Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-10-04
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES
The Lincoln county (Mont) fair at
Eureka, October 3, and 5, was a
great success.
The fruit exhibits at the Latah Ida
ho) county fair last week were judged
by Professor Wicks of the University
of Idaho.
The city of Pendleton deserves the
thanks of the entire northwest for
staging the greatest show of the age
THE Roundup"
Laura Mace, 4 years old, was burned
to death at Lentz, near Portland, Ore,
Saturday, in a fire which destroyed
her mothers home.
Louis M Carney, one of the most
popular trainmen on the Missoula di
vision of the Milwaukee road, was ac-
cidentally ground to death under a
train near Missoula Sunday.
James b. Kelly, for more than 20
years president of the Hibernian bank
Of San Francisco, died there Saturday.
He was 50 years old and native of
Baltimore, county Cork, Ireland.
Mrs. Leo Batliff, wife of a we'll
known farmer of the Weippe district,
Idaho, was almost instantly killed in
runaway on what is known as the
Frazer grade, about 20 miles from
Lewiston, Saturday.
Salmon fishing in the Snake river is
meeting with success, and fishing
crews will likely be engaged for two
weeks. Although the catches are not
as large as the first of the season, the
occupation is profitable.
The explosion of a dynamite cap in
the hands of Eddie Croymane, the 10
year-old nephew of Mrs. John Clarity
of Whitefish, Mont, may be the cause
of his losing an eye. His face and
head were badly lacerated.
To accommodate the immense po-
tato crop of the Elgin country H. H.
Weatherspoon is building q frostproof
addition to his warehouse in Elgin,
Oregon. The addition is 24Ox40 feet
and will house 100000 sacks.
A trainload of 80 double-decked cars
consisting of 5000 sheep was shipped
from Elgin., Ore, to Seattle Thurs
day. The sheep were sold by John
Fisher of Wallowa, Ore, to U. f. Dite-
man of Seattle and represented about
$4,000.
At Portland, Ore, Leo Torbet, a
youth, was convicted by jury in the
state circuit court of manslaughter
A few weeks ago he shot and killed
Mrs. Margaret Bellaire, the mother OF
his sweetheart, because the woman
objected to Torbet's attentions to hel
daughter.
Charles Nelson, a rancher of Twin
Beaches, eight miles from Occur
d'Alene city, fell from his buggy Sat
urday and broke his neck, a short dis
lance from his home. He leaves a
widow and seven children. Nelson
was returning from shopping trip al
Occur d'Alene.
Examination made by Lewiston, Ida
no, business men of the loss that has
resulted in the waste of fruit in the
Decentralization district shows that
in the Lewiston-C Charleston valley ap
proximately 100000 pounds of fruit
have been wasted this season owing
to the inadequate facilities for handling
the crop.
Richard Jones, a rancher living in
the Dearborn canyon country, neal
Augusta, Montana, accidentally killed
himself Saturday. He was driving
cattle and stuck his gun up against
the fence while he opened the gate
After driving the cattle through anC
closing the gate he undertook to pull
the gun through the fence with the
barrel toward him. The trigger caught
in the wire, the shot evidently killing
him almost instantly.