Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-30
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

Former Governor Brady of Idaho will
not be candidate for congress.
The corner stone of the new Oregon
asylum at Pendleton was laid, Tuesday.
The Inland Empire Teachers asso-
citation is to be held in Spokane April
-, 4, and 6.
Prices for wool in Montana will ex-
coed 2 cents in the opinion of A. s.
Lehman of Chinook.
A bill creating national park in
Oregon, to be known as Saddle Noun
tain park, has passed the senate.
Backed by st. Paul capital. a new
lumber mill, costing about $3.50 900. is
to be built at st. Maries, Idaho, this
season.
The bills for public buildings at
Walla Walla and Wenatchee, Wash,
and Occur d'Alene, Idaho, all passed
the senate.
An effort is being made to have a
Chautauqua course held in Standpoint
the coming season, as well as at Spirit
Lake, Idaho.
A number of British and French
fnanciers have subscribed funds for
building floating drydock for Van
couver, B. c.
Samuel Walker of Los Angeles,
whose mangled remains were found be-
side the railroad track near Pendleton,
was killed by freight train.
The $4,000 award of the referees for
the lands overlooked by the dam of
the Washington Water Power company
in Kootenai county will stand.
The explosion of lighting plant at
the Fagley ranch, at Hamilton, Mont,
blew Sterling Lamson, hired man, to
pieces and did considerable damage to
the property.
The republican state committee of
Montana defeated a proposition for a
presidential primary by vote of IL to
26 and Endorsed President Taft for re-
nomination by vote of 81 to 10.
P. w. Severson, wealthy pioneer
of Portland, last Saturday gave $780,
900 to the willamette university. $780,
600 to the Y. M. c. A. of Portland, and
$4,000 to the Y. w. G. A. of Portland.
The government IS suits again w. F.
Kettenbach, George H. Kester and
William Dyer, involving 25 patents to
timber land, have been dismissed by
Judge Dietrich in the United States
court.
The senate committee on public lands
will report Representative French IS
bill, which has already passed the
house, granting one years extension
to settlers on the Occur d 'Alene Indian
reservation.
John s. Mcneil, proprietor of the
Helena Independent, died recently.
The cause of his death was diabetes. He
was an old-time resident of Helena and
one of the most prominent and active
democrats in the state.
Three murders in the Chinese quar-
tiers of three California cities Friday
night marked the opening of a tong
war entirely separate from that which
has kept the Chinese of San Fran
cisco in turmoil for months.
Sheriff Gellatly, who has worked al
most continuously in the Griffith MUIR
der case since George Humphreys, the
self-confessed slayer of Mrs. Elizabeth
Griffith, was arrested near Banks, Ore,
says that he had reason to believe
that besides Charles Humphreys. who
is alleged to have confessed participa-
ton in the crime, a third man was in
volved.
That the railroad connecting the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound at
Three Forks with Helena and also con-
Meeting Three Forks with Yellowstone
station, the western entrance to the
Yellowstone National park, will be
built this summer is indicated by the
fling of articles. of incorporation of the
Three Forks, Helena and Madison Val
ley Railway company at Bozeman.
Sale of the Mount Hood railway
to the Portland Railroad,
Light and Power company is an
The Mount Hood road will
operate through rich country between
Portland and Mount Hood, a distance
Of 60 miles. Over 20 miles of the road
is IN operation. The entire road will
be electrified. The exact price has not
been made public, but it is said to be
100000 or 100000.
Governors Marion II How of mo.h
ngton, E. L. Norris of Montana and
}. Fl. Hawley of Idaho, accompanied
by Panama-Pacific exposition officials
and the fair commissioners of their
respective states, visited the proposed
ocation of the northwestern states
buildings on the exposition grounds.
The sites they chose adjoin those Sc
ected by Nevada and Oregon, making
continuous line on the water front
n the Preside.
Special Session at Idaho Normal.