Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-07-25
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

The hay crop in the ST. Joe rive
valley is about completed, and it i.
considered the biggest crop in the
history of the valley.
William " Nessly of Moscow, for
merly with the army recruiting divi
sion, has taken position as city ed
itor of the Wichita Daily Eagle.
Yields of so to 45 bushels an acre
for fall wheat, with better than hail
a crop of spring wheat, is the predic
ton of Latah county's three commits
sioners.
The state hatchery at Standpoint
| recently shipped in $4,000 trout which
have been planted at Fernwood, San.
| ia and points between ST. Maries and
| st. Joe under the auspices of the Ben
ewah club.
F. W. Kettenbach and Alfred ket-
tenbach, his son. have returned to
Lewiston from a 1500-mile automobile
trip to Alberta Canada, and return.
The trip was made for the purpose
OF inspecting the wheat lands located
in the Rosebud district in North AL
berta.
Recent reports on the crops now be.
ing harvested in the sections near
Lewiston indicate that the fall wheat
has withstood the drought far better
than was anticipated. In the Potlatch
country the fall sown grain will run
30 or 80 bushels to the acre, although
the spring planting has suffered in
common with all other parts of central
Idaho.
A. M. Laird, general manager of the
Potlatch Lumber company, is in re-
ceipt OF letter from the aviation
construction department saying that
the $4,000 feet of white pine airplane
lumber cut, cured and shipped by his
company is by far the best that the
aviation construction department re-
celved. The airplane lumber was cut
from trees grown in Latah county.
The Ryan hotel at Wallace was dis.
mantled Saturday of its entire furnish
lngs and fixtures, and the Red Cross
and Salvation Army are the benefici-
aries of approximately $4,000 worth
OF furniture, bedding, carpets and 9TH
er fixtures, a gift from James f. Cal
lahan, millionaire mining operator of
the Occur d'Alenes, who held a chat
tel mortgage and refused to sell to 9TH
ers.
The Idaho Teacher" new month
ly journal devoted to the educational
interests of the state, will make it's in
ltial appearance next September at
Lewiston. The publication will be the
official organ of the State Teachers
association and will contain depart
ments covering all the educational ac-
tivities OF the state. Ten issues will
be published, from September to June
inclusive, and membership in the State
Teachers association will include sub
scription to the journal.
An increase in the wages of mine |
employees OF so cents a day affecting
all the mines of the Occur d'Alene dis |
trict is announced by the mine man.
ayers, effective July Is. This action is |
taken because of the continued high
cost Of living and the slight increase
of metal prices. The increase to be
will make total increase
in wages Of ST since the first reduc
ton announced two months ago and
makes the wage scale in the Occur
d 'Alenes $5.25 for an eight-hour shift
The question of whether the owner
or an automobile may leave it stand
ing in the road while he wends his
weary way back to the nearest gar
age, be 1t one or 10 miles. to secure
repairs, has been decided in the case
OF Il. l.. Stout against Bert Fox. JUS
tlce Grove holds that mo one has
right to injure property of another,
said property being immovable at the
lime Of accident, although said prop.
srty was obstructing a public high
way and judgment was entered for
me complainant in the full sum of
lis demand amounting to s4S.79, the
;osts or the repairs to his car.
Five Die in Auto Smash.
FIVE persons We're instantly killed G
IND sixth so badly injured that his I
lie Is despaired of when an interur- ,
IAN electric car ran into an automo. ,
'lie sunday at railroad crossing ,
our miles north of Nampa, on the r
electric line. The dead
re: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. f. Ullery Of ,
Nampa and their daughter, Lima age
o. and May, aged II, and Mrs. Chas
,. Shellaberger of Nampa. Mr.. Shell.
aoerger badly injured, has been ia (
EN- to the Nampa hospital and Oh
rated upon, but his condition is crit
cal