Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-09-29
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Need of more houses is a crying one |
in the city of Wenatchee.
Hereafter no more girls will be EN-
ployed in the postoffice at Tacoma.
Another attempt to burn Wateryille |
has been discovered by Night Watch |
Hall
The. big roller skating rink at Nata-
forum park was burned to the ground
recently.
The school house in district No. 35,
Snohomish county was burned a few
nights ago.
Seattle Odd Fellows may. before
long, have capacious and handsome
lodge building for their own use.
1t is said freight trains will be NOV
ing over the Spokane International
railway by the first of November.
Judge Huneke of Spokane has set
October as the date of trial of Sid
ney Sloane for the murder of his IA
Their.
A logging train and a special freight
on the Interurban line between Seattle
and Tacoma, collided at Milton re-
Gently.
Warehousemen say that 35 bushels
Of fall and 30 bushels Of spring whoa.
an acre is a fair estimate for the dis
trict around Tekoa.
So rapidly is North Yakima increa5-
ing in population that about a dozen
more teachers will be employoa in the
schools this year than last
John c.. Ross. aged 60 years, fell
from the upper deck of his steamer,
the Mizpah, in Oyster bay, near Ia
coma, recently and was drowned.
The secretary of the interior is adj
vertising for bids for the construction
of the main canal for the Tieton irri-
CATION project near North Yakima.
At a meeting of old settlers held at
wenatchee steps were taken which
: will lead to a permanent organization
Of the old settlers of Chelan county.
Avis Ray, the ~ year old son of e
= 3. Ray of Tacoma, was fatally injured
1t North Yakima by being thrown
, from horse. His skull was fractured
Peter Foley the man who was ir
iured a few days ago while working
on the Spokane & Inland grade, die'
at COlldA WlluOul iS6aihlh6 SOhoNAou7
ness.
l Sam Marsh of Lamona was killed
short distance out of Downs on tn
| Great Northern track Friday night
He had been conducting a saloon a
y Lamona for M. S. Hugh.
| Charles Gottschalk, % years of age
| was run over by Northern Pacifi
Il freight train in the yards at Spokan
Saturday night and received injurie
81 that may result in his death.
\ The Waverly sugar factory has PIT
on a large force and is making brow
Il sugar out of syrup held over from las
81 year This brown sugar is to be worl
ed over into white sugar later.
IS. The horse men are again scourin
the range for stock which was nj
nd gathered in the big round up Las
r spring, and several shipments will b
o.. made from Wilson creek in a fe
w days.
es William Peterson. aged FL year
nd builders apprentice at Moran & Co.
n, ship yard Seattle, was instantly xii
NC ed in the tool sharpening room recen
l. ly by being struck on the head by
ped piece of emery wheel that had broke
ti, The hop house owned by Charl'
oes McAlhster at Yakima City, containir
$50. 10 tons of hops, was completely 4
s. stroyed by fire recently. The loss
'''' estimated at $4,000, with no insu
. ance. The fire was caused by an owe
~ heated kiln.
1 The state convention of Hiber
l ians on Sunday elected the folio
| ing officers: President, John CannC
| of Seattle; vice president, Jam
| Martin of Walla Walla; secretar
| William d. Gleason of Tacoma; trea
urer P. Fitzpatrick of Seattle; cha
, Il lain, Rt Rev. Bishop O'Dea of Seatt
y They will meet next in Walla Walla
III A bloody murder was revealed S;
urday morning at Sprague when 4
mutilated body of an unknown mi
was found in a boxcar on an N.
freight train. The dead man is
scribed as small, feet Az inches
height, apparently about 80 years o
| dark complexion and black hair a
- mustache On the left arm the lette
--- &C. W" are tatooed. The end of t
thumb on the left hand is missing.
Auditor Burch has completed an
n stract of the assessment of real a
personal property of Garfield cour
showing the valuations fixed by
board of equalization. Exclusive
town and city lots there are 1892
acres. of improved land. the value
~ which is $2,245.440 The lmpro
4 ments are s146.955. The average '
u uation per acre of improved land
s16.52, and the average value of
.ol improvements is 40 cents an acre.
IDAHO NOTES.
II. NJ. Narl was struck by a n
SOAP soap. from a blast near Stevens and serio