Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-04-11
NORTHWEST STATES
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.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
The resignation of Robert Knox, dep |
uty collector of customs at Belling |
ham, has been received by Collector |
of Customs Harper at Port Townsend. |
The public schools at Colville have
been closed for a week on account of
the large number of cases of diph-
liberia in the city.
Thomas Troyer, woh has been on a
protracted spree, shot himself at Seat
tie recently. dying instantly
The workman who was killed the
otehr day by electricity on a trestle on
the c., M. G. st. p. railway, which
crosses the Spokane & Inland electric
line near Rosalia. was William S.
Jameson.
Clarence, the 14-months-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Drahs of Seattle, died
of strangulation as the result of an
effort to swallow four ordinary soup
beans that he picked from the floor of
the kitchen.
Despondent because he was unable
to secure steady employment, James
Lesner, who recently returned from
Alaska, shot himself in his room in
Seattle.
A nude man, supposed to be men
tally unbalanced, is lowering about
the outskirts of South Tacoma.
Timber cruising in Kittitas county
for assessment purposes will begin
this week.
Full crops of fruits from the or
chards that are now planted in the
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$60,0O0.000. and if we continue to plant,
1t is only a question of time until
Washington will be the greatest fruit
producing district in the world.
The report of the state hospital for
the insane at Medical Lake for the
month of March is as follows: Per
capita, 28 cents number of patients,
597; number admitted, %; number of
deaths, Z; number discharged, 3; daily
average. 562.
Thomas II. Horner of Seattle and
i. w. Martin of West Virginia have
preferred charges of malfeasance in
office and misconduct of business
against j. Henry Smith, register of
the Seattle land Office
John Delmire, or Hanson, was run
over by a train near North Yakima
and his right arm was cut off just be-
low the elbow. His head was also cut
open with an ugly cash and he was
badly battered and bruised.
News of the passage of the act by
the United States senate granting to
the Benton County Water Power com
pany a right to dam the Snake river
was received with joy over the state.
A fatal accident occurred recently
on the ranch of l.. c. Franks, near
Oakesdale. resulting in the instant
death of his 14-year-old son, Clifford
who met death by being struck by
doubletree hitched to a running team
breaking his neck and otherwise
mangling and bruising his body.
Wenatchee's new fire tower, with
the new bell. went to the ground re
Gently during a severe gale that swept
over the town.
On April 23 and "a examinations viii
be held in Wenatchee for the position
of forest ranger.
About $50 delegates representing
the Ancient Order of United Work
men OF Washington are at SPOKANE
this week holding a three days busi
ness session here.
The week from April 10 to April Is
inclusive, has been set aside as clear
ing week at Spokane.
Blown 240 feet by blast of dyns
mite and literally torn to pieces wa
the terrible fate of Charles Norma
and Theodore Hofstad, who wer
working in a 40-foot cut at Spokan
camp on the Spokane, Portland
Seattle excavation.
The result of the accidental e.
plosion of an acetylene gas tank
Princeton, IS miles east of Palous
Saturday, is the village schoolhouse
in ruins, one mans hand is nearl
blown off and a woman is seriously il
jured.
No more shall the familiar click
the pool ball be heard in Waitsburg c
Sunday. nor shall the card game
allowed to tempt the unwary yout
The city council has stopped it.
One of the biggest wheat sales mac
in Adams county this season was mac
recently, when B. L. Sutton of Rattl
snake fiat sold to the Pacific Goa
Elevator company $4,000 bushels
bluestem wheat and 10000 bushels
red wheat for S25,725.
IDAHO NEWS.
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