Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-02-17
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Hoquiam is preparing to organic



a Boosters Club"
Half a million fruit trees will be
planted in the Sunnyside district this
year.
Unprincipled white men at Chelan
and at Lakeside continue TO furnish
Indians with liquor.
The Stetson-Post. Mil oompany's
six acre mill site at Seattle was sold
recently for 100000.
John U. Hofstetter, for 40 years one
Of the foremost citizens of Stevens
county, died recently. He was 10
years old.
With an initial membership Of so,
lodge No. AZ of the Theatrical Me-
chanical association was organized at
Spokane last week.
The committee on subscribers for
the Tekoa commercial club has secur-
ed 60 names on the list, which is suf-
fcient to insure success.
Ed Erickson and another man are
under arrest in Seattle suspected OF
holding up the Great Northern train
recently near Ballard.
The recent annual bean bake, en-
tertainment and ball by the G. A. r..
post and Woman's Relief corps at
Pullman was success.
]. f. Boise, who lives near Ellens-
burg on the Cariboo in the northern
part Of the valley, reports finding a
nice flow Of oil on his place.
There were three daring holdups in
Tacoma Saturday night. all the work
Of a lone highwayman, and 1t was evil
IDENTIFY the same individual in each
case.
Jay p. Graves Of Spokane has new
limosine automobile. costing about
$4,000. 1t is classed as the finest ma
chine in the state. II is fitted with o
closed body and electric lights.
The safe In the postoffice in the
East Spokane grocery was blown open
with nitroglycerine Sunday morning
The men secured $40 and 5000 worth
Of stamps in small denominations.
The Spokane Central Labor council
was formed Sunday at meeting OF
delegates from 23 unions. The new
central body will take out O charter
from the American Federation of La
Dor
II is learned on absolutely reliable
authority that the Union Pacific will
build to Tacoma and. as announced
several wees ago. 1t will be the first
of the transcontinental lines to reach
that city.
At a meeting OF the Cashmere. Fruit
| Growers association II was unani
mously agreed to join the fruit grow
ers' union now being formed to EN-
brace every fruit producing district il
Chelan county.
The lid went down tight In Walli
Walla at ~ o'clock Saturday night
Every business place in the city wa
closed excepting hotels, restaurants
livery stables, drug stores and under
taking parlors, which are exempt IN
der the law.
The Law Enforcement league o
Spokane are demanding that all form
of business he closed on Sundays eS
cepting the four classes exempted b.
the city and state laws governing Sur
day closing. The businesses exemp
are drug stores. undertakers. hotel
and livery stables.
Il l.. +. Parker, who was employed Of
the new packing house near Fort Wa
la Walla. was recently found dead be
side the fence west of the fort.
revolver at his side with one chambe
empty and bullet wound in the RICH
side of the head told the sad story o
suicide. No cause can be assignee
for the act.
w. A. Nichols. a Spokane mar
makes the announcement that none
has been raised and the delivery O
steel begun for the construction o
the Big Bend Transit company. III
proposed road will run from Spokan
to Davenport. From Davenport tw
lines will be built. One line will ru
to the mouth OF the Spokane rive
and the other to Ritzville.
Sailors on the French bark Admira
Courbet. lying in Port Townsend, mt
tinted Saturday and. forcibly taking
boat. pulled ashore. declaring tina
they would not proceed to sea in tn
vessel. owing to her lightened cond
ton. N. w. ORear of Port TOWNSEND
who arrived in the city today, said tina
the sailors we're afraid to go to Sc
with the vessel in light ballast
The Chelan Transfer company ha
been awarded the contract for carry
ing mail from Chelan Falls to Chela
and Lake side beginning July 1. Thi
company has the present contrac
Mayor Amos Edmunds has bee
awarded the contract for carrying tn
mails on Lake Chelan from the foe
Of the lake to Stehekin and informed
ate points.
Sentences aggregatlng So years wer
pronounced Saturday by Judge Rig
at North Yakima upon four prisoner
Joseph Whitley. colored. was given
20 year sentence for manslaughter
Joseph Reed. IA years for assault
commit robbery; Joseph Anderson
: colored. IA years for burglary, an