Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-04-10
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Boomers Ferry citizens have organ
lied an improvement club.
Prospects for large farm yields are
declared rosy by farmers in Idaho.
Superintendent Theodore Sharp of
the Indian agency at Lapwai is adver-
Using for Hereford bulls to be furnish.
ed the Indians.
On May l a new rural route will be
established out of Troy. The route
will be 1919 miles long and about 70
families on Burnt and Little Bear
ridges will be served.
The Nease Timber company of Port
land, which was awarded the con
tract by the commissioners of Latah
county to cruise and estimate two
townships of timber next month, filed
its bond of $4,000
Estimation of the standing timber on
patented land in Bonner, Shoshone and
Clearwater counties, Idaho, for assess.
ment purposes will begin Immediately,
and 81 cruisers, in the employ of A j.
Nease, who has the cruising contract
Weather that has prevailed through
out Nez Perez and Camas prairies dur
ing the last few weeks has started the
farmers early to their work in the
fields. The winter grain is in splen
did condition and a big yield is ex
pected
The remains of B. Bentley Handbook
of lone, drowned in the Pend Oreille
river by the capsizing of ferry Jan
uary 10, were inferred at Rathdrum
Saturday The body was found by
fishermen near Box canyon. Han
brook was q years old.
The citizens of the southern part OF
Kootenai county, Idaho, in favor of the
erection of two new counties from the
district are waging a vigorous cam
paign to secure support of the move
ment when it is submitted to the vo
tiers at the next election.
In connection with pension legisla
ton it is planned to pension pioneer
Indian fighters in Idaho and the north
west, who bore arms against the REQ
men as late as 1868. Many of these
veterans never took the trouble to en-
list, but rendered important service
which it is sought to have recon
pensed
p. w. Mays, arrested in Lewiston OF
advice from the Garfield county au
thorities, at which place he was In
dicted by the grand jury on a charge
of bootlegging, will make a figh
against returning to Washington unit
extradition papers are issued Wheth
err violation of the liquor laws is al
extraditable offense in Washington
will probably be tested.
In connection with the fight agains
hog cholera it is assumed that large
portion of the $4,000 appropriated fol
the department of agriculture will b'
used to send experts into Idaho Il
show the farmers how to combat thii
dread disease, which has bene disas
trous to hog raising in several coul
: ties Large quantities of hog choleri
serum have already been bought ant
the fight will soon be taken up 10
cally.
The court calendar of Shoshon
county was cleared Saturday of tn
remaining cases, nine in number, pend
ing against B. f. O'Neil for the mis-
use of the funds of the defunct Stat
: Bank of Commerce. Eleven charge
( were filed against O'Neil originally
: In two cases a change of venue wa
r taken to Occur d'Alene and after
trial he was convicted and sentence
5 to the penitentiary to from two to L
r years. The charges against Edgar
Wyman in connection with the fai
ure of the bank have also been dil
g missed. The dismissals close the ban
r cases in so far as any further prose
}, cutions are concerned. The remain
n ing directors of the bank have all pal
S their liability and Harry L. Day ha
4 taken over the various assets of tn
bank for approximately S150,000.