The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-02-27
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings In This state
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Patent Medicine Kills Man.
TWIN FALLS.-Wesley Milton Bur.
CESS, "a, returned service man Of Ha-
zelton, Idaho. died here.
To Build Clearwater Highway.
BOISE.-The department of public
works will receive bids Feb. 20 for the
construction Of 8.4 miles Of the Clear.
water highway. This road RUNS be-
tween Greer and Frazer, in Clearwater
county.
Caledonia Paid Big.
KELLOGG-The Caledonia Mining
company had a surplus of $570,520 on
December 81 last, according to the
annual report, just. issued from its
office here. This is at the rate Of
nearly % cents a share on the issue
of 2,605, 900 shares.
Auction Indian Lands.
LEWISTON. - Thirteen thousand
acres belonging to Nez Perez Indians
on the Fort Lapwai reservation will
be sold to the highes tbidder on April
20. The appraised value is over $780,
900, and 1t includes large tracts of the
choicest farming land in the country.
High Price for Orchard.
LEWISTON.-The Hansell brothers
Of Waha recently disposed of their
920-acre ranch to e. l.. Woods of
rancher, for $4,000. The Bevis ranch
in Upper Tammany was also sold, the
buyer being John Schwartz, who paid
E. l.. and J. G. Woods $22, 900 for the
100 acres.
Ex-Service Men Get Preference.
BOISE.-Members of the state land
board informally agI eed recently that
before they will sign a contract with
any company to develop the Big Bru-
neau project the contract must o n
tain a clause that Idaho s~ex-service
men and women have the preference
to right of entry on the reclaimed
land.
Free Hendershot.
BOISE.-O. p. Henderson,, secre.
tary of the Gem State Fair association,
was acquitted of the charge of man.
slaughter brought against him, due
to the death of Michael Morris with
whom he had an alteration at the
fairgrounds. Hendershot, it vas char.
| ged, struck Morris, who died two
weeks later.
Taken Operating Whisky Still.
MOSCOW.-The most complete still
ever captured by the officers of Latah
county is now in the sheriff's office
and Sam Parrish. an Austrian, al
legged to have been caught operating
the still. He entered a plea of guilty
to the Illicit manufacture Of intoxi.
cants, and was sentenced to 60 days
in Jail and to pay a fine of $500.
Joins National Farm Bureaus.
MOSCOW.-The Idaho state farm
bureau has voted to join the Ameri.
can Federation of Farm Bureaus and
thus add to the prestige and strength
of the organization. w. F. Alworth
of Twin Falls and C. B. Ross of Par.
ma were elected delegates to attend
the meeting of the American farm
bureau federation at Chicago on
March 3. w. s. Shearer Of Lewiston
was elected alternate.
Plan Extensive Campaign.
MOSCOW.-The extension workers
of the University Of Idaho number be.
tween rs and 100 men and women en-
gagged In field work for the depart.
ment of agriculture, the department Of
animal husbandry, farm bureau and
other sections of the agricultural col
lege and women who represent the
home economics. home nursing, home
dressmaking and other work for the
university throughout the state.
Idaho Firm l%nsolvent.
CHICAGO.-Following the filing
ootuA udy VI OLA AAvOAAAtoAy PSIAsAoA !
bankruptcy by creditors of the Daniel
Hayes company okIdaho. a real estate
concern, which the creditors allege
owes hundreds of thousands of dollars,
counsel for the company filed an an.
swer admitting the insolvency and
c%onsenting to an adjudication. The
company was said to have entered
into contracts running into millions
of dollars for large tracts of Califor.
MIA land on which payments, it is al.
legged, we're not completed.
Mrs. Thurston Is Acquitted.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Mrs. Julia Mil.
dred Thurston of Sacramento, form
erly of Standpoint, Ida, was found not
guilty of a charge of numbering
Miss Jean Kimball, a hotel cashier
on a downtown street here Novem'
Der 4. The defense plea had been
temporary insanity and the jury noted
this in the verdict. Mrs. Thurston had
to be assisted into court and propped
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