Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-02-23
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Just before the southbound passen-
ser train on the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation line entered Hay station
Saturday evening, DoLielle Pomanu, a,
well-dresssd Italian, smashed a win
dow and leaped from the running
train and was instantly killed.
After shooting his divorced wife
four times and inflicting fatal injuries,
Louis Mazoretsky, a well to do second
hand dealer Of Vancouver, sent bull
let through his own head, killing him
self instantly
Reduction Of rs per cent in fire in
surance rates throughout the north
west, practically reestablishing the
rates that were in effect before the
raise subsequent to the San Francisco
fire, is to be made at once.
A workman on the St. Paul road
was killed recently eight miles south
of Sprague by falling from a wagon
while in an intoxicated condition. His
lame is said TO be G. Thamaker.
A head-on collision occurred recent
ly between two freight trains at Mel.
sons siding, near Clealum. No one was
killed. The cars we're badly piled up
requiring eight hours work by two
wrecking crews to clear the lines.
Among the new buildings in Spo
kane none is more notable than the
structure just completed and occupied
by the Holley-Mason Hardware com
pany, at the southeast corner Of Rail
road avenue and Howard street. 1t is
the only reinforced concrete building
In Spokane, and is perhaps the best
structure of its kind in the northwest
It was built at a cost of 100000. The
building is six stories high, with base
ment, and has a frontage of $50 fee
on Howard street and a depth Of 15(
feet.
Mrs. Caroline Kline Galland, one o.
the wealthiest residents of Seattle
who died recently, left a WILL by thu
terms OF which nearly every dolla
Of an estate estimated to be wortl
nearly a million and a half dollars
goes to charity.
The Pacific Coast Coal company hal
grantee an increase in wages to thu
employees in its various coal propertie
the new scale having gone into effec
about the first of February. The rails
amounts to about 10 per cent
Many hundreds of tons of hay ar
held in the Palouse warehouses b,
the farmers. waiting for the price t
reach $40. Dealers are now offerin
$40 at the warehouse.
James Bunch, who recently entere
the home of Levi Wiley in the cas-
part of Palouse and after almost xii
ing Mrs. Wiley. set fire to the hous
and cut his own throat, is lying at tn
Palouse general hospital, too wea
from loss of blood to talk. His r.
/, covery, however, is practically Gel
tain, and as soon as he is able to leav
the hospital he will be arraigned o
the charge of attempted murder.
Krupp's first brick building is abou
completed.
A Chinook wind is anxiously locke
for by stockmen.
At the end Of the fourth week {
the Washington legislature the senat
has passed 40 senate bills and 27 hous
5 bills, total Of rs, and the house ha
passed 20 house bills and IA senat
bal, a total OF "a. The number {
these bills that have passed bot
: houses, therefore, is Al, of which z
originated in the house and IA origina
ed in the senate. OF these 10 hav
6 been signed by the governor.
Spokane county Is given another s.
perior court judge, to be appointed 1
, once by the governor in the new omn
! bus judicial districting bill agreed u
on today by the subcommittee Of II
, state judiciary committee.
. Tacoma was closed tighter Sunda
than ever before in the history Of IL
city. The saloons did not make a
|, attempt to open. Practically all Of Il
p cigar dealers announced their int
ton of keeping their stores closed ais