Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-09-24
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

This is the big week of the year in
sporting circles.
The county commissioners at Lew
iston fixed the tax levy at 10 mills.
The county commissioners fixed the
tax levy for Lewis county at Is mills.
The Boise assay office receipts for
the past two months have been $685.
900.
Roseberry has the only flour mill in
Long valley, with a daily capacity Of
rs barrels.
At the last monthly sale of horses
held at Caldwell over 600 horses were
sold in two days.
Power county will enter into con-
tract for the employment of a county
agricultural expert.
The state and county general levy
was fixed at 1917 mills by the Koote-
mai county commissioners.
The sheriff of Canyon county has no.
titled all owners of slot machines in
that county to quit their use.
Regular automobile service between
Nampa and Boise, passing through Me-
ridian, has been inaugurated.
Lou Obermyer of Emmett reports he
has picked and shipped nine carloads
of melons from ten acres of land
The cut of the Craig Mountain Lum-
Der company at Winchester for the
year will amount to 33 100000 feet.
The quality of prunes being picked
at Weiser is exceptionally good this
season but prices are low, only SIG a
ton.
The only fair to be held in Bonner
county this fall will take place at Sa.
gle the afternoon of Saturday, Septem.
Der 25.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker of Aberdeen
Wash, has been appointed dean OF
women at the Idaho state normal
school at Lewiston.
What is known as the LOOP" a rail
road line which circles the valley from
Idaho Falls to st. Anthony, has beer
completed by the Oregon Shore Line.
A. L. Richardson, clerk of the United
recently. He was "A years old ant
came to Idaho from Missouri in 1861.
The state land board intends to sys
tematize the loan business of that de
partment by dividing the state int
districts, and loans will be made il
each district every sixty days.
Conductor Fred Woods is in tn
hospital at Whitefish as the result o
gunshot wound in the head, inflicte,
by himself, either accidentally or witt
suicidal intent. The wound is though
to be fatal.
The Idaho delegation, headed by el
Governor James H. Hawley, ex-govel
nor and ex-senator from Idaho. b
reaching Portland Saturday achieve
the honor of being first on the groun
for the western states water powe
conference this week.
A coroner's jury at Wallace invest
eating the cavein at the Success min
recently, which resulted in the instan
death of Amandus Larson and Be1
Oman, brought in verdict of deaf
by unavoidable accident, attaching n
blame to the company.
The tax levy of Benewah county ha
been fixed at IA mills. This is tw
mills lower than last year, when Bel
ewah was a part of Kootenai count!
The assessed property of the count
is approximately $10.0OO,00O, and tn
amount of money to be raised approx
mately $4,000.
Having been blown up several time
by premature blasts and "misse
holes" during his eventful career
the Occur d'Alenes without sustain
ing serious injuries, 1t has rename
for James Callahan, a real pioneer {
the region, to become victim {
ptomain poisoning, with fair chance
of serious illness resulting.
Word has been received at Nc
Perez that T. F. Jacobs, a farmer IL
liz three miles south of town, wa
awarded gold medal at the Panama
Pacific exposition for wheat. Waite
Hoover won the silver medal for oat
raised on his farm and Erlan Olso
was awarded the silver medal for ba
ley raised on his ranch near town.
The state land board instructed tn
state treasurer to at once notify a
land owners upon whose lands tn
state holds mortgages as security II