Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-07-11
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Inc LikS special, Whlch left Mos
COW for Portland Sunday morning car
ried about 200 people.
The ceremony of laying the corner
stone of the new high school building
at Moscow, Idaho, took place Saturday.
The executive committee of the Mon
tana Baptists has decided to hold the
state convention for Montana in Butte,
October IL.
Captain John Sargent Dolliver, a
famous pilot of San Francisco bay, is
dead at his home in Alameda, Cal. Cap
tain Dolliver came to this coast in
1850.
At Lewistown, Mont, Mrs. Thomas
Williams, wife of a painter, recently
committed suicide by swallowing a
large dose Of strychnine. Dependency
was the cause Of the act.
B. F. O'Neil, charged with embezzle-
ment in connection with the failure of
the State Bank of Commerce of Wal
lace, is now in the Wallace Jail await
ing trial, unable to get bonds.
One hundred and seventy-fve Elks
of the Lewiston lodge departed Sunday
night for Portland. Approximately 800
Elks will represent the eight lodges
of Idaho at Portland in the convention
to be held there this week.
Andrew Lenniger, cable splicer in
the employ of the Montana Independent
Telephone company, was fatally injured
Saturday when $500 volts of electricity
passed through his body while he was
at work on telephone pole.
At the business meeting of the Mon
tana grand lodge, Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks, J. w. Walker of
Kalispell was elected state grand ex-
allied ruler and Missoula was selected
for the next place Of meeting.
Harry Sheppard of Bellingham,
Wash, was recently elected president
of the National Amateur Press associa-
ton, which closed its annual conven-
ton at La Grande, Ore, Saturday.
Bellingham was chosen as the 1913 con-
vention seat.
At the annual general meeting of
the Grand Forks (B. CO. Fruitgrowers
association Saturday James Rookie was
reelected president, w. 7. Ross, vice
president and w. H. Collins, w. F.
Armstrong, E. Herrick and AL Traun-
weiser, directors.
Charles Stiger, aged ~, employed
in the bridge department of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Rail
road, was drowned recently in the Vel
lowstone river near Orinoco, Mont.
Stiger slipped from raft. He came
from Genesee, III.
J. L. Stice has been appointed post
Office inspector for the northwest dis
trict, with headquarters in Spokane.
Stice, it will be recalled, was the post
office inspector who bore the brunt of
the government contest with the
Lewis Publishing company at st. Louis
recently.
The dead bodies Of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Smith were found Sunday in a room oc-
cupied by the couple over grocery
store at Butte. The throat of Mrs.
Smith had been cut from ear to ear.
After ending the life of his wife it is
supposed Smith swallowed dose of
carbolic acid.
friendly zimmerman, "a young man
25 years old, residing at Fairfield, and
member of camping party in the
mountains in Teton county, Montana,
was shot and instantly killed Sunday
while holding out at arm 3 length tar
get at which young women members of
the party were shooting with rifle.
Admitting that for 20 years he had
been deceiving the officials of Yuba
county, California, whose duty it is to
count the county funds, but declaring
that his reason therefor was merely to
gain time to make good what he claims
is clerical error in his books, George
w. Pine, county treasurer and tax col.
lector, has confessed to shortage of
$4,000 in his accounts.
While giving an exhibition of lasso-
ing near Baker, Ore, John Spain, rep
lted worlds champion roper, and who
won laurels at the Pendleton roundup
last year, was severely injured. The
hurts may result in the loss of his arm.
Spain had just roped an unbroken
horse and the rope caught his arm.
fhe horse he was riding stopped, draw
ng it through the muscles to the bone,
'evering the veins.
The injury was too serious and ampu-
alton at the wrist was performed.