Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-11-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
j. V. De Laney, who was conductor
on the main line of the Northern Pa
cific railroad out of Spokane for many
years, died Sunday in Portland.
C. b. Halbert of Wenatchee has sold
seven acres to J. r. Taylor of the same
place for $21 900. This is the top-notch
price paid for young bearing orchard
land in the valley.
Revolving against social restrictions
recently placed on them by the faculty,
students of the state university early
Sunday morning organized opposition
that took the form of smashing college
furniture, posting proclamations against
the professors and eliminated In the
burning of an effify of President Thorn
as Franklin Kane on the campus
The will of James G. Twohy of Spo-
kane. who died in Pasadena, Cal, shows
that his estate is valued at quarter
of million dollars.
The guarantee of titles will be OBJ
tainable in Spokane in the future me
merger of all the abstract companies
in Spokane will give opportunity for
the first time of giving absolute title
insurance in Spokane county.
Governor Mead has honored the re-
auisition of the governor of ONO TOT
Edward Marxmiller, held at Seattle
and wanted at Columbus on the charge
of embezzling funds from the j. w.
Darling Lumber company.
At a meeting of the board of educa-
ton at Tacoma recently it was decided
to cut down school hours for young
pupils half an hour, allowing them to
90 home at clock each afternoon.
Roy Terney, IL years old, was ar
rested at Tacoma recently on a charge
of burglary.
The Milwaukee track-laying outfit
Thursday morning smashed all records
with the Roberts Bros. tram by laying
675O feet in hours and SO minutes.
The best previous record was three
hours. There were about 100 men EN-
ployed in the gang.
Arthur f. Horn, a prominent shingle
manufacturer of Mount Vernon and
one of the principal owners of the 81
wash Single Mill company, was acct
dentally shot and killed the other day
by pulling a loaded gun toward him
from a boat.
Firing through the skylight of a
lodging house at 1116 South G street
Tacoma, an unknown person attempted
it is believed, to assassinate guest OF
the house, A. G. Wells
After making a thorough investiga
ton into the shipping conditions a
Grays Harbor, British Consul james
Laidlaw has nominated and recon-
mended the appointment of vice con
sui at Aberdeen.
/ w. III. Gilstrap, secretary of tn
Washington Historical society, Delivers
an address at the dedication of the spo
on -Four Mound prairie, near Spokane
where the first governor, Isaac l. Ste
vens, met General George b. McClella
and assumed the full duties of hi
office.
The Wenatchee Republic, one of til
. best known publications in the nortl
west, has passed into the hands of I
. o. StechhaL and j. A. Stearns, formerl
: of Seattle
q Lairds is now the western terminI
. of the Washington, idaho & Montar
railroad, instead of Palouse City.
> This week repairs will begin on Il
Main street bridge at Waitsburg, whi'
has heen condemned.
Some of the most prominent men
3 the country will speak at the educ
tional congress at Walla Walla N
!" vember II and IS, in honor of DR.. d. J
2" Pearsons of Chicago, who has been
:" benefaetor to Whitman college to {
~ amount of $1s0,000.
a The recent rains have soaked t
- ground thoroughly and early sown f;
:, wheat is coming up well.
% Joe Angelus, an Italian laborer an I
vi employ of the Washington Water Pow
II. company at Little Falls, was stru
I'd by falling rock recently and receiv
ne fatal injuries.
OF Reports from Cusick state that the
n are more than a dozen cases of sma
OF pox among the Indians in the villa
he, ON the opposite side of the Pc
m d 'Oreille river from that place.
90 Limping painfully from a wound
nc ceived in running fight with POI
ny of deputies, Leo Bexmer, the kidnaI
u of Ed English, the wealthy Mount V
re non lumberman, is making his way
ne Marysville, where he hopes to find sh
ST. ter in the thick woods of Snohom
county.