Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-09
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

. $llb7 for December, compared Will
] $6365 for December a year ago, an in
crease of $500.
The resources of the Latah Coun
+ ty State bank of Deary increased $50,
600 during 1916, standing at $4,000
on December 81.
A young lynx, measuring about 2S
inches from tip to tip, was killed Sat
urday in the business district by pc
destrians, who after a chase cornered
the animal and dispatched it with a
, club, in Occur d'Alene City.
Metals worth $4S,OOO,OOO were pro.
duced from Idaho mines in 1916, and
dividends aggregating about $11,50O,-
600 were declared in the same period,
according to estimates of Robert N.
Bell, state mine inspector.
The services of the police have
been asked to locate Lena Boyd, age
16, and Isabel Harris, age 10, who
have been missing over a week from
Lewiston. The mothers of the girls
are widows, Mrs. Harris residing in
Lewiston and Mrs. Boyd at Anatone,
Wash.
Charles NJ Lukens, pioneer of Nez
Perez and Latah counties, died re-
Gently after a brief attack of pneu-
monia. Mr.. Lukens was well known
in this and Latah counties, where he
has resided for 80 years. For three
terms he served as probate Judge
of Latah county.
Monday morning the newly elected
county officers took their respective
places at Occur d'Alene City. The
new ones are; Commissioners, Hans
Johnson and George w. Flemings;
prosecuting attorney, Bert A. Reed;
probate judge, M. G. Whitney; coun-
ty coroner, DR.. j. C. Dryer.
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at the Thomas w. Carrick
store, on Craig mountain, under the
name of zaza, and is being supplied
by weekly mail service from Waha
The distance from Waha is 20 miles
and the carrier is carrying mail over
four feet OF snow between the two
points.
For the first time in the history of
Shoshone county a complete set of
county officers, with the exception of
clerk and judge of the district court,
who are holdover officials, was sworn
in Monday at Wallace, and not new
official was among the 10 to take up
their official duties for the next two
years.
Olof A. Olson was given a 1-to-14
year indeterminte sentence by Judge
Steele in district court at Moscow on
a plea of guilty to the charge OF
grand larceny, based on the stealing
of horse from William M. Blender
near Kendrick June 6. This sentence
is to run concurrently with the one
pronounced the day before, six to IA
years. for stealing a team frob PEI
Swenson.
The departments of business admin
istration, agriculture, home econom
les and poultry are cooperating tt
make every day of farmers anC
] housekeepers week, January 1921
at the State University, Moscow, on,
full of interest and profit. The frs
meeting of the bankers and mer
chants of north Idaho has been called
for this same week. The Panhandle
Poultry association will hold its an
nual poultry show at the same time.
Steamer Spokane of the Oregon
> Washington Railroad & Navigation
company has resumed service be
tween Lewiston and the upper Snak,
= river points after having been tie'
: up on account of ice floes. The steam
er will be engaged in the movemen
r of grain from the upper Snake rive
/ warehouses to the wock of the Int
rior Warehouse company where $1,000
bushels will be stored until cars arr
available for its movement to thu
markets.
In control of both branches, th,
democrats of Idaho inaugurated thu
, 14th biennial session of the legisla
ture at Boise beginning at noon Mon
day, January 8, and for 80 or 60 days
thereafter will have jurisdiction owe
r the character of legislation that il
placed on the statutes of this state
1t will be the first time members o
, a legislature have been inauguratet
separately from state officials. Brew
ity, it is announced, is to be one o
the cardinal principles of the new
legislature. An effort will be made
to make the session brief and to hole
!, down the number of laws passed t
= the minimum.
Senator Perry w. Mitchell of Lew
= scounty was named president pre-
t tenn of the senate at a caucus o.
| the democratic majority, winning
over George E. Hill, senator from
Jefferson county. Senator Mitchell
takes the position of influence tina
JOhn w Hart former state sQnatO