Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-09
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES


Senator Dixon took charge of the
Roosevelt campaign Monday.
Two resolutions giving relief to set
tiers on the Minnedoka project in
Idaho have been introduced in the
senate. =
The mercury fell to below at Butte
March 2. This is the coolest weather
Butte has had this year. Two inches
of snow fell there.
James ]. Hill, chairman of the board
of directors of the Great Northern
railroad, will speak at the Spirit Lake
Chautauqua, Thursday, July IS.
Charles E. Arney, formerly a Boise
newspaper man, is now in Spokane to
take charge of the immigration and in
dustrial department of the Northern
Pacific.
w. f. Carlson, alias Arthur Laugh
ton, convict paroled from Salem, Ore.
was arrested at Boise recently, charged
with forgery, embezzlement and marry
ing under a fictitious name.
Plans of the Palouse country Chau-
tauqua club for making a 14-acre lake
five miles northeast of Moscow are
Undertaking. rapidly Work on an
extended scale will begin early in the
spring.
To the efforts of several prominent
people a destitute little band of Cal
ispel Indians, who live across the Pend
Oreille river from Cusic, Wash, owe
the movement now on foot to obtain
government aid for them.
Despondent because of her inability
to earn enough to keep her four chill
dren from starvation, Mrs L. +. Jell-
son, aged about SO, administered
drink of cyanide of potassium to each
of them and then drank fatal dose
herself. All five are dead at Salem.
The men and religion forward moves
ment for Montana begun in Billings
Monday with the team of experts from
the east in charge of the work. This
campaign is being conducted in 90
cities on the continent, Montana and
northern Wyoming being covered from
Billings.
Because the Salt Lake & Idaho Rail
road company, a branch of the Harri-
man system, has started to build across
the Minnedoka reclamation project in
Idaho without permission of the secre-
tary of the interior a suit for an in
junction and damages in the sum of
$4,000 was filed in the federal district
court at Boise by United States Dis
trict Attorney Lingenfelter.
Claiming that Bridget Madden is
the rightful heir to the estate of John
Cobertt, valued at 100000, attorney
have filed an action in the probate
court at Occur 'Alene City to set
aside the settlement of the estate. The
property has been administered and
distributed between L. F., J. J. and
w. c. Connolly and Ellen Udel, claim
ing to be cousins of the deceased
Cattle losses in Montana will be con-
siderably above the average this win
ter; according to man whose holdings
have been ranked among the biggest
in the state. The range is sheeted
with ice in portions of Chouteau, Hill,
Blaine, Valley, Dawson and Custer
counties, he says, and in addition the
wolves have been more numerous than
usual, even forcing stockmen to sell
out before the wolves cleaned up their
herds.
The federal grand jury which, for
several weeks, has been investigating
alleged frauds in connection with the
operations of several land development
companies returned indictments for
alleged fraudulent use of the mails
against officials of the Columbia River
Orchard company and the Oregon In
land Development company. The fol
lowing men were named in the indict
ments: w. E. Da Larm, A. J. Biehl,
George C. Hodges, II. P. Humphrey, r.
p. McWhorter, all of the first named
and J. T. Conway, Frank
Richet and p. G. Lavev of the last