Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-04-23
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

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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 a 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 1.
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
MOTEL at Vollmer was destroyed by
fire. entailiLg a loss of about S10,-
600. 1t is not known how much in
surance was carried.
E. 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 a verdict of not
guilty.
Levi Dixon, a farmer, north of Nez
Perez, was arrested recently by the
sheriff on a warrant sworn out by W
Harbke, charging assault with a dead
ly weapon. The complaint alleges that
Dixon shot at Harbke several times
Dixon was placed under bonds.
Between so and 10 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 worl
started this week and is expected t.
take a couple of weeks. The plants
come from the government nurser!
at Haugan, Mont, and are but a few
inches high.
The body of Isaac Makenen, a lum
berjack. of Enaville, lies in the morgu,
as the result of an alleged m~urderou'
assault by John Hatela, his roommate
and coworker, at the home of Mrs. ]
Louma, near Enaville. Two wome1
say they witnessed the killing. Make
men made his bed on the floor and la!
down to sleep, but Hatela is said Il
have jumped upon his victim with hi
heavy hobnailed boots, literally cutting
him to ribbons. He then took a larg
knife and slashed Makenen's throat, i
is alleged. He has escaped.
The Kootenai county commissioner
protested to Governor NJ. Alexande
against the appointment of John V
Stanley of Bonner county as third az
praiser to settle the valuation of tn
county records and other property
made necessary by the creation of Ber
ewah county. Mr.. Stanley comes fror
Boundary, another recently create,
county, and on that ground the Pre-
test is made. The dispute which ha
arisen between Appraisers Means an
Sargent is whether the county record
shall be valued, and if so, what va
uation shall be placed on them. TIL
governor has signified his willingness
, to appoint a disinterested person.
Soap Bark or Saponin Barred.
J. K. White, food commissioner
Idaho, has made the following ruin
with regard to the use of soap bark
r saponin in soft drinks:
For some time this department ha
had under investigation the use {
, soap bark or saponin by manufacturer
; of soft drinks.
Soap bark or saponin is a produC
7 which has been quite generally use
in the manufacture of soft drink
especially in soda waters, pops, ne;
beers, ginger ales, lemonades, etc.,
II give the appearance of foam or effe
t. vescence to initiate beer or carbonize
water.