White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-12-01
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

II IDAHO NEWS NOTES
| There will be no repeal of the di.
rect primary law by the next legis-
lature.
According to the recorder of Ben
ewah county 1879 persons voted on
election day.
! William B. Mcfarland, county as
sessor-elect, age 40, died Saturday at
Occur d'Alene City.
| Miss Letitia Frizzell of Grangeville
was the queen Of the Northwest Live
Stock show at Lewiston this week.
1 The Culdesac postoffice has been
raised to third class office and the
postmaster placed on a salary, with
clerk hire and office rent paid by
the government.
Mites Millacich, who was charged
with killing Charles Bolin at Fern
wood on or about July Is, was found
guilty Of murder in the second de-
gree in the district court at st.
Maries.
Theodore Mattson purchased from
G. j. McGrath, 24O acres in Garden
Gulch, near Culdesac, for $4,000, in
Guiding personal property. Mr.. Matt
son is now the owner of section
Of land in that vicinity.
W. s. Cox, formerly successful
farmer on Fix ridge, has purchased
the j. F. Scheele farm of 400 acres
on the Big Potlatch ridge. The place
is well improved in having a modern
dwlling, large barns and other build
ings. The consideration was 100000.
Information from the Buffalo Hump
country is to the effect that all eff
forts to find trace of Pete John
son, pioneer mining man of the dis
trict who has been missing now over
two weeks, had been unsuccessful
and little doubt remains in the minds
OF friends that he has joined the
list of those who have met death
alone in the primitive mountain life.
The state of his cabin and belong
ings were such to preclude the be-
lief that he had intended a prolonged
absence.
Henry Ruff succumbed to the in
juries received when he was mis-
taken for a deer and shot in the
Clearwater meadows district, about
20 miles from Grangeville, Thursday.
Prince johnson and his father had
gone to the meadows for hunt, and,
being intimate friends of Ruff, we're
engaged in hunting when the acct
dent occurred.
Ruff had killed a dear, and was
engaged in getting the animal out Of
the brush. Prince Johnson, getting
a glimpse of the moving deer from
the opposite side of the draw, took
sight and fired, killing Ruff.
A revision of legislative figures
shows the senate stands 81 to 16
democratic, with 19 necessary to con-
troll, and the house stands SO to 20
democratic, with SO necessary to con-
troll. Ada, Bannock, Benewah, Bon
ner, Bonneville, Canyon, Gilmore, Ere
mont, Franklin, Gem, Gooding, Idaho
Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida,
Owyhee, Power, Shoshone, Teton and
Washington counties elected demo
cratic senator's, while Adams, Bear
Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Boun-
Diary, Cassia, Clearwater, Custer, Koo-
tenai, Latah, Lemhi, Lincoln, Mini
doka, Nez Perez and Twin Falls elect
ed republicans.
Idaho is destined to be divided into
two congressional districts, the First
and Second. The next legislature
will see to that. Equalization of pop
ulation in SO far as possible will bal
ance the districts. The first will con-
stitute the eight northern counties
and Adams, Washington, Gem and
either Ada or Canyon, Custer and
possibly Lemhi. All other counties
south Of those named will constitute
the second district. To each dis
trict one congressman will be assign
ed. Such is the tentative plan that
political leaders are now attempting
to figure out. The democrats are in
favor Of districting, and as they con-
troll the legislature-elect they will
have the last word in the carving of
Idaho. This is but one of the i'm
portant legislative steps planned by
members-elect. 1t will carry out a
well-defined legislative plan that is
to be whipped into shape between
now and January /, 1917.
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