Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-06-24
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent happenings In This STATE
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

In southern Idaho they are cutting
the first crop Of hay and the tonnage
is heavy. The prospects are for low
prices this season.
Bonner county commissioners have
granted Peter Young OF Priest River
a franchise to construct a toll bridge
at Newport on the present site of the
Newport ferry.
Conditions in the live stock indus
try are showing signs OF gradual i'm
provement. Due to good range condi-
tons and cheap hay, experienced cat
tlemen are buying cattle AMI expect
to be able to make some money in the
bcsiness again.
The higher benches and dry lands
of southern Idaho, where they have
not had crop for four years because
OF drouth, now have excellent stands
of wheat, and all Indications are for
one of the best crops ever harvested.
State Treasury Notes Sell
BOlSE.-State of Idaho treasury
notes in the sum OF $3.50, 900 sold Fri
day at a premium. State highway
bonds, $2,0O0,O0O worth, did not sell
at all and the outlook for their sale
is considered gloomy at the state
house.
v. s. Studies FIotation.
MISUNDERSTANDING this impor-
lance of experiments in flotation con-
Quoted by the University of Idaho for
the last year, the United States bu-
reau OF mines has assigned staff of
five investigators to continue the ex-
periments here throughout the sum-
mer.
Mrs. southard Held for Trial.
TWIN FALLS.-Mrs. LYDIA Southland
charged with the murder Of Edward
F. Meyer. her. fourth husband, was
bound over for trial in the district
court here at the conclusion of the
examination in her case. !
Paul Vincent Southland, fifth husband
of Mrs. Southland, is here.
To Form ku klux Khan.
STANDPOINT. - A. communication
from Imperial Wizard w. J. Sim
mons Of Atlanta, Ca, states that or
ganizers working in the northwest
would soon be in Standpoint to or
ganize q branch khan of the Ku Klux
Khan. The letter gives the charter
stipulati0ns and sets forth the pur-
poses OF the organization.
To Open Indian Lands.
LAPWAI.-O. H. Lipps, superin-
tendent of the Indian agency here, an
nounces that 3,140 acres of unallotted
tribal lands on the Nez Perez Indian
are offered for lease for
live years from January /, 1922. The
ands are part agricultural and part
grazing. Sealed bids for the land
viii be received at the Lapwai agen.
~ up to 2 o'clock July S.
Angel Named Dean at Idaho.
UNIVERSITY OF Idaho, MOS
COW. Idaho.-Announceme of the
appointment of Professor Martin Full
er Angel, Phi. D., as dean of the
college OF letters and sciences OF the
effective July /, is made
" President A. III. Upham. PROBES.
or Angel succeeds Dean Edward M.
iulme.
Boise Man Elected.
PORTLAND. Ore.-The final bust.
ess session OF the 14th annual con.
ention of the Northwest Elecirtd
light and Power Association closed
riday with the election of officers.
V. +. Putnam of Boise was made
resident, succeeding Franklin r. Grit.
It'll of Portland. Other officers chosen
Or the ensuing year were J. N, Kin.
aid. vice president for Washington;
gorge l.. Myers. vice president for
lregon. and J. =. Rockwell, vice pres
lent for Idaho.
idaho Bankers Elect
BOlSE.-E Election of officers and
he choosing of Hayden Lake as the /
lace for holding the 1922 convention l
rought the seventeenth annual con-
ention of the Idaho Bankers asso-
iation to a close Wednesday. These
Ulcers were elected: +. NJ. Erhardt,
'ewiston, president; r. ]. Comstock, 8
.exburg. vice president; NJ. M. Bel I
nap, Cottonwood, treasurer; J. w.
Johnson. Boise. secretary: executive
ouncil. j. 8. Heckathorn. Moscow;
. S. Russell. Twin Falls, and G. G.
'ainter. Middleton.
o. E. s. Grand Officers
LEWlSTON.-Tne following Off
ers were elected by the grand chap
er of Idaho. Order of Eastern Sta, at
ne session here: Grand matron, Mar
aret b. Pike. Boise; associate grand
iatron. Ann Jane Haley, Idaho Falls;
rand patron, Victor Peterson,
rangeville; associate grand patron,
hord Stewart, Pocatello grand Sec