Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-10-16
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The grand lodge of Odd Fellows con
venes at Boise on October 1923.
Monday. October IL. was Columbus
day and legal holiday in this state.
The fourth annual Kootenai county
TAR closed Saturday, having been
much more successful than any of its
predecessors.
The third district federation of dom
ems clubs of Idaho, which comprises
all counties of north Idaho, met in
Moscow this week.
The Washington Synod of the Pres.
pytelan church in session last week
at Moscow, selected Tacoma for the
next meeting place
Farmers digging potatoes around
Moscow report much lighter yield
than last year which fact is attributed
to long continued dry weather during
| the summer.
The body of Philip Pustuto an Ital-
ian, employed in an extra gang on the
Camas Prairie railroad. who was kill
ed in an outfit car by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun, is at Lewiston
The Wardner-Kellogg school board
has called in $4,000 worth of outstand-
ing warrants, funds sufficient to meet
the Indebtedness having been raised
since the board started issuing def
cheney warrants.
Arrangements are under way to
have engineers of the United States
and Canadian governments meet at
Boomers Ferry to investigate the prob
lem of Kootenai Valley drainage. If
plans are carried out, 100000 acres
would be reclaimed.
| Police departments and sheriffs
throughout the northwest have been
asked to look out for Martin Bakazich,
an Austrian, charged with the murder
of John Melrose of Pasco, Wash, who
was killed early Sunday morning in a
disorderly resort near Elk River, Ida
no.
Alta King age Is, was seriously in
jured Saturday when passenger train
struck the buggy in which she was
riding alone, threw her $50 feet and
completely demolished the vehicle.
The train was stopped and the injured
girl taken aboard and taken to the
Twin Falls hospital. Besides internal
injuries she was cut and bruised about
the head and body.
Frank Hye, justice of the peace and
owner of the Stites-Elk City stage line,
arraigned before Probate Judge De
Haven on a charge of numbering his
wife, Alma Hye, at Grangeville, plead
ed not guilty and the preliminary hear
ing was set for October 49, The
charge follows the investigation by the
coroner's jury into the killing of Mrs.
Hye and Hugh Kennedy. The prosecu-
ton may be made Jointly under the
Idaho law.
G. f. Wetsel, secretary of the North
west Live Stock association, which
holds its annual show and sale at Lew
iston, Idaho, November 80 to Deem
Der 5, has resigned, and w. l.. Carlyle
of Moscow, Idaho, who. until October
/, was director of the experiment sta
ton and dean of the agricultural de
partment OF the University of Idaho
has been selected as his successor. Mr.
Whetsel resigns to take up other bust
ness, leaving the association in thirty
ing condition.
In a Commercial Way.
Yves Nickel has opened a meat mar
ket at Kamiah.
:, Rawson, Saassaman aud Ellenson
proprietors of the Home store at ka
miah, have dissolved, Rawson retir
.. ing.
After litigation of a year the suit o
, Ralph A. Coleman, respondent in ia
: vor of the village of Hope, agains
Kleine A. Wanamaker, president Q
:. the village board, has been, decided
: and Mr.. Wanamaker must repay int
? the village treasury $112.60 which h
> received during his administrator
!! from the village for goods sold to
from his store. The suit contempla
s ed the return of approximately $S0t
r but all of this amount above tn
0 $112.60 was for the sale of pipe an
other supplies for the village waite
system and the testimony of the Spt
r. kane hardware firm which sold tn
goods was that Mr.. Wanamaker ha
:. simply acted as the agent Of the vi
: lage and had taken no profit himsel
The case was tried during the sprin
by Judge Woods of Shoshone count.
Judges Flynn and Dunn uniting in cal
H. ing him.
.. General Trade Conditions.
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