Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-10-31
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Events Of Noted People, Government
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Things Worth Knowing.

ment was made at Toxic Monday
night.
Governor G eneral Francis Burton
Harrison at Manila proclaimed Octo-
Der 80 as a holiday. Filipinos will
celebrate the hosting of the old in
surrecto flag.
While employees of the Page Lumber
company at Eagle Gorge, Wash, were
preparing to retire late Saturday night
two masked men entered the bunk
house, robbed them of $500 and es-
capped.
looped the loop 624 times in single
flight in military airplane at Madrid
Monday. The previous record was a
little over 300. Flamval was in the
air two hours.
The acting speaker of the house in
troduced a bill Monday excluding all
except Americans and Filipinos from
engaging in the rice traffic in the
Philippines. Foreign interests planned
a protest to Washington.
William o. Jenkins, American con-
sular agent at Puebla, Mexico, who
was kidnapped by Mexicans last Sun
day and held for $4,000 ransom, was
released by the bandits Monday, &C.
cording to information received by
relatives at Hanford, Cal.
Operation of the railroads under the
board is recommended to congress in
a plan which has been submitted to
business organizations throughout the
country by national committee of
leading commercial men.
Striking testimony to the value of
land in New York's financial district
was offered Monday in the sale of
plot As by AZ feet for $450,OO0. The
land which was thus sold for $3.50
square foot, is situated in the imme-
diate vicinity of Wall street and will
be occupied by a bank building
The first aerial derby around the
world, for prizes totaling $1,000,000,
is scheduled to start July 4, 1920, and
end on or before January 3, 1921, ac-
cording to announcement made in Los
Angeles Monday night by Allan R.
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America, and a member of the COM
mission which is making tour of
the world to locate control stations.
The singing of German opera in the
German language is banned in New
York until after the peace treaty is
signed. Supreme Court Justice Gle
gerich vacated the temporary injunc-
ton obtained by the Star Opera COM
pany restraining the municipal au-
thorities from preventing presentation
of opera in German at the Lexington
theater
Denial of a seat in the house of rep
resentatives to Victor Berger, Milwau-
kee socialist, who is under conviction
for violating the espionage law, was
recommended Saturday by a special
house committee. Representative Ro-
denberg, republican, Illinois, filed a
minority report recommending delay.
After a battle in which r. A. Pratt,
patrolman in the Portland police bu-
reau, was wounded, three armed high
waymen made good their escape in
an automobile after holding up the
Piedmont car barns and obtaining be-
tween 5000 and $500 of the Portland
Railway, Light & Power company's
money.
The service rendered to the "big
five" packers by the railroads, accord
ing to J. P. Haynes, commissioner of
the traffic bureau of the Sioux City
association of commerce, enables the
consignments of the packers to reach
their destinations from one to three
days ahead of similar products ship
ped by the wholesale grocers.
Five tons of brass, worth $4,000 at
the rate of 40 cents pound, has been
removed from the wreck of the cruiser
Milwaukee by Eureka, Cal, firm
which purchased the hulk for $1,000.
Six persons were killed by Union
Pacific train near Kearney, Neb.,
when an inclosed automobile dashed
upon the tracks at crossing From
letters on the man it is believed the
persons were Charles Kimmerly, his
wife, three daughters and young
son, Of Spurgeon, Colo.