The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 2

-THE IDAHO STATESMAN- -NOVEMBER 1916 FRIDAY MORNING- WILL SPRINKLE STREETS TO KEEP PEOPLE WELL REPEATED HIS A RUNAWAYBRIDE WANTS FREEDOM TO WED AGAIN Ill SUFFERS RUSSIA Mils AMERICANS OFF TO EXPLORE MIGHTY AMAZON RIVER ON YACHT FORMERLY OWNED BY KING I City Council Acts Promptly When Informed Why So Mny Persons Are- Sick That bills and lack of sprinkling go hand in hand was one of the arguments laid before the city council by the board of directors of the Commercial club at special meeting Thursday afternoon which resulted in the promising to have the sprinkling resumed at once regardless of the city finances At the meeting of the Commercial club held Thursday noon the deplorable condition of the city streets was discussed and when Superintendent Rose of the city schools announced that never before had he had so many pupils and teachers absent from school as at the present time and that the physicians said It was due in a great measure to the irritation of throat and lungs caused by the dust the board decided to visit the mayor in person and discuss the matter Mayor Hays suggested a called meeting of the council and with all but one present the subject was thoroughly discussed The mayor said the streets would be sprinkled immediately and the financial arrangements taken care of later Limiting the months when sprinkling was to be done was planned to save the taxpayers the mayor stated as it was usual from November on to have sufficient rain to lay the dust This being an unusually dry month the experiment had not proved successful VOTES FOR WOMEN REAL REMEDY FOR HIGH COST ALBANY Expressing a determination to wage vigorously their 1917 votes for women campaign the delegates of the New York state woman suffrage party concluded their forty-eighth annual convention late Thursday The following resolution on the high cost of living was adopted: New York state woman suffrage party believing that unenfranchised persons are at a great disadvantage whether producers or consumers does affirm that until we vote we cannot expect to arrest the present deplorable distress known as high cost of living 3E MACHINE GUN TOR DEFENCE MLALEXANDtR HAMILTON RICC-M 1 THE ALBERTA The Alberta carries a crew of 54 and is armed with a machine gun for defense The party will touch first at Para and then at several ports along the Amazon going up into the Cassl-qulare canal In his 1907 explorations when for some time it was feared that he had been lost Dr Rice pushed through the canal region past Santa Isabel This time he expects to finish charting that region In addition to making Investigations concerning native diseases and to a large extent cataloguing the bird fish and animal life Among those who accompany Dr and Mrs Rice are Dr 'William Councilman professor of pathology at Harvard Ernest Howe a geologist of Newport Earl Church of the United States coast and geodetic survey and John Swanson of New York a wireless operator THE WALLACE SHOE CO Friday and Specials I VOTE 36 TIES Four Men Confess to Fraud in Kansas City Election One Cast 37 Ballots KANSAS CITY Affidavits from four men swearing that they voted fraudulently In the election of November 7 and that to their knowledge others of their acquaintance did likewise were in the hands of Francis Wilson United States district attorney Thursday night The affidavits were based on alleged confessions of men who declared themselves members of a gang who fraudulently registered and voted from different precincts in the north end of the city One man in his alleged confession swore that he voted 37 times and that "he knew of more men who voted as many times and in as many places as 1 Th signers of the other affidavits swore to voting a lesser number of times although all admitted plural voting Included In the affidavits were names of men high up in local political circles These however are not made public GENERAL ADVERTISING I will take great pleasure in explaining the convenience and simplicity of my ELECTRIC UGHT PLANTS as adapted to ranch use Electric lights are very economical safe and clean also their use reduces insurance rates GUY DAVIS Wendell Idaho Saturday 11 values to $600 AC 1 Felt Moccasin 85c Pair Shoe Store Harry Runyon Manager SELZ SHOES Official Announcement of Sinking of Dreadnaught With 200 of Crew Is Made PETROGRAI) via London Russia officially announces the loss of the dreadnaught Imperatrltsa Marla The statement issued Thursday night reads: "The Russian dreadnaught Imperatrltsa Marla has been sunk by an In ternal explosion Two hundred of the crew are LONDON The Russian naval staff say's a Reuter dispatch from Petro-grad has Issued the following statement: "At 6 on October 20 fire broke out In the forward magazine of the Imperatrltsa Maria An internal explosion followed Immediately and the fire spread rapidly and reached the petrol tanks The officers and crew strove with the utmost bravery to localize the effects of the explosion and flood the magazine The commander-in-chief Vice Admiral went aboard the vessel and took personal cpmmand of the operations Vessel Goes Down "Shortly after 7 however the vessel sank The greater part of the crew was saved An officer and two first class sub-officers and 149 sailors are missing Sixty-four of the crew have since died from the effects of their burns "The position of the ship which lies in shallow water gives hope that it may be refloated and completely repaired in a few months The bridge is only one yard below the water Early in November a report w'as in circulation that the Imperatrltsa Maria had gone to the bottom and that nearly all of her crew had perished November 11 Berlin reported by wireless that a Bulgarian headquarters dispatch announced that a fireman of the battleship had reached the Bulgarian coast and confirmed the destruction of the dreadnaught which it was stated had been sunk by a mine near Sulina or Feodossia island at the mouth of the Danube The Imperatrltsa Maria was launched in 1914 and displaced 22-500 tons Her officers and crew numbered about 1000 men The vessel was 530 feet long and had a draft of 27 feet She was armed with 10 12-lnch 20 five-inch and four 25-inch guns and four three-pounders and four torpedo tubes NEW EMPEROR WILL STAND FIRM IN WAR Issues Proclamation Declaring Aus-tria-IIungary Will Fight Until Just Peace Is Won LONDON Emperor Charles of Austria Issued a proclamation to the Austro-Hungarians Thursday declaring his inflexible decision to maintain the war until "a peace assuring the existence and development of the monarchy" is assured according to a Reuter's Amsterdam dispatch The proclamation was printed in a special edition of the Wiener Xeeitulk together with an autograph letter addressed to Premier Koerber The letter announced that the new monarch had taken over the government and confirmed the premier In his present functions CANNOT GET COAL CARS Oregon Short Dine Blames Lack of Equipment for Recent Shortage Answering a complaint filed with the Idaho public utilities commission by the Paul Mill Elevator company of Paul Ida in which it was charged that coal cars were being withheld from the Utah mines and diverted to Wyoming the Oregon Short Line insists that a shortage in equipment is at fault for the threatened coal famine in this state The Paul people in their complaint said empty coal cars were being taken to mines in Wyoming owned by the Union Pacific and there held until they could be loaded while the Utah mines were compelled to go without cars and Idaho people without coal The Short Line has explained to the public utilities commission that every empty coal car owned by the railroad is dropped at Salt Lake and returned to the line owning it The principal coal mines in Utah are on the Rio Grande road ATHLETIC SOCIAL HELD Pupils of Collins Physical Culture School Put on Exhibition Science and stamina featured the exhibition by the pupils of the Collins Physical Culture school at the school gymnasium 115 South Eighth street Thursday night There was an audience of nearly 100 persons made up of as many women as men and the former seemed to enjoy the stunts Three corking good wrestling matches of 10 minutes each were staged and no falls were gained by any of the contestants These were by Brown against Raymond Stoddard Nick Collins against a pupil named Robinson and Dr Harold Dresser against Collins Three good clean sparring exhibitions closed the program These were between the Rose brothers Comstock and Slick and Davis and Okeson All were voted draws Guy Flenner held the watch for most of the events Refreshments were served after the entertainment SIX TEXAS POSSES SEEK MEN WHO SHOT CONSTABLE MARSHALL Tex Six posses numbering more than 100 men were in pursuit Thursday night of two men who fatally wounded a constable near here late Thursday The men held up a rural mail carrier between Longview and Hallville but let him go without molesting the mail when they discovered he was in the United States service A short time later a constable attempted to take them into custody and was shot FRANCE TO LEVY NEW' TAXES TO RAISE 600000000 FRANCS PARIS New taxes which it is estimated will yield 6000000G0 francs have been decided on by the appropriation committee of the chamber of deputies Among the measures will be an increase of the income tax from 2 to 5 per cent the securities tax from 4 to 5 per cent and on sugar from 25 to 40 francs per metric Girl Who Married at Sixteen Says Slie Has Picked Out New Man to Suit Taste NEW YORK A runaway match wound up in the courts here When Mrs Ella Gertrude Mitchell told Supreme Court Justice Bissell of Buffalo sitting in this' city how she had eloped with Herbert Mitchell when she was only 16 years old She thought better of It later and sued for annulment of the marriage through her guardian and aunt Mrs Mercy Ogden of 930 St Nicholas avenue The elopement was finished off with a marriage by a Methodist minister at Seabrlght on December 11 1912 The attorney inti mated that if she escaped from matrimony this time she was going to take another chance on a young man who wanted to wed her 'The only obstacle appeared to be that she know where her husband is but Justice Bissell permitted service of the suit by publication The justice made known he would grant the annulment ASKS FOR JAIL TERM SO HE WILL BE GOOD Jacob Thomas Broke Afraid He Might Rob Stores to Get Food and Somb Tobacco GARRISON Jacob Thomas of Phillipstown Putnam county anxious for a place "to keep out of mischief" begged for a jail sentence and finally received one from an obliging magistrate He told the Cold Spring police he was nearly out of money and feared he would be tempted to rob a store for food and tobacco unless they locked him up Instead he was hurried out of town Later Thomas applied to the Dobbs Ferry police asking to be sent to the workhouse When he suggested that a term of five months would tide him over the winter Police Justice Thornton let him sentence himself to Black well's island for that period WHEAT CROP IS BELOW LAST Estimate of 724 Per Cent of 1915 Production Other Grains 3Iake Better Showing WASHINGTON Combined wheat crops this year of 14 of the grain growing countries are estimated at 724 per cent of last production in a cablegram received at the department of agriculture Thursday from the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome The aggregate production is placed at 2222914000 bushels or 926 per cent of the five-year average The countries are Spain England and Wales Ireland Norway Netherlands Rumania the 48 governments of European Russia Switzerland Canada the United States India Japan Egypt and Tunis A better showing is made in other grains Nine countries report a rye crop of 936956000 bushels 944 per cent of last crop and 1148 per cent of the average Fourteen give a barley crop of 958573000 bushels 90 per cent of the previous year and 1026 per cent of the average Oats produced in 12 countries is put at 2-75465800 bushels which is 832 per cent of the crop last year and 1057 per cent of the average Six countries report a 2804772000 bushel crop of corn 857 per cent of last year and 967 of the average The corn crop in the United States is estimated at 865 per cent of last and 976 per cent of the five-year average $100000 SLANDER SUIT Alleged Existence of Printing Ring at Albany to Be Aired- at Trial POUGHKEEPSIE Whether a printing ring exists in Albany will be aired in the trial of a $100000 suit for alleged slander which came up in court here Thursday The suit was brought by A Dawllng former in spector of printing in the now defunct: state department of efficiency and economy against Charles Winchester head of the Lyon Printing company of Albany which does the bulk of state work Mr Dowling charges that Mr Winchester used the word in such a way as to slander him In his answer Mr Winchester admits that he made the remark "W'hat are you trying to blackmail me?" but his attorney contends that this cannot be construed as slander The case was brought to Dutchess county on change of venue TRAINS COLLIDE HEAD-ON Two Persons Killed and 3Iore Than Score Reported Injured KANSAS CITY Two men were killed and more than a score of persons injured many of them it was believed dangerously Thursday night when the St Louis San Francisco passenger train No 23 southbound crashed head on with a Rock Island freight train in the eastern suburbs of Kansas City ADA3ISOX LAW INQUIRY COMMISSION BEGINS WORK NEW' YORK The Adamson law commission appointed by President Wilson to investigate the operations of the act held its first meeting here Thursday The commissioners conferred with railroad -executives for the announced purpose of a discus sion with them informally of methods to be used in Lhe investigation The commission will meet with the heads of the four brotherhoods later TAKES OWN LIFE BECAUSE BROTHERS JEERED WHEN HE BOUGHT SWEETHEART SHOES POTTSVILLE Pa Willie his brother and two companions were rushing frantically toward him Elmer Miller 19 years old of Lorberry Junction near Tremonut raised a revolver to his head last week and committed suicide The action was committed it was because Miller was criticized for buying a pair of shoes for his sweetheart Learning that Elmer had threatened suicide his brother and companions ran toward the hill where he stood the brother shouting "My God Elmer do that" Elmer waited with a smile on his face until the trio was within 30 yards of him and then took his life 3IUNICIPAL COURT Judge Hays had a busy matinee Thursday Homer Ash and Joe Mel-lech each paid a fine of $13 for speeding Elmer Service was fined 320 for being drunk and Arthur Me Kinsey forfeited a $20 bond put up for his appearance in court to answer to the charge of drunkenness SUMP DEFER! Bandit Leader Attempts to fake Chihuahua by Storm but Is Repulsed (Continued from Page One) since morning without food or water another message declared Trcvluo Wounded General Jacinto Trevino commanding the Carranza' forces was wounded during the fighting in the early afternoon while personally directing the fighting from the vicinity of Santa Rosa hill General Francisco Gonzales announced in Juarez Thursday night after receiving a message from Chihuahua City General Trevino returned to the city to have a scalp wound on the right side of hla head dressed at the military hospital With a bandage around his head he returned from the hospital to field headquarters and continued the direction of the Carranza forces on the firing line At 10 Thursday night the military authorities In Chihuahua City telegraphed to General Gonzales in Juarez that General Carlos Ozuna in command of the Carranza cavalry vat pursuing the Villa bandits south In the direction of Mapula and the cavalry column was reported to be 10 miles south of Santa Rosa No estimate of the number of killed or grounded has yet been made Relays of workers were working Thursday night removing the wounded to the military hospitals and private homes In Chihuahua City where they are being cared for by the women of the volunteer Red Cross organization Holds Out Lure to Bandits General TrevimAs repeated statements that he was short of small arms and ammunition are now believed by Carranza officials to have been made for strategic purposes in order to the enemy When General Carranza offered General Trevino all of the available ammunition and rifles from the Juarez arsenal during a wire conference between the two generals General Trevino informed the Juarez brigade commander he was well supplied with ammunition and arms and needed no supplies of this kind from the border General Gonzales announced Before receiving this information the Juarez commander was making every effort to obtain all the munitions on the 3Iexican side of the border in order to rush it to Geneial Trevino on a special troop train Orders for this train were cancelled Thursday night after General Trevino announced he had a plentiful supply of ammunition and other elements CHIHUAHUA Ciy DEFENSES STRONG AND WELL PLANNED EL PASO Tex The following description of the Chihuahua City defenses was prepared In advance by the Associated Press correspondent there who is a retired army officer: "Santa Rosa hill dominates the city and surrounding terrain It is fortified with seven cannon of large caliber It commands the approaches to the city from the south southeast and southwest and makes possible the sweeping of the plains below with shrapnel and machine gun fire temporary defenses hastily thrown up when it was thought Villa would attack have been replaced with permanent defenses These lines of trenches stretch for a distance of 14 kilometers Five strong earthen redoubts each having a capacity of 300 men support the Infantry trenches and are provided with artillery at Intervals to support any movement of this arm of the defacto forces These defensive works were placed In charge of General Gonzales Cuellar He has approximately 3000 seasoned veterans In his command many of whom fought with him at Ebano "In addition to stone breastworks the city is protected by a double row of barbed wire entanglements and other modern ARRANGE FOR FUNERAL Body of Francis Joseph to Lie in State From Monday to Thursday LONDON A dispatch to Telegram company from Vienna says the body of Emperor Francis Josepn will be taken from Schoenbrunn castle to the chapel of the Hofburg palace Monday night and there will lie in state until noon next Thursday At 3 o'clock the following Monday afternoon the funeral procession will start for the cathedral at St Stephen where Cardinal Piffl will perform the solemn high mass After mass the procession will form again and the body will be taken to the Capuchin church where the casket will be placed in a vault PR03HNENT EXGLI5II3LX DIES LONDON Charles Booth chairman of the Booth Steamship company died Thursday Charles Booth was a partner in the firm of Alfred Booth Co of Liverpool formerly president of the Royal Statistical society and member of the tariff commission in 1904 In 1909 he was appointed a member of a royal commission to deal with the problem of the unemployed In Great Britain He was the author of several works on the conditions of the workingmen and poor of London He was 76 years old To avoid errors and to Insure publication The Statesman request! that announcements be brought or mailed to the office Instead of being telephoned The annual praise service of the Home and Foreign Missionary society will be held at the First Presbyterian church Friday evening at 8 Dr Donaldson will give an illustrated lecture The public is cordially invited Longfellow circle will meet with Mrs Swanholm 1703 North Ninth street this afternoon at 2:30 The second division of the Aid of the Immanuel church will hold a bazaar at music store Saturday November 25 when cooked food candies comforts and other articles will be on sale The farmers of the school district are invited to a meeting at the schoolhouse Saturday evening at 7:30 is called for the purpose of forming a grange The ladies of the district will furnish refreshments THE WEATHER Local forecast for Boise and vlcln ity: Thursday fair Forecast for southwestern Idaho Thursday fair Weather Here Highest temperature 47 Lowest temperature 25 Mean temperature 36 Deficiency for the day 2 Deficiency for the month 104 Deficiency for the year 288 Total precipitation for the 24 hours ending at 6 none Deficiency for the month 23 Inch Excess for the year 188 inches Relative humidity 1 39 per cent 6 38 per cent Character of day partly cloudy WEATHER OVER COUNTRY In spite of the unprecedented advances recently made in leather our foresight in buying heavily last spring made possible the following many of the shoes which if bought wholesale on todays market would cost more than the price at which we are offering them to you This may be your last opportunity to buy high class merchandise at these prices 100 pair high grade shoes All Goodyear welts patent leather or gun metal with cloth or kid tops Louis Cuban or low heels Medium and wide widths all sizes from 2 to 8 On sale Friday and Saturday only $285 Come prepared to buy two pairs at this price 50 pair odds and ends values to $600 $195 Dr and Mrs Alexander Hamilton Rice left New York with a party of scientists on the steam yacht Alberta to explore the little known regions of the upper Amazon The trip will last at least six months and the party will cover more than 5000 miles This Is the second trip that Dr Rice has made to this region but it is the first for 3Irs Rice who before her marriage to the explorer a year ago was the widow of George Wldener who was lost on the Titanic The Alberta Is owned by Commodore Frederick Bourne of New York city and was formerly the property of King Leopold II of Belgium It Is commanded by Captain Baldwin and is fitted with the latest scientific Instruments for exploration work IT'S EIECTFON Dll IT SCHOOL Pupils at to Choose Student Council by Australian Ballot The election of 12 students to the student council of the Boise high school will be held today The student council plan was formed after it was found that the old student body was unabler to fulfill the demands of the school The council Is to consist of two members from each class and four from the school at large Each class will vote for two members from the class and four from the whole school The following students are up for election: From the school at large Hugh Fouch Elmer Roberts Stella Balderston Rheul Smith Bryan Bed-well Joel Priest and Ralph Davis The candidates from the classes are: Seniors Glenn Southward Karl Brooks Paul Jones Ernest Wells juniors Florence Allebaugh Isabel Dietrich David Williams Walter TIngley sophomores John Greenlee Phyllis Sheridan Karen Kieldson gins freshmen Edward Littoo James Williams Wilma tarns The candidates for the student council are nominated by petition Twenty-five regularly enrolled pupils of the high school must sign the class petitions and 50 must sign the petitions for the candidates from the school at large The election will be by Australian ballot The polls will be in the principal's office and will be open from 8:30 to 12 and from 12:30 to 4:30 FRENCH DEPUTIES DISCUSS MERCHANT MARINE NEEDS New Construction Laid Down Totals 69000 Tons Loss in War 321000 Tons PARIS The prospects of the French merchant marine after the war were the subject of an interpellation in the chamber of deputies Thursday by Deputy Andre Hesse who is dissatisfied with the 120000-000 francs for new construction and 80000000 francs for the purchase of merchant ships recently voted by parliament "Before the war" said Hesse "our mercantile marine occupied the fifth place among the nations "Since the war began our fleet has lost 321000 tons while the amount of new construction laid down during the same period has only been 69000 tons "Whv? Because a few hundred specialists are retained In the army and the constructors cannot import the necessary raw materials The Germans are making a great effort to bring their merchant marine up to 5000000 tons We must apply to England to come with the necessary materials to the aid of Other speakers complained of disorder in the methods of loading and requisitioning shipping Colds Cause Headache and Grip Laxative Bromo Quinine removes the cause Remember to call for full name Look for signature of Grove 25c Adv We have the largest line of cameo brooches to be found prices $5 to $30 Hitchcock Jeyeler Open evenings Adv 40 pairs tjark brown kid Boots white kid uppers aluminum heel protector Louis Heel lace $595 and only Friday Saturday Hicut Button $195 and $245 Gun Metal and Patent Leather values $250 and $300 Hicut Boots All solid leather sizes 5 to Special Young Tan English Shoes Goodyear Welt values to $450 $315 EDWARD WELLS Meteorologist weather bureau NORTHWEST WEATHER PORTLAND Ore Oregon Friday fair easterly winds Washington Friday fair cooler in northwest portion southeasterly winds Friday fair and cooler AUTOMOBILE REGULATION IS PLANNED IN OREGON PORTLAND Ore Bills to provide for compelling automobiles to come to a full stop upon approaching all roailroad grade crossings and to prohibit trespass upon railroad rights of way will be promoted before the coming Oregon legislature as the result of a conference here Thursday under the auspices of the state public service commission at which railroad representatives and officers of automobiles participated Committees were appointed to draft the proposed measures Furniture vans rail Peasley Transfer A Storage Co Phone 73 Adv GENERAL ADVERTISING Relieved in one minute Get comnli-mentary can of Kon from your dragnaL Or buy a 2S cert tuba If it do you SI worth of good in a jiffy Ecan get your 25 cents back from the exist or from the Koodoo Mfg- Co iieapolia Miww- Usesomequick For cold catarrh sure ns me Kina uses been used for 26 sad by 50 mQlioa Special 50 Pair Wos Slippers Our buying connections with the largest manufacturer of good shoes in the world makes possible prices and quality not usually found elsewhere Courteous Service Cash No Credit The Wallace Shoe Co Boise Big 804 Main Street SPECIALIZING 5.