Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-10-09

the body of Professor George Hall
of the University of Idaho, who was
drowned September "a in the Snake
river at Almota, was found Saturday
and was taken to Pomeroy.
Farmers are progressing rapidly
with fall seeding. and this work will
soon be completed AS result of the
European war, more acreage will be
planted to wheat and less to barley
! than usual
Leslie Wilson, aged 23, miner EN-
| ployed at the Last Chance mine at
| Wardner, who fell down an S0-foot
chute in that mine lat Saturday, re-
ceiving a fractured skull, died Mon
day without regaining consciousness.
A plan has been formulated for the
organization of a company of state
militia at Grangeville. Mr.. Kading is
the prime mover of this plan. Colonel
IGdelblute of Boise and Lieutenant
Tannemiller, u. s. A., are expected to
further the plan.
Mrs. Frank Hye and Hugh Kennedy
of Elk City were both shot and killed
by Frank Hye the woman's husband,
at that place, Sunday night, when, on
returning home unexpectedly between
10 and IL o'clock, Hye is asserted to
have found Kennedy and his wife to-
gether.
Sandpoint.-Don C. McColl, county
commissioner from the Third district
of Bonner, was acquitted by jury
on charge of misconduct in office
!; He was charged with selling $299 65
worth of goods, including powder and
fuse, from his store at Moravia for the
use Of the county.
Charged with taking legal advice
from counsel for the so-called baking
powder trust in prosecuting rival
Pure Food and Sanitary Commission
err James H. Wallis of this state, was
asked to resign Monday, and did so
The request came from Attorney Gen
eral j. H. Peterson, acting on behalf
of the state board of health.
! The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Min
ing company, operating the Bunker
!. Hill mines and mill at Wardner
Kellogg, Idaho, October 3 began dis
bursement from the head offices IL
, San Francisco, Cal, of the regular
onthly dividend of 25 cents the share
or $S1,75O. This makes the payments
for the current year $S17.500 and in
creases the grand total to $15,546, TOO
AS a result of protest filed by J
| l.,.. 4
l charge of the exhibit from that dis
I trict at the Lewiston Charleston Inter
D state fair and who was awarded sec
i ond place by the judges, Professor W
: l.. Thornbur, of the Lewiston Clarks
= ton school of horticulture, and PROBES
sor c. M. Osborne, of the Lewisto
n State Normal, the Clearwater and keI
!. drick displays were left intact at tn
d fair grounds, and the executive boar
}, viewed them again.
: ldaho's proportion of forest reserv
= receipts from Il reserves in this stat
:. is $59,227, the treasury department
= mas notified Governor Haines. TIL
). government allows each state wit
:. forest reserves five per cent of tn
q receipts by the terms of the act {
g 1908. The money is used for The pul
n lie schools and highways of the coul
ties in which the reserves are locate'
The warrant for the total will arriy
n within a few days and will be depo
a. tied in the state treasury to be draw
n by the counties.
The apportionment follows:
N Boise, $2617; Cache, $1541; Caribo
<, $4969; Challis, $1412; Clearwater. 49,
m Occur d'Alene, $43S9; Idaho, 1855
VI Kaniksu, 1886; Lemhi, $21S1; Mir
" doka, $2764; Nez Perez, $1457; Pa
" isade. 1892; Payette, $3261; PEI
:, Oreille, $5459; Pocatello, $1365; S
=, Joe, $5314; Salmon, $1515; Sawtoot
r. $4S96; Selway. 1864; Targhee, $3.50
Weiser, $2497.
OF There are Is counties in Idaho d
u linquent in state taxes to the graz
g total amount of $129,167, and numb
= of the 10 have been delinquent +
- several years. Every effort has be-
~ made to collect, but not as yet wi
70 success. The fact that the tax col
ri MISSION mas DceL uHucI liiS oihSC
creation two years ago because
40 preme court test found it was n
es vested with certain powers has ma
IS, the questions, with the approach
hit the new legislature loom up as Il
portant.
as 1t is now believed that the legis
ne ture must either submit a constit
40 tional amendment to the people abb
III fishing the state board of equalizati
ny and vesting it's power in the tax co
mission or abolish the tax comm
sion The supreme court held that t
to commission only occupies cleric
cy or advisory capacity.
'ly The commission is therefore CT
25 pied in it's plan to adopt a unifol
system of taxation, to check on
on counties and see that they pay tn
lis Just share of state taxes.
" The counties delinquent and
~ amount due from each follow
Do Ada, $72S2; Adams, 1889; Banno'
70 1912; Bear Lake, $685. Bingham, S;