Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-31
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Douglas county is stirred up over
railroad building.
Whitman county farmers believe
damage to wheat is less than ex-
pected.
Arrangements have been completed
for the cannery to be established at
Spokane.
Farmers are elated over the slight
damage to winter wheat by the recent
cold snap.
Mayor Wright of Tacoma says he
win order the police force to close
the dance halls.
The commercial club Of Prosser has
decided to inaugurate a Benton county
fair this fall to be held at Prosser.
The Waverly Commercial club got
into action last week and gathered up
every tin can within the city limits.
Twelve big wagonloads were hauled
away.
The credit for the capture of Jack
Hopkins, wanted for horse stealing,
is due to Deputy Sheriff Hall of
5prague, who worked up the case and
made the arrest.
Some mining interests az the head
Of Lake Chelan seem opposed to the
setting aside of that section as a ma
| tional park. A petition against the
project was circulated at Chelan.
The citizens of towns of the state
as a whole have decided to follow in
the lead of some of the larger cities
this spring and have a general clean
up of the town in the interests OF
both health and beauty.
Too much free love has caused the
dissolution of the Freeland colony, al
equality settlement near Bow, Skagi
county. A receiver has been appointed
and it means that the little banS
will be broken up and the effects
sold to satisfy creditors.
After making a thorough investiga
ton j. M. Brown, county fruit inspec
tor of North Yakima, is satisfied tina
the loss of fruit due to the recent coll
snap will be of small moment. H
thinks that the apricot trees alon
we're damaged, and these but slightly
= The Washington Land, Stock & In
provement company, composed of Spo
Kane men and controlling seven SEE
tons of raw land situated in the v
cinity of Winchester, in Douglas
county, has been organized for tn
u purpose of breaking and improvin
he raw lands of Douglass county.
Ora Holdman, Robert Fancher. an
Carl Hail. students at Whitman co
l lege, have been dismissed for HAHN
other students, and a number of OIL
ers have been severely disciplined
A gang of craftsmen, which for
month or more has been preying upo
the safes of the stores and banks
the small towns of the Inland Empir
IS operated at Medical Lake Sunds
morning. The safe in the A. w. Gree
= store on Lake street, opposite the vi
gin hotel, was blown open by the gan
The safe blowers secured $40 fro
the depository.
" The supreme court holds that Il
q proper remedy to be invoked again
an order made by the state land col
% mission is by mandamus instead
- by appeal. Recently the court he
tnat a mandamus would not lie again
!, an order made by the state board
n land commissioners, and that the pre-
er remedy in such case was by appe'
q. In response to an inquiry on {
!. subject, the attorney general has &
en- the state board of control
6. opinion to the effect that it is lawi
m to work convicts on the public roa
N in their prison garb of stripes, a
hat under the law the sentiment
nj common humanity is the only restr
" ion upon the working of convicts
nc blasting rock or other dangerous wol
k Sleeping Tom." man affiict
with a peculiar malady, has return
gn to North Yakima. He has been kno'
re to go to sleep while standing on
lie sidewalk and to fall over into the g
as ter. Some time ago he was engaged
RI trench being dug in the city. He b
st. worked but few days when he v
ot sized ore afternoon with drowsy sp
and was found asleep leaning agai
,rt the side of the trench, holding the pi
I'M over his shoulder. He appeared to BIZ
as dropped asleep while in the act
ar swinging the pick.
ng The members of the Tacoma
Of tail Grocers' association have tai
m decided step for patronizing no