Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-09-14
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA news.
a Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place--Crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
Nile III cents a nnart at Tacoma

Milk IL cents quart at Tacoma.
Two Great Northern freight trains
S-0Ilided in the Newport yards recently.
Nobody was killed
The weather throughout the Palouse
country is all that could be desired for
the completion of harvest work.
Marion Russis, young Frenchman,
aged 21 years, met his death by drown
dng in the Palouse river recently.
w. Phillips, rancher in the Matches
valley, committed suicide recently by
shooing. He leaves wife and fam
sly
Too drunk to exercise reason, Carl
Brown of Tacoma 40 years of age,
was run over by an electric train and
KILLED.
Tomato shipments continue from
Sunnyside, and it will be another
month before the entire crop is mar
keted.
In struggle with a thief in a room
at hotel in Seattle recently, Detec-
tive Lee A. Barbee shot and killed his
adversary.
Jefferson H. Fulton, of Asotin, has
left for Manila to enter upon his duties
as second lieutenant in the United
States army.
A floating dock has been built for
Che accommodation of steamboats,
landing at Kennewick, and moored at
the landing.
There is hay famine on the coast.
The death of Mrs. Mary p. Shieldse,
an old pioneer Of Garfield county, oc-
cured at Seattle recently.
Joe Machine a Finnish contractor,
was killed recently at Aberdeen,
Wash. by falling from the lift in a
well which he was digging.
Horse thieves appear to be numer-
Gus in the Yakima country, a number
of cases where horses have been stol-
zen being reported within the past few
days.
Beginning this week the Washing
ton, Idaho & Montana Railway com
pany will put on two trains each way
daily between Palouse and Deary
which is the present terminus.
Farmers of the vicinity of Dayton
are taking advantage of the fine
weather to haul their grain to the
warehouses as fast as possible, ant
already the houses are nearly filled
Most of the farmers have sold theil
grain.
The entire city of Wenatchee is IL
dire straits because of a flume being
washed out at the Wenatchee Electric
company. No power is to be had il
the city, nor lights, and as a result
the entire community has beer
plunged into a state of things border
ing on the archaic.
The annual business excursion of the
Spokane Merchants & Manufacturers
association will this year touch the
country lying west of Spokane along
the Washington Central and Grea
Northern roads. The start will b.
made on Wednesday morning, Sept
18, at 1880 o'clock.
Fire destroyed the Webb hotel a
shelton, 20 miles from Tacoma, re
gently Miss Bailey and Mrs. Nudge
both of Shelton, are known to b.
among the lost. The following perish
ed: Miss Ivy Bailey chamberlain
w. Fl. Holmes, master mechanic in tn
Peninsula Railway shops; Pearl +
Larson; a boy driver for Connolly, tn
Butcher; Mrs. Gay of the hotel; Dai
7. Hennessey, a logger Eight or min
are still unaccounted for.
Tied in their stalls and unable {
escape from the burning building 2
horses belonging to the City Da
Scavenger company were cremated i
"a fire that destroyed the company
stable at Spokane. Thirty tons of ha
in the loft of the barn, where the fir
is supposed to have started, were ais
lost, making the total loss over $40
900. Only about $4,000 of this wa
covered by insurance.
The old soldiers in camp at Chew
Iah recently elected the following of
GERS for the ensuing year: Commando
Comrade F. A Parmeter of Dais,
Wash; senior commander, Conrad
sChilds, Kettle Falls. Wash; junic
commander Comrade Stafford, Kettl
Falls, Wash; adjutant, Colonel Fisl
Kettle Falls, Wash; officer of day.
T. Grove, Deer Park; officer of guar
Mr.. Anderson, Spokane; quarterma
See ger, E. A Keyes, Spokane.