Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-09-11
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.

owing to the large number of trees
which were killed during the past win
ter states Fruit Inspector A. F. Crow
ell.
Until the epidemic of cholera is un-
der control the quarantine placed upon
hogs Of Yakima county Friday by
Deputy State Veterinarian G. B. Jones
will not be removed. All sick hogs
will be killed.
The attorney general rules that un-
der the new marriage law licenses will
cost SO, being So for issuing the license
and 81 for fling the certificate with
the county clerk.
J. J. Browne, pioneer. capitalist of
Spokane, was injured in a runaway
Saturday night.
Long distance telephone connections
have again been established by the
Reardan exchange, through the local
and long distance telephone company,
and the Interstate Telephone com
pany
Thirty-six carloads of fine cattle
were shipped from Coulee City to- Sc
attic Saturday morning. This ship
ment will probably end the shipping
of cattle for this season.
His jacket sleeve catching in the
shaft of a threshing machine, John
Galnesser, an IS year old boy, had his
arm torn from it's socket near Colfax,
Friday Fears for the injured boys
life are entertained.
Robert w. Hill, a real estate dealer
boo
visor Of the census for the First Wash
ington district, which is composed of
the counties Of King. Kitsap Snohom-
ish, Skagit, Island and San Juan.
Two trains entered opposite ends of
a block at the same instant and Engi-
neer Warren of Tacoma received fatal
injuries in a head-on collision at Olym-
pia Saturday at east portal of tunnel.
The weekly report Of State Treasurer
Lewis shows 1887 ,453 cash on hand.
The Ladies Floral association of Pa
louise has announced its annual flower
show to take place Saturday, Septem-
Der 1s, in the Helm building, on West
Main street.
Saturday afternoon R. c. McCroskey
called mass meeting of Whitman
and Latah county farmers to order at
Garfield, the chief object being to lay
the foundation for an effective cam
paign against smut The intention now
is TO stimulate the wheat growers by
circular letter to every farmer in the
community to make notes of every
thing done by him to prevent smut, to
keep a careful record of the same, and
of the results of those efforts as shown
by his crop, and to give an account of
his stewardship at the next annual
meeting.
But for the heroic work of B. F.
Knapp, motorman with the Spokane
Traction company, two lives would
probably have been lost in fire which
quilted the two upper floors of the
Karney sanitarium, Spokane, at about
z o'clock Saturday night
The largest attendance in the history
of the school is expected at the Ellens-
burg Normal this year.
FIRE originating in the kitchen of
the Crescent building, Oroville, Satur-
day, came near making clean sweep
of the northern part Of the business
section
The Sisters Of Charity would build
a new hospital at North Yakima some
time within the next 10 months.
This week and the harvest will be
over in the Wilbur section. Thresh-
ing, however, is still in full blast and
will not be over for two weeks.
Taking of evidence on Spokane s
supplemental petition to the interstate
commerce commission TO secure the in
cluson Of all commodities in the re-
ducton ordered by the commission last
spring will begin in that city before
Commissioner C. A. Prouty on Septem
Der 30. The entire commission will sit
there on October and arguments in
the Spokane case will be presented
then.
With eight warehouses, the Farmers
Warehouse company thought it was fully
equipped for all storage at Waitsburl
that would be needed. However, il
finds every house full and overlooking
A. Peterson, aged 30 years, wa
drowned in Lake Washington, near For
tuna park, Seattle, Sunday, while thu
people on the shore refused to go t.
his aid, thinking that his calls for hell
were meant only to brighten them.
At Hoquiam the shingle weavers
union has decided to strike in respons
to the refusal of the mills to increas
wages. All single mills in. Chehali
county will be affected.
State Pure Food Inspector Adams ha
fled information against three butch
ers at North Yakima for using presery
alive in hamburger steak.
General James M. Ashton of Tacom
is the Pierce county candidate befor
the second congressional district cor
vention.
IDAHO ITEMS.