Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-30
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acci-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

More wheat is now coming into Har-
rington daily than at any time this
season. At the same time less is be-
ing sold.
The party of Northern Pacific sur
veyors, numbering IA, have finished
their survey of the new road through
the Kennewick valley.
Jessie Bacon, laborer, aged 40, was
run over by rig driven by Chris Issit
at Walla Walla recently, fracturing
his skull. He died five hours later
George Schmidt, a shoemaker, was
instantly killed by ]. Overbaugh. by
an accidental push of the hand last
Saturday. Schmidt who was intoxi-
Gated, fell on a stone walk.
Sedgwick post, No. 8, G. A. R., and
the Womans Relief corps, at Spokane,
held memorial services Saturday even
ing, the first in the history of these
organizations in that city.
Four masked men held up the Head
light saloon at Spokane while five men
we're in it, robbed the men of SIS in
money, got about S25 from the till and
escaped without interruption.
Railroads entering Spokane expect
large crowds at the Spokane fair in
October. The rates they have given
in some respects are better than here
tofore and cover a wider territory.
The G. A. r. district reunion of
southeast Washington will be held this
year at Asotin. No formal organiza-
ton exists as yet, but one will prob
ably be formed at this convention.
Fifty-nine cases of typhoid fever ex-
list among the convicts in the peniten-
tiary and new cases are reported daily
The prison has 765 convicts and the
officials fear a much greater epidemic
North Yakima was closed Sunday in
the strictest construction of the Sun
day closing law. Every business house
was shut up tight excepting hotels
and drug stores, the latter keeping
open part of the time.
The Portland & Seattle Railway
company will ultimately, it is reported
at Olympia, extend its line up the Co
lumbia and Okanogan rivers to ORC
vile in Okanogan county and thence
into British Columbia.
A conAagration at Barneston, a lit
tie sawmill town on the Cedar river
destroyed the planning mill, drykiln
and sheds where the dry lumber wa
piled of the Kent Lumber company
Damage amounting to $4,000 wa
! done. 1t was fully covered by insuI
r ance.
1t is expected the reclamation SCI
e vice will soon announce the undertal
l. ing of the old Leadbetter canal sout
e of Kennewick on the first bench. Thi
r project will water the high land fror
d point on the Iakima river, east c
r Prosser, taking in about 10000 acre
t above the Kennewick canal.
In addition to the new bank whic
will open at Colfax the city is to hav
third bank to be known either a
the Farmers & traders or the Me
n chants & Farmers bank, about Nov.
The bank is to succeed and absorb tn
e Bank of Colfax, the oldest bankin
e institution in eastern Washington.
v A freight wreck near the center {
/ Stampede tunnel delayed traffic Sa
# urday on the western division OF tn
n Northern Pacific railroad "a hour
n Eight loaded cars were derailed an
8 the trucks torn from under them. The
arr piled in a confused mass. No Oh
g. was hurt. The train was an extr
If made up of 80 westbound loaded car
10 most of them filled with wheat for T
X coma.