Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-06-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The Kellogg council win have the
paving OF the business district Of the
city done by contract.
The cherry harvest is now practi-
cally closed ut 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 & Gushing 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 SO, of Winchester
was instantly killed mile north OF
Endicott Wash, when train struck
a big wagon which he was driving
Ward was deaf, and failed to hear the
approaching train,
has completed its new warehouse al
Orofino, affording facilities for hand
ling $4,000 bushels of grain. The CROP
outlook indicates that the building
will be none too large.
There will be no 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
ciple.
| The university summer school regis
tration at the end of the first week il
"a, as compared with ESQ at the END
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 out
notices to all the county superintend
ents of schools that no credits would
be authorized given to teachers hold
ing second grade certificates or lower
Only high school students and teach
ers holding third grade certificates
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 and
most productive bean wheel" of the
Inland Empire if not in the entire
northwest Within a radius of Is miles
of the above named towns there will
be raised this season $500 acres o.
beans. The yield is expected to ruI
from 700 to 1900 pounds per acre. Il
growers get the average yield of 95(
pounds the total would be 6,175,00(
pounds of beans from the above area
which, at cents pound, the prevail
ing price during the last three years
gives $185,250 as the result of sin
gle seasons crop. The price named il
for the crop just as it comes from the
machines, without being recleaned.
A coroner's inquest was held at HOp'
on the bodies of Pat Walsh and How
ard Shipley, prospectors, murdered IL
their cabin, near Green Monarch, Jun,
Is. No one knows who killed them
Walsh was SO years of age and Irish
Shipley was 81 and born in Iowa. Boil
were single and residents of Hope TO
25 years. Shipley was shot twice ant
Walsh three times. Both were foun'
lying face down under their bed, Gov
cred with 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 bed
The verdict was death caused by CUR
shot wounds fired by unknown partie;
All the shots were fired from the on
gun, any one of which would hav
caused death.