Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-27
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

The discovery of case of smallpox
in the city jail at Salt Lake City re-
Gently has crippled the police force con
sIderably, owing to vaccination.
At Salt Lake, Utah, Elmer l.. Dewey,
convicted of the murder of Police
Sergeant J. Henry tombstone, July 4,
1911, was sentenced to life imprison-
ment.
DR.. Charles A. Dunniway, president
of the University of Montana, may be-
come president of the University of
New Mexico at Albuquerque, N. NJ, to
succeed DR.. +. Mcqueen Gray, whose
term expires in June.
James II. Ewart, former deputy post
master at Colfax, widely known Whit
man county pioneer, who attempted sui
eide recently in a room at the Inn at
Occur d 'Alene, Idaho, " IS taken to
a hospital in Spokane.
General Encouragement of the Ger
man American bank at Portland, in
Guiding the alleged incorporation of
about 100000 alleged to belong to
the stockholders of the bank, is one of
the charges in a recent suit.
The Oregon Washington Railroad &
Navigation company Will build direct
main line between Seattle and Vancou-
yer, b. c., according to a definite an
nouncement made at Vancouver by j..
d. Farrell, president of the company
Idaho exceeded all states in the Union
in the average per acre of wheat pro-
duction in 1911, according to the sup
plement of the December Crop Reporter.
Idaho 3 average is given at 30.7 bush
els for wheat. Barley averaged AZ
bushels.
There seems no longer any doubt in
regard to Governor Hawley having de
clared his unalterable intention of with
drawing from the gubernatorial nomin-
alton race and retiring at the end of
his term.
A general revenue law, prepared by
a joint committee from the house and
senate republican caueuses, was intro
duced in the house Monday by Repre-
sentative E. G. Davis of Oneida, who is
said to be one of the authors of the
bill.
For nearly a week negotiations have
been under way between the business
associations, railroad officials and strik-
ers at Ogden with a view to putting
an end to the Hartman railroad strike
or in some way relieving the situation.
No agreement was reached.
With the presence of speakers of ma
tional reputation assured at the annual
meeting of Inland Empire teachers in
Spokane in April, Wayne P. Smith OF
Wallace, chairman of the committee on
arrangements, predicts that the coming
meeting will exceed any of its prede
cessors.
Ernest Ottinger, saloonkeeper al
Portland, who was arrested on suspicion
in connection with the murder of Ed
son w. Mutch, whose body was foun6
in the rear of Ottinger s saloon, con
fessed to the murder before District At
torney Cameron, and will be charged
with murder in the first degree.
After overcoming parental objections
by removing to Spokane from Chicago
Miss Elizabeth Eddins, telegraph OPP
orator at a hotel in Spokane, became
the bride of w. H. Newbro of Duluth
formerly of Butte, son of the manager
of the Herpicide Manufacturing com
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Orders for the immediate purchase OF
the necessary equipment to begin lay
ing track on the grade of the Flathead
interurban have been approved by the
board of directors, and application tC
the board of county commissioners at
Kalispell, Mont, for permission to cross
the county road near the county fair
grounds was made.
Married Monday, seeing her husband
jailed the following day on a charge OF
forgery, and suffering the loss of al
most all of her wearing apparel two
days later by robbers at the hote
where she is stopping are the expert
ences crowded into the first week OF
married life of Mrs. Arthur D. Taplin
aged Is wears at Lewiston