Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-12-06
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

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Ora Knight, we'll known young man
of Pendleton, Ore, killed himself re-
Gently by firing a bullet through his
body.
At Mullan, Idaho, Mrs John Ander-
son cut her throat by slashing from ear
to ear with a razor Physicians say
she will recover.
Salt Lake City officers are unable
to determine how Joseph Evans, whose
body was found on the shore of Great
Salt lake Sunday, lost his life.
The details of the annual stock show
of the Northwest Live Stock associa-
ton to be held in Lewiston, Idaho, De-
cember 9 to 10, have been completed.
Suit to regain possession of 100000
more acres of Southern Pacific oil
lands will shortly be brought in the
United States district court of south
ern California.
The jury in the $4,000 damage suit
of w. w. Terrell of Occur d'Alene lake
versus the Washington Water Power
company, returned verdict of $4,000
in favor OF the plaintiff.
James Haughey and George Starkal
were so badly burned that they will die
when the contents of q ladle contain
ing four tons OF copper was accidental
ly spilled upon them at the Washoe
smelter at Anaconda.
Soldiers from Fort Yellowstone have
been stationed on the borders Of the
Yellowstone National park for the past
few days attempting to drive back the
large band of elk which is drifting over
the border.
Fire which broke out early Sunday
morning in the Geiser building, Baker
City, Oregon, occupied by the Racket
store and the Vaughan Investment
company Quilted the building entailing
an $4,000 loss.
A. j. Trumbull, mill man, who lives
few miles east of Whitefish, Mont,
recently sold 13 turkeys for $4S.25.
The turkeys were only six months old
and cost him practically nothing for
feed, as they ran wild all summer.
BASED on reports from the horticul-
tural commissioners and the county
fruit inspectors in the different coun-
ties, the Oregon apple crop this year
represents a value of a little over
$7,OOO,0OO," says w. K. New, chairman
of the state board of horticulture.
AT Bishop, Cal, five hundred miners
and prospectors, banded together re-
Gently in the Prospectors' Alliance of
America, forwarded to the governors
of II western states a memorial ask
ing their assistance in combating gov
eminent bureaucratic interference with
mining operations"
Trial of the men indicted for alleged
violation of law in connection with the
management of the Observation-Disclosures
Bank of Nevada, of Fairbanks, Alaska,
which closed it's doors January 4, 1911,
owing 100000 to depositors, half of
which has been paid to them was be-
gun in the federal court at Valdez,
Alaska, Monday.
The new monster Mallet compound
locomotives recently received by the
Great Northern and placed in service
on the Whitefish, Mont, division are
proving satisfactory. They pull much
more tonnage than the former Mallets
and do it much easier and with a great
saving of fuel, which is due to the fact
that the steam is superheated in both
the high and the low pressure cylin-
ders.
A plan to make a feature Of the live
stock parade at the Lewiston, Idaho,
stock show is being considered by the
Northwest Live Stock association,
which is shaping its permanent details
for the big exhibition. With the stock
show will be held the first annual con-
vention of the associated commercial
clubs of the Idaho-Washington Devel-
opment league to review work of the
league.
T. A. Johnson, builder of the Nez
Perez and Idaho railroad between Voll-
mer and Nez Perez, and promoter OF
the proposed Lewiston and Nollmer
line, has filed his bond of $4,000 with
the transportation committee of the
Lewiston Commercial club, which in
sures the completion of the proposed
$2,50O,000 railroad within a period of
three years, after the raising of the
S150,000 subsidy. Work on the line
will begin within 80 days after secur-
ing the amount promised by the Lew
iston property holders and the farmers
tributary to the line.
The democratic federal patronage for
Idaho, while not quite to rich and
juicy as that of Washington, is never
theless filled with many good things
to-wit: Sc jobs with a grand yearly
salary of $167,200 Here they are:
20 postmasters Sis 40C
Surveyor general --.---..-.-..-..---.---. 5000
Five land office registers. $1,000
! Five land office receivers IL OO(