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Show Oregon Has No Liking for the Wobblies Pithy News Notes Western Brevities From All Parti of from the Many IDAHO Western States Rupert. A carload of horses and mules wot whipped to Ixe Angeles, bp Clyde Maltlahd, representing the Mtir- phy Horse and Mule company of that city. The highest price paid Is said to have been S15U It is expected that other shipments will be made soon. Fresno. William Gibba McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, will have the opportunity of telling; Judgs J. S. Clark Just why he was driving his automobile fifty-on- e miles an hour on the Ticlare county highway. Wsfs """gBMssMIW MUMB Los Angeles. Hand bills announe. Nine prisoners at the state lng that members of the Industrial penitentiary were given their freedom workers of the World were on the way at meeting of the state board of par here "In such numbers that it will be dons held Monday. This meeting was impossible to persecute a few lndicld the Inst time the present Ixiard will uals for the benefit of millions," made meet as a state board of pardons, as all their appearance in 'the harbor dis the members will go out of office Jan. trict according to the police. J, after serving four years. Salt Lake Ctly. At the request of Boise. Resolutions asking the legla the argricultural department of the fatures of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, University of California, R. A. Hart. Montana and California for appropri drainage engineer for the United ations to help eradicate and control States department of the Interior, the spread of white pine blister rust, sent one ton of Utah soil to California were adopted at the third annual white by freight The soil was taken from which the alkali flats on the west side of pine blister rust conference, was bold in Portland, Nov. 22 and .23. Salt Lake. It will be used In research work being done by the university on Idaho wns represented by W. H. Wleks director of the bureau of plant In extricating alkali from soils. dustry. who has returned from the Ogden. District Forester R. H. Rut. Before returning home, Mr. meeting. and Assistant District Forester ledge Wicks visited the Northwestern potato R. E. Geary, left Ogden for Boise, Ida., growers' conference which closed Nov. where they will meet with the state 24 In Spokane. This conference adopted a resolution requesting the secre- and commission in a final meeting to to conduct Investi- urrange for tbe trade of lands between of ' I Boise. tary agriculture gations on potato grading in the four northwestern states and old public grade hearings In principal growing districts before March 1. White pine blister rust Is a disease of white pine trees which has been found In British Columbia and western Washington. Because the largest white pine forest In the world Is In Idaho, and because o far the disease has not been found In this state, officials are taking all precautions to prevent its spread here. Boise. Charles C. Moore, Republican cnlndldate for governor, was elected by a plurality of 10,022 votes over H. F. Samuels, Progressive, his closest competitor, it was announced Tuesday following a meeting of the state board oi canvassers. the government and the state. When completed all the consolidated and Idabo will be put In a position to admin. Ister all the lands of tbe state. The deals have been going on for the past ten years and the final deal involves 170,000 acres of land between the gsPBBssWWsssBsssssssssMslssMsMs 1 Persian King Maintained Relays of Mounted Men at Fixed Stations. SETTLEMENT - N. D. The earliest Jamestown, known postal system was ihot estab lished In 659 B. C by Cyrna the Elder. king of Persia, who maintained relays of mounted men at fixed stations. ready at a moment's notice to forward the king's messages from post to post. Dr. R. A. Bolton, Jamestown postmas ter, said In an address at San Fran cisco before the National League of Postmasters, In which he traced the rigln and growth of the postal sys tem. He said that systems similar to that established by King Cyrus, existed among the Romans In the time of Augustus, B. C. 31. and a postal system wns fully developed In connection with the great military roads; but like the Persian the Roman system of posts existed for the use of the state alone. Letters were not carried for private Individuals. Commercialized In Twelfth Century. Ogden. Transfer of three forest upervlsors In the national forests in Wyoming and Nevada are announced R. H. Rutledge. Boise. Official tabulations in the by C. E. Farve was transferred from El. office of the secretary of state show ko, Nev., to Kemmerer, Wyo. ; Alex that the Seventeenth session of the McQueen from Ely to Elko, Nev. ; and legislature which convenes Jan 8, 1923, A. E. Beam from Kemmerer, Wyov, to will contain a majority of Republicans Ely, Nev. senators and enough Republican representatives to counteract" any coaliBattle Mountain. A new ore body tion of Democrats and Progressives. has been opened up on the Getchell tunnel level of the Betty O'Neal mine, Pocntello. Eight members of the near Battle Mountain, Nevada. The Technical Institute faculty attending strike is considered of great impor the meeting of the Idaho State Teachnot only because of the high- ers' associalon in BoLe, Nov 30, Dec. tance, content of the ore, but bemetal grade I and 2. Will be the largest repre- cause of its situation, 140 feet from the entatlon the Tech. has ever had at shaft and below the deepest of the old the annual meeting of Idaho teachers. workings Pocatello. A memorial for all sold-ler- a Evanston. Fireman William S. and sailors- - of -t- heKension, 30, Is dead, and Engineer T. nation will be erected in Pocatello In W. 'ihomas and Brakeman Mclaughlkeeping with the greatness of the con- in are recovering form the effects of tributions of Pocatello and Bannock gas as a result of their engine becom. county to the world war, according to lng stalled in the Aspen tunnel near the decision of a representative group here. The tunnel Is a mile in length, 100 of citizens called together by the and on account of the air presure was local post of American Legion. tull of smoke. Charlemagne established postal system In France In 807 A. DH but the first actual letter-pos- t for commercial purposes appears to have originated the Housetowns early In the Twelfth century, und a century later the University of Paris established an efficient postal system which continued till the beginning of the Eighteenth century. China maintained a postal system from a very early date, and Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, tells us that In his dny, about 12S0 A. D.. there were about 12.0K post stations and 300,000 horses for the use of the Chinese government In carrying Its mes sages, a fresh horse and naer being furnished every '2.r miles. The post office existed In America from Its earliest settlement. Originally It was merely a receptacle In the e where letters arriving from abroad were deposited to be taken by those to whom the- - were ad dressed or carried to themby their neighbors. The first legislation on the subject Is found In the records of the general court of Massa husetts for 1639, and the next In the CVIonl.il law of Virginia In IKiO. The Colonial Inw V Irglnla required every Ranter to pro vide a messenger tn convey dispatches as they arrived to the next plantation and so on, on pain of forfeiting a hogshead of tobacco for default. Gradually a postal servle wn es Boise Announcement Is made that the contract between the Orejron Short Line and the Boise Chnmlwr of Commerce has been signed whereby the railroad company agrees to build a secondary main line into Boise. San Francisco. Passage of legislation imposing a tax of 2 cents a gallon n giisoUne, to provide funds for construction and maintenance of roads, will he recommended to legislators of all western states, It was agreed by the western governors' conference. In Nampa. Remodeling of part of tbe basement of the c"ty hall which is to executive session here. be converted into a rest room, will he Portland. Three men were stabbed, commenced at the earliest possible one of thein with fatal effect. In an moment, if plans of the civic organizaulleaed bootleKcerg' auarrel here. tions are carried out. San Vnnvsf When she failed to Caldwell. Peon pants are "passe" receive n letter containing a as far as beau bruinmels of the Caldcheck from her son at the hour well high school are concerned. when her missives from him usually Nrapa. Hay buyers are flocking to arrived, Mrs. Mary Shea, 70, went to the Rolse valley, prepared to pay as her room, and according to the author. ' Itles turned on the gas. high as $15 a ton, according to refrom men in martouch with the ports Reno. Potato growers of Nevada ket sre now drawing up proposed legislatBoise. Idaho's model seed and diary ion establishing potato grades for farms, which were on exhibition here, Nevada. The proposed regulations have been shipped to Chicago for the will he passed upon at the next legislInternational Hay and Grain show, it ature. has been announced by C. B. Ahlson, Denver Rjidlnm has dropped $50,. state need commissioner, who win havp ik a gram in price, and the Standard charge of tht Idaho exhibit at the Chemical eomimnv has been forced to how. closo its earnollie properties in ParaBoise. An order providing for the dox valley in western Meatroee conn, regulation and quarantine of all sheep ty, Colo., throwing 250 men out of which are Imported Into the state of work, acconliu? to an announcement Mouth of Volcano Inhab.ted by Idaho from Oregon has been Issued by made by officials f the company. 75,000 Wild Beasts. the state board of sheep commissionLos Angles Mrs. tiara Phillips, ers. The order is necessitated by the convicted of murder In ths se. onrt existence of sheep scabies In Oregon Scientists Hop to Find Alive Strange for Vi'lln- - Mrs. Alhtirt Metdo vs and the tracing of many onthrenke Creatures of Which Only Skeletons with ii hammer, wns sMiten"od to of scabies am"ng the sheep In Ma'r serve fro-Have Been Found in Other to life in ten the te the Imported Oregon sheep. Parti of World. stnte penitentiary at S- a Q:ntln. coffee-hous- sadly-neede- I y.-s- MeCill H. B. Oready, nunafr o' n Fraa-ls-o- .diaries M. Tinfferl, the Idaho silver fox farm Inst wi e r; ilelcon of t?.e First Oonvree.ition! eelved two pair of pedigreed and registered sliver foxes, valued at Jc.'icO clmrcli here?, whs liound, gan.- il and nbhed In money made np of of $.1' from Grand Maries. Ws. end three the collection i Sunday night's tor Bore pair are expected soon. S- vice. Caldwell. The budget nd iireinPuti Denver- .list for the second annual t io.v of H e war, .ur. an ' Vr-Gem state Poultry show whi.-I HU In an hur "' held here December IB to '.!. eo 'my bos' '! '. been approved by ths state ml to ti filven i he mount of rToO pledge,). won' received. o. ord!ng i inlured in :i r;in 'epot! d e- wl: otlr r at th A team y' ty NVfnt',, bolted i.n . lie'ivv v agi n o e lii o'd on I iu rn I fcU wife . .1. - ! fe Loudon. An untouched Kden In the volcano in the mouth of a burned-ou- t heuil of Africa, providing a refuge for thousand of animals, many of them extinct in every part of the world, bun been purchased outright Charles Kosh of llalimgowun, the Inventor of the Itoas ride, und l to be eXplred by scientists. it I tbe glnnl crater of Ngoro Ngoro, the largest volcano bat ever mf' i exlwed on this planet acroKs und a paradise for allil tlibva wliut dlscnverlen n Nobody know thorough explMSllua of the crntei otlr I XX7 ASHINGTON. Definite plans have been made by wet and dry forces to put tbe prohibition question Into politics to repeal the Eighteenth amendment on tbe one hand and to pre serve It on th other. The Association Against Prohibition announced plans for. preparing a legislative program, the first step of which would be to take the teeth out of the Volstead lrw by eliminating the provi sion Umlfig the alcoholic content of " lf tat e grape-growin- g Mr. Fortescue Evidently Made a Miscue Fres-for-A- JI 4 da free-for-a- ll ll h, d fire-eatin- family. He Is deputy to the keeper of the Royal archives. He Is sixty-fou- r years old, and Is the fifth son of the third Earl Fortescue. Mr. Fortescue said that he had Intended to take occasion on his appearance at tbe military academy to recant the remarks be had made in criticism of Americans In a volume of lectures published 'eleven years ago. He had been convinced by the war, and American friends be bad made during the conflict that his earlier opinions were entirely erroneous, and that he had Intended to confess to Americans that he had erred grievacademy." ously. This is his first visit to Amer- Mr, Fortescue Is president the cordial 4iHhe hlstorlBnsald,-anRoyal Historical society, librarian of ity of all had more than ever conWindsor castle and keeper of many of vinced him that he owed America some the confidential archives of the royal amends for his critical words. -- MANUAL LABOR IS HIGHEST PAID and so on up to 21,500 marks Germany Puts More Value on ond year, for a man of eight years' experience. Brawn Than Brain. "String" news pays at the rate of 1.60 to 2.75 marks a line, according to its nature. Reporters get 70 marks for Marks small notices, 135 for reports of meet- d Demonstration; Counter Demonstration leaders that they were on government reservation ground and the permit they had obtained was Invalid. Av- Artiings, and 125 for Investigations. The . bupd thereupon disappeared, cles tics are Month-Th- eafor the at rate 3.19 paid iy erage but those participating In the procesof 275 marks each. A man who works ters May Have to Close. sion remained with tbe banners about en Sunday gets 500 marks for the day. tbe grounds for an hour before ail Even such wages are acceptable labor Is valued among the Berlin. Manual Jourmng to Lafayette square, where an of tbe capital, journalists above the products of the brain in the for hlgli costs are open-ai- r meeting was held. rapidly thinning the industrial of Germany ranks of The meeting in Lafayette square ot. newspaper men and many emtoday, if prevailing wage standards ployees are being thrown out of work. poslte the White House hud barely can be tuken as a criterion. The situation has reached such a pass gotten under way, when a young man. Ordinary laborers receive an average that a movement Is under way among PETITIONERS for generalamneMy accompanied by a half dozen negro for of about 100 marks an hour. (The pres- conservative publishers to establish a laws are imprisoned violators of war boys, appealed with a new set of banent rate of exchange gives 47 marks fund to aid trying to Influence President ners. These banners as soon as dis unemployed newspaper to pardon the 04 men still for one American cent.) " Wages for men. the leaders played, started a counter demonstra being actuated by Harding an eight-hou- r serving sentences under the espionage tion as the amnesty seekers showed day range from 400 to political as well as humanitarian moact. 1,200 marks, making a monthly pay tives, since they fear much unmistakably that they resented thu good talent check of approximately 9,600 to 31,200. among the writers will drift to With a band of five pieces plnvlng inscriptions, some of which ran an folthe An agreement has been effected whereThe Marseillaise," and two color- - lows : radical press. by shoemakers and cabinet makers re"Treason Ain't No Crime RenedM Managers of three large theaters in bearers carrying American flags at ceive from 67.15 to 116.55 marks at) Berlin have announced their houses the head, tbe amnesty seekers, more Arnold Patriotic Association, Inc." hour. "We Extend Our Sympathy P! may have to clone because of tbe wage than 20d strong and with banners, tie In September the salaries of German demands of tbe tne help. Actors and scended upon the White House. The iiockets' Association."'-- ' newspaier editors were fixed by agree- actresses until recently received procession proceeded until It reached "Greeting and Good Cheer Hue- k ment to range from 15,000 marks to minimum wage of 7,100 marks a the entrance to tbe grounds near the thieves. In ." 21.500. (In American money, 15,000 month. Now that this has been raised executive offices when s husky park "We Want Out Too Chicken A scale to. 22.000 marks amounts to $3.19.) marks, the statre hands tre police lieutenant stepped ont, choked Thieves' Society." was adopted providing that newspaper demanding a minimum 1'oilce. had to Intervene between thu wage of 24.000 off the band In the midst of "Onwnrcl men receive 15,000 marks In the sec marks. Christian Soldiers,' and Informed the two sets of demonstrators. Ordinary Laborers Average 100 an Hour Newspaper Editors . Seniority Succession Rule CRATER HOUSES MANY ANIMALS n tinued speakership ef Representative Glllett (Mass.), and are making s to the farm; bloc members. Their choice Is JBegresentatlve Sydney Anderson (Minn,). - The wet plans also call for wet organization f throughout the countrv fwlth branches5 tat every congressional district; organization of a. liberal bloc to support wet candidates, whether Republican or Democratic and an to the congressional arid presidential elections of 1924. . Release of all foreign vessels seized outside; the .American three-millimit with liquor aboard where there Is no evidence of communication with the shore by means of the vessels' own boats was ordered by Secretary Mellon. 'Both aides ire still talking over the fact that California, the leading wine state, has gone "dry'' after ten yean of voting down prohibition measures. A majority of 29.621 voted In favor of making the Eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the Yolstead act statute law of California. Naturally they are also discussing The proposed constitutional Ohio. amendment which would have legalized wine and beer In Ohio was turned down by a majority of 187,854, by the complete returns. an-pe- Under his management post offices and postal routes were established from Mulne to Georgia. These routes were also used to spread knowledge of acta of congress and the progress of the revolution. At the outbreak of hos tilities between the colonists and Eng drinks" to one-haland there were really two postal sys of 1 per cent. They hope to raise this " tems, the TSrltlsh or partlHtnenraiT "to 4 orfr per cent as the step to system, and the constitutional post of the return of beer and light wines. tablished between the several colonies fice. It is not generally known that The drys ridicule this, but they are along the Atlantic coast, and In 1672 Paul Revere's famous ride was taken busily couhtlng noses to see If there Is there wns "a post to go monthly from In traveling along his regular postal to be strength enough left In congress New York to Boston." route. to smash the wet program. Franklin First Postmaster. Growth of the postal system has They propose to take advantage of In 1739 Benjamin Franklin was ap- since been rapid. the western revolLjalnst the con pointed postmaster at Philadelphia and later entered upon duties similar COWS HAVE A "SOUSE" PARTY to those of a postmaster general. In 1753 he was appointed deputy postHas Too Much Kick and Bo. master general for the colonies. It Silagevines DRIG. GEN. 8TATDEN, comman-J- J Engage in was a lucrative office and he held It dant of the military academy at Fight until 1774, when he was dismissed beWest Point, under direction of Secre cause of his sympathy for the coloncows be- tary Weeks, recalled an. Invitation to Boise, Idaho. Twenty-fiv- e ists In their quarrel with England. to E. B. Ford of Wendell went John William Fortescue, British his longing In 1775 tbe continental congress apon a "jag" and ran amuck, enjoying a torian to address the cadets. A state ment issued by the secretary said the pointed Franklin postmaster general. fight Ford fed his herd on silage, as usual, reason for his action was found In but the feed happened to have reached statements contained ta a book written just the right stage In fermentation to by Fortescue. The secretary quoted Find $250 Diamond Ring produce unexpected results. The cows this passage: "Americans esteem a good bargain. Intoxicated and began a free- became After Killing 18 Chickens for-afight, piling up In a bunch, with even if gained by dishonorable means, the result that one cow came out with to mark the highest form of ability. When Henry Wagaaner, of a leg so badly broken that she had to The United States cannot engage In Peoria, 111., lost a diamond ring any form of competition with us, from be killed. valued at $250 he reported the athletics to diplomacy, without using loss to the police who, on quesioul play. They must win. If not by Tries to "Eat" Fire; Burned. tioning him, learned It had been Mass. Peter Par-tyc- fair skill, then by prearranged trickery Easthampton, missed soon after he fed his fourteen-year-olson of Mr. and or violence; If not by open negotia chickens- - They advised him to tions, then by garbled maps and Mrs. William Parzych, was painfully look to his chickens. burned about the head and neck while forged documents. There Is the fact. Wagaaner killed 18 of hi g stunts be It may be unpleasant but It cannot be trying to imitate flock and found the missing gem denied." tctmes. seen In motion had In a gizzard. His neighbors en'An author entertaining these senti He gathered a mouthful of gasoline joyed chicken dinners the next and tried to spray It across a lighted ments," Mr. Weeks said, "is not con day. His burns sidered to be a proper person to admatch, when It Ignited. dress the students of a government are not considered serious. Cyrus Founded Postal System North Dakota Postmaster Traces Origin and Growth of Postal System Paul Revere's Ride Co, red Regular Postal Route. university students that the pen lodieal contained obscene matter. Both Wets and Drys Arm for the Fray -- IN AMERICA FROM by r Gov. Ben Olcott of Oregon In a statement said that the state was ready to use the National Guard In stopping the Invasion of I. W. W. and added that there was no room for them In the state. This photograph clearly gives an Idea of the stern measures being used aguinst members of the' I. W. V who have beeu (locking to Portland to help promote a waterfront strike. The police are shown unloading undesirables from a patrol wagon at the city boundary. As mum as they nre arrested they are given their choice of leaving the city or going to tbe rockpllej ' ' The Inset Is Governor Olcott. forests. A John Doe warrant for Berkeley. the arrest of the editor of "The Laugh, lng Horse," an anonymous campus publication at the University of Call tornia, was Issued here by the district attorney after protests had been made djM r( over-ture- - District Forester iftlWI'lf l . made It a citadel of the forest and, while In all other parts of the world HEATION of a steering committee the work of extermination went on, In tbe aerate to represent the no no hunter dared t enetrnte fastthis Prehistoric animal, bemay bring titical Hetitlinent of that body and abo ness. Is It Tints, lieved to have perished from the earth probable that Ution of the seniority sihtpss'.ui rule thousands of years ago, may inhabit ntilmi'U which have erlslied elsewhere re advocated by Senator Medill Me- Its caves. Scientists hope to tlnd alive heve survived at Ngoro Ngoro. Otrer volcanoes are grouped shout Cormlck (III.) In a letler he sent lo strange creatures of which only the tbe crater of, Ngoro Ng.ro. Sennter Idre. Republican senate skeletons have lieen found In otlier More than one of them Is larger than lender. The letter says In part : of 'world. the parts on,- - ib; country the creation of Mount Ktiia. The whole region, Sir Charles Ross went to Tanganage 'ich a r!n,r comm.'ttee and the wns tbe ago, mvneof s terrific volraule yika In January. 1121. on a shooting abolition f tbe binding seniority rule. upheaval. expedition, accompanied by tbe "We kow that although In a maMr. T. A. Barnes, of toftances the men who have jority Flames 8pared Masonie Bible. and Mrs. Frederick Ialml of New bocome chairmen through seniority MUldletoH-n- . N. Y. There has Just Vorkaiitl dlHcovered the crater. Sir hsve been good chairmen, there have Charles Kots stalked and shot Ave letn recovered from the rnlns of the been others who were nnfltted for thetr lion within the basin, and the won- Masonic Temple, which was partly poets by reason of extreme age or fall-- " ders he saw there mude him resolve destroyed by fire here several weeks lng health, or because of grave differ that no more shooting parties nhoiibl ago, the Bible which was presented encee of opinion with tbe be allowed. ho the lodge In June. 1818, by Martin heir Republican associates. majority of ' "1 would lie the last The crater U 100 miles from a rail Hoffmnn, Who was the ninth deputy to challenge the way. In the midst of wild country. The grand muster and eighth grand roasor the duty of a senator to asight number of unlniKls In the crater Is es- ter of Masons of the state. Ths sert his Independent opinion or te dlf-re- r Bible had been protected by debris. timated at 75.000. with any majority, but the chairThe ertitcr U. In fact, a city of man of a committee acts not In bis who have lived there for centuYale conferred the degree of doctor sole representative capacity but as the ries sui'if froiu attack. Its steqpildet of laws on Marshal Foca, representative of the majority of that p in" the Senate blj-hl- y ".e nnl-mal- WsnnJltee an at the majority is the l Is the executive agem ; senate, the committee for consideration of reported by it. The old system served very wci: , the old days, In the majority of ca the chairmen have, been capable, hut tbe Republican conference owes It t the country to put aside the rule prt lo make provision for a ,ruly steering committee which shall meet regularly and, as occani"" may require, meet with the corresponding committee of tbe bouse. "There is ne other way In which we ' ran dispatch the great volume of neea devolved upoa congress," repre-sentatl- |