Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-09-24
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

Robbers held up a money changer
at the Panama-Pacific exposition Sat
urday night, got $500 and escaped.
Half million dollars in gold bull
lion was received at Seattle from
Nome Sept. IS on the steamship Vic
toria.
Herman Shainwald, a real estate
man, shot and killed himself in his
office in the First National bank build
ing, at San Francisco, recently.
The attendance at the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition reached the 100000
mark Sunday. The average daily at
tendance since the exposition opened
has been 61,311.
Wage differences between wireless
operators on ships plying out of San
Francisco and their employers, smoul-
dering for months, threatens now to
terminate in a strike.
Four confessions have been made
by members of an arson gang of six
which was broken up with the arrest
of Monte Keeney, former lieutenant
in the Portland fire department.
Patrick McHungan and Mcgeorge
Mcfaun, axmen in a railroad survey
party of the Alaska engineering corps,
were drowned recently in the Nenana
river while attempting to cross in
polling boat.
While attempting to escape Seattle
police, who pursued him in the be-
lief that he had been involved in a
street fight, Carl Frisell, 20, was shot
and instantly killed by Alexander Gou-
ley, a private Waterman.
Fresno, Cal-Mrs. Maggie Klein,
aged IA, and Annie Klein, her Swear
old granddaughter, were killed and all
the other five members of a family
seriously hurt when their automobile
stalled in front of a Santa Fe train
near this city Sunday.
Nagging, fault-finding ministers
were held up as undesirables in Meth
odist Episcopal pulpits by Bishop Ed.
win Holt Hughes in an address to a
class about to enter the ministry at
Saturdays session of the Methodist
Episcopal conference of California.
The California Retail Grocers' and
Merchants association will hold its
annual state convention at Oakland
October 6, 7 and 8, 1915. From every
indication, it will be the most largely
attended and most successful conven
tion that has been held in the state
The program has not yet been made
public, but it is said that it will be
an elaborate one.
Consul General Mansfield reports
from Vancouver that there is little
prospect of any big fur sales in Van
couver this season, and the usual an
nual influx of fur buyers is notice
ably absent. With an almost com
plete absence of demand from Eu
rope, which is the chief market fol
furs, from the costly black fox an(
glossy beaver to the humble skunl
and muskrat, combined with mate
rial decline in the values of the high
priced pelts, the lot of fur dealer o.
trapper in the Canadian Northwest il
not a highly remunerative one a
present. The supply is very good
according to reports from the north
which fact may tend to force prices
still lower. 1t is anticipated, how
ever, that there will be demand TO
moderate-priced furs in the near flu
ture. A prominent dealer in Vancou
yer has pointed out that when time
were good people were willing to pa.
high prices for the best furs, and tina
they now require furs having tn
same artistic effect, but at yer,
moderate price. Black furs will b.
much in demand in Europe and else
where because of the almost univel
sal mourning. Other furs, like tn
white fox, musquash and lynx, vii
be dyed black to meet the demand.