Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-01-14
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

resident of Mullan, died Saturday Oh
old age.
The board of underwriters has given
notice of raise of six to ten per cent
on the insurance rates at Lewiston.
John Thyme, age 81, and for the
last 30 years resident of the Occur
d'Alene district, died recently from
liver complaint
State Senator J. e. Edwards of For
syth announces his candidacy for the
republican primaries.
William Henwood, age 6S, Familiarity
known to the residents of Hope as
Chicken Billy" was recently SEN
fenced to the asylum.
The annual convention of the Idaho
State Seed Growers association and
the big state seed show will be held
at Caldwell, January 10, 20 and 81.
Louis A. Blackman, recently appoint
ed member of the state board of hor-
ticulture, left Lewiston Sunday for
ing.
Former Senator Robert Neill, who
for two weeks has been battling with
injuries received in an accident, died
at his ranch near higgins, Idaho, Sat
urday night.
w. p Dave, former city clerk of
| hn cnnfpnpp6 tn
from one to ten years in the peni-
Tertiary for the alleged embezzlement
of $4,000 of city funds.
The annual meeting of the Idaho Mi
ming association has been postponed
from January Is to rs, on account of a
meeting of the state public utilities
commission in Wallace.
The banks of Wardner and Kellogg
reached their high water mark in de-
posits December 81. Within a year the
: deposits in the three banks have in
creased from 100000 to $707,679 the
growth of the community being cor
respondingly marked.
The Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany recently paid 1888 special schoo
tax under protest to the county treas
! urer for the districts Of Kendrick ant
Juliaetta Those districts levied |
, special school tax in excess OF mills
b which is declared the legal limit.
: The supreme court has set the fol
: lowing dates for that tribunal in 1916
: At Boise-First Monday of March
first Monday of October. At Lewiston
l. Fifth Wednesday of May; fourtl
q Monday of November. At Occur d'Al
8 ene-Second Monday in April; fourtl
: Monday of August.
/ All the property and holdings of tn
a Great Shoshone and Twin Falls Wa
ter Power company of Southern Idah
h were sold at auction at Twin Fall
J. Saturday for $2,OOO,OoO to F. F. Johr
J. son of Boise, acting for the Electri
g Investment company, with headqual
l. tiers at Boise The price paid was tn
i minimum price set by the Unite
E States district court in Nov, 1914, af
err the company had passed into tn
j.. hands of a receiver.
G Congressman Addison T. Smith c
d this state has been given membershi
n on the committee on public lands
d which is the most important of all tn
II house committees so far as western II
o terests are concerned. This commi
tee was given authority by resol'
!, ton of the house to sit during the no
~ Al; n n u
% been occupied in the consideration I
70 the water power bill, the leasing I
70 lands containing oil, gas and pho
l. pilates and other minerals, and tt
ar grazing 640-acre homestead bill.
-. =, The Idaho supreme court Saturda
held invalid the emergency emplo
a ment act passed by the last legisl
In ture. The opinion was written by Ju
N tice Morgan and concurred in by h
a associates. Application was made Il
or writ of mandate to compel Ada cou
o. ty commissioners to give emergen'
%, employment to those applying. III
10, commissioners refused on the grouI
IL the law was unconstitutional. The S
preme court denied the writ and 81
tanned the commissioners demurre
I 1t held that sections IL, 10, IA and
of the act are unconstitutional, and
being crippled in this way the emit
act is invalid.
g That the illness of Senator Brady
this state, which has prevented hi
III, attending this session of congress,
rs even taking the oath, is more serio
than his friends have indicated, W
or made plain following a consultation
nd which two Washington physicians a
m DR.. Fuchtles, heart specialist
or Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, particip
ed. A bulletin was given out SAT-
day announcing that the senator W
suffering from severe heart troub
the result of overwork. Absolute re
~ for two or three months, preferat
-, in another climate, Is held to be N
w aecory but II 10 admitted that the 81