Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-10-21
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

mas just been completed.
Mrs. Emeline Price, wife of John n
Price, II years Of age, pioneer Of
Moscow, is dead.
At Mullan, Idaho, the postal savings
bank opened Saturday with only three
deposits, totahng Sis.
Mrs. Angeline Hill, formerly of Pull
man, died at Seattle recently She
came to Whitman county IS years ago.
At Spirit Lake, Idaho, a postal saw
ings bank was opened Saturday. The
deposits for the first day amounted to
800.
On conservative estimate 40 per cent
Of the lead mines in the United States
is taken from the mining properties of
the Occur 'Alenes.
Taking enough potassium cyanide to
kill half dozen men, w. l.. Zeiger, a
blacksmith, committed suicide at
Athena, Ore, recently
The twelfth annual Lewiston Clarks-
ton Interstate fair closed Saturday and
the management is being congratulated
on the success of the industrial exhi-
bition.
The city of Spokane recently sold
$1,OOO,OOO worth of water department
bonds bearing per cent interest to
local bank for 1902, 800, discount Of
$37, 500
Hiram c. Hutchinson, age 40 an
employee Of the Portland postoffice, com
mitted suicide Saturday by jumping
into the willamette river. III health
was assigned as the cause.
1t is predicted more than 30 mining
men of Spokane and the Inland Empire
will attend the annual convention of
the American Mining congress at Chi
cage, October "a to 2s.
The Globe Navigation company IS
schooner Nottingham, from Westport,
Wash, for Callao, with lumber, was dis
master recently off the Oregon coast
during terrific gale.
Stanley Miller, arrested on suspicion
of being implicated in the holdup of
the bank of Harlem, July 81, and fully
identified by Cashier Hatch of the bank,
is in Jail at Fort Benton, Mont.
Portland, Ore.-With charge of
stealing gold from a smelter in Idaho
held in allegiance, Stanley Hayward
of Los Angeles is under arrest here, ac-
cused of defalcation in the sum of $500.
Chief of Police Blacker of Moscow,
Idaho, has secured evidence that boys
10 to IS years old have been buying
liquor from Portland wholesale houses
and having shipments pade by express.
L. i. Brotherton of Umatilla county,
Oregon, wso disposed of GAO acres of
farm land near Vanzicle, Ore, a few
days for $4,000, has purchased the
farm of Mrs. Julia Weidert, near Walla
Walla.
1t is rumored that Fort Lawton, at
Seattle is to be made a government
military supply station for Alaska and
that headquarters for the Twenty-fifth
infantry are to be transferred to Fort
Wright, making it a regimental post.
At Pendleton, Ore, fire of doubtful
origin recently destroyed the Oregon
feed yard and roller skating rink
occupying a square block, with loss
estimated at between $4,000 and $751;
COO A number of horses were burned.
The amount of money which is
brought into Spokane each year by the
successful operation of the mines in
the Occur 'Alenes and British Column
bia is inestimable, for that city is the
base of the food and machinery supply
of these extensive operations.
A. j. REESE, president of the Granger
(Wash.) Commercial Club, has left for
Omaha, where he will take charge of
the Granger exhibit at the land show
to be held there this week. From
Omaha the display will be taken to
Des Moines and later to the land show
at Chicago.
One of the most important strikes
made in the SLOGAN country has just
been reported by John Koskey, an old
time prospector and single maker. Tn,
strike was made near the 15-mile post
on the Kaslo & SLOGAN railroad, anC
consists of three feet of galena anC
earbonates This showing has been ex
posed by stripping for 20 feet.
Giving himself up in Minneapolis
that he might be returned to SPOKANE
and tried for the embezzlement of $780,
from a Touring mill company, NJ. O
Doyer, trusted bookkeeper and cash
Ter until last July &c, found himself
free man against his will several hour
later, as the firm would not prosecute
He wanted to get back to his family
hut was hrol,a'i