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

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Jonathan Bourne is a candidate to
succeed himself in the United States
senate from Oregon.
The new high school building at
Plummer, Idaho, costing $4,000, will
be completed within a week.
Tom Gaffney, pugilist, wanted at
Boise, Idaho, on the charge of passing
forced check for $500, was captured
in Olympia and taken back to Boise.
Nelson, B. c.. put on gala attire in
honor Of the duke and duchess of Con-
naught, who, with Princess Patricia,
spent the fore part of the week there.
While endeavoring to enter harbor
at Newport, Ore, the fishing sloop Pill
grim was capsized in a rough sea and
her captain and crew of four men were
drowned.
Mckinley Mitchell of Portland has
complained to the Oregon railroad
commission that he was unable to Sc
cure cars to ship potatoes to Arizona
and Texas points.
Bears are reported so plentiful on
Moscow mountain, eight miles east Of
Moscow, Idaho, that they are doing
much damage to the apple orchards by
climbing the trees and breaking them
down.
Development work on the mines in
the vicinity of Tulameen City, in the
Similkameen district of British Column
bia since the Vancouver, Victoria &
Eastern railway has penetrated the re-
gion is progressing rapidly.
The Juliaetta Qdaho) cannery pur-
chased 222,672 pounds of tomatoes
during September, besides several tons
of pears, plums and other fruit and
vegetables. The growers report salts
factory profits from tomatoes.
A taxicab, mysterious woman and
revolver shots at midnight figured in
the murder of Thomas e. White, a
public chauffeur, whose body was
found in his car Saturday at Salt Lake
City, Two arrests have been made
Between 10 and 1S per cent of the
children in the schools of Wardner
and Kellogg, Idaho, are defective, &C.
cording to the report made by Miss
Helen Mccarthy to the school board,
following an examination last week.
Announcement is made by the Port
land Gas and Coke company that it
has adopted the minimum monthly rate
of so cents. Also that it is returning
thousands Of dollars of deposits made
by consumers during the last few
years.
After being out all night the jury in
the Frank McDaniels murder trial
at Chinook, Mont. brought in a verdict
of manslaughter. McDaniels and his
neighbor, Harry Tubbs, had a quarrel
over tract of land north of Harlem
last spring.
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining and
Concentrating company at Wardner,
Idaho, Friday, October 4, declared a
regular monthly dividend of $65,4OO.
The disbursements for the current year
have been 900, and the total to
date is $13.7SO,s5O.
The Eastern Oregon Light and Pow
er company has started stringing wires
between Elgin and La Grande, Oregon,
and it is expected power lines will be
in operation by the latter part of this
month and Elgin will have a day and
night service of electric lights.
In fire Saturday which destroyed
his two-room home in Great Falls,
Mont, where he lived alone, Fred
Schweigel, an aged man, lost his life.
Death was probably due to suffocation.
The house was practically all burned
when the firemen reached the scene.
| Complete returns from the referen-
dunn vote Of the various miners unions
of Carbon county, Mont, show that the
proposition submitted for ratification
OF the agreement reached at the Great
Falls conference of operators and min
ers has been carried by a majority of
63, the total vote being VIZ for ratifica-
ton and $40 for rejection. Nearly 300
men on the payroll of the Northwest
ern Improvement company at Red
Lodge failed to vote. Only one camp,
Bear Creek, gave a majority against.
A permanent organization which in
sures that the Columbia-Snake River
Waterways association will be a per-
manent working institution in the In
land Empire, based largely upon the
organization of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress, which solicits CO.
operation of all the commercial clubs
in its embrace as we'll as individuals,
was effected in the session of the asso-
citation which closed Saturday with the
unanimous opinion that the meeting at
Lewiston, Idaho, will be the most far
reaching effort ever extended to insure
attention of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress and United States
congress.
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