Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-12-12
N0RlHwLSI !itMS
NEWS Of IDAHO. MINTANA,
. WASHING Ton AND 0RtGuN.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Bur-
rounding Country---Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Placc-Fau Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The Elks of this state held their an
nual lodge of sorrow Sunday.
Royal w. Raymond, head of the anti
saloon league of the state of Washing
ton, has resigned.
In the superior court at Dayton, Les,
ter Atwood and Archie Lindsey have
been acquitted of the charge of stealing
cattle
February 2, 3, and are the dates
fixed for the annual meetings of the
Western Retail Lumbermen s associa-
ton in Spokane.
Five thousand sheep, blindly follow
| ing the leader over low bank in the
Mckee coulee, resulted in smothering to
death of 21o of them recently.
Oliver V, Linn, superior judge of Ma
son and Thurston counties, died at his
Olympia residence Sunday night. He
leaves widow and one son, Donald
aged 9.
The celebration of the fiftieth ami
versary of the organization of the
Masonic Grand Lodge in this jurisdic
ton took place Monday and Tuesday al
Olympia
The city council of Prosser has unani
license to $1,000 per year, but by vot,
of one to three rejected the proposition
to limit the number of saloons.
Motorman Gus Olsen and two other
were fatally hurt, 23 seriously injured
when an eastbound university car rush
ed into an inbound at Roanoke stree
and Eastlake avenue at Seattle Satur
day morning, owing to the fog.
Mrs. Frank Eggleston of Bellingham
who shot her husband in self defens
last July, has commenced suit in tn
superior court against the Order o
Maccabees to recover $500, for whic
amount the deceased was insured.
James Devlin, prominent young ma
: of Centralia, was accidentally shot an
> instantly killed recently by Robert
: Ready, a painter The two men, i
company with two others, were shoe
. ing at target and Devlin was mari
ing the shots.
I E. B. Palmer, former law partner {
; Judge Milo A. Root, who has becon
deeply involved in the Root scandal /
g testimony given in Spokane to the i
:. vestigating committee, now faces
s prospective investigation by the sta
+ legislature, which may result in his e
pulsion from that body when it co
O venes in January.
d Confined to his room, with the exec
a ton of the two trips that are mac
IS daily in a wheel chair to the adiacei
bathhouse, where he takes the treatme
r, that has been prescribed for him, wi
t. no one save the physicians in atten
g ance, his wife and two close friends pc
mitted to talk with him, the exact co
lr dition of Governor-elect Cosgrove
d Washington is largely matter of co
a lecture,
. There was in the state treasury $67.
% 1895, as compared with but $43.
O. 787.40 December /, 1907, according
7, a statement prepared by Treasur
Ie George G. Mills. The deposit intere
n paid by the banks on average state d
70 posits has already reached the sum
$11,295.So since January 1 last. Int
est for the current quarter will bril-
" this amount up to about $4,000, whi'
will be apportioned the first of the ye
i to the several state funds.
James Odgers, editor and publish
of the Davenport Tribune, died Satu
day morning from perforation of Il
bowels. James Odgers was born
Cornwall, England, January IA, 1874
= and came to America in 1867, settliI
= in New Jersey and later in NebraslI
In 1888 he came to Ellensburg, Wasl
= where he engaged in the real esta
y business. Later he went to Coulee Cit
!. where he entered the newspaper bus
: ness. He came to Davenport in 1900