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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
CONGRESS NEW WAY
NEW SCHEME WHEREBY A ROLL
CALL OF MEMBERSHIP CAN
EASILY BE HAD.
Over As Minutes Time Now Required
to Take Roll CaIi-Proposed Scheme
to do Away With FiIibuster,
Causing the Delays.

Washington.-The slow process of
roll call in the house of representa-
tives may be done away with in the
near future in favor of an electrical
appliance for registering the votes of
the 435 members almost instantane-
ously. A subcommittee of the rules
committee is said to have outlined a
feasible plan which has the approval
Of Speaker Clark and Majority Leader
Underwood.
The proposal for voting machine
was made by Representative Allen B.
Walsh of New Jersey, an expert in
electrical appliances.
Roll call in the house now requires
10 minutes and is resorted to when 8
filibuster is declared by the minority
The new scheme would eliminate this
from legislative procedure.
The subcommittee plan would pro
vide locked device at each members
seat with buttons representing hi
vote, aye, nay or present. These woult
correspond with spaces beside thu
members name on the indicator
boards placed about the room, show
ing the detail of the vote in coloret
lights, and also at the clerks desk
where a card would be punched ant
tabulated, mechanically serving as {
file record of the vote in every case.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
SPORTING COLUMN

Battling Levinsky of New York out
pointed Tom Mcmahon of Pittsburg,
having the better of all of the 10
rounds.
George Carpenter, the French mid
dleweight and heavyweight champion,
declined an offer to meet McGoorty In
Australia on April 6.
Lars Haugen of Chicago was the
winner Sunday in the annual meet OF
the Norge Ski club of Chicago. making
a total of 292 1-3 points.
Eddie McGoorty the American mid
dleweight, boxed 20. rounds to victory
Saturday with Pat Brady Of San Fran
cisco, at Sydney, Australia.
The first annual tournament of the
Northwestern International Bowling
association will be held on the Ore
gon alleys in Portland April 6 to IL.
William Jackson, who played first
base for the Seattle team Of the North
western league, says he has signed
contract with the Chicago team OF
the Federal league.
A. E. Wood Of Toronto, holder Of
the 15-mile running record, won the
12-mile International professional in
door race at New York in one hour
four minutes rs Is seconds.
Alvin c. Kraenzlein, the former Uni
versity of Pennsylvania crack all-round
athlete, who has been engaged to put
the German athletic team into shape
for the Olympic games in 1916, a few
days ago delivered lecture by invi-
tation in Jana.
Rose Pitnof. the champion girl swim
mer Of the world, has received a re-
ply to her challenge to swim any man
or woman in the world. Henry Elton
sky, the 250-pound swimmer of New
London, Conn.,, who is only 10 years
old, has agreed to swimming contest
BY unanimous vote the California
Football association has decided to at
filiate with the United States Football
association of America. This decision
gives California players a chance to
be chosen for the all-American team
which will go to Berlin for the Olympic
games in 1916. The teams of the asso
citation play soccer ball.
Winning the Hunter mile race, the
event of the annual games of the Bos
ton Athletic association, Abel R. Kit
lat secured for his club Saturday thu
Irish-American Athletic association O
New York, permanent possession O
the trophy, which has been the objec
of competition for four years. Hi
time was minutes, % seconds.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
p. o. MONEY ORDERS
ARE GOOD ANYWHERE
Even Though They Are Drawn on 4
Specified Office.

Washington. President Wilson's
signature the bill to regulate the pay.
ment Of postal money orders became
law Of the land February Z. The new
statute will not become effective, how
ever, until rules and regulations for
it's operation are promulgated by the
postmaster general. This probably will
require several months.
The bill provides for the issuance
Of postal money orders payable at any
money order office. even though drawn
on specified office.
In the last fiscal year nearly $1,000
900 dometsic money orders were is
sued. amounting to almost $625.000 /.
900. The net income to the postoffice
department ON account of money or
ders issued was more than $5,000.000.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
TRANSPORTATION NOTES.

The supreme court has upheld the
lower court in the Tacoma distribu-
tive rate case, which give that city
the same rate to Spokane as Seattle,
80 cents.
President Wilson has nominated
Winthrop More Daniels Of Princeton.
N. j.. and Henry Clay Hall Of Colorado
Springs. Colo, to be members Of the
interstate commerce commission.
VIM. McMurray, general passenger
agent of the O.-W. r. & N. has an
nounced the placing OF an order for
cars by the Union Pacific and subsidi.
airy lines with an eastern factory,
which will total between 100000
and $6,OO0,000.
The Yakima Valley Transportation
Co., which operates 20 miles Of city
and suburban lines in the vicinity Of
North Yakima WASH, has completed
a survey for an extension of It's Wide
Hollow line nearly 10 miles into the
Tieton unit OF the Yakima reclama-
tion project, and by a circle will reach
the Cowiche valley.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
eREvlrIEs.

Joseph Lyle, millionaire lumberma1
Of HoQuiam, WASH, died Tuesday.
aged Sc. from IN illness induced from
q fall . week ago. He was the head
Of one Of the largest lumber companies
in Washington.
It 10 announced from WallA Walla
that the Kerr Clifford Grain co. 70 pro.
pairing to close it, agencies along tn
Northern Pacific railroad In the In,
land Empire, but will continue a. grain
exporters, with agencies and docks q
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle.
At the annual meeting Of the West
ern Pine Manufacturers association,
held at Spokane last week
was decided to place suitable OK.
hibit at the Forest Products exposi.
ton to be held in Chicago and New
York in April and May. The attend
ance was considerably in excess Of
that Of a year ago and the reports Of
the officers showed q very hopeful
tone. The officers elected were u
follows: President, George Stoddard
Baker, Ore; vice president, B. H
Hornby. Dover, Idaho; secretary, A.
w. Cooper, Spokane; treasurer, H. n
Strathern, Post Falls, Idaho; directors
R. M. Hart, Occur d'Alene, Idaho;
e. F.. c. Van Dissel, Spokane; Vincent
Palmer, LaGrande, Ore; G. H. Rich
ardson, Missoula, Mont.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
MINES AND MINERS

According to reports from Nelson,
B. c., Martin Woldson has bonded the
Jennie Bell group near Ymir, b. c.. for
$25, 900, but Mr.. Woldson has denied
the report.
The American Smelling & Refining
Co. has acquired control of the Stew
art Mining Co., operating the Stewart
mine near Kellogg, Idaho, by the pur-
chase of block Of All, 900 shares Of
the stock of that company.
According to M. D. Winder, there
has been an important strike made on
the Tuscumbia mine near Wallace
at a depth of 500 feet. The vein
shows about eight feet of good milling
ore with some high grade scattered
through the ledge.
At the annual meeting Of the Tam.
arack Consolidated Mining Company,
held at Wallace, Idaho, last week, 1t
was decided to build mill and con.
centrating plant at cost Of $500
The mine Lex controlled by the Day
brothers Of Wallace.
Consolidation Of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners and the United Mine
Workers of America, totaling more
than 100000 members, with yearly
revenue in excess Of 100000 is fore
Swallowed by the recent action of the
executive committee of the Western
Federation in semi-annual session al
Denver in agreeing to appoint sub
committee to confer upon the pro-
posed consolidation with subcommit
tee from the United Mine Workers.
New York Metal Market.
Lead-steady. $4.1O04.20. London
10 pounds So.
Spelter-steady. $5.40@5.s0. Lon
don, 81 pounds 70 Cd.
Copper-Firm. Standard spot and
February offered at STATS; electro
lytic, $14.S7h015; lake, SIS; nomi
nal; casting. $14.62h 014.7s.
Tin-Irregular. Spot, $40.65041;
February, $4O.70041.
Antimony-Dull. Cookson's, $7.2S.
Iron-Steady. unchanged.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
Admit. Killing Bank Teller

Pueblo, Collaborating to local pc
lice authorities Charles Bender, alias
Black Tony, held for minor offense
has confessed to the murder of Henry
Nickel, Omaha bank teller. The muir
der, according to the alleged comics
sion, occurred when Bender, with two
companions, held up low dance hall
in Omaha. Bender is said to have ad
mitted killing Nickel himself while
his two confederates made their es
cape with $4,000 worth Of 1ewelry and
5000 cash, of which he received moth
ing. as he had Lot seen them since.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
ON PACIFIC COAST

1t is said women grand jurors are
to become very much the rage through
out California.
DR.. Samuel Towers Linklater was
struck by an Oregon electric train
near Hillsboro, Ore, and killed.
Construction work on the $500, 900
Canadian pavilion at the Panama-Pa-
cific International exposition has been
begun.
Last Sunday James Stricklin shot
and instantly killed s. P. Hansen of
Tranquility, Cal, as the result Of a
quarrel.
The British steamer Pecton, which
went on the rocks of San Miguel island
in the Santa Barbara group recently,
was floated later
Chester H. Rowell, publisher of the
Fresno (Cal) Republican, announces
now his candidacy for the United
States senate under the progressive
banner
0ONSl AOA WCot VI OAC6OA O1OCACQ q
Dig bonfire at Baker Sunday to burn
the carload of gambling paraphernalia
which was seized in Copperfield and
Huntington.
The Associated Oil company's steam
er Frank H. Buck, the biggest oil tank
er to fly the American flag, was
launched at San Francisco Wednes
day. The steamers 18 tanks will have
capacity of $4,000 barrels of oil. Its
length is 40 feet and 1t cost approx
imately $1,O00,000.
One million dollars, officials Of the
Panama-Pacific exposition announce, 1!
now the prize proposed for the round
the-world flight in any form air craft
starting and finishing on the exposi
ton grounds in 1915. The project o
jumping the prize money from $500,
900 to more than three times that sun
came, it was announced, from the Aer'
Club of America and has string to /
the retention of the time limit, nov
set at 30 days.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FRESH FROM OUR DAILY
/ NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED FROM BOTH continents
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Herewith Selected for Our
Many Readers.

An extraordinary session of the Pc
fuvian congress meets on March /.
Lord and Lady Decies are at San
Francisco and will conclude their west
ern trip at Los Angeles.
President Wilson has signed the
Kenyon bill abolishing the national
capitals segregated district.
President Wilson has nominated
Medical Inspector William G.. BREASTED
to be surgeon general of the navy.
Off her course in a fog, the British
tramp steamer Queen Louise went
aground off the New Jersey coast Sat.
urday
General Joaquin Mas, Jr.. has been
appointed by Provisional President
Huerta as commander of the Mexican
army division Of the Bravo.
The January statement of the New
York board of trade shows q decrease
of $16.126.0O0 in imports and an in
crease of $11.800.000 in exports.
The latest German Zeppelin airship
attained an average speed Of IS miles
on hour on her eight hours trial trip
from Friederichshafen recently
At Newark, N. j.. Hazel Herdman, q
girl of 20, infatuated with Charles F
Manning. shot and killed his wife, Mrs
Harriet Manning. through jealousy.
Senator Norris resolution directing
the interstate commerce commission
to continue It's investigation of New
Haven railroad affairs passed In con
gress Saturday.
A proposal by Senator Jones o
Washington State to amend the agri
cultural extension bill to distribute !,
portion Of the proposed appropriation
for farm demonstration work to negr,
agricultural colleges in the south wa
defeated.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT.

G. A. Gibson. farmer of Valleyford,
Wash, has purchased the brick plant
at that place and plans to change 1t
into a cannery.
Pine City, wash, voted at an cleo
ton last Saturday to issue bonds to
the amount of $500 for the erection
of q new school house.
The bid of $17,255 for the bonds Of
subdivision No. 2 to Drainage District
No. 3, near Sunnyside, Wash, made
by Egman & Co., of Seattle, has been
accepted by the county commission.
ers.
AS a result of oil indications near
Chewelah, Wash, M. M. Platt and Gus
Fritchie have taken a lease on 1900
acres in the valley, which give them
the right to drill for oil. They must
begin operations within one year and
will then have Is years to work on
the land.
At the annual meeting of the Bitter
Root Creamery Co., held at Stevens
Vile, Mont, 1t was desided to insulate
another cold storage room for the
storage of eggs. The following ON.
GERS were elected: President, B. j.
Logan; vice president, ]. P. Haley;
treasurer, Ben Woods.
The state highway board has auth
orized the expenditure Of $150,000 on
the state highway between Spokane
and Rosalia, WASH, and under rul
ing of the attorney general there will
also be $31,799 additional available fol
this purpose, which 1t Is estimated
will make funds enough to complete
the road to the latter point.
Secretary Lane OF the interior de-
partment, has instructed the reclama
ton service to forward with all posi-
BILE dispatch the construction Of re
clamation projects now under way
The total expenditure for this purpose
during 1914 is estimated at $23, AGO,
555. OF this amount Washington geti
the following: Okanogan project
$4,000; projects In the Yakima val
ley, 81 ,3s0,739. In addition to these
$472,916 will be spent on q prelimi
nary investigation and the inaugura
ton of new project on the Columbis
river and on the Palouse project $40,
| OOO
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
READS LIKE A ROMANTIC NOVEL
Another Life Story Told In Chicago
Court Of Justice.

Court OF Justice.
Chicago.-Mrs Julia McKenna, age
"a, once the common law wife of Jas.
McKenna, a Chicago capitalist, has
petitioned the county court to compel
a girl years old, whom she has never
seen, to support her.
Until she lost her sight, the aged
woman supported herself by sewing.
The child who figures in this un-
usual case is Viola Hudson, who has
fallen heir to an estate valued at $780,
600, which McKenna left 10 years ago
to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Viola
Hudson, the girls mother.
Mrs. Hudson died a few weeks ago
in a gas-filled room in London and 1t
was feared at first she had been MUIR
dered. What was purported to be her
last will, written in a scrawling hand,
was found beside her. 1t gave prop
erty worth $4,000 to new acquaintances.
But the property which Mrs. Hudson
inherited from McKenna was entailed
under his will and is in turn inherited
by her daughter.
McKenna and the woman who
brought suit here lived together for
IS years. Then they quarreled and
separated. Mrs. McKenna brought
suit for nonsupport, and with the fill
ing of this suit the world learned for
the first time the union of the two
had not been sanctioned by a civil or
religious ceremony.
i The supreme court decided in this
case that a man could not be sued for
separate maintenance of a common
law wife, but Mrs. McKenna was
awarded $13,50O for breach of con-
tract, McKenna admitting he had
agreed to pay her $50 month and
medical bills.
For six years Mrs. McKenna has
had to earn her living. Investigators
Of the court have found she endured
almost incredible privations, and that
now she is blind and destitute.
The late Mrs. Viola Hudson, adopt.
ed by the McKennas as their daugh.
ter, obtained a divorce three years
after the birth of her daughter, who ia
now living in Chicago with her father
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
WILL BE AID TO CENTRAL
WASHINGTON FARMERS
More and Better Results
From the Soil.

The conference between the board
of regents of Washington State Col
lege, President E. A. Bryan and COM
mittee Of business men and farmers,
the purpose of which was to arrive at
a definite conclusion as to ways and
means of assisting the present and
future wheat-growers Of the Big Bend
country in the central part of the state
of Washington, resulted in a plan of
conducting experimental and demon
strational work for the benefit Of the
farmers of that section.
The Plans Announced.
The regents propose:
To extend to the committees in
charge of the Adams county demon
stration farm such assistance as may
be rendered by the state college ex-
pertinent farm, the bureau of farm
development, extension department,
and department of agriculture; all
these departments to promote better
agriculture in the dry belt.
To employ at once special farm
agent for the dry district. This agent
will be under the direction of the head
Of the experiment station, and will
work in harmony with the bureau of
farm development. He is to devote his
entire time to the problems of dry
farming in the arid regions and will
visit all parts of said territory.
To continue investigation of the
basic problems Of dry farming.
To conduct, under the auspices of
the agricultural department, such CO.
operative experiments with farmers of
the region as may seem wise.
The board proposes to use the blu.
erau of farm development as far as
possible in the solution of these prob.
lens. This cost will fall largely upon
the counties.
To institute cooperative experiments
In the propagation and adaptation OF
shrubs for windbreaks, with view to
making the dry belt a region Of per
manent homes.
To publish additional popular bull
letins for the special use of the farm
ers Of the dry section, setting forth
the most approved method of tillage
conservation and cropping.
To use the extension department fol
the betterment of the social and eco
nomic conditions and more particular
" for farming and live stock.
The regents will ask the next legis-
lature for a special appropriation fol
experimental and demonstration work
In the volcanic ash soils.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
KILL 10 AMERICANS
SUFFOCATED IN TUNNEL ON
RAILROAD IN MEXICO
LAST WEEK.
HELD FOR RANSOM FIRST REPORTED
This Tragedy Is Laid to Maxine Gas
tiIIo, the Bandit Leader-Over 40
Mexican3 Also Among the Dead
Search Reveals Bodies.

Juarez, Mexico.-The nine Ameri.
cans and 40 Mexicans, whose fate has
been a mystery since the destruction
Of the Cumbre tunnel last Wednesday.
February 5, were suffocated.
This tragedy is laid at the doors OF
Maxine Castillo, the bandit leader.
A special train carrying 20 Ameri-
cans, led by w. J. Farragut of the
Mexico Northwestern railroad, rs COT
fins and rescue outfit left here Sun.
day for the scene.
The exact number of persons aboard
the passenger train, which consisted of
one first-class, two second-class, a bag
gage and express car and freight car,
is not known. First reports put the
number at IS, but the request for cot.
fins was for Is.
The searching party, led by DR.. T.
c. Herr Of MADEIRA, was unable to pen
citrate far enough into the tunnel to
count the dead. These it is expected
will be found strewn along the poison
GUS reaches of the tunnel, where they
fell in attempting to escape.
The missing Americans are: M. ]
Gilmartin, superintendent of the Chi
huahua division; H. Schofield, super
intendent of terminals at Juarez; Lee
Williams, assistant manager of com
missary; H. Marders, express agent;
E. ]. McCutcheon, engineer, and ]. E
Webster, conductor; Edward Morris
roadmaster, Thomas Kelly and James
Burgess.
Two Mexican cowboys were respon
sible for report that all had escaped
and that the Americans were being
held for ransom. There was rejoicing
at this, but the jubilation was short
lived, for soon after the bulletins from
DR.. Herr began to arrive.
Later Report.
Cumbre, Chihuahua-Nothing blu
charred bones and buttons were foun'
by the rescuing party which, with tn
aid of oxygen helmets and pulmotors
succeeded in penetrating the Cumbr
tunnel February from the south pol
tai as far as the locomotive and frs
two cars of the passenger train.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
FARM EXTENSION is A SURE &C
Lever Bill Passes Senate and viii
Soon Be Sent to Confer
ence COMMITTEES.

Washington.-The house agricultur.
al extension bill has passed the senate
with amendments, without dissent
ing vote.
The bill provides for demonstrations
on the farm of approved methods and
scientific discoveries as to farming and
home economies made In the agritul
tural colleges, experiment stations and
in the federal department of agricul
ture. The secretary Of agriculture and
the land grant agricultural colleges are
to outline plans for carrying out the
demonstrations.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13

Senator Owen, chairman of the
banking committee of the United
States senate. has introduced bill
which II 1t becomes law would pro.
hibit matched orders and wash sales
and the use of the mails, telephone OF
telegraph lines would be barred to
fraudulent or harmful" stock OK.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
oomper.' Daughter JiIts Fianee.

ashington.-Mystery surrounds the
broken engagement of George B. Je-
raw, a Brooklyn IN. W lawyer, and
Miss Sadie Julia Gompers, daughter OF
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
Good Roads Bill.

Washington.-The house has con
cluded the general debate on the good
roads hill, which would appropriate
$25, 900, 900 for federal aid to the states
in road construction. Its passage this
week Is believed to be virtually GER
tain.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
BrickIayer Shoots Wife.

Kansas City.-John F. French,
bricklayer, shot and killed his wife
and committed suicide here Saturday
night. The pair had been separated
French was % years old and his wife
was %.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
Or. Wiley Wins Out.

Washington.-The board Of food and
drug inspection in the department of
agriculture, which often was the CEN
ter of attack by DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
former chief chemist. has been abol-
ished by Secretary Houston.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
NORWAY Plans Centenary.

Christiania.-Norway will celebrate
the centenary of her liberation by an
exhibition here this year, which will
illustrate the principal results Of a
century's work.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
Zero Weather In Chicago.

Chicago.-Zero weather-the first Of
the year here-brought one death
and suffering to thousands Of poor
Sunday.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13
Third Class Popular.

Travelling third class In England Is
increasing In popularity.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13

change transactions, and no stock
transaction would be considered prop
er unless the exchange were incorpor-
ated under and governed by the direc-
ton Of the postmaster general.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-02-13

Egypt In 1912 exported onions to the
value of $1,920,257.