Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-11-21
ON PACIFIC COAST

Contests have been filed in the
courts against the results Of local op-
tion elections in six out of IL Oregon
towns which voted dry" on November
last.
The jury at Los Angeles, CAL, found
Burr Harris, negro slayer of Mrs. Re-
becca p. Gay. Christian Science prac-
titioner, guilty Of murder in the first
degree.
The existing freight rates on cham
payne of $2.25 hundred pounds from
New York to California terminals are
held by the interstate commerce COM
mission to be reasonable.
Mrs. Cornelia Noble. a former Nome
court stenographer, who killed her.
self in Seattle recently, was driven to
suicide because she was out of funds.
She was born in Portland.
Major General Arthur Murray is
sued orders recently withdrawing
Troop l, First cavalry. now at Calex-
leo, CAL, guarding the dam and other
property of the Imperial irrigation
project.
A lone highwayman held up South
ern Pacific train No near Richmond,
across the bay from San Francisco,
recently AMI relieved men and women
in the Pullman Of their jewelry and
about $1,000.
James A. Johnston was appointed
warden of San Quenti npenitentiary
at meeting of the state board of
prison directors held at the peniten-
tiary Immediately following his resig-
nation as chief Of the Folsom prison.
Citizens and business men of Flor
ence, 40 miles north of Marshfield,
Ore, suspended business Friday and
united in deporting nine l. w. w. lead
ers, who went there to organize a
railroad construction crew, mill hands
and loggers.
Having spent more than 40 years Of
81 years Of life in San Quentin and
Folsom prisons, Uncle Six" who says
he was born a burglar. walked out Of
the penitentiary today a free man,
having been paroled by the state
board Of prison directors.
The office Of Clerk j. o. Wilson Of
Multnomah camp No. n, NVoodmen of
the World, in the East Side Wood
mems temple, Portland, was burglar
izen recently, after meeting at which
many paid dues. The safe was
blown open. the entire front being
shattered by the dyn. mite, and 500
in cash and $500 in Endorsed checks
were taken. The robes of the degree
team and the uniforms of the military
branch Of the order, taken from the
lockers, were soaked in water and
placed over the safe to deaden the
sound of the explosion. and all are
ruined.
Four masked men entered cabin
occupied by seven Chinese gardeners.
six miles east of Portland and at the
point of revolvers forced the celes-
tails to lie face down on the floor
while they were bound with clothes
lines and gagged by the robbers They
then made off with $500. found in a
secret hiding place.
Burying the Canadian Pacific rail
road tracks 60 feet deep for 400 feet
the most dangerous landslide and
rockslide of the year, roared down of
Seabird bluffs, near North Bend, B
c., Sunday, ripping a clean swatt
down the mountainside, carrying away
the railroad bed and tearing out al
telegraph poles.
The officials of Mare Island navy
yard have been asked to submit tx
the government estimates Of the cost
of constructing a building slip suffi
GENTLY large to permit of the con
struction of dreadnaughts. In the
event of four battleships being au
thorizes by the next congress, officials