Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-09-18
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.

WAS1i1lNdlON o1Al6 N Ia WS.
Many students of Whitman college
have arrived to find rooms for the
opening of the term Wednesday,
While playing with handax recent
ly Gust Vogt, z year old son of G..
Vogt of Waitsburg, accidentally let the
sharp blade fall on the left hand of his
sister, 2 years younger, and the hand
was severed near the palm.
During August Secretary of State
Howell collected $1O,350 fees, against
| $S6sS in August, 1908. There was
$4125 collected for fling and recording,
$4425 for corporation licenses, $1476
automobile licenses, as compared with
$3.50 and 1924 for certified copies.
After a search lasting almost week
the body of 10 year old Lawrence
Bateman, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin
Il. Bateman, 2O14 Carlisle avenue, was
recovered from the Spokane river.
A number of farmers have begun
seeding fall wheat near Pullman.
Arrangements are being made for
the entertainment of President w. H.
Taft, who will spend the forenoon at
North Yakima.
A GAO acre wheat farm, two miles
south of Lamont, has been sold by John
P. Ramsey for $40 900. The purchaser
was William Bradley of Spokane, as
sistant roadmaster on the Idaho divi-
sion of the Northern Pacific.
Cyrus Staples brought sack of
wheat to Almira recently from his field
near Almira, which, when tested, went
Ga pounds to the bushel, the highest
test, it is said, ever recorded of blue.
stem wheat.
The Ritzville schools opened Monday
morning, with Professor j. w. Smith
superintendent.
September IS was the last day fol-
receiving bids for the annual big fruit
pool of the Wenatchee Valley Fruit
Growers association. The association
handled 800 cars of apples last year
and it is expected that this year there
will be the same number, with the
prices about 40 per cent higher.
M. p. Mccoy, United States exam
iner of surveys, is under arrest at Sc
attic, charged with embezzlement OF
public money, the amount said to b,
more than $1,000.
/ Word has been received in Spokane
of the Communication by Governor M. Il
Hay of the sentence of Charles U. Fill
pot, convicted of the murder of Ne'
Cole, from hanging to life imprison
ment.
John Peplinski, logger, was ac
cidentally killed at Eagle Gorge, Wash.
recently.
A Great Northern train ran into al
open switch near Leavenworth Satur
day morning while running at the rate
of As miles an hour. No injuries were
sustained by crew or passengers.
i While attempting to rescue the Il
year old son of Attorney H. II
Humphreys from dangerous trip i
midstream, Jack Bushnell, river man
was drowned in the Columbia river the
other day.
According to Spokane new city ordi
nance regulating the size and specify
ing the material for construction OF
buildings a limit of 16 stories is to bt
fixed, amaximum height of 200 feet be
ing allowed.
From Olympia comes the returns Of
this year IS school census, showing that
of the 256,3O7 children of school age il
the state, 129 7s5 are boys and only
1852 girls. The total gain over 1905
is $50.
Major James NJ. Armstrong, pic
neer of this state and well known
financially, died recently at Spokane
Major Armstrong is survived by &
widow and a daughter, Mrs. Donald F
Kizer. The major was born in Wash
ington, Pa, April %, 1914.
A washout occurred on the 0. R. & N
railroad between Canyon and Hay sta
tons, in Whitman county, Friday after
noon, caused by cloudburst, washing
out the track for some distance.
Thomas J. Childs han bought tn,
1000 acre wheat ranch owned 10y W. H
Bender, Is miles west Of Harrington
for $4,000
Royal A. Martin, a patient at st
Luke's hospital Spokane, committed
suicide Saturday.
A report from Goldendale says that
e. e. Wright and four others calling
themselves the "Lucky Five" have
made a gold strike in Lewis county
near the Cispus river.
Fire caused by an explosion, due t.
smut, burned the Walter Kenworthy
combine harvester at Pleasant View
near Dayton, Saturday, causing los:
of $500, partially insured.
Wilbur has a new postmaster in J
M. Parrish, who has assumed his office
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