Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-10
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Mrs. Curtis Miller, aged 4O years,
of Nez Perez, Idaho, ended her life by |
firing ball from 22-caliber rife
through her brain.
A rear-end collision at Vancouver, B. !
c., between two street cars during a
thick.fog caused the death of motor
man, and several persons were injured.
To call non-union man 'scab, "
with other uneuphonious terms, is a
breach of the peace and will be pun
ished accordingly, ruled Judge Tazwell
of Portland.
The jury which has been trying
Mabel Young Warner at Pendleton, on
charge of having forged the will of
her uncle, J. w. Young, brought in a
verdict of not guilty.
The Judge at Portland has bound
over to the grand jury Oh Sen, captured
in Billings, Mont, Wong 81 Sam and
Lew Soon, who are under arrest on a
charge of murder in connection with
the death of Seid Bing in Portland on
the night Of December 20.
Information has been filed direct in
the district court at Kalispell, Mont,
against Bertha Bell, young woman of
20 years, charged with a violation of
the white slave law in the alleged at
tempt to induce two girls from that
city to go with her to Bozeman to enter
house of prostitution.
-Four barren and SCARED brick walls
are practically all that now stands on
the site of 1.-THE once famous Hotel
Helena, which was Quilted by fire, Sun
day. The building was valued at $780,
600, and the furniture at $4,000. On
the building, $23, 800 insurance was car
ried, and $4,000 on furnishings.
Sweepstakes and gold medals won by
Idaho during 1911 were not confined to
Moscow and Latah county, according
to the report just out by Samuel j..
Rich, commissioner of irrigation, labor
and statistics for Idaho. This report
shows that Idaho won gold medal for
hard winter wheat against all other
states and Canada at the last dry farm
ing congress.
Receiver Harry E. Wilson of the
Columbia River Orchard company and
the Washington Orchard Irrigation and
Fruit company is in Portland to consult
Allen j. Biehl, an official of the Oregon
& Washington Trust company of Port
land, which was trustee for the holders
of $5,OOO,O0 of bonds of the Columbia
River Orchard company. The orchard
companies were launched under the di-
rection of w. +. De Larm and Biehl.
Helena was visited by another stub
born basement fire Sunday. Flames
were discovered in the basement of the
Helena Packing and Provision company
in the heart of the business district
band despite the fact that five streams
of water were poured into the basement
the fire attained much Roadway, prac
tieally wrecking the meat company ,:
building and destroying the furnitur,
store of J. A. Doughty, adjoining. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, covered by
insurance.
The Connell-Northe railway, sub
sidiary corporation of the Northern Pa
eifie, has filed a deed from the stat'
for a tract of land. three miles from
g the Columbia river in Kittitas county
Washington. The land is for station
purposes on the Ellensburg- Ritzvill,
cutoff, the right of way proper having
previously been purchased. This re
{ wives the report that the cutoff, whicl
will shorten the main line between Spo
kane and Seattle, many miles, will b.
built this summer.
D In November the Northern Pacif
and the Anaconda Copper Mining com
pany filed complaints in the distric
court at Thompson Falls, Mont, alleg
ing that some of their lands were take,
in ali of the counties of Sanders, Lin
coin and Flathead and that on accoun
of dispute over boundaries they wer
, unable to determine where the take
should be paid, and also praying tina
the court compel the three counties t
e come in and interplead their respectiv
= rights. With this the two corporation
+ paid into the court the amount of take
I assessed.
: Judge J. p. Kavanaugh, in the stat
circuit court at Portland, Ore, has dc
cided in favor of the defense its motto
. in the case of Louis J. Wilde, tn
y banker charged with embezzlement, t
, nonsuit the case without requiring ther
. to submit evidence in behalf of Wilde
y The effect of the decision is that Wild
9 is declared not guilty. The case o
+ Morris is interesting and presents a pei
picking question, in that he has pleade
l. guilty to crime which Judge Kava
k naugh, in his decision, declared was no
e a crime. Just what the. state will d
e in the case of Morris has not been d,
+ termined. Morris is serving a term i
3 the penitentiary at Salem, having bee
convicted of receiving funds in the Ore
gon Trust and Savings bank after h
knew of its insolvency. The bank faile
S August q, 1907.