Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-09-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

hummer Oh new DulluluBB are De
ing planned for Troy this fall.
Occur d'Alene is to have a modern
head Of the enterprise.
The fine new residence of F. P. Kel-
ley at Standpoint was completely de-
stroyed by fire Saturday.
Walter Gable, a lumberjack, was
struck and instantly killed by North
ern Pacific freight at Standpoint Sat
urday.
Poultry fanciers of Kootenai county
are preparing for their fourth annual
show, announced to be held December
16 to 20.
Bears are plentiful in the locality
around Terrell and are committing
depredations, such as breaking down
fruit trees to get the fruit.
A. H. Parker, logging engineer en-
ployed by the Grant Lumber company,
lost his life Saturday at Harrison when
a pile of logs rolled on him.
Never in the history of the bean in
dustry in the Potlatch country has as
fine a quality of beans been harvested.
The yield averages from 700 to 500
pounds to the acre.
Relations between the towns of Sol
der and Fairfield, located in central
Idaho, are sadly disrupted over the ar
rest at Soldier of the Rev. Max Rein
hardt, a minister, on the charge of
stealing the Baptist church of Soldier
Fairfield is but one and one-half miles
from Soldier.
Charles N. Harris, one of the men
found guilty of stealing three loads OF
grain from the fields of Whitman
county farmers a few miles west OF
Moscow, and was sentenced to six
months in the county Jail, may escape
punishment on account of being af
flicted with tuberculosis. Officials OF
Nez Perez county object to keeping
Harris in Jail.
Men are still busy clearing away
the debris caused by the wrecking Of
the hosting plant of the Green Hill
Cleveland mine near Wallace when the
ponderous machinery refused to re
spond to the brakes set by Engineer
Rae and plunged to the bottom of tn,
2000-foot shaft, wrecking the entire
plant, closing the mine for a month
to six weeks, as well as the mill, ant
throwing about 375 men out of EN-
ployment.
A warrant has been issued for tn
arrest of John w. Constan, for fou
years deputy in the Shoshone count
sheriff's office. secretary of the demo
cratic county central committee an
one of the widest and best known me
in Shoshone county. He is charge
with the incorporation of count
funds in eight complaints, each base
on separate charge. The complaint
are made by A. F. McRae, chairma
of the board of county commissioners
The total misrepresentation charged
l$1844.50.
b. f. C"Barney') O'Neil, forme
| plObiQCnl VI lnO AOlunCl OldtG Dan
of Commerce of Wallace, Idaho, mus
serve an indeterminate term of two
10 years in the Idaho state penitent
airy, the supreme court having a
firmed the judgment to that effect rel
dered in the district court for Koot,
mai county. The opinion is written b
Justice Isaac N. Sullivan and is col
CURED in by Chief Justice James ]
! Ailshie and Justice George H. Sull
J van. O'Neil was convicted on tn
J charge of making false reports to tn
state bank examiner of the financii
condition of the Wallace bank.
: Idaho will close one of the bigges
timber deals in it's history next mont
for the state land board has decided
sell in a compact body 1890 acres {
valuable timber land in the Boise basi
at public auction. The board has ju.
taken this action on the agreement {
the Barber Lumber company to max
a bid for at least 100000 in cash fC
the timber.
The boards decision virtually a
sures the reopening of numbering a.
tivities in that section of the state, fc
it is generally conceded that the tin
Der will be bid in by the Barber Lun
Der company that it can commence a
tive operations in the cutting OF a.
proximately $4,000 acres of timber /
the basin country. Competitive lun
Der syndicates may decide to take
hand in the bidding when the timbe
is placed on the market.
This deal has been hanging fire fc
months.