Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-11-18
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Work on an immense hotel at Spo-
kane, at least eight stories high, cost
ing s750.O00, is to be started in the
spring by Thomas L. Greenough.
Pasco is to have electric lights and
a system Of water works and sewers.
Spokane dry goods dealers are form
ing a Merchants Protective associa-
ton.
The 18th annual teachers institute
for Adams county will open Decem-
Der 4.
Again the clearances Of the local
banks have exceeded 100000 in a
single week.
Roy E. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Latah to succeed j.
Mason, resigned.
Plans are being prepared in tenta-
tive way to make Medical Lake pop
ular resort next summer.
Insanity is on the decrease in this
by the state board of control.
The council committee of Tacoma
has recommended increasing the sal
aries of city officials and employees.
Threshing is nearly all completed
near Davenport, but to the southeast
of town there is still more grain to
thresh.
David Kieffer was killed at the
Thompson logging camp on Nelson
creek, four miles from Chewaukum, by
falling tree.
William Cowles, clerk of the school
board at North Yakima, has been ar
rested on the charge of forgery in
raising school warrants.
The state superintendent gave no.
tice recently that there will be a meet
ing of the state board of education in
North Yakima December 2S.
]. II. Shively, insurance commission
err of this state, has returned from
Ohio, where he stumped the state in
the interests of the republican ticket
Shaefer & Tefft of Spokane have
placed contract for a twenty-five ton
ice plant and machinery with the
York Manufacturing Co. of York, Pa.
1t is said Colonel l.. Frank Boyd, ex-
consular service of the United States
representing this nation in some for
eign city.
The sum of s15y,941 will be distrib-
uted among the schools of the state,
representing the quarterly apportion-
ment of state funds. The November
quarter is the small one of the year.
Mrs. Helen Moore Hubbell, widow
Of Frank B. Hubbell, the well known
capitalist who committed suicide in
Seattle October 2S, has applied to be
appointed administrator of his estate
The Spokane Columbia River Rail
road & Navigation company has
of Seattle for the grading of SO miles
of railroad from the Columbia river
to Fletcher, Adams county, Washing
ton.
Secretary Hitchcock has rejected the
Tieton and Okanogan irrigation pro
ject on the ground that it would re-
quire more money to complete them
than there is in the reclamation fund
at present. 1t is estimated that the
cost would be about s1,500,000
Colonel Howard Hathaway of Ev-
erett has brought before Governor
Mead a petition for a Communication to
life Imprisonment of the death SEN
fences imposed upon Angus McPhail
of Snohomish county McPhail is to
hang at the penitentiary December 8.
After a strike lasting since the list
of May, the Northwestern Brewers as
ISOLATION and striking brewers have
signed an agreement. Although Meth
err will discuss the matter it Is posi-
lively known the strikers won every
point including the eight hour day and
closed shop.
Because so much time has elapsed
between the commission of the fraud
and the discovery of their populations,
many of the timber land claimants
whom the federal government believes
to have secured extensive land hold
ings in this state fraudulently may es-
cape criminal prosecution.
One of the most important actions
taken at the recent convention of the
Washington Good Roads association
was the decision to employ a first
class practical man in the capacity
of organizer, at a salary of $4,000 per
year, and the provision made for rails
ing the money to meet the expense.