Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-03-02
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-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

bclOIt next ciOp.
Master painters of Tacoma have de-
cided for an open shop policy after
March /, regardless of the action Of
the union.
Walla Walla county has been the
hardest hit of any of the eastern
Washington sections on account Of
washouts, thousands upon thousands
of dollars worth of damage being done
the roads and farms, aside from the
damage the railroads have received.
Copies of the Indian war records for
the state of Washington have been
completed and forwarded from Wash
ington to Olympia. They contain a
record of all Indian wars in this state
with a roster Of all those who took
part in them.
A. c. Steinman Of Ellensburg has
assumed the duties as receiver Of the
North Yakima land office.
Jack O'Keefe, pioneer of Asotin
county, died recently.
The seventh annual convention of
the Washington Letter Carriers asso-
cation was held in Seattle Friday Of
this week.
George Hubner was crushed to death
recently by rolling log in England's
logging camp near Castle Rock
Tacoma has been selected by the Co
lumbia conference as their next place
of meeting in the fall.
S. Gardner Yerkes, assistant general
passenger agent of the Great North
ern railway, has resigned his position
with the Hill line, to become effective
March 1.
Serving a sentence of four days in
the city jail as a man, dressed in
mems clothing and confined in the
tank" with a dozen seasoned hoboes.
was the experience of Edna Elliott.
who. seeming to be unable to keep
out of trouble, was convicted of petty
larceny in Spokane and sentenced tc
pay a fine of 800 and costs.
The Chelan Commercial club, at its
last meeting. passed resolutions In
yiting the Mountaineering club of Sc
attic to hold its first annual outing
on Lake Chelan, and pledged its mem
bers, in the event of the acceptance
of the invitation. to do all in their
taineers agreeable.
Judge James X. Kennedy, an old
and well known lawyer and former as
sociate justice of the supreme court
of the territory Of Washington, died
at his home in Walla Walla recently,
aged "a. Death was due to heart dis
ease.
Arrangements have been made for
Spokane to hold its second annual big
cleaning day under the direction of the
City Beautiful committee of the $780,
900 club
News has just been received that the
wages of miners in the Roslyn and Gle
alum districts have recently been ad-
vanced 10 per cent In view of the
scarcity Of fuel during the past win
ter, this increase may become bene-
fetal to the coal market if it remains
permanent.
Il. w. Downen has sold his farm, ~
ing between Pullman and Wawawai
to w. L. LaFollette, the fruit king" of
Wawawai, for $4,000. The farm con
tains $40 acres and is well improved.
1t is said trains will be running from
Tacoma to Spokane over the North
Coast railway in two and half years.
Tacoma will be the first large city
reached by our line after passing
through the Tieton pass.
Acting under orders OF Mayor Moore
and Chief Wappenstein, the Seattle po-
lice Sunday enforced the Sunday clos
ing law in identically the same manner
as on last Sabbath.
The Tacoma saloons were closed
tight Sunday and few infractions of
the Sunday closing law have been re-
ported.
The legislative investigation now in
progress into the conduct of the Office
of the state land commissioner has
brought out prominently the fact that
standing timber on the lands owned by
the state is being sold at from 20 cents
to 30 cents per thousand feet less than
it could be sold under the same law
with a slight amendment permitting |
the purchasers two or four years more |
time within which to remove the tim |
Der purchased. This is the testimony |
of all witnesses examined on this |
punt NAtAoub q oluElc CNCtpllJu.
Back Of this is another very per
tinent fact not alluded to in the |
testimony, and that is that the pres
en- law was passed by the legislature |
Of 1897 at the instigation of the log
ging interests. the purchasers of the
state timber under these conditions.
That law is cheating the school chill
dTen of Washington out Of from $780,
600 to $4,000 a year and the money
goes into the pockets of the big. rich
logging companies of the state, who
are organized into trust to keep up
the price of logs and make the con-
sumers pay more for their timber.
Saturday morning the 6-year-old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Storie of Palouse
City was taken suddenly i'll with con-
sestion Of the lungs and died within
a few hours. The mother died during
the evening. Her death was due part
~ to the shock occasisned by the loss
of her only son. Their newborn babe
lived but a little while after birth. :