Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-11-27
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

COW, died recently.
The school board has arranged to
improve the Fairgrounds in the vicin-
ity Of the Kellogg school building.
Lewiston-Grain prices: Fortyfold.
s1.O3; club, 81; red Russian Csc; oats.
1925; feed barley, 81; brewing bar
ley, s105.
Nj. Alexander, governor-elect of Ida
no, was in Lewiston recently, and he
says he plans to attend the live stock
show in December
Practically all arrangements are
made for a community Christmas tree
and festival in Twin Falls on Christ
mas night
A lively scrimmage is expected be-
tween Peter G. Johnson of Bingham
county and A. H. Conner of Standpoint
over the speakership of the coming
house.
Christ Weisgerber, pioneer brewer
and capitalist of Lewiston, died of
paralysis November 81. He was born
in Wachtersbach, Germany, Septem-
Der IL, 1S4S.
At Kellogg Saturday j. j. Lent, aged
rs, pioneer, died He was a mem
Der of the G. A. R. and lived there for
AZ years. A widow, aged rs, and six
children, survive.
Plans are being prepared for a new
steel bridge across the Clearwater
river at Peck, Idaho, which will cost
about $4,000. 1t will be SIS feet long
and with of IS feet.
The election lead of Attorney Cen
ehal Joseph H. Peterson, republican
candidate to succeed himself, to 1874,
probably the smallest majority given
any candidate on the state ticket.
"You are instructed on behalf of the
people of Idaho to go to the bottom
of every transaction and to make a
complete report and to shield no one !"
Governor Haines to expert investi-
eating state books.
Enoch w. Whitcomb, republican,
who repudiated the plank in the re-
publican platform declaring for state
wide prohibition, has been elected
state senator in Lemhi county over
]. R. Barclay, democrat, by single
vote.
The Nez Perez public school has
taken up the matter of procuring sup
plies to aid the Belgian sufferers and
several tons of flour, potatoes, meat
and other supplies have already been
accumulated and will be shipped the
first of the week to Seattle to be for
warded to their destination.
The Mark P. Miller Milling Co. of
Moscow, Idaho, was sentenced this
week by Judge DIETRICH of the federal
court to pay a fine of $4,000 on each OF
| two counts for the technical violation
of the interstate commerce law, al
| legged to have occurred in the ship
ment of farm and mill products from
Deary and Potlatch, Idaho, to Moscow
and from Moscow to the same points.
For the first time in half year the
supreme court bench was filled last
week when Governor Haines appoint
ed Judge Alfred Bulge of Pocatello to
succeed the late Justice George H
Stewart. Justice Stewards term was
to run until January 1, 1919 and JUS
tice Bulge is to fill this unexpired
term. Justice Bulge was born in Prov
idence, Utah, Feb. "a, 1868.
The state board of education at its
recent meeting in Boise considered
recommendation for new school laws
for Idaho and decided to adopt def
mite plan for submission to the com
ing legislature, following the Decem
Der meeting of the board. One of the
plans seeming to meet with favor i!
the county unit plan, instead of schoo
districts. Under this plan the county
superintendent is to be appointed b,
the board of education, and the boart
is to be nonpartizan.
State Auditor f. l.. Huston has ap
portioned the $59,227 received by Ida
no from the federal government a
Idaho's share of forest reserve re
ceipts for the fiscal year ended Jun
80, 1914. The money goes toward tn
!, support of the schools and counties il
which there are forest reserve share
in the fund. North Idaho countie
drew the following: Bonner, $12,809
Clearwater, 1925; Latah, 5000; She
( shone, $6694.
Federal officials and special Officers
4, whose duty it is to look after the SUI
preston of the introduction and sal
of liquor on the Nez Perez Indian rel
ervation, recently destroyed 100 ga
, Ions of exhibits used at the last SCI
sion of the federal court at Moscow
when so cases were investigated b
the federal grand jury, as a result {
which there were Is convictions. TIL
2 liquor was carried into the Unite
States marshals office in the FEEDER;
building, where the bottles, jugs an
= kegs were emptied into a sink frol
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