Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-11-28
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

rect primary law Dy the next leBlS-
lature.
According to the recorder of Ben
ewah county 1S9 persons voted on
election day.
William B. Mcfarland, county as
sessor-elect, age 40, died Saturday at
Occur d'Alene City.
Miss Letitia Frizzell of Grangeville
was the queen of the Northwest Live
Stock show at Lewiston this week.
The Culdesac postoffice has been
raised to a third class office and the
postmaster placed on a salary, with
clerk hire and office rent paid by
the government.
Mites Millacich, who was charged
with killing Charles Bolin at Fern
wood on or about July Is, was found
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree in the district court at st.
Maries.
Theodore Mattson purchased from
c. J. McGrath, 240 acres in Garden
Gulch. near Culdesac, for $4,000, in
Guiding personal property. Mr.. Matt
son is now the owner of a section
of land in that vicinity.
w. S. Cox, formerly a successful
farmer on Fix ridge, has purchased
the j. F. Scheele farm of 400 acres
on the Big Potlatch ridge. The place
is well improved in having a modern
dwlling, large barns and other build
ings. The consideration was 100000
Information from the Buffalo Hump
country is to the effect that all eff
forts to find a trace of Pete John
son, pioneer mining man of the dis
trict who has been missing now over
two weeks, had been unsuccessful
and little doubt remains in the minds
of friends that he has Joined the
list of those who have met death
alone in the primitive mountain life.
The state of his cabin and belong
ings were such to preclude the be-
lief that he had intended a prolonged
absence.
Henry Ruff succumbed to the in
juries received when he was mis-
taken for a deer and shot in the
Clearwater meadows district, about
20 miles from Grangeville, Thursday
Prince Johnson and his father had
gone to the meadows for a hunt, and
being intimate friends of Ruff, were
engaged in hunting when the acci
dent occurred. Who fired the fata
shot has not been determined
Ruff had killed a dear, and was
engaged in getting the animal out o
the brush. Prince Johnson, getting
a glimpse of the moving deer from
the opposite side of the draw, tool
sight and fider, killing Ruff.
A revision of legislative figures
shows the senate stands 81 to 1,
democratic, with 10 necessary to con
troll, and the house stands SO to 2!
democratic, with 33 necessary to con
troll. Ada, Bannock, Benewah, Bon
ner, Bonneville, Canyon, Gilmore. FIRE
mont, Franklin, Gem, Gooding, Idaho
jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida
Owyhee, Power Shoshone, Teton an,
Washington counties elected demo
cratic senators, while Adams, eBa
Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Boun
Diary, Cassia, Clearwater, Custer, Koo
tenai, Latah, Lemhi, Lincoln, Mini
doka, Nez Perez and Twin Falls elect
ed republicans.
Idaho is destined to be divided int
two congressional districts, the FRS
and Second. The next Legislature
will see to that Equalization of pop
ulation in so far as possible will bal
ance the districts The first will con
stitute the eight northern counties
and Adams, Washington, Gem anC
either Ada or Canyon, Custer anC
possibly Lemhi. All other counties
south of those named will constitute
the second district. To each dis
trict one congressman will be assign
ed. Such is the tentative plan tina
political leaders are now attempting
to figure out The democrats are il
favor of districting. and as they con
troll the legislature-elect they will
have the last word in the carving o
Idaho. This is but one of the i'm
portant legislative steps planned b.
members-elect. 1t will carry out ;
well-defined legislative plan that il
to be whipped into shape between
now and January l, 1917.
In a Commercial Way.
B. L. Barton has succeeded Barton
Bailey in the implement and vehicle
business at Wendell
Jack Odem has doubled his foo
space at Juliaetta and installed NOR
shelving and enlarged and added t.
his general stock.
Sam Tweedy of the Tweedy Grocer!
Co., Browning, Mont, has purchased
the Fowler dry goods stock at Sand
point and will move it to Browning.
G. V. Eichenauer, formerly in thu
general merchandise business a
Downs, Wash, has purchased the gen
eral store of E. b. Ziegler, at Cab