Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-06-08
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Herman J. Rossi of Wallace was
married at Boise Sunday to Mrs.
Bernice Johnson.
An amendment by Senator Borah,
to include Idaho in the area affect
ed by the 64O-acre homestead act,
was adopted by the senate.
The federal grand jury at Occur
d'Alene Saturday made it's report to
Judge Dietrich, indicting six individ-
uals and six corporations on a charge
of violating the United States stat
utes.
According to list prepared by
DR.. Jacob Breid, superintendent and
acting agent of the Nez Perez In
dian agency at Lapwai, there are 113
male Indians eligible to military reg
istration.
The county commissioners have
designated William Watkins, farmer
of Tammany, as superintendent of
the Nez Perez county poorfarm and
his wife will fill the position of
matron. They will take charge June
Is.
A meeting was held at Harrison
recently to form an organization of
lumber manufactures, farmers and
others who are vitality interested in
the dredging of the Spokane river
and other means of preventing dam
age to property by high water.
Funeral services were conducted
at Lewiston Sunday for Eleanor
and Uretta Boyer, who on March
30 were drowned in the Clearwater
river near the residence of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Boyer.
A constant patrol Is being kept of
the Clearwater and Snake rivers in
the hope of recovering the bodies.
Richard Stevens Of Escalon, Cal,
has closed a deal at Lewiston
whereby he sold to w. A. Green
his improved farm seven miles
southeast of Lewiston consisting
of 1923 acres for $50 an acre. Messrs.
Hollingsworth and Green acquired
the quarter section adjoining this
tract May 30 paying $50 an acre
with crop, making their investment
approximately $4,000.
Effective June 1, all employees of the
. Bunker Hill and Sullivan smelter were
granted bonus of rs cents day, &C.
cording to an announcement made by
Stanley A. Easton, manager of the
smelter. About 300 smetler employees
are affected. The bonus will run
from a minimum of 25 cents to max
imum of Is cents a day, based on the
lead market. Common laborers who
have been receiving SO per day at the
smelter will receive 1878 under the
new arrangement.
: The Occur d'Alenes experienced
touch of winter weather during Sat
. urday and Sunday and snow appeared
). on the mountains. In Burke snow fell
Y to a depth of three or four inches.
!. The drop in the temperature has so
3 far failed to lower the waters in the
South Fork, owing to the heavy rains
falling below the snow line Work of
. repairing the road between Wallace
and Kellogg is practically at a stand
still owing to the high stage Of the
! water, which prevents the hauling Of
q materials.
n The county commissioners at Sand
a point are arranging with the North
= ern Pacific for the use of flat car
to take autos and other vehicles
. across the Clarkfork river over the
$ railroad bridge, the ferry there being
v out of commission, cue to high
q water. If the arrangements go
n. through, this flatcar service will op-
=. crate between Clarks Fork and
q Ozona, the commissioners to install
loading platforms at each place to
allow such vehicles to reach the
IS cars. Charges for such service will be
d. paid by the people using it and not by
g the county.
= Messengers from Whitebird tell
:. of the ravages Of the freshet which
=, swept through that little town May
- 81 The bed of Whitebird creek is
about so yards from Main street,
n normally, but the swollen waters in
~ Thursdays storm swung the bulk of
g, the waters out of the regular course
g. and down the center of Main street,
Of where the water was three feet deep
n in places. The wing Of the school
e. building, made Of cement blocks,
le was washed away. A search of the
Is canyon for mile below town failed
to disclose any of the blocks. In a
-. successful effort to keep the high.
:. way bridge intact many buildings
- were blown up with dynamite when
', it became evident that they were
- going down the creek. One man
- lost his home and garden. His for.
e mer garden, tract of considerable
- length down the canyon, is now the
10 center of the stream Many citizens
~ sustained damage by the loss OF
garden tracts in this way. White.
: bird has suffered two disasterous
/, fires.