Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-09-09
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Garfield public schools will
open on the 18th inst. with S. NJ. Nc |
Croskey in charge.
William w. Bailey, manager of the
Portland store of Tull & Gibbs, died
at Spokane Saturday night.
Granger is one of the new towns on
the Sunnyside branch of the Northern
Pacific railway, in Yakima valley.
Robert Colby, living near Reardan,
reports the banner yield of oats, his
crop averaging 100 bushels to the
acre.
The county superintendent of
schools has apportioned S6429.20 of
school funds among the 122 districts
If Douglas county.
The Ritzville public schools opened
Monday morning with Ia teachers.
Three will teach in the high school
and IL in the grades.
Senator Samuel II. Piles has &C
cepted the invitation by the Walla
Walla County Fair association to make
an address during fair week.
Complaint is made by farmers liv-
Thornton, Sunset and st. John, be-
cause of their inability to get grain
.hreshed.
E. A. Bickford of Mob Hill has sold
his 10 acre ranch near North Yakima
for $4,000. He paid $4,000 for it year
ago The purchaser is E. w. Hines
If Glendive, Mont.
a. r. Arbuckle, who was at Wilbur
for three months publishing the Sen
tinel, has been appointed state organ
izer for the Fraternal Union of Amer
lea
The II year old son of j. G. Parker
of Granger, was killed recently by the
caving in of a cistern in which he
was working with his father. The lad
was dead before he could be rescued
Ferrets may become an important
factor in agriculture in this country
as destroyers of the squirrels which
levy heavy tribute on the grain crops
Whitman county every year.
Deaths during August as recorded
~ the Spokane board of health mum.
oered II, of which 3S were males and
% females. For the same period
there were 101 births, of which 81
we're males and as were females.
Alice Durkee, the 10 year old girl
Who was shot by Harry Stanley, who
committed suicide, at Spokane, is
dead, and the number of homicides in
Spokane since January l, 1905, moi
counting the large number of suicides
vas swelled to eight.
With 200 passengers aboard, many
of whom were women and children
who almost created a panic, the stem
er Flyer at o'clock Sunday Afternoon
ran full speed into the Olympia Oyster
company's dock while making a land
ing at her own wharf in Seattle.
Fire did $4,000 damages at Dayton
Sunday. 1t destroyed the Great West
srn hotel. The residence of Jesse
Samuel was damaged to the extent
IF $500. The Baptist church and par
sonage were scorched. A general store
and the residence of Mr.. Engel were
burned.
A corps of engineers of the govern
ment reclamation service is in Yakima
valley. They are making surveys, in
specting pumping plants, pipe lines
ascertaining arid land acreage, in fac
gaining full and complete knowledge
Of the Sunnyside canal, preparatory
70 a report to the government.
The steamer Jerome, loaded will
1000 bushels of wheat. consigned from
Kennewick to Cello, struck rock il
the Columbia river when just above
the mouth of the Snake river ant
sank in about 80 feet of water. Tn,
cargo is ruined, but 1t is believed thu
boat can be raised. Captain DAME
was in charge of the boat. No ont
was injured.
Following is a condensed report o
the business done at the United State
land office in Walla Walla during Au
gust: Cash entries for 162S.S4 acres
"a; receipts for same, $2426.75; deser
land entries for 2569.61 acres. 10; re
ceipts. s642.41; homestead entries 70
6424.S7 acres. receipts. sS31.22; fina
proofs for 15l4.32 acres, receipts
ls64.07; miscellaneous fees, s102.S9.