Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-10-25
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES


The police force of Lethbridge, AL
berta, resigned on the eve Of the dry
farming congress week.
Mrs Retta Holman of Moscow, Ida
no, was elected president of the Re
bekah assembly by Idaho members of
this order.
The next quarterly meeting of the
Western Pine Manufacturers associa-
ton will be held November IL at Hot
Lake, Ore.
A fatality occurred recently at the
Queen mine, 10 miles from Saline, b.
c., resulting in the instant death of one
man, and the serious injury of two
others.
Drummond, Bearmouth, Bonner, Riy-
erside, Mont, and other Montana
points experienced an earthquake
Sunday afternoon at about 2;30
o'clock.
Twelve bishops of the Episcopal
church and four times as many rectors
journed their eighth annual missionary
council at Los Angeles Saturday.
Governor Hawley issued a procla-
nation calling upon all Idahoans to
observe Sunday October 20, as a day
2 of sorrow in honor of the states dis
tinguished statesman, Senator Hey
Z burn.
AS a result of bad freight wreck
on the O.-W. r. q N, two miles west
of Plummer, Idaho, Saturday, in which
3 the brakeman was slightly injured and
+ 10 cars were derailed, traffic was tied
I up for some time.
=, Formal welcoming of delegates by
- the clergy of Portland brought to a
close Saturday night the first day
g session of the thirty-ninth annual con
o vention of the National Woman
a Christian Temperance Union at Port
+ land, Ore.
= The Butte miners union voted ia
vorably Tuesday to an assessment o,
one days pay of each member for the
: benefit of the striking miners at Bling
:, ham, Utah. The assessment means
If that the Butte miners will send S24,
$ 500 to the strikers.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine
-" at Wardner, Idaho, has received II
tanks filled with oxygen to be useC
!, with the Draeger oxygen helmets. Tn,
v oxygen will be used for both practic,
y work, and also to be kept in reserve
y for emergency. A new supply of hel
e NETS has already been received.
70 The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Oster
miller, year and a half old, living
about eight miles southwest of Billings
Mont, was drowned Saturday in
small creek which flows through tn
N farm. The little one had been playing
about the house and was not misse,
A. until the dinner hour. The body wa
" discovered lodged against barb wir
n fence.
Is AS a result of a fight at Moore
~ Mont, between three Americans an,
c a foreign section crew Nels Burke wa
I, shot and instantly killed and Waite
Busse was seriously wounded. Tn
. third American, Walter Hoover, es
capped unhurt and none of the section
- crew received worse than a few blows
1t Eleven of the foreigners are in jail
8 The fight took place in the RESTRICTS
&c district and it is understood that al
Is those concerned had been drinking.
Re Bob Morgan, who disappeared iron
Condor, Ore, after the killing of Mis-
Virgie Hart October II, was captures
Sunday, two miles away. Miss Hart
who recently came from Kentucky
2 was fonowed to Condor by Morgan
= who was an unfavOred sutton. Tn
young woman was passing along tn
street early in the evening, when sh
" was shot and instantly killed and U
b. Crane was injured by a bullet whei
u he attempted to take Morgan's gun
from him.
n President Taft has issued procla
a nation changing the boundaries of thu
Missoula and Madison national forests
D. Montana. From the former 1860 acre
81 are eliminated and from the latte
1t 6S,140 acres. These eliminations ar
the result of field examinations whicl
the department of agriculture ha
. been making in pursuance of the ger
- eral plan to correct the national foI
:. est boundary lines. The acres elimir
= ated from the Missoula national fores
are along the borders of the Flint an
"" Rock creek exclusive Of the southern
: division.
b. Montana coal fields, known as tn
f. Milk river, Livingston and Electri
b. areas, have been made the subject 0
~ special bulletin just issued by tn
II geological survey, which is officiall