Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-06-05
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

AACA hioh d IlOocl Vi w dlldCe Was
married at Boise Sunday to Mrs.
Bernice Johnson.
An amendment by Senator Borah.
to include Idaho in the area affect
ed by the 640-acre homestead act,
was adopted by the senate.
The federal grand jury at Occur
d'Alene Saturday made its report to
Judge Dietrich, indicting six individ-
uals and six corporations on charge
of violating the United States stat
utes.
According to a list prepared by
DIR. Jacob Breid, superintendent and
acting agent of the Nez Perez In
dian agency at Lapwai there are 113
male Indians eligible to military reg
istration.
The county commissioners have
designated William Watkins, farmer
of Tammany, as superintendent of
the Nez Perez county poorfarm and
his wife will fill the position of
matron. They will take charge June
Is.
A meeting was held at Harrison
recently to form an organization of
lumber manufactures, farmers and
others who are vitality interested in
the dredging of the Spokane river
and other means of preventing dam
age to property by high water
Funeral services were conducted
at Lewistown Sunday for Eleanor
and Uretta Boyer, who on March
30 were drowned in the Clearwater
river near the residence of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin Boyer.
A constant patrol is being kept of
the Clearwater and Snake rivers in
the hope of recovering the bodies.
Richard Stevens of Escalon, Cal.
has closed a deal at Lewistown
whereby he sold to w. A. Green
his improved farm seven miles
southeast of Lewiston consisting
of 1923 acres for $50 an acre Messrs
Hollingsworth and Green acquired
the quarter section adjoining this
tract May 30 paying 800 an acre
with crop, making their investment
approximately $4,000.
Effective June 1, all employees of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan smelter wer,
granted bonus of rs cents day, &C
cording to an announcement made b,
Stanley A. Easton, manager of tn
smelter About 300 smetler employe
are affected. The bonus will rui
from a minimum of % cents to a MAJ
imum of 70 cents a day, based on tn
lead market Common laborers VIII
have been receiving SO per day at tn
smelter Will receive 1915 under tn
new arrangement
The Occur d'Alenes experienced
touch of winter weather during Sa
urday and Sunday and snow appeare
on the mountains. In Burke snow fe
to a depth of three or four inches
The drop in the temperature has S
far failed to lower the waters in tn
South Fork, owing to the heavy rain
falling below the snow line Work c
repairing the road between Wallac
and Kellogg is practically at stanC
still owing to the high stage of tn
water, which prevents the hauling c
materials.
The county commissioners at Sand
point are arranging with the NORTH
ern Pacific for the use of a flat ca
to take autos and other vehicle
across the Clarkfork river over tn
railroad bridge, the ferry there bein
out of commission, cue to higl
water. If the arrangements g
through. this flatcar service will OF
crate between Clarks Fork an
Ozona, the commissioners to install
loading platforms at each place t
allow such vehicles to reach tn
cars. Charges for such service will b
paid by the people using it and not b
the county.
Passengers from Whitebird tel
of the ravages of the freshet whicl
swept through that little town Ma
81. The bed of Whitebird creek /
about so yards from Main street
normally, but the swollen waters il
Thursdays storm swung the bulk o
the waters out of the regular cours
and down the center of Main street
where the water was three feet dee
in places. The wing of the schoo
building, made of cement blocks
was washed away. A search of tn
canyon for a mile below town faile
to disclose any of the blocks. In
successful effort to keep the high
way bridge intact many building
were blown up with dynamite whel
it became evident that they wer
going down the creek. One mai
lost his home and garden. His fol
mer garden, a tract of considerable
length down the canyon, is now tn
center of the stream. Many citizen
sustained damage by the loss o
garden tracts in this way. White
bird has suffered two disasterou
fires.
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