Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1913-04-25
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

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citation held 4 convention at Potlatch
Saturday. April ~.
The Peck Touring mill 10 filling an
order for 10000 sacks of flour for ship
ment to Hongkong. China.
The coming meeting Of the state
grand council Of the Knights Of Colum.
bus meets in Wallace May IL.
Crowds are expected in Occur
d'Alene city for the big regatta during
the three days, July 8. 4 and 5.
The Farmers Grain and Milling
Company has succeeded the Utah
Idaho Elevator Company, at Curry,
Idaho, and at Buhl, Idaho.
BY. direction OF the district court Sat
urday officers destroyed v 81 $500
worth OF whisky and beer secured in
different raids made by the sheriff's
office In Lewiston.
The county commissioners Of Sho-
shone have gone }. record as opposing
gambling and the violations Of the
Sunday-closing laws and have prom
Used to take drastic measures.
Robert H. Barton Of Moscow, well
known In Grand Army circles, was
elected commandment Of the soldiers
home In Boise to succeed Willard
White, incumbent. on June 1. 1913.
Representative French Of Idaho has
introduced a bill extending the number
of annual payments to h~0mesteaders
and purchasers Of water from the gov
eminent under reclamation projects
from 10 to 80 years.
The conditions in Lake Occur d'Alene
and the Spokane river In the Idaho
city are growing more alarming. The
Blackwell Lumber company and the
stack-Gibbs Lumber company we're
compelled to shut down.
Ira Small Of Lewiston last week sold
two carloads Of beef cattle to the In
land and Cold Storage markets which
melted him $104.75 per head. There
were 46 head Of cattle In the two cara,
Mr.. Small receiving s7.S7h per hun
dred weight.
No traces have been found Of VIII
liam Graves, night station man for the
Lewiston-C Charleston Improvement com
pany. It Is thought that he must be
demented and Is wandering around In
the sparsely settled district around
Alpowa. creek.
Petitions are being sent out to DIFF.
ferent towns for the signatures OF bust.
ness men and citizens asking their in
dorsement toward the resumption Of
steamer traffic on the upper Columbis
and Snake rivers, as proposed by the
Columbia and Snake River Waterways
association ct the recent meeting IN
Pendleton.
=. p. Marsha1l. wanted In sacramen'
to for issuing fictitious checks, IN
charge Of Detective Thielen OF Sacra'
mento, leaped from q Short Line train
two miles east Of Nampa and escaped,
Holding up : farmer, Marshall found
q file In the wagon. Taking this to
file off his handouts Marshall fled
49, 49, $1,000 ## A4S5 fs sH4a
n.y. tA0 u0s0l1
Bridge number 8, between Snyders
and Meadow creek, on the Spokane In
ternational railroad, caught fire re-
Gently and was discovered by one Of
the forest rangers. who tried to ex-
tinguish the flames after he had in
formed one Of the nearby ranchers Of
the fact. The Soo-Spokane flyer was
a' uu0 "nr ra wNos
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80 p.oS.y 1870 -. :
pas $3.50 cue 20 'e"u ~ Ivy
At the recent growers meeting OF
the Weiser River Fruit association,
which was attended by Secretary A.
A. Prince Of the Northwestern Fruit
exchange. the marketing contract with
the exchange was received for the
coming season. While this year has
been one Of small gain to the growers
they feel that the acreage prices re.
celved for both prunes and apples com.
pare very favorably with the average
prices secured by other districts. Com
plete averages have not as yet been
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