Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-09-04
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-Fau outlook IS Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

recently near Orient
Michael Bartlett, railroad grader,
committed suicide at Seal Rock, near
Olympia, recently.
The bodies Of +. J. Burns and Miss
Maud Parker, drowned at Liberty lake
last Sunday, were recovered.
The Palouse Hardware and lmple-
nent company's large store at Palouse
was recently burglariged of $3.50 worth
3f cutlery.
Bowman Espey, living near Palouse,
has threshed his crop of college hybrid
wheat No. 1873, and got an average Of
As bushels an acre.
Fire that broke out in the old west
srn car barns at Hoquiam Saturday, |
destroyed eight buildings and did dam
age to the extent of $4,000, partially
insured.
A dangerous forest fire is raging
near the town Of Woodland, near Ia
coma, and threatens to destroy the
Long & Hill Logging company's camp
and other valuable property.
Fire, starting, it is believed, from
oiled cloths which had been used in
polishing floors, destroyed the $4,000
residence Of Henry Vincent, together
with furniture, etc, valued in all at
$1,000.
Mrs. Susan Jones, who was perhaps
Asotin county q first white settler, com
ing to this part of the state during the
year 1875, aud who has lived at Aso-
tin during all Of that time, died Sat
urday. er r
In attempting to board the caboose
OF a freight train which was backing
into the o. r. & N. yard at Tekoa,
Robert Mortimer slipped and fell, and
his right leg was run over by one of
the trucks
From clock Sunday morning until
dawn the town of Goldendale was
threatened with destruction by a fire
which started in the Armory building,
owned by N. b. Brooks. Total loss is
about 100000.
M. T. Akers, assistant professor of
electrical engineering in Washington
state college, and Miss Helen Fairfax
Rogers, daughter of the late John r.
Rogers, formerly governor of Washing
ton, were married in Seattle, Monday
afternoon. Sad M
One life was lost, 10 horses were de-
stroyed and block Of frame buildings
On Western avenue, between Univer-
sity and Seneca streets, Seattle, was
wiped out in Ere Sunday. The body
has not been identified. The property
loss is less than $4,000.
Difficulty is being experienced by
the contractors working on the Con
neli-Adrian cutoff west of Hatton
Wash, in keeping men on the work
as the soil where they are working is
50 light that the worlmen are almost
sufrocated when they work
Attorney De Wolf of Tacoma an'
Judge J. w. Robinson Of Olympia, it il
expected, will be called upon by Attor
ney General Bell TO show cause VIII.
they should not be punished for con
tempt of court in making charge
against the supreme court of the stat
Of Washington.
Governor Hay has appointed Kat
Turner Holmes of Seattle, Senator J
d. Bassett of Ritxville, w. f. Henri.
Of Seattle, and +. f. Hopper, of TIA
coma. members Of the advisory boar
Of the state library commission
Their terms will expire on August %
1913. Kate Turner Holmes is reaI
pointed.
Miss Maude Stesrns, who was partia
Iy paralyzed recently by an electri
shock received while using telephon
in her home is reported extremely wea
at Tacoma and in much worse COZ
dition than at any time since the acc
dent. The young woman has no fee
ing in either her left arm or left LEI
and the numbness appears to be sprea'
ing rather than decreasing.
Risley & Rowe, proprietors of Il
Electric flour mills at Palouse, hay
dissolved partnership. J. M. Risle
the senior member, taking over Il
interest of his partner. The deal re
resents $4,000. A valuable farm
100 acres south Of Palouse, owned
Mr.. Risley, WAS traded in as part
the consideration. c. A. Rands, G
head miller, and Oliver Heitzman, al
an employee, bought an interest in {
mill.
At Trinidad, serious freight wre
occurred Saturday between freig
train westbound and work train los
ing gravel. The work train pulled
the main track and placed torpedo
and a fagmsn, but the freight W
unable to stop and crashed into
work train FIVE or six cars behind
engine, clearing the track of the c;
and the work engine, then leaving I
track itself. The engineer resigned
wire.
Friday the senate committee on
rigation visited a government proj'
completed and in operation, that in {
Sunnyside valley. and Saturday the p
" inspected canal under constr
ton, the Tieton, west of North Yakir
First driving over the lands to be
rigated by the Tieton, the senat
then visiting the main construct