Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-12-29
NEWSOF Northwest
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
4 Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding country--Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIaee-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

OIncers OF SPOKANE county nave ai
rested Frank Havlin and Thomas
Blair, expert safe blowers. The prison
ers were caught with the goods on,
having a grip oiled with $4,000 worth
Of plumber secured by blowing open
the safe at Troyer & Engels' jewelry
store at Tekoa three days before.
Five violent deaths occurred in Spo
kane county in the past week.
Near Holcomb. in Pacific county, re
Gently two Japanese were killed and
three were so badly hurt that they
will die. by a dead tree which fell
across their bunk house. All we're EN-.
ployed by lumber company.
A gigantic subway project, costing
nearly a million dollars, to connect the
freight and passenger terminals of the
Spokane & Inland Railroad company
has been submitted to the Spokane
city council and a franchise asked. The
proposed tunnel would be nearly
mile long, would follow beneath Front
avenue for nearly the entire distance,
and the floor of the tunnel would be
about 80 feet from the surface of the
street. The franchise asked for pro
vides for double track tunnel from
he passenger station at Main avenue
TO Front avenue under Lincoln street,
thence under Front to about Center
street, between Bernard and Browne
thence diagonally from Front avenue,
coming out into the freight grounds of
The company at some point between
Division and Sheridan streets, with the
right to carry power lines for the
operation of its electric railway sys-
TEN.
Two men were killed, one fatally
injured and a fourth badly scalded In
a collision near Spokane between a
light engine and freight train on the
Great Northern.
Ellensburg met defeat at the hands
Of Prosser on the ship subsidy de-
bate. Prosser defended the negative,
while Ellensburg supported the affirm
alive.
From ~ acres of apple trees in his
orchard at Zillah, ]. r. Rammermann
sold this fall 5000 boxes or $3.50
From 191 Winesap trees he obtained
LOS boxes and from IT'S Yellow New
ton trees, 1000 boxes He sold these
apples at s1.25 box.
Andy De Young, young man about
% or 30 years of age, supposedly from
Pullman, committed suicide at Spo
kane recently.
Because Christian Fredriksen had
not bathed in three years, Mary Fred
riksen, his wife, obtained a decree Of
divorce in Seattle.
Charles Buckingham has been ap
pointed to succeed Charles ]. Baker
for the unexpired term Of two years.
A young woman known as Maggie
Dooley took carbolic acid in an at
tempt to commit suicide at Spokane.
Washington, Idaho & Montana en-
CINE No. g.. hauling a construction
train, ran over William Burgan at thu
gravel pit switch, one mile west o
Harvard, near Palouse, killing him in
stantly.
Many Lincoln county residents ar
interested in the Yuma country an,
the freakishness of the Colorado river
who are closely watching the effort
to keep the river from doing irrepar
able damage.
The floods in the Palouse are sui
siding. The streams are going dow
rapidly and the damaged RAIDS vii
soon be in condition to repair.