Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-11-20
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The official count of the vote of
Idaho is to be made November 81.
The grip of king winter has held off
longer this year than any fall in the
history of the state.
Allan McKinnon, for six year agent
for the Interior Warehouse company
at Cottonwood, was arrested recently
y warrant issued at Grangeville charg-
ing embezzlement.
Jacob l.. Gross, ex-banker of Koos-
kia, convicted of introducing liquor on
the Nez Perez reservation, was SEN
fenced to eight months in Jail at Lew.
iston and fined $3.50.
Oliver Harrison, 12-year-old son of
Enoeh Harrison, living five miles south
of Kendrick, was shot and instantly
killed by his brother, two years young
er, while playing with a repeating
rifle.
Moses Alexander, democrat, our
newly elected governor, has started on
a tour of the state to meet the people
of the different sections and ascertain
their needs. Starting in the north, he
expects to tour the entire state.
Word from the southern part of the
state indicates that Victor o. Johnson
of Shoshone may be appointed by Gov
ernor Haines to the state public utili-
ties commission to take the place for
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A mortgage for Sill, 652, 500 given
by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
to the Guarantee Trust Co. of New
York vas filed at Lewiston, Idaho, last
week. The instrument bears date of
July 1 and is given to secure funds to
retire outstanding bonds.
Idaho newspapers and politicians are
keenly interested as to the kind of
legislation the newly elected legisla-
ture will give to the citizens of the
commonwealth and are specializing as
to whether this legislation will smack
loudly of reform measures.
Forecast is made that because of
the complexion of the new legislature
statewide prohibition for Idaho is
likely to come before similar legisla-
ton becomes operative in Washisgton
and Oregon. In the latter states the
prohibition law becomes operative
January 1, 1916.
Charles Erperback, a wealthy ranch
er of Idaho, is to be tried at the next
term of the federal court in Sheridan
on the charge of having held UP a
number OF stage coaches in Yellow
stone park last summer and robbing
the passengers, the holdups being the
most sensational in the history of the
park.
Through a plan proposed by the
commercial club at Twin Falls it is
proposed to make $500 subscribed for
Belgian relief also of benefit to the
people of southern Idaho. AS this fund
would be used for buying supplies it
proposes that the entire amount be ex-
pended OF the Twin Falls tract for
flour, beans, peas, etc.
The purchase of the Gilmore &
L ltIoOuA6 IdllIOdu III montana and
Idaho, will give the Northern Pacific
railway the shortest line from the
Twin Cities to the Pacific coast. The
road was built a short time ago at a
cost of more than SIS, 000, GOO. The
road runs between Armstead, Mont, on
the Oregon Short Line, and Salmon,
Idaho. With a branch line the mile
age is about 100.
Frank Hye, accused of numbering
Hugh Kennedy, the court bound the
accused over to the district court on
the charge of murder in the first de-
gree, and over the protest of the state
ruled that Mr.. Hye should be allowed
bail, and fixed the mount at $4,000.
This is the second charge of murder in
the first degree lodged against Frank
Hye as the result of the tragedy that
in Elk City on the night of
October 4, in which Hye is accused of
having shot to death his wife Alma
and Hugh Kennedy.