Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-01-02
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u
Der of deputies intend shortly to en-
deavor to induce Premier Clemenceau
to become a candidate for the presi-
dency of France.
Another American oil well, one of
the largest in the Tampico region, has
been closed by order of the Mexican
government, the state department was
advised recently.
Premier Nitti expressed the opinion
Saturday that from 12,00O,000,G00 to
Is, 0O0, 100000 lire were to be sub
scribed to the Italian victory loan, the
sale of which begins January S.
Constitutionality of state law de-
signed to curtail use of the foreign
languages in Nebraska schools as an
Americanization measure was upheld
by the state circuit court Friday.
William Fogel an American farmer
living south of Juarez, Mexico, has
been missing for some time. These
advices were received by Edward A.
Dow, American consul at Juarez.
William Peyton, a negro, died Fri
day at Little Hooking, Ohio, at the
age of 1913 years. AS slave and a
freed man he served one family
through six generations, it was said
Los Angeles formerly had group
of dozen or more institutes for the
cure of the liquor habit; now it has
one and that one is running at a loss,
according to w. M. Brown, the man.
ager.
A Reval dispatch says an agreement
has been reached at the DOrpat con-
ference under which Esthonia will OBJ
tain 100000 rubles. This is one
hundredth part of the Russian gold
reserve.
A boy believed by Chief of Police
Robert Anton of Collinsville, Okla, to
be the missing BILLY" Dansey of Ham
monitor, N. j., is not the Dansey boy,
according to statements by Chief Au-
ton and Chief of Police Allen of Tulsa.
Major A. E. McKeever, M. c. d. S.
O., one of the best known Canadian
aces in the great war and credited
. with the destruction of As German
. machines, died in the general hospital
: at Toronto, Can, following an opera
ton.
Uruguay was linked to the United
, States Friday through the all-Ameri
can cable by the opening of new
line from Buenos Aires to Montevideo
putting New York and Montevideo in
, direct telegraphic communication with
each other for the first time.
Half the Imperial hotel in Toxic
housing 40 American tourists, burned
, late Sunday night. There were nc
, casualties among the Americans, many
of whom were prominent and severa
, of whom were women or children.
t considerable quantity of their baggage
/. was lost.
Frank Kelley, a negro, arrested a.
Newark, N. j., Saturday on suspicion
of having been implicated in the muir
: der last week of Catherine Dunn, {
, maid employed in the home of Clar
}. ence S. Clark of Brooklyn, has con
+ fessed the crime, according to an an
t nouncement by District Attorne.
S Lewis.
a The Turkish grand vizier has re
q quested Tewfik Pasha, head of tn
!. commission appointed to prepare dc
+ Tense of Turkeys interests before tn
4 peace conference, to hasten the worl
Q of the commission because the TURK
q ish delegates may be summoned t
? Paris next week, according to advice
> from Constantinople.
> Four robbers entered New Yor
8 grocery store late Saturday, bound tn
u proprietor hand and foot, and hange
him by the neck from a wall bracke
while they looted his safe and cas-
:, register of s41S. A little girl sent
5 the store on an errand saw the bod
n suspended and notified the police. TIL
Is man was alive when cut down.
~ An increase of 1922 per cent in tn
- cost of living for American wag
10 earners between July. 1914, and N
n. vember, 1919, was shown in stat
h. ment issued by the national industr.
as conference board Sunday. This re
re resented an advance of 10.4 per Gel
er since November. 1918, 1875 per Gel
50 since March, 1919, when prices dro
~ ped temporarily, anu 5.S per cent stint
last July.