Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-17
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Fourteen convicts we're taken TO
the psnitentiary Saturday by Travel
ing guards Esterbrook and Chalott
and Deputy Sheriff Chef Bedding Of
Seattle. There are $40 conyicts sery-
ing sentences at the penitentiary and
"a out on parole.
Jay P. Graves OF Spokane has pur-
chased the tremendous falls in the Co
luInbis river above Kettle Falls,
Wash, 100 miles north of Spokane,
for $4,000. He expects to develop 1t
into one Of the greatest electric prop
critics in America. Although the falls
are so immense that II is exceedingly
difficult to estimate the flow, there is
believed to be a minimum Of 10000
to 100000 horse power at low water.
The supreme court, in a decision
handed down recently, sustained the
lower court In finding L. NJ. Poole OF
Spokane guilty Of living OF the earn
ings of a fallen woman. and in SEN
fencing him to five years imprison-
ment.
The North Coast road is not only an
assured fact but It has been definitely
stated by President Robert f. Stra-
horn that North Yakima IL to be the
main division point between the two
terminals. Walla Walla and Seattle.
While lying fiat on the floor of the
first story OF the Merle Heany Manu-
featuring company's building, with
their heads projecting over freight
elevator shaft, directing streams OF
water into the basement, where fire
broke out recently Lieutenant Charles
Kirk and Pipeman Herman Larson OF
the Seattle fire department, were
caught under the elevator and receiv-
ed serious injuries.
The Tacoma republican convention
has nominated for mayor. r. l.. Nc
Cormick; treasurer Ray Freeland T;
comptroller. John Mead.
In response to a request for an
opinion on the subject. Attorney Gen
erai Atkinson has advised the board
of control that the grain bags manu-
featured at the Walla Walla peniten-
liary can be sold only to actual con
sumers who are residents of the
state.
A full-fedged opium den. with some
Of the paraphernalia still In sight, was
discovered in Seattle recently in a
Chinese laundry.
The supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the so-called pedlers
licene law of 1905, under the provi
sions Of which pedlers were required
to pay a license fee Of 5000 In each
county in the state in which they car
ried on bushes.
Judge Moore. mayor elect of Seat
tie, says he will close all forms OF
gambling down tight in Seattle.
The supreme court has rendered g
decision knocking out as unconstitu
tionai the plumbers license law.
The Lewiston-C Charleston company is
employing 1875 men laying the new
pipe line from Asotin creek to irrigatt
vineland. Five miles of the work is
finished.
Tumbleweeds and Chinese lettuce
which have been long a pest to far
mers of Harrington section, are re
ported TO be worse than ever.
The state land commissioners of
Ace has made thsregular monthly set
Element with the state treasurer will
total remittance OF s137, 1897. tn,
principal Items being the curren
school fund collection, s29.3S1.70; tn,
permanent school fund. $50. 40S.71, anC
the tide land fund. which goes into
the states general fund. s45.097.40.
The contract for the construction
of the new armory building at Spo
kane has been let. Price $4,000.
The supreme court has decided tina
where boundary line between tive
tracts of land has been fixed by mu
tual consent between the owners anC
remains the recognized dividing Lint
for a period OF 20 years. in fact 1
becomes the actual boundary, not
withstanding a subsequent govern
ment survey finds 1t is wrongly locat
ed.