Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-03-24
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges OF the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Accl.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Seattle is to have garbage plant
and municipal crematory.
Much of the wheat in the Palouse
section was injured by the recent cold
weather.
Friends and acquaintance Of DR..
James NJ. Allen, the veteran minister
Of the Christian church of Spokane
who died last week, paid tribute of
love and respect at his bier in the Cen.
trail Christian church Sunday after
noon.
A veterinary surgeon states that the
horses around Reardan were poisoned
by eating straw on which there was
a fungus growth.
Gilbert Cowles. the Yakima city
school board clerk who forged war
rants. has been senteiced to FIVE years
In the penitentiary.
Spokane men have filed articles OF
Incorporation at Olympia for the In
land Thresher company TO engage in
he manufacture of motor driven
thresher machines.
Whitman college won the debate
with the Washington State college
elementary school
George Brouchou, who resided in
the Yakima valley, was frozen to
Heath during the late cold snap He
started for his home across lots, and
failing to appear, search was made,
| resulting in the finding of his body.
M. E. Mergens, until few days age
station agent with the Great North.
ern railway at Marysville, Is in the
county jail at Everett charged with
smbezzlement of $3.50 of the com.
pany's receipts.
A purchasing agency of the COM
missary department of the United
States army is to be established at
Seattle Immediately.
The controlling interest in the Mo
ran shipbuilding plant in Seattle has
been sold by Moran brothers to the
Griscoms of Philadelphia. The sum
involved is between two and three mil
lions. The Morans will complete tbs
battleship Nebraska.
The state supreme court by a recent
decision sustained the constitutional
Attorney General Atkinson has pre-
pared a formal complaint asking foi
4 permanent injunction to prevent thu
destruction of Castle Rock, the ia
nous landmark on the Columbia rive
above Portland.
Mayor Ballinger of Seattle last Sat
urday issued an order to the polio
, / - to MI at ri 60
( stands and all other forms of gamblin
e operated by retail cigar men
D Farmers who believe their whea
will have to be resown are buyin
seed and getting ready to commenc
work when the snow disappears.
e The severe cold has undoubtedl
damaged early fruits and the fall SOW
wheat is retarded in its growth, bu
e the general opinion of the whea
ranchers is that the wheat is not ser
ously damaged.
Members of the Woman's Tempe
. ance union have drawn up a petitio
: to Governor Mead to be presented
4 the various churches Sunday, askin
: for the parole and release from III
penitentiary of Myrtle Upton, Ii
u young girl convicted in Whitma
6 county of horse stealing and sentence
to a term of two years.
Unexpected demands for coal du
e ing the recent cold snap completely e
hausted the supplies and these hay
not been replenished.
Attorney II. ]. Snively of Nor
Yakima, whose residence was col
!. pletely destroyed by fire recently, W
= soon commence the construction of
, handsome stone residence upon Il
old site on Mob Hill Mr. Snively es
mates his loss, after the payment
. the insurance policies, at $500.
! A number of hop contracts have I
Y Gently been made by growers in Yal
ma county for this years crop at
cents a pound. Last year the ave
age sum received by the growers W
about 10 cents. while for 1904 it W
% cents or over
\ Completely exhausted, after a sew
hour battle with seven foot shal
Patrick Sullivan and w. d. Yates pu
ed their boat into Seattle.
An immense flow of water has be
struck at the well being drilled
L. S. Green for the city on A sire
in Ballard.
His neck broken and his feet tou'
ing the ground, w. A. Holland Of
coma was found hanging by a slend
cord tied to a small limb of a tree
the woods north of the new Tacol
l high school building