Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-04-02

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Commissioner of Education Edward
o. Sisson of this state will continue
his educational work, which lie I'M
dertook two years ago.
Superintendent Frank w. Simmonds
of the Lewiston public schools, has
been reelected for three years at a
meeting of the trustees.
Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary
of agriculture. and Henry S. Graves,
chief forester. will visit the forest re-
serves of Idaho this summer.
Seventy-five thousand acres of non
irrigable land in southern Idaho have
been released for homesteads, effect
i've May 10. About 10000 acres are
designated under section 6, by which
residence is not required.
The safe in Erb Bros store at
Greer was blown recently and about
$3.50 in money taken. A rifle had been
taken from the case, new box of
cartridges opened and the rifle load
ed and left lying on the counter near
the street entrance, where one bur-
glar had apparently stood guard. The
safe was muffled with blankets,
clothing and bolts piled thereon. The
papers in the safe were scattered
around Merchandise was also taken.
Damian Gardener, pioneer prospec-
tor and business man, and an owner
of the Hercules mine, died recently in
Barcelona, Spain. Mr.. Gardener came
to the Occur dAlenes in 1885, and
after engaging in business on a small
scale, first in Mullan and afterward
in Murray, he opened a mercantile
establishment in Burke in 1887. He
was II years of age, and is sur
viyed by widow and daughter. The
daughter married a French resident of
Barcelona.
An unprecedented demand from
Milwaukee and other eastern brow
cries within the last 80 days has
shifted the market for white winter
barley from Coast points, resulting in
approximately 1900 tons of this com
modify being routed to Chicago and
ST. Paul from the country tributary
to Lewiston. This demand applies
exclusively to barley for brewing
purposes, leaving the blue or feed
barley to depend on Coast demand
and local consumption for market.
Maggie Conway, formerly of Mack
ay, Idaho, is under arrest at HALEY,
Idaho on a charge of numbering Dan
| iel Winters, wealthy sheepman, in
September, 1913. The arrest followed
the detention in the county Jail at
Ogden, Utah, of Mr.. and Mrs Robert
Switzerland, who are being held as
material witnesses Winters body
was found about 100 feet from the
house where the Conway woman lived
and an examination of his stomach
showed he had died from poisoning.
The controversy waged between old
members of the state board of horti-
cultural inspection and the governor,
who insisted on control of the board
through new appointees, resulted Sat
urday in the governor coming out
victorious in the contest when e. f.
Stephens of Nampa was elected pres
ident, and Guy Graham of New Ply
mouth state horticultural inspector to
succeed c. X Macy. the candidate
of the old members in opposition to
the governor. Charges and counter
charges of bad faith and political
influence have been made during the
controversy until it became of state
wide interest.
Following closely on the filing of ar
ticles of incorporation, directors of the
Lewiston, Nez Perez & Eastern Rail
way company perfected organization
Saturday at Lewiston electing Off
GERS as follows: President, q. A. John
son; vice president, John p. Vollmer;
secretary, d. S. Wallace; treasurer,
Ivan Jorgens. The preliminary steps
for bond issue os S5,000,000 were ia
ken The first issue will be for ST.
$4,000, this being sufficient to take
over the holdings of the Nez Perez &
Idaho road from Nez Perez to Voll-
mer and Lewiston to Tammany and
also extend the road to the Waha prai-
RE which is contemplated for this
year.
The joint indictment standing
against State Auditor Fred L. Hus-
ton and James H. Wallis, former pure
food commissioner, was dismissed in
district court at Boise Saturday, as
result of divided opinion of the SUI
preme court quashing a true bill.
The opinion granted writ of habeas
corpus applied for by Huston, who
admitted technical incarceration by
the sheriff of Ada county. A majority
opinion was written by Chief Justice
Sullivan and concurred in by Justice
Alfred Bulge. Justice Morgan dis
sents. The indictment alleges that
Huston Incorporated public funds
by paying from the travelling expense
fund a salary warrant of $50 for
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