Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-01-30
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

WneLner TO lnSLal sewers OF not.
| Arrangements are being completed
for Chautauqua to be held in Mos
COW the coming summer for one week.
Four thousand head of sheep on the
upper Snake river are starving, &C.
cording to William Jones, well-known
stockman.
T. F. Lowry, travelling trainmaster of
the Idaho division of the Northern Pa
cific, has been promoted to superin-
tendent of the Fargo division.
An action to recover $4,000 attorneys
fees has been filed, entitled Daniel
Needham VS.. M. Alberta Bell This
suit is an outgrowth of the famous Bell
cases, which occupied attention in Nez
Perez county about six years ago.
The armory building at Occur
d'Alene was completely wrecked Fri
day afternoon, when the roof collapsed
under the weight of the heavy snow.
No one was in the building at the time.
Several smaller structures gave way.
B. F. ONeil, president of the defunct
State Bank of Commerce of Wallace,
went to trial for second time
Wednesday at Occur d'Alene on a
charge of making false statements on
the condition of the bank. The jury
disagreed at the first trial.
So effectively were the 431, 700 acres
of timber land owned by the members
of the Clearwater Timber Protective
association patrolled during the season
just passed that only nine fires, killing
barely 1880 feet of white pine, and
costing only $131.01 extra to fight, oc-
Cured. All fires but one were caused
by lightning.
Memorializing the legislature of the
states of Washington, Idaho and Ore
gon to appropriate total sum of $780,
900 for the Columbia Cello Panama
waterways celebration to be held in
Lewiston contemporaneous with the
exposition at San Francisco, bills pre-
pared by the Lewiston Commercial
club will be sent at once to Boise,
Olympia and Salem for introduction
prior to the passage of the appropria-
ton measures. Idaho will be asked to
set aside $4,000 to bear the major
portion of the burden.
The Idaho State Horticultural asso-
citation closed most interesting ses-
sion at Boise Saturday. Officers were
elected as follows: President. H. r..
Smith. Payette; vice president, J.. 3.
Waters, Twin Falls; secretary, Charles
Payne, Roswell; treasurer, ]. A. Fen
ton, Meridian; board of directors, H.
E. Smith, w. S. Thornber, H. w. Dor
man, w. A. Youme and ]. A. Roberts.
A resolution was adopted recommend
ing that this state take necessary steps
to protect growers from pests and dis
eases brought into the state on nur-
sery stock from California and also
that the frozen fruit be deemed mar
ketable and that our state prevent the
importation of any frozen California
fruit. A resolution petitioning the
legislature to appropriate $4,000 to
carry on more efficient inspection
service was passed.
The State Legislature.
The house passed the bill creating
the new county of Franklin from a
portion of Oneida county.
The house adopted a resolution
authorizing the appointment of COM
mittee to visit and inspect state insti-
tutiOns.
The senate adopted the house resolu-
ton authorizing the attorney general
to employ an attorney to assist the
legislators in drafting bills. No salary
is stipulated. Former Attorney Gen.
eral McDougall is expected to get the
job.
Two important bills were introduced,
one by Lewis, to create the county of
Payette from portion of Canyon coun-
ty, with the city of Payette as the
county seat, and another by Oversmith,
to amend the law prohibiting the main
tenance of bawdy houses.
Some radical changes in the primary
laws of the state are proposed The
election of judges is to be made nom
partizan by requiring the names of the
candidates for judgeships to be placed
in nonpartizan space on the ballot
without it showing any designation Of
party utilization. The second departure
Is to require all voters to signify a
second choice for the various offices
as well as first.
Former Governor James II. Brady
was elected United States senator for
the short term on the joint ballot. He
ranniuod DIV
served as Idaho's chief executive one
term, from 1909 to 1911, but was de-
feated by the democratic candidate, ex-