Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-04-14
IDAHO NEWS.

James Cannum, convict, mas es-
capped from the state penitentiary
Senator Hepburn has recommended
the establishment of rural free de-
livery route at Rupert.
Herman j. Rossi of Wallace has is
sued a statement saying he would not
be a candidate for governor of Idaho.
Sheriff Foresman of Lewiston has
gone to Portland to get Jack Matthews
who has been wanted for over year
for the murder of Antoine Bronchial
At Burke David Taylor machinist
was caught by belt in the Hercules
mill and his body was drawn into the
big wheel, killing him instantly and
mangling him in a horrible manner.
Mr. Taylor was 25 years of age and
unmarried.
The board of regents Of the Univer-
sitv of Idaho has completed their
work and adjourned. Nothing definite
was done relative to rebuilding the
administration building, and nothing
will be done until the matter of insur'
ance is adjusted.
Alexander Burns, fireman in the
planning mill of the Post Falls Lumber
company, was suffocated recently by
falling into a bin of shavings. Burns
is supposed to have gone to the bin
to get shavings with which to feed the
furnace, and to have fallen in.
The state of Idaho has won its con-
test in the United States land office
over the right to file on lands in town
ship "A, range east, against 40 set
tiers on the lands. The contest was
commenced on the ground of the prior
right of the state to file on the lands.
c. A. Stevens, a pioneer meat dealer
and stockgrower, whose principal place
of business is at Wallace, but whose
farm is at Osborne, recently killed
what is probably the largest steer ever
slaughtered in the Occur d'Alenes. The
beef was a year old and dressed
1860 pounds, weighing, alive, just prior
to its killing, 1910 pounds.
John Jacks, a slovenian, was killed
and Clarence Ebney, a machine man,
badly injured by cavein in the Tiger
mine at Burke last Saturday. The
men were working about 1900 feet
underground in a tunnel when mass
of rock about eight ieet in length ano
thickness fell without warning, bury
ing both miners beneath. The mine
is well timbered, and the cause of the
cavein is a mystery.
Word has reached Senator Hepburn
that construction work on the Pacific
Idaho & Northern railroad, now build
ing through Idaho, will have to be
abandoned for a year or more on ac
count of the action of the department
of justice in notifying the railroad of
fcials to desist in further cutting tim
Der from the lands withdrawn from
entry on account of forestry purposes
under penalty of answering to the
courts for their conduct.
T. V. Powderly has written to Gov
ernor Gooding of Idaho. urging thai
he insure a fair trial to Meyer Hay
wood and Pettibone, charged with th'
murder of former Governor Steunen
berg. He declares that justice re
quires, and the whole country demands
a fair trial for the men. They arr
charged with the practices of the as
sassin, he writes, and they in turn
were taken at disadvantage and re
moved from their lawful place Of res
idence to a foreign jurisdiction with
out resort to form Of law.
The First National bank of Halle,
has been designated as a government
depository. The bank will secure tn
government by the purchase of $4,000
in government bonds.