Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-10-09
IDAHO NEWS #

northwest Live Stock show to he held
there in December.
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 a result of the
european war, more acreage will be
planted to wheat and less to barley
than usual.
Leslie Wilson, aged 20, a miner EN-
ployed at the Last Chance mine at
Wardner, who fell down an 8O-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
EdelDlute 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 II O'Clock, Hye is asserted to
have found Kennedy and his wife to-
gether.
Sandpoint.-Don c. McColl, county
commissioners from the Third district
OF Bonner, was acquitted by a jury
on a charge of misconduct in office.
He was charged with selling 1929. 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 a 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 8 began dis
bursement from the head offices in
San Francisco, Cal, Of the regular
onthly dividend of 20 cents the share,
or $S1,750. This makes the payments
for the current year $S17,500 and in
creases the grand total to $15,546,7 $50.
AS a result of a protest filed by j.
F. Brown of Kendrick, who was in
charge of the exhibit from that dis
trict at the Lewiston-C Charleston Inter-
state fair, and who was awarded sec
ond place by the judges, Professor w.
l.. T%hornbur, of the Lewiston-Clarks
ton school of horticulture, and Profess
sor G. M. Osborne, of the Lewiston
State Normal, the Clearwater and Ken
drick displays were left intact at the
fair grounds, and the executive board
viewed them again.
Idaho's proportion of forest reserve
receipts from II reserves in this state
is $59,227, the treasury department
has notified Governor Haines. The
government allows each state with
forest reserves five per cent of the
receipts by the terms of the act of
1908. The money is Used for he pub
lie schools and highways of the coun-
ties in which the reserves are located.
The warrant for the total will arrive
within a few days and will be depos-
tied in the state treasury to be drawn
by the counties.
The apportionment follows:
Boise, $2617; Cache, $1541; Cariboo,
$4969; Challis, $1412; Clearwater, $94;
Occur d'Alene, $43S9; Idaho, 1857:
Kaniksu, $73S6; Lemhi, $21S1; Mini
doka, $2764; Nez Perez, $1457; Pal
isade, $1302; Payette, $3261; Pend
Oreille, $5459; Pocatelio, S1365; ST.
Joe, $5314; Salmon, $1515; Sawtooth.
$4S96; Selway, 1864; Targhee, $256S;
Weiser, $2497.
There are Is counties in Idaho de-
~linquent in state taxes to the grand
total amount of $129,1 67, and a number
Of the Is have been delinquent for
several years. Every effort has been
made to collect, but not as yet with
success. The fact that the tax COM
mission has been under fire since it's
creation two years ago because a su-
preme court test found it was not
vested with certain powers has made
the questions, with the approach of
the new legislature loom up as i'm
portant.
1t is now believed that the legisla-
lure must either submit a constitu-
tional amendment to the people abol-
ishing the state board of equalization
and vesting its power in the IA com
mission or abolish the tax commits
sion. The supreme court held that the
commission only occupies a clerical
or advisory capacity.
The commission is therefore Grip
pied in its plan to adopt a uniform
system of taxation, to check on all
counties and see that they pay their
lust share of state taxes.