Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-09-24
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

sporting circles.
The county commissioners at Lew
iston fixed the tax levy at 10 mills
The county commissioners fixed the
tax levy for Lewis county at Is mills
The Boise assay office receipts for
the past two months have been $685.
600.
Roseberry has the only flour mill in
Long valley, with a daily capacity of
rs barrels.
At the last monthly sale of horses
held at Caldwell over 600 horses were
sold in two days.
Power county will enter into CON
tract for the employment of county
agricultural expert
The state and county general levy
was fixed at 1874 mills by the Koote-
mai county commissioners.
The sheriff of Canyon county has no.
titled all owners of slot machines in
that county to quit their use.
Regular automobile service between
Nampa and Boise, passing through Me-
ridian, has been inaugurated.
Lou Obermyer of Emmett reports he
has picked and shipped nine carloads
of melons from ten acres of land
The cut of the Craig Mountain Lum-
Der company at Winchester for the
year will amount to 33 100000 feet
The quality of prunes being picked
at Weiser is exceptionally good this
season but prices are low, only SIG a
ton.
The only fair to be held in Bonner
county this fall will take place at Sa-
gle the afternoon of Saturday, Septem-
Der 25.
Mrs. Elizabeth Baker of Aberdeen,
Wash, has been appointed dean of
women at the Idaho state normal
school at Lewiston.
What is known as the LOOP" a rail-
road line which circles the valley from
Idaho Falls to st. Anthony, has been
completed by the Oregon Shore Line.
A L. Richardson, clerk of the United
States court at Boise since 1891, died
recently. He was "A years old and
came to Idaho from Missouri in 1861
The state land board intends to sys
tematize the loan business of that de
partment by dividing the state into
districts, and loans will be made in
each district every sixty days
Conductor Fred Woods is in the
hospital at Whitefish as the result OF
gunshot wound in the head, inflicted
by himself. either accidentally or with
suicidal intent. The wound is thought
to be fatal.
The Idaho delegation, headed by ex
Governor James II. Hawley, ex-gover
nor and ex-senator from Idaho, by
reaching Portland Saturday achieved
the honor of being first on the ground
for the western states water powel
conference this week.
A coroner's jury at Wallace investi
eating the cavein at the Success min,
recently, which resulted in the instan
death, of Amandus Larson and Der
Oman, brought in a verdict of dealt
by unavoidable accident, attaching M
blame to the company.
The tax levy of Benewah county has
been fixed at Ia mills This is tw,
mills lower than last year, when Ben
ewah was a part of Kootenai county
The assessed property of the county
is approximately $10,OOO,OO0. and the
amount of money to be raised approx
mately $4,000.
Having been blown up several times
by premature blasts and missed
holes" during his eventful career il
the Occur d'Alenes without sustain
ing serious injuries, it has remained
for James Callahan, a real pioneer o
the region, to become a victim o
ptomain poisoning, with fair chances
of serious illness resulting.
Word has been received at Me-
Perez that T. F. Jacobs, a farmer liv
ig three miles south of town, wa,
awarded a gold medal at the Panama
Pacific exposition for wheat. Waite,
Hoover won the silver medal for oat,
raised on his farm and Erlan OlsoI
was awarded the silver medal for bar
ley raised on his ranch near town.
The state land board instructed thu
state treasurer to at once notify al
land owners upon whose lands thu
state holds mortgages as security 70
loans that delinquent taxes on sucl
lands must be paid and proof of pay
ment submitted to him within 80 days
If this is not done foreclosure proceed
ings will be instituted by the state.
The Masonic grand lodge in session
at Boise last week selected Twin Falls
as the 1916 meeting place. Theodore
w. Randall retired at his own Request
as secretary and George E. Kneppel
of Lewiston was elected instead. He