Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-12-19
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Plans for placing an up-to-date fruit
evaporation in the Weiser valley are
reported.
The Marin, small steamer of the
Red Collar line, was burned to the wa
ter's edge at Occur dAlene Sunday
William Hill was drowned in Snake
river while putting in the Woodville
dam, about three miles down the river
from Idaho Falls.
Facing a charge of arson made by
P. D. Smith, prosecuting attorney of
Bannock county, Walter Grant is UNI
der arrest at Pocatello.
Superintendent Johnson of the pub
lie schools at Occur d'Alene City, is
on the program of the Idaho State
Teachers association, which will meet
at Boise December 29, 80 and 81, for
an address.
NJ Pond and c. f. Johnson, repre-
senting the University of Idaho, won
the debate with the Oregon Agricul-
tural college Saturday last.
The bodies of Thomas Brown of
Caldwell, and Fred Wallace of Stem,
Mo, were found in a rooming house
at Boise recently, cause is not known.
Through the University of Wiscon-
sin Professor Alfred ]. Lawrence OF
Occur d'Alene college has been elect
ed to the faculty Of the Tung Wen in
stitute of Annoy, China.
The public utilities commission of
the state has directed the Oregon
Short Line Railroad company to va
cate its present passenger depot at
, Pocatello and erect new depot.
Nordby Brothers, ranchers northeast
of Genesee, have just received three
fine Duroc Jersey hogs. The hogs re-
, Gently took first and second prizes at
the Boise and Caldwell hog shows.
: The consolidation of the Occur
. dAlene Hardware company and the
/. Occur d'Alene Iron Works, two of the
& largest and best known business es-
e Establishments in Wallace is reported.
The fourteenth annual seed fair OF
I the Idaho Seedgrowers' association will
y be at Pocatello January IL. Prizes
I amounting to $500 will be awarded
;. for the advancement Of seedgrowing.
Ralph Patterson, a rancher, ON tria
q in the district court durink last week
! charged with assaulting Bert Ayers
i. his neighbor, with deadly weapon
d. was discharged by the jury at Moscow
q No more finger bowls in Idaho. Thi
e. is the latest order from the Idaho pur
y food commi ssion, and this order al
v plies to dining cars operated by tn
railroads in the state as well as to tn
o. hotels and cafes.
I State Forester g. w. Ferris repor
: for the past season shows that tn
losses from fires was under $1,000 an
- that out of the appropriation for thi
u. work there is balance of $57,450
e. apply on next years account.
Ernest Blackinton, aged II, Wa
killed in runaway recently at Lelan
70 The young man was driving a fou
!. horse team down the steep KendriC
= grade, when the leaders became frigh
ened and went over the embankmen
on Daniels & Wallace, the largest gro
,st ers of grain in north Idaho, Saturds
lie. sold $4,000 sacks of wheat to LewistC
IN buyers. College hybrid, turkey re
to fortyfold and Red Russian were Il
de varieties in the lot, which brought be
he ter than 20 cents per bushel
- r. S. Lovett, chairman of the Unit
" % Pacific, has issued orders for the co
~ struction of a new feeder of the Oh
az gon Short Line in Idaho 1t will
an extension of the Menan branch
Cd the upper Snake river valley. ~
re cost of the construction is placed
he $1.75OOOO.
"a After an almost continuous re
lo- dence in the Occur d'Alenes for
years, William Osborn, founder of t
town of Osburn, Idaho. will celebra
his retirement from active busine
ot by spending Christmas with his sist
Mrs. L. N Ulytt, whom he has Il
~ seen for half a century, at her home
~ Ogden, Utah, and will later proceed
or. Los Angeles, Cal, to visit with S
IA. ter and brother there. Mr.. Osboi
nm who was 81 years old last month "
wv born near Springfield, ILL.,, short d
ads lance from the home of Abraham L
an coin, with whom he was well
quainted.
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