Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

gle, a carpenter, fell IL feet while
working Sunday on an ore bin at
the Bunker Hill smelter at Kellogg,
and died soon after.
An auto carrying Mr.. and Mrs. l..
ID. Farmin, Mrs. Adolph Stebbins and
Mrs. E. ]. Smith of Standpoint turned
turtle recently near Athol. All we're
more or less injured.
Mrs. Grace Clark, associate grand
matron of the Eastern Star of Idaho,
has left for Louisville, KY, where
she will attend the session of the
general grand chapter of the order.
which meets October 81.
The Inland Canning company will
begin actual operations in the old
Panhandle brewery building at Occur
d'Alene City soon, which has been
remodeled to fit the need of can
ming. evaporating plant and byprod-
uct plant.
Frank Frankford, who farms on the
edge of American ridge. about two
miles from Juliaetta, this season has
sold his crop of potatoes from two
acres that brought him $243. If he
had had in 100 acres they would have
brought at the above rate s19.440
A 17-year-old boy who was raising
a crop of beans on his fathers farm
on Cream ridge-the father and son
sharing equally-was given a check
for $3.50 for his half of the crop.
The name of the boy is McFadden.
The average yield of the crop was
1130 pounds of beans per acre.
Walter Miller, champion middle
weight wrestler of the world, retain
ed his title at Lewiston recently in
a contest with Ted Thye. The fall
was secured in one hand and 40 min
was secured in one hour and 40 min
utes by an ankle lock secured by
, severe a sprain to the ankle thai
Thye was unable to come on for the
second fall
{ At the first meeting of the board
of directors of the Pacific G. Idaho
, Northern railway, held in New Yorl
! city September 81, 1916, following tn,
annual meeting of the stockholders o
that company, Col. Edgar M. Heigh,
of New Meadows, Idaho, was reflect
: ed president. Col. Heigho is receive
: of the property, appointed. by tn
United States court and is operating
it,
f. G. Shubert, assistant engineer
L and T.. b. Clark of the United State
engineers office of Portland, recen,
o ly made a trip of inspection of tn
: Snake river from Pittsburg Landin
= to Lewiston. The trip was made 70
the purpose of gathering data regard
ing the river and regarding the re
a sources and development of the trit
n utary country to be used in a repor
t. and recommendations to be made t
= the department regarding river in
e provement work.
l. By the terms of a lease filed TO
record at Wallace, e. |. Du Pone d
Nemours & Co. become the lessee
of 40-acre tract lying west of tn
I city limits of Wallace, situated o
Lake Gulch, for a term of 10 years
with an optional agreement for tn
extension of the lease another
q years at the expiration of the frs
10 years. The land is owned by il
n Illus Brass.
r The filing of the lease has cause
a rumor to be circulated that the bi
Il powder manufacturers intend to e.
J. tablish factory there on the lease
/, ground which is ideally situated 70
s such a plant. Thousands of tons c
explosives are used annually in tn
Occur d'Alenes, and this present
:, an attractive territory for powde
- manufacture.
All Idaho is waiting with keen il
!. terest the action of the United State
- supreme court in the case of Idah
against Ed Crane, arrested and col
l. victed in Moscow of having a bottl
g of whisky in his possession. Thi
case is said to be the first of il
, kind on record. 1t is held that,
!. the United States supreme court VI
: holds the supreme court of Idaho
this case, it will greatly extend tn
police powers of the state and mat
Y rally restrict the rights of citizen
It held to be fundamental and constitl
y tional up to this time.
Dry Law Breaker to State Prison.
:. Thomas H. Jones of Wardner is tn
II second violator of the Idaho dry la
o. to receive a penitentiary sentenC
from Shoshone county, d. w. Buri
k being the first to receive such
re sentence. Jones entered a plea
IL guilty to a charge of selling whisb
s. at Wardner and also to being a pc
. sistent violator of the dry law.