Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-04-24
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Forty jurymen to serve at the April
have been drawn to report in court
Apri 81.
The members of the /. o. o. f. have
decided TO make another search for
the body of o. T. Lindstrom, who was
lost in the woods last winter near
Spirit Lake
The st. Joe river Is at the highest
mark OF the year and is four feet be-
low high water mark last year. The
low bottom land Is flooded, but the
water is not over the bank yet.
Precipitated from a cliff so feet
high, 26 cattle We're killed outright or
suffered broken backs, legs or ribs,
near the Wenaha forest reserve, ac-
cording to story told by Ray Hester.
Joseph Sawyer, lumberjack, working
near the mouth of the river near Hope
for the Hope Lumber company. found
a human body among the logs. The
body was identified as that of A. G
Niles by Clyde Swain, Niles drowned
November 49, 1913, at Thompson Falls,
Montana
The heaviest fines ever imposed in
Bonner county for Bookkeeping were
assessed by Judge Wood recently in
the case OF Mr.. and Mrs. 0. A. Tooley
of Lakeview, formerly of Standpoint.
They We're fined 5000 each on two
counts, making with the court costs
total of $3.50.
After checking the petition calling
for local option election the
county commissioners at Lewiston
have decided it was in regular form
and with more than enough signatures
of qualified voters. The petition was
allowed and May q set as the date for
holding the election.
John Sprague, known at Cougar
Jack" old trapper, was drowned in the
north fork of the Clearwater river
recently near the mouth of the Orc
sinking of a raft upon which he at
tempted to cross. His home was at
Pierce and he had no family.
A mortgage foreclosure suit was
against e. e. Elliott, former president
of the University of Idaho. The
amount of the alleged debt is $4,000,
with interest, and the property Is
some 975 acres in the Kootenai valley.
Another mortgage foreclosure suit
filed was that of Denver p. Dayton
versus Jane Hawthorne ct al
On being shown dispatches which
made 1t indicate that war with Mexico
was imminent, Governor Haines wired
President Wilson that Idaho desires
to be the first state to offer the serv-
ices of her national guard. The tele.
gram added that the guard, consisting
of one fully organized and equipped
infantry regiment, is ready to start
for the front on short notice.
Through an action filed in the dis
trict court at Occur d'Alene, J. &.
White seeks to enjoin the county COM
missioners from carrying out a con-
tract recently entered into by them
with c. w. Pelham, by which a COM
plete cruise of all the timber land in
Kootenai county was to have been
furnished the county for the use of
the county assessor, to enable that
official to accomplish an equitable
assessment for taxation.
Last Saturday Turner and sons of
Nez Perez sold 500 tons of feed barley
to M. Fl. Houser at $3.50 per ton I. o.
b. Portland. and w. H. Bundy of Guild
esac sold 500 tons of brewing barley
to the Volmer-C Clearwater Grain COM
pany for about s23 per ton, f. o. b.
coast. Both sellers took loss of ap-
proximately $3.50 per ton from what
they were offered early in the season.
Barley and oats are lower than at
any time this year. and a lot of barley
still remains in the farmers hands.
HOTEL EXPLOSION KILLS NINE