Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-12-19
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Plans for placing an up-to-date fruit
reported.
The Marin, a small steamer of the
Red Collar line, was burned to the wa
ters edge at Occur dAlene Sunday
William Hill was drowned in Snake
river while putting in the Woodville
dam, about three miles down the river
from Idaho Falls
Facing a charge Of arson made by
p. d. Smith, prosecuting attorney of
Bannock county, Walter Grant is un-
der arrest at Pocatello.
Superintendent Johnson of the pub
lie schools at Occur d'Alene City, is
on the program of the Idaho State
Teachers association, which will meet
at Boise December 20, 80 and 81, for
an address.
M. Pond and c. F. Johnson, repre-
senting the University of Idaho, won
the debate with the Oregon Agricul-
tural college Saturday last.
The bodies of Thomas Brown of
Caldwell, and Fred Wallace of Stem,
Mo-, were found in a rooming house
at Boise recently, cause is not known.
Through the University of Wiscon-
sin Professor Alfred J. Lawrence of
Occur dAlene college has been elect
ed to the faculty of the Tung Wen in
stitute of Annoy, China
The public utilities commission of
the state has directed the Oregon
Short Line Railroad company to va
cate its present passenger depot at
Pocatello and erect new depot
Nordby Brothers, ranchers northeast
of Genesee, have just received three
fine Duroc Jersey hogs. The hogs re-
Gently took first and second prizes at
the Boise and Caldwell hog shows.
The consolidation of the Occur
d Alene Hardware company and the
Occur d'Alene Iron Works, two of the
largest and best known business es-
Establishments in Wallace is reported.
The fourteenth annual seed fair of
the Idaho Seedgrowers' association will
be at Pocatello January IL. Prizes
amounting to $500 will be awarded
for the advancement of seedgrowing.
Ralph Patterson, rancher, on trial
in the district court durink last week,
charged with assaulting Bert Ayers,
his neighbor, with a deadly weapon,
was discharged by the jury at Moscow.
No more finger bowls in Idaho. This
is the latest order from the Idaho pure
food commission, and this order ap-
plies to dining cars operated by the
railroads in the state as we'll as to the
hotels and cafes. :
State Forester e. w. Ferris report
for the past season shows that the
losses from fires was under 81 900 and
that out of the appropriation for this
work there Is balance of $57,45O to
apply on next years account.
Ernest Blackinton, aged IT, was
killed in runaway recently at Leland.
The young man was driving a four
horse team down the steep Kendrick
grade, when the leaders became fright
ened and went over the embankment
Daniels & Wallace, the largest grow
ers of grain in north Idaho, Saturday
sold $4,000 sacks of wheat to Lewiston
buyers. College hybrid, turkey red,
fortyfold and Red Russian were the
varieties in the lot, which brought bet
ter than 70 cents per bushel.
R. S. Lovett, chairman of the Union
Pacific, has issued orders for the con-
struction of new feeder of the Ore
gon Short Line in Idaho. 1t will be
an extension of the Menan branch in
the upper Snake river valley. The
cost of the construction is placed at
$1,750000.
After an almost continuous resi-
dence in the Occur d'Alenes for 80
years, William Osborn, founder of the
town of Osburn, Idaho. will celebrate
his retirement from active business
by spending Christmas with his sister,
Mrs. L. N. Ulytt, whom he has not
seen for half century, at her home in
Ogden, Utah, and will later proceed to
Los Angeles, CAL, to visit with a SIS
ter and brother there. Mr.. Osborn,
who was 81 years old last month, was
born near Springfield, ILL.,, short dis
lance from the home of Abraham Lin
coin, with whom he was we'll ac-
quainted.
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