Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-07-18
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

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attic.
John Schaeffer has been arrested at
Prosser on the charge of completely
in the killing of Henry William, a
negro, in a saloon brawl.
Parties representing New Hamp-
shire homeseekers have bought 5000
acres of Mason county logged off
lands and are now colonizing the
tracts.
F. L. Blake, the Northern Pacific
brakeman who shot Charles Rice,
hobo, at Toppenish. and who was him
self wounded, has been discharged
from custody.
District Attorney Royland of Taco
ma has begun action against several
of the Tacoma tobacconists, who, he
claims, have been disregarding the
anti-cigarette law
1t is reported that negotiations are
under way in Portland for a CONSOLE
dation of the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph company and the Home Tel
ephone company.
Despite the fact that as the result
of post norton examination held
over the body of Grotton Gregg at
Spokane, the coroner is of the opin-
ion that the young molatto met death
at his own hands.
Eighty-ive thousand acres of land
for the Big Bend irrigation project in
Washington have been restored to the
public DOMAIN and will become subject
to settlement and entry after notice
by the secretary of the interior. The
lands lie in townships 10 and 33 north,
ranges &c and AZ east.
The first and third battalions of the
I bird regiment at Fort George Wright.
Spokane, have left for North Yakima,
from which point they are to start on
200-mile march to the encampment
grounds at American lake, near Ia
coma.
The Palouse harvest has commenced
with the cutting of alfalfa hay and
within two weeks the cutting of the
grain hay and timothy will be we'll
under way and the fall grain will be
practically ripened for the sickle. In
the favored section comprising the
eastern portion of Whitman county
and the prairie lands of Latah county
the prospects Tor crops of all kinds
were never better.
State Bank Examiner A. W. Engle
has prepared a summary showing the
condition of the state banks of Wash
ington at the close of business May
Ia. The individual deposits of the
state banks on that date was $35, 419,-
1872, which, with $10,366, 46704 in
certificates of deposit, brings the total
deposits up to $45, 1855, 57450. The state
banks held in cash in the vaults $10,-
674 ,260.3S. ; The total resources of
the banks was $s5,769, 513.3S.
The Whitman county courthouse is
adorned with a beautiful new Amer
lean flag, 12x20 feet, bought with
money appropriated by the commits
sioners for decoration of the court
house on the Fourth of July.
Mrs. Frank Alling of Tacoma was
killed by an interurban train near
Bluff recently, just 10 feet from the
King county line
The fight waged for months between
Frank Warehouse e Co. and Jebsen
& Ostrander for the control of flour
shipments from Seattle to the orient
resulted in favor of the former con-
Germ. The secretary of war states
that its bid for carrying quartermas-
ter supplies to the Philippines from
Seattle has been accepted
G. Malmo of Seattle was elected
president of the Pacific Coast Associ-
alton of Nurserymen, which last week
concluded it's sixth annual convention
at North Yakima, and c. A. Tonneson
of Tacoma was chosen secretary.
treasurer. The association selected
Seattle as the meeting place of its 1908
convention, asked for state bureau
of agriculture and appointed a mem
Der to present the claims for such to
the legislature. Horticultural law was
discussed, and the prevailing laws con
demned as being the work of politi
clans with the intention of being ad
ministered politically. The appoint
ment of deputy inspectors, it is de
clared, should be taken out of the
hands of county commissioners anC
placed in the state horticultural com
mission.