Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-01-25
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Ile B6uSTdi lduQ OllCc DIT w aShiih SOh,
d. c., and will return to this state SO
that he may make the race for the re-
publican nomination for governor.
A full grown cougar has made its
appearance in the vicinity of the Lew
is Cochran farm, six miles northeast
of Colfax, and is terrorizing the people
of that community.
After celebrating about two hours
the jury In the Gertie Griffin murder
trial at Ritzville returned a verdict of
not guilty
The Spokane high school debating
team Friday night outpointed the
Wenatchee high school team in the
state interscholastic contest.
Graduates of the Spokane high
school who have completed the four
years course satisfactorily will in the
future be permitted to enter the Ar
mour Institute of Technology without
first taking the examinations.
John Haff of the cruiser st. Louis
is dead at Vallejo, Cal, from the eff
fects of drinking wood alcohol Half
is the third sailor to succumb, two 9th
ers are totally blind, and five others
will never again be fit for active SER
vice.
AS result of the tong war being
waged in San Francisco, Lung Chow
was fatally shot recently Two assas-
sins attempted to kill Jung Dang,
whose life was sought, but the bullets
went wild and killed Lung Chow.
The new cruiser California went to
sea from San Francisco recently for
her final trial The navy trial board
was on board and it is intended to
keep the cruiser at hard work for two
days before an official opinion is
formed.
J. ]. O'Connor of Wenatchee drove
the first team and rig across the big
Columbia river bridge at Wenatchee.
1t consisted of sleighload of people,
among whom was Judge r. S. Steiner
of Waterville.
George Lucas, a well known pioneer
of central Washington, died at Cheney
Saturday night. He located on Cow
creek. southeast of Ritzville so years
ago, and resided there until four years
ago.
Richard David Harrington. aged SO,
died at the hospital at Fort Stella
COON recently, where he had been
since his health failed some two years
ago. Mr.. Harrington had lived 67
years of his life on the Pacific coast.
At the annual meeting of the State
Bee Keepers association at North
Yakima recently, H. H. Cole was elect
ed president; L. r. Freeman, secre-
tary; August Sipp. treasurer, and
Jesse w. Thornton, vice president.
The recent assessors convention
was the most important gathering of
assessors in the history of the state.
1t records the first determined step
toward a uniform taxation system for
the entire state.
An increase in the jobbing business
of Walla Walla for the year 1907 ovcr
1906 amounting to rs or 80 per cent is
reported.
The plant of the suspended morning
edition of the Seattle Times has been
bought by r. F. Radebaugh of Tacoma,
who will take it to that place.
The body of Lillian Pratt. aged %.
who mysteriously disappeared from
her home in Tacoma on May q last,
was found in a dense thicket on the
outskirts of the city recently by sur
veying crew.
The New York police and private
detectives have been asked to look
for Horace w. Randall, vice president
of the Hoquiam Lumber company of
Hoquiam. Wash, who went there sew
eral weeks ago to visit friends, and
seems to have mysteriously disap-
peared.
Henry Brook, a Spokane pioneer,
died on the steamship Roanoke on the
Columbia river, January 16, while on
his way to California.
First chloroforming A. c. Finley,
who was asleep in his room upstairs,
two yeggmen recently dynamited the
safe in the ]. c. Calder general mer-
chandise store at Silver Beach, a sub
urb of Bellingham, and escaped with
1858 in cash and checks.
After a five year lease of state land
has been once renewed for a similar
period. no more renewals are permits
sible, under the law, according to an
opinion rendered to the state land
commissioner by the attorney general.
The Exchange bank of Blaine has
closed its doors.
The problem of the unemployed has
already begun to trouble the public
authorities in Seattle.
Tacoma jobbers of feed announce
a reduction of / ton in the price of
oats and alfalfa and timothy hay. Oats
are now quoted at $50 and s31 a ton
and alfalfa at $14 and SIS and timothy
at S24.
The board of health unanimously
I'D % I.