Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-11-20
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The official count of the vote of
Idaho is to be made November Fl.
The grip of king winter has held off
longer this year than any fall in the
history of the state.
Allan McKinnon, for six years agent
for the Interior Warehouse company
at Cottonwood, was arrested recently
warrant issued at Grangeville charg
ing embezzlement.
Jacob l.. Gross, ex-banker of Koos-
kia, convicted of introducing liquor on
the Nez Perez reservation, was SEN
fenced to eight months in Jail at Lew
iston and fined $3.50.
Oliver Harrison, 12-year-old son of
Enoch Harrison, living five miles south
OF Kendrick, was shot and instantly
killed by his brother, two years young
er, while playing with a repeating
rifle.
Moses Alexander, democrat, our
newly elected governor, has started on
tour of the state to meet the people
of the different sections and ascertain
their needs. Starting in the north, he
expects to tour the entire state.
Word from the southern part of the
state indicates that Victor o. Johnson
OF Shoshone may be appointed by Gov
ernor Haines to the state public utili-
ties commission to take the place for
merly occupied by Judge Standrod.
A mortgage for Sill, 652,500 given
by the Northern Pacific Railroad Co.
to the Guarantee Trust Co. of New
York was filed at Lewiston, Idaho, last
week. The instrument bears date OF
July 1 and is given to secure funds tc
retire outstanding bonds.
Idaho newspapers and politicians are
keenly interested as to the kind oil
legislation the newly elected legisla
ture will give TO the citizens of the
commonwealth and are specializing as
to whether this legislation will smacl
loudly of reform measures.
, Forecast is made that because o
the complexion of the new Legislature
statewide prohibition for Idaho i
likely to come before similar legisla
S ton becomes operative in Washisgtol
D and Oregon. In the latter states tn
s prohibition law becomes operativ
y January /, 1916.
Charles Erperback, a wealthy rancl
g er of Idaho, is to be tried at the mex
II term of the federal court in Sherida
8 on the charge of having held up
J. number of stage coaches in yellow
II stone park last summer and Robin
the passengers, the holdups being tn
a, most sensational in the history of tn
n park.
u Through a plan proposed by til
II commercial club at Twin Falls it
a. proposed to make $500 subscribed fC
a. Belgian relief also of benefit to til
10 people of southern Idaho. AS this fun
would be used for buying supplies
proposes that the entire amount be e.
N pended on the Twin Falls tract fC
flour, beans, peas, etc.
y The purchase of the Gilmore
Pittsburg railroad in Montana an
al Idaho, will give the Northern Pacif
v railway the shortest line from IL
4, Twin Cities to the Pacific coast. TT
10 IOdu Was quit Il SHOlI time ago dC
n cost of more than S15,000,c00. TT
II road runs between Armstead, Mont, {
r the Oregon Short Line, and Salmo
ir Idaho With a branch line the mil
IL age is about 100.
- Frank Hye, accused of murderir
:, Hugh Kennedy, the court bound IL
- accused over to the district court {
~ the charge of murder in the first
=, gree, and over the protest of the sta
=. ruled that Mr.. Hye should be above
- bail, and fixed the amount at $500
This is the second charge of murder
- the first degree lodged against Frar
20 Hye as the result of the tragedy tn
= occurred in Elk City on the night
- October 4, in which Hye is accused
~ having shot to death his wife Ain
:, and Hugh Kennedy