Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-11-13
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

A large central public park is pro-
posed for Kendrick.
A Lewiston warehouse company re-
Gently sold 400 600 grain bags to farm
ers OF that district
No trace has been found of the Finn
who killed his pal and the bartender
in a Laclede saloon a week ago.
c. F. Richie has on exhibition at
Kamiah a potato 80 ga inches in cir
conference and weighing two pounds
six ounces.
The committee appointed at Lewis
ton to secure the Northwest Live
Stock show has organized. with Max
Wood as chairman, and will begin
active work.
According to report ]. L. Cross,
president of the Kooskia State bank,
was recently indicted by the federal
grand jury on a charge of introducing
liquor on the Nez Perez reservation.
The first 12-mile stretch of the
Johnson railroad from Lewiston to
Tammany station was formally opened
for traffic. The grain rate is 3 cents
per hundred on carloads to Lewiston
from Tammany
John Hazard was attacked by
vicious dog at Kamiah recently. The
animal first bit him on the leg Ha-
vaid tried to knock him away and the
dog grabbed his left hand, tearing
away large piece of flesh.
In one of the largest raids ever made
in Wallace. the sheriff, assisted by
deputies, Saturday gathered in 81 men
on charges of gambling, when they
raided two saloons. The raid was
we'll planned and few escaped.
The north mill of the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan company at Kellogg was
damaged Saturday when one of the
chemical filter tanks about six feet
in diameter and "a feet long exploded
and knocked out a portion of the
roof No one was injured
The body of S. M. Hanford. a wood
cutter, was found on the ranch of
Charles Lacy, near Avon. After an in
vestigation the county attorney de-
cided that Hanford came to his death
by accident, it being presumed that he
stumbled on the rails and fell
Mrs. Pearl Ruffel was arrested at
Kellogg November on a warrant
charging murder, as a result of the
finding of the body of dinner Vaughan,
aged 81, a laundry driver, in the room
of Mrs. Ruffel She was taken to
Wallace and lodged in the county jail
She claims he shot himself.
Because of the death of Joe Mark
Camas Prairie railroad bunkcar below
Cottonwood on election night, the
prosecutor has changed the charge
against H. J. Smith, who is accused of
the shooting from assault with dead
ly weapon with murderous intent, 20
murder in the first degree.
The verdict in Kootenai was against
division. Two propositions were sub
mitted at the recent election. One
provided for the creation of Benwah
county, with st. Maries as the county
seat, while the other provided for the
creation of Occur d'Alene county, with
Plummer as the county seat Neither
got a majority according to reports.
Frank Hye, who is held to the dis
trict court at Grangeville charged
with killing his wife, Alma, on Octo-
Der 4, was released Saturday on $4,000
bonds and Immediately was rearrested,
harged with first degree murder for
having, as ALLEGED, shot to death Hugh
Kennedy at the same time and place
that he is alleged to have killed his
wife
Peter Mason, the 12-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Mason, was shot
and killed by his playmate, Paul Be
dell, Saturday, two miles east of Kel
logg. Bodell was cleaning a 22-calibel
rifle. Bedell believed the gun to be
empty and had it across his lap. He
worked the lever and pulled the trig
ger, the shell exploding. The buller
struck the boy in the left side.
Fremont Wood and B. S. Grow
president and secretary of the Idaho
State Bar association, have given GU
the following statement relating to tn,
next meeting of the state bar assoeia
ton. AS arranged by the executiv,
committee this meeting will be hell
at Boise, commencing Wednesday
January 3, and continuing for tire,
days, concluding Friday evening will
the usual banquet.
A report made public this week b.
forestry officials shows that during
the fire-fighting season 60 fires wer
handled in the Pend Oreille nationa
forest, with a slight loss of timber, a
a cost for men, their feed and othe
supplies of $500. The estimated va
lie of the government tinohar xvbici