Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-13
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

"A 'AAHHtN AoA NlhIAN
Lake this summer.
On January is a postal savings bank
will be opened at Waller, Mont.
Wireless telegraphy will become a
factor in the prevention of forest fires
in Montana.
One hundred years ago Saturday the
first white man arrived at or near what
is now Pendleton, Ore.
Tablets sold as a cold cure caused
the death of little Edith Antell aged
2 years, at Bingham, Utah.
Kellogg, Idaho, is to have a weekly
newspaper, according to the plans of
Walter Moriarity, a journalist.
The Pacific plumbing "trust, "
against which the government fled suit
In Los Angeles last month, dissolved
Saturday.
Both Washington and Idaho are in
splendid condition financially, with ex-
cellent prospects for a great progress in
the year 1919.
William GROWER, a passenger on the
steamer Santa Barbara, en- route from
Grays Harbor to San Francisco, became
violently insane
Charles earns and George Fargo, who
escaped from the Asotin county wash
ington) Jail December 20, were recap
tured at Ferdinand, Idaho.
The 1912 meeting of the Northwest
Livestock association and Livestock
show will be held at Lewiston, idaho,
December to 10, inclusive.
A combination of paint and oil es
Establishments on the Pacific coast is in
course of formation, involving an out
lay of approximately $4,000, 900.
The Great Northern Railway company
has let contracts for $25O,OOO worth of
work in the revision of its main line
track west of Crossport, Idaho
Sheriff Clifford c. Brown of Moscow
has gone to New York to bring back to
prison Robin X. Bradbury, who twice
escaped from the Latah county Jail.
The recent fall of snow. unless it
melts too soon and is followed by freez-
ing weather, will be a great help to the
wheat crops of the Inland Empire.
James Brown, well-known lumber
man and contract logger, was danger
ously injured recently by being kicked
in the face by a fractions horse a few
miles from Sumpter, Ore.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles w. Pen
rose, commandant at Fort George
Wright, near Spokane, has asked for q
6O-day sick leave and will leave for Cali
fornia as soon as the request is granted
Temple W. Alexander, former pur
purchasing clerk of the O.-W. r. & n
company at Portland, is charged with
embezzlement of $4,000. He has con
fessed. He blames "butterfy life.
Alexander was recently married.
c. J. Clark who has been held al
Eureka, Mont, pending the outcome OF
the injuries to William Conklin, who
was shot by Clark in an alteration OF
Christmas night, has been released
Clark was night officer at the time.
Sunday the enormous steel bridge OF
the Oregon Trunk railway across tn,
Columbia river at Cello falls wa
opened for through trains between Port
land and all central Oregon points OF
the Oregon Trunk. The new bridge
eliminates the ferry service at Fall
bridge.
Paul J. Berg and his wife, Louis,
Berg, an elderly couple from Mcleod
Alberta, Canada, were placed in prison
at San Francisco following a raid b,
detectives on their apartments in
hotel where women s wearing appare
valued at about $1,000 and supposed t.
have been stolen, was discovered.
According to estimates compiled b,
United States Surveyor General Je
rome Locke, there will soon be open t,
entry in Montana 6,107 900 acres o
public land, settlement of which ha
been delayed owing to the fact that tn
land was unsurveyed. OF this amount
100000 acres has been surveyed dur
ing the last year, and the remaining
100000 acres were surveyed in 100
and 1910, but the returns have not We
been checked up. The land will proba
bly, be opened this year.
John Laird, one of the most notori
GUS boxcar robbers operating in tn
western country, and going under som
half dozen assumed names, pleade
guilty at Butte to robbing a box car o
the c., M. s. P. S. railway of $500 Ct
gars, kid gloves and various other art
cles, and was sentenced to five year
in the penitentiary. In different part
of the country he has been known a
j. B. Corrigan, w. c. Wilson, "Fat
, Wilson and Fred Strand. He is one o
a gang operating between Butte an
Spokane.
INLAND EMPIRE COLD RECORD