Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-12-30
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Therrell Monroe, the s-year-old son
Of Mr. and Mrs. John Monroe of Burke,
Idaho, was injured while coasting, re-
Gently.
Frank Cook, former postmaster and
druggist at Boomers Ferry for a num-
Der of years, was adjudged insane re-
Gently.
That Missoula county is in excellent
condition financially is shown by the
county treasurer calling in all outstand-
ing warrants.
Within the next week Secretary of
the Interior Walter L. Fisher will an
nounce his final decision on the Marble
Creek claims.
Kalispell, Mont, is arranging a cele.
bration on New Year s day to com
memorate the arrival of the Great
Northern railway in the valley.
Lewiston flour has invaded the wheat
districts of Alberta, and orders for
double and thrice the amount of the
initial shipments have been received.
Frank Garrison was found guilty of
murder in the first degree at Coquille
City, Ore. The death of Roy Perkins,
near Marshfeld, August 81, 1910, is the
cause.
Governor Hawley Of Idaho has called
the legislature to meet in extraordinary
session, the first in the history Of the
state, on January IS, to enact a new
revenue law.
The supreme court Of Idaho holds that
the Black, or commission, form Of gov
eminent law applied to Boise notwith-
standing the special charter, which is
nullifed by the new act.
The confession of Albert p. Balsam
has solved the mystery of the double
murder Saturday, at Nelson, B. c., in
which Caleb A. Barton and Jack Gould
were killed in a saloon.
Fred Gehrke, a young employee of the
McGoldrick Lumber company working
on the Slate creek camp, 10 miles south
of Wallace, was frozen to death Sun
day few hundred yards from camp.
Charles w. Jones, former cashier of
the Oregon hotel at Portland, who is
charged with having appropriated
$4,000 or more of the hotel funds for
his use and who was arrested, has con
fessed
Governor M. E. Hay may be right in
10. -, IL e - 30,
ing votes for women in America, but
these methods are needed and justified
in England, according to the statement
of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst at Seattle
Dalton L. Sparks, who was arrested al
Phoenix, Ariz., as he was calling fol-
his mail at the postofice, is said to have
admitted to the authorities that he is
Mel J. lowell, who is wanted at Big
Timber, Mont, for the killing of Dep
uty Sheriff Brannin, November 16.
At Helena it took a jury but 40 min
utes to decide that Mrs. Mary Murphy
is entitled to the $4,000 estate left by
her son, Edward J. Murphy, who dice
in Spokane in 1909, willing his estat,
to his sister, Mrs. Anna +. Nett Of
Augusta. He was mentally ineompe
tent when the will was made.
Portland s (Ore.) Chinatown took it,
final step toward complete regeneration
Saturday night when a number of young
Chinese broke into a new joss house
and with axes and crowbars deliberately
murdered IL sacred figures, defled the
sacred tea, and wrecked the ornaments
The damage will amount to between
100000 and $4,000.
The attention of railway men hai
been attracted by a unique invention Of
Earl d. Brown of Kalispell, Mont.
termed by the inventor the oscillatins
switch. - The new device is designed
to eliminate all trouble from clogging
by snow or other matter, the switcl
rail being cylindrical in construction
so as to rotate rather than slide, as il
the model in general use.