Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-23
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES


Oldest residents, is dead.
William T. Lewis committed suicide
at Standpoint recently.
The Inland Empire Teachers associa-
tion meets in Spokane April to 6.
Hugh Toole was recently elected ex.
allied ruler of the Wallace lodge of
Elks.
At Kellogg, Idaho, chapter of the
Woman's Relief corps was organized
recently.
Governor Hawley of Idaho has issued
proclamation setting April 90 as
Arbor day.
At Missoula J. L. Chevigny, found
guilty of arson, was sentenced to 12
years in the penitentiary.
B. A. Bascom, instructor in mathe-
MATES and English in the Wardner
Kellogg high school, has resigned.
The Lewiston orchard growers have
perfected one of the most active fruit
associations in the Inland Empire.
After weeks Of activity by the
Idaho-Washington Development league
225 Inland Empire live stock support
ers went to Portland to the show there.
A strike that will affect the mechani-
cal department of every railroad in the
northwest is imminent, according to j.
H. Walters, grand lodge deputy for the
union.
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin an
nounces that he will campaign Nebras
ka, Oregon and Washington in April,
previous to the presidential primaries
in those states
Admitting that he had part in the
murder of William Sandercock, a mer-
chant of Garfield, Utah, whose store
he was burglarizing, William Mcvey
took a life sentence to the peniten-
tiary.
The 7-month-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Seeman, living near
Waller, Mont, was recently fatally
scalded by overturning a pan of hot
water upon herself.
AS the result of drunken brawl Sun
day afternoon at Butte, Thomas Ryan
was shot in the arm by Patrick Lyden
with a 5000 rifle. Ryan is a miner
and Lyden a plumber.
At Butte the Barker police bill was
passed over the veto of Mayor Lewis
J. Duncan, socialist, ending a stubborn
fight to take the unlimited appointing
power to the police force from the
mayor.
Fortine, Mont.-The Lincoln Logging
and Lumber company expects to start
its new mill April 10. A cut of logs
has been made during the winter and
the mill expects good run. A daily
output of five cars is planned.
Manager n. w. Mumford of the Nil
ton Freewater (Oregon) fruit growers
has gone to Seattle, Spokane and Mon
tana, where he will endeavor to open
new markets for hay, potatoes and
other produce handled by the union
At Missoula Allen Perkins, laun
dryman, was found guilty of grand lar
ceny. Perkins is alleged to have en-
tered the apartments of Mrs Lizzie
Shelley and her daughter and to have
stolen $1,000 from the bottom of ;
trunk.
The railroad officials this year do MOI
contemplate having any trouble from
mud slides or washouts along the Grea
Northern in Montana due to the heavy
fall of snow in October, which has KEEP
the ground from freezing to beyond {
few inches deep.
At Bartlesville, Okla, occurred tn
death of Mrs. II. S. Clark, aged 6s
zone of the most prominent pionee
women of Butte. Mrs. Clark IS daugh
ter, Clara, is the only known woman
mining engineer in the west. Mr. Clarl
is a wealthy mining man.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegrap
company, the western Bell corporation
announced at San. Francisco that it ha
completed the purchase of all the hold
ings and properties, except only tn
franchises of the Bay Cities Home Tel,
phone company, for $9,275,oOO.
Because Ray schofeld, a young POI
tai clerk in the Lewiston postofice, b'
lieved he was overworked he bundle
package of AZ letters of the thir
class, wrapped them carefully to pr
vent any Identification, rode to tn
middle of the Lewiston-Clarksto
bridge and dumped the bundle into IL
Snake river. The budget was fonn'
He pleaded guilty to robbing the mai
] and was bound over on $1,000 bonds.
G. c. Hyatt, general manager of Il
Bellingham Bay s. British Columbi
Railway company, reports that the con
= pany and its allied properties hay
been purchased from the Mills al
, Cornwall estates by a syndicate {
RellinOham Seattle and Tacoma me