Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-05-02
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

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The Idaho state tennis tournament
will be held in Lewiston June 1928.
Two Greeks were accidentally shot |
at Enayille Sunday in celebration OF
the Greek Easter.
The sudden disappearance of Will
liam A. Matthews from Boise has |
caused some comment.
The Idaho university cadets, who
have been at Hayden lake for camp,
have returned to school
The debating team of the Wardner-
Kellogg high school won the cham
pionship Of Shoshone county.
Besides a dozen or more dwellings
work is in progress on the new $60,O0O
school building at ST. Maries.
The fruit growers of Kootenai coun-
ty will not join the Spokane Fruit
Growers company this season.
A decrease of s9,6S5, 1926 in the as
tween 1911 and 1912 is shown by the
records.
Richard G. Halliday, for years en-
gagged in the hotel business in Spo-
kane, has purchased the Idaho State
bank at Rupert, Idaho.
At the recent interscholastic decla-
nation contest at Lewiston first place
was won by Ernest Poe of Moscow,
and Karl Clark, Culdesac, second.
The Odd Fellows of Shoshone coun-
ty were the guests of the Wardner
and Kellogg lodges Saturday to help
celebrate the oath anniversary of the
founding of the order.
Walter Johnson, great pitcher of the
Washington Americans, formerly of
Weiser, is soon to take bride in the
person of Miss Anna r. Scully, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick j. Scully
of Cambridge.
DIR. S. b. Nelson, secretary of the
Northwest Live Stock association, is
mailing 10000 preliminary premium
lists for the show and sale, which will
be held at Lewiston, Idaho, December
to 6, inclusive.
The judgment of 1851 given Frank
e. Denbeigh, an employee of the Stand
ard mine in Shoshone county, for in
juries received by a train between
Wallace and Burke was recently re-
duced to S11, $40 by the supreme court
of Idaho.
Earl and Herman Schultz, and 6
years old, and Willie Chapman, aged
A., were burned to death at Boise re-
Gently, as the result of fire started
by the boys, who were playing with
matches in a shed partially filled with
waste paper.
The old south mill of the Bunker
Hill Mining and Concentrating COM
pany has been leased by the lessees
of the Tyler, Stemwinder and Hall
tunnel workings of the same property
and will be prepared at once for con-
centrating to its capacity of $50 tons
day.
County School Superintendent Cath
crime T. Dryden is elated over the con-
dition of the public schools in Latah
county. On her records are 166
licensed teachers, and according to the
last school census there are $3.50 per
sons between the ages of 6 and II
years old.
Representatives French and Smith
of Idaho have taken up with the treas
ury department the question of having
bids made upon Idaho building ma
terial in the construction of public
buildings in Idaho. They believe that
the material is as good as that which
is being shipped thousands of miles,
and that its use would not only save
an appreciable sum in the cost of
building material but would aid in the
development of important industries
within the state.
After resisting the collection Of
taxes levied against the property Of
the Washington Water Power CON-
pany by Kootenai county, carrying the
case to the federal court for adjudi-
cation, it is found that the company
will be required to pay but S707.S2
less to the county than 1t would have
paid without litigation. The county
originally claimed $35,65507. 1t will
have to pay s34,94S.25. besides the
costs, which probably will aggregate
several thousand dollars.
The following are members of COM
mittees of the state commissions
Public utilities commission-D. w.
Standrod, Pocatello, six-year term;
John A. Blomquist, Boise, two-year
term; Alexander p. Ramstedt Mos
COW, four-year term. State board of
education-Evan Evans, Grangeville,
five-year term; H. Harland, Payette,
four-year term; Herman ]. Rossi, Wal
lace, three-year term; David L. Evans
Malad, two-year term; Walter s.
Bruce, Boise, one-year term. State
highway commission-Theodo Turn
er, Pocatello; Miles Cannon, Weiser;
Professor Little. Panama-Pacific ex
position-Major Fred r. Reed, Je
rome; r. c. Beach, and r. II. Dewey