Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-12-05
NORTHWEST ITEMS
NEWS OF IDAHO, N NTAN,,
WASHING TON AND ORIGIN.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WROF1lifoi O'N - -'''o
Olympia is to have new Y. NJ. C. A.
building.
The organization of state bank at
Colfax is authorized.
w. V. Tanner, Seattle man, is now
assistant attorney general.
The Palouse flour mill, owned by the
Potlateh Lumber company, is being re- !
modelled at an expense of $4,000.
Township organization carried in the
following counties at the recent cleo
ton: Clark, Lewis, Skagit and Spo-
kane.
The Oregon Railway & Navigat- IN
company has made cash donation of
$1,000 to the National Apple show at
Spokane.
Hosea Wise and Joseph Stennaker,
prisoners. and Private Adolph Sprunkel
have deserted from Fort Wright, near
Spokane.
With most impressive ceremonies the
new Catholic church, Our Lady of
Lourdes, at Spokane, was dedicated
last week.
A terrible beating was administered
by three armed thugs to II. b. Kirk
patrick, a plumber of Latah, Wash, at
Spokane recently.
Leo Bezemer, accused kidnaper of e.
L. English, will not be tried for the
alleged offense until the February jury
term in Skagit county.
Hugh Mcmahon, manager of the
American cafe and a well known bust
ness man, was found Saturday, muir
dered, in the front yard of his home in
Seattle
} With her pumps keeping the hold free
of water from the leak in her bottom,
! the steam schooner Northland of the
, Ketchikan Steamship company has ar
rived in Seattle.
North Yakima, Wash.-J. II. Barnard
was struck by a freight engine early
, Saturday evening. He not only escaped
death, but two panes of glass he was
D carrying were not broken.
I The official county of Washington for
, president is: Taft 1O6,310, Bryan So
e 3s3, Debs 14,177, Hisgen 24s, Chain
47O0 For governors: Cosgrove, repub-
lican, 100; Pattison, democrat, S.
h 1926.
? Recently Fred Mailloux, North Yak
d ina grocer, placed 1915 in checks, paper
/, money and gold in the stove with waste
: paper. He was able to recover the
l. gold and portion of the paper. His
II loss will amount to about $35.
The affairs of the state insurance
n office viii undoubtedly be investigated
N at the next session of the legislature
~ owing to J. II. Shively's connection
. with the defunct Spokane Livestock n
10 surance company at Spokane.
~ AS the result of an investigation OF
n the records of County Treasurer West OF
10 Wahkiakum county that official has
. been arrested on charge of embez
ling sums aggregating nearly $4,000
~ He is now under $4,000 bonds.
~ Representatives of the companies
" owning 90 per cent of the oysters il
~ Willapa bay have organized a sale
y agency, to be known as the North Pa
~ cifc Oyster Agency, through which al
IN the oysters will hereafter be sold
~ A gain of $2,O23, 723, or 81 per cent
of is shown by the Spokane bank clearing
-. for last week over the correspondent
week of last year. For the week ende
Saturday the cleariDgs were $5,Ss5,42
and for the same week last year, 1851
7O1.
George Brown, alias West, and Wi
10 liam Brown pleaded guilty at Tacom
on, to holding up a saloon recently an
were sentenced to to 20 years
prison They were the men who hel
/. up the streetears at Portland and Il
10. coma.
tn, Carelessness on the part of me
chants and others in cashing checks f
strangers has made forgery so easy tn
16s the Washington State Bankers assoc
alton has sent out a warning advisil
patrons to cash no checks or drafts
unidentified strangers.
jealous crazed Fred Swindle, fan
hand formerly employed on the fan
the of Mrs. Rose Huffman, a widow livi
Of 1S miles from Vancouver, riddled A.
cot Newell, who married Mrs Huffman fo
ror days ago, with bullets and attempted
80 kill the bride. He then committed 5
col eide.
ing The Pacific Coast Elevator compan,
gun warehouse at Tilma, three miles east
; to Tekoa, was destroyed by fire with
inv its contents. The building contain
rae $500 bushels of wheat and lis tons
ex- oats A. Bittner, a farmer living
,rts- the Cove, lost 100 bushels of whe
Sep. and several bushels of wheat and o
belonged to l.. Wallner.