Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-11-29
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Kila, Mont, were arrested recently
charged with butchering cattle belong
ing to John Herman.
The plans for the construction of an
interstate bridge over the Columbia
river between Vancouver and Portland
have been recently adopted.
Guy NJ Clark. former cashier of the
First National Bank, Earlville, Madison
county, New York, was taken into
custody recently at Portland, Ore.
Through the cooperation of the Pen
dleton Commercial club and the
Roundup association Pendleton, Ore,
is to be assured of a permanent band
Owing to the bad condition of the
streets the merchants of Standpoint
Idaho. have signed an agreement that
they will make no deliveries of goods
ordered after A p. m.
Montana's cowboy band, headed by
"Heinle" Houle and "Bill' Pruitt, cut
loose Saturday in Chicago in great
style, at the opening of the United
States land show at the Coliseum.
A general rush from Fairbanks, Ruby
and Nome to the new gold field in the
Innoko district, Alaska, is in progress,
according to Victor Carmichael, now
in Seattle from Cripple Creek, the
main camp of the new strike.
The suit between ]. Ross Clark, for
merly of Butte, Mont, and Mrs. John
S. Tanner over the custody of little J.
Ross Clark has been settled at Los
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child for six months of the year.
w. w. Terrell of Terrell, Idaho, is
suing the w. w. p Co. in the federal
court for $4,000 damages for alleged
injury to his property at Terrell, due
to the raising of the water of the st.
Joe river by the dam at Post Falls.
Glenn Gault, who confessed to the
murder several days ago in Portland
of d. M. Leitzell, led the officers to
the spot and few minutes work with
shovel revealed the conclusive evil
dence of the gruesome tragedy near
Oregon City.
Chico, Gala flight of $50 miles in
eight hours and half was made by a
! wild goose Friday, if a tag found
, fastened to its leg bore correct figures.
The goose was shot at $3.50 p. IN. The
tag bore the date "Okanogan, B. c.,
Nov 81, 9 a. M.
Scarcity of labor during the last
several months has materially reduced
the logging operations in the north
l. west and will result in a decrease OF
S not less than 20 per cent in the lumber
e output below the estimates of the tim
bermen earlier in the season.
At Butte, Mont, James ]. Smith
n pleaded guilty recently to the murder
o of Clarence A. Ackert at Melrose
Mont, April 10 last, and was sen
;. teneed to life Imprisonment. He served
4 time in the Idaho penitentiary in 100!
p for assault with a deadly weapon un
s der the name of Clabe, alias Dankes.
a Lumber has been shipped to Koote
r mai Falls, Mont, for the construction
of camps for the workmen, who will b,
S employed in the building of the bis
$6,000,0O0 power plant at that place
d These camps will be occupied at frs
n by a crew of 35 engineers, who will
h finish the final surveying and engi
D. neering work. AS soon as the engi
e turned over to the workmen.
With the closing of a deal Saturda.
n by the Southern Pacific for 80 mile
y of right of way in southern Oregon thu
: last foot of ground for that purpos
between Eugene and klamath Fall
has been secured for the Natron-Wee,
cutoff. The right of way just secure,
extends on a part of the old Oregon
4 military road grant from Odell lax
to the northern boundary of the Kla
math Indian reservation. With tn
y construction of the cutoff an immens
u territory will be served with transpoI
s. tation facilities.
n The second annual Northwestern
g. Products exposition at Minneapolis
a, Mimi, came to close Saturday nigh
n with the celebrating there of "Idah
10 day" Next years session probabl
% will be held in some eastern city. Ar
If nouncement was made that Leonar
n and Ballentyne of Glendive, Mont, ha
won first prize for the bushel of flax
d and that Cook county, in an Oregon
colonization company's exhibit, wa
awarded the silver cup for the bes
IS uiSpiay VI AOAaSS pants Noiu VI III
o. $4,000 prize for the best bushel 0
# wheat probably will not be made unit
n after Thanksgiving.
y Burned almost to a crisp but still
u alive Archie McPhail, aged 60 and uI
p married, was found in a forest Of
Thompson river, Montana, by J. r
Kruger and Ellis Kohler He wa
taken to a Missoula hospital. The low
er part of the body was burned severe
: ly, the skin coming off in larg
patches He is not expected to SUI
r vive. Mr.. McPhail came to Plain
l. from Phillipsburg and left with SUI