Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-06
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Arthur G. Sorenson, pioneer res
ident, died at Nez Perez recently.
The general store of ]. L. Gross and
H. e. Renshaw at Weippe was totally
destroyed by fire last week. The loss
was about $4,000 with insurance of
SO, 900.
Thomas Asbury, a rancher living
two miles from Harrison, suffered a
severe loss recently when his barn,
outbuildings, hay crop, horses, tools
and farm implements were destroyed
by fire He had no insurance.
On Sundays freight a 40,0OO-pound
carload of Italian prunes was ship
ped from Juliaetta to Chicago by G.
o. Ramsey of Moscow. The prunes
we're grown on the farm Of Mrs. So
phia Hutchinson of Fix ridge, and an
other carload of prunes from the
same orchard, shipped by the same
firm. Tuesday last The price paid
for this fresh fruit is $21 a ton.
A. A. Crane of Harrison, Idaho, has
been elected president of the First
Exchange National bank of Occur
d'Alene. He has purchased large
block of stock in the institution and
will move to Occur d'Alene and as
sumo active management of the bank.
Mr.. Crane was the principal owner
and manager of the State bank of Har-
rison and made a success of 1t. He
recently sold his interests there.
Captain II. w. Wilson, Second Ida
no medical corps, was dangerously
shot in the left thigh Sunday after
noon in the railroad station at No
gales, Ariz., by a Carranza Mexican
soldier, who fired from a position in
front of the Bank of Soonra, on the
Mexican side of the international line
The soldier was seen running away
Captain Wilson had just checked his
trunk for Twin Falls, Idaho, his home
where he was going on a 30-day fur
Tough. Excitement is at fever heal
among the guardsmen, it is said.
The appraisers of the Stack-Gibb'
Lumber company and the Dryad Lum
Der company, affiliated bankrupt con
Germs of Gibbs, near Occur d'Alent
City, have filed their report will
Judge L. l.. Lewis, referee in bank
ruptcy. Assets far below the liabil
tiles are shown in both cases. Tit
Stack-Gibbs assets total $13S,179, ant
those of the Dryad company are plac
ed at $4,000 The former includes
the real estate, personal property ant
the plant. while the latter include
the plant and its contents. The liza
bilities are listed at $S70,S4O an
$447,S72, respectively.
Announcement was made that L
w. Davis, republican candidate TO
governor, will address the voters G
Lewiston on October 10 during
campaign of the north with dates a
follows: Boomers Ferry, Oct. 6; a
Standpoint, Oct. Z; Occur d'Alene, DC
J g.; Wallace, Oct. 10. afternoon; Ke
, logg, Oct. 10. evening; st. Marie'
Oct. II; Moscow, Oct. IL; Lewiston
, Oct. 10: Tlo-Vollmer. Oct. IA; Grange
4 vile, Oct. 16; Nez Perez, Oct. II
r Orofino, Oct. IS.
Governor Alexander will leave fc
, tour of the north on October Il
) and is expected to be at Lewisto
2 the night of October 16.
The Lewiston postoffice Sunda
forwarded eight tons of groceries b
parcel post, consigned to the Elk Cit
mining district The rate from tn
. point to Elk City, is 54 cents for eac
5O-pound package, making $172 fC
the shipment. The government pay
= for the movement of the goods frol
l. the postoffice to the cars, pays tn
railway company for moving them
Sites. pays for the movement frol
= the car to the postoffice at Site
and will pay 50 a hundred from Site
to the destination. The same shl
u ment by freight would have cost $4S
y The parcel post business throue
Sites, which is the terminus of II
Clearwater branch of the NortheI
Pacific, amounted to 100000 pound
in August, and will approximate 9
most twice that for September.
f.. Dandy, for six years county a
= ditor. until his resignation was as
}. ed a month ago; F. d. Wonnacot
q county assessor; w. w. Leeper al
a. Ray Thompson, deputy assessor
4 we're arrested Saturday, charged wi
r. connection in the alleged shortag
of the Kootenai county governmeI
n All four are out under $500 bail.
The 81 indictments brought by Il
Kootenai county grand jury again
F. e. Wonnacott, county assessor, al
n his two deputies, w. w. Leeper al
n Ray Thompson, were dismissed
IT Judge Flynn Wednesday on MOTIF
of r. E. Mcfarland, attorney for {
ID defendants. The defendants plead
n the statute of limitations.
1t The accused had been charged wi
the misuse of public moneys. The
terms of office, during which til
the alleged shortages were said
n have occurred, ended in the seco
"A month in 1913, over three years az
C.-4x.- L., Gnirfda Pact