Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-08-08
Washington, IDAHO. OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Wcek-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

shortage Ol wafer.
Prof. w. A. Linklater of the animal
husbandry department of Washington
State college, has resigned.
The town of Davenport held a mass
meeting Friday to boost for trolley
project of Jay P. Graves of Spokane.
Forest fires in the vicinity of New
port are threatening to destroy mill
lions of dollars worth of standing
timber
Eighty men who have been doing
time in the state penitentiary were re-
leased, some being pardoned by the
board of pardons.
New wheat is coming into the Walla
Walla warehouses in quantities, espe-
cially in the district south of the city
and toward Eureka fiat.
Spokane men won first prize at
Everett Saturday in the drilling con-
| test held between the various drill
teams of the Redmen throughout the
state
Washington State college is dark"
and will remain so until September 20,
when the school year begins. The
summer science school for teachers
closed Friday.
George w. Ferguson, fruit inspector
for Asotin county has decided to
place a packing establishment in
Asotin on account of the great variety
of fruit grown there.
G. A. Graham, secretary of the state
fair commission, has issued the pre-
MUM list of the fair, which will this
year be held the week of September
% at North Yakima.
Fifty thousand bushels of bluestem
and Turkey red wheat were purchased
at La Crosse Saturday from Dormand
& Soaring and a number of other
farmers by Kerr, Clifford & Co.
The city of Walla Walla has pledged
100000 toward establishing there a
great college and school of engineer
ing, on a basis of 100000 being
subscribed for the buildings and equip
ment
Grieving over the loss of his aged
wife, who died three months ago. A. P.
Spillman, aged 65 years, well-known
resident of Puyallup, committed sui
eide on his wife's grave by shooting
himself.
/ The state supreme court has Sus-
tanned the constitutionality of the act
of the last legislature exempting
credits from taxation, but held invalid
that portion of the act which proposed
to exempt moneys.
A spark from a passing railway
engine recently set fire to the hay
field of c. R. Mcmillan, near Colville
The flames spread to the stacks and
destroyed about 200 tons of the new
cut. There was no insurance.
There are 1900 less cattle in Whit
man county than last year. the mum
Der now being 24,072, valued at $780,
1856, as compared with 1851, valued at
1924, $50, last year, thus showing a
marked increase in value as well as a
decrease in number
1t is reported that the railroads OF
u Washington are collecting data and
preparing for bitter legal fight in
case assessments of public service cor
porations, of which they are the most
important, are raised higher than they
think equitable by the state board.
Two bids for the construction OF
the Washington state building at the
! Alaska-Y ukon-Pa exposition were
opened and rejected by the state com
, in excess of the architects estimate
of $4,000. One bid was for 9,00(
and the other $4,000
During July Coroner f. M. Carol
of Seattle and his deputies have in
vestigated nine suicides, two homi
I cides, four drowning, II deaths from
J external violence and eight death:
from natural causes, where a physician
| was not in attendance. In addition t.
the suicides there have been six at
} tempts at suicide.
Before a large assembly composed
chiefly of Olympia people the corner
stone of the executive mansion, au
thorized by the 1907 Washington legis
lature, was laid Saturday Afternoon
with Masonic rites by the officers o
( the grand lodge, F. and A. M. of Wash
, ington. The ceremonies were impress
5 i've and the speechmaking accompany
ing the exercises interesting.
At a meeting at Granger recently
the government reclamation servic'
announced the completion of plan
for the irrigation of 5000 acres o
now arid or semi-arid land in tn
Sunnyside valley. This is to be dom
by means of an immense syphon, three
miles long and AZ inches through
which win run over Snipes mountain
The general land Office has revoked
its order suspending filings in town
; ship SO, N, r. 3S, E., w. NJ, an,
townships 40 N, r. %. 20 and 80, il
! all of which the surveyor general
office has been instructed to file SUP
Elemental plats with the Watervill'