Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-31
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA.
WASHINGTON And oregon.
"a Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Bur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Spring Outlook In Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


reported from the Swauk district.
The outlook is good for the best yield
of small grain for three years, around
Downs.
1t is stated at Palouse that some ar
rests may be made in connection with
Che failure of the Palouse State bank.
Governor Hay has asked for the resig-
aation of Joseph M. Snow Of Spokane,
who has filled the office of state high
way commissioner.
Hans johnson, or Hans Jorgenson,
was instantly killed at Spofford siding,
near WalIa Walla, by the o. r. & N.
train to Spokane, recently.
The 17-year-old son of j. A. Sellers
met death by the accidental discharge
of his shotgun while hunting alone in
the woods near Goldendsle.
One of the most sweeping innovations
in northwest railroad traffic will be the
abolishing hereafter of all switching
charges on grain at Tacoma and Seattle
terminals.
Busying themselves at the Old Ma
Gional bank at Spokane, pickpockets
made good hauls from two customers
of the institution, according to reports
received at police headquarters.
Work will start September 1 on the
History skyscraper the Old National
bank is to erect at the northeast corner
of Riverside avenue and Stevens street,
Spokane, at cost of 81 100000
With the beginning of harvest, farm
ers who have been in the Palouse coun-
try since its settlement admit that the
crop of 1909 excels any that has been
harvested in that favored section.
Fully 10000 applicants for registra-
Gion on the Spokane reservation have
appeared before authorized notaries in
Spokane in the first eight days of the
20 on which applications can be made.
Representative r. A. Jackson will
this year demonstrate at his ranch on
the Tukanon that it is possible by irri-
cation to grow four crops of alfalfa
year on land in the vicinity of Day
ton.
The Oregon & Washington railroad,
which is the corporate name of the
Union Pacific in this state, is expedit-
ing work on its grade between this city
and Black river, and it is expected that
the roadbed will be ready for the rails
in so days.
The large lumber and single mill of
the Ferry Baker Lumber company, in
Everett has been sold to the Port
Blakeley Lumber company, owner of
Al all 81 loI al oh
The Everett mill and site are valued
at $275 900.
The Morgan Lumber company's saw
mill plant at Lester, &C miles east of
Tacoma, was totally destroyed by fire
recently The loss will aggregate about
5000, with insurance for two-thirds
of that amount Between 145 and 1855
men are thrown out OIL employment.
E. H. Herring, a heavy land owner
on the north side Of Rattlesnake fiat,
has shipped two carloads of new wheat
from Ralston, IL miles southeast of
Ritzville. The price received was 90
cents and the wheat was Jone fife,
which is making 40 bushels an acre.
Hannah Rumsey, 3s years. old, who
said her home was in Colyille, and who
had been living three weeks in lodg-
ing house, was shot and killed in her
room Saturday afternoon by Bert Rum
sey, aged 40, her husband, who then
shot himself. Rumsey came here from
Butte, Mont.
The colossal bronze bust of James J..
Hill, the railroad builder, on the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition grounds, which
are part of the campus of the Univers-
sty of Washington, arrived Monday
from New York and win be unveiled
by Governor John A. johnson of Mime
sofa on the afternoon of August 3. Mr..
Hill expects to be present.
Sheriff Carter and Deputy Sheriff
Cole of Whitman county, have return
ed from the central Washington coun-
cry, where they have been a week as
eisting the sheriffs of Franklin, Adams
and Grant counties in rounding up the
members of the Press Corners gang of
horse rustlers, and as a result of their
efforts there are now IS members of
the gang in custom in Whitman, Gar
field, Franklin, Adams and Grant coun-
ties, with good chances for as many
more to be taken within the next three
or four days.