Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-10
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings IN This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
George J. Davis Killed.

George J. Davis Killed.
BARSTOW. George ] Davis,
A painter of Pocatello. Idaho. was
killed in the freight yards OF the
Salt Lake route here SATURDAY. when |
he tried tn board a moving train
Or. A. X. Upham Given Reception. |
ACCOMPLISHMENTS there was a !
large attendance of Moscow and Uni. |
yersity OF Idaho people present at
the reception rendered pr, A. H. Up
ham the new president OF the uni
Nersity.
Many Judseships to supply.
BOISE. The general switching oil
judgeships due to the ratification OF
Il constitutional amendment increas-
ing the number of Judges on the su-
preme court bench gives Governor
Davis an opportunity to fill number
of positions on the bench
Near.Traeedy.
SPOkANE.---En because his
foster daughter, Miss Daisy Fehl.
with him. Thomas Ridout age % Il
Northern Pacific section foreman at
Occur d'Alene threw carbolic acid i'll
the girls face Saturday. Ridout then
attempted suicide by swallowing hi
chloride OF mercury tablets which he
had on his person
Matt Dowd Furnishes $4,000 Bond
LEWISTON. ldaho.-Matt Dowd,
former well.known Lewiston business
man who forfeited $2500 bond and dis.
appeared in November. 1918. while
waiting trial on a statutory charge,
has arrived here again in custody Of
Sheriff Porter Shaffer. Dowd was
arrested in San Francisco on bench
warrant. The charges against Dowd
were based on evidence in probate
court OF Mary Evans and lnez Plat
minors, against whom the statutory
offense was alleged The girls later
were sent to the state reform school
Judge Scales released Dowd on $4,000
cash bond and set December ! fol
his hearing.
| Reor0antxe Live STOCK snow.
N.--Reorganization of the
Northwest Live Stock Association
preparatory to incorporation as ;
stock company was completed Sat
urday when an executive committee
of II was named by President e. J
lddings and II. s. Erb, chairman o
the reorganization committee. Thu
committee is as follows: A, A. Sea
borg. Henry Thiessen, j. l.. Chapman
w. j. Jordan, T.. j. lddings, f.
Randall, O. Nj Mackey. T.. A. Cox
j. T.. Kincaid, II. II. S. Rowcll an,
II. S. Erb. The association will b.
, incorporated for $4,000 and owe
$50, 900 in shares of 500 each hav
already been pledged. Shares ar
!, sold on the basis of $40 annual
for 10 years.
For Land Timber, $2,809,98
During the biennium of 1919-192
the state land board sold 1922
acres OF state land for total of 81
,, SO9,9S5 and timber covering 2O,76
: acres for 1857 ,4S7,' says the stat
!, land commissioner of Idaho.
: Total sales for this period hav
= amounted to $3,767,473.
: "This money is all placed at int
: est, most of it at q per cent, an
: yields approximately $230,O00 to tn
benefit of the common schools an
special state grants for which 1t con
: poses a perpetual fund, the intere'
: alone from which may be used. tt
= state now has about $14,O0O,O00 I
:, such money invested. from which, t
= gether with the leases, the state ben
. fits a million dallars yearly.
The land sales for the last tW
years almost doubled the precedir
. period in volume at an increase
: price of 50 per cent per acre, al
the timber sales quadrupled
- volume and in price received.
"In 1913 the unsurveyed state laI
- within the forest reserves, amour
" ing roughly to a half million acre
was exchanged for other land. tt
:, law then was construed not to pt
y nit the exchange of the surveys
~ land, of which there is about 1000
acres Now, according to a rece
decision OF the supreme court. th
II may he done, and theer is propo
Il. ton under consideration for the {
n change of these lands for a compa
r block on the forest-reserve borders