Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-01-25
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Snow covered the Lewiston valley
Sunday.
Matthew Watcher, a pioneer around
Juliaetta, died recently, age Is.
Mrs. Tabitha Ogden died Thursday
at Moscow, after a lingering illness
Following recent operation at
Lewiston, John Haines, age 6S, sue
cumbed.
The first electric train came in Sat
urday last to Avery on the Milwau-
kee. road.
Ted Sullivan of Company A, Idaho
national guard, now at Boise, died
recently of pneumonia
Columbus Clark of Fix ridge has
purchased $4,000 worth of farm and
city property in and near Genesee.
The legislature paid respect to the
memory of the late Admiral George
Dewey January IS, by adjourning for
day.
The coal shortage in Idaho has be-
come SO serious that resolution was
introduced before the legislature ask
ing for an investigation.
Citizens of Occur d'Alene held an
Indignation meeting Sunday to pro-
test against the holding of the Idaho
National Guard in camp.
The Idaho Supply Store at Lapwai
was robbed recently, 5000 being re-
moved from the cash register. Three
hundred dollars left in the open safe
was overlooked
Since December l the sheriff's Of
flee at Standpoint has arrested 25
people who have in some way been
connected with the liquor traffic and
the police department has arrested
nine.
The commercial clubs of the towns
of Troy, Kendrick and Juliaetta, as
we'll as all the leading business men
of those towns, are heartily in favor
of the issuing of bonds to build high
ways. :
Conditions at the Boise barracks,
where the Second Idaho infantry, ma
tional guard, has been kept since De-
cember %, expecting mastering out,
will probably be the subject of a leg
islative investigation.
w. F. Howard of Parma was elect
ed president of the Idaho Swine
Breeders association and president
of the Idaho Poland China Breeders
association, both Of which organiza-
tons held conventions at Pocatello.
Mrs. Parker Guptill of Occur DIAL
enc City, whose husband, Sergeant
Guptill of company G, Idaho national
guard, died January 20 at the Boise
barracks from pneumonia, is in a
precarious condition. Her baby was
born January IS. She does not know
of her husbands death.
John Coty, age so, committed sui.
eide Friday at Harrison by shooting
himself in the head The first bull
let grazed his forehead and the sec
ond penetrated his brain. Mr. Coty
was suffering from cancer of the
stomach, with no hope of recovery,
and had been Respondent for some
time.
Administration measures flooded on
to the floors of the legislature Sat
urday. There appeared in the house
of representatives measures seeking
to place the appointiive power in the
hands of the governor to name a Uni
ted States senator if for any reason
there is a vacancy in the Idaho dele
cation in the upper house of con-
gress; a new election law that elm
mates the straight ballot and places
on the general election ballot the
names of the president and vice pres
ident candidates; measures giving the
land board greater powers in the SUI
pervision of Carey act projects and
promoting companies; relief bills for
the King Hill and King Hill extern
sion projects and bill placing more
power in the hands of the directors
of farm markets. The most import
ant measure introduced in the SEN
ate came from the minority, Senator
Thomas of Bingham offering a joint
resolution to amend the constitution
of the state so that a constitutional
convention can be called to revise the
antiquated document adopted 81 years
ago and to which "a amendments
have been adopted.
List Of Proposed Bills.
The following is the list as agreed
upon for immediate presentation to
the legislature:
In and