Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-09-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

A number of new buildings are be-
ing planned for Troy this fall.
Occur d'Alene is to have modern
hospital. DR.. John Busby is at the
head Of the enterprise.
The fine new residence OF F. P. kel-
ley at Standpoint was completely de-
stroyed by fire Saturday.
Walter Gable, a lumberjack, was
struck and instantly killed by a North
ern Pacific freight at Standpoint Sat
urday.
Poultry fanciers of Kootenai county
are preparing for their fourth annual
show, announced to be held December
Is to 20.
Bears are plentiful in the locality |
around Terrell and are committing
depredations, such as breaking down
fruit trees to get the fruit
A. H. Parker, a logging engineer en-
ployed by the Grant Lumber company,
lost his life Saturday at Harrison when
a pile of logs rolled on him.
Never in the history Of the bean in
dustry in the Potlatch country has as
fine quality of beans been harvested.
The yield averages from 700 to 800
pounds to the acre.
Relations between the towns of Sol
der and Fairfield, located in central
Idaho. are sadly disrupted over the ar
rest at Soldier of the Rev. Max Rein
hardt, a minister, on the charge of
stealing the Baptist church of Soldier.
Fairfield is but one and one-half miles
from Soldier.
Charles N Harris, one of the men
found guilty of stealing three loads of
county farmers a few miles west of
Moscow, and was sentenced to six
months in the county Jail, may escape
punishment on account of being af-
flicted with tuberculosis. Officials of
Nez Perez county object to keeping
Harris in Jail.
Men are still busy clearing away
the debris caused by the wrecking of
the hosting plant Of the Green Hill
Cleveland mine near Wallace when the
ponderous machinery refused to re-
spond to the brakes set by Engineer
Rae and plunged to the bottom of the
2OO0-foot shaft, wrecking the entire
plant, closing the mine for month
to six weeks, as we'll as the mill, and
throwing about 375 men out Of en-
ployment.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of John w. Constan, for four
years deputy in the Shoshone county
sheriff's office, secretary Of the demo
cratic county central committee and
one of the widest and best known men
in Shoshone county. He is charged
with the transportation of county
funds in eight complaints, each based
on separate charge. The complaints
are made by A. P. McRae, chairman
of the board of county commissioners.
The total misrepresentation charged Is
$1844.5O.
B. F. C"Barney") O'Neil. former
president of the defunct State Bank
of Commerce of Wallace, Idaho, must
serve an indeterminate term of two to
10 years in the Idaho state penitenti-
airy, the supreme court having at
firmed the Judgment to that effect rem
dered in the district court for Koote-
mai county. The opinion is written by
Justice Isaac N. Sullivan and is con-
CURED in by Chief Justice James F.
Ailshie and Justice George H. Sulli-
van. O'Neil was convicted on the
charge Of making false reports to the
state bank examiner of the financial
condition Of the Wallace bank.
Idaho will close one Of the biggest
timber deals in its history next month
for the state land board has decided to
sell in a compact body 1890 acres Of
valuable timber land in the Boise basin
at public auction. The board has just
taken this action on the agreement of
the Barber Lumber company to make
q bid for at least 100000 in cash for
the timber.
The boards decision virtually as
sures the reopening Of numbering &C.
tivities In that section Of the state, for
1t is generally conceded that the tim
Der will be bid in by the Barber Lum-
Der company that 1t can commence ac-
tive operations In the cutting OF ap-
proximately 10000 acres of timber in
the basin country. Competitive lum-
Der syndicates may decide to take q
hand in the bidding when the timber
Is placed on the market.
This deal has been hanging fire for
months.
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