Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-03
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES


result last week.
Mrs. Elsa Godfrey, aged SO, pioneer
and well known as fencing and dancing
master of Butte, is dead.
The damage to the Shubert theater
in the fire at Salt Lake Friday is esti
mated at more than 100000
The Kellogg Wardner bond issue of
$4,000 to erect a new school building
carried at the recent election.
The republican revenue bill passed
the Idaho senate by vote of IA to z.
1t now goes to the governor. 1t was
straight party vote.
The Rev. Roland C. Ross, pastor of the
Congregational church at Livingston,
Mont, recently from st. Louis, was
killed in a runaway.
Dalee Taylor, young fellow who is
under sentence to a year on the county
rockpile at Portland, has confessed to
forgeries of over $4,000.
Mrs Charles L. Hoffman, wife of the
chairman of the republican state com
mittee of Idaho, fell on the ice at Rath-
drum and broke her limb.
Paul Platt, years old, was drowned
in the river basin at Oregon City, Ore,
when he fell from sidewalk that skirts
the pool just below the falls.
A resolution adopted by the directors
of the Northern Montana Forestry asso-
citation favors an extension OF the ter
ritory embraced in the association.
The body of Seid Bing, the Chinese
who was murdered in Portland last De-
cember, and the dismembered body
shipped to Seattle in a trunk, has
been again shipped back.
The Chinese woman, Me Fung, ar
rested at Billings, Mont, is believed to
be OF Sen, who is wanted in connection
with the death of Seid Bing at Port
land.
Lumber manufacturers in western
Washington and Oregon whose mills
have been closed for several weeks, are
preparing to resume operations Febru-
airy 1.
The following northwest postofices
have been designated postal savings
banks: shington-Almira, Wilbur
and waterville. Idaho-Wardner and
Preston.
The Milton-Freewate Fruit Growers
union and the Walla Walla Fruit and
Vegetable union of Walla Walla here
after will cooperate in selling their
produce.
f. H. Murphy, a business man in
eastern Montana, has been removed
from the asylum and taken back to
Glendive to stand trial for getting $4,000
unlawfully.
More than 100 people between the
boundary line and upper Camas creek.
near Columbia Falls, Mont, are snow
bound and completely isolated, accord
ing to report.
William Dollar of Occur d'Aiene has
the contract to cut a considerable
amount of choice white pine, which is
to be shipped to Scotland to be used
for boat building.
High prices on wheat are causing
farmers around Lewiston to sell theil
holdings, although there is still an i'm
mense amount of gram being held ii
the warehouses on the Camas prairie
The, Alaska Steamship company ,.
wooden steamer Santa Ana went ashore
in Karta bay recently. The vesse
struck at high tide and was left higl
and dry. Passengers and cargo were
saved.
An entire train load of potatoes, q
cars, was shipped from Elgin, Ore.
Monday to eastern markets, IS of thu
? cars being billed to Kansas City, three
! to Oklahoma City and three to Hous
t ton, Tex.
The bridge over the Salmon rive
connecting the town of Golf with a ricl
cattle and agricultural country has beer
opened. Golf is so miles south o
Grangeville. The bridge measures 26t
feet long, with no piers.
kilograms urging completion of tn
Palouse irrigation PROJECT ana the estap
lishment of railway mail service on tn
O.-W. R. s. ". company's lines between
r Alfalfa and North Yakima were dis
patched to congress on behalf of tn
Inland Empire Federation of CONNER
cial Clubs.
f At Missoula, Charles R. Waterma
Z was elected president of the stat
: county commissioners association. TIL
t county clerks reelected: F. w. Cupha
0 of Missoula, president, and also r'
elected W. B. Shoemaker of Valley a
secretary and treasurer. Helena will b
the next convention place. AS matter
now stand assessments will be levie
= as in former years. The state assessor
n elected James H. Mitchell of Jefferso
:, county president and Frank F. Steel
of Lewis and Clark county secretar
!. and treasurer.