Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-10-05
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, GaEGON
AND kgAT ANA NEWS.
4 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 NOTES.

y CaVanduBn.
Children under Is cannot escape
The state law and must be sent to
school.
In future all cars of lumber will
be weighed on scales provided by the
Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacture
ers' association before they cross the
FOUNTAINS eastward bound.
A logging train on the England
lact, near Castle Rock, ran away
few days ago and demolished the
whole outfit.
Lyle Hornbeck was shot and in
stantly killed in the residence of
lean Winterstein at Toppenish.
who was a friend of Win
terstein, went into the latter's house
late in the evening and Winterstein,
believing him to be a burglar, fired.
All southeastern Washington and
the Yakima valley joined Saturday
night in the first annual banquet of
the Kennewick Commercial club
The event was also made the for
nal opening of the new Kennewick
hotel The open river was the
theme of the banquet.
Adjutant General Ortis Hamilton,
Of the National Guard of Washing
ton, has appointed a board to revise
the military code and regulations for
the state.
John T. Kennedy was hurled to
his death into the Columbia river
from the new bridge of the Portland
& Seattle railroad at Vancouver.
A line of boats is to be put on the
Columbia river between Pasco and
Portland, operating with the portage
railroad at Cello as a connecting
link.
Congressman w. L. Jones will be
in Spokane to deliver the principal
address in connection with the lay
ing of the cornerstone of the new
federal building on Thursday, Octo
Der 3.
Justice Palmer of Wenatchee has
closed his fourth docket as police
justice, showing 1900 cases passing
through his hands the past five
years.
Harvest work is near an end.
Jacob Kibler 81 years old and g
pioneer of Walla Walla vaIey is
dead from a stroke of apoplexy.
The week just closed has wit
messed the largest wheat sales a
Walla Walla during the present sea
son.
The twelfth annual state fair Sat
urday night closed the most success
full year in it's history.
Clinton d. Town of Waterville ha
been nominated by Congressman
Wesley L. Jones to fill one of tn
two vacancies as a cadet at the An
napolis naval academy.
Frank Doyle, aged 20 years,
brakeman in the service of tn
Northern Pacific, was crushed t.
death under the wheels of a freigh
car in the freight yard at Tacom
Saturday.
The committee of the Toppenis
Commercial club has made a call TO
bids for the construction of a bridg
across the Yakima river two and one
half miles north.
The general opinion of grain dea
ers in Spokane is that the crop thi
year is but slightly damaged so far
the heavy rains, and that there is g
ing to be a heavy yield.
The total apple acreage in this stat
is near the 100000, and the trees al
heavily laden. The crop is estimate
by growers and inspectors to be wort
from 100000 to S10,000,O00 thi
season. and of this more than $4,000
600 will be paid for fruit packed fC
export
Gladys F. Baker, of Seattle, has s
cured a decree of divorce from Charlie
H. Baker on the grounds of abandon
uent.
John Sanger, who recently can
to North Yakima from New Yor
where he was a stock broker, hS
closed a deal for the purchase Of II
, P. j. Flint ranch in Parker bottom fl
$50, 1000.
: The steam schooner Santa Barbar
] DOuuu IIDu Otdlllt W NdtuCAs oil w
the rocks in Active pass, Puget SCUM
tearing a great hole in her hull.
Prosecuting Attorney B. E. Bon
of Hoquiam has publicly announce
that dance halls must go.
|. Otto La Budde of Walla Wal
holds the record for the large
peaches which have ever been grow
in that county. Mr.. La Budde secure
three boxes of peaches from trees
his yard which averaged one pour
each and measured IS inches in G.
conference. A few of the peach
ever exceeded the above figures.
Next Monday. October Z. the VIII
man county fair and live stock she
d opens at Colfax for six days. Ever
n thing is in readiness and all tn
is needed is good weather to insu
n one of the best fairs in the histo
9 Of the county.
t H. H. Tidd, an old civil war W
n eran. was found dead in his room