Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1922-02-03
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
Sheepmen in Death Duel.


SALT LAKE CITY.-Dan Brear.
sheepman, shot Oscar Taylor, an
other sheepman, to death in duel
on the range near Chehalis, Idaho.
The report stated that the duel re-
suited from longstandng dispute
over the ownership of sheep.
r. v. IRVINE Convicted.
ST. MARIES.-R. V. Ervine,
for the killing of Adrian Callahan,
age 81, lumberjack, on June IA,
| 1920, by beating him on the head
with revolver was found guilty of
manslaughter by a jury in district
court.
Poisoned Food Kills Six.
| BOISE-Four more members of
the c. W. Tuttle family of Cam
bridge, Idaho, died as a result Of
botulinus poisoning from eating in
fected preserved green's at birth
day dinner for Harriet futile, in
whose honor the dinner was given
Sunday. Six of the family died from
the poisoning.
New Society at U. Of !.
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOS.
COW.-Knights of the Ball and
Chain, an honorary underclassmen's
society, has taken its place on the
campus and was given official recog.
milton at the last meeting of the
| will I,1
chosen from the freshman and sopho-
more classes. The society is similar
TO the Knights of the Hook at the
University of Washington, the Oregon
knights at Oregon, and the Bear
Paws at the University of Montana.
Want Teaching Standards Cut.
n Observation-Disclosures of school
boards in Nez Perez county opened
their annual session. Resolutions
passed asking that the state board
Of education remove their recent
ruling making 1t necessary after 1924
for teachers in elementary schools
to be normal school graduates. and
those teaching in accredited high
schools to be graduates of UNIVERSE
ties or colleges, which 1t was thought
would tend to increase taxation. They
also favored savings and aiding the
small high school wherever possible
II No Cash, Can't Collect.
BOISE.-The supreme court has
refused Fred Herrick writ Of man
date directing the state auditor to
draw warrant in his favor for
| $12,948 against the state game fund
to recompense him for loss on con-
tract to remove timber from Hey
burn park.
The petition was not fatty denied,
Mr.. Herrick being kiven Is days to
file an amended petition, but the de-
murrer of State Auditor e. G.. Gallet
was sustained, the court holding that
sufficient cause of action was not
shown. The suit was brought against
the state auditor for refusing to pay
a claim after it's certification by the
board of examiners for the differ
ence between the contract price of
timber taken out of the park by Mr.
Herrick and the purchase price paid
by him.
Justice J. p. Mccarthy, who pre-
pared the opinion, decided that the
plaintiff has no right to writ OF
mandate directing the drawing of a
warrant against a state fund unless
there is money in that fund def.
nitely appropriated for the purpose.
i Idaho Phosphates to Japan.
PORTLAND, Ore.-That there soon
will be a large movement of phos
phate rock from the phosphate fields
of Idaho through this port to Japan
was indicated recently in a letter
received by the public dock commits
sion from the Oregon-Pacific com
pany.
Negotiations are pending between
the Anaconda Mining company, which
controls large phosphate rock fields
in Idaho, and Japanese interests fol
the purchase and shipment of large
quantities of the rock
The dock commission granted Ger
tain concessions for moving the rocl
through the municipal terminals.
. Japanese interests began some
thing more than year ago the ne
gotiations for purchase of Idah;
phosphate rock, which is hignl,
valued as fertilizer in Japan A few
small shipments were made, blu
transportation difficulties at tina
time checked the movement Thes
difficulties are now about to b
overcome, according to information
: given the public dock commission
= and there is prospect that the trad
( will take on large proportions.
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