Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-09-25
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.
Ephrata is to have a new bank so

w. Is. CampDeu OF Ioppenlsh has in
vented a new wheel for generating
power. The feature of this wheel is
that in operation it is submerged in
the stream and part of its paddlers
open to receive the current, while the
others close to cut through it.
Probably one of the most methodical
prisoners ever confined in the Spokane
county Jail is Edward Scholl, convicted
Saturday of killing Henry Foulstraw
near Colbert last July.
Dennis D. Twohy, one of the best
known railroad contractors and bust
ness men in the northwest, died at his
home in Spokane Sunday afternoon.
The contract for the addition to the
Palace hotel at Pullman has been let
for ST., 1900.
Reclining on his squalid couch and
inhaling the fumes of opium, Lee
Chung, Chinese cook of Walla Walla,
set fire to his room and persisted
Fred Lugenbuhl, 43 years old, la
borer employed near ashmere, com
mitted suicide Sunday by cutting his
throat.
The resignation of f. M. Denton as
manager of the Kerr Clifford company
at Waitsburg has removed from the
ranks of pioneer grain dealers of the
Inland Empire prominent figure.
1t is reported the combine wants no
union grain, as the cold line' agents
at Washtucna decline to buy from
farmers warehouses, but decline to say
whether the concerns have entered into
an agreement.
Marshal Middleton, Is year old
boy, was thrown from wagon during
runaway near the gate of the state
fair grounds, North Yakima, and died
a few minutes later.
Governor Hay has appointed Mayor
Mitchell Harris of Olympia to succeed
the late colonel Fred d. Hue sits of
Olympia as a member of the state cap
itol commission. The commission is to
cruise the state granted lands and sell
them to pay off the debt and build
new $1,000,000 state capitol.
William j. Bryan S day at the Alas
ka Yukon-Paciic exposition October IL
is to be made a memorable occasion.
The principal feature will be Mr.. Bry-
an S address to 10000 or more people
in the Natural Amphitheater.
The woodworking plant of the L.
Gamer Manufacturing company, Ia
coma, was destroyed by fire Saturday.
Loss, $4,000 to $4,000; insurance,
81 900.
The sugar beet movement to the
Waverly scales has begun. Between 80
and 45 cars VIII be taken to the scales
daily. 1t is estimated that 60 days will
elapse before the entire crop is moved.
The Simpson Mill company of Sc
attic has purchased from the Port
Blakeley Milling company 22OO acres
of timber land in. Snohomish county,
located near the mill town of Bryant,
for 100000 cash. The property pur-
chased cruised recently 100000 900 feet
of standing timber. Two-thirds of the
trees are Douglas fir and the remainder
chiefly cedar.
Laundrymen from Washington, Ore
gon and British Columbia met at Spo-
kane this week in annual convention.
After being out for two hours the
jury in the case of Charley Phillips, a
halfbreed, who in July, 1908, shot and
killed Roll Siebert, brought in a YER
dict of murder in the second degree at
Conconully.
The bank clearances in Spokane for
the week ending Saturday were 81,
907 ,997, an increase of A per cent over
the same week last year.
Declaring that the defendant had
waived the statute of limitations, the
supreme court at Olympia has reversed
the decision of a lower court In Whit
man county against w. B. Stevenson.
Although they have traced down
every clue, flooded the country with
photos and descriptions, the police de-
partment of Tacoma is about ready
to admit its inability to solve three
brutal but mysterious murders which
have taken place in Pierce county
within the past few months.
State School Superintendent Dewey
has apportioned the current school
fund among the various counties of this
state as follows: Adams, $5,146.13;
Asotin, $9,5s7.92; Benton, $3,7O4.sO;
Chelan, S7,191I5; Columbia, $4,140.59;
Douglas, $4,5O5.17; Ferry, $1,577.39;
Franklin, $1,s76.56; Garfield, $2,371.25;
Grant, $4,597.3s; Kittitas, $7,974.67;
Klickitat, $4,36769; Lincoln, $10,-
67O.54; Okanogan, $4,497.74; Spokane,
$50, Grass; Stevens, $1O,319.62; Walla
Walla, $12, e4s.93; Whitman, $1o,2s9.1s;
Yakima, $16,227.42; total, $466, 392.54.
Rate, .016.
IDAHO ITEMS.