Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
IDAHO NEWS NOTES


handle Poultry association at Moscow
last week was a great success.
The initiative and referendum bill
is not receiving a very favorable
reception by either the lower house
or the senate.
A compromise judgment of $1,000
for the death of William Nance, who
was run down and killed by an o.
w. r. & N. train at Mace last May,
has been entered into.
The last train of idaho national
guardsmen. comprising the First bat
talon, pulled out of Boise Saturday
for north Idaho The Boise barracks
is now practically deserted.
Patrick Burke has again lost in his
fight for possession of the valuable
Amazon-Hattan group of claims in
the Beaver mining district, through
an adverse decision rendered by Judge
Flynn.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate to encourage the growing of
nut-bearing, hardwood and other mer-
charitable forest trees by exempting
from taxation for 10 years the tracts
on which they are grown.
Articles have been filed at Grange
Vile, Idaho, for the incorporation of
the Cottonwood State bank. The in
corporators are e. M. Ehrhardt, w. l..
Brown and f. N. Shepherd, respect
lively the president, vice president and
cashier of the Empire National bank
of Lewiston, all well-known Idaho
bankers.
authority has been granted by tho
board Of county commissioners to the
O.-W. r. & N. company to place dis
tant cautionary signs" along the yell
lowstone trail between Wallace and
the western line of Shoshone county
in it's safety first endeavors to pre-
vent accidents at railroad crossings
The anti-alien bill, introduced in
the house of representatives by And
erson and McMullen of Bonneville
county, which, it was admitted on
the floor of the assembly, seeks to
bar Japanese from acquiring title to
valuable lands within the borders of
the state, was passed by the house
/ by unanimous vote.
/ When Chief of Police Steele at
tempted to arrest John Shepperd of
st. Maries recently, whom he sus
pected of having intoxicating liquor
in his possession. Shepperd drew a
revolver and resisted arrest. and he
and Steele engaged in a pistol due
in which 10 shots were fired, nine
by Steele and four by Shepperd. None
of the bullets took effect.
The bond of William Vane, wealthy
north Idaho resident, arrested recent
ly on charge of instigating stage
holdup near Priest River, Idaho, two
2 years ago, was raised from $4,000 u
l 5000. following his hearing befor,
1 the United States commissioner a
4 Standpoint. The commissioner bount
him over to the federal court. Lon
: ME Eastley, Joe Bossio and Jeai
Naccatato, the latter two Italians
were placed under $4,000 bonds
The three have made signed state
, ments in which they state William
Vane planned the robbery and tina
the four were to divide the loot.
No vacancy existed in the office o
assessor of Kootenai county on tn,
second Monday of jan, 1917, which
: the board of county commissioner,
of that county was authorized to fill
by appointment This is the ruling
of the supreme court in a decision
! handed down in the case of Henry G
Clarke versus Fred c.. Wonnacott
| Wonnacott, who held the office o
assessor of Kootenai county, was sue
: ceeded by William B. Mcfarland, VIII,
died before taking office. Wonnacot
commended he was entitled to hold the
: office. The supreme court holds tina
"the death of person elected to al
a office before he qualities therefor
:. does not create a vacancy"
+ The Northern Pacific railway ha
a filed final selections on timber land
within the Clearwater country whicl
E aggregate 157,197 acres, which will
q pass to patent and will materially. in
crease the taxable property of Clear
water. Idaho and Shoshone counties
= OF the and selected 109,757 acres lii
l. within Clearwater county, 81, 440 acre
/ within Idaho county. and $4,000 with
:. in Shoshone county. 1t is estimates
that the increased taxable valuation
of Clearwater county by reason o
e these selections will be fully $1,000
r 900 and of Idaho and Shoshone cour
ties approximately 100000 each.
The lands extend along the Nor
= tana-Idaho line. beginning at Grave
= creek on the north to Crooked cree
on the south.
The strip selected is so miles Ion
r and from six to 20 miles in widtl
d and contains valuable timber land
e and, it is believed, is mineralized.
. Would Change Schools.