Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-09-07
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
Patrons of the Tacoma Railway &
Power company's lines are not permit
ted to stand on the platforms.
Tacomans are up in arms against
the navy department for resembling
its orders for battleships to visit Ia
coma on account of the depth of the
harbor, as reported.
A lack of refrigerator cars to
handle fruit caused a calamity, North
Yakima leading shippers invited the
aid of the state railroad commission
for relief.
An Angora goat farm, to be started
with 500 animals by L. H. Alger, Of
Detroit, Mich, and Charles Davis, Of
Atlanta, Ga, is announced for Wood
lawn, WhatcOm county.
The Yakima valley is expected to
produce from so to IS per cent Of a
full crop of apples.
George w. Barnes, purser of the
steamship Watson, committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid while in
Seattle.
At Tacoma Frank Harvey, who shot
and killed Gertrude Yall July 1, plead
ed guilty to manslaughter
Hinderk Busman, proprietor of a
North Yakima saloon, fatally shot him
self through the breast recently.
The fire department of the city of
Davenport has received a new hook
and ladder truck with 20 feet of ladder
and 10 buckets for fighting fire. This
is a long-needed addition to the fire
lighting apparatus of the town.
Mr.. and Mrs B. e. Stockwell's 49,
month-old baby was fatally burned at
Hillyard recently by carbOlic acid from
a bottle that fell from a shelf. The
child suffered five hours.
1t has been discovered that W. H
Watson, now in Jail in Seattle fol
stealing $4,000 from the California
Saw works, was a poker fiend.
1t cost King county $4,000 to FIND
that Chester Thompson was insane
when he shot Judge Emory One Of
the insanity experts presented a bill
for $4,000
Washington's attorney general will
appear before the Oregon supreme
court to defend the fishermen arrested
and convicted of violating the Oregon
fishing laws, and if the court decides
against the fishermen the attorney gen
eral will appeal to the supreme cour
of the United States. The case arise
because Washington authorities pei
nit the use of purse nets in the Col
umbia river, while Oregon laws pre-
: hibit purse seines.
The new steam heating plant 70
the Colfax high school building ha
) arrived.
2 The new law provides that when
2 shipper shall make application to
railroad for cars, not to exceed 10 1
{ one day, the railroad shall furnish tn
4 cars within six days or pay a demul
e rage charge to the shipper of 81 pc
r day for each car asked for.
l Bonds offered by North Yakima ar
not considered legal, so there will b
a no paving now
= George Lebebvre. a first-class fir,
!. man on the battleship Nebraska, wa
Y fatally shot by Marine Guard Steven
at the Puget Sound navy yard recent.
d Thomas benson. of Davenport, die
d recently at the age of so years.
T The wheat harvest is progressin
rapidly, but reports received say tn;
n not more than one-third of the crop
It threshed. The market remains fir
h and quotations were advanced IL ceI
It today on all grades.
e Twenty-Five men fought a fire th'
o destroyed a dry kiln containing 10000
r shingles owned by Rule & Miller, ;
Dewey, Wash, near Bellingham.
q The 4-year-old son of w. H. Nulf I
d, Aberdeen got hold of a loaded % ca
IS Der rifle the other day and while pla
e. ing with it the weapon was discharge
d the ball striking a 16-months- old bal
and INJECTING a wound which is expe
IT ted to prove fatal.
T. Earl d. Douglas, who was employ'
TT as a carpenter on the dock at Greek
n Bros new mill at Raymond, fell in
Is the river recently and was browne
in Mrs. Plat NJ. CORDIALLY of Wenatch'
died recently from the effects of f;
re from a hammock.
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is When you can fully realize 4