Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-08-05

odist Episcopal church will convene
in Moscow August %.
The badly decomposed body of
Frank G. Marin was found recently
in a cattle shed at the fairgrounds at
Blackfoot. He had been missing for
FIVE weeks.
Tom Wheeler carries the record as
champion sheep shearer in Idaho. He
is now at his ranch near Hayhurn. Mr..
Wheeler also won a round trip ticket
to the Portland exposition for the
rapidity and neatness of his work.
Governor Gooding has requested the
cooperation of the different towns Of
the state in the organization of state
band, which will make a trip to the
Portland exhibition and participate in
the observances on Idaho day, Sep
TENDER 4.
Miles S. Johnson of Lewiston, for
four years prosecuting attorney Of
Nez Perez county, has been appointed
assistant United States attorney for
North Idaho and assumed the position
on August l. Lewiston has been desig-
mated as his official residence.
After being a fugitive from justice
for over eight years, Theodore Foust,
who was indicted for robbery by the
grand jury of Shoshone county early
in 1898, was arrested by Sheriff Suth-
erland and officer Quinn, who found
him walking the streets of Wallace.
Information has reached Boise of a
fatal dynamite explosion which occur
red a few days ago at Meadows. A
man named Barnum was killed and
three other men were injured. A box
of dynamite at Carl Browns camp on
Big creek caught fire while a humble:
of people were sitting near it, and eX-
ploded before they could get away.
A contracting firm of San Francisco
has been awarded the contract for
constructing the o. r. & N.-Northern
Pacific connection between Riparia
and Lewiston The line will be start
ed Immediately and according to the
terms of the contract is to be in shape
for operation April l, 1906. The esti
mated cost is between $1,700,000 and
100000.
Professor ii. T. French. in charge
of the agricultural college and expert
ment station, is planning for the mOsi
extensive series of farmers institutes
have ever been held in Idaho. In al
there will be Is or 20 Institutes, eX
tending from the panhandle to the
southern extremity of the state. Coco
roads will be a leading subject of the
programs.
All of the churches of Weiser viii
hold union services in the open all
Sunday evenings during the summer.
Mrs. Caddie M. Shupe was convicted
at Paris of the crime of voluntary
manslaughter, in the murder of Arthur
Douglas. The crime was committed
at Montpelier July 1. Douglas hat
been living with the woman for two
years, but determined to leave her. He
visited her and gave final answer t
her pleadings that he do not forsak'
lher, declaring he would not yield. Sh'
then shot him.
There will be launched at thu
Cramps shipbuilding yards in Phila
delphia next fall a battleship which
will be one of the most effective in thu
world. The battleship will be thu
Idaho, and belongs to what is know
as the Mississippi class. The Idaho
will be a ship of 1900 tons, with
waterline of 375 feet. n feet wide, AM
have a coal bunker capacity Of 175
tons and II knots speed. Her meal
gross draft will be q feet. When CON
pleted she will have cost nearly Sc
900, 900.
There is absolutely no truth in an.
shape and form in the report that tn
Morning mine has been sold to tn
smelter trust or anyone else,' say
Thomas /. Greenough. 1T is tn
widest kind of rumor. A rumor t
this effect was current at Wallace TO
week, but there is nothing in it a
all We have not even been in ne
gotiation for the sale of the property.