Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-04-11
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The Methodist Sunday school OF
Boomers Ferry won the attendance
prize last quarter in Bonner county.
The trial Of F. S. Chenea, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Ray Burke,
known in Lewiston as Blanche Cor
don, began Monday, April 7.
J. L. Forest is now being held in the
county Jail at Wallace as a suspect in
the murder of J. W. Ward, near Adair.
on the Milwaukee railroad, on March
Is, last
The new north wing of the admins
tration building of the university is
practically completed. The new addi-
ton to the administration building has
been erected at cost of $4,000.
The wheels in the big Humbird mill
at Standpoint were turned Monday and
the mill is now in readiness for the be-
ginning of the seasons run. The mill
is one of the biggest in the state, and
its payroll the largest in Standpoint.
Representative Burton L. French
has taken up with the chairman of the
house committee on appropriations the
Importance of a sufficient appropria-
ion for the national sanitarium for
tuberculosis located at Fort Lapwai.
Mrs. H. T. Rood of Granite, Idaho,
yictim of a maniacal attack of A. Carl
son, armed with an angle bar, lies very
low at Spokane. Carlson declared
when arrested that he was forced to
kill a rabbit woman or lion every time
he meets one.
The board of regents of the uni
versity will meet in Moscow April IS.
This will probably be the last meet
ing of the old board, as the new board
of regents and state board of control,
merged into one, as created by the
last legislature, will then be in charge.
Although he repented of the act of
writing a $4,000 check in favor of Mrs.
Ross E. Coe, the woman who nursed
him when he thought he was going to
die, Phil McGran, a wealthy retired
business man of Boise must make the
obligation good. This is the edict OF
the supreme curt of this state.
DR.. c. H. Shattock, head of the for
estry department of the Idaho expert
ment station, has announced that his
department will furnish all kinds o.
trees practically free to residents o.
Idaho. He has 10000. The cost t
Idahoans will be only 2 cents a tree
and the cost of packing, which will be
about % cents for a hundred trees
In the early days the poplar was uset
almost universally in the towns TO
ornamental and shade purposes and i
is thought these trees will now be re
placed by better varieties. The lis
available this year includes Austrian
pine, black locust, Norway maple, sill
yer maple, black walnut, white ash
red oak and willow cuttings.
Governor John M. Haines officiall
announced his appointments of men
bers of four important commission
created by the last legislature. The
are as follows: Public utilities con
mission. A. Blomquist, Boise, two
year term; A. P. Ramstedt, MOSCOW
, four-year term; d. w. Standrod, Pocf
tello, six-year term. State highwa
Observation-Disclosures Turner, Poci
tello; Miles Cannon, Weiser. Professo
Little of Moscow is made a member {
, the commission by the terms of tn
J act. State board of education-Walte
S. Bruce, Boise, one-year term; Davi
o Levans, Malad, two-year term; He
+ man j. Rossi, Wallace, three-yea
/. term; H. Harland, Payette, four-yea
! term; Evan Evans, Grangeville, fiv
o year term. PanamaPacific expositio
commissioner. C. Beach, Lewiston
e. H. Dewey, Nampa; Major Fred
Reed, commissioner of immigration
S labor and statistics, is named exec
e tive commissioner by the terms of IL
g act.