Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-07-17
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

C. e. Smith, pioneer, died at Nez
Perez recently.
Benjamin Scott died at Grangeville
recently. The deceased was 79 years
old and death resulted from old age
Joseph c. Wicks. age II, has been
missing from his home at Clifford,
Idaho, since July 4, according to
report.
The hot weather in the Lewiston !
valley continues, and is forcing har-
vest operations. Crops are badly
damaged.
Crop reports by the farmers in the
different sections of Camas prairie
state that the grain has not been
seriously damaged so far.
Mrs. Joseph Trimble, well-known
resident of Wallace, where she has
resided practically all her life, has
been committed to the asylum at
Orofino.
Advices from Winchester are to the
effect that the mill of the Craig Noun
tain Lumber company will be placed
in operation this week after being
closed two weeks.
Walter F. Poice, brother of Mrs.
Fred r. Wonnacott, Occur dAlene
was drowned recently on the North
Fork of the Occur d'Alene river,
where he was working on log drive.
James F. Callahan, the millionaire
mining man of Wallace, recently ann
ounced at Occur dAlene City he
would back the Canning plant there
and would make a success of it mo
matter how much money it takes"
Sixty men are installing a giant
dredge on Prichard creek near Muir
ray, for the Guggenheim corporation
which will work IL miles of placer
ground on that creek and perhaps
additional ground on Eagle creek.
Two firemen were seriously in
jured, one probably fatally, and about
$4,000 worth of foodstuffs were de-
stroyed in a fire that wrecked the
Boise Ice and Storage company's
plant at Boise Sunday. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
w. A. Eastman, extensive farmer
near Nez Perez has received word
from his son. Elwyn, who was in the
marine corps at Mare Island, stating
that he has been selected for the avia-
ton corps to go to France and will
leave for Philadelphia, where he will
go into special training preparatory
for leaving for the front.
The safe in the Sassman & Ellen
son store was blown recently. Two
hundred dollars in cash and several
checks were taken. The explosion
aroused the town, and the craftsman
was trailed by citizens and captured
by sheriff and party four miles west
of Nez Perez. The money was re-
covered. The prisoner gave his name
as William Dwyer
Governor Alexander and members
of his official family, together with
the sheriffs of Boundary, Bonner,
Kootenai, Benewah, Shoshone, Latah
Lewis, Clearwater, Idaho and Nez
Perez counties, in Idaho, and of Whit.
man and Asotin counties in Washing
ton, were in a conference in Moscow
Saturday to devise ways to protect
life, property and the right of men
to work
The Idaho state supreme court
rules that Charles ]. Black of Wall
ace. was a married man when he
died, in spite of the fact he had Sc
cured a decree of divorce from his
wife, Myrtle Black After he was
given a default decree the wife OBJ
jected and the court allowed her t.
reopen the case and contest it. Blacl
was killed two weeks later, and hi:
attorneys sought to exclude the wife
as an heir.
A note for S425, drawing ~ pc
cent interest after it had been com
pounded, executed at Lewiston by C
W. Brown and w. S. Mood in favo
of John Zimmerman, but made pay
able at Wilbur Wash, is held by thu
supreme court to be legal and payable
In finding in favor of Zimmerman
the supreme court held that sine
the note was made payable in Wash
ington there was no violation of tn
Idaho law, although it was drawn il
] this state.
: A final decree in the famous Neve
Sweat lode mining claim litigation
has been entered in favor of the plair
tiff in the district court after the cas-
/ had dragged through the courts dui
ing the past IL years. The cas-
has attracted considerable attentio
among the legal and mining frate
/ nifty owing to it's complex nature. Tn
/; owners, John Madar and Samuel No
!. man, fought each other in the courts
in personal encounters, in which nj
merous gun plays had their part, an
Z the cause involved thickly popul;
l. ted portion of Burke.