Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-08-01
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Oroville is to become city now as
a result of vote taken on incorporation,
which was overwhelmingly in favor.
The Inland Empire Pioneer associa-
ton announces that the annual meet
ing will be at Ballous grove, August g.
Unless drastic measures are taken
there will be plague of Jim Hill mus
tard throughout the Palouse country.
The annual school census of Pull
man has been completed and shows
1862 children of school age, as against
800 last year.
A meeting of the regents of Wash
ington State college will be held We'd
nesday, August 5. The opening of
school occurs September 20.
At North Yakima the Webber-Bussel
cannery has begun operations and will
employ 100 hands at the start A large
quantity of apricots will be put up.
Deeds for approximately $1,0O0,00O
worth of property within the city linn
| its of Spokane sere filed Saturday by
the North Coast Railway company.
The Palouse local of the Farmers
Educational and Cooperative union
has leased the Frank Friese ware
hsuse there to handle the crop of the
members.
Bert FODDER has been arrested at
Sprague on the charge of stealing a
horse, saddle, bride and chaps. The
property belonged to Ed Hallett of
Ritzville.
While crew OF haymakers was
bathing in the Okanogan river, six
miles above Brewster, recently, the
body of a woman was discovered
lodged in the underbrush.
For the last IL years and seven
months pastor of the First Baptist
church at Spokane, DR.. o. w. Van
| Osdel has severed his pastoral rela-
ton with the congregation.
Melba, age 7, daughter of Norman
Markley, attorney of Seattle, is alive
Il after she was thrown into Lake Wash
ington by her mother, who a moment
later threw herself in and drowned.
Mount Baker is an active volcano
the craters belching forth vapor and
sulphurous fumes, according to an ex
ploring party of five who have re
turned from the scene of the phenom
enon.
, Bacon & Galbraith's hay barn and
large amount of hay stacked nearby
burned at Toppenish recently Foul
hundred tons of hay is lost, with insur
ance of s14oO. The barn cost about
$4,000 and is insured for $4,000.
Fifty years ago, September 5, 1858
,, Colonel George Wright camped on the
) site of the fort at Spokane named
. after him, and it is now proposed tC
commemorate the event next Septem
Der by a suitable public ceremony.
B. d. Springer, millwright of Ia
coma, now working in the coal mines
at Pittsburg, Wash, has received wore
that he has fallen heir to about $40
100000, through a division of the oil
> Springer estate in Pennsylvania being
made.
Several sections OF school land
around North Yakima were leased re
Gently by County Auditor Croker. Tn
Selah Ranch company took a section
' at cents an acre. William Ludwig, a
10 cents an acre for a whole section
: paid the highest price.
n Forty thousand acres of land tina
q were withdrawn for use in connection
u with the Big Bend irrigation projec
o will be open for settlement Septembe
: 80 and for filing after October 30 thi
! lyear. No settlement or filing will
% recognized prior to these dates.
Judge c. H. Hanford of the circut
court has issued temporary injun'
\ ton restraining the longshoremeI
n who are on strike in Tacoma, fror
;, interfering with the conduct of bus
Il ness of the Alaska Steamship an
Il Alaska Pacific Steamship company an
,e from molesting strikebreakers.
h Cracksmen drilled their way throug
l. three steel doors into the vaultrool
It of the Seattle Safe Deposit Vaults G
J. 701 First avenue, in the heart of tn
n business district of Seattle, Sunda,
IL and stole a large amount of jewelr
and contents of strong boxes. The
~ were frightened away before the
. could get into the inner vault.
40 Sheriff Crowley of Kittitas count
has not given up his efforts to captur
the man who shot and killed (
Thereof at the tunnel camp of the Mi
st waukee road, 20 miles east of Ellen
lie burg, early in the morning of July
lie and it is now thought possible tn;
by the fugitive may be one of the gan
Sc who killed Marshal Miller at Kent la
ii winter.
sr Dam up the Calispel river near i
n mouth where it joins the Per
se dOreille. and then pump the accum
n lating water over the dam, is the i
lie genious project which a bunch of e
lg terprising farmers in the Calispel va
,e ley, in Stevens county have unde
m.