Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-01-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Official announcement that intercol-
legiate football has been prohibited at
Harvard by vote of the board of over
seers, until the game is reformed. is
made. The announcement made known
the action taken by the board at their
secret meeting held recently.
Eleven of the stars Of the Pacific
coast league Of 1905 will play ball in
the major leagues this coming season.
Never before in history of baseball
have the American and National lea
CUES made such inroads as they have
this year on the circuit of the far west.
Paris. ina 500 point billiard match
Monday fer the championship Of the
world between Maurice Vigneux of
Paris and Willie Hoppe the latter won
by ia points.
That the Chicago, Milwaukee g. st.
Paul main line will not pass through
Spokane has been made known by the
golfers Of the company. A spur branch
line, however, will run into Spokane,
connecting it with the main line. No
reason is given for this route
Northern Pacific engineers laying
out the building of the Yakima valley
railroad have practically blocked the
Chicago, Milwauke 81 st. Paul out OF
the Naches pass and forced the select
ion of the Snoqualmie gateway to the
Sound. Coast officials of the new
transcontinental line are making prep
arations for the use of Snoqualmie pass
and only a showing of impossibility in
grades or some new advantage in
Naches pass will change the present
plan.
A 80 cent rate is in force now on a
minimum shipment of "a tons to the
carload ,on timothy seed from Spokane,
Cornell Moscow and Lewiston to Port
land. A rate of SO cents a hundred on
condensed milk shipments from Rich
mond and Logan, Utah, to Spokane
went into effect recently.
A new Spokane train west to Leav'
enworth, Wash, will probably be in.
stalled by the Great Northern Sunday
Ii will leave Spokane at p. m. anc
will arrive at Leavenworth at mid
night.
The work now being done by the
government at Box canyon on the
Pend d 'Oreille river, will be completed
by the end of March, and the canyon
will be navigable at that time, accord
ing to a statement made yesterday by
d. d. Birks, who has recently returned
from a trip up the Pend d'Oreille.
American trade with China hal
fallen off 90 per cent in the past year
according to the estimate of Samue
Glasgow, secretary and treasurer o.
the Centennial Mill company at Spo
kane.
d. G. Corbin of Spokane and hi
associates have just completed the pur
base of II square miles of coal land
in the Crows Nest district of British
Columbia for about $1,000 Tit
property was bought from AL Page o.
Wardner, Idaho, and the Langley Bros
of Cranbrook, b. @.
Henry Pratt Judson, head of the de
partment of political science and dear
of the faculties of the University Of
Chicago, has been appointed acting
president of that institution.
Baker City, Ore. II. j. Marium, al
old miner of this county, who has beer
treasurer Of Bourne Miners union No
AZ, Western Federation, since its or
ganzation some four or five years ago
has been lodged in Jail in default Of
$500 bail He is charged with the en-
bezzlement of $468.
w. G. Pendleton, formerly of Wen
atcbee, has been appointed deputy frui
inspector of King county.
Protests loud and insistent come from
Chicago pulpits against the lawlesl
conditions which were held responsible,
for the murder of Mrs. Frank Hollister
This crime, added to the killing OF
three other women within a few
months, reused the ministers and con
gregations to demand that better pro
lection be given by the police t.
women.