The Daily Star-Mirror VOLUME IX MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2.% 192« X UMBER 18« REVOLT AGAINST IRON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, OFFI ClALS REBEL AGAINST FED ERAL ENFORCEMENT CRYSTAL FALLS, Mich.—(By A. P.)—The situation in Iron county is I reported quiet today following reve- I nue agents' report of an incipent whiskey insurrection here. No new developments have occurred. Will Arrest County Officers. CHICAGO, Ill.—(By A. P.)—Major A. V. Dalrymple, federal prohibition director of six central states, gather ed 80.picked agents here today pre paratory to leading an expedition into Iron county, Michigan, to arrest the county officials who are said to have interfered with the federal liquor raid last week. Charge Open Rebellion. CHICAGO, Ill.—A rebellion against prohibition" has broken out In Iron county, Michigan, and the -county, led by its prosecuting attor ney, is in "open revolt" against fed eral authority, Major A. L. Dalrymple federal prohibition director for »the central states, notified Washington today. Prohibition agents leading a party of Michigan state constables were held up Feb. 19 by Iron county offici als and wine they had confiscated was taken away from them according to word brought to Chicago by Leo J. Grove of Marquette, supervising prohibition agent for the upper pen insula. Major Dalrymple appealed to At torney General Palmer, through As sistant Prohibition Director Gaylord, to order warrants issued for the ar rest of the prosecutor, two deputy * sheriffs, two police officers and three other residents of Iron River, a min ing village. County Authority Explains. IRON RIVER, Mich.—"The people up in this country are entitled to protection and they are going to get it, so long as it is within my power to give it to them." Such was the reply made tonight by Prosecuting Attorney P. A. McDon ough of Iron County, when he learn ed that Major A. V. Dalryiriple, pro hibition director of the central states had declared Iron county "in. open re volt" against federal authority. Prosecutor McDonough said he would more than welcome the federal officer with a warrant for his arrest and that it would not require an armed expedition of dry agents and Michigan state police-to make the arrest. "The best thing they could do (s to swear out a warrant for ' my arrest and try to prosecute," he said. "K | would be he best thing for me and ' for the people, for we would then J learn whether or not the laws of this / kind are to be enforced and whether i or not the people are entitled to pro action as well as prosecution, at the hands of their officers." Dalrymple Leads Invaders. CHICAGO.—(By A. P.)— Major V. Dalrymple, federal prohibition ' " for six central states, commissioner received word today that telegraphic authorization to lead an armed ex pedition of United States agents into the upper peninsula of Michigan, had been sent from Washington. With about 30 picked men he will leave Chicago at 6 p. m. for Negaunee, Michigan,. where the force of Michi gan constabulary will join them. IKON SENK POLLUTES STREAM WA8HIXGT0X STATE HEALTH OF FICERS BJEUXG OUR SEWER IN TO CONTROVERSY Mosgow's sewer system has become a matter of controversy* across the state line in Washington. J. K. Smawley, owner of a small farm just below Pullman, near the septic tank below that town,' has brought suit against the city because of the alleg ed noxious odors arising fro the tank which is but a few hundred feet from Smawley's residence. Pullman city. Whitman county and Washington state health officers have been investigat ing the case. J. E. Plenry, M. D., director of the di vision of communicable diseases, for the Washington state board of health, investigated the conditions there and says, in part, 'in his report to Dr. J. B. Anderson, state health officer ; "First—That this odor was not sufficient to cause any detriment whatever to the health of the ad joining property owners. "Second—That the stream receiv ing the effluent from this tank, liv ing been already thoroughly, con taminated by receiving the sewage of the city of Moscow, In Idaho, some eight or ten miles up stream, would be only additionally contami nated by receiving the sewage efflu enty of the Pullman septic tank. "Third — That this stream, both as it flows through the city of Pullman above the outlet of the Pullman sep tic tank and as it flows away into the country below this outlet, is dangerous to bathe In and as a source of drinking water. UTAH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE RAISES SALARIES LOGAN, Utah.—Salary increases of five per cent to teachers on the reg ular staff and ten per cent to workers on the extension staff have been grant ed by the board of trustees of the Utah Agricultural College here. The wage advances were given to meet increased living costs. WORK IS APPALLING LONDON NEWSPAPER SEES DARK OUTLOOK IN REORGANIZA TION OF EUROPE LONDON.—The vastness of the task of reconstructing continental Europe seems appalling to the Saturday Re view. "We are about to witness," it says, "the spectacle of Central and Eastern Europe being handed over to some 24 international mixed bodies called commissions. As each commission has on an average seven members, with an attendant army of clerks and secre taries, the reign of the official is like ly to be expensive and prolonged. Under the Treaty of Versailles the fol lowing 24 commissions must be ap pointed forthwith: "To^etermine the new frontier be tween Germany and Belgium, trace the frontiers of the Saar Basin, govern the Saar Basin, apportion the stock in the Saar Basin, administer the prov ince of the central Rhine, delimit the ■ frontiers of Czecho-Slovakia, de- I S'l.TpSrX« "Si evacuation of Upper Silesia and take over its government, take over East Prussia after evacuation, administer j the Plebiscite area of Stuhm, Rosen-| burg and Manenhurg, for the dehm-, Ration of the free city of Danzig, take the plebiscite of Sleswiz, determine the boundaries of Slerswig, reduce the Qer man army, the Naval conmiission the Air Force Commission, Repatriation Commission, Clearance of Debts Com mission, Insurance Commission, Elbe Commission, for the navigation and j management, Order Commission, Nie- , men Commission, Danube Commission, I and the Reparation Commission." | The latter the Saturday Review de- , scribes as "the greatest of all, with | the task of skinning Germany alive for ; "In e addRion a to the'above/' ^Re- i view cohtinued, "there is to be set up [ an International Labor Office, and a permanent Court of International Jus- i tice. How long will this vast cobweb of internation-officials endure? Until the next war, possibly./' i ' I I I ; j j I PLAN TO SHORTEN SEASON TO BE REDUCED BY STARTING STOCK ON RANGES LATER IN SPRING WASHINGTON, D. C. — Early, spring grazing on western ranges has so materially reduced the carry ing capacity and forage resources that the forest service, United States department of agriculture, has found it necessary on many of the national forestä to shorten the present graz ing season from two to four weeks. This cut will be put into effect this spring. "It is the purpose of the forest service," states an official in charge of grazing, "to place the live-stock industry on the national forests on substantial, permanent basis. To this it is necessary to produce a max imum cover of vegetation on rangea. The first precaution is avoid too early grazing. Every stock man interested in his business knows that forage plants cannot be grazed the instant they begin to show above the S roun d- Such early spring use of the range not only decreases the density and luxuriance of plant growth, but also reduces the carrying capacity and the fertility of the soil, and if continued, ultimately results in waste range. . _ 8 . , , Studies carried on at the Great Basin Experiment station In Utah have proved that where plants are continually cut back or cropped, the root system loses its vitality and the plant soon dies. On some of the na tional forest ranges, which are grazed early and heavily, the forage plants are showing similar signs of serious damage, and will rapidly go from bad to worsé if remedial measures are not put in force. The old grasses, with their root systems weakened by re peated cropping, are almost extermin ated and are being replaced by worth less weeds. Erosion of the soil has also started in many places and threatens serious damage. Experi ments have shown that off a ten acre tract, heavily ^overgrazed, as much as 26 tons of earth and rock have frequently been washed down after a few minutes of heavy rains. These are some of the things which follow in the wake of too early use of the range and from overgrazing. "A grazing season that starts later the spring, thus giving the forage plants a chance to develop, and more careful management of the range, will do much toward bettering and eventually eliminating such condi tions." Ul ! I A Convert m 777777 h fi*i riiMi. & f t milk Tm " MS. I I WM \ /£. A l /// W\ \ *1 _ r <■' -A ^ m r j I i I i shipping harbor there, following a revolution which broke out there Satur- ; day afternoon, according to Lloyd's dispatch from Verdo, Norway. i Tim news was brought by a Russian steamer, the only vessel which escaped, i « "■> «--*> with m.CJne S un „re the cepje.e «.. weend.a. Denekme's forces Recapture ix round. j The recapture from the Boisheviki of Rostov-on-the-Don by Denekine's . f orc6S j g reported by the British military mission in South Russia today. The ! captured Friday, with 1500 prisoners and 22 guns. u „ , , ' „ w ... England and Italy Mant Peace With Boisheviki. , Premiers Lloyd George and Nitti, of Italy, are believed to favor a resump t i on 0 f relations with soviet Russia although Premier Millerand, of France, j not inclined to agree to any immediate action, according to the Daily Mall, 6 ' n , strike _ Welch Coal Mines Closed By Strike. FORTH, Wales.—(By A. P.)—Thirty thousand miners struck today in the colleries of Rhondda Valley. The shut down is almost complete. They struck to en ( orce the demands for dismisal of the check weighman and settle . . „„ m ent of a case in which it is alleged a miner was victimized. Senate Expected to Pass Railroad Bill Soon. ; WASHINGTON.—(By A. P.)—The conference report on the railroad bill p asse( j Saturday night by the house, was called up in the senate today by Senator Cummins, chairman of the interstate commerce committee who oh tained unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. Its speedy adop- j tion is predicted, LONDON.—(By A. P.)—Boisheviki forces have seized Murmansk and the Railroad Unions Oppose Wilson's Plan. WASH1NGTON.—(By A. P.)—President Wilson's proposal for the settle- j ment of the railroad wage controversy and the compromise railroad bill now pending in the senate, were bitterly assailed in conference here today by rail road union officials and grievance committeemen called to Washington to discuss the president's settlement policy. Hoover Wants Treaty Ratified. BALTIMORE.— (By A. P.)—Former Food Administrator Hoover declared today in an address at Johns Hopkins university, his opposition to making' the ratification of the peace treaty an issue in the presidential election campaign. He insisted it will "obscure our pressing domestic issues by a conflict over a question on which the country has already made up its mind." SPOKANE ADOPTS : I a do Spokane is going to adopt the Mos to C ow method of presenting reading re 1 hearsals of standard modem plays as | conveninent means of sunnlvimr theatric entertainment to its tom mud j. rp be Drama Club also wel comes ' tbe opportunity of exhibiting a samp j e 0 f work on Tuesday n - ^ j bg production of "The ^ £ be extension workers j- rutn ' to tne extension workers from various parts of the state who J 111 . be visiting at the University during the week. , a discussion of the | *°°P revale £t institution of divorce 1 bumerour, however, in its treatment; Her Own, Money which settles gestion as to who should con ^<>1 the pay-roll, the wife or the hus a ' Clyde Fitch, the author of "The Truth," is considered one of the best American dramatists. Of his long "st of works, many of which are translations of foreign plays, "The Truth" has been selected as most representative of his studies of American life. His Interest appears divided between his leading charact er > Becky, who was so well played in thls country by Grace George, and bhe idea—which traces the evolution of a fib. It may have been a white one to start with, but it ends as black as night. "If you can inculcate a u idea in your play," wrote Fitch, I "so much the better for your play, aud for you and for your audience." Fitch also knows his audience well enough to end his play happily. "THE TRUTH" TO BE PRESENT ED BY HOME DRAMA CLUB TUESDAY NIGHT satisfaction a news-story in the Spokesman-Review of last Friday to the effect that the Drama Club of The local Drama Club read with . T j a nd ot her impressions ot Uondon aQ d Paris. The children of the refu gees and the French children seemed greatly undernourished, many of mem oeing afflicted with rickets and a large percentage suffering from tuberculosis. During an epidemic of {influenza the undernourished refu Sees seemed to escape when the bet le r fed French peopie succumbed. . * f Dr. Gilchrist told of the célébra tion ot the signing ot the armistice, which lasted tor days in France. rpt t? , .. . , , . The French people are divided in four classes. The home job is the broadest of all ' labors for its branches of work covers many departments. One of the reasons that the rural life should be brought to its best development, is that it is the normal place tor the rearing of children. There are 18 women in the evten „j 0 work of Idaho ' , R-elly stated that those who '*ve nearest our great university often fail to appreciate its advant a & es - How often that is true. Peo P, e come many miles to attend farmers' and Housekeepers' week, while those within a few miles of Moscow often fail to attend or take an y interest in the splendid dem onstrations given at their very door, WOMAN PHYSICIAN TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCES ON THE BATTLE FRONTS Friday afternoon, Dr. V. M. Gil christ gave a talk on her work abroad at the Historical Club. She spoke interestingly of the trip across Miss Amy Kelly of the home eco nomics departmenc of the University gave an instructive address on the extension work for the women of Idaho. The success of tne agriculture of the state depends on good condi tions in the home. Agriculture is im portant for it produces the raw ma terial that ia me basis of all other occupations. Nevada Fur Shipments Heavy. CARSON CITY, Nev.—Fur ship ments from Nevada to other parts of the United States has been extremely heavy this season, according to W. C. Grover, state game warden. Especial ly large shipments of beaver and muskrat pelts by trappers in Humbolt and Elko counties are being made, he said. TEXTILE MAKERS ARE PROFITEERING DIVIDENDS DECLARED RECENT LY SHOW WHY RETAIL PRICES ARE HIGH BOSTON.—The reason why shirts and other comon fabrics have been costing from two to three times as much as in prewar times, suavily at tributed to "increased labor and other production costs," may be explained in large measure by the huge quart quar earnings erly dividends just declared by New England cotton mill corporations. Quarterly dividens running high as 20 per cent or 80 per cent a year have been voted by boards of directors to stockholders and while government investigators and other seekers for facts connected with the high cost of wearing clothes have been gunning after retailers, the fab ric producers have been quietly "get ting theirs" the while production costs has been explained above. li Dividend 70 Per Cent, One concern, the King Philip mills °f Fall River, Mass., in addition to 53 " extra dividend of 50 per cent, bring ing the rate upon its capital stock to 70 per cent for the year, Thirty-nine Fall River cotton mill corporations have this week declared quarterly dividends of $2,385,338.50 The quarterly dividends rangé from 1 1-2 per cent to 20 per cent and average for the 39 concerns 7.73 plus per cent, or about 27 per cent a y 6a r. These dividends which smashed all records for high profits started tailers wondering when the govern ment's calcium lights would be turn ed off their establishments and di rected toward the King Philip mills corporation, with its 5 per cent terly and 50 per cent extra divi d ^j ts th | 0 dendj and others wboge ^ away as an re have broken records. If it was not for greatly increas ec * volume of business many retail ^f le ™° t " day be "Whe™^tt/governme^t tackles the retailers it attacks ... pro fiteermg from the wrong end. This is a sellers market' and today Jhatstn Sr h?n With we ap our. GILLS FOG BIDS OB CLEIRIITED HIGHWAY 1 BIDS TO BE RECEIVED UP TO SATURDAY FOR CONSTRUCT ING ROAD NEAR GREER ■ No country presents more difficult j problems to the highway engineer i J-han the mountains of northern Ida ] "?■, 1116 Nez Perce and Clearwater hl * h ^ a f s , both f rve a fertile country la 9^ s only proper transporta ï ° n îf CI1 A les bud development, ^ be Nez Perce highway runs through ,.°^ r "Little Big,"^ the Mitchell, the Maggie, an d "Law yers Canyon." The (Jlearwater high | w has t0 climb Greer huj both ro ads the maximum grade has open u™*. j„ wn .. f , f 1 "? oeen kept down to the standard 5 per cent prescribed by the bureau of public roads for all xederal aid ! flgures - Flan State Natatorlnm. POCATELLO, Ida.—Final plans for the constructi °n of a mamouth state natatorlnm at Lava Hot spring, Idaho, are being worked out and it is ex pected the project will be completed by May 15. The last Idaho legislature passed an act providing for the erec tion of the plunge which will be'mod ern in all respects. The main swim ming tank will be 50x160 feet and priv ate pools and dressing rooms also will be provided. Admission to the plunge will be charged, the fun# derived go ing to the state. The department of Public Works will receive bids on February 28, 1920, for the construction of 8.4 miles of the Clearwater highway. This road runs between Greer and Fraser, Clearwater county, and traverses some of the roughest country to be found anywhere in the state. Never theless, careful location has kept the ; c °st down to figures which is certain | /^"remmkaM^îow Ir mou^Mnous | country. pro jects. Both roads wind up and around the hills, keeping to a minimum radi us of 1U0 feet for all It is expected that a large number of bids will be received for this tract, as conditions are very favor able for speedy completion ef the work. While prices for both labor and material-, are higher than they were a few years ago, the nature of the work is such that it can be handl ed very economically arid the contract Should he awarded at curves. con reasonable | | ! | i GOMPERS OPPOSED TO A LABOR PARTY j HEAD OF AMERICAN FEDERA i TION OF LABOR WRITES LETER TO MITCHELL WASHINGTON.—Formation of a political labor party would be 'detri mental to the interests of labor and exactly in line with that which is most ardently desired by those who seek to oppose labor," Samuel Gom pers declared in a letter to Wm. Mitchell of Indianapolis, a leader of the Indiana state labor party, made public here today. I Mr. Gompers wrote in reply to a telegram from Mitchell and his as sociates supporting the action of the Indiana state labor party in opposing the political declaration of the Ameri can Federation of Labor calling on organized workmen to elect their friends and defeat their enemies. Mitchell's telegram declared in of making the fight solely through a labor party. "By what right," wrote Mr. Gom pers, "do you assume to declare the work and the policy of the American Federation of Labor to be impract ical? Surely the results achieved in the interest of the workers demon strate the utter fallacy of your as sumption. "By your declaration you assert the practicability of the course you will pursue. What experience have you nad with your political party upon which to base so absurd a claim ? "Of this one thing you may rest assured, that the day of reckoning is at hand for all of those who are in antagonism to the cause of labor, and for those who are subtle and equally guilty even though they clothe their actions in the robes of pretended friendship. "When you shall have learned the lesson of the real struggle of labor and the cause for which our move ment stands, you may become penit ent .for the gross injustice you have done by your pretension and course. * "The effect of a separate political labor party can only be disastrous to the wage earners of our country and to the interests of ail forward looking people. The votes that would go to a laoor party candidate would, in the absence of such candidate, go to the best man in the field, case would they go to an enemy of labor. "There can be no hope for success of labor party candidates. The ef fect, therefore, of a political labor party, will be to defeat our friends and to elect our enemies. "Labor can look upon the formation of a political labor party only act detrimental to the interests of labor and exactly in line with that which is most ardently desired by those who seek to oppress labor. "The welfare of American humani ty demands in this hour of national crisis that tnere be success at the Tnis is no time for experi with your In no as an polls. political theories which .are proven false at the outset. The workers of America tactics of success. They must have results. "Results will not be obtained by injecting a labor party so-called tne struggle. "Those who are determined to be blind to the facts of the present and past will, of course, rush on to dis aster and calamity. This the Ameri can labor movement will not do. It rejects and repudiates the fallacies of blind theories and will have nothing to do with those treacherous follies that are suited only to the purposes of labor's enemies. "Your telegram is an affront to the labor movement and an assault upon the interests of that great body ox Americans who that the present campaign shall suit, not in the destruction of_ liberties but in the opening of the way to national progress and the largement of opportunities for hu man welfare, safety and happiness." must use the n Repatriate Hun Prisoners. PARIS.—(By A. P.)—Repatriation f German war prisoners in Siberia bas been authorized by the ambassa dorial council here today. The order Provides the repatriation is to be. fjaade by way of the eMst. into are determined re our en Colfax Gets Convention. * SEATTLE, Wash—(By A. P.) * **■ —Colfax, Washington, „ ected by the democratic f central committee here today as * the place to hold the democratic ♦ * convention on May 17th. * +++++++++f++++++* Peary is Laid to Rest. WASHINGTON—(By A. P.)_The body of Rear Admirdi Peary, discov erer of the north pole, was laid to rest in Arlington cemetery today with full military and naval honors, and wit« high diplomatic and government officials present, were ment. V ... was sei- * state ■** The ceremonies in charge of the navy depart Chink Believed Hop Fiend. VANCOUVER, B, C.—(By A. P.) —J* J* Wing, Chinese, is held by the police here today pending investiga tion of charges that he Is the head of a ring which has been selling drugs m Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, Butte, Spokane, Denver and other cities.