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a pioneer resident of Plummer, redied at her a ling cently home after ering illness of Bright's disease. Lock City Clerk in Vault. BLACKFOOT.-A masked bandit recently help up City Clerk J. J. Quillan in his office in the municipal building in which police headquarters are located. The robber obtained $170. Ship Lead East by Water. KELLOGG, Idaho.-0 account of freight rates from here to the seaboard, the excessive eastern Bunker lead Hill to smelter is now shipping pig New York by water via Seattle and the Panama canal. Bank of Stites Suspends. STITES.-The Bank of Stites has F. G. commiscommerce and sioner been closed of by Fralick, industry. Ex- No E. C. Beck is in as to the condition aminer report charge. of finances is has been made. The president L. Ewing and F. E. Leeper is cashier. Tax Relief Bill. BOISE. The senate has passed the tax relief bill. measure to Idaho an seeks Witty to give This taxpayers June of extension of time, or until this year, in which to pay their 1920 taxes, the contention being they are in serious need of this relief and that they can not pay their taxes now bethe in the cause of slump of market their crops. and their failure to dispose Lumber Plants to Resume. COEUR D'ALENE.-The Atlas tie mill resumed operations Monday, after having been shut down since the middle of December. It is rumored that the Blackwell Lumber company operations 1. The has been shut will sawmill resume about down April most of the winter but the planing mill has been in operation continually for the last year. The Rutledge Timber company has made an exceptional run, not having shut down either the sawmill or planer this winter. It is rumored that it plans to put on a double shift soon. Pioneer Woman Dies. GRANGEVILLE-The death of Mrs. Margaret K. Holbrook, age 82, ocat the Grs. George curred daughter, recently home Fenn, Grange- of who her "lives about midway between ville and Harpster. late Mrs. Holbrook was one of real pioneers. the The west's Iowa She to came Orewith her parents from 1844. Later the N Palouse country, to gon the in family locating moved between Genesee and Colfax. The family finally moved to Camas prairie settling at old Mt. Idaho, which for many years was the seat of Idaho county, then the largest county in the United States. Mrs. Holbrook, lovingly called far and from three "Grandma" miles Grangeville wide, resided when b the Nez Perce Indian war was fought between Whitebird and Grangeville. a "Dad" Allen Passes On. OWYHEE.-"Dad" Allen, the last b known survivor of the battle between g the Kearsarge and the Alabama off the coast of France, "slipped his cable" and joined his shipmates on e the "other side." here at the little station d of on the Oregon Allen Owyhee died Short Line of s railroad, about 30 miles south h Boise. He was employed in the railroad pump house there. 1 When the late Colonel Roosevelt would pass through Idaho he always ) stopped off at Okyhee and warmly 1 greeted "Dad" Allen. battle between the Kearand the Alabama, . sarge In the Midshipman of Midshipby the side scion of a man Allen Bullock, fought distinguished southern family. d t Bullock was a relative of Roosevelt's mother and was wounded in the fight. Allen saved him from death when, after the Alabama was seen to be doomed and the wounded boy could not help himself, he picked and leaped into the sea, him afloat until keeping him up help after arrived. that Allen became a wanderer celebrated sea fight and drifted to Alaska and later to Idaho.
