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VOLUME VIII
MARCH
LEAGUE OE NATIONS WILL
BE PART OF PEACE TREATY
President Wilson and the peace conference today "passed the buck" to the
'recalcitrant senators who are opposing the league of nations by announcing
that the league will be made an integral part of the peace treaty. It will
be up to the senators then to accept or reject the treaty.
Germany has agreed to surrender her ships and a lot of securities in ex
change for 370.000 tons of food per month. This settles a question that
threatened to cause trouble between Germany and the allies.
President Wilson has been busily at work ever since returning to Paris,
and the peace conference is making rapid progress. It is expected that Ger
many will be called in and given a copy of the treaty she is expected to sign,
ft next Thursday.
i ' An American transport struck a mine and was sunk with the loss of nine
lives.
Following are the cablegrams received today;
President Makes Announcement.
NEW YORK.—Joseph P. Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, an
nounced here today that he is in receipt of a cablegram from the president
stating that "the plenary council has positively decided that a league of
nations will be part of the peace treaty." This cablegram was sent in re
sponse to one from Tumulty inquiring whether there is any truth in a cer
tain newspaper story that the league will not be incorporated in the peace
treaty.
President Confirms Tumulty's Statement.
PARIS.—President Wilson authorizes the statement that there has been
no change in the original plan for linking together the league of nations
and the peace treaty. This plan was enunciated by the peace conference
itself at the first plenary session. He added there has been no departure
thus far from the order then laid down.
Peace Conference Delegates Consult Together.
PARIS, Friday night.—President Wilson lost no time in plunging into
the problem of the peace conference on his arrival here today. He held a
conference with Premier Lloyd George at the new presidential residence in
the Place des Etats Unis, which was begun directly after the president
reached his residence and lasted an hour. Directly after luncheon the presi
dent went to Col. House's headquarters where a two hours conference was
held with Premiers Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Colonel House, Andre Tardieu
and Louise Loucheur, French minister of reconstruction.
German Delegates Accept Allies' Conditions.
BRUSSELS, Friday.—The German delegates to the conference here re
garding the taking over by the allies of the German mercantile fleet and
provisioning Germany, today definitely accepted the allies' conditions.
A monthly allowance for Germany of 370,000 tons of food stuffs was
fixed today by the allied commission here, conferring with the German
delegation regarding the turning over of the German merchant shipping
and German owned securities in payment of food.
Poles Repulse German Forces.
WARS AW,Thursday.—Polish troops with the assistance of local militia,
' have repulsed the German volunteer forces which attacked the oil field
region of Dombrowka, Silesia.
Argentina to Join League of Nations.
BUENOS AIRES, Friday night.—Foreign minister held a long conference
with mihisters of neutral powers today. He declared Argentina will answer
the invitation to join the league of nations which Foreign Minister Puey
roddon says was accepted in principle by his country- He said, however,
some slight changes would be suggested.
Nine American Saflore Drowned.
LONDON.—Nine sailorp are reported drowned in the sinking of the Am
erican naval transport Yselhaven, bound from Baltimore to Copenhagen,
which struck a mine at 1:35 a. m., Friday, according to a report to Lloyd's.
Thirty-five survivors have been landed at Hartlepool by a British steamer.
Secretary Daniels Goes to France.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary Daniels sailed from New York today on the
transport Leviathan for TVance. He will study, during his visit abroad, the
development being made by France,
NEW BILL HELPS 10
IMPROVE STREETS
HOUSE BILL, 225 BY HUGO, WILL
. AID MANY TOWNS TO MAKE
IMPROVEMENTS
House bill 225, which became a law
at the last session of the Idaho legis
lature, was introduced by C. J. Hugo,
of Moscow, and is of special interest
to municipalities of the state, in that
it provides for continued or added
improvements in bonded districts of
a municipality before the bonds
against the district are paid.
The bill amends sections 16, 75 and
86 of Chapter 152 of the compiled
laws of Idaho and permits street im
provements to be made in bonded dis
tricts, the cost of these improvements
to become a second lien or debt
against the property in the district.
Under the old law if a city or dis
trict in a city or town or municipal
ity made improvements for which
bonds were issued it was prohibited
from making additional improve
ments until those bonds were paid.
Thus if a district issued bonds for
grading a street, building sidewalks,
or any improvements it was prohibit
ed from paving or adding to the im
provement during the life of the
bonds.
The new bill provides that added
improvements may be made and new
bonds issued and they become a sub
sequent lien on the property of the
district. Thus if a district were form
. ed and the streets graded and gut
tered and sidewalks built or grades
established and bonds issued for the
cost of these improvements, and it
was later desired to pave the streets
* or otherwise improve them this could
be done and a new issue of bonds
could be voted and they would be a
subsequent lien.
The amended law will enable many
municipalities to carry on improve
ments that are planned. It is believ
ed that several streets in Moscow
may now be paved and the paving
on other streets extended. The
changed law was asked for by many
municipalities that desired to carry
on further improvements but were
prohibited from doing so under the
old law.
Great Britain and Italy on aircraft.
WILSON PAROLES A
DOZEN ALIEN ANARCHISTS
Paroles
granted by Secretary of Labor Wil
son today to 12 aliens of the group
of 54 sent to New York from the west
recently under a deportation order.
Nineteen cases of deportation order
were affirmed, retaining 23 of which
no application for reopening the hear
ings were pending.
WASHINGTON.
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MARK P. MILLER
APPROVES NEW LAW
WELL-KNOWN GRAIN MAN OF
MOSCOW THINKS NEW LAW
PROTECTS FARMERS
Mark P. Miller of the Mark P. Mill
er Milling company, was asked how
the new law affects shipments of
grain out of any warehouse or elev
ator of which Miles Cannon of Weiser
is appointed by Governor Davis on
this commission. As I understand it
the law provides no shipment of grain
shall be made from warehouse or elev
ator until actually purchased from
the farmer or holder of receipts.
Our opinion is that this law is ab
solutely right and that there never
should be grain shipped from ware
house until sold. The farmer is al
ways in' better position to sell his
grain if he can make delivery direct
from point of storing actual grain if
in flat warehouse or its grade if in
elevator. When conditions get down
to normal the farmer will hold his
grain as before more or less through
the year and during that time there
may be many things come up that
would be to his advantage to have the
grain to deliver at the warehouse
where stored. Nearly always there is
some advantage in being able to make
delivery to any point named.
If the grain is shipped out to some
terminal and stored the farmer
one
has lost all chance of selling to any
but the owner of the warehouse
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or elevator where the grain was stor
And in turn the elevator is at
the mercy of that terminal. Again if
the farmer's grain is shipped before
being bought he has lost all chance
of any competitive buying for the rea
he can't deliver, and when com
petitive buyers know this they are
out of his market.
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1,419,386 Discharged
WASHINGTON.
♦ and men demobilized now num- +
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♦ number 83,774 were officers. A ♦
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SUPERINTENDENT
RICH REELECTED
MOSCOW INDEPENDENT DIS
TRICT SECURES SERVICES OF
J. H. RICH ONCE MORE
The school board met last night,
at which time the matter of the elec
tion of superintendent, the arrange
ments for the opening of the second
semester of the school year and the
routine business were taken up.
By unanimous vote the position of
superintendent of the Moscow schools
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SUPT. J. H. RICH
was tendered to the present incum
bent, J. H. Rich. Mr. Rich has been
connected with the Moscow schools
during the past five years. He was
first employed as principal of the
high school. Upon the resignation of
former Superintendent Henry, the
board tendered him the position of
superintendent, which he has filled
during the past two years to the sat
isfaction of the board, the patrons
and the students.
Owing to the fact that the second
semester is to be a short one, and that
there is uncertainty as to the ability
to be able to keep the schools open,
owing to the influenza situation, the
board voted not to permit an enter
ing class in the primary department.
S0R0RIEIY GIRLS
DELTA GAMMAS WILL HAVE AN
NUAL REUNION AND FEED
—WELCOME MEMBERS
The Delta Gammas are giving thqir
annual reunion banquet today. This
afternoon the freshman class of the
fraternity are giving a musical com
edy in honor of the returning mem
bers, in the auditorium of the ad
ministration building.
The banquet will be held this even
ing at 5:30 in the K. of P. hall, with
decorations in sweet peas and the fra
ternity colors of bronze, pink and
blue.
Mrs. Eldridge and Mrs. Hulme will
be in attendance as members of the
women of the faculty.
The returning members are Misses
Jessie Gibson, Gladys Jones, Gladys]*
Wiley of Spokane; Dorothy Bevis,
Edith Halgren, of Lewiston; Isabel
Pownley, Katherine Bryden, of Pull
man; Henrietta Safford of Asotin;
Mrs. Leslie Dick of Spokane, and:*
Mrs. Erna Palmer of Coeur d'Alene, j
There will be 65 members in at-)
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WASHINGTON.— Honorable dis- ]
charges for Brigadier Generals j
Charles I. Debevoise and George A. 1
Wingate and Major General John F.
tendance.
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HONORABLY DISCHARGED |
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REDS REPORTED TO HAVE LOST
500 IN KILLED—ALLIES'
LOSSES LIGHT
ARCHANGEL, Thursday—(By the
Associated Press.)—Compared to the
losses inflicted upon the enemy, allied
casualties in fighting along the Yaga
river since February 28 have been ex
tremely light. It is estimated the
bolsheviki have lost at least 500
(killed.
American casualties from Febru
ary 28 to March 9, inclusive, were
five killed on the Yaga front and 10
on the Dvina front. No officers were
killed. One American soldier is miss
ing and two officers and 30 men were
wounded. The total American cas
ualties to date in north Russia
follow:
Killed in action: Officers, 4; men,
Died of wounds: Officers, 1; men,
Missing: Men, 36.
Died of disease; Officers, 2; men
Wounded: Officers, 11; men, 241.
The health of the expeditionary
forces since the Spanish influenza
epidemic in September and October
has been excellent. Of the 69 deaths
from disease, 63 occurred before Jan
uary 4.
Throughout the fighting American
troops have generally been greatly
outnumbered, but losses inflicted upon
the enemy have been at least five
times those suffered by the Ameri
cans. As the newly mobilized Rus
sian troops are becoming trained,
they are gradually relieving the strain
to which the American, British and
French forces were put in the early
days of the campaign. All American
troops are now enjoying regular rest
periods, either at Archangel or at
convenient villages behind the lines.
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POTLATCH SOLDIER
HAS NOT SEEN HIS SON
POTLATCH.—The Rev. J. F.
Cheesman of Manhattan, Montana
will occupy the pulpit at the Union
church next Sunday morning and ev
The Union church has been
enmg.
without a pastor for some time and
Rev. ßheesman is a candidate for the
vacancy left by the resignation of
Rev. N. M. Fiske now of Post Falls,
Idaho. Mrs. G. B. Craney and Miss
Suma Hall will be the pianists.
Mrs. C. L. Ainsworth, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Laird has re
turned from the hospital at Bovill
with her young son, Allison Laird.
Mr.' Ainsworth was expected to ar
rive last week from Camp Merritt,
N. J., where he received his dis
charge but contracted influenza while
visiting his home at Chippewa Falls,
Wis. He is recovering, however, from
a mild case and is expected shortly.
New Senator Seeks Spot Light.
WASHINGTON,
mick, republican senator-elect from
Illinois, issued a statement today as
serting that any censorship
news
Medill McCor
upon
from America to Great Britain
and France could have been imposed
only to prevent the publication of the
American people's opinion and the at-
titude of the senators toward the con-
stitution of the league of nations.
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Ira A. Hawley Heard From. • *
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* That Ira A. Hawley, of Mos- +
* cow, who had not been heard +
* from since May 28, 1918, has *
4* landed in the United States, is J
^ the statement received by Mrs.
* Hawley in a telegram from *r
* Washington, D. C. The telegram *
* follows:
* "Mrs. Mary C. Hawley, *
4" Moscow, Idaho. *
"Dear Madam: With refer-*
+ ence to prior correspondence, I * j
* beg to advise that a cable re ~ !
* ceived in this office from abroad +
* states that Private Ira A. Haw- +
ley, Company B, 28th Infantry, *
* was reported to have been re- * j
* turned to the United States on * :
It February 22, 1919. *j
Respecttully, *
«*j- I' • t j-AKKiö, ,
ta tt „ T General. * :
- R-E- Neidig. county chairman *
* of the Red Cross here, has *
* wired to the Red Cross at Wash- v,
* ington to personally investigate
* this matter and report at once. *
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♦ D. W. Taylor, chief of the naval +
♦ bureau of construction and re- + '
+ pairs, announced today that the + j
+ navy will be ready to attempt + j
+ a Transatlantic flight by heav- + j
♦ ier-than-air craft within one ♦
♦ month. ♦
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IDAHO'S GREAT SCE>'I(' HIGHWAY
TO GET ENORMOUS SUM
FOR BUILDING
BOISE.—Idaho will have one of the
scenic wonder roads of the west when
the north and south highway, upon
which construction work is to start
this summer, under a decision reach
ed by the state highway commission
Tuesday, is opened to permit traffic
between Orangeville and New Mead
ows.
The worst section of the road be
tween New Meadows and Whitebird
will be improved at an estimated cost
of $650,000. and will constitute the
first authorized expenditure under the
recent $1,850.000 appropriation made
by the state for road improvement.
This amount will make available for
use upon the roads of Idaho in the
next biennium something more than
$6,000.000. when the state, county
and federal funds are all consid
ered.
Section to Cost $280,000.
The section of the highway between
Whitebird and Orangeville is already
under construction, at a cost for com
pletion estimated at $280,000, which
will make a total expenditure of al
most $1,000,000 for the highway. This
will not complete the work on certain
sections to state highway specifica
tions, but will make the road traversi
ble and open a hitherto almost inac
cessible part of the state to public
travel.
Three miles of the new construction
at Freedom hill will cost about $40.
000 per mile. This work involves some
tunnels, and is almost entirely in sol
id rock in a preciptious box canyon.
The highway will be open every day
in the year, the worst winter condi
tions along the line being encountered
at New Meadows.
According to State Highway Engi
neer H. C. Allen, this route is the
only feasible one for hundreds of miles
east and west of the selected route
which will permit all-year travel,
will open up some of the finest hunt
ing and fishing sections of the state.
Excellent camping facilities are af
forded by the
streams along the way.
One Contractor Takes AIL
It is understood that the board of
highway commissioners, who Tuesday
completed their work, to be supersed
ed by the new board, approved the
policy of granting the entire construc
tion work to
Three months are expected to elapse
before preliminary work incident to
frequent running
a single contractor.
securing federal appropriations is
completed, and actual construction is
expected to begin some time in August
or early September.
LEWISTON.—Yesterday morning a
crew of railroad surveyors left Greer
for the Pierce section and are presuni
j a blv in the employ of the Weyerhous
! er timbgr syndicate. This information
was broU ght to the city yesterday by
James McCullough who with Mrs. Mc
Cnilougb arrived from their home at
j Fraser to vis j t here for two weeks
: W jth their daughter.
Mr. McCullough, who is a pioneer
of the Fraser section, where he owns
valuable farm lands, is noting with
: interest the movements which seem
tQ indicate an e arly opening of the
yast clearwate r timber belt,
"We are still experiencing consid
winter weather in the Fraser
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WETERHOUSER TO
SURVEYING PARTY GONE TO
PIERCE DISTRICT TO MAP OUT
LINE OF ROAD
section with six to eight inches of
snow, and farmers are still required
to feed.
district there is still a great deal of
Hay has brought $25 a ton in
Farther back in the Pierce
snow.
the barn in the Fraser section.
'While we have been experiencing
good deal of late winter," continued
Mr. McCullough,' "yet we have ex
perienced little sickness and our dis
trict has been remarkably free from
the influenza epidemic."
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Boys Arrested For Trespass.
Four boys were arrested today for
riding on the fire truck when going
to a fire. They were lectured by the
chief and then taken before Judge
Strong, of the police court, who ad
ministered a lecture and announced,
that the next boys brought before him
this charge will be fined and if
that does not stdp it the fire depart
ment will ask that some of them be
imprisoned,
time the fire bell rings and the de
partment starts out the engine, hose
cart or dray that is pulling them, is
loaded down with boys and men who
want a free ride to the fire. Hereaft
er no one, not a member of the fire
department, will be permitted to ride
ony any of these and if they do so
will be arrested. The ordinance pro
vides severe penalties for violating
any of these orders.
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It is claimed that every
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NEWSPAPER PARAGRAPHS
SHOW HUMOROUS VIEWS OF
THE PROPOSED LEAGUE
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS
The Literary Digest has secured
the opinions of many American news
papers as expressed in editorial briefs
upon the great absorbing topic of the
league of nations. The editorials
touching on the subject follow;
The Peace-League Barrage.
In the senate it's the league of
fulminations. —Newark News.
Will the League of Nations stagie
double-headers on holidays?—Detroit
Free Press.
Berlin press looks upon the league
with disfavor, which is some recom
mendation.—Wall Street Journal.
There are here and there sounds,
of course, which remind us that there
are no war-profits in arbitration.—
Detroit News.
The world is in a fair way to get
together and abolish war, if the Unit
ed , States does not stop it.—Chicago
Daily News.
After the society of nations is
formed Germany is going to have a
hard time breaking into society.—
San Francisco Bulletin.
Let the league of nations start out,
somehow; it can also accumulate
eighteen amendments if needed.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
We are determined that there shall
be no more war and equally deter
mined to be ready for the next one.—
Utica Herald-Dispatch.
Some of the speeches against the
league of nations indicate high-muz
zle velocity, but they turn out to be
duds.—Manchester Union.
Congress might be reconciled to the
league of nations if the league would
take over the railroad problem—Chi
cago Daily News.
When Borah refused to attend the
dinner-party he showed that he wish
ed to avoid entangling alliances.—
Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
Awful thought! Supposing the
league of nations should make the
United States a mandatory to take
care of Mexico!—Boston Globe.
If the league of nations can not
prevent war, it can at least guaran
tee that those insisting on war will
get all they want.— Des Moines Reg
ister.
Anyhow, if the debate between the
president and the senators gets to#
hot, we can refer the matter to the
peace conference.—Manchester Union.
Senator Borah seemingly would
copy everything from the farewell
address except the farewell.—Newark
News.
As we understand one article in the
so-called constitution, the league of
nations will not stand for any base
stealing.— Des Moines Register.
The league of nations may be all
right, but how are you going to keep
Baker and Daniels from coming out
for it, to say nothing of Burleson!
—Indianapolis Star.
Mr. Taft probably thinks the league
of nations can be provided later with
a set of false teeth that will serve
for biting purposes. — Minneapolis
Tribune.
It looks to us as tho some of the
intrepid senators who are fighting
against the L. of N. will be entitled
to wound-chevrons before they get
through.—New York Tribune.
A boycott as a means of enforcing
the league's decrees may not sound
formidable, but the Germans
testify as to what it means.—
Charlston News and Courier.
The league of nations will probably
run along with a fair degree of
smoothness at least until the project
of international prohibition comes be
fore it.—Syracuse Herald.
The London Spectator cites as a
characteristic mot by a French wit,
summing up the French feeling' about
the league of nations, the phrase,
"The league is impossible and indis
pensable."
Mr. Taft wants a league of nations
with "teeth" in it. Well, it seems to
us that- the American and British
fleets constitute a pretty good set
of teeth.—Charlston News and Cour
ier.
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It is obvious that the president ap
proaches the league of nations discus
sion with an open mind. So open
that any adverse criticism that may
steal in is allowed to find its way out
without delay.—Boston Transcript.
Mr. James Beck, of New York says
that 100,000,000 stand aghast at the
thought of a league of nations. Evi
dently Mr. Beck counted 'em while
he was standing before a multiplying
mirror.—Chicago Daily News.
Switzerland's decision to enter the
world league on the condition that
she is never called on to go to war,
and is never to be coerced in any way,
seems to contain the germ of a bright
idea.—Philadelphia North American.
Political experts believe that on the
success of the league of nations will
depend Mr. Wilson's chances of re
election, should he choose to run
again. Oh, well, if that's all there
is to it we know just what to do.—
New York Telegram.
Unless objection be made, the nom
ination of Woodrow Wilson to be
Grand Idealist of the League of No
tions will be considered equivalent
to election. As the league will re
quire a Notional Anthem, we will
award a prize for the best one sub
mitted—a prize of a long-stemmed
clay pipe and a bowl of soapsuds.—
Chicago Tribune.