Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1922-02-17
IDAHO news PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers
G. Skina Suicides.

G. skina Suicides.
| WALLACE.-George Skina of this
place fatally shot himself Friday.
Snake River Steamer Resumes.
LEWISTON.-The steamer Lewis.
ton has resumed it's run on the Snake
river.
Much Influenza at Nez Perez.
NEZ PERCE.-Nez Perez has sew
eral cases of influenza. The disease
is a much lighter form than it was
three years ago.
Proves Up on 500 Acres.
LEWISTON.-Virgil J. Leander OF
AsotiA has just made final proof on
800 acres on Billey creek, in south
ern Nez Perez county.
$1O,35O in Loan Fund.
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOS
COW.-Student loan funds total
$1O,35O and virtually all of this
amount is loaned to students.
JEFFERSON Wooo Funeral.
KAMIAH.-The funeral of Jeifer-
son Wood, age II, Civil war veteran
and pioneer of Whitman, Latah and
Idaho counties was held Friday.
Robinson Double Funeral.
LEWISTON.-The funeral of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Robinson was he'd
Thursday. They died "a hours apart.
They are survived by eight children.
Build New Trails.
Approximately 1000 miles of trail in
the national forests of northern Idaho
are to be built this year at an est-
mated cost of $350,0OO, according to
l.. c. Stockdale, assistant forester,
with headquarters at Missoula Mont.
Hardware Men Elect.
BOISE-Members of the Idaho Re-
tail Hardware and Implement Dealers
Association recently held three-day
convention in this city. William NJ
Sweet OF Boise was elected president
and E. E. Lucas Spokane, secretary.
Eugene r. Day Dies.
Eugene r. Day, manager and one
of the chief partners in the Hercules
mine at Wallace. and the holder of
large mining and smelling interests
elsewhere, died at Spokane Saturday
from complication of diseases after
a long illness.
Pullman Car Freed.
BOISE.-Upon telegraphic orders
from the attorney general, district at.
torney, ordered dismissal of the seiz.
ure case brought against the Pullman
company by which one of its Pull.
man cars was seized and held under
a bond. The bond of $4,000 was or
dered returned. No special reason
was given-may be political pull.
In January, 70 Coyotes.
LEWISTON.-Sheriff George We'll
ker reports having ordered bounty
paid on 80 coyotes during Deem
Der, but January has the record of
70 coyotes, three wildcats and one
lynx. The bounty paid by the state
10 YH.oV each. y. ". hlSSlnR6r OF
Sweetwater brought in 10 during
January, the largest number from one
person.
Y. M. c. A. Honors Boise Man.
BOISE. A. Barton of Boise was
elected president of the twenty-sec-
ond annual interstate Y. M. C. A. con-
OF Oregon and Idaho at the
recent session here. Other officers
named were A. c. Hinkley, Pocatello.
Idaho, and DR.. J. w. Huff, Baker,
Ore, vice presidents; John Gehlman,
Weiser, Idaho, secretary; Hugh Wal
burn, Gooding, assistant secretary.
Idaho County Sets Wage Scale.
GRANGEVILLE.-Th Idaho county
have adopted the fol-
lowing schedule of wages: All spe-
cial deputies and extra help in all
offices as clerical assistance, $3.50 a
lay; field deputies, So; horse hire,
81; automobile hire, 20 cents a mile;
)verseers and laborers in highway
districts, $3.50; two-horse teams, So;
in prairie highway districts, over
seers and laborers, So; two-horse
teams, 81.