Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-05-22
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The commercial club at Priest River
has been recognized.
The Panhandle Lumber Co. has
started logging operations on the lake
at Spirit Lake, Idaho.
At a special meeting of the Home
Telephone company the company puF-
chased the old Genesee Telephone
company for $8055.
Arrangements nave been completed
for commencement exercises at the
state normal at Lewiston. The pro-
gram will open Sunday, May "a.
In honor of the Norwegian constitu-
ton centennial celebration Sunday the
national flags of America and Norway
were mingled throughout the state.
Reports from the Camas Prairie
country in Idaho state that hogs are
plentiful there, it being estimated
that at least 80 carloads are ready to-
come out this week.
Owing to the unusual prevalence OF
the curl leaf, a fungus growth affect
ing peach trees, it is said that peacE
crop in the Juliaetta section will be
almost a complete loss.
Nearly 1000 acres in the st. Joe for
est reserve has been set out with
seedlings as a part of the reforesta-
ton work in this vicinity being car
ried on by the government.
The Hill & Barnum and Fruchtl s.
Whitman lumber mills at Kendrick,
Idaho, have started the seasons cut
Each mill will cut 100000 feet OF
lumber and each employs 81 men.
The commissioners of Bonner coun~
ty, Idaho, are making plans for the
building of about 81 miles of new
road. Several contracts have been let
and the balance of the work will be-
done by the county under the direc-
ton of the county engineer.
Louis Bortoni and Frank Hesel, of
the band of MeXicans that arrived in
Twin Falls recently, arrested on s
charge of grand larceny of clothing
pleaded guilty in the district court and
were sentenced to hard labor in the
state penitentiary for from three to
IA years.
Farmers of Fix ridge, e Juliaetta-
report a cloudburst in the Fix ridge
district Friday evening which inflict-
ed heavy damage. At the Heimgart-
ner brothers place 25 acres of beans
were washed out of the ground, anG
the entire field will have to be re-
planted.
The body of a man was found re-
Gently lying beside the water, about
two miles from the mouth of Beauty
Bay creek, on the south side of the,
eastern arm of Lake Occur d'Alene-
In his pockets was found a card bear
ing the name and address John c.
Little, 430 Main street, Helena"
Fire in the three-story Wiggett
block at Occur d'Alene Sunday de-
strOyed property valued at $4,000:
rendering the building unfit for occu-
D patton. Tenants on the first floor were
the American Trust company, the dry
goods store of Mrs. c. M. Robertson
It and the Young pharmacy. The origin
s of the fire is unknown, a.,
, The first eighth grade exercises tor
the rural schools of Twin Falls coun-
ty took place at Filler. Two hundred
corn, potato, sewing, poultry n pig
: clubs have been organized under the
state auspices in the town and Turaf
schools of the county, and the interest,"
y manifested by members of these clubs
/ indicates that real, practical work is
y being accomplished.
The land office at Lewiston has
d been advised that 400, 900 acres of land
n in Nez Perez, Idaho, and Lewiston
counties, has been opened for entry
f. in tracts of 100 acres, will be open foT
entry June l under the 320-acre act.
le The land is in the Snake and Salmon
j., river districts and includes acreage
J., in IS townships. 1t consists mostly
TO of grazing land and by reason of the
I'd enlarged homestead act will make this
land desirable in 320-acre tracts foi
settlers wishing to engage in stoci
raising.