Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-04-13
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.

t~@A NAA1 Mtths
Fire has destroyed the residence of
L. H. Koontz with practically all the
contents at Pasco.
Italians working six miles west of
Cheney found a dead man about 100
yards south of the railroad track.
Stockholders in the Columbia Valley
Bank of Wenatchee are to open new
banking institution at Cashmere.
Ed Sinclair was acquitted by a jury
at Walla Walla of the murder of Gust
kostovos, a Greek restaurant man.
Hon. S. c. Hyde has been appointed
justice of the peace by the county
commissioners of Spokane recently.
A large package of dynamite was
found in the street opposite the home
of f. E. Ping at Wenatchee recently.
Benton county will have a term of
the sdperiour court on the 18th of
this month that will probably last
week.
The Waterville city council has ac-
cepted the bid of the state for the
purchase of $4,000 worth of water
bonds.
The C. & o. S. S. company are con-
structing a new river steamer to be
known as the Okanogan for the upper
Columbia river.
The Wenatchee city council has pur-
chased a $4,000 combination chemical
and hose cart for further fire protec-
ton to the city.
The Kennewick Courier has been
declared the official paper of Benton
county for the period from July 1,
1907, to July l. 1908.
The shout of fire by some one in
the gallery of the Savoy theater, Ia
coma, started a panic Sunday after
noon. No one was seriously hurt.
Lyman Shotwell and Ira Collier won
the Wenatchee high school declama-
tory contest and-will represent that
- at Seattle and Pullman May 17-1S.
Captain c. o. Lorenzo, a pioneer
resident of Tacoma, was stricken with
heart failure Sunday and falling to the
ground died before assistance reached
him.
A train on the Spokane Falls &
Northern crashed into a boulder three
miles this side of Myncaster, B. c.
Sunday morning Engineer JEFF Irby
was the only one injured
The commissioners of Douglas coun
ty have designated May 4 as the day
on which a special election is to be
held in Coulee City to vote on the in
corporation of that town.
The state has filed on approximately
10000 acres of land in Whatcom coun
ty in the United States land Office al
Seattle. The state claims this LAND
as indemnity for lost common schoo
grants.
Leslie Larson, the year old son o.
L. e. Larson. living at Hatton, Wash.
died recently. The little fellow fel
into a vat of boiling water and was
, terribly scalded, living but 40 hour.
afterward.
r William Constantine was founC
guilty at Seattle Of assault with ;
2 deadly weapon with intent to com
NIT murder. Constantine fired 81,
3 shots at Jesse Hall, his son In law
all Of which took. effect in the man.
( body Hall recovered from tn,
= wounds.
. Four men, believed beyond doubt Il
e be the desperate bandits who, des
pite a rain of bullets from officers
a ooolly exploded charge after charg
s of dynamite against the doors of tn
. safe Of the Ephrata bank and late
l. escaped into the darkness. we're car
. tured about eight miles from Ephrata
] The amount of booty secured will no
exceed $50, and has been recovered
/. All the dynamite used failed to pene
,, trate the inner vault of the safe, wher
= the treasure is kept
S Whitman County Notes.
Spring work is greatly delayed. Seed
I ing is just begun, but the farmers ar
ever hopeful.
J. Albert Powell, during the nine year
; he has been sexton of Colfax GENE
terry, has taken part in burying 81
5 bodies.
Recently ~ Of the farmers in tn
! vicinity of Cotton closed a deal wit
- NJ. c. Gray of Pullman for a Blacl
Shire stallion.
The horse show which will be give
on Saturday, April 10, at Colfax prom
' ises to be largely attended and will b
+ an important event.
: ]. e. Kincaid, who was seriously in
jured by being thrown from his horse
is suffering from conclusion of tn
brain. is mending rather slowly.
!, Prosecuting Attorney Kipp has file
. two complains charging John Redmal
=. Of Endicott and Bernard Riley Of Pull
!, man with being habitual drunkards.
. After a contest for over two years
with several petitions and remonstrar
ces, B. Y. Rainey was granted saloo
license at La Crosse by the board Q
county commissioners.
: The board of county commissioner
has refunded the payment to the o. +
. & N. of the per cent discount on tn
:, payment of their taxes on real prof.
] erty, amounting to s1161.7S, which wa
paid three days late.
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