Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-01-18
NORTHWEST STATES
washington, IDAHO, oregon
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


Mrs. G. H. Pomeroy, 81 years old,
wife of a well-known lawyer, and
popular hostess of the houseboat col
Ony at Lake Washington. was drowned
an the lake recently.
The second day of Sunday closing in
North Yakima found the saloons tight
ly closed.
Bitten in the throat by a vicious
young horse, j. H. Adams, a farmer, II
miles from kirkland, bled to death
within two hours after the attack.
BY an overwhelming vote, following
three hours of heated discussion, the
state federation of labor went on rec
ord as opposed to the Sunday theater.
A disease that is supposed to be hog
cholera has been the cause of the
death of more than 100 fine p0rkers
in the immediate neighborhood of Pa
louise.
Murdered, the body of Keeyil AL
bring, the 20-year-old son of A. j. AL
bring, a rancher. living three miles
northeast of Mead, 10 miles north OF
Spokane, was found recently.
Fire broke out early Sunday morn
ing at the farm residence of Joseph
Kelly, 10 miles south of Walla Walla
resulting in the death of Benjamin, the
17-year-old son. and the severe burning
of William A. Kelly OIL Spokane, al
uncle of the dead boy
The Wenatchee Milling company re
ports that it has shipped $50 cars Of
-four during 1907. This represents
close to 100000 bushels of wheat.
Three sets of twins and six othel
children have made Henry Clay Max
well of Wapato one of the proudes
fathers in the state.
State general fund warrants neeC
not be discounted, declare members o
the state board of finance, although
some state banks are shyiocking OF
these. President Lord of the Capito
National bank announced today h'
wlIi cash at par all such warrants, al
he has done since mo fund" warrants
were issued
Promptly at IL o'clock last Satur
day night every saloon and variet.
theater and restaurant in Spokan,
stopped the sale of liquor, in compli
ance with the order of the mayor. TIT
shows will not reopen.
More than 100 young and middl
aged men have registered in the Jen
kins' institute, the Y. M. G. AS edu
cationaI department just opening.
Mary l.. Anderson of Rosalia ha
petitioned the superior court of Whit
man county to admit the will of he
late husband, ID. f. Anderson, witt
died at Rosalia recently, to probate.
AS a result of agitation by tn
sheepmen using the Rainier forest re
serve, more sheep will be permitted t
Craze on the reserve.
Two powder houses at p. WEIGH &
Co.'S camp No. 3, near Cheney, wer
blown to atoms by a dynamite explo
sion recently.
j. w. Vessey and John Peters
wealthy sheepmen with interest
around Prosser and North Yakima
and c. A. Goggin OF Seattle. stat
manager for the Loyal Americans
who left Seattle on March 20, 1907
bound for Durango. Mexico to puI
chase land, have not been heard iron
for many months. and it is feared the
have met with foul play.
The State Federation of Labo
unanimously voted to put the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle OF
the unfair list.
Rural route No. 1 has been ordere'
established April l at st. Andrews
Douglas county. serving 800 peopl
and 76 families.
Forty loaves of bread for one dolla
at Spokane is the new wholesale pric
at which the staff of life is now beini
offered