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

| NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES
The police force of Lethbridge, AL
berta, resigned on the eve of the dry
farming congress week.
Mrs. Retta Holman of Moscow, Ida
no, was elected president of the Re-
bekah assembly by Idaho members of
this order.
The next quarterly meeting of the
Western Pine Manufacturers associa-
ton will be held November IL at Hot
Lake, Ore.
A fatality occurred recently at the
Queen mine, 10 miles from Saline, B.
c., resulting in the instant death of one
man, and the serious injury of two
others.
Drummond, Bearmouth, Bonner, Riv-
erside, Mont, and other Montana
points experienced an earthquake
Sunday afternoon at about 2:3O
o'clock.
Twelve bishops of the Episcopal
church and four times as many rectors
of Episcopal churches in the west, adj
journed their eighth annual missionary
council at Los Angeles Saturday.
Governor Hawley issued a procla-
nation calling upon all Idahoans to
observe Sunday October 20, as day
of sorrow in honor of the states dis
tinguished statesman, Senator Hey
burn.
AS result of a bad freight wreck
on the O.-W. r. & NJ, two miles west
of Plummer, Idaho, Saturday, in which
the brakeman was slightly injured and
10 cars were derailed, traffic was tied
up for some time.
Formal welcoming of delegates by
the clergy of Portland brought to a
close Saturday night the first days
session of the thirty-ninth annual con-
vention of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union at Port
land, Ore.
The Butte miners union voted ia
vorably Tuesday to an assessment of
one days pay of each member for the
benefit of the striking miners at Bling
ham, Utah. The assessment means
that the Butte miners will send $24.-
800 to the strikers.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
at Wardner, Idaho, has received 10
tanks filled with oxygen to be used
with the Draeger oxygen helmets. The
oxygen will be used for both practice
work, and also to be kept in reserve
for emergency. A new supply of he'll
NETS has already been received.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Oster-
miller, year and a half old, living
about eight miles southwest of Billings,
Mont, was drowned Saturday in a
small creek which flows through the
farm. The little one had been playing
about the house and was not missed
until the dinner hour The body was
discovered lodged against barb wire
fence.
AS result of a fight at Moore,
Mont, between three Americans and
foreign section crew Nels Burke was
shot and instantly killed and Walter
Busse was seriously wounded. The
third American, Walter Hoover, es-
capped unhurt and none Of the section
crew received worse than a few blows.
Eleven of the foreigners are in jail
The fight took place in the restricted
district and it is understood that all
those concerned had been drinking.
Bob Morgan. who disappeared from
Condor, Ore, after the killing of Miss
Virgie Hart October II, was captured
Sunday, two miles away. Miss Hart,
who recently came from Kentucky,
was fonowed to Condor by Morgan,
who was an unfayored sutton. The
young woman was passing along the
street early in the evening, when she
was shot and instantly killed and u.
B. Crane was injured by bullet when
from him.
President Taft has issued a procla-
nation changing the boundaries of the
Missoula and Madison national forests,
Montana. From the former 1860 acres
are eliminated and from the latter
6S,140 acres. These eliminations are
the result of field examinations which
the department of agriculture has
been making in pursuance of the gen
eral plan to correct the national for
est boundary lines. The acres elimin-
ated from the Missoula national forest
are along the borders of the Flint and
Rock creek exclusive of the southern
division.
Montana coal fields, known as the
Milk river, Livingston and Electric
areas, have been made the subject of
a special bulletin just issued by the
geological survey, which Is officially
designated as Bulletin 471-E. The re-
port contains detailed description of
these coal measures by section, town.
ship and range, showing the thickness