White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-10-20
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

DR.. F. S. Stirling, veteran practi
toner, died at Lewiston Sunday, aget
aged 80.
Mrs. l.. f. Williams, age 60, resi-
dent of Idaho for % years, died al
Lewiston recently.
The grand lodge of the Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows held ses
sion in Occur d'Alene City this week
On Cream ridge, near Lenore, 6
crop of beans was grown this season
that was valued at $50 an acre, which
was about the value per acre of the
land on which they were grown.
Relatives and friends in Moscow
have received news of the death il
Los Angeles of Henry c. Mcfarland
pioneer of Latah county and for many
years prominent hardware mer
chant.
| This has been an exceptionally
good bean year in the Clearwater val
ley. In the Gilbert region 600 acres
of beans have been harvested, the av
erage running better than 1000 lbs
to the acre.
Contract for logging three sections
of white and yellow pine timber near
Garwood, Idaho, has been let to Louis
Paul of that place by lumber com.
pany. The cut will be between s.,
100000 and 100000 feet.
Henry Thiessen, well-known Lewis
ton breeder and exhibitor of pure
bred Hereford CATTLE recently pur.
chsaed at Kansas City, at the Amer
lean Hereford association sale, the
pure-bred Hereford bull, Prince Ru-
pert S0th, paying $4,000.
According to the completed regis
tration lists from the rs voting pre-
cincts in Shoshone county the total
registration for the general election
in November is 1919. The total vote
at the general election in 1914 in the
county was 6055. The increase over
1914 is 1924.
John Kelley, an aged .laboring man
of Lewiston, is charged with having
become so addicted to the use of in
toxicating liquor as to have lost all
power Of self-control, and was bound
over to the district court. The old
man had drank Jamaica ginger and
other like beverages until he is in a
pitiable condition.
The condition. of Fred Stevens of
Lapwai creek, who was shot in the
right breast Friday night by Special
United States Officer Hanson, is crit
ical, pneumonia having set in. Spe-
cial Officer Hanson and Officer Min
mis- are engaged in the suppression Of
bootlegging on the reservation. Sto-
ries regarding the shooting conflict
The Moscow council has passed an
ordinance providing for the construc-
ton of septic tank, dosing cham
Der and filter beds, together with
an enlargement of the sewer system
of the city. The maximum cost is to
be $4,000; the estimate of the city
engineer is $4,000. The revenue is
to be derived from a special levy on
+ ali the taxable property 81 the city.
Within 40-mile circle, with the
towns of .Juliaetta and Kendrick be-
ing taken as the centers, a crop of
beans was grown this season repre-
senting valuation of more than
100000. The figures are based on
an estimate of 10000 acres of beans,
with an average yield of 1000 pounds
per acre. and at the present price of
6 cents pound just as they come
from the threshing machines
Herman j. Rossi, former mayor OF
Wallace and chairman of the exec
utive committee of the Idaho state
board of education, was declared not
guilty by the jury Saturday of hay
ing murdered Clarence Dahlquist in
a hotel at Wallace, on the evening
of June 80 last Rossi, following dis
covery that Dahlquist had spent two
nights and a day at his home with
Mrs. Rossi, while he was on a trip
to Boise, met Dahlquist in the hotel,
assaulted him with a revolver and
shot him, the victim dying the fol-
lowing day.