Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-02-06
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

~ dl OOtul VI altHt1 CITY
John N. Price, who came to Mos
COW in 1888, died recently, aged So
Removal of the University of Ida
no from Moscow exploded into thin
legislative air.
The stumpage bill of Representa-
tive Kent of Boundary county is as
sured of passage.
The appointment of A. ]. Ewing of
Standpoint as receiver of the land
office at Occur d'Alene was conform
ed by the senate.
Katherine Parr Taylor, age "a, of
Standpoint, wife of Herman II. Tay-
Tor, former lieutenant governor. died
at Spokane recently.
George Bubb. young man en-
ployed in the dismantling of the
brewery at Lewiston, was fatally in
jured recently.
M P. Daniels, a painter employed
at the new Bunker Hill & Sullivan
smelter at Kellogg, was killed Sat
urday as the result of fall
measure appropriating s15O,OOO
to pay the enlisted men of the Sec
ond Idaho regiment at the rate of SIS
per month for their service for the
state while on the Mexican border
has been proposed in the Legislature.
In order to get the wheat in transit
before March l, thereby avoiding the
taxes, warehouse charges and inter
est which accrues at that time, $4,000
sacks of grain were taken by auto
from Asotin to Lewiston, where they
will be loaded on cars.
ed by both houses of the Idaho leg
islature instruction our governor to
inform President Wilson that the
state stands firmly behind him with
all of it's resources at it's command
/ nthe present international crisis.
Governor Alexander of Idaho has
appointed to a position on his staff
Don Peterson, 12-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. j. B. Peterson of Athol. The
lad is given the title of lieutenant
colonel aide-de-camp, and the commits
sion states that it is given for "his
patriotism, valor, fidelity and abil
ity."
Two new instructors have beer
added to the faculty of the Univer
sity of Idaho. They are E. c. Baltzer
who comes from the University O.
Nevada to take the position of as
sistant in the department of dairy
ing, and Miss Leona Heller, wht
comes from Eaton, Ohio, to be assist
ant in piano instruction in the de
partment of music.
The Kent logged-off land bill ha
: passed 1t makes possible the forma
ton of logged-off land districts il
northern Idaho. A number of unim
portant bills were also passed by thu
lower house. Among the importan
bills introduced was a measure seek
ing to abolish capital punishment il
Idaho and make murder punishable
by life imprisonment.
There was introduced in the legis
lature a memorial to congress ask
ing for the separation of northern
= ludHO lIODu Tic SOulhtih POiliOAs "
( a secession measure. Petitions -hav
been circulated in both the senat
: and house, and enough member
f signed to assure it's passage.
June II is set as a date in thi
measure for the holding of const
tuoianal convention, at some point t
. be designated in the northern part c
;. the state. At the convention a col
= stitution for the proposed new stat
= to be formed out of northern Idah
! will be adopted, and it will be TO
= warded to Washington to accompan
the memorial before the next sessio
!. of congress
J. 1t was stated on excellent autho
& ity that of the several division bill
e before the legislature but one wi
= be passed and the balance are to b
s killed off either in the house or sci
ate, so that the net results for coul
o ty division measures will be the or
S alton of three new counties, Butt
t Camas and one other
" The alien land bill which is befor
. the senate is now doomed to defea
!, So far as the merits of the bill al
concerned, the majority of the lowe
. house and the senate are serongl
!, in favor of the bill. 1t is understood
that the governor would sign the bi
:, if it were passed. The reason Il
: smothering the bill is the information
= al complications which are now pre-
" cnt.
Complaint that prevailing freigi
rates on flour and other wheat pro-
ucts from Idaho to San Francisc
San Jose, Stockton and other Califo
II MIA and Nevada points are too hig
was found justified by the interstai