Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-02-18
IDAHO NEWS PARAGRAPHS
Recent Happenings in This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.

w. r. Whitney died recently al
! Occur d'Alene at the age of 81 years
Influenza is raging on Potlatch
ridge, in the southeastern part OF
Latah county.
Word from the upper Hatwai sec
ton indicates a bumper crop this
year. Wheat is in the best condition
in years.
Byron Deffenbaugh, expert account
ant, has been awarded the contract
for auditing the county books fol-
Latah and Lewis counties.
Captain ]. c. Oylear, aged 80, died
recently at his home on the Little
Rotlatch, where he had resided for
more than 40 years. He was a vet
eran of the civil war.
At the inquest at Wallace Saturday
jury found that Anderson came to his
death by injuries caused by being
run over by a freight train near the
Morning compressor.
its approval recently to the Cowles
bill providing that in the schools the
English language and no other shall
be the vehicle of instruction. The
vote was unanimous.
Herman Ringer, well-known stock
man, resident of Lewiston district
for 20 years, is in Lewiston hospital
in serious condition with skull frac-
ture and other injuries due to being
thrown beneath his horse.
That the University of Idaho han
died the s. A. T. c. better and more
economically than any school in the
northwest is the statement of w. A.
Hobson, inspector for this work, who
finished checking up the accounts
preparatory to settling with the uni
versity.
The consolidation 'of 30 properties
on Beaver creek, lin the Occur d'Al-
enc district. comprising the Sun
shine, Sunset, Banner and Dewey
groups, covering at least three strong
veins and others of prospective value,
according to mining men, is reported
from Wallace.
The extension work of the Uni
versity of Idaho school of mines has
been started at Wallace by Frank
Skeels, well Known mining engineer
The plan is to start and maintain
classes Of workmen in the larger op-
Grating mines of the district in prac-
teal mining with the idea of in
creasing their efficiency.
new road with a maximum grade
OF five per cent is being built be-
tween Kendrick and Juliaetta in the
extreme southern part of Latah coun-
ty. The towns are four miles apart
and the road has always been bad
owing to two steep Mills. Cedar Creek
ridge, near Kendrick, is planning for
nation of good roads district
The Thorn Creek highway district
election resulted in an overwhelming
majority for the formation of the dis
trict This is regarded as an impor-
tant link in the North and South
Idaho highway which it is planned to
build from Boundary county to Boise.
The proposed road viii connect with
the Lewiston highway, already built,
near the state line, southwest of Cen
esee. 1t will give connection with the
paving at the south end of Main
street in Moscow and with the north
end of the Lewiston highway.
1t is reported that the republican
majority in the house has reached a
caucus agreement TO pass the amend
atory primary bill, which recently
passed the senate. Little change will
be made in it from its present form.
With the passage of the bill and
its approval by the governor, a state
wide primary, nomination of congress
sional and state candidates in Idaho
will be thing of the past. Instead,
a state convention, the delegates ex-
penses to which will be paid by the
party they represent, will be substi-
tuted. The bill is one of the most
important pending before the legis-
lature.