Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-10-12
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

the Union Trust company permission to
sell, as receiver, the plant of the Fidel.
ity Lumber company of Newport to j.
X. Stanland for S3O,OOO.
The funeral of the late M. M. Beach
was conducted Saturday at Lewiston
from the residence of his son, r. c.
Beach, the Rev. ID. j. w. Somerville OF
the Episcopal church officiating.
Fire from an unknown cause com
pletely destroyed the Boomers Ferry
planning mill of the Boomers Ferry
Lumber company Sunday. The loss is
estimated at $4,000, covered by insur.
ance.
Plans for the big harvest festival and
barbecue to be held at Lapwai, October
10 and 20 ARE well under way. Arrange
ments have been made with the Nez
Perez Indians to participate in two big
parades and follow with dances.
The state of Idaho will subscribe her
$12,000,000 quota of the second Lib
erty loan inside 10 days, is my belief"
declared Governor Moses Alexander.
'"The people of Idaho are of one mind
and one sentiment. There is nothing
thought of but to aid in prosecuting
the var to successful conclusion as
soon as possible"
Probably not in 20 years have con-
ditions been better for the farmers than
the present fall in the matter of seed
ing fall crops. The early rains placed
the ground in ideal condition for work.
ing and the summer falloW was there
by enabled to be seeded early and fall
blowing begin. A record acreage will
be seeded throughout this territory I'M
der exceptional soil conditions.
John Libstad, miner of Mullan, was
arrested recently charged with being an
accomplce of Alex Kuhn in the MUIR
der of Godfrey Peterson. Peterson was
shot during an alteration near Sildex,
Mont, and died as result of his in
jury. Kuhn escaped from the scene OF
the shooting and was captured at Taft.
Peterson, before he died, accused Kuhn
of firing the shot.
The secretary of the Northwest Live
Stock show, to be held at Lewiston, has
received definite assurance from Gov
ernor S. V. Stewart of Montana and
James Withycombe of Oregon of their
personal attendance on the opening day
of the show. The acceptance of Cover
nor Ernest Lister of Washington had
previously been received. Governor Al
exander expects to be able to persuade
the governors of Utah and Nevada to
attend also.
Kootenai county residents by vote
of 624 for and II against, Saturday ap-
proved the $4,000 bond issue for the
improvement of the road from Occur
d'Alene City to Wallace through Fourth
of July canyon. This stretch is on the
National Parks highway. The amount
to be spent in road work is S150,OOO
which is to be furnished as follows
$4,000 United States government, $780,
600 state of Idaho, $4,000 Shoshone
county, $4,000 Kootenai county. The
state will be asked to bid on the bonds.
The contract will be let as soon as pos
sible. The federal good roads engineer,
with headquarters at Denver, will have
charge of construction.
Day brothers, mining operators Of the
Occur d'Alenes, Saturday carried $780,
825 in gold coin into the office of the
clerk of the court at Wallace to be paid
to the Interstate Callahan Mining COM
pany, in accordance with the decree of
the court.
Judge Flynn had overruled the appli-
cation of the mining company for SUI
persedeas bond whereupon the Days
deposited the money. The Interstate
company is directed to issue deed 10
Patrick Burke for the Amazon Manhat-
tan mining claims.
These properties were sold to the In
terstate- Callahan company by H. M
Davenport and others for the amour,
involved. Judge Flynn originally held
that the deal was good, but he was
overruled by the supreme court and the
ruling Saturday is in accord with the
decision of the higher court in which
it was decided that Burke was entitled
to the property, but that he should re-
imburse the Interstate Callahan for the
amount it had paid for the claims. The
DAYS are backing Burke.