Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-07-18
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

l. ne oOuh VI feltTduS camp III OOeul
d'Alene City is to b. revived.
Fire at LapwaI Tuesday did damage
to the extent OF over $4,000.
AS a result of raid made by county
officials on the gambling resorts at
Bovill recently Fix arrests were made
The State Bank of Rigby, Idaho, was
robbed Tuesday afternoon of $500
by lone highwayman, who escaped.
From the Indian Cache ranch oppo-
site Lewiston, on the Clearwater river,
$4,000 pounds of gooseberries were
harvested.
Lewiston is planning to entertain
crowds of people at the Lewis and
Clark chautauqua which opens in Lew
iston July 1920.
Lee Garrett, serving a 30-year SEN
tence in the states institution for muir
der in the second degree, has been
granted communication to Is years.
Twenty dollars per capita or $50, 900
in prizes are offered for the second
annual Border days" at Grangeville,
to be held there September 17-18-19-2O.
Bert Mcdonald, sentenced from
Kootenai county to serve from five to
20 years in the pen" for criminal as.
sault, has had his sentence reduced to
five years.
The government Indian agency at
Lewiston is considering plans for a
highway in the Lapwai valley to serve
all the nontaxable lands ON the Ne2
Perez reservation.
S. d. Robinson, a member of the
Idaho state tax commission, has in
spected the assessors offices in Idaho
Lewis and Clearwater counties. Mr.
Robinson will conduct a tour of all
the counties in the state.
Architects are working on plans tc
submit to the commissioners of Clear
water county, provided the county
votes to bond itself for, approximately
$4,000, with which a modern brick
courthouse and county Jail will be
erected.
Reports from all parts of the coun
try are in effect that there will be al
least or better than the average YIELD
of all kinds of small grain. The three
warehouses at Orofino will be taxed tc
their fullest capacity to handle the
crops.
Letters patent have been granted tC
z. J. Miller of Peck for a fin boat
propeller, and window shade bracket
5. ]. Boyd has bought an interest in
the patents and arrangements are un
der way to manufacture the bracket
at Peck
Carey & Harper have closed a con
tract with the Stack-Gibbs Lumber
company for the cutting of 2S,OOOOO
feet of timber, ali located in the Mar
BILE creek district, and work will be
started at once. Camps are being
placed now.
John Harland, a farm laborer EN-
ployed on the ranch of r. J. Ramsey
Of Laclede, was drowned recently in
Pend Oreille river. 1t is thought that
the man was seized with an epileptiC
fit while kneeling down to get drink
and fell into the water.
Subscriptions approximating $4,000
have been taken in Peck and among
the farmers for the building of a new
road down Central ridge to Peck. The
grade will be entirely in Lewis county
and the commissioners have estimat
ed the entire cost of building at about
$4,000.
William f. Kettenbach and George
H. Kester of Lewiston, Idaho, convict
ed by a federal jury in Boise April 4
1911, of making false reports to the
comptroller of the currency on the
condition of the Lewiston, Idaho, Ma
tional bank, and each sentenced tC
five years in federal prison, We're un
conditionally pardoned Monday by
President Woodrow Wilson.
The compressor and engine rooms
of the American Development Mining
and Reduction company, at Gibbons
Vile, Idaho, were destroyed by a fire
recently that is believed to have been
of incendiary origin. W. h. McQuarrie
president of the company, has offered
a reword of $1,000 for information
which will lead to the apprehension
of the guilty parties. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Instead of having over a million
acres of land in Idaho which are un-
taxable because they are either unsur-
veyed or unpatented, the Northern Pa
cific Railway company, in recent
statement, says there are but 47S,326
acres of this class of land in the state.
Further than this the railway com
pany, in an official statement, places
itself on record as favorable to CO.
operate with the state.
Major Fred r. Reed, executive COM
missioner of the Idaho commission to
the Panama-Pacific international expo
sition, desires photographs of Idaho's
most beautiful young girls ranging