Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-21
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 STATE NEWS.


of Seattle rendered his resignation.
The lowands between Puyallup and
Tacoma are again In danger of over
flow.
The president has nominated VIII
liam r. Baker to be postmaster at Col
vile, Wash.
Washington and Oregon flour mil
Iers have reduced the price of flour 10
cents a barrel.
Floods are threatened in the Puyal-
Iup White and Stuck rivers by the
excessive rains.
The new gas producing power plant
of the Wenatchee Electric company
has been put in operation.
Operations of the Spokane, Portland
. & Seattle railroad commenced from
Vancouver to Pasco Monday.
Two cases of smallpox have been
discovered in the schools at North
Yakima by Health officer Helton.
English sparrows are to be exter-
minated in Walla Walla If this much
desired result can be brought about.
Crazed with liquor and grief be-
cause his wife would not return to
him. James Cosgrove of Bellingham
killed himself
The strike in the Potlatch Lumber
company's big mill at Potlatch is as
Stunning large proportions and much
uneasiness is felt
Moyar Lott of Orting will not permit
school to be held in the school build
ing unless the structure is properly
protected against fire.
Three girls were born to the Rev.
and Mrs Henry Brockman of Kenne-
wick recently. Two of the little girls
died IL hours after birth.
Dutch Jake" of Spokane has taken
an option on land at Bremerton, near
Seattle, upon which he intends to erect
a hotel and vaudeville theater.
J. o. Ostby, president of the de-
funct Citizens State bank of Brewster,
has been arrested on a charge of re-
ceiving deposits after the bank was
insolvent.
Peter Wagenaar has sold his farm
six miles west of Ritzville to j. W..
Anderson, farmer of Pullman, Wash,
for $33 290 The land comprises 1890
acres
After disposing of $4,000 boxes Of
apples. the surplus of the Yakima Val
ley Horticultural union, e. r. Samson
has returned from trip to the middle
west and south.
Not for years has Walla Walla faced
so serious a situation as it does this
week from floods, which come from
the Blue Mountains and have made
Mill creek a roaring torrent
Mrs. Margaret Glidden. wife of Hen
nv Glidden, formerly broker of Sc
attic and the son of the late S. S.
Glidden, wealthy Spokane banker, was
found dead in her room at Seattle Sat
urday.
Charles ID. Curry and wife of Spo-
kane. who were mysteriously shot
early Thursday morning, are reported
TO be on the fair road to recovery and
no fear concerning their condition is
expressed
DIR. d. b. Harrison of Palouse has
left for the Philippine islands to close
deal whereby four Inland Empire
men will come into possession of 30
600 acres of valuable land located in
the islands.
The farmers of the wheat belt lying
south of Colfax, between there and the
Snake river. have organized COM
pany for the construction and oper-
alton of the most extensive system of
rural telephone lines ever attempted
in that part OF the northwest.
At Renton, IL miles from Seattle,
part of the town is under water and
the river is within two feet and half
of the food mark made in 1906. Bot
tom land farms along both rivers have
been changed into lakes
William Maxwell, former auditor of
the Potlatch Lumber company, plead
ed guilty in the Whitman county SUI
perior court of obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses, and was given an
indeterminate sentence of not less
than one year nor more than five
years in the penitentiary.
A special train equipped with ex-
hibits and a lecture platform will be
run over the Spokane & Inland March
81 and %, and if the plans of the com
mittee in charge of next December
big apple show are carried out similar
trains will be run over the o. r. &c n
and into Stevens county. The trains
will be accompanied by number Of
men trained as specialists in fruit
growing, who will deliver lectures a
each stop. These will include PROBES
sors A. L. Melander and Walter
Thornber of the Washington Stat
college.
OREGON SQUiB3.
Thomas G. HALEY, former justice o