Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-08-02
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

August 22.
Gate, Wash.-Trooper E. Bramon,
First cavalry, Boise barracks, was
killed by a train at Oakville.
James NJ. Riley, chairman of the
board of county commissioners of Sill
yer Bow county, died suddenly of heart
failure, Sunday morning.
For the death of John Sample, Ruby
Stevens, whose knife stabs are said to
have caused Samples death, near Mis-.
soula, will be held to the district court
for murder.
Rich or poor, physicians or surgeon,
they must conform to Portland S de
mand that automobile drivers shall not
continue to kill and main luckless pc.
destrians.
The flag associations of Spokane,
Portland, Seattle and other Coast cities
are taking steps to form an organiza-
tion to be known as the Northwest Flag
association.
Inv 1ASNs OOnn AlNAAANN3 LOlAhNA DANol
dent of the University of Forest Grove,
Ore, and later of the South Dakota uni
versity, died at Chicago Saturday. He
was born in Milton, VT, in 1922.
Leaving his home for no known
cause, the Rev. John Marshall, aged
so, rector of Portsmouth Protestant
Episcopal church, Portland, has disap-
peared. Mrs. Marshall and four chill
dren are mourning his absence.
The "hilxing" craze has caught
Butte. Clubs Of society girls have
been walking for some months and
Saturday two well-known women
tramped from Butte to Anaconda, 80
miles, attending dance in the evening.
The Idaho Washington Power and
Light company of Moscow, Idaho, is in
vading the Montana field and has pur-
chased the Plains light and power plant
and water system from Mrs. J. A. Nc
Gowen, paying $4,000 for the two
plants.
The depot of the Northern Pacific at
Logan, Mont, caught fire, it is
supposed from a spark from a passing
engine, and was completely destroyed.
All freight and express was saved. The
building was valued at $4,000 and is a
total loss.
One of the largest cattle deals made
in Montana for some time was consum-
mated Saturday, when George L. Del
of Helena bought all the cattle, about
700 head, including the famous ~
brand, owned by Charles A. Lynch OF
Pleasant valley.
The jagged peak of Mount Ingalls,
one of the highest in the Cascade range
which for ages has reared its heaC
among the clouds, is now engulfed il
the waters of Icicle lake, at an eleva
/ ton of 5000 feet above sea level, hav
ing crumbled down.
Lawrence +. Converse, former Spo
kane boy, who gained national promi
nence during the first Mexican revolu
ton two years ago, when he was cap
tured and threatened with death, il
now about to collect $4,000 indemnity
from the Mexican government.
Spokane wins the 1913 logging con
gress, which adjourned its two-day ses
sion at Tacoma, July 26. E. P. BLAKE
of Tacoma was reelected president; H
@. Claire, vice president; George M
Cornwall, secretary treasurer. The ex
ecutive committee member from Idaho
is II. M. Strahern of Occur d 'Alene.
Under the general nuisance stat
ute" Mayor A. G. Rushlight, Chief O.
Police Slower and G. ID. Beatty, Clifford
Maddux, Frank Reed and B. f. Smith
all connected with the police depart
ment at Portland, were indicted Satur
day in connection with an alleged plo
to bride Deputy District Attorne.
| Frank Collier.
Moiese Reeves, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Montana, died of paralysis a
Frenchtown, Mont, July &c. Moies
Reeves came to Montana at the age o
81, settling among the Indians aroun
EOlb DCuIOus I1C dSSOn painful QONcl
nor Stephens on the treaty-signing ez
petition into the Bitter Root valley i
1854. He is credited with erecting tn
first gristmill in western Montana.
At Butte, Nick Velky, Macedonia
switchman, wagered his friend,
y Suski, $40, Sunday, that he could n
y main under the waters of the countr
d club lake for 30 minutes. He won tn
s. bet all right, but he will never colleC
the money; for an hour and half lat,
% his body was recovered in six feet {
e water, near the shore, where it had b
come enmeshed in the shrubber
h Velky is unmarried, and 25 years old.
d "The Rock of Ages" balancir
s. pile which has graced a hill overhan
ing the Northern Pacific tracks at Bea
1t mouth, Mont, a small station east
er Missoula, by the liberal use of dyn
mite has been removed and is no long