Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-06-26
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Moscow's subscription to the Red
Cross war fund went to s10,337 Sat
urday. 1t was expected to raise 81
500.
Idaho's Red Cross subscription
Saturday reached s325,OOO. which is
$4,000 in excess of the quota origi-
nally assigned.
The Tamarack and Custer Consol-
idated Mining company, which is to
resume operations, according to a
report from Wallace, will add $780,
900 to s1,250,000 to the production of
the Occur d'Alene region in the last |
half of this year, according to esti-
mates.
A record real estate transaction for
Nez Perez county was concluded re-
Gently when the Charles Clifford ranch
of 1140 acres practically all in crop,
seven miles east of Lewiston was
sold to Fred Thiel for 100000 This
is a fine farm.
Claud Steen of Milton, Ore, has
bought the 900 acres held by the
Robert Grostein estate nine miles
southeast of Lewiston for approx
mately 100000. and the M. H. Kelt-
for $4,000 to ]. W. Vannis of Gar
field county.
The strike of lumber workers
reached serious proportions Satur-
day when a general order took eff
feet and approximately 1900 men quit
work in southern Shoshone and Ben
ewah counties. The camps of the
Milwaukee Lumber company, the
Blackwell Lumber company and the
Nelson & Branson company all quit.
The mills are expected to close. The
strike order is general.
The Idaho legislature at its last
winters session passed a so-called
'jitney regulation BILL which has
just gone into effect, and the public
utilities commission of Idaho, from
Boise, has issued rules and regula-
tions governing the same.
This new law places all motor We
hicles under the supervision of the
public utilities commission, whether
they handle passengers or freight,
and subjects them to the common-car-
rier class, the same as railways. The
new law only applies to motor We
hicles operated over any particular
route for hire, excluding such motor
cars as are specifically engaged in
the business of carrying United States
mail or star routes.
In order to operate any motor We
hicle in Idaho it now is necessary for
the owners of such car to secure
license from the public utilities COM
mission, application for same to be
made to the assessor of any one OF
the counties through which the ma
chine is driven. A separate applica-
ton must be made for each motor
vehicle for which license is requir-
ed. In addition a bond is required
for the protection Of the travelling
public or freight which he hauls, and
the price of the passenger fare and
the freight rate charged by such mo-
tor vehicle must be approved by the
public utilities commission. and can
not be changed without its consent. .
Each car so operated, upon the is
suance of a license therefor by the
commission, must carry a license
plate to be attached to the car in
some conspicuous place either in the
front or the rear.
Upon applying for license sched-
ule showing rates of fares to be
charged for carrying persons or pro-
perty between all points on the route
must be designated and a copy of
said rates must be kept in the prin-
cipal place of business and at each
terminus on the route over which
such vehicle travels.
File Timetables and Rates.
Upon receipt of his license the op-
orator of vehicle must file with
the commission a timetable showing
when his car will arrive and depart
from each station upon his route of
travel, and a copy of this timetable
must be posted at the office of the
operator or the vehicle.
When a route is thus established
it must be maintained unless per.
mission is given to change the route
by the public utilities commission
unless the established route of such
vehicle be temporarily blocked or be
comes otherwise impossible.
The capacity of the vehicle thus
operated is controlled by the commits
sion, so that a greater number OF
persons than the vehicle is supposed
to carry, or a greater number OF
pounds of freight, can not be hauled
by the operator of a car, and only
the number of passengers that car
be provided with seats shall be car
ried by a licensed automobile opera
tor within the state.