Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-05-29
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Wallace is to have fete on the
Fourth of July.
William Elder of Lakeview was
found guilty on a charge of selling |
liquor without license.
Gathering of suitable exhibit OF
ores to represent the Occur d'Alene
district at the San Francisco exposi.
ton in 1916 has begun.
The business men of kellogg have
responded to the appeal for financial
aid for the Twin City brass band
which has been reorganized.
Plans are being made for an i'm
mense basket picnic at one OF the
proposed Palouse Project reservoir
sites at Potlatch Sunday, June Z.
A. MacCorquodale, district freight
and passenger agent for the O.-W.
& n company at Lewiston, has sub.
mitted his resignation, effective June
/, next.
The body of Robert Wagner. aged
81, who, with another man, was drown
ed at Diversion dam in the Boise riv-
er, near Boise April 10, was recovered
Tuesday.
A committee appeared before the
commissioners, asking that an appro-
priation be made by the county to EN-.
ploy an agricultural expert and farm
adviser for Nez Perez county
Plans are prepared for the erection
of a $4,000 hospital building at the
Occur d'Alene Indian agency at So
rento, new station and postoffice or
the Milwaukee railway, ~ miles cas-
of Tekoa.
The Shoshone Good Roads associa
ton will hold picnic at 1.-THE BIZ
Cedars" in the Fourth Of July canyol
on June IA to celebrate the completion
J of the improvements now being mad
by the association.
Guy Mckinney, former town mar
shall of Bovill, charged with having
contributed to the delinquency of Ia
year-old girl by giving liquor to tn
. girl and her mother at Bovill while h
+ was on duty, was fined 5000.
e While packing three boxes of dy
= Mantle caps Bert Rainey, miner II,
e ing near Gilmore, dropped one Of tn
: boxes, which exploded, setting off tn
s others, instantly killing himself an
r seriously injuring his wife and baby
e The infant may die.
A deal has been closed whereby
change will be made in the OWNERSHIP
= of the First Bank of Troy. The bull
of the stock has been owned by on
side capitalists, but since the chang
practically every share will be hel
o by citizens of Troy.
= Contracts for the construction
= three steel bridges at Jacks canyol
:" Bedrock, and Sweetwater creek hay
70 been awarded a bridge company
the county commissioners, its bid b
>, ing $2355 for the three structures an
$11.5O per cubic yard for the concre,
). work.
The family home of John Long, II,
TX miles from Grangeville, was recent
al struck by lightning and completely d
r. stroyed. The father, John Long. al
W sons, Edward and Ralph, were In Il
lie house at the time the lightning strut
st the two brick chimneys, complete
demolishing the kitchen range and Sc
r. ting fire to the house.
:, Senator Brady has secured adopti'
- by the senate of an amendment to t
- agricultural appropriation bill app
- priating $4,000 to enable the Univ
!. sity of Idaho to continue experimen
:. =. with wood and stump distillation, wi
= a view to developing process viii
= will make it commercially profital
:, to recover oils, ETC., from stumps a
"a mill waste. The amendment preyio
=. ly was adopted by the committee.