Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-05-25
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

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Portland, was killed Sunday eight miles
east of Oregon City, when the automo-
bile in which she was riding went over
a steep embankment.
Prosecuting Attorney James A.
Wayne of Shoshone county expects to
be able to have B. F. O'Neil, former
president of the State Bank of Com
merce, Wallace, brought back for trial
by June l.
Edward Johnson, of Clancy, was
found guilty of manslaughter by jury
for the killing of Robert Hill, at
Clancy, Mont. Hill was stabbed by
johnson with poeket-k knife during
saloon brawl.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
purchased the Kootenai Valley railway
from the Great Northern and that the
operation will be turned over on June
1, when through trains will be run from
Kootenai lakes to Spokane.
The body of Lola, the 3 year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Ander-
son, living northeast of Kalispell,
Mont, was recovered from a shallow
slough near the city. 1t had been in
the water several minutes.
S. A. Stevens, a pioneer merchant
of the Occur d'Alenes, died Saturday
at Wallace from abscess of the liver.
The deceased leaves a fortune of be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. 1t is left
to the widow. The funeral was held
in Spokane Tuesday.
After wandering over the open
prairie for AZ hours, clad only in his
underclothes, Mike Sullivan, a we'll
known Butte man, who had located a
homestead near Broadview, Mont, was
found by a searching party of neigh
bors, and died shortly after.
Judson Mather, musical director for
the chautauqua at Spirit Lake, Idaho,
July 10 to August 1, is in correspond
ence with a number of prominent mu-
steal people for engagements and has
already secured the services of Gus
tav Holmquist, the eminent basso of
Chicago, Ill.
Dr. E. B. Craighead, president of the
Tulane university of Louisiana. has
been rendered the presidency of Mon
tana university, made vacant by the
resignation of Dr. c. A. Duniway. The
compensation fixed for DR.. Craighead
is $4,000 a year, $500 more than DR..
Duniway is receiving.
The Inland Empire Sunday school
convention, which convened at Lewis
ton, Idaho, May 16, closed Saturday
an unqualified success. There were
present 25 ministers, 45 Sunday school
superintendent, SO other officers, 17t
teachers, and 343 delegates, and 131
schools were represented.
Mrs. Weldon B. Hepburn, wife OF
Senator Hepburn of Idaho, and Mrs
W. E. Humphrey, wife of Representa-
tive Humphrey of Washington, are
members of the executive committee
of the national congressional section Of
the women IS welfare department of the
National Civic Federation, just or
gained.
At Kalispell, Mont, William Black
wealthy and prominent citizen, owe,
whose head a charge of assault with in
tent to kill has been hanging for NOR
than a year as the result of his shoot
ing of I. L. Flinchpaugh in a contro
versy over an irrigation ditch las
spring, was acquitted by a jury in tn
district court.
District Judge J. B. McClernan o
Butte has granted an injunction re
straining the Butte Clerks union fror
picketing or interfering in any wis
with the conduct of the business o
Elizabeth O'Boyle, widow, who opei
ates a grocery store. The woman
=. determination to keep open after
o clock in the evening aroused the OF
4 position of the clerks.
The military authorities, city deteS
? tives and county sheriff's offices a
t Helena admit the theft of $1,000 frol
the private safe of Col. R. H. Wilson
r Fourteenth infantry, U. S. A., con
t handing Fort William Henry Harrison
d is the most battling robbery with whic
they have ever had to deal. Accordin
d to statement of Colonel Wilson, /
l. alone had the combination and the onl
/ known key TO the safe in which /
# placed the money, May IS, which w'
e to be used in paying the first batallic
of the regiment.
Crazed by jealousy Frank Truck
Z Saturday shot and killed his wife
. full view of many people, on one (
the principal streets of Hamilto
= Mont, and then made a dash for Ii
3. erty. Jumping into an automobile al
holding a revolver to the drivers he;
he threatened to kill the chauffeur u
less he hurried him away from Il
D, scene of the shooting. Policemen
a automobiles and on motorcycles fl
)" lowed the murderer and when he foul
~ himself cornered 30 minutes later, aft
- an exciting chase, with hundreds of e
y RACED citizens at his heels, he turn