Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-01-24
NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES

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well-known citizens, is dead.
The Montana Retail Lumbermen's
association met in Butte Saturday in
Wardner-Kellogg high school team
defeated the Wallace high school team
in the interscholastic debate.
A fatal fire at Edgewood, b. c., oc-
Cured Friday, in which Mr. and Mrs.
Ii. l.. Mcintosh were burned to death.
Pure Food Commissioner James II.
Wallis OF Idaho has been reelected
Tor a term OF two years to succeed
himself.
The fire at Edmonton, Alberta, Jan.
I6, crushed out the lives OF TWO men,
both Austrians, and entailed property
LOSS OF Sz5O.OO0.
A meeting OF the North Pacific Fair
association will be held at Salem, Ore.
February q, to determine dates Tor the
lairs OF the northwest.
The Great Northern railway has sent
in large gang OF Japanese and Fiji
pino laDorers TO lay the steel on the
new Idaho Continental companys spur
this side of the river, the grading OF
which has been completed to Port Hill.
Bids on the assets of the wrecked
California Safe Deposit and Trust COM
pany will be opened February 20.
About 20 per cent will be all that
creditors will receive. Liabilities at
the time of the failure were booked
at $9,000,000.
Members of the Moose lodges in the
West have adopted a resolution favor
ing the purchase of the Hot Lake SAM
forum property to be used as a home
Tor aged members OF the order. The
property consists of 1880 acres anC
the price asked for it is 100000.
Work is to be started at once by thu
Montana Pulp and Paper company OF
the building of a sawmill at the moutl
OF the Yakt river, and this will be fol
lowed in the near future by the con
struction of two dams across the rive
and the construction of pulp and pa
per mill.
Sacramento, Cal.-Daniel Fleming
former Southern Pacific watchmaI
found guilty of manslaughter for hay
ing caused the death of George Vallie
of Tacoma, must serve his ten-yea
sentence, according to a decision b
the district court of appeals, sustainin
the trial court.
Although plans for the electrlfici
ton of 450 miles of main line of tn
Puget sound division have not bee
officially announced by the manag,
, ment of the st. Paul road, it is unde
stood that the directors are prepare
TO authorize an expenditure of $1,000
, 900 for the project.
Andrew Carnegie, with no referenC
to the San Francisco discussion as
} the ACCESSIBILITY of accepting "tainte
money" for public purposes, will sen
J the first installment of the $4,000
which he offered for the erection of
library building in that city. The cit
already has raised $4,000 for the
brary and will raise 100000 more.
The snow which has played sue
havoc with the Puget sound countr
and the Cascades for the last fe'
weeks, swept down upon Portland Sa
urday night and through the Columbi
and Willamette valleys, covering tn
earth with a depth of snow of frol
six to IA inches in the city and to
greater depth in exposed places in tn
valley.
David M. Hand, former pastor of tn
Baptist church, Moscow, who was col
victed by a jury in the district coul
of having been the means of the d,
linquency of Hazel Benedict, the 1
year-old daughter of the superinten'
ent of the Baptist Sunday school, wa
sentenced Friday by Judge Steels
from five years to life in the penitel
tiary at Boise.
Two hearings have been ordered b
the railroad commission, according
advices received in Butte by railroa
officials, one January 20, to investigat
= the service furnished by the Gree
r Northern between Butte and oth'
= cities, and another February 4, to i
r vestigate rates on fruit, lumber, graf
t forest products, lumber products al
vegetables in carload lots between st
q tons in Montana on the Chicago, Blu
/ lington & Quincy. All 10 classes u
|. der the western classification are q
q fected. Both hearings will be held
T Helena.
: With its blades revolving at a te
rifle speed, an O.-W. r. & N. sno
1. plow running over the company's rig
y of way served snow to hundreds
e residents Saturday. Windows in ea'
of the many towns along the rou
gave way to the attack; many parl
floors were covered, tables were pill
: high with the heavy snow, and a fe
a of the unwilling spectators were
v jured. While the pillow is credit
If with opening a way over the trac