Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-04-28
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Lewiston won the high school track
meet held at Charleston between the
teams of Lewiston, Lapwai and Clarks-
ton, with total of 80 points.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Newhouse cele-
brated their 50th wedding anniversary
Saturday at their home at Occur DIAL
enc City. They were married at Pine
Island, Mimi, April IS, 1866.
The women of Bonners Ferry have
organized a civic Improvement league
to engage in beautifying the city and
advertising its resources and POSSIBLE
tiles in collaboration with the CONNER
cial club.
Easter morning was ushered in in
the Clearwater valley with a heavy
frost, the thermometer registering but
q above zero. The ground was
frozen to the depth OF half an inch
The day was clear and pleasant
The Kootenai county commissioners
have authorized the payment to the
state of $99S2, due the state on delin-
quent taxes, after deducting $685., the
amount Benewah county will pay. The
period accounted for is from 1909-1914.
Charles w. Saltz of Plummer, charg-
ed with assault with intent to commit
murder, was acquitted by jury Sat
urday Saltz wah charged with assault
on Paul Wheatley with a revolver on
February 20. Saltz pleaded self-de-
Tense.
The body of Thomas j. Black, fire
man on the Mullan stub train, who
was crushed to death last week when
a heavy helper engine backing down
from Mullan collided with his train,
was sent to Missoula, where funeral
services and interment were held Sun
day.
Through the Pinkerton Realty COM
pany and the Woods Realty company
e. c. Bowel exchanged his farm at
Rathdrum for 618 acres of land in AL
berta, Canada, owned by Gustave A.
Bruchet and George Peacock of Leth-
bridge, Alta. The amount involved
was $4,000.
i G. A. Weyerhaeuser, president; f. S.
Bell, secretary, and number of the
directors and stockholders of the Pot.
latch Lumber company visited the
Potlatch holdings recently. They also
visited Elk River to look over the
woods and mill operations there, and
then left for their eastern homes.
E. M. Becker. famer living near
Genesee, recently marketed 16 hogs
that averaged POI pounds a piece
These hogs were only seven and one
, half months old and this is consid
cred to be the best showing ever made
with hogs in such a short time. Mr.
Becker sold these hogs at $3.50 pei
hundred
A sharp fight is brewing on the ques
ton of the 100000 Lakeside highway
district bond issue, for which a specia
election has been called by the com
missioners to be held April 20. Nearly
half of the proposed issue will be useC
for the completion of the Wallace-Har
rison auto highway in case the bonds
are passed.
The first shipment of dairy cows Il
, be distributed to the farmers neal
Occur d'Alene City has arrived Thi
carload was financed by the member
of the Occur d'Alene Chamber of Com
MERGE in an effort to aid the farmer
+ also to directly aid the new creamer.
{ that will be ready for operation Ma,
, 1, under the management OF ]. Prop
' stra.
A small piece of cloth with a buttol
8 attached, evidently portion of littl
girls clothing, was found recently hal
a mile from the home of Alice Empey
: the 7-year-old child who disappeare,
I from her home near Idaho Falls, Apri
10. The piece of cloth corresponds t
: that of dress worn by the child whel
s she disappeared. The finding of tn
: cloth is taken to indicate that the chill,
: struggled with persons who are be
lieved to have kidnapped her.
In a Commercial Way.
j c. L. Santee has succeeded to tn
0 drug and confectionery business o
: DR.. brennan at Rathdrum. known a
4 the Red Cross drug store.
: Burglars operating in Rathdrum las
: week entered the meat market o
|, Mr.. Biemond and the Cochran Hard
r ware store. A small amount of chang
was the total receipts.
A. P. Blunt, grocer at st. Maries, ha
consolidated his two stocks, the Town
. site store and the Benewah grocery
in the Sly block, and will coneuc
: them as one establishment in the fu
!, ture.
L. L. Pregrine has purchased tn
general store of the Johnson Mercan
! tile Co. at NezPerce. Mr.. Preerin
/ now owns four stores-Astion and An
Q atone, Wash; Winchester and Nez
Perez.
Charles p. Evans Of Valley, Wash
has purchased the general store o
: l., A larsen at Rafhdrum II ia fh