Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-03-09
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
Piace-Fail Trade is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Pacific Coast Livestock asso-
citation. founded two years ago at
Spokane, has gone to the wall, and
Charles A. Murray, its attorney, wa
appointed receiver. The real cause OF
salaries which the company paid to
its trustees and officers.
w. II. Walker, ex-deputy sheriff of
Franklin county, is in the Pasco Jail
charged with killing Charles Ander-
son, who died in a Spokane hospital
recently.
The debate between Whitman col
lcge and w. S. S. will take place
March %. The subject is: Resolved.
That municipalities should own and
operate their street railways.
The third annual debate between
Whitman college and Pacific univer-
sity at College Grove, Ore, took place
Wednesday evening.
Daniel Weaver, a prominent farm
er near Cheney has received three full
blooded Angora goats from Helena,
Mont. They are the offspring of two
South African bucks, the mohair Of
which recently sold for $3.50 a pound.
bringing $26650, there being Al pounds
in one clipping.
Harry Davenport, George Wood
ward and Edward Mason, all OF the
junior class of Whitman college, were
chosen after a tryout debate recently
to represent this institution in the
coming debate with Willamette uni
versity.
A needed enterprise at Washtucna
is flour mill The Washtucna coun-
try produces extra good milling wheat
The town of Quincy is to be incor-
porated, with F. T. Campbell, mayor
G. d. Banko, ]. L. Dickinson, II. d.
VAIL J. ]. Cox. H. c. Shockley, trus
tees, and W. H. Linn, treasurer.
Frank Kaufman was killed in the
railroad yards at Sprague recently. be
ing run over by a freight train. He
has relatives in Chicago and Kansas
City.
Pure bred Shetland ponies, Jersey
cows and Poland China pigs are to be
bred near Spokane by G. H. Hamley
of Maquoketa, Iowa.
Arrangements are being made by
Lieutenant Cushing Post, G. A. R., OF
Ballard, for the entertainment of the
state encampment of the order during
June 26-2S.
The North Yakima Builders asso
citation have voted to grant the car
penters' union an eight hour day al
the same pay they now receive fol
nine hours, which is $3.50 a day
The senate privileges and elections
committee returned the direct prim
airy bill with a number of amendments
and an emergency clause attached
which may enable primaries to be helC
il. Spokane this spring under the new
law.
The King county 100000 bond is
sue to aid in the construction of thu
Lake Washington canal has been in
validated in the supreme court a
olympia. The county Is not permit
ted to become interested in a private
enterprise, according to the consti
tuition.
After escaping conviction on tech
nicalities at Olympia, Tacoma, Seat
tie and Port Townsend, George King
leader in a conspiracy by which hal
the counties in the state we're de
frauded out of hundreds of dollars
through the collection of bounties OF
wildcat scalps shipped to Bellinghan
from the east, gave up a long lega
battle for liberty and was sentences
to five years Imprisonment.