Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-05-01
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

The bond election Saturday in Lew
iston Orchards resulted in the carry
ing of the 100000 issue for the Lew
iston Orchard highway district.
Ore shipments from the Occur
d'Alene camps totaled 40,Ss0 tons dur
ing the month of March, according to
semi-official estimates made by mi
ming journals. The value of the
product amounts to approximately ST.
044,O0O.
Thirty-five saloon licenses were
granted by the county commissioners
at Wallace during the week and $780,
2S5 was paid into the treasury to be
apportioned to the various school
district funds and the state, without
adding the amounts paid as city licen-
ses, which probably run the total
amount to more than $4,000.
John Sipela, a North Fork rancher,
charged with the murder of his neigh
Dor, John Karhu, whom he is alleged
to have struck III the head with a
double-bitted axe in an alteration
near their home above Enaville, was
given preliminary hearing before
Probate Judge Worstell and held to
answer in the district court without
bail at Wallace
Senator Brady of Idaho has receiv
ed telegram urging him to use his
utmost endeavor to have the Idaho
regiment included in the first militia
detailed for duty against Mexico. The
senator took the matter up with the
war department, and was informed
the services of militia cannot be avail
ed of by the government until the
president issues a call.
The county commissioners at Lewis
ton fixed the salaries which county
officers will receive for 1856, as
follows: Sheriff, $780, auditor,
$500; probate Judge, 1920; treas
urer and tax collector, $1440; assessor,
$3.50; school superintendent, $500;
surveyor, $500; county attorney,
$500; commissioner, $500. This ac-
tion reduces the auditors compensa-
ton 5000 and the assessors $3.50. The
cut made in the assessors salary is,
however, added to that of the treas
urer, who by the new state law
also made tax collector, whose duties
were formerly discharged by the
assessor
The public utilities commission has
denied the application of the commits
sioneTs of Shoshone county, A. p. Nc
Rae, John F. Murphy, and j. B. Cox,
and the Federal Mining & Smelling
company for a rehearing in the matter
of making an examination of the
books of the Washington Water Power
company in the complaint by them
against that company. The COM
mission in its former order on the ap-
plication declared it did not favor a
fishing expedition into the books of
that public service, or any other pub
lie service, in order to acquire data
to justify a complaint, and now sees
no reason to change its mind.
Information from an apparently au-
thentic source has been received at
OOtui VI AlClt City W Tic tlltCl that
construction crews will be assembled
there and that the work of grading the
roadbed of the Spokane, Wallace &
Interstate railroad from Occur d'Alene
to Wallace will start within the next
two weeks. The information is further
to the effect that the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & ST. Paul railroad is behind the
undertaking This information tends
to verify the rumor circulated during
the last six months, but denied, that
the Milwaukee company is soon to
take over and become the owner of
the millsite of the Occur d'Alene Lum-
Der company in the lake city.