Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-12-09
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

All the Elk 1ouBeS neiu meWotlai
services Sunday.
No smoking here" is soon to be
posted in the corridors of the postofice
at Portland.
William Woolsey, aged 90 years,
pioneer of the northwest, died at Spo-
kane Saturday.
The home of w. H vistal, near
Standpoint, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently, originating from defective
1ue.
Albert Nordicl1, a sheepherder, was
set upon by Roy Mead, near Keuter-
vile, Idaho, losing one eye and suf-
fering painful injuries about the bc ~
Secretary of Agriculture James Will
son says that he will recommend an
appropriation of $4,000 for agricul-
tural demonstration and experimental
work in the west and northwest.
Harry Leese, a young laborer at
Pendleton, Ore, who suffered a broken
ankle when caught by a cavein while
digging a sewer ditch on November
"a, died of lockjaw 10 days later.
Victoria, B. C.-The Canadian Pa
cifc i, steamer Tees, for which grave
fears have been entertained since she
sent ont distress calls from Kyuquot
sound, is afoat and all aboard are safe.
Thomas Murphy, who pleaded guilty
to burglarizing drugstore in Kalispell,
has been sentenced to two years in the
Montana penitentiary and Jack Doran,
bad check man, received a three-year
term.
Mrs Katherine Harlxins, charged
with looting the home of Mrs. Nora
Johnson, an aged Mullan (Idaho)
widow, has been held to answer to the
district court on a charge of grand
larceny.
The contract for the north jetty of
the Siuslaw 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 Clarksfork
are now being used in furnishing cleo
tricity 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 f. O'Neil, former
president of the Wallace (Idaho) 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withdrawn and he was discharged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 a man by George Daily while
hunting near the Moscow-Princeton
wagon road, three miles east of Viola,
in this county, Sunday, is causing de.
pands for another investigation.
While waiting for train which was
to carry him to St. Paul, from where
he was to go to Cokato, Mimi, for a
visit with his mother, Isaac HendriclS-
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
"a. staple product for which eastern seed
houses contract each year at good
prices.
I Clerk and Recorder Kuphal at Mis-
sopla has received a letter from a man
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 associa-
tion, an organization composed of all
/ the forest protective and conservation
organizations, - in number, in Oregon.
D, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Cali
I fornia, was held in Portland last week.
Older Mason, the French aviator,
/, few. over the business section of San
Francisco Saturday in a fight from
the stadium at Golden Gate park to
Oakland. He passed over the city at
an elevation of about 1000 feet,
4 circhng over the tall buildings several
] times.
r. At klamath Falls, Ore, true bills
were returned as the result of a grand
e jury investigation into the accusations
e against S. A. McMahon and J. H.
Hughes, directors of the Chicago Paw
ing. company, that they offered Mayor
= Sanderson and a councilman 81, 200 for
= their influence in awarding a street
y paving contract.
While playing about the station
bo1sa NJ Fulton mar Dorflond on tbo