Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-02
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

accidentally burned to death Saturday.
Commissioner of Education Edward
O. Sisson of this state will continue
his educational work, which he I'M
dertook two years ago.
Superintendent Frank w. Simmonds
of the Lewiston public schools, has
been reelected for three years at
meeting of the trustees.
Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary
of agriculture, and Henry S. Graves,
chief forester, will visit the forest re-
serves of Idaho this summer.
Seventy-five thousand acres of non
irrigable land in southern Idaho have
been released for homesteads, effect
i've May 10. About 10000 acres are
designated under section s, by which
residence is not required.
The safe in Erb Bros. store at
Greer was blown recently and about
$3.50 in money taken A rifle had been
taken from the case, new box of
cartridges opened and the rifle load
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the street entrance, where one bur-
glar had apparently stood guard. The
safe was muffled with blankets,
clothing and bolts piled thereon. The
papers in the safe were scattered
around. Merchandise was also taken.
Damian Gardener pioneer prOspec-
tor and business man, and an owner
of the Hercules mine, died recently in
Barcelona, Spain. Mr.. Gardener came
| to the Occur d'Alenes in 1885, and
after engaging in business on small
scale, first in Mullan and afterward
in Murray, he opened mercantile
establishment in Burke in 1887. He
was II years of age, and is sur
vived by a widow and daughter The
daughter married a French resident of
Barcelona
An unprecedented demand from
Milwaukee and other eastern brow
cries within the last 80 days has
shifted the market for white winter
barley from Coast points, resulting in
approximately 1900 tons of this com
modify being routed to Chicago an6
ST. Paul from the country tributary
to Lewiston. This demand apple!
exclusively to barley for brewing
purposes, leaving the blue or feet
barley to depend on Coast demand
: and local consumption for market.
Maggie Conway, formerly OF Mack
q, of Hailny
Idaho on charge of numbering Dan
lei Winters, wealthy sheepman, II
September, 1918. The arrest followe
the detention in the county jail
Ogden, Utah, of Mr.. and Mrs. Rober
( Switzerland, who are being held a
!, material witnesses. Winters bod
l was found about 100 feet from tn
+ house where the Conway woman live
q and an examination of his stomac
showed he had died from poisoning.
The controversy waged between oil
Y members of the state board of hort
} cultural inspection and the governor
0 who insisted on control of the boar
r through new appointees, resulted Sa
; urday in the governor coming OF
victorious in the contest when f.
!. Stephens of Nampa was elected pre-
n ident, and Guy Graham of New Pl.
mouth state horticultural inspector
y succeed C. X. Macy, the candidat
!. of the old members in opposition
!. the governor Charges and counte
charges of bad faith and politics
influence have been made during tn
e controversy until it became Of stat
wide interest.
nj Following closely on the filing of a
|. ticles of incorporation, directors of tn
a Lewiston. Nez Perez & Eastern Raj
way company perfected organizatic
Saturday at Lewiston electing of
GERS as follows: President, z. A. job
son; vice president, John p. Vollmel
secretary, D. S. Wallace; treasure
Ivan Jorgens. The preliminary stel
D. for bond issue of $5,0O0,000 were t
IS ken. The first issue will be for 81
l. $4,000, this being sufficient to tai
d over the holdings of the NeZ Perez
A. Idaho road from Nez Perez to Vo
s. mer and Lewiston to Tammany al
A. also extend the road to the Waha prs
II RE which is contemplated for tn
e year.
The joint indictment standir
against State Auditor Fred l.. HUI
). ton and James H. Wallis, former pul
= food commissioner. was dismissed
district court at Boise Saturday, |
result of divided opinion of the S
- preme court quashing a true BIZ
The opinion granted a writ of habes
= corpus applied for by Huston, WI
- admitted technical incarceration
! the sheriff Of Ada county A majorit
- opinion was written by Chief Justit
Sullivan and concurred in by Justi,
4 Alfred Bulge. Justice Morgan di
: sents. The indictment alleges tn,
Huston Incorporated public funt
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