000 to be used in road i building and in the reconstruction of bridges allowed to fall into decay dur ing the war. It is estimated that 2,500 miles of roads will be constructed, and that the work will give employ ment to fully 100,000 men, many of ; whom will be discharged soldiers. ! |iu AGRFFMFNT ON RUSSIA " , ' lJnc ™ l,l UB nuMB LOCAL FARMERS MAY NOW GET NITRATE Letcher, agricultural agent for Latah lh " lie u - a Dacar,n "' 01 county, The nitrate will be sold under the authority of the food control act and subsequent legislation relating there to - The price will be $81.00 a ton, free on board cars at loading point or P° rt - Farmers are to pay in addi tion freight to their shipping points, How to Obtain Nitrate. Applications for a part of the ni träte bought by the government will be received only from actual farmers or owners or holders of farms for us e on their land, and may be made through County Agent Fletcher, No money will be required with the COUNTY AGENT FLETCHER HAS SO BEEN NOTIFIED BY DEPART - PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Notice has been given to O. S. Agriculture will sell at cost a supply of nitrate of soda to farmers in Latah application but upon notice from the authorized representative of the de partaient of agriculture, farmers who have signed applications must deposit with a local bank, association, or In dividual, designated by the secretary of agriculture to act as the farmer's agent for that purpose, money to cov er the cost of the fertilizer except the freight charge. In practically every case the money will be paid to a coun ty nitrate distributor designated by the department of agriculture. Nitrate will be shipped to distributors on sight draft with bill of lading attached. Dis tributors will pay drafts, take up the bills of lading, collect money from farmers and distribute nitrate to farm ers. If any farmer in Latah county is interested in buying a quantity of this fertilizer, he should get into commun ication with the county agent at once. -Ba POTLATCH LIQUOR GASES DISPOSED OF ITALIANS FOUND WITH DAGO RED" IN POSSESSION FINED AND SENT TO JAIL The Italians arrested at Potlatch f or violations of the liquor laws and brought to Moscow yesterday by Sheriff Woody and his deputy, Charles Summerfield, had their disposed of in the district court as follows, today: In the case of State vs. Jim Mon tana, the defendant waived his pre liminary hearing and requested to be permitted to enter his plea in the district court. Information was filed charging with having intoxcating liquor in his possession, and he en tered a plea of guilty, and his fine was assessed at thirty days in jail and $400 fine. In the case of State vs. Toni Raponi, the same action was taken as in the case against Jim Montana. Defend ant in this case being committed to the county jail for thirty days and directed to pay a fine of $400. In the case of the third man, Mike Petrogalli, arrested as a result of the raid, a charge was filed in the pro bate court against him. The prelim inary hearing was held this afternoon, with A. L. Morgan appearing for him. The state introduced evidence to sus tain the charge. The defendant of fered no evidence and was held to answer in the district court. His bond was fixed in the sum of $500 in cash. It is understood that the defendant is cases preparing to furnish the cash bond, Humphrey Case Disposed Of. The case of the state against Will jam Humphrey, charged with a viola tion of the liquor laws, was disposed 0 f by the district court today, fines imposed aggregated $500, which wa s paid by the defendant. The in the matter of extending accommo dation to returning soldiers by ar Free Cab Service to Returning Sol diers It was a most praiseworthy action the executive commiittee of the Mos cow Chamber of Commerce has taken ranging free cab service within the city limits. Each of the two cab com panies in the city have been instruct ed to extend this courtesy to return ing soldiers, who need only give their name and address to secure such serv ice. These names will be reported to the committee which has been author ized to reimburse the cab men for services thus rendered. This will also serve to keep an accurate check on the soldiers returning to their homes in M'bsé'ôw and vicinity by securing their names for prompt publication in The Daily Star-Mirror so that all of their friends may be informed of their safe arrival home. Minors Fined for Frequenting Pool Halls. Two young men of minor age, Ted Kitley and Eugene O'Conner were taken before Police Judge Strong, charged with frequenting billiard halls, contrary to the law regarding such cases. They were fined $10 and costs, which amounted to $15 each. PARIS.—(By the Associated Press) —Led by President Wilson, the su preme council of the great powers today moved to unite the factions of distracted Russia and bring them into the peace congress. They unanimously adopted a prop-, osition brought forward by President Wilson, asking all the Russian fac tions, including the bolshevists, to meet the allied and associated govern ments at Princes Islands in the sea of Marmora, on February 15, the con tending factions meantime declaring a truce and suspending all military op erations. The joint commission of the associ ated governments will be announced as soon as the Russian faction accept the proposal which will be communi cated to them by wireless tonight. The Russian commission will proceed to the meeting place, probaoly by warship, by way of the Black Sea and the Bosporus. General John J. Pershing, the Am erican commander in chief, has been called to Paris, and it is expected that he will be the military member of the American representation on the joint commission. Aside from the importance of the conclusions reached it was especially notable as being the first time that the voice of the United States had taken the direction in the concert of European powers on the most seri ous question now presented. There was added significance in the fact that an American president in person had taken leadership in the council made up chiefly of European states men and had pointed to a way which they had unanimously adopted. The final result came after three days of continuous discussion of Russia which did not crystallize until the final hours, when President Wil son presented in writing the plan he had elaborated. There was little opposition and this was based mainly on doubts as to whether the proposition would be ac cepted. In reply it was pointed out that the contending factions were well nigh at the end of their resources and that likely least to a combined appeal to the as sociated powers. Besides the definite proposal as given in the communique, the joint commission of the associated powers will lay down four conditions indispen sable in bringing about an adjust ment: First, peace at all points; sec ond, removal of all economic barriers which restrain the free circulation or exchange of food and commodities be tween the factional zones and the out side world; third, general elections representative basis, and fourth, adequate arrangement for the payment of debts. Even if eventually the proposal is not accepted, members of the council expressed the view that their proposi tion was before the world and that it would pave the way for such other their own action had on a some measures as brought about. The Princes islands were chosen for the eventful meeting because they are outside the zone of any of the They are also contending factions, allied headquarters, and are not open to be obnoxious to any of the fac tions as would other points havftig better facilities for the meeting. February 16 was designated as the time for the meeting so as to give time for representatives to come from, the remotest sections of Siberia and other distant localities. Beside the decisive action taken with regard to Russia the council to day also provided a joint commission of two each from the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy to proceed immediately to Danzig and Warsaw for consideration of the entire military, economic and political situa tion of Poland. _ A plenary meeting of the full con ference was announced for next Sat urday, when the plans of President Wilson and David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, dealing with a league of nations will be the first or der of business. . Today's action on Russia and Po land, however, goes into effect with out presentation to the full confer , and is taken as the action of ence the great powers. . Statement on Russian Policy. TV'*' tell text of the official com munication issued by the supreme council tms afternoon reads; "The president of the United States, the prime ministers and the foreign ministers of the allied and associated powers and the Japanese representa tives met at the Quai d'Orsay between 3 and 5:30 this afternoon and ap proved the proposal of President Wil which reads as follows: The single object the presenta tives of the associated powers have had in mind in their discussions of the course they should pursue with re gard to Russia, has been to help the Russian people, not to hinder them or to interfere in any manner with their right to settle their own affairs in their own way. "They regard the Russian people as their friends, not their enemies, and are willing to help them in any way they are willing to be helped. It is clear to them that the troubles and distrust of the Russian people will steadily increase, hunger and priva tion of every kind become widespread and more and more impossible to re lieve unless order is restored and normal condition once more created, and they are seeking some way in (Continued on page 4.) son