Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-10-11
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

senate from oregon.
The new high school building at
Plummer, Idaho. costing $4,000, will
be completed within week.
Tom Gaffney, pugilist, wanted at |
Boise, Idaho, on the charge of passing |
a forced check for $500. was captured |
in Olympia and taken back to Boise.
Nelson, B. c., put on gala attire in |
honor Of the duke and duchess of Con-
naught, who, with Princess Patricia,
spent the fore part of the week there |
While endeavoring to enter harbor
at Newport, Ore, the fishing sloop Pill
grim was capsized in a rough sea and
her captain and crew of four men were
drowned.
Mckinley Mitchell of Portland has
complained to the Oregon railroad
commission that he was unable to Sc
cure cars to ship potatoes to Arizona
and Texas points.
Bears are reported so plentiful on
Moscow mountain, eight miles east of
Moscow, Idaho, that they are doing
much damage to the apple orchards by
climbing the trees and breaking them
down.
Development work on the mines in
the vicinity of Tulameen City, in the
Similkameen district of British Column
bia since the Vancouver, Victoria &
Eastern railway has penetrated the re-
gion is progressing rapidly.
The Juliaetta (Idaho) cannery pur-
chased 222,672 pounds of tomatoes
during September, besides several tons
of pears, plums and other fruit and
vegetables. The growers report salts
factory profits from tomatoes.
A taxicab, mysterious woman and
revolver shots at midnight figured in
the murder of Thomas K. White, a
public chauffeur, whose body was
found in his car Saturday at Salt Lake
City. Two arrests have been made.
Between 10 and 10 per cent OF the
children in the schools of Wardner
and Kellogg, Idaho, are defective. &C
cording to the report made by Miss
Helen Mccarthy to the school board.
following an examination last week.
Announcement is made by the Port
land Gas and Coke company that it
has adopted the minimum monthly rate
of so cents. Also that it is returning
thousands Of dollars Of deposits made
by consumers during the last few
years.
After being out all night the jury in
the Frank McDaniels murder trial
at Chinook, Mont, brought in verdict
of manslaughter. McDaniels and his
neighbor, Harry Tubbs, had quarrel
over a tract Of land north of Harlem
last spring.
Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining and
Concentrating company at Wardner
Idaho, Friday, October 4, declared a
regular monthly dividend of $65, 400
The disbursements for the current year
have been s555,9OO, and the total to
date is s13,780,950.
The Eastern Oregon Light and Pow
er company has started stringing wires
between Elgin and La Grande, Oregon
!, and it is expected power lines will be
in operation by the latter part of this
! month and Elgin will have a day anc
, night service Of electric lights.
In a fire Saturday which destroyed
his two-room home in Great Falls
Mont, where he lived alone, Free
Schweigel, an aged man, lost his life
Death was probably due to suffocation
The house was practically all burnet
when the firemen reached the scene.
Complete returns from the referen
l dunn vote of the various miners union
of Carbon county, Mont, show that tn
5 proposition submitted for ratification
e of the agreement reached at the Grea
Falls conference OF operators and min
ers has been carried by a majority o
So, the total vote being vl2 for ratifics
ton and $40 for rejection. Nearly 80
: men on the payroll Of the Northwest
ern improvement company at Re
t Lodge failed to vote. Only one CAM
j Bear Creek, gave majority against.
A permanent organization which II
! sures that the Columbia-Snaks Rive
= Waterways association will be a pc
:. manent working institution in the II
- land Empire, based largely upon tn
- organization of the National Rivers an
= Harbors congress, which solicits c.
operation of all the commercial clut
:, in it's embrace as we'll as individual
:, was effected in the session of the ass
= citation which closed Saturday with tn
. unanimous opinion that the meeting |
- Lewiston, Idaho, will be the most fl
- reaching effort ever extended to insul
- attention of the National Rivers an
= Harbors congress and United STATE
- congress.
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