Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-09-17
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Andrew Swanson, age SO, died re
Gently at Moscow
Fourth annual Clearwater count,
fair will be held at Orofino Septembe
30-October H.
Recently Grangeville firm shipped
II 600 pounds of merchandise to Ell
City by parcels post.
Council is to have a new, modern
creamery, equipped with the --latest
butter making machinery.
Inspectors for the French govern
ment recently purchased seven car
loads of horses at Caldwell
The funeral If Judge James w. Poe
was held Saturday at Lewiston, under
the auspices of the Nez Perez County
Pioneer association.
Rupert farmers are assured a. steady
market for their surplus alfalfa by the
establishment of an extensive alfalfa
meal mill at that point.
Samples of Sudan grass raised in
Canyon county this year show that the
crop attains a height of five or six
feet quite readily in Idaho.
Active construction of the highway
leading from Wallace, Ida, to Thomp-
son Falls, Mont, by way of the Gid
den pass, commenced Monday.
One of the most enthusiastic live
stock organizations in Idaho is the
Central Idaho Cattle and Horse Grow.
ers' association, Scott Vaught, secre-
tary, Mackay, Idaho.
An ordinance was recently introduc.
ed at meeting of the council at Occur
dAlene city, requiring all poolhalls to
close at IL p. m. Heretofore they have
remained open until IL.
Six hundred and twenty acres of
white pine timber in section Is, town.
ship 40, Latah county, recently was
sold to the Potlatch Lumber company
for $4,000 at public auction recently.
The recapitulation statement issued
by the state treasurer showing the
balances on hand in the several funds
carried at the end of August, gives a
grand total balance of 1921 ,454.7O in
the treasury.
Weiser and Payette have organized
motor associations and will probably
Join in the Southern Idaho Motor as.
ISOLATION, which expects to assist in
he lniOn IF oil cOu<bocv, %ouun l. =.
duce tourists from Yellowstone Ma.
tional park to come through Idaho.
The Hecla first aid squad won the
Occur d'Alene first aid contest silver
,rophy cup at Wallace Sunday with a
score Of 99A. Nine teams were en-.
cred. The manner in which the un.
foreground workers bandaged imagin.
Try wounds, made temporary stretch
RS and otherwise attended injured
vorkmen bespoke the thoroughness Of
Instruction.
Above Arrowrock dam, in the basin
i the Boise river, it is estimated that
here are 6,000,000,OOO feet of mel.
hantable timber. Sawed into lumber
'orth, say, $12 thousand, this would
epresent a value of $36,OOO,OOO. It is
wned by the United States govern
lept, the Boise Payette Lumber COM
any and number of others with
mailer holdings. This timber is to
g cut in the immediate future, driven
own the Boise river and converted
ito lumber at the mills IA miles be.
wv the Arrowrock dam, and Just out.
de the city of Boise.
The county attorney at Moscow has
led suit In the district court against
ounty Commissioner John l.. Woody
Kendrick and A. B. Mcintyre of
rinceton, Deputy Sheriff ]. E. Hall,
former county commissioner; Coun-
Auditor H. E. Estes and Treasurer
nth w. Broman for alleged wrongful
precipitation end payment of public
lnds to the Latah County Fair asso-
alton and the Children's Home Find. ,
e and Aid society of Idaho, at Lew (
ton, both during 1911, amounting to
bout $3.50. The action was started at
le request Of A. A. Anderson, a resi-
INT taxpayer of Latah county. {
1dahos amendatory local option law.
I'D to be one of the most stringent in
70 United States, operative now in
'ohibiticn counties, and which will
'ply to this ctate as a whole on and !
ter January 1, 1916, is constitutional ,
every form. This is the sweeping :
ling Of the state supreme court in 7
opinion handed down at Boise, Sat. ,
day. 1t is held to be not in contra 3
milton CT section one Of the four ;
enth amendment of United States;
title Is not defective; each and :
cry part of it comes within the SUBJ :
ct CT general legislation; 1t does not a
ohibit surgeons, physicians, dentists :
hospitals from using pure alcohol 6
r medicinal purposes as contended =
i'd prohibition districts do not now q
we to vote on the adoption, says the q
urt.