Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-11-01
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

There is an exodus from the recla-
nation camps south of Poison, Mont,
for the seat of war in the Balkans.
The new high school building, which
has been erected by the Wardner-Kel-
logg district at $4,000 cost, was for
mally opened Monday.
Union county, Oregon, suffered the
loss of one of it's oldest and wealthiest
pioneers in the death of Charley Hall
garth of Elgin Sunday.
Frank Turner, who had charge of
the John Kelly ranch in Hudson Bay,
was killed recently by falling from
his wagon near Milton, Ore.
At Trenton, N. j., the Montana
Water Power company filed articles of
incorporation recently. Three million
five hundred thousand is the capital
given.
Friend Hyde, 46 years of age, and
former superintendent of the Minerva
Mining company of Atlanta, Idaho,
committed suicide at Seattle by in
haling gas.
DR.. Hill of Freewater, Ore, has eight
Flemish Beauties pear trees from
which ne gathered three tons which
he sold for three-fourths of a cent a
pound.
Sybil Dyer, II years old, who left
her home in Occur d'Alene, Idaho,
several weeks ago, was taken into Gus
tody by the police at San Francisco
Sunday.
Mormon colonists who were driven
from Mexico probably never will re
turn to their homes there, according
to the announcement of President 10
seph f. Smith.
The body of Frank Bentz, the miss
ing pumpman, who was lost in the
mine fire of the Bunker Hill and Sulli
van, October T. was found Saturday
afternoon in one of the drifts on The
No. 10 level.
At the state land sale at Moscow
Idaho, Saturday, only 1920 of the 400
acres advertised were sold. The high
est price paid was $21.50 an acre TO
40 acres along the canyon below Ju
liaetta. Most of the sales were TO
stump lands.
Port Hill, Idaho.-The Idaho Cont
mental Mining company has brought i
rs additional men for work on the ne'
road to the mine, chartering a specis
train to do so. This has been necel
sary in order to rush the completio
of the work before snow falls.
William Dittman, for 30 years
resident of Minneapolis and for sewers
years editor of a German paper,
dead at his home there of paralysi
He was well known in the northwes
having also been editor of Germa
paper at Helena, Mont, for one yea
AS an echo of the failure of Il
State Bank of Commerce, Wallac
Idaho, came the closing recently
the business of G. Scott Anderson,
former director. The doors are close
= under the orders of the court to pr
j tect as far as possible the claims
the defunct institution.
The creation of a new horticultur
> station to DE known as the south Idaf
station, and located at Jerome, is a
nounced. It's work will include Il
. solution of important problems co
nected with the raising of potato'
under irrigation methods and the pr
j duction of sugar beet seed.
!. Using the house of John Uormi as
. barricade, Isaac Peterson, a we
= known character at Kellogg, Idah
. terroried the town for six hours Fridi
by a series of random shots and endt
his wild spree by shooting Constab
). M. A. Cavanaugh through the rig
> temple and sending a bullet into hii
J. self near the heart
. Oliver w. Bates, who was recent
e indicted by the grand jury at Bots
: Idaho, on white slavery charge, W
= arrested at his ranch near Cardsto
, Alberta, recently and was deported
! the United States. Alice WingarC
!, who is wanted as a witness again
|, Bates, also was deported. They W
q be taken to Idaho at once. The WI
. gardt woman is said to be the wife
p the prisoner.
IS William Purdy, engineer on the o.
Y. gon Short Line, and his fireman, I
It gene Bare, were killed Sunday aft
d noon when the train which left But
II crashed into two 'battleships" fill
with coal that had been detached frC
a freight train in the yard at Lin
and had escaped through an op
switch on to the main track, whe
n they had a clear field down grade
miles to Kidd, a station "a miles fro
Dillon, where the accident occurred
&c Breaking down completely when