Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-09-19
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numcrous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


The Seattle chamber of commerce
will arrive in Spokane THE afternoon
of September % for visit.
Harold F. Curtis has been appointed
secretary of the Washington state fair
commission to succeed George A. Ora
ham, deceased.
c. B. Ronguet has been granted a
license to operate a ferry at Bossburg
and G. L. Maynard license to open a
saloon at Camden.
A burning straw stack caused the
loss of the barn and several outbuild-
ings on the W. S. Peddicord farm, two
miles north of Palouse, recently.
D. c. Reed, superintendent of the
North Yakima schools, reports an at
tendance of 400 pupils in the graded
schools and 316 in the high school.
A movement is under way on the
part of Fruitvale ranchers to abandon
the Horticultural union at North Yak
ina and build warehouse of their
own.
j. d. Harkins, who resides on a farm
two miles from Waitsburg, will shortly
harvest one ton of popcorn which he
has raised this year for market in
Portland.
The biggest shark ever reported in
Sound waters was seen by about 81
members of the Mountain Climbing
club at Spring Beach, near Tacoma, a
few days ago.
Victor Shafter, aged "A, native. of
Switzerland, died recently in Walla
Walla of senile decay. Mr.. Shafter
was civil war veteran and had resid-
ed there 40 years.
The store of the Harper Hardware
company of Prosser was entered by
burglars recently and several guns and
penknives taken. Some 500 in the
money drawer was not disturbed.
AS the result of sudden breaking
of the steam shovel chain, Chris Neil
son, a laborer employed by the Spo
kane, Portland & Seattle near Pasco
was struck by the chain and instantly
killed.
A meeting of the hotel men of thu
state has been called to meet at thu
Savoy hotel in Seattle, September 16
for the purpose of completing the or
ganization which, it is held, is mucl
needed.
That Yakima can grow corn as wei
as fruit was demonstrated recent.
when a merchant placed on exhibition
four stalks brought in from the rancl
of George Mitchell. The stalks are /
feet high.
Thomas A. Edison, the noted inyen
tor, who is taking vacation on tn
Pacific coast, says that neither tn
aeroplane nor the dirigible balloon wi
= successfully solve the question of nav.
c eating the air.
/, Governor Mead is in Portland t
g hold conference with Governor Chan
r berlain of Oregon, to adjust what al
i; pears to be conflict between Wast
&c ington fishermen on the Columbia rive
s, and the Oregon authorities.
$, That the day of mystery in the pra'
tice of medicine and of fear in tn
practice of surgery is past was th
y expressed sense of the Washingto
x Medical association, which was in Sc
% sion at Walla Walla last week.
10 Edwin, the year old son of ]. V
v, Day of North Yakima, was shot in IL
eye by a boy friend, Willard Bryso
g; recently and will lose the use of h
s, eye The boys were playing Indial
W and the weapon was an air rifle.
d, Harvesting in the Palouse section
the Palouse country is at an end al
a the last thresher has been pulled |
D; Never in the history of the COUNT
We has the crop been garnered so early
y, the season and never with so little d
Law from unfavorable weather.
b;
- The Fidelity Lumber company, Sp
m kane, is preparing plans for lar
h. milling plant to be built shortly on T.
at company's property, across the riv
20 from Newport, in Idaho. The pla
when completed with sawmill and pla
f. ing mill viii cost in the neighborho
of $150,O00. The mill will have a c
er pacity of from $4,000 to 100000 fe
in ten hours.
In a dense fog at Seattle Saturd
= the Chippewa, a large steel steambo
~ on the Victoria run for the Inter-
n tional Steamship company, crashed in
~ the Sentinel, operated by the Kits
10 County Transportation company a
80 bringing about 35 prominent men a
NJ women from Crystal Springs, fashiC
- able summer colony, on Brainbrid
island. No lives were lost.
The Stevens County Fair assoc
ton has decided to place compete
man in the field to give his persol
." attention until the opening of the Fl
D ;tt to gathering and preparing an elal
nn rate exhibit of all kinds of produ
in, including mineral, horticultural, far
=. mo dairx and such other exhibits