Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-11-04
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

The Oregon Woolgrowers associ
alton will meet at Baker November IA
and Is.
The Presbyterians Of Moscow, Idaho
last week celebrated the founding OF
the church there 80 years ago.
The seventh annual session of the
teachers joint institute of Nez Perco
Latah and Clearwater counties, Idaho
is being held at Lewiston this week
The touring members Of the national
monetary commission have concluded
their hearing in Seattle and after a
visit to the navy yard went to Port
land.
Burton L. French, representative in
congress for Idaho, who, nearly a month
ago, underwent an operation for seri-
GUS case of appendicitis in Portland,
has left the hospital.
The Western Steel corporation, a
$20,000,000 corporation, whose affairs
have been before the courts for sew
eral weeks, was adjudged bankrupt by
U. S. Judge C. II. Hanford.
Lon r. Hoss, a former Montana
newspaper man and at one time secre-
tary to former Governor Toole Of that
state, died recently in Portland after
an illness of over several years.
A child welfare conference and ex-
hibit, the first such event ever held
west of Chicago, was held in Portland
November 1 to 4, under the auspices
of the Oregon congress of mothers.
The fashionable section of Portland
to be the scene of a strike. The
cook ladies have been ordered to walk
out unless their various employers will
agree to standardize the monthly wage
at $40.
The mining outlook in the camps of
British Columbia and those near the
international boundary, like Republic,
Orient and Chewelah, Wash, has been
greatly frightened by the settlement
Of the coal miners strike in British
Columbia.
Fremont Older, who, having led a
fight for many years to send Abraham
Ruef to the penitentiary, is now at
tempting to secure his release. He has
received a letter from Joaquin Miller
the poet, who commends Older for his
efforts and urges him to continue.
With bonfres burning and specia
features of celebration the construction
of the grade of the first section of tn,
Flathead Interurban railway was com
menced Monday morning by l.. L
Davis, j. A. Roe and others to whom
contracts were awarded by D. r. Nc
Ginnis, promoter.
W. +. Borst, aged counterfeiter, VIII,
confessed to manufacturing and circu
lating spurious dollars, was arraigne,
in Kalispell, Mont, and bound over t.
the grand jury at $500 bonds. H
was taken to Helena. Borst is pas
72 years old. He said his outfit is lc
Gated near Lewiston, Idaho.
William Walls was probably fatal
shot by Evan Evans at the Hamilto
ranch, near Butte, owned by W. A
Clark Jr. Saturday. Evans is held a
the county Jail. The row betwee
Walls and Evans occurred over a foot
bridge, which Walls threatened to r,
move. Evans declared that he woul
shoot Walls if he did.
Bankers of Oregon have joined tn
back to the farm" movement. A
meeting of officers and directors o
the Oregon State Bankers associatio
in Portland a committee was named {
devise the best ways and methods o
inducing young men now on the farm
to stay there and to urge young me
now in the cities to go to the farms.
The land conspiracy case of the gov
ernment in which six prominent ranch
ers of Long valley, Idaho, were charge
with forming a confederacy to depriv
homeseekers of their claims by threat
to tar and feather terminated in tn
federal court at Boise when a jury
having reported a disagreement, wa
discharged. The case will be retired a
the next term of court. "
Subscribing to an affidavit Eleano
MaceO charges Max G. Cohen, VIII
served as municipal judge in Portlan,
during the absence of the incumbent
George Tazwell, recently, with under
taking to dictate to her the employ
ment of lawyer, S. J. Silverman, 70
a fee of $3.50 as an essential condition
to the promised dismissal of the charg
against her of selling liquor withou
license.
At Seattle Olaf Dahlquist of Daven
port, Iowa, was revenged upon his wife
Gladys, who deserted him in 1908, an
upon Henry Johnson, with whom sh
came to the Pacific coast, when John
son and the woman were sentences
Saturday to two years in Washingto
state prison and Rine months in tn
county Jail, respectively, after thei
conviction of perjury, she havin