Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-02
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
\ Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Accl-
dents and Personal Events Take
Piace-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

David r.. OlOyu, principal OF lne opO-
kane high school, has formally accep-
ted the position for next year.
John L. Kaiser, a pioneer Of Whit
man county. aged SO years, dropped
dead recently at his home in Colfax.
George Meredith was struck by a
circus train as it was pulling from the
North Yakima depot and sustained in
juries that will result in his death.
]. II. Young has sold the Charles Ed
wards farm. of 800 acres. three miles
northwest of Colville. to David Phil
pott of Lind, for $20.250 cash.
The date of the meeting of the
Washington State Press association
has been fixed for July oath, 25th and
26th.
Richard Fredrickson, in an encoun-
ter with holdup man at Puyallup was
shot through the left shoulder. His
wound is serious. The holdup man es-
capped
The Knights of Pythias in the state
of Washington are soon to have a
home where old and INDECENT knights
are to be cared for in their declining
years.
The fourteenth annual commence
ment program of the state normal
school at Cheney will begin Friday,
June list, and close on Wednesday,
June 9Th.
Robert Wilson has been paroled from
the state penitentiary by Governor
Mead. Wilson was sent from Cowlitz
county, in November, 1902, for 10 years
for robbery.
Some of the townsite residents of
Toppenish are addressing a protest to
the real estate men requesting them
not to sell or lease property on the
townsite to negroes.
The digest of the laws of Washing
ton which has been compiled by Ar
thur Remington, the supreme court re-
porter, is believed to have been lost in
ne san Francisco disaster.
Governor Mead has received and &C
cepted the resignation of State Sena-
tor Walker A. Henry of Spokane coun-
ty, who has accepted the appointment
to the federal land Office at Waterville.
William Malcolm. who is charged in
Passaic, n j., with embezzling $780,
900 of the funds of the Passaic Build
ing & Loan association, was arrested
in Seattle recently at his mercantile
store where he has been in business
for four years.
At the banquet given at Spokane in
honor of the visiting members of the
Portland Commercial club, Theodore
B. Wilcox, chairman of the executive
committee of that club, reused keer
enthusiasm with his plea for openine
the Columbia river.
Jones & Nicely, purchasers Of the
large Babcock ranch at Trinidad, arr
having 3,20e feet of 16-inch pipe lait
to carry 5000 gallons of water a min
ute to a reservoir on the high ground
They are putting in many trees anC
placing the land in good condition.
Charles Arneson, a North Bend sa
loon man. is under arrest in the count.
Jail at Seattle on suspicion of HAVING
murdered P. II. Ross. a rival salooi
man, and his wife last August at Ker
iston.
The Walla Walla lodge of Elks at it
last meeting took initial steps towar
the erection of home for the order.
Representative Humphrey has intro
duced a bill in the house authorizin
, King county to construct a ship cana
along the government right of wa
connecting the waters of Puget SCUM
with Lake Washington.
4 While seated on chair on the pore
? of the family home at North Yakim
\ the 10 months old child of Henry Al
j derson fell into a boiler of warm waite
the other afternoon and was dead b.
} fore discovered.
S Warden A. F. KEGS, in response to
e suggestion that it would be well to r
> turn to the pro rata system of distri
uting grain bags manufactured at ii
n penitentiary. among other things says
e This system has been tried fully an
o the farmers do not want any more
f. it. They say generally it resulted
their not knowing what amount
IS sacks they could depend upon"
c The postoffice at Sunnyside, Wash
y was blown to pieces by robbers al
y $1,000 in money and stamps stolen Ia
Monday night. There is no clue to Il
robbers.
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