Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-01-14
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

old age.
The board of underwriters has given
notice of raise of six to ten per cent
on the insurance rates at Lewiston.
John Thyme, age 67, and for the
last 20 years a resident Of the Occur
d'Alene district, died recently from
liver complaint.
State Senator J. E. Edwards of For
syth announces his candidacy for the
United States senate at the Montana
republican primaries.
William Henwood, age 6S, Familiarity
known to the residents of Hope as
Chicken Billy" was recently SEN
fenced to the asylum.
The annual convention of the Idaho
the big state seed show will be held
at Caldwell, January 10, 20 and 81
Louis A. Blackman, recently appoint
ed a member of the state board of hor
ticulture, left Lewiston Sunday for
Boise to be present at board meet
ing.
Former Senator Robert Neill, who
for two weeks has been battling with
injuries received in an accident, died
at his ranch near higgins, Idaho, Sat
urday night.
w. p Dave, former city clerk of
Idaho Falls, was sentenced to serve
from one to ten years in the peni-
Tertiary for the alleged enlightenment
of $4,000 of city funds
The annual meeting of the Idaho Mi
ming association has been postponed
from January IS to 25, on account of a
meeting of the state public utilities
commission in Wallace.
The banks of Wardner and Kellogg
reached their high water mark in de-
posits December 81. Within year the
deposits in the three banks have in
creased from 100000 to $707,67 the
growth of the community being cor
respondingly marked
The Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany recently paid 1888 special school
tax under protest to the county treas
urer for the districts of Kendrick and
Juliaetta. Those districts levied a
special school tax in excess of mills,
which is declared the legal limit
The supreme court has set the fol
lowing dates for that tribunal in 1916:
At Boise-First Monday of March ;
first Monday of October At Lewiston
Fifth Wednesday of May; fourth
Monday of November At Occur DIAL
ene-Second Monday in April; fourth
Monday of August.
All the property and holdings of the
Great Shoshone and Twin Falls Wa
ter Power company of Southern Idaho
were sold at auction at Twin Falls
Saturday for 100000 to f. F.. John
son of Boise, acting for the Electric
!, Investment company, with headquar
ters at Boise. The price paid was the
minimum price set by the United
= States district court in Nov, 1914, aft
er the company had passed into the
hands of a receiver.
: Congressman Addison T. Smith Of
this state has been given membership
l on the committee on public lands
which is the most important of all the
house committees so far as western in
3 terests are concerned. This commit
tee was given authority by resolu
ton of the house to sit during the hol
!. iday recess, and daily sessions have
q been occupied in the consideration o
q the water power bill, the leasing o
q lands containing oil, gas and phos
: pilates and other minerals, and tn,
T grazing 64O-acre homestead bill.
:, The Idaho supreme court Saturda.
a held invalid the emergency employ
4 ment act passed by the last legisla
n ture. The opinion was written by Jus
h tice Morgan and concurred in by hi
a associates. Application was made 70
II a writ of mandate to compel Ada cour
J. ty commissioners to give emergenc
D, employment to those applying. TIL
D, commissioners refused on the groun
l. the law was unconstitutional The ST
preme court denied the writ and sus
tanned the commissioners demurrer
/ 1t held that sections u, 10, IA and l
of the act are unconstitutional, and b
] being crippled in this way the entir
act is invalid.
5 That the illness of Senator Brady c
this state, which has prevented hiI
u, attending this session of congress, G
even taking the oath, is more seriou
than his friends have indicated, wa
II made plain following a consultation /
ID which two Washington physicians an
n DR.. Fuchtles, a heart specialist {
,r Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, participa
ed. A bulletin was given out Satu
day announcing that the senator wa
suffering from severe heart troubl
the result of overwork. Absolute re!
for two or three months, preferabl
- in another climate, is held to be ne
: essary, but it is admitted that the SCI
=, ator is too weak to be moved at pre-
a ent.