Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-15

kane, was struck by an electric train
and instantly killed Sunday.
The Walla Walla county books for
the period since July l, 1908, recently
audited were found o. X.
The recent forest fires near Orting
were put out by heavy rains.
Seattle-Mrs. Mary Jane Fortier,
who was shot by her brother-in-law,
Jean Fortier, after he had killed his
brother Michael died in the hospital.
The murderer, who is confined in the
county jail, has confessed to the police
that he was prompted to tho deed by |
revenge
Last spring, pursuant to the senate
memorial of the Washington Legislature,
the general land Office was called upon
to withdraw certain lands at the june
ton of the Columbia and Okanogan
rivers, containing altogether 2750.s2
acres in the Colville Indian reservation,
for TOWNSHIP purposes. The matter was
again called to the attention of the
department by Senator Jones, some de-
Law having occurred. He has been in
formed that the land was withdrawn
from entry under section IL of the act
of March %, 1906, on March 81 by
order of the secretary and the order
has now been promulgated.
Leading citizens of Seattle are de-
manding a searching investigation of
the recent accident at the armory, when
a balcony railing gave way and many
persons were precipitated to the floor
1t is demanded that those responsible
for the weak railing be criminally
prosecuted.
The Kennedy Ford local of the Far
mer Is union has announced big pic
mic at Kennedy Ford, six miles east of
Palouse Saturday.
A., Little rain has fallen in Wenatchee
Valley this spring, and the mountain
sides do not have the usual green cover
even at this early period in the sum-
mer. Irrigation bitches are being
:, opened and water was turned into the
! wenatchee Canal company's big ditch
last week. Indications are that there
: will be big crop of apples and about
quarter of crop of peaches.
The saloons are closed and the drug
stores are closed as are all the other
stores in Pasco on Sunday.
Sheep wintered in Benton county
and owned by residents of North va
kma and other parts of Yakima coun
ty, which are wintered in the Prossel
section and held there until after the
assessors have done their work, car
not be assessed and their owners taxed
in Benton county.
George Dunworth of Seattle has beer
nominated by President Taft as the ad
ditional judge for western Washing
tom e. G.. Hughes of Seattle refuse,
the appointment.
Ortis Hamilton, former adiutant gen
eral of Washington, was Saturda.
morning arraigned before Police Magis
! trate Milton Giles on a charge of EN-
: bezzlement of state funds Hamilto
pleaded not guilty, waived examination
, and asked that the case be immediatel
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trial
Mrs. Florence Moore, whose intimac
with former Adjutant General Orti
Hamilton is alleged to have caused tina
young man. downfall, has gone to he
mother in Oakland. Before leaving S,
attic she paid all her bills. SIEVE
drays were needed to pack the belon.
ings in her rooms.
y Various stages Of development of til
4 Pacific Northwest, from the entrance G
Captains Meriwether Lewis and william
Clark into what was then the Orego
country in 1905 to the present da,
h viii be exemplifed by two parades {
! progress and a march in review by I'll
industrial and irrigation army in col
! nection with the seventeenth session
the National Irrigation Congress in Sp
kane the second week in August.
) Frederick E. Goodall, president of IL
! Spokane chamber of commerce, h;
no started for Boston by way of Chicag
er to make arrangements for the receptic
in the various cities between Spokai
and New York in the Northern tier
q states for so representatives. and ira,
81 experts of the Associated Chambers
- Commerce of Japan on tour across ii
IRE continent under the auspices of the cor
v. mercial bodies of Seattle, Portland, T
n. coma, and Spokane in September.
las New rules have been prepared al
=. adopted by the state supreme court
Olympia, which will take effect imm
- diately following the May term. TT
new law regarding admission to Il
bar, which takes effect in June, is I