Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-01-31
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

whether to install sewers or not.
Arrangements are being completed
for a Chautauqua to be held in Mos
COW the coming summer for one week.
Four thousand head of sheep on the
upper Snake river are starving, ac-
cording to William Jones, a well-known
stockman.
T. f. Lowry, travelling trainmaster of
the Idaho division of the Northern Pa
cific, has been promoted to superin-
tendent of the Fargo division.
At Bayview, Saturday, the roof of
the new sawmill recently built by c.
L. Wing, collapsed while the men were
at work, but all hands escaped serious
injury.
An action to recover $4,000 attorneys
fees has been filed, entitled Daniel
Needham VS.. M. Alberta Bell. This
suit is an outgrowth of the famous Bell
cases, which occupied attention in Nez
Perez county about six years ago.
The armory building at Occur
d'Alene was completely wrecked Fri
day afternoon, when the roof collapsed
under the weight of the heavy snow.
No one was in the building at the time.
Several smaller structures gave way.
B. F. O'Neil, president of the defunct
State Bank of Commerce of Wallace,
went to trial for a second time
Wednesday at Occur d'Alene on
charge Of making false statements on
the condition of tne bank. The jury
disagreed at the first trial.
So effectively were the 431, ZOO acres
of timber land owned by the members
of the Clearwater Timber Protective
association patrolled during the season
just passed that only nine fires, killing
barely 1880 feet of white pine, and
costing only $191.O1 extra to fight, oc-
Cured. All fires but one were caused
by lightning.
Memorializing the legislature of the
states of Washington, Idaho and Ore
gon to appropriate total sum of $780,
900 for the Columbia-C elilo-Panama
waterways celebration to be held in
Lewiston cOntemporaneous with the
exposition at San Francisco, bills pre-
pared by the Lewiston Commercial
club will be sent at once to Boise,
Olympia and Salem for introduction
prior to the passage of the appropria.
ton measures. Idaho will be asked to
set aside $4,000 to bear the major
portion of the burden.
The Idaho State Horticultural asso
citation closed most interesting ses
sion at Boise Saturday. Officers were
elected as follows: President, II. E
Smith, Payette; vice president, J. E
Waters, Twin Falls; secretary, Charlie
= Payne, Roswell; treasurer, J. A. Fen
ton, Meridian; board of directors, II
4 E. Smith, w. S. Thornber, H. w. Dol
\ man, w. A. Youme and ]. A. Roberts
y A resolution was adopted recommend
ing that this state take necessary step
to protect growers from pests and di:
4 eases brought into the state on nui
sery stock from California and ais
that the frozen fruit be deemed maj
ketable and that our state prevent tn
importation of any frozen Californi
n fruit. A resolution petitioning tn
U legislature to appropriate $4,000 t
carry on more efficient inspection
r. service was passed.
The State Legislature.
The house passed the bill creatin
the new county of Franklin from
portion of Oneida county.
The house adopted a resolutio
d authorizing the appointment of con
rt mittee to visit and inspect state inst
Of tutions.
k, The senate adopted the house resoll
j, ton authorizing the attorney gener;
IN to employ an attorney to assist tn
of legislators in drafting bills. No salar
is stipulated. Former Attorney Gel
eral McDougall is expected to get tn
job.
NJ Two important bills were introduce
a one by Lewis, to create the county
Oh Payette from portion of Canyon cou
10 ty, with the city of Payette as IL
ri county seat, and another by Oversmit
ne to amend the law prohibiting the mai
IL tenance of bawdy houses.
, Some radical changes in the primal
laws of the state are proposed. TT
election of judges is to be made no
partizan by requiring the names of Il
candidates for judgeships to be plac,
in a nonpartizan space on the ball
without it showing any designation
party affiliation. The second departu
is to require all voters to signify
d second choice for the various offic
as we'll as a first.
Former Governor James H. Bra
was elected United States senator
the short term on the joint ballot.
received 43 votes. Senator Bra
served as Idaho's chief executive o
s. term, from 1909 to 1911, but was
Z feated by the democratic candidate,
. Governor Hawley, for reelection.
irg is prominent in the business circles
ird the northwest, having promoted a