Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-10-31
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acci-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The heating plant at the Whitman
county courthouse has at last been com
pleted.
4 Three cases of smallpox have broken
out at the Stevens county poor farm
near Colville.
Dan Lee, an old resident of Winlock,
and formerly proprietor of Lee s livery
barn, committed suicide recently
At Tacoma Sarah r. Carey, aged ~,
died recently from inhaling flames when
her clothing caught fire in the kitchen
stove.
Everett Titus, Is year old boy liv-
ing one mile north of Nooksack, shot
three fingers and the thumb from his
left hand.
The McInnis Brothers livery barn
and SO head of horses at Harrington
was burned Sunday. Loss between $780,
900 and $4,000.
A. j. Hurst, Wholesale huckster of
Seattle, killed his two children and
wife and then committed suicide. Do
mestic troubles the cause.
An intoxicated man named Erickson
was killed in front of the station at
Kanasket while trying to board fast
moving westbound freight train.
]. c. Livingstone is lying at the hos
pital in Anacortes seriously injured and
may die as result of bullet wound
accidentally received while hunting.
R. A. Patton, the 1s-year-old son of
William Patton of Gate City, was acct
dentally shot and instantly killed by his
younger brother, William, last Sunday.
f. b. Halves, prohibition candidate
for the legislature from the Forty
eighth district, died recently as the re-
suit of injuries received He was run
down by Great Northern train at
Startup.
The Selah Valley Fruitgrowers' asso-
citation was organized recently by ranch
ers of that section. An expert packer
is to be employed and the association
expects to ship about $4,000 boxes of
apples this fall.
George Murukami, Japanese, has been
arrested at Bellingham, charged with
smuggling wine and tobacco from the
bringing Japanese into this country on
the return trip.
After the hardest and most sys-
tematic days work by 40 experienced
woodsmen, not a single clue to Klober
and Kumle, who were lost while hunt
has been unearthed.
The army wireless signal service sta
tions in Alaska, Eagle City, Circle City,
Fairbanks and Fort Gibbon are hand
ling the commercial and press matter
ordinarily carried by the land wires
without interruption
Frank Pinkham, an employe of the
Tacoma Mill company, has disappeared
and officials of the concern have asked
the assistance of the police in locating
him in the belief that he is responsible
for a shortage that may amount to
$4,000.
Accused of having robbed the regis
tered mails at the Bellingham postoflice
for the past three or four months, A. w.
Hadley, so years old, for the last three
years letter carrier OF Bellingham, was
recently arrested and placed in the city
jail.
Two masked men entered Bassett s
merchandise store at Fairbanks, on the
Spokane & Inland, Saturday, held up
the proprietor and two women who were
in the room, took the purse of Mr.. Bias
sett, containing about 50, and success
fully made their escape.
The proposed coyote and jackrabbit
hunt, which is to take place near We
natchee on November Q, is destined to
be the biggest event of its kind ever
pulled off in the northwest, preparations
already being made for about 1900
participants from different parts of the
state.
A special officer has been detailed in
Everett to investigate the claim of the
fire chief that three-fourths of the
fires which have occurred in Everett
during the past few months are of in
cendiary origin an dthat the fires were
set to satisfy a grudge against owners
of the property.
The body of julius Kumle, the chef
of the Hotel Hot Springs and COM
panion of Fred w. Kloeber on the dis
astrous hunting trip recently, was
found Sunday morning lying on the
north slope near the extreme top of the
Rooster Comb mountain, about four
miles north of Hot Springs. He died
of heart disease. Fred Kloeber has not
been found.
OREGON NEWS.
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