The Libby herald., 1911-12-07
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

All the Elk lodges held memoria
services Sunday.
"No smoking here' is soon to b,
posted in the corridors of the postofic,
at Portland.
William Woolsey, aged 60 years, :
pioneer of the northwest, died at Spo
kane Saturday.
The home Of w. Fl. vistal. neal
Standpoint, was destroyed by fire re
Gently, riginating from defectiv.
hue
Albert Norlick, sheepherder, wa.
set upon by Roy Mead, near Keuter
vile, Idaho, losing one eye aud suf
fering painful injuries about the BODY
Secretary of Agriculture James vii
son says that he will recommend al,
appropriation of $4,000 for agricul
tural demonstration and experimental
work in the west and northwest.
Harry Leese, young laborer at
Pendleton, Ore, who suffered broken
ankle when caught by cavein while
digging sewer ditch on November
"a, died of lockjaw 10 days later.
Victoria, b. C.-The Canadian Pa,
ciflc steamer Tees, for which grave
fears have been entertained since she
sent out distress calls from Kyuquot
sound, is aaoat and all aboard are safe.
Thomas Murphy, who pleaded guilty
to burglarizng a drugstore in Kalispell,
has been sentenced to two years in the
Montana penltentiary, and Jack Doran,
bad check man, received a three-vear
term.
Mrs. katherine Harkins, charged
with looting the home. Of Mrs. Nora
Johnson, an aged Mullan Gdaho)
widow, has been held to answer to the
district court on a charge of grand
larceny.
The contract for the north jetty of
the Suslaw river has been awarded by
the government to Johnson & Ander-
son of Portland. The consideration is
$2oo.6s3. The work must be completed
in 81 months.
The new power lines of the Northern
Idaho and Montana Power company
from Standpoint to Hope and Clarksforl1
are now being used in furnishing elec-
trlcity for domestic and power purposes
at Hope and Clarksfork.
In anticipation of lower freight rates
from the Coast to Spokane contracts
for the delivery of 10000 barrels of oil
per month has been closed. The con
tract price is rs cents per barrel de-
livered at Portland or Seattle.
The fugitive from justice charge
against Bernard Il. O'Neil. former
president of the Wallace Gdaho) State
Bank of Commerce, who is accused of
wrecking the institution, have been
withdrawn and he was discharged.
The mystery over the finding of the
remains of man by George Daily while
hunting near the Moscow Princeton
wagon road, three miles east of Viola,
in this county, Sunday, is causing de-
mands for another investigations
While waiting for train which was
to carry him to st. Paul, from where
he was to go to Colato, Mimi, for
visit with his mother, Isaac Hendrick,
son, 81 years old years, of Spokane.
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head at Great Falls Mont.
A number of farmers in the vicinity
of Peck, Idaho, will next year try the
experiment of raising peas for seed.
In sections of south Idaho pea seed is
q staple product for which eastern seed
houses contract each year at good
prices.
Clerk and Recorder Kuphal at Mis-
signing himself Charles Herr who dates
his letter Great Falls, advising that
he is the Charlie Kerr for whose murder
an Austrian laborer is bound over to
the district court at Hamilton
The annual conference of the West
ern Forestry and Conservation assoca.
tion, an organization composed of all
the forest protective and conservation
organizations, ~ in number, in Oregon.
Montana, Idaho, Washington and Cali
fornia, was held in Portland last week.
Older Mason, the French aviator,
flew over the business section of San
Francisco Saturday in fight from
the stadium at Golden Gate park to
Oakland. He passed over the city at
an elevation of about 1000 feet
circling over the tall buildings several
times.
At klamath Falls, Ore, true bills
were returned as the result of grand /
jury investigation into the accusations
against S. A. McMahon and j. II. |
Hughes, directors of the Chicago Paw,
inU cOmDanV that thev offara1 M.vor