Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-04-25
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

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The Peck FIGURING mill is filling an
order for 10000 sacks of flour for ship
ment to Hongkong, China.
The coming meeting of the state
grand council Of the Knights Of Column
bus meets in Wallace May -.
Crowds are expected in Occur
d'Alene city for the big regatta during
the three days, July 3, 4 and 5.
The Farmers Grain and Milling
Company has succeeded the Utah
Idaho Elevator Company, at Curry,
Idaho, and at Bull, Idaho.
BY direction of the district court Sat
urday officers destroyed over $500
worth of whisky and beer secured in
different raids made by the sheriffs
office in lewiston
The county commissioners Of Sho-
shone have gone on record as opposing
gambling and the violations of the
Sunday-closing laws and have prom
ised to take drastic measures.
Robert II. Barton of Moscow, well
known in Grand Army circles, was
elected commandant of the soldiers
home in Boise to succeed Willard
White, incumbent, on June /, 1913.
Representative French of Idaho has
introduced bill extending the number
of annual payments to homesteaders
and purchasers of water from the gov
/ eminent tudar condemnation urofocfc
from 10 to 80 years.
The conditions in Lake Occur d'Alene
and the Spokane river in the Idaho
city are growing more alarming. The
Blackwell Lumber company and the
Stack-Gibbs Lumber company were
compelled to shut down.
Ira Small of Lewiston last week sold
two carloads of beef cattle to the In
land and Cold Storage markets which
netted him $1O4.75 per head There
were 46 head of cattle in the two cars,
Mr.. Small receiving s7S7h per hun
dred weight.
No traces have been found of Will
liam Graves, night station man for the
lewiston Charleston Improvement com
pany. It is thought that he must be
demented and is wandering around in
the sparsely settled district around
Alpowa creek.
/ Petitions are being sent out to diff
ferent towns for the signatures of bust
ness men and citizens asking their in
dorsement toward the resumption OF
steamer traffic on the upper Columbia
and Snake rivers, as proposed by the
Columbia and Snake River Waterways
, association at the recent. meeting in
! Pendleton.
e. p. Marshall, wanted in Sacramen
o to for issuing fictitious checks, in
charge of Detective Thielen of Sacra
mento, leaped from a Short Line train
two miles east of Nampa and escaped
Holding up a farmer, Marshall found
file in the wagon. Taking this tc
file off his handouts Marshall fled
into the desert.
Bridge number 3, between Snyders
and Meadow creek, on the Spokane In
ternational railroad, caught fire re
, Gently and was discovered by one OF
the forest rangers, who tried to ex
tinguish the flames after he had in
formed one of the nearby ranchers Of
2 the fact. The Soo-Spokane flyer was
+ about due when the fire was discoy
= cred and was Tagged by Mes. Knob
loch and was probably saved from 9
i bad wreck. She was rewarded by the
e passengers.
At the recent growers meeting o.
4 the Weiser River Fruit association
, which was attended by Secretary A
= A. Prince of the Northwestern Fruit
: exchange, the marketing contract will
I the exchange was received for the
S coming season. While this year ha:
2 been one of small gain to the growers
they feel that the acreage prices re
celved for both prunes and apples com
pare very favorably with the average
prices secured by other districts. Com
plete averages have not as yet beer
compiled, but the average prices a.
: which their fruit sold, covering remit
tances, received to date are as follows
! Italian prunes, 40 cents; Jonathans
: extra fancy, 81 cents; Arkansas Blacks
: extra fancy, $1.63; Rome Beauties, ex
! ira fancy, $1.1O; Winesaps, extra fancy
Slip.
I The board of regents of the Uni
: versity of Idaho. at it's final session
e discharged the heads of eight on ter
r departments, designations to be asked
: for Immediately, to take effect at the
end of this semester. The cause is
said to be for lack of results by those
members of the faculty whose posi-
tons are made vacant Several Of
these have been with the university
= for many years. The names will not
be made public till after notification
t and approval of the records. Here
S after all members of the faculty are
to be employed by the year. with the
privilege of one months vacation. All
salaries were increased and all mem
hers of the faculfv will he amplovod