Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-03-19
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

iDAT1O NE VS. Mules
Beginning Monday the Occur dsAlene
Journal will be run as an evening
daily.
Orchardists on the Snake river re-
port the apricot and peach trees
ready to burst into bloom.
Following the veto by Gov. Alexan.
der of the fish and game commission
bill, much interest centers on the an
pointment of a deputy game warden
for Shoshone county.
Reports from Enaville and other
points along the North Fork to the
effect that trout are being dyna-
mited nearly every day has aroused
the sportsmen of the district.
The trial of State Examiner A. r.
Van Nuys, formerly of Idaho Falls.
indicted and charged with perjury
before the grand jury, opened in the
third judicial district court at Boise
this week.
Frank Hye, found guilty of murder
in the second degree for the killing of
his wife October 4, at Elk City, was
sentenced to an indeterminate sem
tence of from 10 years to life in the
state pe%nitentiary.
Last Saturday William Smith, night
police officer at Grangeville, was Sc
verely cut in the leg in attempting
to arrest George Robinson, a blind
piano tuner, on a charge of being
drunk and d~isorderly.
Edward James Cunning, aged 80, a
brakeman and an athlete, lost his life
under the wheels of a Great North
ern freight train neal Laclede Fri
day. While there was no witness to
the accident, circumstances suggest
that he fell between cars.
Lewis A. Jones, United States
drainage engineer, in charge of the
survey being made of the Kootenai
river bottom lands from Crossport
to the international boundary line,
has organized a surveying party OF
16 men and is encamped at Copeland.
10 miles south of Port Hill. The
survey has been started at Port Hill
and will be carried upstream for SO
miles. Field work will be completed
about May Is. From the data col
lected by the survey, plans will be
made to reclaim the bottom lands
from the annual summer overflows
If the project proves feasible, the re
claimed lands will rank among the
richest of the northwest.
That congress will be represented al
the celebration by a joint committee
of nine representatives and three sen.
ators is the information conveyed by
Senator Borah in a communication to
the executive committee in charge of
The Dalles-Celilo canal opening car
nival to be held at Lewiston May 3.
Congressman Sinnott of Oregon in.
troduced the resolution providing for
the committee. Senator Brady as
sures the committee he has taken VI
with the war department the matter
of participation and of the probability
of its proper representation.
The Boise charter bill, in which he
discovered a joker in that it repealed
the commission form of government
in that city, together with the civil
service police force bill applying IL
Boise, and seven other acts were
vetoed by Gov. Alexander. Eight
other bills were signed, including
two measures directed TO common
carriers and authorizing the utility
commission to issue passes to state
officials and sheriffs and their depu
ties in their respective counties
They are house bills No. 129 and 100
The salary reduction bill was
signed, or house bill No. POI, reduc
ing the salary of the public utility
commissioners from $4,000 to $500
per annum.
The Conner bill, giving the war
den of the penitentiary $50 a month
additional salary, and two acts seek
ing to make the practicing Of sur
gerry without a license illegal wer,
vetoed. He also vetoed house bill
No. 1852, raising the salary of tn,
county commissioners.