Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-10-13
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
AND OREGON News ITEMS.
Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numeroux Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS
A fuel famine is on at washtucn.

After hop picking season lasting a
month, the 1906 Yakima crop is har-
vested and it is known that it will fall
at least 20 per cent below the 1905
crop. 1t is estimated that the product
for this year will not exceed $4,000
bales, while last season it was approx
imately $4,000 bales. The slump is
due to unfayorable weather conditions.
The September report of the Wash
.ngton state finances by State Auditor
Clausen shows expenditures of $685.
1880 and receipts of Sal, 227.5S for
he month. The balance in the gen.
aral fund October / is shown at $685.
525.SS.
Tacoma journeymen plumbers have
made demand on the master plumb
ers of the city for an increase in
wages from S. to $3.50 per day.
King county property owners oppos-
ng the Lake Washington canal pre-
posed by Jas. A. Moore, have begun
IN action to restrain the bond issue
;arried at the recent election to pro
tide S500,0000 toward financing the
enterprise. The county commission.
RS and Moore are named as defend
lnts.
Application for a new trial will be
made by the o. R. & N. railway in
he case of joint freight rates between
The o. R. & N. and Northern Pacific
rom eastern Washington to Puget
sound, in which Judge Chadwick OF
Jolfax handed down decision ad
lerse to the railroad company.
The Methow-Barron state road, fol
which the last session of the state
legislature appropriate $4,000, 1880
Of which was to be spent in Okanogar
county, and for which county has al
ready spent or appropriated more
than a similar amount, is nearing com
pletion.
Melvin A. Edwards, aged SO, died as
4 result of scalds received at Milan
Wash, through the explosion Of thu
boiler in the engine room of the Spo
zane Lumber company.
The first trains over the SPOKANE
international railway will be operated
some time next month.
]. B. Wisdom suffered a stroke o
paralysis Thursday while at work Oh
his ranch northwest of Wilbur.
Australian markets will be sough
for big red apples grown in the Wer
atchee valley. E. Wagner, a leadin
grower, will start soon for the orien
with 5000 boxes, making six carloads.
Archie Williams, a boy, met vic
lent death near Brewster recent.
He was jolted off a wagon and tn
wheel passed over his head.
The main line Of the Vancouve
Victoria & Eastern railway from Ferr
md Midway, B. c., to Nelson, Wash
S practically completed, and will b
n operation the first of November.
Palouse warehouses are glutted wit
grain and hay, as 1t is impossible
secure cars. Several warehouseme
nave been compelled to ask patron
20 suspend delivery until the car 81
iation is relieved. Wheat is quoted /
he local market at so cents for re
russian and SO for club variaties. Fee
armers are selling.
As the commencement of a can
align to raise an additional $4,000 fc
he Young Mems Christian associatio
iuilding at North Yakima it was d.
ided to have special programs in tn
hurches October IA, which will
:nown as Y. M. G. A. Sunday.
State Treasurer George G. Mills he
completed the biennial report of h
lhice for the two years ending Sc
ember 80, 1906. This report show
hat business had quadrupled sinC
904, although there has been abs
utely no increase in the Office fore
and but $45 a year increase in sal
I ries. The two years receipts wei
] SS,937 ,5OS.91 and disbursements WEI
] S,669, OOO.96.
The big Indian powwow is on
Toppenish, and will continue until O
\ tober %. Racing will be the princip
pastime during the daytime, and
night dancing and other forms of
dian entertainment will be indulg
in far into the night.
Frank Baker, one of the convic
employed at the state rock crushi
camp at Meskill, Lewis county, h
: escaped.