Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-06-06
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Oliver V. Dempsey, aged 25, was run
over and instantly killed near Elko, B.
c. recently.
President Taft nominated James w.
Freeman to be United States attorney
for Montana.
W. Hess was accidentally drowned at
Clarks Fork, Idaho, Monday, when his
skiff capsized.
Thomas Manning, aged 95, pioneer
of Montana and the great lakes coun-
try, died Saturday in Butte.
This week the cherry crop of the
Lewiston Charleston and Snake river
valley will be on the market.
| The remains of the late Mayor N. j.
Blake of Plains were laid to rest Sat
urday in the Catholic cemetery at
Plains.
The funeral of William S. Brown,
who died recently at the age of "a in
Moscow at the home of his son, G. w.
Brown, was held Saturday.
Secretary Fisher has granted an ex-
tension Of time to San Francisco to
present arguments and data regarding
the use of the Hetch Hetchy valley as
a reservoir site.
One hundred and thirteen head of
choice dairy stock have been purchased
| in the middle western states by DIR. w
l.. Carlyle of the University of Idaho
and are now at Moscow.
It is now known that Fred Barker
the Spokane printer, who ran as a pro.
gressive candidate for president of the
International Typographical union, has
been defeated by a majority Of about
5000.
The body Of Agnes Smith, who has
been missing from Great Falls for some
time, was found in the Missouri river.
She disappeared from hack on the
morning of May 10. Probabilities point
to suicide.
The appointment of Daniel E. Clark
Of Cheyenne, Wyo., as live stock agent
of the Oregon Washington Railroad &
Navigation company for Washington
and Oregon with headquarters is an
nounced by the company.
Crazed by jealousy Mrs.. E. s. Peachin
shot her husband, a sergeant of the
Portland police department, probably
fatally, and then shot and killed her
self at their home at Wichita, a suburb
of Portland. She died almost instantly.
The formal opening of navigation in
Boring sea, which is closed by ice
nearly five months of the year, was
marked Saturday by the sailing from
Seattle of the passenger liner Senator
and the freighters Seward and St.
Helena for Nome, Alaska.
Michael Pablo made his final ship
ment of buffalo to the Canadian gov
eminent from Roman, Mont, Saturday.
There are several head in this last ship
ment. There are a few more on his
range west of town, but they are too
wild and dangerous to corral and will
be shot probably before captured.
-----a
ners has formally accepted a donation
of $4,000, made some time ago by the
Anaconda Copper Mining company
toward the establishment of state
tuberculosis sanitarium. Contracts for
the erection of the buildings near
Warm Springs were awarded a week
ago.
The government reclamation service
has corps of engineers under the d.
rection of J. B. Bond, project engineer
of the Sun river (Mont.) project, sur
veying Benton lake to make it a stor-
age reservoir to irrigate Palouse bench
west Of Portage. Work is supposed to
begin as soon as the survey is COM
pleted.
If the Washington Water Power
company gets an injunction restrain
ing Kootenai county (Idaho) tax col
lector from selling its property for
taxes on the sth day of July as adver.
tised if must at once pay to the county
the sum Of $4,000 to secure even tenn
porary order. This is the decision
reached by Judge Dietrich in the fed
eral court at Occur d'Alene.
In connection with the contemplated
improvements to be made by the Great
Northern by building the Sun River
branch out of Great Falls, Mont, to
Augusta and thence to Java, point rs
miles east of here, it is said that this
road will eventually be part of the
main line to the Coast, which will be
much shorter than the present route,
and that the Libby cutoff, which has
been talked about so much here, will
also be built, starting out of Whitefish
and running south and west to Jen-
nings.
More stock has been shipped out of
the Camas prairie Gdaho) country this
year than in any previous year at this
time. In the last five months shipments
out of the Grangeville, Cottonwood and
Nez Perez country have been many
Buyers are purchasing the choice stock,