Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-06-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The Kellogg council will have the
paving Of the business district of the
city done by contract.
The cherry harvest is now practi-
cally closed at Lewiston. The wealth
er was in the growers favor and the
crop was greater than was expected.
Mrs. Lillian Hexter widow of Moses
Hexter, the Hexters being early pio-
neers of Lewiston, Idaho; Dayton,
Wash. and Portland, Ore. died recent
ly at Spokane.
The Hagan & Cushing packing plant
at Moscow, which cost $4,000 to com
plete three years ago, is to be enlarged
this summer so as to handle the in
creasing business.
Isaac Ward, aged 63, of Winchester,
was instantly killed a mile north of
Endicott, Wash, when a train struck
Ward was deaf, and failed to hear the
approaching train.
The Farmers Roachdale company
has completed its new warehouse at
Orofino, affording facilities for hand
ling $4,000 bushels of grain The crop
outlook indicates that the building
will be none too large.
There will be no timothy hay on
the Upper Potlatch this year, is the
general statement of ranchers in the
Deary section. Most of it is only six
inches high and is heading out. I'm
less rain falls it will not be worth the
cutting.
A direct legislation movement has
been launched in this state and r. c
llassey, a member of the committee
which framed the proposed amend
ment to the state constitution, submit
ted it recently to Senator w. e. Boraf
for his judgment In his reply Sena
tor Borah seems friendly to the prin
ciple
The university summer school regis
tration at the end of the first week /:
"a, as compared with 250 at the enc
of the first week last year. The rea
son for this is said to be due to al
error in the office of state commits
sioner of education, when it sent on
notices to all the county superintend
ents of schools that no credits woult
be authorized given to teachers hold
ing second grade certificates or lower
Only high school students and teach
hA1 nd al a
were barred from the university.
The villages of Juliaetta and Ken
drick, four miles apart, are at oppos
tie edges of the hub of the largest an
J most productive bean wheel" of tn
Inland Empire if not in the entir
J northwest. Within a radius of 10 mile
of the above named towns there wi
: be raised this season $500 acres c
beans The yield is expected to ru
from 700 to 1900 pounds per acre.
growers get the average yield of So
pounds the total would be 6,175,00
T pounds of beans from the above are;
which, at 3 cents a pound, the prevail
ing price during the last three year
gives $1S5,250 as the result of a sil
gle seasons crop. The price named
for the crop just as it comes from tn
machines, without being recleaned.
A coroner's inquest was held at HoI
on the bodies of Pat Walsh and HOY
ard Shipley, prospectors, murdered
their cabin, near Green Monarch, Jur
1S. No one knows who killed theI
Walsh was SO years of age and Iris
Shipley was 81 and born in Iowa. Bot
were single and residents of Hope fl
25 years. Shipley was shot twice al
Walsh three times. Both were -four
lying face down under their bed, co
cred with quilt. A pool of blood Wi
under the bed. Their dog was al
shot. No reason can be found for Il
cause of the murder, as $50 was foul
under the bedclothes in Walshs be
The verdict was death caused by gu
shot wounds fired by unknown partie
All the shots were fired from the OF
gun, any one of which would ha
caused death.