Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-06-16
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
4 Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur.
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Plsce-Fsli Trade ls Good.
WASHINGTON MOTIFS.

mas Deen called TO Alaska on a busi-
ness trip.
The Spokane county pioneers 10th
annual picnic at Medical Lake was a
great success.
Tacoma's mayor has put himself
on record as in favor of saloon and
restaurant boxes.
Excellent work is being done on the
wagon roads leading into Colfax from
the surrounding country.
The Everett Milling company will
begin the erection this week of a
large grain warehouse at Ephrata
c. e. Briggs, a well to do rancher
of the upper Methow valley, and a
pioneer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself recently.
The finding of John Carrolls body
in Garrison creek, near Walla Walla,
removes all doubt as to the aged milk
mans death. He disappeared May 30
Kettle Falls citizens have voted
unanimously that the district be bond
ed for $1,000 to build an addition to
the large school building and establish
high school
George Taylor, engineer on the
McInnis Lumber company's tug Sa-
retta was killed in an unknown man
ner on the boat about four miles be-
low Newport.
Governor Mead today granted a
parole to John Harrigan, alias Charles
w. Hamlin, who was sentenced in
Whatcom county on August 6, 1902, to
IA years for robbery.
The prosecuting attorneys of the
state will hold a convention at
Everett on July -. 10. and IA in
connection with the eighteenth annual
session of the State Bar association.
A well dressed man who committed
suicide at the Tacoma hotel has been
Identified as William Campbell Beas-
ley, publisher of the Commonwealth
Magazine of Seattle. His former
home was in Peoria, Ill.
Twenty farmers of the Kittitas val
ley have formed an association and
purchased Samson De Thorembrais,
an imported Belgian stallion, from Nc
Laughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio,
for $4,000.
|
in Yakima county in recent months
was the sale of the Bounds ranch in
Selah valley by P. A. Bounds to Ur-
ban Ditman, a widely known stock
man, for $3O,SOO.
Theodore Strong, laborer in the
Erickson-Peterson construction gang
on the o. w. & l. road at Riparia
met with a serious accident recently
which will neccessitate the amputa
ton of his left leg above the knee.
1t is announced that Samuel A
, Wells, former receiver of the Spokane
land office, has been nominated by
President Roosevelt to succeed Eu
= gene B. Hyde, the present receiver
who succeeded Mr.. Wells four years
= ago.
Thirty-six of the 81 counties o
Washington were represented at tn,
first annual convention of farmers
r held under the auspices of the Wash
ington State college. OkanogaI
county was the only one not sending
delegation.
One hundred and fifty farmers me
in Cunningham Saturday and voted t,
build a farmers elevator Steel stor
age tanks will be put up to handle thu
crop. All the wheat will be handled
in bulk This does away with wha
the farmers call the sack graft"
Manager Lennox of the propose,
Whitman county fair has been work
ing hard laying plans for the event
tie has about decided to hold the fai
the first week in October. The prize
will be more valuable and cover
larger number of displays than eve
before.
Wenatchee valley fruit growers ar
. receiving higher prices for fruit thi
= year than ever before, the prices Il
to date averaging so per cent highe
than those paid last year. The We
\ natchee Valley Fruit Growers asst
citation. an organization of the grow
ers of the Wenatchee and Columbi
=, valleys. controlling s5 per cent of tn
. fruit raised in the Wenatchee vale,
: is doing the work.
A. A. Armstrong, who killed RobeI
Patton near Aberdeen three years age
was hanged at the penitentiary Fir
day morning at 5:26 o'clock TIL
:, execution was successful in every d.
i tail The mans neck was broken b
the fall and death came in 10 minutes
Although 60 years old he bravely me
death.
Engineers of the reclamation Sc
. vice are measuring the area of land
- contracted for the Tieton project. Al
, proximately. $4,000 acres win be r
a claimed by this project, of which abol
IS per cent has been subscribed. Tn
. is all the government requires, bI
. some of the land subscribed may
l. shown by engineers to be unsuite
= which will necessitate additions to II
"a land already contracted.
y OREGON ITEMS.
John Bear shot and killed "Brick