It has been admitted at the White House that Baker was the president's choice. He twice declined the secretaryship of the interior when Wilson formed his cabinet. Baker retired as mayor of Cleveland on January first, after four years of service. He was private secretary to Postmaster General Wilson in Cleveland's second administration. During the Baltimore convention, he made a fight against the unit rule, practically assuring the nomination of Wilson. He led the minority in the Ohio delegation. He is forty-five years old.

Appointment Accepted
CLEVELAND, Mar. 6.—Newton D. Baker announced today that he had accepted President Wilson's offer of the portfolio of secretary of war, will be in Washington within a week. This expression of the president's confidence is certainly most flattering," said Baker. The appointee has always been known as a pacifist, and is still a member of several peace societies.

BUILDS MODERN DAIRY BARN
John King will build a modern dairy barn on his property just south of the Lumber is now university campus, being hauled and construction will begin within a few days. The barn will be of a type especially adapted to dairy service, and it is said will cost about $1200.

Advertising Methods Are Not a Matter of Romance But of Cold, Hard Facts.
The circulation of The Daily and Semi-Weekly Star-Mirror is greater than the combined circulations of all the other papers of Latah county. 