Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-10-14
NORTHWEST STATES
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

From Wallula comes the information
that big grading outfit with about
100 men is at work on the north bank
of the Columbia at Wallula.
Nome has come forward with
subscription of $4,000 for the Alaska
exposition, proposed to be held in Sc
attic in 1907.
The Great Northern has authorized
a reward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of each man implicated in
the recent holdup of the overland
train near Ballard.
Information is wanted as to the
whereabouts of Frances Bartlett or
Frances Err. 1t is understood she has
also been known as Madge Cohen.
Address George Err. Lynden, Wash.
Blown up by dynamite, the barge
Newport, a lumber freighter of the
best type on the Pend d'Oreille river,
was reduced to wreckage at her moor
ings at Newport, recently.
Three persons killed, each at a diff
ferent place and tine, together with a
serious wreck in the Northern Pacific
yards. was Tacoma's casualty record
for last Friday. The dead are: Ed
ward Tromar, Northern Pacific fire
man; John f. Keiser, Northern Pacific
switchman, and Charles Robinson, an
indian.
Rev U. f. Hawk of Spokane has
sold his farm of 800 acres, II miles
south of ColfaX, to Paul Priest of Spo-
kane for $4,000, or about $43.75 an
acre.
f. w. Staff, a carpenter employed
by the Washington Water Power Com
pany, was accidentally drowned in the
Spokane river Saturday
At the recent meeting of the Presby-
terrain state synod it was decided to
divide the Presbytery of Puget sound,
placing King, jefferson and Clallam
counties in one and the counties of
Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan and Che
Ian in the other. The latter is to be
called the Presbytery Of Bellingham.
AS to forestry the state of Washing
ton is placed in a class by itself by
the findings of the Lewis and Clark
Exposition forestry jury awards, which
awarded to the Evergreen state for
every entry in the forestry class and
there were between 40 and so.
The total number of teachers EN-
ployed in the state is 5179, of whom
1928 are males and 1851 females
Male teachers receive an average sal
airy of S6451; females $51.61.
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Spokane's new public library will take
place November 1.
Preparations are already under way
for the meeting Of the State Educa
tional association, which will be held
at North Yakima December 2S, 29 and
80.
Governors Rogers and Mcbride par
doned in eight years l12 penitentiary
convicts, an average of IA a year Gov
ernor Mead has pardoned % convicts
in the first nine months of his ad
ministration and has also commutec
three sentences, RENTED two fines
and paroled 10 convicts.
A rural route service from Pome
roy to Tucannon and Marengo goes
INTO erect december L.
Deep gloom has settled upon the
new farmers Of the Palouse country
who have their grain crop unthresh
ed, and they will suffer serious loss.
A state bank with a capital stool
of $4,000 is assured for Thornton.
. The waters of the Columbia rive
/ are rising rapidly, occasioned By
heavy rains near the headwaters. II
the past week the raise has been more
than Is inches.
Albert Laabs has purchased a hal
section of land of c. c. Buck for ST.
600. The land lies a mile and hal
northwest of Davenport and is con
sidered a fine ranch.
w. R. Lamb has received his ap
pointment as the first postmaster o
Richland, a new town recently start
ed nine miles west from Kennewick
H. A. Fairchild and John S. McMil
7 lin, members OF the state railroad
; commission, announce that all com
/ plants of shippers about refusal o
railroads to grant joint rates will b.
: heard at the Colfax meeting.
Rev. David Leland Spaulding,
Methodist minister, so years of age
succumbed Sunday to old age at tn
residence of Judge E. H. Sullivan, Spo
kane.
3 The United States surveyors employ
= ed in locating the internationa
4 boundary line of the 49th parallel ives
A of the summit of the Rocky mountain
:. will complete their work this fall, an,
= the Canadian parties will probabl.
finish next season.
) The sheriff of Island county and Z
3 ]. White. publisher of the Island Cour
/. ty Times, we're in a shooting scrap
) recently. While under the influence o
liquor White went on a rampage an
broke into the store of Kinith & Wis
gins, where he secured a gun and seN
eral knives. Returning to the street
:. the report has it, the drink craze
+ man started after the citizens on tn
= street with a raised revolver. Tn
I sheriff in his endeavor to capture an
n arrest his man was forced to SHOOT
the ball striking White in the arm.
IDAHO NEWS.
William p. Dale, aged about co, an
lone Of thp oldest nionaprs of MOgcON