Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-10-18
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

liant success.
The new city dock at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho, is nearly completed. 1t is 36x
400 feet and cost $4,000.
Miss Alice Holmes, aged 81, had her
neck broken in an auto accident at
Portland, Ore, Saturday.
The new name suggested for Sand
point, Idaho, is "Ponderay." A change
in name is to be made soon.
Odd Fellows from every section of
the state Of Idaho were in session at
Wallace, Idaho, this week, during
grand lodge.
It is reported that almost the entire
hay crop Of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming
has been quarantined by Canadian Of
ficials because Of the weeVil.
Gerald Sullivan, the 7-year-old son
OF Mrs. Mary Sullivan Of Butte, Mont,
was killed recently when a street car
struck him while he was playing on
the track.
o. U. Mills & Son of Juliaetta, Idaho,
have constructed concrete furnace
for drying prunes and this firm is now
drying Italian prunes at the rate OF
about three tons a day.
This year, for the first time, owing
to the unprecedented dry season al
most the entire flat land of the Koote-
mai valley from Boomers Ferry to the
lake is being cut of its wild hay.
A cauliflower measuring nearly SO
in diameter and % inches over the
head, and weighing IL pounds, raised
without irrigation, is on display at
Moscow, Idaho.
A freight wreck in the yards al
Clarksfork, Idaho, resulted in break
ing up about 40 cars with only one
man injured. A man In charge of a
race horse on its way to Springfield
Mo-, was slightly injured.
The Meeks hotel, two-story struc
ture at Vollmer, Idaho, was destroyed
by fire recently. The fire department
with the help Of the Ilo fire depart
ment saved the surrounding buildings
The loss is about $4,000, with abou
$4,000 insurance.
p. ]. Scum, a prosperous farmer re
siding six miles from Eureka, Mont
! killed himself recently with rifle. HI
had been acting strangely for som,
time, several times threatening suicide
Dependency is supposed to have al
fected his mind. He leaves a larg
family.
! Every member of the 1912 class graC
uated from the engineering depart
ments of U. of l. has a good payin
position. The civil engineers are mair
ly with the United States reclamation
service, the coast and seodetic surve
and railroads. The mining engineer
are filling various positions in An;
conda, Rossland, Mullan, Burke an
other mining districts.
, Perched on hsndcar and bearin
her baby in her arms when it struck
car of workmen rushing downgrad
from the opposite direction, Mrs. Lii
zie Sage, aged 10 years, was hurled 8
feet, with her infant, aged six months
Saturday night, near Elk, on the lun
Der tracks of the Consolidated con
pany, the babe escaping injury, bu
Mrs. Sage was killed.
, Oscar Carlson, laborer employee
on street work in Whitefish, Mont
was shot in the neck Sunday mornin
by an Italian, Mike Racenelli. Car
son and other young men had bee
drinking, and when three Italian
, passed by abused them, it is alleged
Racenelli whipped out z2-calbre II
, volver and fired at his assailants, hi
ting Carlson, and then fled.
AS a result of a drunken brawl o
the main street of Stevenson, Wash
two men are in the hospital in Por
land suffering from gun wounds whic
. physicians say probably will prov
, fatal. They are A. M. Lindsay, for,
man for the Northwestern Electri
company, and Charles Hicks, a laborel
Their assailant was John Inman, maj
shall Of Stevenson, who is now unde
arrest.
An automobile party from Winons
composed of Mr.. and Mrs. Vanskik,
Mrs. ]. M. Windes, Mrs. James Bant
and her three children, aged and
years and 16 months, drove to End
colt Sunday to visit relatives, and O.
returning to Winona in the afternoon
when about a mile north of town, tn
car turned turtle endwise and kille
Mrs. Vanskirke instantly by breskin
her neck. One Of the children has
bad scalp wound and is not expects