Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-02-05
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

bank examiner has been confirmed.
Senator Brady is making an effort
to have the war department establish
a remount station at Boise barracks.
There are only two remount stations
west of the Mississippi river, one in
| Montana and the other in Nevada.
Renewah county, the new county
! carved out of Kootenai by the present
legislature and OF which st. Maries is
to be the county seat, received its
name from a famed Indian chief who
ruled over that country in ages long
gone by.
Nez Perez County Good Roads asso-
citation has decided to divide the u
ty into four districts, secure a county
bond issue to improve the highways in
the different districts and also apply
on needed improvements in the differ
ent districts a portion of the money
raised by taxation.
Our governor made clear his atu-
tude as to pardons several days ago,
when he opposed pardons for two
murderers and two assailants of wom-
EN- These four men were pardoned,
however, by the %pardoning board. VINO
ruled hat sufficient punishment had
been administered.
To get closer to the people and their
needs the Idaho public utilities COM
mission has decided on a plan of pro-
cedure whereby it will go into the var
ious districts OF the state, e the
taxpayers and give personal study to
the public utilities that are serving
the people. North Idaho is to receive
the first of these official visits by
the entire commission and it is ex-
peeted that the Panhandle will be Wis
tied next April.
District court opened Tuesday at
Grangeyille. The calendar contains
rs cases, of which nine are criminal
and IL are suits for divorce. There
| are rs cases carried over from last
term. There are two murder cases.
| Frank Hye of Elk City is charged
with murder in the first degree as a
result of the killing of his wife, Mrs.
| Alma Hye, and Hugh Kennedy last
fall. One Smith is charged with first
degree murder as the result of a
quarrel among the bridge gang in a
bunk car on a siding west of Cotton
wood in November.
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.
The bill creating a game reserve in
the central part of the state passed
the senate.
A bill making all kinds of peddlers,
except those dealing in farm products,
get a license was passed.
;. The senate passed the house concur
rent resolution, by Johnston, to permit
, removal of the state furniture to the
; Idaho building at the San Francisco
exposition.
The state highway commission is
Recommending that the Legislature
bond the state for 100000 to build q
state highway from Lewiston to the
south of the state.
The most important bill which has
passed the house gives power to the
educational board to sell $4,000 acres
of land per year instead of only 16,
900 acres as heretofore.
A bill by Representative Johnston Of
Bingham county to put in force the
initiative, referendum and recall
which has lain dormant for four years
is notable for it's brevity.
Senate bill No. 3, the so-callet
} "glanders bill" purposes to reimburse
1877 farmers and companies whose
horses were destroyed during the las
two years by the. state veterinarian
when the. animals were found to BIZ
suffering from CHAMBERS.
Strong protest is being raised in the
north Idaho counties W. the game
bill which was recently submitted tt
the state legislature. The objections
are principally urged against the tres
l pass features of the bill, and thu
I shortening of the game seasons.
The house passed the Koelsch air
E gun bill, prohibiting the sale or use o
airguns in Idaho, and passed the Shat
tuck act, reducing the interest on de
linquent taxes from IS to 10 per cen
S and removing the penalty for failur
to pay the second installment of taxes
Senator L.. R. Thomas of Bingham
county is sponsor of a new "lazy hus
] band" act, Endorsed by women's OF
d CARNATIONS throughout Idaho. TIL
n proposed measure, in addition to max
q ing it a crime for a husband to fai
d to support his family, provides, in SEE
ton 2, "a wife, charged with the lega
duty of supporting her husband an
having the ability SO to do, who, will
/ out just cause, deserts, or wilfully n,
u elects or refuses to provide for hi
q support and maintenance in destitut
or necessitous circumstances, is guilt
D of a crime" Both parents are held n
re sponsible for the support of childre