Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-02-20
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

sist them in equipping their head
quarters
The postoffice at Dover was burglar.
lied recently. Postoffice funds amount
ing to $3.50 in cash and stamps were
taken from the safe. The combination
of the safe was used in securing the
money and stamps.
The stockholders of the Kootenai
County Fair association, in session,
elected directors to fill vacancies. w.
H. Ellis, George Stowe and John ia
gels were chosen to three-year terms.
L. c.. Shadduck was elected to sue
coed F. Lewis Clark.
Names of % students who fell be.
low so per cent in the last semester
examinations have been taken up by
the faculty committee in connection
with the excuses for failure. Some
Thinkers" will remain on probation,
while others were sent home.
The sheriff's office at Moscow serv.
ed notices upon the billiard halls that
he would require them to comply with
the statute which provides for the
removing of all window shades, blinds
and other distractions to plain view
of the tables from the outside.
Joseph Grigg, serving a term In the
Idaho state penitentiary on conviction
in the district court of Bonner county
for assault with intent to kill Clar-
ence Franklin, must serve his SEN
tence of from three to IA years. The
supreme court refused to rehear his
case on appeal.
The county commissioners of Latah
and Nez Perez counties met at Lewis
ton and opened bids for the construc-
ton of two bridges to span Potlatch
creek, one near Kendrick and the 9TH
er near Juliaetta. The bids submit
ted for the Kendrick bridge was $1240,
and for the one at Juliaetta $594O.
Sheriff Harry Lydon of Lewiston
recently visited the Maduna ranch,
near Spaulding, it having been re-
ported to him that horses being past
ured there were dying from starvation.
The sheriff found Is animals dead and
three or four more dying, while the
rest of the herd are living skeletons
Wren e Greenough, railroad con
tractors, who own a large farm on
Camas prairie near Grangeville, Sat
urday sold their 1913 crop of wheat,
10000 bushels, to Balfour, Guthrie &
Co. The deal was closed in Portland.
The wheat was principally of the
white hybrid variety and brought "A
cents a bushel t. o. b. at Fem, Idaho.
Idaho owns some livestock three
million nine hundred and thirty-seven
thousand head, counting horses, mules,
mich COWS, other cattle, sheep and
hogs, with a total value of sixty mil
lion, four hundred and ninety-five
thousand dollars, according to the es-
innate on the number of head and the
valuation as fixed by the bureau of
statistics of the department of agri-
culture.
Places of 1000 population or more
that have saloons are Boise, Occur
d'Alene, Grangeville, HALEY, Kellogg,
Mountain Home, Mullan, Salmon,
Standpoint, Shoshone, Wallace, and
Wardner. The cities of 1000 popula-
ton or more that are dry are: Amer
lean Falls, Blackfoot, Caldwell, EN-
NETT, Gooding, Harrison, Idaho Falls,
Lewiston, Malad, Montpelier Moscow,
Nampa, Oakley, Paris, Payette, Poca-
tello, Preston, Rexburg, st. Anthony,
Twin Falls and Weiser.
In the appointment of the three Ida
no poultry commissioners for the 1915
exposition at San Francisco, two
Occur d'Alene poultry raisers were
honored-H. o. Tytherleigh, secretary
of the American Poultry association
for the state of Idaho, and Oscar Mel
son, president of the same organiZa
ton for Idaho. The third member OF
the commission is Miller Purvis OF
Wendell, Idaho. This commission is tc
have complete charge of the Idaho
poultry exhibit at the exposition, and
plans will be put on foot Immediately
toward stimulating competition among
the fanciers of the state for the pro
duction of the best possible exhibits
The Idaho state law which bars a
public official from being interested
in any contract with the municipality
of which he is an officer has been up
held by Judge Flynn of the district
court. The case in point was one
wherein Ralph A. Goldman charged K
Wanamaker, chairman of the board OF
trustees of the village of Hope, with
selling goods to the town contrary tC
law. Judge Flynn held that contracts
of sale were void and that any tax
payer of Hope could institute suit tC
recover the money paid. Wanamakel
was caught on Is counts, amounting
to $s65s2, and will have to pay thai
amount into the town treasury If the
ruling of the district judge is upheld
by the supreme court.