Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-05-02
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

A grand total of $135, 404 1928 in de-
posits was held in all the state and
national banks in the state of Wash
ingtOn at the close of business on
February IA of this year.
The Pacific e. Southeastern Railway
company capitalized at $4,000, 900,
has filed articles of incorporation. The
company will have a terminus at Ia
coma and extend across the state of
Washington, tapping the richest parts
of the state. Ultimately the line will
form part of transcontinental sys-
tenn Branches will be built to Spo-
kane, Seattle, Portland and British
Columbia.
The IS months old daughter of
George Gerlitz, a farmer near Dusty,
died after nearly three weeks intense
suffering as the result of an accidental
scalding which occurred to the child
April g.
The fifth annual horse show at
Waitsburg Saturday was by far the
best yet held, $500 people being here
and 112 well-bred horses on parade
The Lincoln County Pioneers and
Historical association has decided to
hold the picnic this year on June 20,
"a and 25, owing to advantages to be
derived by the Davenport and Wilbur
fairs, which will be held directly fol-
lowing
Laying 90-pound steel at rate three
times as fast as was ever made by
the same number of men with rails
half as heavy and pursuing old-time
methods, is the daily performance of
a gang of 1875 men using a tracklay-
ing machine on the Chicago, Malwau-
kee G st. Paul extension west of
Othello. Douglas county
Twenty horses and mules of the
finest breed. and ranging in cost from
several hundred dollars to $4,000 were
in the parade of the first horse show
ever held at Ritzville Saturday. Over
500 people were in attendance
Pullman is to have free delivery of
mail August 1, when two carriers will
be put to work in the city.
The sensational disappearance of
Fred Hays, a teamster of North YalSi-
ma, last fall, in the Black Rock hills is
believed to have been cleared up by
the finding of body in the mountains
a few days ago.
The senate has passed bill for the
erection of public building at Ever.
EFT.
Spokane's new postofilce gets $751;
900 in sundry civil bills reported Sat
urday. The Columbia river appropri-
alton was cut from 100000 for inn
provements at the mouth estimated
by engineers to $1.450,000 and from
100000 for the Three Mile rapids at
Cello to $4,000, both on continuing
contracts.
Fourteen prisoners from Spokane
county, including two women, who
have been sentenced to indeterminate
sentences in the state penitentiary
ranging from 1 to 20 years, were sent
to Walla Walla prison this week.
Jack Kidd, a Milwaukee railroad la
borer, aged SO years, attempted to
commit suicide in the Tekoa city Jail
Sunday afternoon by cutting his throat
with a pocket knife, and succeeded in
ly prove fatal.
United States Senator Samuel II
Piles of Seattle has been put in pos
session of a one-half interest of the
John Sullivan estate, valued approx
mately at 100000. This ends liti
cation that has extended over a period
of eight years and which has been
in, h.. e a.
Sullivan family in Ireland well aired
in the various courts of this state.
Pullman is to have a big conven
ton when the first convention of the
Farmers Educational and Cooperative
union for the Inland Empire is helC
there, June Is and 16.
w. &c. Gage, railroad contractor, re
ports that no heavy railroad construc
ton on the North Coasts proposed
line is likely to be undertaken within
the next six months.
A message from Watrous, n M
states that Willis and Burt Cooper
grown sons of Mrs Zacharias Taylo
Cooper of Rosalia, were suffocated a
the bottom of a 60-foot well they wer
digging on their mothers ranch, b.
a sudden flow of. natural gas whicl
they Unexpectedly tapped.
The Great Northern and the NORTH
ern Pacific each contributed $1,000 t
the fund for the entertainment of tn
Atlantic battleship feet when it a.
rives in Seattle May %.
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