Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-01-16
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

ing his data for the opening of his
trial
Miss Dorothy Bevis, IS years of age,
and her father of Lewiston, Idaho, pro-
pose to walk to San Francisco during
the fair.
All records for twins have been
broken in Portland. Five sets We're re-
ported during October, 8 in November
and in December.
Chief PEG of the Umatilla tribe of
Indians died January IL in his tepee
on the Umatilla reservation, three
miles east Of Pendleton.
M. Hand, a Baptist preacher, married,
with two children, was found guilty of
contributing to the delinquency of Ha-
eel Benedict.
AS the result of dispute over a
typewriter ribbon Professors E. b.
Moore and c. B. Dobell OF the Oregon
Agricultural college, came to blows and
gave each other black eyes.
Senator Hedrick has introduced a de-
positors' guaranty law modelled after
the Kansas Bank Guaranty system in
the Idaho state legislature. The ex-
pected anti-racetrack gambling bill was
also introduced.
]. E. Prince, a well-known and old
time resident of Browning, Mont, and
for the last two years employed by
the government as park ranger in Gla-
cier National park, was found frozen to
death Thursday.
| At an approximate expenditure of
$50,000,0OO much new equipment will
be added to the northwest transporta-
ton service during this year, accord
ing to estimates of orders placed with
the various car building companies.
Miss Jeanette Rankin of Missoula,
who has charge of the woman suffrage
campaign in Montana during the ses-
sion Of the legislature, announces her
acceptance of the invitation to be the
official speaker of the suffragette army
which will march from New York to
Washington, preceding the Inaugural
ton of President Wilson.
At the annual meeting of the Port
land chamber of commerce a resolution
was adopted commencing the bravery
of the Point Adams and Fort Candy
life-saving crews, in their heroic eff
forts to rescue the people aboard the
steamer Rosecrans, which foundered
recently, in which 81 lives were lost.
The chamber also voted a medal for
each member of both life-saving crews
and appropriated money to equip each
station with library.
When the second edition of the con-
gressional directory for the third ses-
sion of the siXty-second congress ap-
pears in a few days, Senator Miles
Poindexter of Washington and Senator
Joseph M. Dixon of Montana will be
designated in their biographies as pro
gressives." After March 4, when Dixon
retires, Poindexter will be the lone
party progressive in the senate and
according to the rules of the senate
will be his party's floor leader in the
senate, will vote for himself for presi-
dent pro tenn of the senate and will
hold party caucuses by himself.
The Spokane International Railroad,
from July 1 to October 81, 1912, shows
a total net increase over the same
months last year of 1T per cent. The
increase in freight earnings is 70 per
cent. The total net increase Of the
Idaho & Washington Northern is 1873
per cent; the increase in freight rev.
enues, 40 per cent. The spokane,
Portland & Seattle showed a total net
increase of 6.5 per cent and an In
crease in freight earnings Of 1875 per
cent. The gain in freight earnings is
attributed to the heavy crops and to
the prosperity in general of the north
west territory, calling for heavier
shipments of merchandise.
The president of the Idaho senate an.
nounces the appointment of the follow
ing standing committees: Judiciary
Hanson, Edgington, Hedrick, Fairchild,
Hunt; finance-Lee Haight, Goodnight,
Robinson, Davis; rules-Hanson, Hart,
Macbeth; state affairs-Hart, Hunt,
Barton, Baldridge. Macbeth; banks and
banking-Haight, Davis, Robinson, Def
enbach, Dunning; privileges and cleo
tion-Barton, Lee, A. G. Johnson, He'd
rick, Hanson; Observation-Disclosures
Shepard, Goodnight, Fields, Dunning;
irrigation and water rights-Hunt,
Haight, p. w. Johnson, Luck, Reed;
agriculture-A. G. Johnson, Sweet,
Dunning; live stock-Davis, Lee, Hart.
According to plats now on record at
the United States land office at Lewis
ton, Idaho, there will be opened to