The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 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.
Word from the upper Hatwai sec
ton indicates a bumper crop this
year. Wheat is in the best condition
in years.
Byron Deffenbaugh, expert account
ant, has been awarded the contract
for auditing the county books for
Latah and Lewis counties.
4 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 vet
eran of the civil war. 8
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 freight train near the
Morning compressor.
The house of representatives gave
it's approval recently to the Cowles
bill providing that in the schools the
English language and no other shall
be the vehicle of instruction. The
vote was unanimous.
Herman Ringer, a wellknown stock
man, a resident of Lewiston district
for rs years, is in Lewiston hospital
in 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. G. better and more
economically than any school in tht
northwest is the statement of w. A
Hobson, inspector for this work, WHIT
| finished checking up the accounts
4 preparatory to settling with the uni
4 versity.
The consolidation of 20 propertie
on Beaver creek, in the Occur d'Al
enc district, comprising the SUI
shine, Sunset, Banner and Dewe
groups, covering at least three stron
veins and others of prospective valu'
4 according to mining men, is reporte
from Wallace.
Il The extension work of the I'm
versity of Idaho school of mines hs
been started at Wallace by Fran
Skeels, we'll known mining enginee
, The plan is to start and maintal
classes of workmen in the larger o.
Grating mines of the district in pra
tical mining with the idea OF i
J. creasing their efficiency.
!, A new road with a maximum graz
of, five per cent is being built b
tween Kendrick and Juliaetta in Il
9 extreme southern part of Latah cou
q ty. The towns are four miles apa
3 and the road has always been b.
i owing to two steep hills. Cedar Cree
ridge, near Kendrick, is planning fc
nation of good roads district.
t The Thorn Creek highway distri
q election resulted in an overwhelmil
Z majority for the formation of the d
trict. This is regarded as an impt
tant link in the North and Sou
u Idaho highway which it is planned
build from Boundary county to Bots
= The proposed road will connect wi
y the Lewiston highway, already but
noar tho state line southwest of &c
esee. 1t will give connection with t
paving at the south end Of Ma
street in Moscow and with the nor
y end of the Lewiston highway.
a 1T is reported that the republic
majority in the house has reached
caucus agreement to pass the amel
= atory primary bill, which recent
passed the senate. Little change "
O. be made in it from it's present form
s. With the passage of the bill a
its approval by the governor, a sta
n, wide primary, nomination of congr
IN sional and state candidates in Ida
will be thing Of the past. Inste
n. state convention, the delegates
I'll penses to which will be paid by I
party they represent, will be sub
tuted. The bill is one of the m
important pending before the lee
lature.