Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-05-09
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George James, one of three convicts
who escaped from the Nevada state
prison recently, was captured.
Colonel +. z. Steever, commanding the
Mexican border guard, is investigating
the recent shooting Of Private Baker,
Company c, ED infantry.
The public playground, in the opinion
of Miss Jane Adams, is the greatest
agency so far brought forth for the
Improvement of the city boy.
One company Of the Twelfth infan-
try, which left Monterey, CAL, for the
Mexican border line, will divide itself
between Yuma, Ariz., and Calexico, Cal.
The movement for the emancipation
of Turkish women, which under the
regime of the Young Turks, gained con-
siderable momentum, has now received
a serious setback.
Petitions for the recall of Mayor
Frank X. Mott and Commissioners Fred
G. Turner and w. G. Baccus, which the
socialists of Oakland, CAL, have been
circulating, have been fled.
The new military Zeppelin airship is
fast approaching completion in Ger
many. This will make the second per-
fected Zeppelin in military service, and
the third has been ordered.
The American Cereal company has
flled q certificate of dissolution with the
secretary of state Of New Jersey. The
company was incorporated in February,
1899, with an authorized capital Of $780,
100000.
The cod fishing schooner Joseph Russ,
which sailed from Seattle April for
the Boring sea cod banks, was wrecked
on Chirikof island, southwest of Kodiak,
April 26. She carried 35 men, NIL Of
whom escaped.
Dissatisfaction is general in the inter
Tor districts of China, due to the revival
and at the same time an increase in the
likin or transit duties and to the made
quate protection afforded merchants
against marauders.
The American minister to Spain,
C. Ide, and his daughter, Miss Ide, gave
a dinner in honor of Fred w. Carpenter
the United States minister to Morocco
who was passing few days in Madrid
as the guest of the minister.
The Canadian Pacific railroad round
house and machine shops at Eholt, B. G..
burned recently. One locomotive was
in the roundhouse at the time of the
fire The loss of the building and equip
ment will amount to $4,000
AT Toronto, Ont, Saturday, the south
wall of a fve-story building recently
constructed for the William Nelson
company, Ltd, fell in, burying a score
of employees. Two persons, man and
a woman, were killed and nine Others
seriously injured.
The power schooner Silver Wave, the
first cargo-earrying vessel to sail fol
Boring sea ports this season, left Sc
attic for Nome Sunday loaded with
fresh vegetables and fruit with which
to replenish the larders depleted during
the long winter months.
A rifle bullet glancing from a log
struck Dan Sven, aged 10, son Of d
r. Sven of Tacoma in the temple re
Gently, inficting wound from which
the boy died. The shot was fred by
Douglas Hofus, aged II, orphan sor
of w. D. Hoaus, the wealthy Seattle
steel man who died few weeks ago
Both boys were students at Dekoven
hall, private academy near Tacoma
and had stolen away from their classes
to practice with the rifle.