Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-23
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Elk River sends word of big short
age of labor in almost all occupations.
The Camas prairie district has the
best prospect for a large crop in its
history.
The new storm sewer system for
Moscow's business district was COM
pleted Monday.
The old brewery building at Julia
by fire Sunday. The origin of the fire
is a mystery.
Harper's weekly, in brief editorial,
says: 1--WE predict today that the next
republican candidate for president will
be William e. Borah of Idaho"
Jesse Anderson was shot and prob
ably fatally injured recently at Wal
lace, in a row with T. II. Jones, a cook,
and now lies in critical condition.
At the annual student election at
Moscow vergil Samms, a junior stu
dent from Pocatello, and member of
the Idaho football team, was elected
president
Potlatch now boasts of one of the
best equipped schools in northern
Idaho. The domestic science depart
ment is equipped with the latest cleo
trical cooking devices and is installed
in separate building.
In recent interview at Standpoint
Charles A. Weyerhaeuser, member of
the worlds greatest family of lumber
men, declared that the removal of
tariff on lumber would have little or
no effect on the industry in the United
States.
Some of the most interesting and
valuable courses to be offered to the
teachers of the state of Idaho at the
coming summer session of the Univer-
sity of Idaho are those to be given by
Professor c. A. Stewart of the mining
department.
Through an appropriation made at
the last session of the legislature a
new department will be added to the
courses offered in agriculture at Mos
COW. This will be poultry depart
ment, the legislature appropriating
$4,000 for it.
State Horticultural Inspector John
u. Mcpherson has made a careful in
vestigation of fruit conditions in the
state and has authorized the statement
that the fruit crop this year bears ev-
cry indication of being as large as last
year. The 1912 crop was above nor
NAL.
Representative French has been
called upon by Horticultural Inspector
Mcpherson of the state of Idaho to
have the Indian department set aside
sufficient money to bear the expense
Of spraying the fruit trees on the Nez
i Perez reservation
The Milwaukee Lumber company
has entered into a contract for 1907
100000 feet of timber on Benewah
Alder creek and Little Plummer. A
railroad, to be known as the Alder
Creek railroad, will be constructed into
the territory for the purpose of remoy
} ing the timber.
Information was filed in the district
court at Standpoint, charging Algot
Carlson with an assault with intent tC
kill upon Mrs. Lille Rood at Granite
April 3. Carlson is alleged to have
: beaten her about the head with an
) iron rod, according to the police. He
said that he had to kill a rabbit, lior
= or a woman"
William f. Kettenbach and George
H. Kester, former president and cash
Ter, respectively, of the Lewiston Ma
tional bank, sentenced each to five
years in the penitentiary for alleged
> violations of the banking laws by max
, ing false reports to the comptroller o
| the currency, are seeking from Presl
) dent Wilson a reopening of their appli
cations for pardons, denied by forme
G President Taft
A report from Occur d'Alene, Idaho
says that one of the hardest tough
cases of the present term of the dis
I trict court is that of the Cameron
Lumber Co. VS.. the Stack-Gibbs Lum
: Der Co., the case involving the ques
( ton of the booming rights on tn
!. Occur d'Alene river. The plaintiff Il
the action is the owner of the land o.
both sides of the mouth of the Coeu
T. d'Alene river, and claims the right t
D prevent any one else from stringin
boom across the mouth of the rive
4 to catch logs. The defendants col
c tend that they have right to stretc
: their boom across the river and the
also contend that in so doing the
have at all times kept a swingin
IS boom to allow boats to pass up an
!" down the river.