Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-09-21
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.

A library under the new state law
seems assured for Ellensburg.
Six persons were injured Saturday
morning when a Puyallup car crashed
into the rear end of Fern Hill tripper
lat Tacoma.
A thief entered a rear door of
Swift's pharmacy, in Seattle, recently,
removed the cash drawer in the same
in the back room and made away with
approximately $500.
There is a strong grange movement
OF in Kittitas county now among the
farmers.
Pinkerton detectives are now at
work ON the recent $4,000 robbery of
the Auburn bank.
A movement has been started among
the various county clerks of the state
to form a state organization to meet
once each year.
The new directory just issued gives
Ellensburg a population Of approx
mately $500.
Louis Grossmiller, a Walla Walla
saloon keeper, recently received a
maximum fine of $500 for selling
liquor to a probated drunkard.
Hop picking is now at high tide
and it appears that more of the grow
ers around North Yakima are picking
their crops than was expected.
The directors of the Yakima Valley
Transportation company have decided
to abide by the original franchise
granted them and will proceed with
the construction of their line at once
Friends of Carl Braun, who was
killed by a Tacoma interurban train
now advance the theory that he sat
down on the track with suicidal in
tent.
United States Deputy Marshal Pray
recently shot and killed Dan Stafford
who was resisting arrest at his ranch
near Bissel. Stafford was indicted
for selling liquor to an Indian.
That Electric Locomotive Engineer
o. w. Frost had died of apoplexy JUS
before the wreck was expressed as the
belief of Inland Empire railway of
ficials for the cause OF a freight col
lision at Freeman recently.
A grand jury for Whitman count!
has been called under the direction o
Judge Chadwick of the superior court
Plans are already been made for thu
annual potatch and lovefeast givel
by the Yakima Indians.
The formal opening of the new pow
er plant of the Northwest Light ant
Power company, of North Yakima, oC
: CURED Sunday.
c. L. Mackenzie of Colfax, and Ed
ward Riggs of Portland, have close
deal for the purchase of the electri
light plant in Chehalis.
One hundred and fifty thousand CT
: bic yards of solid rock was blown GU
9 and crumbled into pieces in size small
er than a mans body and much of tn
r debris was no bigger than man
head when the charge went off q
- Hooper, Wash, on the North Ban
4 road a few days ago.
Harvesting is about completed
4 Asotin county. and every one reports
O good yield.
It Poole & Tyler's grocery store
IS Tekoa, was entered by thieves recent
It and robbed Of $110 in cash. Nothin
Il else was touched.
A suit involving millions of dollar
k worth of Seattle tide lands, brougl
o by Attorney w. F. Hays in the Olyr
rs pia superior court against c. b. Russo
}. and others, has been ordered tran
% ferred for trial to King county by S
Is perior Judge Linn.