Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTE

The Kellogg council will have the
paving of the business district of the
city done by contract,
The cherry harvest is now practi-
cally closed at Lewiston. The wealth
er was in the growers favor and the
crop was greater than was expected.
Mrs. Lillian Hexter, widow of Moses
Hexter, the Hexters being early pio-
neers of Lewiston, Idaho; Dayton,
Wash, and Portland, Ore, died recent
ly at Spokane.
The Hagan & Cushing packing plant
at Moscow, which cost $4,000 to com
plete three years ago, is to be enlarged
this summer SO as to handle the in
creasing business.
Isaac Ward, aged IS, of Winchester,
was instantly killed a mile north of
Endicott, Wash, when a train struck
a big wagon which he vas driving.
Ward was deaf, and failed to hear the
approaching train.
The Farmers Roachdale company
has completed it's new warehouse at
Orofino, affording facilities for hand
ling %, 900 bushels of grain. The crop
outlook indicates that the building
will be none too large.
There will be TO timothy hay on
the Upper Potlatch this year, is the
general statement of ranchers in the
Deary section. Most of it is only six
inches high and is heading out. I'm
less rain falls it will not be worth the
cutting.
A direct legislation movement has
been launched in this state and R. G
.iassey, a member of the committee
which framed the proposed amend
ment to the state constitution, submit
ted it recently to Senator w. e. Borat
for his judgment. In his reply Sena
tor Borah seems friendly to the prin
ciple.
The university summer school regis
tration at the end of the first week i!
"a, as compared with ESQ at the enc
of the first week last year. The rea
son for this is said to be due to al
error in the office of state commits
sioner of education, when it sent GU
notices to all the county superintend
ents of schools that no credits woult
be authorized given to teachers hold
ing second grade certificates or lower
Only high school students and teach
ers holding third grade certificate
were barred from the university.
The villages of Juliaetta and Ken
drick. four miles apart, are at oppos
tie edges of the hub of the largest ant
most productive bean wheel" of thu
Inland Empire if not in the entir,
northwest. Within a radius of 15 mile
of the above named towns there will
be raised this season $500 acres o
beans. The yield is expected to rul
! from 100 to 1900 pounds per acre. |
growers get the average yield of SO
pounds the total would be 6,175,00
pounds of beans from the above area
which, at 3 cents a pound, the prevail
ing price during the last three years
gives $1S5, $50 as the result of a sin
gle seasons crop. The price named i
for the crop just as it m from tn,
machines, without being r~ecleaned.
A c%oroner's inquest was held at Hop
on the bodies of Pat Walsh and How
ard Shipley, ~prospectors, murdered /
their cabin, near Green Monarch, Jun
Is. No one knows who killed then
Walsh was SO years of age and Irisi
Shipley was 81 and born in Iowa. Bot
were single and residents of Hope 70
25 years. Shipley was shot twice an
Walsh three times. Both were foun
lying face down under their bed, COY
cred with a quilt. A pool of blood wa
under the bed. Their dog was ais
shot. No reason can be found for tn
cause of the murder, as $50 was foun
under the bedclothes in Walsh's bet
The verdict was death caused by gul
shot wounds fired by unknown parties
All the shots were fired from the on
gun, any one of which would hav
caused death.
tAAH-H AAtz