Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-03-30
WASHINGTON NOTES.

An epidemic of meningitis is rag.
ing at Seattle.
Selah valley farmers are shipping
potatoes to the sound markets.
The president has appointed L. c.
Weik postmaster at Odessa, Wash.
An officer to trace cars will be re-
established by the Great Northern in
spokane.
The grand nest OF the Brotherhood
of Owls has moved from Walla Walla
TO Seattle.
building contractors Of Walla Walla
claim that a sand trust has been or
ganized in that city.
The Stevens county sawmills are
preparing, almost as a whole. to start
work saving on April 1.
Secretary Taft, Governor Hughes
and Governor Folk may visit this
state during the coming summer.
The first steel passenger coach to
come to Spokane arrived Saturday
over the o. r. & N. from Portland.
The first strawberry of the season
has made its appearance in the Hover
end of the KennewickHo valley.
EVERY physician in North Yakima
is violating the state law because
they have not registered their license
The Northern Pacific announces
that on March 2S the resumption OF
through freight east will be resumed
There is no longer any doubt about
the Canadian Pacific using the o. r
& n. tracks from Spokane to Port
land.
Jennie Jackson. an unmarried In
dian woman living on the Puyallup
reservation, was recently killed by a
train.
The plumbers union of Spokane is
said to have decided to raise the scale
of wages from $3.50 to Sc for day OF
eight hours.
Fred Miller, murderer Of Fritz Diertz
was hung at the penitentiary Friday
He totally collapsed at sight of the
rope and tainted.
A tract of 50 acres of land near
Cornell has been selected by the state
college for the experimental purposes
during the coming season.
The Columbia club of Vancouver is
a recently organized club of Vancou-
yer for the purpose of promoting the
commercial interests of Vancouver.
w. NJ. Allen, chief clerk in the Uni
ted States land Office at Waterville for
the past six years, has received no
tice Of his transfer to the Seattle Of
fee.
The general land Office has just is
sued a circular announcing that no
definite date can be named for open
ing the Yakima reservation for settle
ment.
Missing for two weeks, and believed
to have met with foul play, N. p.
Nelson, a bachelor living recently in
Seattle, is being sought for by his
friends.
The disagreement between the Sc
attic master builders association and
the building trades assembly on the
scale of wages for unsldlled labor has
now reached a point where there is
little prospect of any settlement.
Washington. says the Railway Age,
the foremost authority on railroad
matters. leads the world in the num-
Der Of miles Of roadway under con
struction. $50. OF this amount Mes
srs. Hill and Hartman are behind the
building of no miles.
Whitman County Notes.
Augustus Motz has been appointed
postmaster at Elberton.
The poll tax collectors are now max
ing their rounds throughout the
county.
Calvin McCracken, a former pioneer
resident Of Whitman county. passed
away at his home in Charleston recent
ly.
The 26th session Of the Whitman
County Teachers institute is in SEES
sion this week, $50 teachers are pres
emit
The Colfax Commercial club has or
dered 10000 copies of a pamphlet