Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-02-27
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Loan Association.
The oeur d'Alene district was in the
grasp of the worst blizzard of the win
ter during Sunday.
Idaho white potatoes in sacks sold
at 1905 on track in Chicago Satur-
day the highest price in history.
Initial steps for the organization
of the Lewiston chapter TO the Amer
lean Red Cross have been taken.
Four war babies have been adopt
ed by Kellogg organizations and will
becared for through the funds raised
there.
The Oregon Packing company has
awarded the contract for the con-
struction of a branch cannery at
Lewiston for $1,000.
Frank Myers, an old resident of
Occur d'Alene district, was found
dead on the Mullan road Saturday.
He had frozen to death.
The Bunker Hill & Sullivan smelt
ti Will NC DiOWh III AidJ l. hC
smelter company is convinced that
the first $1,OOO.0OO is but the be-
ginning.
Theodore E. Martinson alias c. b.
Benton, who is wanted in Moscow
on a charge of wronging his 15-year-
old adopted daughter, was caught in
Vancouver, b. G.
Eight corporations and IL individ-
uals were named in an indictment re-
turned recently by the United States
grand jury at Boise, for alleged con-
| spiracy and unlawful combination in
restraint of interstate commerce and
in violation of the Sherman anti
trust act in the buying, selling, man
ufacture and shipping of creamery
and dairy products The indictment
alleges that these operations injuri
ously affected the business of 172
independent concerns in nearly as
many different towns, and caused in
jury to the general public, 'but more
particularly in Idaho, Montana, Utah
Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Ne
vada and California"
Important changes are announced
for the heads of state institutions as
the result of a recent action by the
governing board. DR.. w. f. Pike, ;
physician of Twin Falls, was elected
medical superintendent of the Black
foot asylum, to succeed DR.. Dor
Poynter.
I r. H. Barnes, also of Twin Falls
has been elected commandant at tn,
soldiers home, succeeding r. H. Bar
ton, who for the last four years ha
been at the head of the home. Com
mandant Barnes is a prominent RESI-
dent of Twin Falls and a veteran O
the civil war.
The change is to take place at tn
| Barnes can arrange his business al
fairs and come to Boise r. l.. Ban
ton, former commandant, will prot
ably return to his home at oCeu
d'Alene.
In the Legislature.
) After a bitter fight in the stat
/ senate the house workmens con
pensation bill, introduced by Repre-
sentatives Bates, Lehrbas and Grice
? was killed Saturday by being indef
> nitely postponed. The vote to xii
stood 20 to IA. This measure was tn
so-called labor bill, and called 70
ornnuicorv uorlrmapfc cop,napcoti Or
? Its defeat leaves but one bill of tn
same nature pending in the legisls
ture, of the Rockwell elective work
/, mems compensation act. This bill
+ assured of passage, as it has tn
1 backing of the republicans and fiv
hind the Bates bill When it is sen
to the house of representatives
I deadlock over its passage may result
The house of representatives pas
ed the most important bill pendin
in the legislature when it approve
the $1.000,000 bond issue act provi,
ing for the building of good roads j
the state. This act will make avail
able for road construction in Idah
during the next two years a gran
total of $2,750,000, of which $1,000, 90
will be raised by the state, s1,250,0C
by the counties, s335000 from tn
federal post road act, and $135,Ot
from the forest service. 1t means I'll
most promising era of good roa
building in the history of Idaho. TIL
state bond issue is apportioned 8
: follows:
Panhandle, $4,000; Bonner an
: Boundary counties. $4,000; North p
q cific highway. $4,000; north an
/. south highway, s375,O0O; Idaho-Mo
). tana highway, 100000; Idaho P
/ cific highway, 100000; Yellowstor
!. highway, s65,O00; Idaho-Utah hig
way. $4,000.
The senate created the Tenth jul
g cial district, to be formed out of M
$ Perez, Idaho and Lewis counties,
II passing house bill No. Is, by Gle
u and at the same time passed hou'
e bill No. IL, by Welsh, giving to Il