Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1922-02-10
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings In This State
Given In Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

d'Alene is to be transformed into an
automobile speedway.
PIummer Schools Closed.
PLUMMER. The schools have
closed indefinitely, owing to the short
age in the city water supply.
Death Takes Octove Quay.
| Octave Quay, age 70, retired miner
and prospector of the Occur dAlene
district, died recently at Spokane,
after a six months illness.
Court at Wallace.
WALLACE.--The spring term of
district court for Shoshone county
opened here Monday. There are 80
cases on the law and motion calen-
| der.
E. r. Daddy Davis Dies.
E. R. Daddy Davis died recently
at Spokane. He was an old-timer OF
Wardner, Idaho, where for many
years he was night clerk at Pages
hotel.
Schneider Reelected by Seed Men.
SANDPOINT.-H. F. Schelder faith
err of the seed potato industry in Bon
ner county, has received notice of his
reelection as vice president Of the
Idaho state seed show.
School Bonds Defeated.
COEUR D'ALENE.-The proposed
1925 900 school bond issue was hope
lessly defeated at the election here
Thursday, $50 for and 997 against
A two-thirds vote was necessary to
carry.
kendrick Starts Suit.
KENDRICK.-This village has in
stituted suit in the district court
against Keller Brothers, Colorado
corporation, to annul contract for
sale of $4,000 worth Of improvement
district bonds.
Idaho County Pioneer ParaIyzed.
GRANGEVILLE.-Ge D. Smith
age Ga, chairman of the Idaho county
commissioners, suffered a paralytfc
stroke recently, losing control of his
| entire right side, eyesight and speech.
He is one of the oldest pioneers of
this country.
Kills Cougar.
WALLACE. William Newberry
| brought the hide of cougar, 50
inches long from tip to tip, which he
killed as the animal was swimming
across the north fork of the Occur
d'Alene river. A $50 bounty is Of
fered by the state for each cougar
hide.
ErvIne Given Prison Term.
| ST. MARIES.-R. v. IRVINE, log
ging contractor, convicted recently
in district court here for second de.
gree murder for Staying Adrian Gala
han at Helrs gulch in June, 1920, by
hitting him on the head with a re-
| volver, was sentenced by Judge j.
M. Flynn to one to 10 years at hard
labor.
Oregon Short Line Wreck.
BOISE-Oregon Short Line train
No. SO was wrecked one mile west
of Burley recently. 1t ran into an
open switch and Ole Olson, baggage
man, was pinned under the baggage
car wreckage and badly injured. The
train caught fire when the wreck oc-
CURED, but the Burley fire depart
ment arrived in time to extinguish
the blaze before it spread. Respon-
sibility for the wreck has not been
placed.
Restraining Order Dissolved.
SPOKANE.-Judge Huneke in the
superior court here has dissolved the
temporary restraining order sought
by Eugene R. Day and Mrs. Sarah
Smith against the Hecla Mining Co.,
ending in the civil courts what is
believed to have been the most i'm
portant mining litigation ever tried
here. The hearing occupied several
weeks. The injunction sought to re-
strain stockholders meeting to rat
ify the purchase of half interest in
the Star mine from the Bunker Hill
Sullivan. The case goes to federal
toullS uOW.
Dry Agent SEXES Pullman Car.
BOISE.-Making use of Pullman
ears to bring bonded whisky into
Idaho must stop, declared State Pro-
hibition Director Elias Marsters,
when federal deputies raided a Spo-
kane-Boise sleeper recently and re-
moved two cases of high grade liquor
| and arrested three negroes. The Ore
| gon Short Line railroad secured re-
lease of the car by filing an $50 600
bond, twice the value of the car. This
is the first time in the history of the
enforcement of the Volstead act in
Idaho that a Pullman car has been
seized.