Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-04-04
IDAHO news PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

Mrs. H. O. Helgesen celebrated their
golden wedding.
Henry Townsend, age -, a veteran
of the civil war, died at Occur d'Al-
enc recently.
Five hundred persons attended the
community banquet given at Rath
drum recently in honor of the re-
turned soldiers and sailors.
Fire completely destroyed the large
barn on the premises of John Carey
at Occur d'Alene Saturday. The barn
contained valuable furniture and be-
longings in storage. Efforts were
confined to saving Mr.. Careys home.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Pearl Bailey has returned to Occur
d'Alene City from trip up the lake,
where he had been making prepara-
tions for the big Occur dAlene river
drive for the Shoshone Lumber COM
pany. Mr.. Bailey has picked 80 men
to handle the $4,000, 000-foot drive
| this spring.
| -.
received word from his son, Russell
Alger, in France, stating that he had
received an appointment to four
months university work in Paris. He
will study French language and Fran
co-American relations. Russell Alger
| is graduate of the Occur d'Alene
high school and had taken higher ed
ucational work at Washington State
college and the University of Idaho.
He went overseas with the 25th en-
gineers.
c. A. Krogh, station agent at Orc
fino; j. A. Lewis, section foreman OF
Orofino; ID. w. Smith, section hand;
Harry Smith, section foreman at Ar
row Junction, and two Italian section
hands were on speeder en- route
from Orofino to Lewiston, making a
good rate of speed, when the speeder
encountered rock and the car was
hurled from the track. The men were
all thrown some distance, and krogh
plunged into the Clearwater ricer
The Italian section hands escaped.
Idaho's public service commission
has served an order on railroads OPP
Grated by the United States railroad
administration and on other public
utilities in the state that continued
violation of rules prescribed by law
as to notices to be given and condi,
lions to be observed when schedules
and tariffs are filed will no longer be
tolerated. Schedules and tariffs filed
, under other than conditions prescrib.
, ed by law will not be accepted as
binding or valid, the commission de
clares in its order.
Mining School Succeeds.
Students enrolled under the fedora
board of vocational education and the
state of Idaho not only added to theil
knowledge of mining methods, but
earned wages at the regular rate in
E recent weeks, according to +. II
Skeels, director of school No. L. Morn
cial report.
: Political PIums Fall.
William y. Hall OIL Wdlldce Nds
given the portfolio of commissioner OF
public works, recognized as the most
important of the nine cabinet posi-
tions created by the last legislature
in the new law changing the system
of Idaho's government last Monday
: Mr.. Hall has for the last few years
been assistant manager of the Fed
eral Mining company at Wallace. He
is considered we'll qualified to take
! the position of commissioner of pub
lie works, which carries with it su
: pervision of all building operations O
! the state, including the expenditure
+ of 100000 for the erection of tw,
7 wings to the state capitol and the ex
u penditure of millions on Idaho roads
Jay Gibson, present state bank com
q missioner, Is to be commissioner o
commerce and industry and head tina
department, Governor Davis announ
ces. 1t has been conceded for som,
7 time that Mr.. Gibson would be givel
the position. Besides having charg,
o of his present department he will al
SO supervise the state insurance de
partments.
The cabinet went into power Mon
II day. Idaho Is the second state t,
IS adopt it, Illinois being the first.
- State Survey Assured.
with the signing by Governo
q Davis of house bill No. 40 there ha
q been created in Idaho bureau O
~ mines and geology, which, if proper
ly directed and adequately supported
should in time become an importan
factor in the development of the mir
= eral resources Of the state" say
;, Francis A. Thomson, dean of tn
!, Idaho mines school.
, 1.-THE board Of control for this bl
a reau is composed Of Governor T
!, w. Davis, as chairman; the pres
! dent Of the Idaho Mining associs
ton, Jerome J. Day Of Moscow; tn
professor of geology at the Univers
ty of Idaho, D. c. Livingston; tn
state mine inspector Robert N. Bel
II and myself as dean OF the school @