Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-11
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Sylvester Maxwell, aged "A, a pio-
neer mining man and part owner in
the Hercules mine, died recently.
Howard Miller, superintendent of
the Belknap Indian agency, has been
transferred to the Fort Hall, Idaho,
agency.
John Chandler, SO years of age and
a resident of the central part of Ida
no most of the time since 1897, died
recently at Orofino.
A committee from the various Odd
Fellows lodges of the Occur d'Alenes
have arranged plans for a district con-
v~ention October 5, when the patriarch
al degree will be exemplified at Wal
lace.
All dogs in Kellogg will be kept in
quarantine, according to the orders
Issued recently by Chief of Police
Trask, in accordance with instructions
received from the state veterinarian.
The hydrophobia scare was started in
Wallace last month and the edict of
the state officers covers the entire
county.
The Snake river has reached a mark
of two-tenths of a foot above low water
and grain men anticipate that it will
be late in the season before the grain
can be moved from the river points, as
the river must raise considerable be-
fore the O.-W. r. & N. steamers will
be able to operate with safety. There
will be 1000, 900 bushels of wheat to
be moved from river points by the two
steamers, the Spokane and Lewiston.
Pledging their. candidates for state
and county office for statewide prohi-
bition and launching them on the po-
litical sea aboard a platform that is
distinctly dry, the prohibition party of
this state in convention assembled pri-
mary election day at Caldwell nominal
ted a full ticket, from United States
senator down to mine inspector, and
in Canyon county a complete county
ticket.
After several months, delay all OBJ
~stacles have been cleared away for ex-
tending the pavement from the North
ern Pacific and ~Oregon-Washington
Railroad & Navigation company de-
pots to the university campus at Mos
COW and bids have been called for to
be opened September 25. The kind of
pavement is to be selected after the
bids have been opened. Tenders are
being asked on 29 different kinds of
pavement.
The distinction of being the Oldest
living master Mason is claimed by S.
B. Connolly of Placerville, Idaho, who
attended the annual convention of the
Masonic grand lodge at Occur d'Alene
City this week. Mr.. Connolly, who is
a past grand master, is SO years old,
active as many men so years his jul
Nor. He has been a Mason nearly 70
years; and has attended nearly every
grand lodge session in Idaho.
A special train carrying IT'S men
from Spokane, were sent Saturday to
the fire O rs miles east of Orofino.
This makes 800 men now employed by
the government forestery service and
400 by the Clearwater Fire Protective
association working in the vicinity of
Washington creek, Elk mountain and
the Musselshell country, in which dis
tricts great bodies of white pine tim
Der have been destroyed and as much
more is in danger of being burned.
Shoshone county's assessed valua-
ton for the year 1914 is $40, 713, SAG, as
fixed by the state board of equaliza-
ton, according to State Auditor Hus-
tons certificate, which has been re-
ceived by the county auditor at Wal
lace. This valuation is exclusive of
the personal property roll, which is
not yet completed, and which last year
amounted to $4S4,S71 and would make
this years valuation $40, 198, 71S, or an
increase of approximately $2,000,0 900.
The value of all property reported to
the state board exclusive of railroads,
telegraph, telephone and electric
transmission lines, was $13,130, 756.
This valuation was increased only
$16,463.