The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1920-07-23
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings In This State
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

Busy Readers.
Mason E. Htndman Dies.
GRANGEVII4LE.--M e. Hind
man, aged 76, died at Mt. Idaho, re-
Gently.
Mother Of Former Moscow Man.
MOSCOW.-Edw G. Scott, killed
by the explosion of gun at Camp
Lewis, recently, was a former resi-
dent of Moscow.
Plant Trout in Priest Lake.
PRIEST LAKE.-Between 10000
and $4,000 young trout were placed
in the streams tributary to the lake
by forest officers recently.
Mother browns Saving Child. -.
GRANGEVILLE.-M Lewis How
ard was drowned recently at the How
ard ranch, 20 miles above higgins.
She entered the Salmon river to rescue
one of her children, who was saved.
Timothy Hay Being Cut.
GRANGEVILLE.-Th timothy hay
harvest is now in full blast, with "a
fine yield of the best timothy grown
here in several years. Glover and al
falfa cuttings are already harvested.
Wedge Cuts Boys Thoat.
GRANGEvILLE. Roy Hindman,
age IA, died at Mount Idaho recently
from injuries received when wedge
he was using to split wood broke
and sharp piece severed an artery
in his neck.
Rains Quehch Forest Fires.
WALLACE-A large number OF
small forest fires, principally in the
southern end of the county in the
Clearwater district are reported to
have been virtually extinguished by
the recent rains.
Aged Man Killed by Car.
WALLACE.-E. H. Lund, age IS,
was killed Saturday when an auto
in which he was riding with his
granddaughter, Grace Bell, fell over
a 4Ofoot embankment into the Occur
d'Alene river, near Cataldo.
Northern Idaho Storm.
STANDPOINT, Idaho.-A 60-mile
wind swept over the Pend Oreille val.
ley Monday night, playing havoc with
boat houses and floating docks in the
local harbor The storm was accom-
panied by rain and lightning.
Latah Crop Prospects Good.
MOSCOW Harvesting in Latat
county has begun. Reports from Lit
tie Bear Ridge, to the east and south
of here, say that some wheat has beer
cut and that it is of fine quality and
promises a heavy yield. That section
is much earlier than this section
Sell Nez Perez Reserve Land.
LEWISTON.-Three tracts of In
dian land on the Nez Perez reserva
ton were sold recently at the Lapwa
Indian agency by Supt. o. H. Lipps
Eleven tracts had been listed, but lit
tie interest was shown. There will
be sale August 80, when 10 tracts
will be offered, and a big sale 1,
November.
Over a Million a Year.
Between 1913 and 1920 the Idah,
department of public works has ex
pended $9,704,298 in constructing 140
miles of improved highways. bridge
and culverts within the Gem state, g.
bridges have been constructed and, II
the face of increased prices, work i
being continued on the majority o
road contracts.
! George sievert, 81, Visiting.
| MOSCOW.-George Sievert of Por
land, Ore, is here looking after prof.
erty interests. Mr.. Sievert has bee
in an "old folks home" at Portlan
for seven years. He is 50 years OLE
Mr.. Sievert was a pioneer of thi
section, coming here in 1878 and Ii
eating 800 acres three miles froI
where Genesee now stands, which h
still owns.
Barracks Used as Hospital.
BOISE.-The barracks, establishe
in this city in 1865, has been tram
formed from garrison to a moder
hospital for soldiers and sailors VIII
were injured in the late war. Toda
J there are 35 of these ex-service me
who are now patients in the hospita
Within a few months there will b
several hundred more of them qua
{ tered at the barracks. The patient
: are being sent here from the state
of Idaho, Oregon, Washington an
= Montana.
Autos Wrecked; Woman Killed.
ST. MARIES.-Two automobile a
cidents, one of them fatal, and the di
, covery of the unidentified body of
; man evidently murdered. happened
this district Sunday.
Mrs. Grover c. Gregg was Instant
killed the result of their new roadstt
plunging down a 25foot embankmen
The Ford car of Victor Rockwell