Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-12-18
IDAHO NEWS T

Teh Lewiston stock show is the
best ever.
A municipal Christmas tree So feet
high is to be raised at the center of
the business district of Moscow.
Charles George, held in the county
Jail at Wallace awaiting trial on a
charge, of numbering Frank Christi,
has been made the defendant in a
civil suit brought by his brother.
Argentine Lodge No. AZ, of Kellogg,
carried off the Knights of Pythias
trophy cup at the annual contest re-
Gently. Galena lodge, of Wardner, was
second and Wallace lodge third.
The Interstate Utilities company, a
new telephone company recently or
gained, has filed with the county re-
corder at Occur d'Alene a mortgage
for $500, 900 to cover a bond issue
for the same amount.
In the case of l.. F. Williams and
Others against the county of Nez
Perez, involving contest of the local
option election held last May, Judge
Steele sustained the demurrer to the
complaint and plaintiff failing further
to plead the cause was dismissed.
The O.-W. R. & N. company will
have the prize winning corn exhibits
from the Walla Walla corn show on
exhibition all week at Lewiston and
December Is and 10 Mrs. E. M. Red
Fington. apple expert, will lecture and
demonstrate. Mr.. Smith, agriculturist
of the O.-W. R. & N. arrived Sunday
to arrange the corn exhibit.
Acclaimed the largest attended and
most enthusiastic convention in it's
history the fourth annual gathering
of the Idaho state seed growers closed
after a three days session at Twin
Falls with a banquet. Irrigation and
seed production we're discussed by
u, S. WEIGH, superintendent of the
Gooding experiment station. DR.. F..
S. Harris of Utah agricultural college
spoke on clover and alfalfa seed pro-
duction. The following officers were
elected: President, j. Wyley Ses-
sions, Pocatello; vice president, l.. L..
Young, Nampa; secretary-treasurer,
O. D. Center, Boise; directors, two
year term, M. A. Thometz of Twin
Falls, T. Fl. Hopkins of Springfield
and c. c. Tobias of Caldwell; one
year term, A. j. Snyder of Spring
field and o. E. Scott of Pocatello.
A sensation was created At Roise
Saturday when a grand jury was call
ed for January 4, the date of the in
auguration Of Governor-elect Moses
Alexander and other state officials, as
well as the converting of the legis-
lature, to probe the state treasury
steal, in which $4,000 or more is al
legged to have been embezzled in va
rious ways.
Application for the jury was made
by County Attorney Givens, backed by
attorney General j. H. Peterson, who
declared, in a letter to the prosecutor,
that since former State Treasurer o.
v. Aliens arrest and Incarceration,
following his confession of embezzle-
ment of $4,000, suspicious have been
cast on other officials who have the
right to clear themselves or, if they
cannot, should be punished.
Since AXel P. Ramstedt, tax commits
who examined the treasury de-
partment after finding the shortage,
made his report to Governor Haines
there has been CONSERVATION in state
and pressure was brought to
bear on the governor not to submit
the report for publication, it is said.
1t contains a list of notes of state
employees On which Allen advanced
money, which account for some of the
shortage. Governor Haines has not
made this report public.