Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-23
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Judge Steele convened court for Nez
Perez county at Lewiston Monday.
Mrs. George A. Frost, a pioneer
woman OF Lewiston, was stricken with
apoplexy recently.
Lapwai plans better roads A bond
issue is proposed and publicity cam
paign is to be pushed.
The Peoples Store at Juliaetta was
entered Saturday by burglars and
$40 taken from the safe. which was
not locked.
The Nez Perez Rochdale company
has purchased for $500 the two Kerr
Clifford warehouses at Greer, and will
assume charge July l.
The steamer Inland Empire, first
of the steamers to arrive at Lewiston
from the Cello canal, locked at the
Snake river landing Sunday.
Mike Disarro, an Italian, employed
by the Northern Pacific railway as
trackwalker, was held up and robbed
by three men near Athol Sunday
At an early hour Sunday the Ramey
hotel at Vollmer was destroyed by
fire. entailing loss of about &c..
900. 1t is not known how much in
surance was carried.
u. Baker Davis died at Harrison re.
Gently of appendicitis. He was in the
dry goods business there for years,
prior to which he was in the imple-
ment business in Pomeroy, Wash.
In the case against Peter L. Orcutt,
charged with criminal libel by Blair E.
Hoar, former county treasurer, and
now receiver of public moneys of the
United States land office, Lewiston,
the jury rendered verdict of not
guilty.
Levi Dixon, farmer north of Nez
Perez, was arrested recently by the
sheriff on warrant sworn out by w.
Harbke, charging assault with dead
ly weapon The complaint alleges that
Dixon shot at Harbke several times.
Dixon was placed under bonds.
Between 60 and 70 men under For
est Ranger c. f. Middleton are en-
gagged in planting 100000 yellow pine
and larch seedlings in the Pend Or
ellie forest, near Bayview The work
started this week and is expected to
take couple of weeks. The plants
come from the government nursery
at Hangar, Mont, and are but few
inches high.
The body of Isaac Makenen, a lum-
berjack, of Enaville, lies in the morgue
as the result of an alleged murderous
assault by John Hatela, his roommate
and coworker, at the home of Mrs. J.
Louma, near Enaville. Two women
say they witnessed the killing. Make
men made his bed on the floor and lay
down to sleep, but Hatela is said to
have jumped upon his victim with his
heavy hobnailed boots, literally cutting
| him to ribbons. He then took large
knife and slashed Makenen's throat, it
is alleged. He has escaped.
The Kootenai county commissioners
protested to Governor NJ Alexander
against the appointment of John V.
Stanley of Bonner county as third ap-
praiser to settle the valuation of the
county records and other property,
made necessary by the creation of Ben
ewah county. Mr.. Stanley comes from
Boundary, another recently created
county. and on that ground the pro-
test is made. The dispute which has
arisen between Appraisers Means and
Sargent is whether the county records
shall be valued, and If so, what val.
uation shall be placed on them The
governor has signified his willingness
to appoint disinterested person.
Soap Bark or Saponin Barred.
j. X. White, food commissioner of
Idaho, has made the following ruling
with regard to the use of soap bark or
saponin in soft drinks:
For some time this department has
had under investigation the use of
soap bark or saponin by manufacturers
of soft drinks.
Soap bark or saponin is produce
which has been quite generally used
in the manufacture of soft drinks,
especially in soda waters, pops, near
beers, ginger ales, lemonades, ETC., to
give the appearance of foam or effer-
vescence to initiate beer or carbonized
water.