Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-04-24
IDAHO NEWS NOTES


Forty jurymen to serve at the April
term of the district court at Wallace
have been drawn to report in court
Apri 81.
The members of the l. o. o. F. have
decided to make another search for
the body of o. T. Lindstrom. who was
lost in the woods last winter near
Spirit Lake
The St. Joe river is at the highest
mark of the year and is four feet be-
low high water mark last year. The
low bottom land is flooded, but the
water is not over the bank yet.
Precipitated from a cliff 80 feet
high, 26 cattle were killed outright or
suffered broken backs, legs or ribs,
near the Wenaha forest reserve, ac-
cording to a story told by Ray Hester.
Joseph Sawyer, lumberjack, working
near the mouth of the river near Hope
for the Hope Lumber company, found
human body among the logs. The
body was identified as that of A. G
Niles by Clyde Swain. Niles drowned
November %, 1913, at Thompson Falls,
Montana
The heaviest fines ever imposed in
Bonner county for bootlegging were
assessed by Judge Wood recently in
the case of Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. Tooley
of Lakeview, formerly of Standpoint
They were fined 5000 each on two
counts, making with the court costs
total of $3.50.
After checking the petition calling
for a local option election the
county commissioners at Lewiston
have decided it was in regular form
and with more than enough signatures
of qualified voters. The petition was
allowed and May 81 set as the date for
holding the election.
John Sprague, known at Cougar
Jack" old trapper, was drowned in the
north fork of the Clearwater river
recently near the mouth of the Orc
grande, 60 miles from Orofino, by the
sinking of a raft upon which he at
tempted to cross. His home was at
Pierce and he had no family.
A mortgage foreclosure suit was
started by Eugene Page of Wenatche
against e. E. Elliott, former president
of the University of Idaho. The
amount of the alleged debt is $4,000
with interest, and the property is
some 975 acres in the Kootenai valley
Another mortgage foreclosure suit
filed was that of Denver p Dayton
versus Jane Hawthorne ct al.
On being shown dispatches which
made it indicate that war with Mexico
President Wilson that Idaho desires
to be the first state to offer the serv
ices of her national guard. The tele
gram added that the guard, consisting
of one fully organized and equipped
infantry regiment, is ready to starr
for the front on short notice.
Through an action filed in the dis
trict court at Occur d'Alene, ]. g
White seeks to enjoin the county com
missioners from carrying out a con
tract recently entered into by then
with G. w. Pelham, by which a com
plete cruise of all the timber land il
Kootenai county was to have beel
furnished the county for the use o
the county assessor, to enable tina
official to accomplish an equitabl,
, assessment for taxation.
Last Saturday Turner and sons o
Nez Perez sold 800 tons of feed barle,
to M. H. Houser at S22.50 per ton f. q
b. Portland and w. H. Bundy of Guild
esac sold 500 tons of brewing barle.
. to the Volmer-Clearwater Grain CON
pany for about s2S per ton, f. o. /
} coast. Both sellers took a loss of az
J proximately $3.50 per ton from wha
they were offered early in the season
r Barley and oats are lower than a
, any time this year, and a lot of barle
r still remains in the farmers hands.