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LINCOLN COUNTY TIMES L. T. Alexander, Publisher . . IDAHO JCRONB . . IDAHO STATE NEWS Fire of unknown origin completely 1 destroyed the building and most of 1 the stock of a millinery and dress making establishment at Weiser. | While driving a load of hay down ] a steep hill, near Cambridge. Wal lace Coffee, 10 year old. fell oft and 1 was serevely Injured, but it is be I lleved he will recover. Six counties In the northern tier j are responding liberally to a call for financial support to build a home at Lewiston for the Children's Home ) Finding and Aid society. The Conway hotel at Star was de ! stroyed by fire Wednesday morning, but most of the furniture was saved It is thought that most 5f the loss i The body ot Louis Odick, the boy j drowned near Caldwell, has been re The body was quite badly i, ; r [ was covered by insurance. covered. discolored and cramped np and was evident that the boy was seized j I 1 with cramps. The Payette Valley arilroad has se cured a contract from the govern ment to carry mail over its entire Une from Emmett to Payette. Mail 1s now carried dally to Letha and Falk from Emmett. I I _ . . I Owyhee county mining properties are producing well and a number of | mines have a large force of men steadily at work, so that bullion re turns and payrolls maintain good business and trade conditions. The board of commissioners ot Cas Fla county has closed its session as a board of equalization, and has left the assessment roll in * much the condition as It was when turned over to them by the county assessor. i t-, , ■ . , , Exclusive of the Boise river stor same age, the great Boise irrigation pro ject was 74 per cent completed, and the storage unit was 3.6 per cent completed by the end of June of this year, according to an official report, meeting ot the Boise Police Benevo lent association last week, to secure some property and build a real home A movement was set on foot at a tor Injured, aged or decrepit patrol men who are past the period of ac- \ I ] j j j - tive service. Because Mack McClean, colored, | snored, as he was enjoying a siesta on a lounging couch at the Court ney Colored Gentlemen's club in Boise. Ed Caldwell, also colored, at tacked him with a knife, inflicting severe wounds. Detectives are searching for the person who placed a threatening let ter, demanding $103, on top of a post beside a mail box In front of ths home of C. R. Carlson, a well known rancher who lives two miles south west of Meridian. The Caldwell Commercial club and real estate dealers are making pre parations for an extensive campaign ot advertising of the city. The most Important work is the arranging ol four different exhibits, one for Des Moines, Omaha. Lincoln and Cald well. cause, j Francis Fox, who conducts a board ing house at Wallace, was shot three times and beat over the head until unconscious by Jack Dillon, a miner, the shooting occurring without warn ing and apparently without Fox is in the hospital and Dillon in jail. Idaho county 1s the first to file with the state board of equalization a complete abstract of its assessments of property for t»ie present year. The rerport shows the assessment for 1911 to be $8,285,416, an increase of $4, 325,782 over 1910, or 109 per cent in The actual work of consolidating the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company system and the Independent system in the district Including Ada, Canyon and Washington counties. Is under way, but the real consolidation crease. In Boise will not be completed for two months or longer. Boise is expected shortly to come into ownership ot 160 acres of land up Boise canyon by the good grace of Uncle Sara, and it is said that a great quarry located on this land will furnish the municipality with as fine a grade of pavement rock as was ever used in the northwest. MYs. Mary B. Harriman, widow of the late railroad king, E. H. Harriman, Is expected to arrive from New York early next month with he' children to spend a few weeks on a tanch near Island Lake, northeastern Idaho, a few miles west of the Yellowstone branch of the Oregon Short Line. Two freight trains collided near Downey, the crews having a narrow escape from death. Both engines were demolished and both engineers and firemen were slightly injured. The Smifbsonian institute will soon be enriched with the skeleton of a huge prehistoric animal excavated from a sand hill five miles west of Montpelier. The finders believe they have unearthed the skeleton of a moBtodon. T. H. DeBord became suddenly In sane in Boise and when an officer waa called attempted to kill the represen tatfve of the law, being placed under arrest after putting up a stiff fight, It being necessary for tho policeman to club him into submission. De Bord was formerly a resident of Portland. PREPARING FOR WAR ENGLAND WILL FIGHT UNLESS GERMANY RECEDES FROM HER POSITION OF BLUFF. — Gravity of Crisis in the Moroccan Situation is Confirmed by Speech of Prime Minister in the House of Commons. London.—The statement of Premier Asquith in the house of Thursday that the chamber "should not ask him to enter into further de tails of the Moroccan situation at the of the causes of the present Incident might provoke recrimination which it was desirable to avoid," is interpreted here as confirming fully the reported gravity of the situation and as clear indicative ot the government's in tentlon to back up Mr. Lloyd-George ^ bis ®P®®®h of last week, when In effect he told Germany to fight or re commons on present time, as a too close analysis ^ ed ® from her position of bluff. Official opinion prevailing here is that the situation has reached a stage so tense as to preclude a settlement. Further diplomatic negotiations must necessarily be futile, it is be War is in the atmosphere. Lloyds are doing a rushing business in Anglo-German war risks at .7 per cent agajnEt war within tbree months and j 0 per cen£ {or sil montbs Keved. Practically all the leading German papers are openly advocating war. Little hope is expressed editorially that attempts at pacification can suc ceed. The German press is united in the demand that Germany stand on her demand in Morocco. _ Bill Revising Wool Tariff Passed bv a ' the Senate. VICTORY FOR INSURGENTS. Washington.—By forming a coali Hon with the Democrats the insurgent Republicans of the senate on Thurs da J" passed, in a modified form, the La Follette wool tariff revision bill. In ord ' r secure Democratic support measure it w*as necessary for Senator La Follette to reduce his pro posed duty upon raw wool of the first tdass from 40 per cent to 35 per cent ad valorem. The rate in the house bill was 20 per cent. At the present price of wool this will mean a duty of 7.8 cents per pound as against 11 cents per pound in the present law The vote by which the bill passed was forty-eight to thirty-two. Thirty five Democrats and thirteen insurgent Republicans voted for it. while all the opposing votes were cast by regular Republicans. T Confirms Father's Confession. Washington.—Expressing his firm conviction that his father, former State Senator D. W. Holstlaw, re ceived $2.500 from a man who offered to pay him that sum to vote for Lorl mer for the United States senate, Herschel D. Holstlaw of luka. Ill., on Thursday appeared before the sénat? Lorimer committee and substantiated his father's famous "confession." Bell Eoy Charged With Murder. New York.—Paul Geidel, a 17-year old boy of Hartford, Conn., who was employed as a bellboy at the Hotel Iroquois until Friday last, hat been ar. rested in connect on with the murder of William Henry Jackson a Wall street broker, who was found strangled to death at the hotel Thursday. Kidnaped Girl Rescued. San Francisco.—Helen Whitson, the 17-year-old school girl abducted from her mother's home in this city by white slavers some days ago. has been rescued from a retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains by F. H. De Pue, head of the state bureau of criminal identification. Three men were ar rested, Portugal from the north, to be fol lowed by a peasant rising, which has been expected daily, has not yet ma terialized. The provisional adminis tration and financial interests are kept worried, not knowing the hour when the projected counter revolution will begin. Invasion Feared by Portuguese. Lisbon.—The monarchist invas'on Convicts Make Dash for Liberty. Salt Lake City.—Gust Dores and Paul Van Houghton, convicts em ployed on the roadway ten miles north of Ogden attempted to escape Thursday afternoon, but were recap tured about 9 o'clock at night. Van Houghton is serving a fifteen-year sen tence, and Dores ten years. Agricultural Entries on Coal Lands. Washington.—Senator Warren has Introduced a bill to extend the visions of the act permitting agricul tural entries on coal lands so as to in clude state selections, schools, indem nity and other lieu lands granted to states. pro Killed at Crossing. Pittsburg, Pa.—Four persons were killed and one was seriously injured when a fast express train on the Penn sylvania railroad struck an automo bile at a grade crossing at Wilkins burg, a suburb. Shot at Son's Grave, San Francisco.—Mrs Lillie Guggeii be i m , wife of Leon Gugge heim, was shot and seriously wounded by an un j known man as she was placing | flowers on the grave of her son In a remet»-' v near th!s city. STOP! V £ I f - Ba&QUf J 55 L2 — * j* !'.<J u iCoBjngln. OIL i CRUISER ORDERED TO HAÏTI Salem to Join Four Other American War Vessels and Protect Ameri cans and Europeans. Washington.—Reports from Hayti caused the cabinet to take up the sit uation there and immediately after the cabinet meeting on Friday, the swift scout cruiser Salem was given hurry ordere to proceed to Haytien waters. The Salem will join the Chester which is a ship of the same type. The policy in sending swift and capacious cruisers to Hayti is based on the bus picions that these vessels may be needed as places of refuge in case the coast cities where most of the Euro pean and American citizens dwell should become the scenes of uncon trolled anarchy. There win be, on the arrival of the Salem, a squadron of five American vessels engaged In the work ot pro tecting American interests and per sons—the Chester, the Salem, the Des Moines, the Petrol and the Peoria. Bangor, Me.—A head-on collision between a crowded excursion train, containing about 150 persons, and a regular passenger train, bound from Van Buren- to Bangor, at the Lltle backwoods settlement ot Grindstone, on the Bangor & Aroostook railroad, resulted in at least fifteen deaths. It was reported that few. If any, of the Fifteen Die In Collision. 150 passengers on the excursion train] escaped injury. The regular train was the heavier and plowed its way through the lighter excursion with comparatively little injury to the regular passenger train. cars Expect Veto of Tariff Measures. Washington.—The fight ot the Dem ocratic-insurgent Republican coalition for broader tariff revision gained ground Friday and it was confident jy predicted in both houses that a conference compromise wool bill, the farmers' free-list bill, and possibly the cotton bill, with steel, sugar and oth er schedules, would be passed. Mean time the indications are stronger than ever that President Taft will exercise his veto power on tariff legislation prior to the submission of the tariff board report in December. Plans Prosecution of Monopolies. New York.—The department of Jas tic® is planning immediate prosecution of all trusts or monopolies which do not dissolve or take other steps to obey the Sherman law as it has bc-n interpreted in the Standard OIL To bacco and Powder trust cases. Attor ney General Wickersham is authority for 'the statement. Algona, Iowa.—"If the holler blows up. I'll go up with it." As these words Goes Up With Boiler. left the lips of Leonard Hart a trac tion engineer, living near here, the boiler of a threshing machine on which he was working exploded, tear ing his body to fragments and fatal ly wounding Frank Meyers. All Hands Lost, Save One. Halifax. N. S.—The steamer John Irwin struck a rock and sank off Beaver harbor. William McLeod of Halifax was washed ashore on a hatch at Liscomb, ninety miles east of here, and is believed to be the only survivor of the dozen or more men In the steamer's crew. Says Spoils System in Senate. Washington.—Senator Kern of In diana, speaking Friday on a resolu tion to add sixteen messengers to th? senate payroll, charged that a "spoils system ran mad" in tbe senate. Dies at Card Table. Paris.—The ^Turkish ambassador, Naoura Pasha, fell dead Friday. His death was due to the heat. The am bassador died at the Union Diplomatic club. He had taken a place at a card table when stricken. Loan Company Bankrupt. Denver.—Involuntary proceedings in bankruptcy have been commenced In the federal court here against th» Star Loan company, which operates a chain of offices In Colore-'o and the northwest. BRANDS STORY A FABRICATION j President Sends Special Message tc the Senate on the Controller Bay Affair. Washington.—President Taft sent s special message to the senate on Wednesday shouldering full responsi bility for opening for settlement and development 12,800 acres of the Chu gach national forest reserve Alaska—an incident which has be come to be known as the "Controller bay affair." In concluding he brands the now famous "Dick to Dick" post script as a "wicked fabrication" and says that Charles P. Taft, whose name appeared in the alleged postscript. "has no interest in Alaska, never had, and knows nothing of the circum stances connected with this transac tion." Moreover, the president adds, his brother does not even remember that he ever met Richard S. Ryan, rep resenting the Controller Bay & Navi gallon company As for eliminating the land In ques tion from the reserve, the president says that there is no danger of the Controller Railway and Navigation company or any other interests mon opolizing the field, and nothing to show that this company is in anyway connected with the Morgan-Gugg-n heim interests. Hence he believes ; that In eliminating the land he has j acted for the best interests of the na tion. in TRUST WILLING TO DISSOLVE. Attorneys Can See No Escape for Client if Case Comes to Trial and Will Settle Out of Court. Washington.—The threat of the at torney general to assail every trust against which there chance of successful prosecution is understood here to be the cause of a movement on the part of the electrical trust to settle its case out of court. It is stated here that this result , has been brought about by Wade H 1 ■ is reasonable Ellis, who is acting for the depart ment of justice in its suit against the electrical trust. I It is further specifically stated that the department has been informed that the attorneys for the electrical trust can see no escape if the were pushed in the and that, in the language of the day, they have promised to be good If arrangement can be them and the department of just by which the trust shall dissolve and or as indi case federal courts an made between d P business Individually vi< l ua ' concerns, Henwood Attacks Judge. Denver.-Frank H Henwood, con fôr îh r Vc 8e ^ 0nd ( ' eRrre while shooting at sTton pff"J st - Louis balloonist, whom he also 'killed, in a hotel bar room here on the night of May 24 last, was on Thursday sentenced to life Irapri 1 ment. son Sentence followed the denial of an application for a new trial. Hen , , . . . rnade ^ h ® ^ be * n rail roaded to th® pen tentlary In a speech in which he attacked the judge. | ! Fourteen Story Building for Salt Lake. Salt Lake City.—The M. H Walker ! c. ta .... Salt Lake City, with a capital of a sky-scraper which will be occupied on the ground floor by Walker Brothers Banters. The buildings will be put up on the northeast corner of Main and Second South streets and win be the highest in Salt Lake City. It fs planned to make It not less than ten, and prob ably fourteen stories high, with a tower. $ 1 , 000 , 000 , to erect Asks for Half-Million. f appeal for a » :,0 °e 000 fund to defend J. J, McNamara, the labor man accused of dynamiting, ] has been Issued by Secretary Morrl- I son of the American Federation ol Labor, to the 2.000,000 members labor unions. of Suicides on Board Ship. Ix,s Angeles, Cal.-W. O. Bradshaw, a prominent real estate and o 1 o„c r . committed'* T ^ ahn-- cr r- ' ht I SAP B) OPERATOR ' CANADIAN CRUISER TAKEN OFF SHOALS AND SAFELY TOWED INTO HARBOR. Wirelesa Operator Stuck to Hie Post and Signaled for Assistance While Crew Vf:re Manning Pumps In Effort to Check Water. Halifax, N. S.—After five tense hours on the lodges ten miles at sea Nova Scotia with a gaping hole In Nova Scotie, with a gaping bev In her hull and holding four feet of wa ter, the Canadian cruiser Nlobe float ed off with the assistance of tugs Sun day and is anchored in Shag harbor. _. . .. . . , . , That the warship and her crew of , . . , „ „ several hundred men were finally res ... . , , . sued is due to her wireless operator. , , , . , .. . . who stuck to bis post throughout and flashed ''& O. a" incessantly while the crew was manning the pumps in what almost proved to be a vain at tempt to check the Inrush of water. shortly before 1 o'clock Sunday morn ing in a thick fog and heavy sea. All the men were in their hammocks at the lima and most of them were thrown to the dees by the impact. There was confusion only for a mo ment. The operator of the wireless began signaling for help and soon half a doz en steamers were racing to the assis- 1 tance of the stranded cruiser. th ® submission of the report of the tariff board In December. Meanwhile the Democrats continu ing to press their revision measures. are wondering what the president will ; do when the wool bill emerging from . conference with lower duties than the La Follette final compromise, goes to the White House for approval or veto, Despite the apparently authorita live declaration that the president will veto the tariff bills, some of the Dem ocrats, even Speaker Clark, express the opinion that Mr. Taft may yet ap prove revision legislation, I I I R e PUT TARIFF UP TO TAFT. Congressmen Expect to vision and Leave Responsibility With President. Rush i Washington.—General tariff leglsla tion at this session of congress, bo as to leave the responsibility for any de lay in tariff revision squarely upon the president, is the slogan of the Demo era tic-insurgent coalition in the sen The president is accredited with be ate and the Democrats in the house. ing determined as ever to veto any tariff bill passed by congress prior to Mob Would Wreak Vengeance. New York.—Threeyear-old Goldberg, weakened by a seven days' fast was run over by a trolley car In front of his home Sunday. Two thou sand persons thereupon stormed the car, captured the motorman and con doctor, laid them on the tracks and were about to run the car over them when a lone policeman seized tho ringleader at the controller. Reserves then dispersed the mob. certained later that tho entire Gold Morris . , ,, berg faraUy of Bine were in a Etarvin S condition. It was as Woman Is a contractor. Salt Lake City.—A woman, Mrs. W. H. Smith, has a contract for build ing a portion of the northward exten sion of the Idaho Northern railway. The concern which has the contract for the entire fifty-eight miles froth Emmett to Smith's Ferry Is the Utah Construction company, a contract to Mrs. Smith for three miles of grading above Horseshoe Bend. Idaho. Thirty-five Firemen Injured. Brockton, Mass—Thirty-five men were injured in lighting a fire It has sub-let firo her e Sunday which destroyed the pub Iic market building In Main street two^tênementT 1 '?'- " tk"?* was tbe wor , , n m B „ ,n ! he hlstory of $210 000 " CaU86d * ° M ° f ai>0Ut 1 Many Lives Lost During Storm. . Boston.—Grim talcs of loss of Ilf* aDd dlsaBtPr to shipping by the Wc h - Indian hurricane «Rich swept the | Now England coast Friday continuera ! come in. Eleven lives are known to ! S '° 8t " nd lho loas llst - growing. o' Record-Breaking Flour Orders. Seattle, Wash.—Record-breaking ex port flour orders for September and October delivery have been booked by Seattle millers during the weeks. last two One mill has Chinese orders for 100.000 sacks of bluestem and others cutoff, are running full capacity. Two Drowned. , Vancouver. Wnsh —Miss Eva Trom b,ey and Frank H. Thibodeau, her un cl ®. were drowned while bathing in ] Rachelor slough, near Ridgefield and I George Young, affianced of the youn ■ woman, nearly lost hls life Leper Re'eased From Guarantee. Md 'T Mr *' rVovldendo year had 'qwrantlïe" t the expense of th» city ™ , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' ^ 00 ed 1 l " ln Now York City ALL OVER IN A WEEK Williams* #tav in boarding HOUSE SHORT AND SWEET. Gave Every Evidence of Being Ex perienced Boarder and Hie Smart Saylnge and Mannerlema Were Talk of House. When young Mr. Williams came to our boarding house It was plain to every one that this was not his flrst experience at boarding. ln ,act . hls »ctloua seemed to ludl ca *® that he was old and experienced * u the llfe of boarding, and that ho had come ,0 u8 lro,u son *« "ther boardln « "f Possibly from a aucceaslon ot them, it was shown in the aplomb wlm which he assured Mrs. Hicks that he invariably paid bis board on pay day , .. H ' ""L and that hls pay day came on Satur . . . ., day, Ignoring her somewhat distorted . statement that she insisted on pay In udvttace ln every case u wag furtbt;r . hown ln tbo wa be gU11Iully I)lpped tbe CÜVerllig o(t lho bed ln bla ba „ bedrooIU aI)d ap praised the condition of the sheets I . K or bad, being represented by u non commltal grunt. He was a normal young man, was Mr. Williams. He bad Just the nor mal amount of baggage. Hls face was so nearly normal that people be knew would forget to speak to him. He was of medium height and weight, and go far as we could see had but one »ult of clothes, and that an ordl tentlon. And In fifteen minutes ho and M ss Amy went lor a walk - head ' ' n *' ° f c °. ur 1 se ' l °« rt a ,he druB V?"» * da [° dnta,n '. M ** A ' ny ' to °' pr ded m hBTl , hli n f *,*.«„ Wllll h . . b yca " b k Mr / ' d °about 6 8 eum ' Wn,CD " e N .,. x . . V w , Wf ., r i n ~ „ recognized as belonging tn Mr ' l0 bbv Mr willouBhbv wb.' , „reused admitted that he and Mr Williams bad become somewhat chum' nary-dusty. brownish gray. Hls appetite, too. proved normal. He bad a typical boarding bouse appe llte that pushed aside those things It did not want and Insisted on a double supply of those It did. It was a dis criminating appetite that retused to accept things the nature of which did not appear on the surface, Hams sat on the front steps and ro forded fellow boarders with specula Uve B® 1 "« a normal boarder, with what might be called an abnormal nerv ®- ® asll - v decided that Miss Amy Crothswelght, who was a slenog Immediately alter supper Mr Wll ra P^ er 1° the roller mills office, the only one of us worthy of hls at as my. Toward the end of the week Mrs Hicks was taking an unusual Interest In Mr. Williams, She quoted him to the girls, and would tell the boys bow smart he was. He wn8 tbe ni0Ft lngratlatlng pcr FO n. was young Mr Williams, and. as everybody got to liking him. hls say ings and mannerisms were the talk of the house, On Saturday he did not appear at the table. Mrs. Hicks said he was called out of town. He didn't come back either. Hls trunk was hauled by Jim, the porter, to the junk room, and we did the best we could to forget him. We have often wondered abroad, or was killed by cycle, but have never learned. It's always that way. for people come and go like guest* at our board ing house.—Dallas News If be went a motor Puzzling Words. The Ladies' Aid women were talk ing about a conversation they had overheard before the meeting between a man and hls wife. "They must have been to the zoo," Mrs A. Said, "because I beard her mention 'a trained deer.' " "Goodness me!" Mrs. R. laughed "What queer hearing you must have! They were talking about going away, and she said, 'Find out about the train, dear.' " "Well, did anybody ever?" Mrs. C. exclaimed. "I am sure they were talk Ing about musicians, for she said a •rained ear,' as distinctly as could be." The discussion began to md In the midst of It the woman her self appeared, case to her promptly, and asked for warm up. They carried their a settlement. "Well, well, you do beat all!" she exclaimed, after hearing each T'd been out to the night, and was asking my husband If It rained here last night.'' After which the three disputants re tired abashed and In silence.—Llppln cott'a Magazine. one. country over Rank In Kentucky. ''Yes, sir," the Kentuckian said, they *af by the stove, "you can tell a man's rank In this ptate thusly: If you see a man with hls feel on top of the stove he's a glneral; If hls feet 1* on that rail half way up he's a colonel, and If he keeps them on the floor he's a major." "Ah. yes," I ''that's good ns far hl» companion said; a» It goes; but how are you going to distinguish a captain or a lieutenant?" "Stranger, we don't ko no lower tnnn major In Kentucky/'—Llonln cott'i. Economy. First Aeronaut—When I found I had won the prize 1 1 ' Second Ditto—Gee whiz! » big saving of gasoline. •Imply walked on «Ir! That w*J