Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-01-02
NORTHWEST ITEMS
NEWS OF IDAHO. MONTANA,
WASHINGTON And OREGON.
Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fal Trade Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Through the storm of Saturday and
Sunday it is estimated that a damage
of $4,000 was inflicted on mill prop
erty and shipping at Bellingham.
The new $500 sea wall at Moclips
near Aberdeen, was torn away Sunday
in the terrible storm, which was the
worst the Pacific coast has known in
20 years.
Mrs. Sarah Noble of Centralia died
recently from blood poisoning, caused,
it is believed, by cut received on her
thumb from a broken dish she was
washing one week ago.
Cracksmen blew off the outer door of
the safe at the Dank of Issaquah, at
Issaquah, southeast of Seattle, Sunday
morning, only to be frightened away be-
fore they could reach their intended
booty.
While intoxicate, John Black of Bel
bingham was accidentally burned to
death. He received So as a Christmas
present, and it was while drunk on
liquor purchased with this money that
the accident occurred.
Spokane bank clearings for Christmas
week show a gain over Christmas week
last year of $1,642, 916. The total for
the week is $5,s2O,255, as against 81
1889 for last year. The increase is
nearly 40 per cent. Tie clearings are
for fve-day week.
The streams and lakes of Stevens
county are to be stocked with brook
trout, about 100000 of which are to be
turned loose about February 1. The
eggs which were shipped from Wiscon-
sin are now Matching out in the fish
hatcher on the Little Spokane river
With crowd of nearly 200 enthusi-
astic citizens waiting at the wharf the
steamer Inland Empire, from Cello,
tied to its mooring and Pasco welcomed
the arrival of the first of new line of
steamers soon to be operated between
Pasco and Cello, Ore, by the Open
River transportation company.
Professor George Severance, head of
the department of agriculture at the
state college, has returned from a tour
of institute work in central Washing
ton and reports the most enthusiastic
attendance and interest ever met in
such a series. In Klickitat and Benton
counties the people came for many
miles to attend the sessions.
Farmers in Walla Walla from nearby
grain growing sections report the soil
in splendid shape for winter, which is
expected to set in within few days.
Grain suffers in the winter from the
dryness of the surface of the ground,
which cracks when it is frozen, and as
the winds begin to blow as the weather
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tender roots of the grain in this way
are injured.
About seven miles east of Snake
River Junction Sunday night engine No.
1888, heading a work train on the Snake
river line, went down high bank, in
juring the crew. w. F. Simms, engi-
neer, and A. Wicken, fireman, were both
badly bruised. Wicken sustained a
broken leg. o. Ostermeyer and w. F.
Egan, conductor and brakeman, were
bruised, and S. d. Mcneil s., P. & S.
civil engineer, sustained injuries.
The fight for local option, war on
racetrack gambling, contest over the
provisions of an employers liability
bill, an effort to enact a bank deposit
guaranty law, an effort to procure the
submission of an amendment to the con-
stitution providing for the initiative
and referendum, and an effort to re-
submit in slightly modified form the tax
amendment defeated last November
promise to be the enlivening features of
the next session of the state legislature
which convenes January IL. The heavy
taxation of the timber lands of non
resident owners is urged by the state
tax commission.