Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-08-28
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.

charged with being implicated in the
raid on the Point Roberts fish traps
on the night of August 10. The theft
of about 1000 salmon is charged.
A Ere causing $4,000 damages de-
stroyed three residences and five barns
in North Yakima Friday afternoon.
t. J. Kelly, structural iron worker
of Spokane, was killed by falling un-
der the ears Saturday
w. p. Edris has received his commits
sion as postmaster at Spokane and will
take charge in five days.
rhe Northern Pacific Railway com
pany has just finished installing com
=, plete system of fire protection in its
yards at Lind.
Ellensburg fremen are angry. Turn
ing their apparatus loom into store
house for the light department is the
cause.
Maiden, in Whitman county, is en-
joying a building boom.
The approaching end of the harvest
in the Washtucna region brings disap-
pointment to farmers in the matter of
the grain yield.
Davenport schools will open septem-
Der 6.
Sitting upright in a chair in his room
at the hotel at Reardan j. IL. King
bled to death. He had attempted to
dress a sore on his leg and in some
way broke an artery. He gave no
alarm.
The demand for apples from the We
natchee valley has greatly increased
recently, owing to the awards which
Chelan county has received at the A
Up exposition.
The w. H. George ranch north of
Okonogan has been sold to Seattle peo-
pie at 5000 an acre. The place brought
S32, 400 1t will be cut up into small
tracts and sold as fruit land.
e The council of Waitsburg has de-
cided to rid that city of stray dogs.
Twenty-Five convicts from the state
penitentiary are at point near Bel
bingham, where they will be put to
work on a public road. This makes
1913 in all who have been sent out to
work on the roads since July 1.
The second annual Touchet valley
agricultural fair and race meet will be
held at Dayton October 81 to %, in
elusive.
Advices from the o. r. & n. COM
pany state that as soon as there is
sufficient grain in the warehouses of
Asotin, Waha and the upper river
points the company win put the boats
in service regularly, moving the grain
to the lower river points.
After being in session 60 days, of
which 40 represented an interim dur
ing which the members received no
compensation, the extraordinary ses-
sion of the legislature adjourned Sat
urday. The session passed appropria-
ton bills aggregating $237 sos. Among
the notable measures that failed to car
~ were the Palmer bill abolishing the
office of insurance commissioner; the
concurrent resolution providing for the
continuance of the Halsey committee
which was not acted upon by the SEN
rate at all after passing the house; the
bill restoring the nomination of SUI
preme Judges to the direct primary; the
Byerly bill permitting jobbers doing
an interstate business to handle cigar
cites and exempting adults from the in
hibition against possession of cigar
cites or the markings, and the repeal
of the Wenatchee bridge appropriation
The time of the house was spent in
clearing up routine matters almost ex
clusively, while the senate ground
away on bills that had passed the
house.
Wheat is beginning to come into the
town of johnson at a lively rate.
The senate, sitting as a trial court
in impeachment proceedings of Insur
ance Commissioner J. II. Schively
will continue its session until the case
has been disposed of.
Owing to the failure of the senate tC
act on the concurrent resolution pro
tecting the life of the house committed
named to probe charges rejecting OF
the state supreme court, that commit
see died with the legislature.
Bishop Smith of Portland, head o
the Methodist church in the northwest
assisted by ministers from variou
parts of the Inland Empire, and repre-
sentatives from Seattle, Tacoma, Wal
lace, Lewiston, Walla Walla, Nortl
Yakima, Wenatchee, Pullman, Coeu
d'Alene, Missoula and Kalispell, viii
eonsecrate the ground for the edific
planned by st. Paul s Methodist churc
of Spokane, the ceremonials takin
place on September 1.
Adjutant General George B. Lampin
of the state of Washington says tina
Ortis Hamilton, who is in Jail at Olym
pia awaiting trial on an embezzlemen
charge, converted probably 100000 0
the state IS money to his own use, an
that James A. Drain, Hamilton IS predf
eessor, has a clear record. Genera
Lamping spent weeks in Washington
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