Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-31
IDAHO.

The $4,000 packing plant of the
Hagan & Cushing company, Moscow,
starts January l.
Brooding over his defeat at the re-
cent election Probate Judge j. e.
Jacques of Idaho county became vio-
lently insane recently.
Mrs. Mary E. Pettee and her 20
year-old daughter Mamie Of Lewiston,
are under observation, pending an ex-
animation as to the sanity.
The secretary of the interior has with
drawn from entry 1890 acres on Crane
creek and 12,142 acres on Blackfoot
river, to protect water power SITES
While out in the woods where a num-
Der of laborers were cutting down trees,
the 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Barto north of Boomers Ferry,
was killed by falling limb
The board of trustees of the State
Normal held their annual session re-
Gently. President Black made his re-
port for the year as well as his recon-
mendations for the next biennium.
All the big mines of the Occur
d 'Alene district and many OF the smaller
ones closed down Sunday to give their
employees holiday Many Of the com
panies have made it a double holiday
and will not call their men back till
tuesday morning.
With a gigantic earthen dam under
which the water is already sitting
standing above the town of Mackay, il
Custer county, this state, ready to g
out with the spring floods and to SWEEP
before it the town and its inhabitants, ;
grave danger threatens that section.
Idaho win lose its reputation as I
rapid divorce mill, and Boise will ceas
to be the mecca for Reno overflow O
matrimonial bond breakers if the reso
luton recently adopted by the Adj
County Bar association goes into effect
for it provides for residence within tn
state for one year instead of six months
as is now the case, before application
can be made for divorce.
A horrible tragedy was enacted i
the village of Eagle, nine miles Yves
of Boise, recently at a masquerad
dance when William Crowder, son o
one of the most prominent ranchers o
the valley, killed Lawrence Vaughn b
stabbing him to death. Crowder CAV
himself up. Insults addressed by Waugh
to Crowder's wife and an old feu
were at the bottom of the killing.
There are 24,O56 more children goin
to the public schools of Idaho this yea
than last year. The state makes an al
nual expenditure of $2,000,O0O for tn
maintenance of its school building
The school property has a valuation
100000 and its total receipts II
= school purposes per year amounts
= $2,500,000 approximately 1000 teac
= ers are employed who are paid a
nually 100000.
\ The supreme court has issued tel
= porary writ of prohibition restraint
\ Governor Brady, Secretary OF Sta
e Lansdon, Attorney General McDouga
! State Auditor Taylor and Miss ). Bel
= Chamberlain, superintendent OF pub
4 instruction, as members of the sta
- land board, from proceeding further
. the matter of the proposed auction sal
q of public school lands in Latah and N
~ Perez counties, granting the petition
Attorney Curtiss of Pike county.
! A corporation Of Wallace busine
!; business men representing capital
!. $4,000 will soon be formed to enga
= in business in Texas, where they ha
closed deal to take over all the &C
!; cessions controlled by a new railro
- across Texas connecting with Gulf
Mexico points. The corporation W
= consist of Herman Rossi, L. Il. Swe
g Q. d. Jones, w. s. Simons, George
= Garrett and Harry l.. Madgwi'
- Wallace, J. B. Short of MqNan end
G.. Hopkins of Falcon. 40