Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-02-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

at Lewiston, May g.
President Wilson has nominated j.
E. Wood to be postmaster at Harrison
The Benewah commissioners have
let the contract for transcribing the
records from Kootenai county at Z
cents per 100 words, the contractor to
furnish books, indexes and certificates
as to the correctness of the records.
T. w r. Nelson, a wealthy business
man of Rupert, while drunk, shot and
killed Mrs. Nellie NJ. Pittenger at Mi
nidoka, Saturday evening. Nelson then
turned the gun on himself and sent a
bullet into his brain, dying instantly.
She had refused to marry him.
Charles George, sentenced to be
hanged April 2, on conviction for the
murder Of Traichie Christoff and Eli
Lobus, convicted of involuntary man
slaughter for the Staying of Peter
Sain at a New Years celebration at
Kellogg have been taken to the peni
Tertiary
Labor employment bureaus Of
Spokane, which were forced to retire
from the field by the passage of the
referendum measure prohibiting col
lection of fees from workers by labor
agencies in Washington at the general
election, has been invited to establish
the agencies in towns in Idaho.
Deputy Sheriff George Welker at
Lewiston lodged Thomas James in the
county Jail Monday, charged with bur
glary. This makes five men now held,
the others being Roy Thomas, William
Love William Hoard and n. " Rad
ford. The men are alleged to have
been engaged in Systematically footing
of grain the plant of the Lewiston
Milling company and loaded cars
standing on the tracks 1t is alleged
that the burglaries extended over three
months.
The Northern Pacific railway com
pany has filed suit at Moscow against
the county and school districts of
Kendrick and Troy to recover a part
of school taxes paid by it. 1t is said
that the statutes conflict, one stating
that a maximum of five mills may be
levied in any one year by any school
district as a special tax and another
that the maximum of a special school
tax may be IS mills on the dollar
Neither act refers to the other or re
peals the other.
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.
While the senate skidded bridge
appropriation bills through Saturday
and abolished commissions the house
spent its time in killing off aspiring
county division measures and debating
in coTfinitte of the whole. These de
velopments, together with the passage
of the Anderson act to abolish state
tax commission, passage of the Clark
bill to abolish several state offices and
calling off the fight on the public
utilities commission, made the session
interesting.
Governor Alexander vetoed house
bill No. 11S, an anti-commission gov
eminent act, fathered by the common
wealth"
The Camas county division bill went
down to defeat Payette county, seek
ing to be created out of Canyon county
was voted down
In the house pharmacists bill pro
hibiting peddlers from selling drugs
was sent back to thte senate for
amendment, but is assured passage.
Three bills passed, one providing fol-
inspection of sheep, another urging
federal appropriation for a highway
for Yellowstone park and a bill put
ting the new counties on cash basis
by allowing them to issue bonds TO
take up their floating indebtedness
The following measures were kill.
ed. Proposing a constitutional amend
ment so as to place property qualifi
cations on electors in irrigation and
other improvement distric+ A sister
state act, permitting the appropriation
of water from Idaho streams and lakes
or use in bordering states.
Idaho will be a prohibition state on
and after January l. 1916. This state
Joined the dry ranks with Washing
ton and Oregon when the senate
Tuesday afternoon passed house bill
AZ and sent it to Governor Moses
Alexander for his signature. The gov
ernor is pledged by his message to
the legislature to sign the act. He
recommended its passage in the
strongest possible terms.
The new congressional bill made its
appearance Tuesday. It creates the
first district out of the eight northern
counties and Adams. Washington, Can
yon, Boise, Custer and Lemhi coun
ties. while the second district is to be
composed of all the other southwest
ern, southern and southeastern coun
ties. The voting population is about
equally divided in the two districts
ifopatba- with tho oancn.c IF tho cfote