Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1912-11-14
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES


by hanging himself with bailing wire
in a deserted barn on Lake creek
about six miles from Troy, Mont
Kellogg, Idaho.-The hope of Ike Pc
terson, who killed Constable NJ. A
Cayanagh. recovering from the bullet
wound through his breast is slight.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rosecrans, aged So
years, grandmother of Harry Burke, a
newspaper man of Moscow, Idaho, cast
her first vote at the recent election.
Myrtle Clark of Standpoint, Idaho
narrowly escaped serious injury when
kerosene thrown into the furnace ex
ploded, burning her face and hands
severely.
McFarling has closed a contract to
cut and place on right of way 100000
feet of timber for the Potlatch Lum.
Der company, near Deary, Idaho, and
will begin work at once.
A branch nine miles long of the
Portland, Eugene & Eastern railway
of which Robert e. Strahorn of Spo.
kane is president, was purchased re.
Gently by him for 100000.
The CRANKY Smelling company
earned $145,000 net during October &C
cording to preliminary figures recently
sent out from the offices of the smelt-
ing department at Grand Forks, b. C.
A strange woman registering at a
hotel in Moscow, Idaho, recently, who
was accompanied by two children, left
one of the children at the hotel when
she left. The child is only months
old.
A project to build History hotel in
Portland is being considered by the
Day Bros of Wallace, Idaho, and Ed
ward Boyce OF Portland The Port
land hotel will be RACED and the new
structure built on the same site.
Robert Hopkins, 81 years old, and
Lawrence Culp, alias Fred l.. White,
were indicted and pleaded guilty in fed
eral court at Moscow, Idaho, to having
burglarized the postoffice at The
Dalles, Ore, and the boy confessed at
that time.
At Portland, Ore, Circuit Judge Nc
CHM sentenced William Wilson, a
young man, to spend the rest of his
days in the penitentiary for holding up
and robbing grocer of $27 Wilson
was an escaped honor man" from the
Kansas state reformatory.
| Governor West says that when the
time comes to issue the proclamation
declaring woman's suffrage in effect
in Oregon he will go to Portland to the
home of Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway,
aged Is years, requesting her to write
out the proclamation in her own hand
writing and he will sign it.
Something more than oyerheating,
lack of water or the turning of cold
water into it, caused the boiler in the
basement of the Salem (Ore) Bank
and Trust company building to explode
and kill three men October 20, accord.
ing to testimony of three experts on
boilers before the coroner's jury.
The property of G. Scott Anderson,
including the business of the Anderson
Lumber and Hardware company and
numerous Wallace lots, recently placed
in the hands of trustee pending the
settlement of an account of near $780,
600, due to the defunct State Bank of
Commerce, was returned to Mr.. An.
derson.
Ben James, a butcher at Butte,
Mont, who owns shop at the corner
of South Main and Platinum streets,
was robbed of $1,000 Saturday night
and locked in his own refrigerator for
over four hours. When he finally
oner the man was badly frozen about
the feet and hands.
The trial of the first count, the max.
ing of false reports, against Bernard F.
O'Neil, formerly president of the State
Bank of Commerce of Wallace, for al
legged unlawful acts in relation to the
management of the banks affairs, be.
gan Monday in the district court at
Occur d'Alene city before Judge Flynn
on Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Eldon Goodman, who had leased the
historic Goodman ranch, once the head
YudA lSio VI lnc IluuSOu Day COLlpduy
in the Walla Walla valley, committed
suicide recently on the porch of the
house by shooting himself in the head
with revolver. He died about an
hour afterward without regaining con-
seriousness No reason Is given for
the tragedy.
Roscoe Haines, supervisor Of the
Occur d'Alene national forest, states
that the work of planting 1928 acres
Of forest land in the Lost Creek dis
trict to white pine seed has just been
completed. In addition to the seed,
the government set out 10000 2-year-
old seedlings. Five thousand acres
near Cabinet has also been planted to
white pine seed.
An inquest on the remains of Lewis
Easlake, who was mistaken for deer
and shot through the heart by S. A..
Whiting while hunting in the woods
near Eureka, November 3, was held at
Libby, Saturday. The verdict of the
| coroner's Jury was that Lewis Easlake