Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-02-21
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

w. r. Whitney died recently at
Occur d'Alene at the age of 81 years.
Influenza is raging on Potlatch
ridge, in the southeastern part of
Latah county.
After long wrangling and stormy
debate the eight-hour act for women
passed the house, As to 81.
Word from the upper Hatwai Sec
tion indicates bumper crop this
year. Wheat is in the best condition
in years.
Byron Deffenbaugh, expert account
for auditing the county books for
Latah and Lewis counties.
Captain J. C. Oylear, aged 80, died
recently at his home on the Little
Potlatch, where he had resided for
more than 40 years. He was a vet
eran of the civil war.
At the inquest at Wallace Saturday
over the body of Andy Anderson, the
jury found that Anderson came to his
death by injuries caused by being
run over by a freight train near the
Morning compressor.
The house of representatives gave
its approval recently to the Cowles
| bill providing that in the schools the
English language and no other shall
ha he roht toll r,f iyNpt ,Tti ", n
vote was unanimous.
Herman Ringer a well-known stock
| for 25 years, is in a Lewiston hospital
in a serious condition with skull frac-
ture and other injuries due to being
thrown beneath his horse.
That the University of Idaho han
died the S. A. T. c. better and more
economically than any school in the
northwest is the statement Of w. A.
Hobson, inspector for this work, who
finished checking up the accounts
preparatory to settling with the uni
versity.
The consolidation of 20 properties
on Beaver creek, in the Cbeur d'Al
enc district, comprising the Sun
shine, Sunset, Banner and Dewey
groups, covering at least three strong
veins and others of prospective value
according to mining men, is reported
from Wallace.
:, The extension work of the Uni
versity of Idaho school of mines ha.
been started at Wallace by Franl
Skeels, we'll known mining engineer
The plan is to start and maintain
classes of workmen in the larger op
!, , Grating mines Of the district in prac
teal mining with the idea of in
creasing their efficiency.
A new road with maximum grad
of five per cent is being built be
tween Kendrick and Juliaetta in tn
extreme southern, part of Latah cour
ty The towns are four miles apar
= and the road has always been ba
t owing to two steep hills. Cedar Cree
: ridge, near Kendrick, is planning fol
9 nation of a good roads district.
The Thorn Creek highway distric
I election resulted in an overwhelmin
: majority for the formation of the dii
3 trict. This is regarded as an impol
. tant link in the North and Sout
Idaho highway which it is planned
build from Boundary county to Bois'
j, The proposed road will connect wit
the Lewiston highway, already bull
near the state line, southwest of Gel
esee 1t will give connection with tn
a paving at the south end of Mai
street in Moscow and with the mort
end of the Lewiston highway.
1t is reported that the republica
majority in the house has reached
caucus agreement to pass the amen'
atory primary bill, which recent
= passed the senate. Little change wi
+ be made in it from it's present form
With the passage of the bill an
its approval by the governor, stat
!, wide primary, nomination OF congre
sional and state candidates in Idah
will be thing of the past. Instead
state convention, the delegates e.
= penses TO which will be paid by tn
party they represent, will be subst
a tuted. The bill is one Of the mos
# important pending before the legi
lature.