The entire country is in bloom. There are thousands of varieties of blooming plants, trees, and shrubs and everyone vies with his neighbor in trying to have a prettier home or yard or orchard.
Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield met many people from Idaho and Washington who go south to spend the winter in the warmer climate. He says that country has not the natural advantages of northern Idaho, the soil here being far superior to that of any section they visited while gone, but the people in those warmer climates where there are fewer natural advantages, aside from climate, take more pride in improving their lands and their homes while "here we let nature do most of the work and are content with the results."
Mr. Butterfield looks well and says he enjoyed the rest from business. He reports crop conditions along the road through Washington and north Idaho, are good and he looks for a season in the Interior.
Empire this year.
Mr. Butterfield is a pioneer and one of the best known business men of Moscow, where he has been in the implement business for a quarter of a century.
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MAN WANTED FOR ASSAULT AT BOYLL, BEING BROUGHT BACK TO LATAH COUNTY
Victor Brown, who is charged with assaulting John Hoge, near Boyl, yesterday, is in custody and is being brought back to Latah county to stand trial for murder if Hoge dies, as he is now expected to.
Caught by that veteran of the woods, Pat Malone, special deputy sheriff employed by the Potlatch Lumber company and Latah county. 