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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24

THE QUESTION WHETHER SEC
TON 2, ARTICLE 8, OF THE CON-
STITUTION OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO SHALL BE so AMENDED
AS TO AUTHORIZE THE APPOINT
MENT OF A STATE BOARD OF
EDUCATION, THE MEMBERSHIP,
POWERS AND DUTIES OF WHICH
SHALL BE PRESCRIBED BY LAW.
BE 1T RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLA-
TURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO:
Section l. That Section 2, Article 8,
of the constitution of the State of Idaho
be amended to read as follows:
Section 2. The general supervision
OF the state educational institutions and
public school system OF the State of
Idaho, shall be vested in a state board
OF education, the membership, powers
and duties Of which shall be prescribed
by law. The state superintendent of
public instruction shall be ex-officio
member of said board.
Section 2. The question to be sub
mitted to the electors of the State Of
Idaho at the next general election shall
be as follows: ''Shall Section 2 of
Article of the constitution of the State
OF Idaho be SO amended that the gen
eral supervision of the educational in
situations and public school system of
the State OF Idaho shall be vested in a
state Board OF education, the member
ship, power and duties of which shall
be prescribed by law?" The state
superintendent of public instruction
shall be ex-officio member of said board.
Section 3. The secretary of state is
hereby authorized to make publication
of this constitutional amendment in
each county of the State of Idaho for at
least six consecutive (6)
weeks prior to the next
general election in not less than one "a
newspaper of general circulation pub
lished in each county.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24
In the Senate
Senate Joint Resolution No. II
BY WhitcOmb
Joint Resolution

JOlTt NeSOlullOn
TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECT
ORS OF THE STATE FIDAHO FOR
REJECTION OR APPROVAL;
AMENDING SECTION ONE a. OF
ARTICLE THREE (3) OF THE
STATE CONSTITUTION, so AS TO
PROVIDE THAT THE PEOPLE
SHALL HAVE THE POWER (UN-
DER CONDITIONS TO BE HERE
AFTER PRESCRIBED BY ACT OF
THE LEGISLATURE) TO PROPOSE
A REFERENDUM VOTE ON ANY
ACT OR MEASURE PASSED BY
THE STATE LEGISLATURE, AND
TO APPROVE OR REJECT THE
SAME AT THE POLLS INDEPEND-
ENT OF THE LEGISLATURE.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLA
TURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Section |. That Section of Article
3 of the constitution of the State of
Idaho be amended by adding thereto
the following: The people reserve to
themselves the power TO approve or
reject at the polls any act or measure
passed by the legislature. This power
is known as the referendum, and legal
voters may, under such conditions and
in such manner MS may be provided by
acts OF the legislature, demand refer
endum vote on any act or measure
passed by the legislature and cause the
same to be submitted to vote OF the
people for their approval or rejection.
Section :. The question to be sub
mitted to the electors OF the state shall
be in form as follows, to-Wit: ..Shall
Section Of Article 3 of the constitution
of the State OF Idaho be so amended as
to give the people the power under
conditions TO be hereafter prescribed
by act OF the legislature) to propose a
referendum vote on any act or measure
passed by the state legislature and to
approve or reject the same at the polls,
independent of the legislature?"
Section 3. The secretary of state is
hereby authorized to make publication
OF this constitutional amendment in
each county for at least six consecutive
weeks prior to the next general cleo
ton in not less than one newspaper of
general circulation published in each
county.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24
Notice to Creditors

Idaho
In the matter OF the estate OF Roderick Mac
kenzie. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
administrator with the will annexed Of The
estate OF Roderick Mackenzie, deceased, to the
creditors of. and all persons having claims
against the said deceased. to exhibit them with
the necessary. vouchers. within ten montes after
the first publication Of this notice. to the said
administrator at his office in the Lewiston
National Bank Building. Lewiston, Idaho the
same being the place for the transaction Of ihe
business of said estate, in Lewiston, County Of
NeZ Perez, State OF Idaho.
Signed and dated at Lewiston, Idaho. this 9th
day Of September, 1912.
JAMES E. BABB
Administrator with will annexed
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24
24O ACRE FARM FOR SALE.

Consisting of 50 acres Of meadow.
balance in timber and old burning.
100000 feet OF saw timber, one half
white pine. Location six miles from
postoffice and creamery. Unlimited
range, An ideal location for stock and
dairy business. A small amount of
cash will handle this proposition.
Address, ROBERT COOK,
Orofino, Idaho.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24
House Joint Resolution No. 30

Substitute for II. j. II. No. 12)
BY Warwick, Featherstone and Hammer
A Joint Resolution
PROPOSING THE AMENDMENT OF
SECTION 2, OF ARTICLE 8, OFTHE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
IDAHO; SUBMITTING TO THE
ELECTORS OF SAID STATE FOR
THEIR REJECTION OR APPROVAL
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24
Senate Joint Resolution No. 13
BY Whitcomb

To be submitted to the electors OF
the State of Idaho for rejection or
approval; amending Section one Q)
OF Article three CD of the State
Constitution SO as to provide that
the people shall have the power
(under conditions to be hereafter
prescribed by act of the Legisature)
to propose laws of their own init
alive and to enact the same at the
polls independent of the Legisla.
ture.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-10-24
For Rent

FOR SALE. Eighty acre farm well
improved, Is acres orchard in bt.arino-
convenient to school and postoffice.
Price $500 per acre. Easy terms. W.
M. Chandler, Orofino, Idaho.
CASH REGISTER FOR SALE-See
Samson Snyder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
IS SUSPENDED
Dixon M. Daughton Charged
With INSTRUMENTATION and
IntoxicatiOn.

Policeman Dixon NJ. Daughton of the
second precinct was suspended this morn
ing on charges of INSTRUMENTATION, alleged
officer The suspension of the policeman
was the result of a too liberal celebra-
uoh OF Christmas, it is stated, and the
circumstances under which it came about
gave rise to the report that Daughton had
shot his superior, Capt. Peck.
According to the story as given out to-
day by the police department. Policeman
Daughton appeared at the second precinct
about $50 o'clock this morning, half an
hour late and in no condition for duty.
He was called before Capt. Peck, it is
stated, and was given a lecture, when, be-
coming angered at the reprimand, Daugh-
ton made move as if to draw his re-
volver.
Other policemen standing near prompt
ly grappled with Daughton and prevent
ed any display of firearms Capt. Peck
thereupon suspended the policeman from
duty. pending the filing of charges
against him.
Daughton was appointed to the force
in February. 1910, and. according to the
records OF the police department. was
fined SD the following Christmas for
intoxication, s. of the fine being RENTED.
One Saturday night last May, the police
records show, DaughtOn went with a
party of friends up the river on a fish
shot in the neck. The affair was report
ed as an accident, and as the police
mans injury was not serious no inyestf-
cation was made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
News Briefs.

Judge Keedy signed a decree authoriz-
ing former Court Clerk Harry E. Baker
and wife of Hagerstown. Nd, TO adopt
Madeline La Rose. daughter of Frank La
Rose of New York state
During a crap game "Wednesday night
on Bohemia Manor, near Elkton. Mo.
Edgar Johnson shot and perhaps fatally
wounded John Stewart. Both are coll
ored.
Herbert r. Getty of New Windsor Md.
purchased the farm OF the late John w.
Lambert. consisting of about iifty-sev"n
acres. at S.W per acre.
Hugh y. Faulkner. thirty-eight years
old of Blacksburg. Va. who WAS acel-
dentally shot while hunting about two
weeks ago. died at Roanoke hospital
Wednesday from blood poisoning.
Mrs. Sarah Scott. widow of James H.
Scott of Elkton. Md. died at her nome
Thursday evening of pneumonia, aged
about seventy years.
The board of supervisors of Rocking
ham county, Va, has appropriated $500
to the agricultural demonstration work
in that county. and also 500 to the Girls
Tomato Club.
The Red Creek Railroad Company or
Hendricks. w. Va, has been chartered p
with $4,000 capital stock. The incorpo-
rators are r b. Horsburgh, ID. q. Wilson.
T. NJ Bechtel l.. X. Harvey and A. >.
Armstrong, all of Hendricks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
RESIGNS BY REQUEST.
DR.. A. G. Mortimer Retires From
Episcopal Pulpit in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, December 27-The
resignation of Rev. Dr. Alfred Gar
net Mortimer. Tor the, past twenty-otie
years rector Of st. Marks Episcopal
Church. Locust street. near 10th. has
been handed to Bishop Rhinelander.
Dr. Mortimer resigned last week at the
bishops request. to take effect at once.
Not until today was the fact known to
the major portion of the parishioners of
st. Marks that their rector had severed
his connection. The failing of Dr.. Nor
timers power through illness and adj
vanced age are said by some to have
asking for the venerable clergyman s
withdrawal from active work in his
parish. DIR. Mortimer is said TO have
gone TO the home of his brother IN Jersey
City.
Bishop Rhineiander said this afternoon
1T is fact that Dr. Mortimer has with
drawn from the work OF his ministry.
This action. however. was not the result
OF any trouble between him and his YES
try, nor in consequence of any request on
their part for his resignation
LAS he. in effect. placed himself in my
hands. / think L ought not to discuss the
matter further"
DR. Mortimer was one of the most in
tereSting personalities IN the PennSyl-
yania diocese. He was born in Piccadilly,
London. sixty-four years ago.
DR. Mortimer Is widely known as a
writer, and is the author of several theo-
Helps to Meditation" i'm two volumes.
This has been through over thirteen edi-
lions and Is used in almost every Eng
disappearing country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
BACKS DEMAND WITH THREAT.
Man Carrying Nitroglycerin Seeks
$4,000 Government Owes Him.

JAMESTOWN. n. Y, December o.
A we'll dressed man entered the West
field, n. Y, post Office early last night
and demanded of Assistant Postmaster
James Douglas $4,000 he said the gov
eminent owed him. Wait until 1 see If
the order has come. said DOUGLASS. =,
The stranger pulled bottle from his
pocket. IF you move from that chair
I'll drop this bottle" he announced. ]. b.
Lennox, who was in the pos: Office. slip
ped out gu city and notified two consta-
bles, who arrested the man. The bottle
contained enough nitroglycerin to blow
the building up. The man said he was
Edward Paine of Chicago. but refused to
give more information about himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
BAIL OF ST. 900 is GIVEN
FOR RELEASE OF Mccoy
Pleads Not Guilty to Assaulting
Father-Shot to Protect Mother,
It Is Alleged.

Edward l.. Mccoy of $40 18th street
southwest, charged with assaulting his
father. Edward Mccoy. with dangerous
weapon had a preliminary hearing in the
Police Court today. Through his attorney.
Matthew f. O'Brien, the boy, who doesn
appear to be more than eighteen years
old. entered a plea of not guilty to the
charge and waived preliminary eXamina-
ton. Assistant United States Attorney
Ralph Given asked bond of only $1,000
for the boys release, pending the action
of the grand jury. The bond was fur
nished.
The stories told by the boy and the
boys mother agree exactly, and police
officials are convinced that the lad shot
his father on Christmas night to protect
his mother and himself from the attack
of his father. who, it is alleged, was in
toXicated.
Mr.. O'Brien and Mr.. Given agreed that
If the injuries to the father, who is now
In Emergency Hospital in a critical con-
dition, resulted fatally, the bond would be
Void and the boy has promised to give
himself up to the authorities in the event
of this happening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
TWO ITALIANS ARRESTED
Alleged Counterfeiters Are
Held for Secret Service at
CIarksburg, W. Va.

United States secret service operative
left Washington today for Clarksburg.
w. Va, to take charge of two alleged
italian counterfeiters held by the police
there. Salvatore Lotello and Fortunate
LobellO are charged with having in their
possession and passing two-dollar coun-
terfeit notes. made by the famous Morel-
lo-Lupo gang, the leaders of which are
now serving long terms i'll the peniten-
tiary..
Occasionally some of these notes turn
up in circulation, Indicating to secret serv-
i've officials that there was plant some
where which was not seized in the raid
several years ago.
BY the arrest of Louis Julian at New
York on charge of counterfeiting. secret
service officials declare they have cap
tured an old-time offender He Is said to
have been sentenced to two years in the
Clinton, n. Y, prison in 1905 for having
counterfeit coins in his possession. In
December 1911. it is declared, he was ar
rested in Hoboken as a confidence man.
and served a year in the penitentiarE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
FREER HELD FOR GRAND JURY
Secretary of Union Says He Killed
Conway in Self Defense,

CHICAGO, December 27-Thomas Freer,
financial secretary of Local 90 of the
United Association of Steam Filters and
Helpers, was held for the grand jury
without bail on charge of murder today,
when a coroner's jury concluded an in
quest over the body of James Conway. a
member of the finance committee of the
organization.
Conway was shot and killed by Freer
yesterday in the union headquarters. as
the result of quarrel which grew out of
the unions election of officers.
On the witness stand Freer testified that
Conway and others had threatened to kill
him, and that he shot in self-defense.
Fear of a renewal of old labor union
feud was seen in police action in sending
heavy guard to watch the inquest.
Freer and a number of witnesses were
each placed between two detectives. In
addition dozen uniformed policemen
were stationed about the room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
RUNAWAYS ARE CAUGHT.
Porto Rican and Girl, Both of Balti.
more, Arrested Here.

Amelia Pitt, sixteen years old of 2652
Pennsylvania avenue. Baltimore and
Domingo Gigande. eighteen years Ole. a
Porto Rican. who until recently was a
student at the Catholic University, near
Brookland, were arrested by Detectives
Hewlett ana Pratt today when they call.
ed at the general delivery window at the
city post Office as being fugitives from
their parents. The Baltimore authorities,
at whose instigation the arrest was made,
were Immediately notified. and this even
ing an officer Will come to take the run
Always back to their home.
Gigande. who said his home in Balti-
more il at 321 North Parker street, told
the police that he and Miss Pitt ran
away Christmas night and came to this
city. He said he wanted TO marry the
girl, but that her parents objected. While
oat automobiling Christmas day they de-
cided to run away. he said, and that night
they came TO this city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
JAMES r. KEENE VERY ILL.
Condition of Widely Known Horse
man Declared to Be Worse.

NEW YORK. December 27.-James R
Keene. who has not been in good health
for a long while. is reported today to be
in a worse condition than at any time
since he returned from abroad severa
months ago. Nothing definite was giver
out as to the nature of the widely known
horseman's illness, but 1t was admitted
that he was i'll at his apartments in a
hotel and was unable to visit his country
home on Long Island.
The fact that Mr.. keene was confined
to his room by his illness became known
after the suicide yesterday of his valet
Frank Fissier. who killed himself in q
rooming house by cutting his throat II
was said that MIR. keene was in such a
condition that the doctor forbade news OF
the suicide being broken to him. although
he was told that Fissler had died sud
denly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
SUIT FOR RECOVERY.
Sum Approximating 500, 900 Al.
legged to Have Been Withheld.

SEATTLE. Wash. December 27-The
injunction secured by Robert II. Mont
gomery. trustee. against George II. Par
Eer and Evvie j. Parker. in proceedings
10 recover approximately 100000. which
nave been wrongfully diverted from the
United Wireless Telegraph Company. was
continued yesterday In the supreme court
ON motion OF the plaintiff
While Parker was in federal prison
he trustees of the bankrupt wireless
company brought suit for the recovery
~ money realized by Parker on sales of
stock. 1t was charged that for stock
sold 10 Parker, G.. c. Wilson and others
only % per cent Of the purchase price
cached the company.
Parker transferred several hundred
thousand dollars worth of lands and
mortgages to his wife. Evvie j. Parker.
and the injunction tied up this property
~ well as security in deposit vaults
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
WALKS AROUND WORLD.
Lieut.. Nordwall, Now in Atlanta,
Has Worn Wooden Shoes.

Nordwall. the Hollander, who claims to
be the only, man who has circled the
globe in wooden shoes. arrived in At
lanta last night He resigned from the
story.
Starting from Amsterdam, he walked
through every country in Europe. then
Africa India and China. Two years ago
he landed at San Francisco. After Wis
itng Alaska. he walked across the United
States, passing through Butte. Mont. ::
Salt Lake City. Denver, Kansas City. St
Louis Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo,
Montreal. Boston, New York. Washing
ton, d. c.: Charlotte, n. c.; to Atlanta
He is now en- route to Florida, accom-
panied by his sister Wilhelmina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
WILSON Is COMMENDED.
Chamber Of Commerce Gratifed at
Prompt Action i'm Green Case.

Resolutions commencing the United
States district attorney, Clarence K VIII
son. for his prompt action in bringing to
trial Nathaniel Green. the negro who is
alleged to have attacked Mrs Adelaide
f. Grant Wednesday night. were adopted
by the executive committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce at meeting this after
noon.
The committee made arrangements for
holding the annual meeting Of the cham
Der at the New willard Hotel January
H. at 7:3O O'Clock m the evening. -
John Joy Edison appeared before the
committee and discussed the coming con-
vention of the Chamber of Commerce OF
the United States, which is to meet in
Washington January u to 23. At his
suggestion the committee adoped a res
olution approving national budget for
the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
JOHN G. McHENRY DEAD.
Pennsylvania, 81, Had Been in Ill
Health Six Months.

HARRISBURG, Pa, December 81
Representative John G. McHenry of the
sixteenth Pennsylvania district died at
his home in Benton. Pa, day. He had
been in falling health for six months, and
did not seek reelection last November
Mr. McHenry was tifty-four years Old. II
also was member of the SiNtieth and
Sixty-first Congresses.
Mr. McHenry was member of the
House committee on appropriations. He
had been making his home during his stay
in Washington at the Hotel Continental
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
BIG TINS HEALTH BETTER.
Representatives Elect Sullivan May
Attend Extra Session of Congress.

YONKERS, N. Y. December 27.-Rep-
resentative-elect Timothy d. Sullivan,
who has been seriously i'll in a SANTA
rum here for nearly two months. is
said to have so much recovered that he
may be able to appear in Washington for
the extra session of Congress which the
democratic administration has decided
upon soon after Inauguration.
big Tim who has long been a promi-
nent figure in the New York legislature
as we'll as in Congress, was greeted by
friends on the streets yesterday for the
first time He declined to discuss his
condition, but he appeared much i'm
proved in health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
CHILD DIES SUDDENLY.
George M. Rommell. Jr., Succumbs
to Indigestion.

George NJ. jr.. the two-year-old son of
George NJ. Rommell, chief of the bureau
of animal husbandry, Department Of Ag-
riculture, died suddenly at o'clock last
night presumably as the result of an at
tack of acute Indigestion.
a birthday dinner had been given for
the child the day before Christmas at
the Rommell home. 2G22 Garfield street
northwest. The dinner and the usual
Christmas feasting the following day, it
is thought, brought on the attack of
stomach trouble.
The baby was taken i'll yesterday morn
ing but the illness apparently yielded to
the treatment of a physician and SEEM
ingly passed away.
however, the child suddenly grew
worse, dying before a doctor reached the
house. Funeral services, which will be
private will be held tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
sIMPLIFIED SPELLING ADOPTED
Modern Language Association Takes
Action in Annual Session.

PHILADELPHIA, December 27.-Sim-
plified spelling is recognized and en-
bodied in the program of the thirtieth
annual meeting of the Modern Language
Association of America, which opened
yesterday at the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
Universities and colleges in all sec
tons of the country are represented.
Prof. Charles Hall Grandgent of Harvard,
president of the association presided
Among those who read papers were DR..
George G. Keidel of the Library of Con-
gress, Washington and Prof. William
sity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
TAFT SAILS FROM COLON.
Battleship Arkansas Starts for Key
West With Party.

COLON. December 27.-The United
States battleship Arkansas. with Presi-
dent Taft aboard. sailed from Colon al
O'Clock last evening for Key west.
The presidential party went ABOARD the
Arkansas about an hour prior. to ner.: &c ie-
parture Col. GOethais, the chiet ensi-
neer, boarded the battleship delaware
which accompanied the Arkansas.
The warships are expected to reach
Key West Sunday and the PRESIDENT is
due in Washington Tuesday.
President Taft expressed great pleas
ure over his visit to Panama, and SAID
he would appoint the civil governor and
subordinate officials on his return 10
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
HOPES FOR LOCAL TEAM.
Owner of Richmond Club Wants Ma.
tionals to Practice There.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, December 27.-Owner
w. B. Bradley of the Richmond club
said today that he is expecting to hear
from Manager Clark Griffith of the Wash
ingtOn team within the next day or two
relative to using the local grounds for
spring practice. Work is under way on
the new park.
Lovers of the game are hoping to see
Washington come here for practice work,
as the team is very popular in Richmond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
AERO DEATH CAUSES SUIT.
Widow of Passenger Sues London
Insurance Company for $4,000.

NEW YORK, December 27.-The first
suit ever brought here to recover dam
ages for the death of a passenger in an
airship was filed yesterday in the su-
preme court by the widow of Victor L.
Mason. who was KILLED in London, Eng
May b.
antee company of London for $4,000 on
a policy insuring her husband against
death by violent means. The policy was
issued by the defendants New York
agents in 1906
Mr. Mason. the complainant says, was
passenger in an aeroplane for pleas
ure'' when he fell out and was killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-27
Picked Up After Five DAYS.

MOBILE, Ala, December 27.-After a
search of five days the three missing
members of a Coden fishing party were
picked up early today near Dauphin Is
land. They were William Wheeler, John
Barnes and Elsie Barnes. They had en-
countered troubles with their motor and
had been tossed about in the gulf help
less, their food and water exhausted.