Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-02
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
And OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Accl-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Outlook Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Farmers State bank, the new
100000 financial institution planned
Tor Colfax, will open October l.
The Bank of Downs at Downs has
been purchased by J. ID. Bassett OF
Ritzville and IL. w. Davis of Spokane.
1t is said Adams county will produce
this year 100000 bushels Of wheat
or 10000 900 bushels more than last
year.
The body of Engineer Peter Bro
kaw of Spokane, who was drowned
June in the Kootenai river, has been
found.
Frank Lee has sold his farm four
miles below Penewawa to a Lewiston,
Idaho, real estate firm for $4,000. The
farm consists of HOO acres OF land.
From prevailing crop conditions, it
is evident the warehouse men of Da-
yenport will have handled about $780,
900 bushels when the season closes.
DR.. w. James HoWells, supernteHd-
ent of the Medical Lake hospital for
the insane, has left for six months
tour through the United States and
Europe.
Professor Arthur r. Priest, head OF
the department of rhetoric and ora
tory at the University of Washington,
has been elected dean OF the College
Of Liberal Arts.
William Redford, pioneer of 1862,
aged 70 years. died at Walla Walla
recently, leaving five grown children.
He farmed extensively at one time In
Washington and Oregon.
A device, the result of nine years
work by Victor E. Campbell, Gold
endale, Wash. jeweler, has been in
vented to prevent escape OF gas after
the fame is blown out.
Miss Ida X. Greenlee, for the past
five years teacher in English in the
Seattle high school, has been elected
assistant in the department of Eng
fish at the University of Washington
r. P. Pickerell, special agent of the
navy department at Washington, has
unearthed, he claims, evidence oil
graft" at the Puget sound navy YARD
at Bremerton and has forwarded his
report to Washington.
The first effect of the Chinese boy
colt of American goods has been fell
, IN Seattle in the canceling of orders
Tor 100000 sacks OF -four which were
TO have been shipped by the Centen
nial mills on the first outbound boat
Milton Gabel, once a prominent pol
= itician and business man of eastern
Washington, who is serving a sen
tence in the penitentiary for embez
element, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Mead within 60 days Of the en'
Of his term.
Postmaster Willard T. Harrison plan
/. 10 make a private census of the cit,
: Of Spokane by means Of the mail car
riers as soon as he feels that the re
suits will show a population of 1900
, people.
{ The Spokane Fish Protective assC
) citation is the name of the new organ
ization which will have for its pun
a pose the promotion of trout fishing Il
l. the Spokane river and its tributaries
h A large number of the groceryme
e of the state are planning to attend tn
y meeting of the grocers, which is to b
S held in Tacoma on the 10th, 18th an
18th of September.
Acting land commissioner has il
formed the land officers of the Water
Vile district to withdraw from a
forms of disposal the following d.
scribed lands on account of the Ok;
hogan irrigation project. All of tow
ship "a north, range &c east, not a
ready withdrawn.
The new bonds of the city Of Sp'
kane, amounting to $45O,000, issued
pay for building improvements an
. extensions to the city water system
~ were sold to the banking house of
w. Harris & Co. of Chicago for tn
% sum of $46O,41S.
Ie AS the elimination Of long standin
a family trouble, Bernard Cohn, a tai
or, shot and probably fatally wounde
n his father in law, w. Poznansky, ;
ELY IL Front avenue, Spokane, SUI
day. Cohn, according to his wifi
= served IA years at San Quentin Il
4 manslaughter.
One of the worst windstorms know
during the history of Spokane passe
over that city Sunday evening. FL
IS Ave minutes. about 1920 o'clock. Il
n wind from the southwest, attained
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