Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-02-20
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

James Bradley, pioneer citizen of
Standpoint, is dead.
The A. C. White sawmill at Laclede
has resumed and is running double
shift.
Grave danger now confronts Ward
ner and Kellogg in the form of snow
slides.
A bursted water main Sunday flood
ed the basement of the Erb Bros. hard
ware store at Lewiston, doing great
damage.
The school building at Wardner is
to be used as the social center for the
children, according to Mrs. Laura Butt,
principal
The spring term of the district court
convened at Wallace Monday morning.
There are 1873 cases listed-2O GRIM
inal SO motion, Al trial and Al equity.
Four thousand head of sheep on the
upper Snake river are starving for
the want of feed. Heavy SHOWS and
condition of the river have made it
impossible to haul feed for the sheep
camps.
Lewiston business men composed of
G. w. Mount, R. c. Beach, E. A. Cox,
William Thompson, George e. Erb and
DR.. ]. B. Morris, have gone to Boise to
lobby for two appropriation bills. One
is for a $4,000 bond issue to help buy
the Lewiston Charleston bridge. The
other is bill for a $4,000 bond issue
for the benefit of the live stock show.
The body of Roland Mack, rancher
residing on Reeder creek, a tributary
of Priest lake, was discovered by a
neighbor Friday. The body was lying
on the beach of Priest lake, about four
miles from Coolin, Idaho. Mack had
left Coolin Christmas day with boat
loaded with supplies bound for his
homestead about 20 miles from Coolin.
He failed. to arrive at home and a
search was instituted, but abandoned
after several days.
At recent meeting of delegates at
Lewiston, called to consider dates,
policies and matters of Interest to fairs
of north Idaho and eastern Washing
ton, the movement to secure apprOpri-
ations for the northwest live stock
show and the joint state purchase OF
the LewistonC Charleston bridge was in
dorsed and strong resolution to this
effect was passed by the meeting
The dates arranged were as follows:
Orofino, September S-13; Grangeville,
September 1920; Moscow, September
22-27; Lewiston, September 29-Octo-
Der 4.
The State Legislature.
The deficiency appropriation bill re-
ported by the joint appropriations COM
mittee, carrying $73,5125O, is about
$4,000 smaller than had been ex-
pected.
The house committee of the whole,
after debating the KOelsch marriage
bill and amending it, recommended it
for passage. The bill will pass the
house, but will be closely contensted in
the senate.
The appropriations to meet the cur
rent expenses of the state during the
next biennial period amount to $780,
900, and the total appropriation for
the session will probably reach
$2,O00,O00.
The senate has passed a joint reso-
luton providing for the submission to
the people of constitutional amend
ment making the terms of all state
officers four years instead of two
years. 1t now goes to the house.
The senate made a short shrift of
house bill 116, the woman's property
rights bill, which was put through the
house after a hard fight. The bill
found not a single champion in the
senate, and it went down to defeat by
a unanimous vote.
Norton of Kootenai finally got the
house to take action on his bill to
place kootenai county in a class by
itself, so that it can pay it's county
commissioners $500 year, and en-
ploy them for all of their time. The
house, as committee of the whole rec
commended the bill for passage.
| One bill passed the house Saturday,
put in by the state affairs committee,
and providing a $4,000 bond issue to
start state insurance fund for state
institutions. This is in line with Gov
ernor Haines recommendation that
the state carry it's own insurance and
appropriations for insurance premiums
are being cut out
The senate passed senate bill 120 UNI
der suspension of rules. This is Harris
new registration law, holding that one
| regitration remains good as long as