Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-02-06
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

At Mullan, Idaho, Feb. /, Iva Mesa,
native of Finland, committed sui
eide.
Officials of the O.-W. r. & N. have
announced that new $4,000 depot
will be erected at kellogg, Idaho. in
the near future.
The boys choir. numbering is of
St Peters Episcopal church in Ward
ner appeared in vestments for the
first time Sunday.
Louis DeGrush. age SO, committed
suicide at Grangeville Saturday. He
had no relatives in the immediate
country. Dependency is assigned as
the cause.
The board Of county commissioners
has fixed the road poll tax to be col
lected in Latah county this year at 50
and also made an order directing that
these taxes be collected by the county
treasurer.
The plant of the Boomers Ferry
Lumber Co. at Boomers Ferry, Idaho,
is not able to take care of the orders
received and the planning mill is run
ming day and night. Ten to IS cars of
lumber are being shipped daily.
Extensive repairs and alterations
will be begun on the plant of the
Blackwell Lumber Co. at Occur
dAlene beginning Monday, and it is
expected to be completed in time for
the opening of the active season Feb
ruary Is.
According to ]. p. Goodwin Of st.
Maries, Idaho, there will not be less
than 225,O00,000 feet of logs cut for
the mills in that valley this year. Op-
erations will be on full blast by March
l and the lumber business has a fairly
good outlook.
Goldberg Plat, the merchant of
Standpoint who early Thursday morn
ing shot and mortally wounded ]. C.
Hague, rancher from near Trestle
creek, was tried in the probate court
on a charge of murder and acquitted,
as it was proven he was trying to get
into his house.
Infatuated when he was ordered to
leave the place, John A. Mcpherson,
a miner at Mullan, threw wood alcohol
on his landlady, Mrs. William Kim
Bile, set fire to her clothing and tried
to set fire to the house, where three
children we're asleep, according to the
woman's story told the police. She will
not die.
a petition signed by 10 of the 20
saloonkeepers of Wallace has been
filed, to be presented to the council.
asking for a reduction of the license
for saloons, alleging that the high IL
cense now in vogue is excessive and
burdensome. The present license is
$500 year The 1914 license will be
$500. The state and county license
amounts to $751;, making a total year
ly license of $1551, commencing April
next.
A recent decision is that the Indian
bureau can not lawfully pay for the tut
ton of Indian children in the public
schools of states where the laws ad-
NIT to school privileges. tuition free
Heretofore it has been the practice to
contract with the local district schools
for the education Of the Indian chill
dren, the government desiring to as
sist the public school officials in view
of the fact that the Indians lands are
not taxable for school purposes. The
Nez Perez being citizens of Idaho
their children may be admitted to the
public schools under the school laws
of the state. This order affects about
10 schools on the reservation.
The contracting firm of Storey &
Smith of Boise will erect the Idaho
state building at the Panama-Pacific
International exposition The Idaho
building will occupy an imposing place
on the north side of the site set aside
for great structures of the American
states, and will overlook San Fran
cisco bay The structure will be rect
angular, 90 by 122 geet, and two
stories high One of the most original
features of the building will be large
room on the ground floor in which
moving pictures of Idaho's scenery
and resources will be shown daily to
ali exposition visitors. Films now
are being made for this purpose in
every part of Idaho and $4,000 will
be spent in this feature alone. The
central portion of the ground floor will
be devoted to a state display OF Idaho
products. The second story will be
devoted to reception rooms and other
parts of the state exhibit
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