Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-01-17
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

d'Alene, Idaho, Jail and is busy prepar-
ing his data for the opening of his
trial
Miss Dorothy Bevis, IS years Of age,
and her father of Lewiston, Idaho, pro-
pose to walk to San Francisco during
the fair.
All records for twins have been
broken in Portland. Five sets were re-
ported during October, 8 in November
and 4 In December.
Chief PEG of the Umatilla tribe of
Indians died January IL in his tepee
on the Umatilla reservation, three
miles east of Pendleton.
At Moscow, Idaho, the Rev. David
M. Hand, Baptist preacher, married,
with two children, was found guilty OF
contributing to the delinquency OF Ha-
eel Benedict.
AS the result of a dispute over a
typewriter ribbon Professors e. B..
Moore and c. b. Dobell of the Oregon
Agricultural college, came to blows and
gave each other black eyes.
Senator Hedrick has introduced a de-
positors' guaranty law modelled after
the Kansas Bank Guaranty system in
the Idaho state legislature. The ex-
pected anti-racetrack gambling bill was
also introduced.
]. e. Prince, a wellknown and old
time resident of Browning, Mont, and
for the last two years employed by
the government as park ranger in Gla-
cier National park, was found frozen to
death Thursday.
At an approximate expenditure of
$50 100000 much new equipment will
be added to the northwest Transports
ton service during this year, accord
ing to estimates of orders placed with
the various car building companies.
Miss jeanette Rankin of Missoula
who has charge of the woman suffrage
campaign in Montana during the SEES
sion of the legislature, announces heI
acceptance of the invitation to be the
official speaker of the suffragette army
which will march from New York to
Washington, preceding the Inaugural
ton of President Wilson.
At the annual meeting of the Port
land chamber of commerce resolution
was adopted commencing the bravery
of the Point Adams and Fort Candy
life-saving crews, in their heroic et
forts to rescue the people aboard the
steamer Rosecrans, which foundere'
recently, in which 81 lives were lost
The chamber also voted a medal TO
each member of both life-saving crew
and appropriated money to equip eacl
station with a library.
When the second edition of the con
gressional directory for the third ses
sion of the sixty-second congress al
pears in a few days, Senator Mile
Poindexter of Washington and Senate
Joseph M. Dixon of Montana will b.
designated in their biographies as "prc
gressives." After March 4, when Dixol
retires, Poindexter will be the Ion
party progressive in the senate an
according to the rules of the senat
will be his party's floor leader in tn
! senate, will vote for himself for pres
dent pro tenn of the senate and viii
! hold party caucuses by himself.
The Spokane International Railroad
from July 1 to October 81, 1912, show
: total net increase over the sam
, months last year of lit per cent. Tn
. increase in freight earnings is 70 pc
, cent. The total net increase of tn
Idaho & Washington Northern is 10
per cent; the increase in freight rev
enues. 40 per cent. The spokane
Portland & Seattle showed a total ne
increase of 6.5 per cent and an IN
crease in freight earnings of 1875 pc
cent. The gain in freight earnings /
attributed to the heavy crops and t
the prosperity in general of the north
west territory, calling for heavie
shipments of merchandise.
The president of the Idaho senate al
: nounces the appointment of the follow
ing standing committees: Judiciary
Hanson, Edgington, Hedrick, FairchilC
= Hunt; finance-Lee Haight, Goodnight
Robinson, Davis; rules-Hanson, Har
Macbeth; state affairs-Hart, Hun
! Barton, Baldridge, Macbeth; banks an
banking-Haight Davis, Robinson, De
enbach, Dunning; privileges and ele'
tion-Barton, Lee, A. G. Johnson, Hex
rick, Hanson; Observation-Disclosures
Shepard, Goodnight, Fields, Dunning
irrigation and water rights-Hun
Haight, P. w. Johnson, Luck, Reed
agriculture-A. G. Johnson, Swee
Dunning; live stock-Davis, Lee, Har
According to plats now on record g
the United States land office at Lewis
ton, Idaho, there will be opened
settlement, February 10, $3.50 acres
grazing and timber lands on the Sa
, mon river, in the vicinity of White
, bird, Idaho. The plat indicates ths
much of the land is more valuable fc
grazing purposes than for agriculture
while there is only a small portion o
which valuable timber is standing. A