Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-11-25
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

gambling at Greenwood, B. c..
John wolfnger, pioneer of Grant
county, Oregon, died recently.
Miss Lulu Mae johnson, a magazine
writer of the northwest, who lived ~
Los Angeles, died recently.
The engineering crew which has bees
locating a logging road west fro"
lone. Wash, finished its work.
The famous Pendleton Cowboy band
is at Spokane for the Enakops Jubilee
carnival and the Apple show.
The Rev. T. Walker, an Episcopal
clergyman. committed suicide at Van
couver, B. c., recently by hanging. Ill
health.
Charles Lewis, a Occur d'Alene In
dian. was found dead recently near
Lowell, Idaho. All indications point
to murder.
Three railway mail clerks of Spokane
narrowly escaped death in wreck near
Whiteish, Mont, on the Great North
ern recently.
Walter, the 13-year-old son of Judge
u. C. Groseclose of Juliaetta, Idaho,
was shot while playing with shot
gun recently.
N. Sullivan, laborer, is suffering
as the result of having been aeeiden-
tally immersed in the boiling hot water
at Hot Lake, Oregon.
The report of the purchase of the
steamship Mariposa by the Alaska
Steamship company from the Oceans
Steamship company for 100000 is CON
irmed
This year S assessments of timber
owners in the Pend Oreille district for
fire fighting amounts to 21s cents per
acre. Last years assessment was Is
cents.
Caryl Davis Haskins of Schenectady,
N. Y, one of the most prominent cleo
= trical engineers in the United States,
died at Salt Lake recently with pneu-
monia.
Shot at from the side of the road by
, an unidentified person, DR.. Frank T..
Smith, superintendent of the Oregos
: state school for feeble minded, had a
4 narrow escape.
New capital will be invested by the
a Mitchem Packing company at Spokane,
S with a view of making the concern one
of the largest and most up-to'date pack
e ing plants in the west.
: Under the direction of Professor Olin.
! who has recently been appointed di-
" rector of the university agricultural
. extension work, correspondence
:. course in agriculture is being conducted
- from Boise, Idaho.
m Two hens in the department of poul
e. try and husbandry of the Oregon Agri
cultural college have, it is believed
ct broken all records in egg production il
ell the United States, with 259 eggs eaci
ie for the last 10 months.
I'd Lewiston retailers will perfect an or
" ganization to encourage the growing o
or fruit and vegetable products whicl
III command high prices throughout tn
e. year and which are secured largel,
from outside districts.
Joseph A. Edge has received his az
pointment from Governor Norris as
ar delegate to represent Montana at tn
first American Road congress of tn
IN American Association for Highway In
on provement, to be held at Richmond
I'm Va, November 20 TO %.
nd The Oregon Horticultural society,
n recent convention, appointed a COMM
tee of three to draft a substitute fC
re, the Lafean bill, now before congress
regulating the size of apple boxes. TIL
Lafean bill, it is claimed, would be,
D. adopted, greatly prejudicial to the il
terests of the apple growers of the P
re, cifc Northwest.
"a Charles F. Sauerbier, blacksmith
Virginia City, Mont, is the victim
49,. a peculiar accident that nearly resultt
fatally. Mr.. Sauerbier was in the a
- of welding a wagon spring, which
lad heated to a white heat, when
"a. tainted and fell on the floor on Il
- heated iron. His groans were heard
s Frank J. Presch, who conducts blac
~P smith shop next door, and he was he
rifed to see Sauerbier in flames.
=, grasped a bucket of water and exit
suished the fire.