Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-12-11
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Wheat reached the highest mark of
the year in Lewiston Monday, forty
fold selling for $1.16 and club for
$1.05.
John Henry Seims, a German living
north of Nez Perce, committed sui
eide Sunday. He became demented
over the war.
Mrs. Mamie Sheppard's ranch of
100 acres, two miles west of Nez Perez,
has been sold to John Wemhoff of Ne
braska for $13,250.
A long drawn out contest between
the homesteaders and the miners on
Pine creek is beginning to threaten
serious trouble, according to reports
reaching Wallace.
Felix Corbett, a well-known mem
Der of the Nez Perez tribe, was buried
Sunday at Kamiah. Corbett was 81
years old and one of the best known
Indians on the reservation.
Compilation of election returns fig
ures in Boise show that the social
lists failed to poll 10 per cent of the
vote and, accordingly, will have no
place on the primary ticket in the next
| election.
Several horse buyers have been in
the Nez Perez section the last 10 days
buying horses for the English, to be
.-zl -. A. pro- T1o pfioac runOnH
from SOS to $125. Several carloads
have been purchased.
The various committees at Lewis
ton which have been in charge of Sc
curing contributions to the Belgian
~Irelief fund reported Monday collec-
lions of $6S3.14 in cash, 1925 pounds
of flour, $50 pounds of beans and 134
pounds of rice.
The governor has started a school
for political job aspirants, parts of the
examination questions being:
How would you reduce the expenses
of the office to which vol aspire?
How would you give greater eff
cheney in the office to which you as.
pire, at the same time employing
fewer clerks and deputies than have
been employed in the past?
Governor John M. Haines has dele.
gated Senator Brady and Represent
ative Smith in congress to represent
Idaho's attitude as regards acts OF
Great Britain and other foreign coun.
tries to restrict the shipments of cop
per, ore and coal from the United
States during the wal in Europe. They
have hopes for some plan to raise the
embargo against these minerals.
Compilation of figures in Boise fol
lowing the recent official count of the
November vote in the state shows thai
of the 33 counties is went republican
IL democratic, one progressive ant
four were a tie in the division of coun
ty Offices. The 33 counties elected
800 officials, including legislative anC
county tickets, and of this numbeI
the republicans elected 279, the demo
Gratis 1872, the progressives 16 and th'
socialists three.
= Pursuant to a law passed by tn
Legislature in 1913, State Auditor Free
l.. Huston has sent a request to thu
heads of all state institutions in Ida
no telling them to file a report of thu
expenses of their institutions for tn
|, last two years, and an estimate OF eH
t penses for the coming two years. tn
| report to reach the auditor not late
> than December Is, 1914. Failure I
comply with the request will merit
fine of not exceeding $500.
The annual report of Secretary "
D. Humiston of the Potlatch Timbe
Protective association, the largest c
I! the five associations of north Idaho
recently completed, shows that it COS
i this association 25A cents per acr
: to protect against fire 100000 acre
of timber lands last year, the total ~
ing $100,217, the heaviest in man
years. The states proportion amour
ed to $3.50. The national forestr
service is charged $14,157 and the tin
Der companies with the remainder.