Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-10-30
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
Washington and OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

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Work on the foundation for the new
Congregational church at Lamont has
started.
The Baptist church society has de-
cided to build,a church of their own at
Cashmere.
Lannon'S new water system is now
in operation and the town is now sup
piled from two splendid wells.
The state supreme court has sus-
tanned the validity Of the state license
peddling law passed by the legislature
of 1909.
Sloan Sanitarium, an eastern Wash
ington health resort at Soap lake, has
recently passed under new ownership
and new management.
The assessing of fine of $50 and
costs against a physician who failed
to report case of dIphtheria at Spo-
kane was a good idea.
At South Bend John Harmale, a
Pole, pleaded guilty in the circuit court
recently to charge of attempting self
murder, and was fined 500.
E. Oppenheimer has purchased the
remaining 40 acres of Josh Stories old
homestead, half mile from Chewelah,
for a consideration of $4,000.
The Idaho & Washington Northern
baggage and express cars are being re-
fitted and equipped with compartments
for handling United States mail.
More logging will be done in the
vicinity OF. Newport and the Pend
Oreille valley this winter than since
the slump in the lumber business.
Hezeliah HBud } Barnes, slayer Of
Mrs. Anna Aldrich, has been sentenced
by Judge T. II. Brents at Walla Walls
tc be hanged Friday, November II.
Reed Crews, br,ckmason S helper
is believed to have been fatally burned
Saturday afternoon by falling across
an electric power wire at Walla Walla
= Wenatchee now has new road roller
Improvements made this year in regrad
ing streets and laying cement walk
have done much to encourage propert.
owners.
The telephone company, which re
Gently increased the number of tele
phones in Harrington, is preparing t.
set 40 poles and install 80 new tele
| phones and give an all-night service.
The Sunday blue laws vigorousl
! were enforced Sunday in Spokane
Real estate criers were prohibited o
street ears, and laborers were ordere
! to cease work in different parts of tn
J city.
: Because Carl Zook, teacher in tn
Bellingham schools, spanked his son,
man by the name of Whalen met tn
teacher on the street and administers
sound drubbing. Zook viii take tn
matter to the police court.
Just after dismissing her school a
Foster, a small town on the Seattle
Tacoma suburban line, Miss Georgi
NJ. Robbins, the teacher, was struck
j. a train and instantly killed. A numbs
+ of her pupils witnessed the accident.
d Simpson & Shafer IS saloon at Littl
o rock was held up recently. Three me-
e with handkerchiefs over their faces, e.
l. tered he saloon and began shooting
IS wounding John Simpson, one of I'll
proprietors, slightly on the hand an
IS cheek. The robbers secured about $6t
k from the till and fed
s. John Riplinger, former city Gem
y troller of Seattle, republican candida
st for mayor three years ago, who
charged with embezzlement of 5000
from the city, was arraigned in Il
criminal court Saturday and plead'
not guilty. The trial is expected
Is begin about November Is.
Firing with s2-calibre automat
revolver from behind the bar after
ing made the target for a rifle bull
% fred by the leader of the gang of thr
4 hold-hp men, Saturday night, at
u clock, James Wilson, one of the pr
prietors of the Dougherty and Vile
NC saloon, at Newport, brought down t
'e- bandit leader, man giving name
Heckworth, with family, who Ii
u close to death in the Newport hotel.
~ The first official step in the moveme
10 which promises to change the munich
~ government of Spokane so that
commission form of government, viii
has proven so successful in Des Moin
Galveston and other municipalities, "
be given test in that city, was TAX
I'd recently when Mayor Pratt appoint
Il representative committee of II m
IN to investigate the method and rep
the result.
-ds The business of the Spokane pc
on Office for the year ending October
he 1909, exclusive of the money order
les partment, in which millions
les handled, amounted TO $4o7,174. t
ed. represents postal funds and is an
crease of 1852 per cent over the
Try ceipts of 1900, when they were 1913
oo From the way estimates of the
- CURED amount of taxes are coming
to the auditor of Whitman coui
from municipalities and school distri
in the county, it is evident that
operation of the new revenue j
zen passed by the last legislature, viii
On source of surprise to taxpayers VI
4ho tax paying time comes.
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