Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-12-13
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Advances in freight rates ranging
from 81 to $3.50 a ton to Juneau and
Ketchikan, Alaska, are announced.
Eight business houses in Post Falls,
Idaho, were broken into Saturday
night and money and goods were
taken.
The jury in the case of the govern
ment against Max Fried. charged with
white slavery, failed to reach a verdict
at Butte and was discharged.
At Juliaetta, Idaho, convention of
the farmers union was held Saturday
and it was decided to use cotton bags
next season, owing to the exorbitant
prices on jute bags.
Two masked men recently held up
the Sand house, Butte, robbing bar
tender and two loungers of about $25.
They were later captured and identi-
fled as J. b. Harris and John Donovan.
Two robbers recently held up the
Eleven Mile house." a road resort
near Portland, Ore, shot the propri-
etor, Joe Charland, in the leg three
times, shot out an oil lamp and es-
capped with SIT.
A White Orpington pullet scoring
93%, owned by Mrs. John Kennedy,
took the grand royal sweepstakes and
the silver loving cup at the recent sec
ond annual show of the Northwestern
Poultry association at Kalispell, Mont.
Plans are now being perfected for
holding in Helena in the early part of
January the first state convention of
, suffragists in Montana. Delegates to
the convention will be composed of
the chairmen of the county equality
leagues.
7 Negotiations are on for the sale of
2 the Salt Lake & Oregon electric rail-
? way to eastern interests, says Simon
2 Bamberger, the president of the road
The deal, if consummated, will involve
S millions, and it is said by those inter
4 ested that other millions will be forth
e coming to extend the traction system
north from Ogden and south from Salt
j Lake.
Major John b. Keefer, army pay
= master in Oregon, Washington and Ida
= no, in the early days, died at Harris
- burg, Pa, where he resided. He was
> paymaster in this northwest country
! from 1877 till 1896, being first appoint
ed by President Grant. He is survived
: by a widow and five children, one o
= whom, a daughter, Mrs. M. II. Paxton
J, lives at Walla Walla.
d Major Fred r. Reed, known in south
), ern Idaho as The Prince of Boosters,
l. has been appointed by GOvernor-elec
d John NJ. Haines commissioner of immi
grafton, labor and statistics. Also h,
d announced the appointment of th'
colonies of his staff as follows viii
l. H. Gibson, Mountain Home; John T
II Henderson, Arco; Herbert Lemp
d Boise, and e. N. Higbo, New Meadows
2 Kalispell, Month W. Good ha
closed a contract with the Somer
Lumber company for the delivery o
100000 feet of logs within the mex
!. two years. The contract is in addition
to one for 100000 feet made earle
in the season. The logs for both con
tracts aggregating 60,000,000 feet will
:, be cut on the Upper Saltwater. chief!
>, from Mr.. Goods own land. He hal
:, sublet work to a number of contract
e ors.
Il John Wilson, upon plea of guilty a
} Dillon, Mont, was sentenced to tw,
n terms in the penitentiary, the frs
e for 20 years for highway robbery, ant
l. the second-to begin upon the compile
d ton of the first-10 years for shooting
y Oregon Short Line Officer Charles
e Martin. Wilson was shot and PARTIAL!
e paralyzed during a sensational pisto
r fight with the officers, but not before
n he had shot down Martin, who hal
since recovered.