Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-02
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

large lumber company mas Deen
formed at Lubec, Mont.
J. A. Gartley of Occur d'Alene is
now the object of police search.
BY a majority of POI votes Boise
adopted the commission form of gov
eminent.
Peaches, cherries and other fruits are
10 days farther advanced than usual in
the Lewiston country.
A homeseekers' league is the latest
innovation in the Inland Empire in
the way of booster organizations.
The 1912 show and sale of the North
west Live Stock association is to be
held at Lewiston, Idaho, December
9-13.
Dudley Axtel, who had been engaged
in the newspaper business in Montana
for several years, died at Lewistown,
Sunday.
Milton Ruppin, a clerk of Sacra-
mento. whose home formerly was in
Portland, killed himself by poisoning
Saturday.
The funeral of Frank Aldrich, pio-
neer and prominent stockman of the
John Day valley, Oregon, was held Sat
urday.
About so farmers in the vicinity of
Roman, Mont, met at the Glacier View
clubhouse recently and voted to organ
ize a permanent farmers association.
Kalispel, Mont-The organization of
at least three new labor unions and the
probable formation of as many more is
the record at Kalispell, Mont, last
week.
General Sir Robert Baden Powell,
father of the Boy Scout movement
will not visit Spokane on March as
planned, but viii talk at Portland, Sc
attic and San Francisco.
The vote taken at Kamiah, Idaho, on
the question of authorizing the school
board to issue $4,000 in school bonds
to run 25 years resulted in an over
whelming vote in favor of issuing the
bonds.
The second annual gathering and ban
quet of the Northwestern Montana Re
tailers' association took place in Kal
ispell Monday, February %, with nearl,
200 representatives of the trade in at
tendance.
A freight wreck occurred at Kane
Idaho, a small station on the Nil
waukee railroad, about seven miles cas-
of this place. Fourteen cars were pile
up and about so yards of track wa
destroyed. No lives were lost
. To accommodate large number o
friends anxious to attend the funers
of John J. Nicholson, former sheriff @
= Shoshone county, Idaho, two specii
q trains were run to Wallace, Idaho, Sun
: day. The funeral was very large.
The Northern Pacific roundhouse 8
Logan, Mont, was destroyed by fiji
: Saturday, practically running two Ell
g gines. The fire originated from he
n Goals falling upon the floors of I'll
a roundhouse office. No estimate of IL
loss has been made.
, Mrs. X. Ruthledge wife of FL;
a Willow (Mont.) rancher, was seriousl
= injured when her stove blew to piec,
a while she was engaged in preparing
- meal. Unknown to her man sinl1ir
a well on her place had placed a site
of dynamite in the oven to thaw.
- Governor Oswald West of Oregon a
4 nounces that he had obtained fu
= confession from one of the men impl
\, Gated in the robbery of the steam,
Humboldt, from which in Septembe
1910, was stolen $57 800 worth of go
rs bullion. Twenty-Five pounds of tn
"a was delivered to the governor.
~ Even though the commissioners
II Lincoln county, Mont, have been e
joined from signing the $4,000 bon'
for roads ana bridges the Coast Brids
IS company, which has the contract
d build the three bridges, is going ahes
Al with the construction of the brid.
N across the Kootenai river at Libby.
= Forty sheep dead from poison and
couple of bullet holes through the cab
of the herder is the result of a mi
r night visit of two men to sheep can
ie on Box Elder, near Great Falls, Mon
n owned by J. B. Long s. Co. The who
u affair is a mystery, as the sheep we
lie grazing on leased land, and interfer
re with no other claimant as to grain
o. privileges.
The report of the house committee
rivers and harbors made Monday j
cluded several items of interest to t
5, northwest, one of which is $4,000
o, the improvement of the Snake riv
70 between Lewiston and Pasco. tt
to sum win be added to $13, 500 accum
In lated and now available for this pr
ne pose. For the Columbia river 5000
d. is provided for use between Cello al
the mouth of the Snake river, $3.50
ne for the Columbia between Bridgepc