Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-06-08


International Typographical union, has
been defeated by a majority of about
5000.
The body of Agnes Smith who has
been missing from Great Falls for some
time, was found in the Missouri river
She disappeared from a hack on the
morning of May 10. Probabilities point
to suicide.
The appointment of Daniel E. Clark
of Cheyenne, Wyo., as live stock agent
Of the Oregon Washington Railroad &
Navigation company for Washington
and Oregon with headquarters is an
nounced by the company.
Crazed by jealousy Mrs. E. s. Peachin
shot her husband, sergeant of the
Portland police department, probably
fatally, and then shot and killed her
self at their home at Wichita, suburb
of Portland. She died almost instantly.
The formal opening of navigation in
Boring sea, which is closed by ice
nearly five months of the year, was
marked Saturday by the sailing from
Seattle of the passenger liner Senator
and the freighters Seward and st.
Helena for Nome, Alaska.
Michael Pablo made his final ship
ment of buffalo to the Canadian gov
eminent from Roman, Mont, Saturday.
There are several head in this last ship
ment. There are few more on his
range west of town, but they are too
wild and dangerous to corral and will
be shot probably before captured.
The Montana state board of exami
ners has formally accepted a donation
of $4,000, made some time ago by the
Anaconda Copper Mining company
toward the establishment of a state
tuberculosis sanitarium. Contracts for
the erection of the buildings near
Warm Springs were awarded a week
ago.
The government reclamation service
has a corps of engineers under the di-
rection of ]. B. Bond, project engineer
of the Sun river (Mont.) project, sur
veying Benton lake to make it a stor-
age reservoir to irrigate Palouse bench
west of Portage. Work is supposed to
begin as soon as the survey is COM
pleted.
If the Washington Water Power
company gets an injunction restrain
ing Kootenai county (Idaho) tax col
lector from selling its property for
taxes on the sth day of July as adver-
tised it must at once pay to the county
the sum Of 10000 to secure even tenn.
porary order. This is the decision
reached by Judge Dietrich in the fed
eral court at Occur d'Alene.
In connection with the contemplated
improvements to be made by the Great
Northern by building the Sun River
branch out of Great Falls, Mont, t.
Augusta and thence to Java, point II
miles east of here, it is said that thi,
road will eventually be a part of the
main line to the Coast, which will bt
much shorter than the present route
and that the Libby cutoff, which hal
been talked about so much here, will
also be built, starting out of Whitefisl
and running south and west to Jen
nings.
, More stock has been shipped out o.
, the Camas prairie Odaho) country thi
year than in any previous year at thi
time. In the last FIVE months shipment
! out of the Grangeville, Cottonwood AM
Nee Perez country have been many
Buyers are purchasing the choice stock
In the last eight weeks 40 cars of hog
have been shipped out of the Cotton
wood territory, the value of which ag
gregates 100000. approximately 2
I cars of beef were shipped to Spokan
! and Coast markets, netting stoekme
, labout $4,000.