Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-11-15
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

An unknown man committed suicide
by hanging himself with bailing wire
in a deserted barn on Lake creek,
about six miles from Troy, Mont.
Kellogg, Idaho.-The hope of Ike Pc
terson, who killed Constable M. A.
Cavanagh, recovering from the bullet
wound through his breast is slight.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rosecrans, aged SO
years, grandmother of Harry Burke, a
newspaper man of Moscow, Idaho, cast
her first vote at the recent election.
Myrtle Clark of Standpoint, Idaho,
narrowly escaped serious injury when
keros le thrown into the furnace ex-
ploded, burning her face and hands
severely.
McFarling has closed a contract to
cut and place on right of way 100000
feet of timber for the Potlatch Lum-
Der company, near Deary, Idaho, and
will begin work at once.
A branch nine miles long of the
Portland, Eugene & Eastern railway,
of which Robert E. Strahorn of Spo-
kane is president, was purchased re-
Gently by him for 100000.
The CRANKY Smelling company
earned $145,O00 net during October, &C
cording to preliminary figures recently
sent out from the offices Of the smelt-
ing department at Grand Forks, B. c.
A strange woman registering at a
hotel in Moscow, Idaho, recently, who
was accompanied by two children, left
one of the children at the hotel when
she left. The child is only months
old.
A project to build a History hotel in
Portland is being considered by the
Day Bros of Wallace, Idaho, and Ed
ward Boyce of Portland. The Port
land hotel will be RACED and the new
structure built on the same site.
Robert Hopkins, 62 years old, and
Lawrence Culp, alias Fred L. White
were indicted and pleaded guilty in fed
eral court at Moscow, Idaho, to having
burglarized the postoffice at The
Dalles, Ore, and the boy confessed al
that time.
At Portland, Ore, Circuit Judge Nc
CHM sentenced William Wilson, &
young man, to spend the rest of his
days in the penitentiary for holding III
and robbing a grocer of S27. Wilson
was an escaped honor man" from the
Kansas state reformatory.
Governor West says that when tht
time comes to issue the proclamation
declaring woman's suffrage in effec
in Oregon he will go to Portland to the
home of Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway
aged 70 years, requesting her to writ
out the proclamation in her own hand
writing and he will sign it.
! Something more than overheating
lack of water or the turning of col,
, water into it, caused the boiler in tn
J basement of the Salem (Ore) BAN
and Trust company building to explod
/ and kill three men October 20, accord
ing to testimony of three experts Of
boilers before the coroner's jury.
The property of G. Scott Anderson
including the business of the Andersen
Lumber and Hardware company an
numerous Wallace lots, recently place
in the hands of a trustee pending tn
settlement of an account of near 500
900, due to the defunct State Bank O
Commerce, was returned to Mr. Al
derson.
t Ben James, a butcher at Butte
| Mont, who owns a shop at the cOrne
| of South Main and Platinum streets
7 was robbed of $1,000 Saturday nigh
z and locked in his own refrigerator TO
4 over four hours. When he final
worked the lock holding him a pris
r oner the man was badly frozen abou
, the feet and hands.
The trial of the first count, the NAL
ing of false reports, against Bernard /
O'Neil, formerly president of the Stat
Bank of Commerce of Wallace, for a
legged unlawful acts in relation to tn
t. management of the banks affairs, b,
gan Monday in the district court a
Occur d'Alene city before Judge Flyn
on Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Eldon Goodman, who had leased tn
historic Goodman ranch, once the heat
, quarters of the Hudson Bay compan
in the Walla Walla valley committe
suicide recently on the porch of tn
house by shooting himself in the hea
with a revolver. He died about a
q hour afterward without regaining COZ
seriousness. No reason is given fo
the tragedy.
S Roscoe Haines, supervisor of tn
e Occur d'Alene national forest, state
4 that the work of planting 1928 acre
: of forest land in the Lost Creek di
trict to white pine seed has just bee
I completed. In addition to the seel
l. the government set out 10000 2-yea
}, old seedlings. Five thousand acre
S near Cabinet has also been planted I
d white pine seed.