Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-07-12
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

The Elks' special, which left Mos
cow for Portland Sunday morning car
ried about 200 people.
The ceremony of laying the corner
stone of the new high school building
at Moscow, Idaho, took place Saturday.
The executive committee of the Mon
tana Baptists has decided to hold the
state convention for Montana in Butte,
October IA.
Captain John Sargent Dolliver, a
famous pilot of San Francisco bay, is
dead at his home in Alameda, Cal. Cap
tain Dolliver came to this coast in
1850.
At Lewistown, Mont, Mrs. Thomas
Williams, wife of a painter, recently
committed suicide by swallowing a
large dose of strychnine. Dependency
was the cause of the act.
b. f. o Neil, charged with embezzle-
ment in connection with the failure of
the State Bank of Commerce of Wal
lace, is now in the Wallace Jail await
ng trial, unable to get bonds.
One hundred and seventy-fve Elks
of the Lewiston lodge departed Sunday
night for Portland. Approximately 500
Elks will represent the eight lodges
of Idaho at Portland in the convention
to be held there this week.
Andrew Lenniger, cable splicer in
| ba al
Telephone company, was fatally injured
Saturday when $500 volts of electricity
passed through his body while he was
at work on a telephone pole.
AT the business meeting of the Mon
tana grand lodge, Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks, j. w. Walker of
Kalispell was elected state grand ex-
allied ruler and Missoula was selected
for the next place of meeting.
Harry Sheppard of Bellingham,
Wash, was recently elected president
of the National Amateur Press associa-
ton, which closed its annual conven-
ton at La Grande, Ore, Saturday
Bellingham was chosen as the 1918 con-
vention seat.
AT the annual general meeting of
the Grand Forks (B. O. Fruitgrowers
association Saturday James Rookie was
reelected president, w. T. Ross, vice
president and w. II. Collins, w. f.
Armstrong, E. Herrick and Al Traun-
weiser, directors.
Charles Stiger, aged 27, employed
in the bridge department of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Rail
road, was drowned recently in the Vel
lowstone river near Orinoco, Mont
Stiger slipped from a raft. He came
from Genesee, Ill.
j. L. Stice has been appointed post
Office inspector for the northwest dis
trict, with headquarters in Spokane
Stice, it will be recalled, was the post.
office inspector who bore the brunt of
the governments contest with the
Lewis Publishing company at st. Louis
recently.
/ The dead bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Smith were found Sunday in a room oc-
cupied by the couple over a grocery
store at Butte. The throat of Mrs
Smith had been cut from ear to ear
After ending the life of his wife it is
supposed Smith swallowed a dose OF
carbolic acid.
Friendly Zimmerman, "a young man
25 years old, residing at Fairfield, and
member of a camping party in the
mountains in Teton county, Montana
was shot and instantly killed Sunday
while holding out at arm s length tar
get at which young women members OF
the party were shooting with a rifle.
, Admitting that for 20 years he haC
been deceiving the officials of Yubi
county, California, whose duty it is t.
count the county funds, but declaring
that his reason therefor was merely t,
g gain time to make good what he claims
is a clerical error in his books, Georg,
W. Pine, county treasurer aud tax col
t lector, has confessed to a shortage O.
e $4,000 in his accounts.
While giving an exhibition of lasso
ing near Baker, Ore, John Spain, rep
uted world IS champion roper, and VIII
Y won laurels at the Pendleton roundup
last year, was severely injured. TIL
hurts may result in the loss of his arm
, Spain had just roped an unbroke
q horse and the rope caught his arm
> The horse he was riding stopped, draw
\ ing it through the muscles to the bone
. severing the veins.
The injury was too serious and ampr
4 tation at the wrist was performed.