Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-29
NORTHWEST STATES
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-Spring Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

1t is understood that the Great
Northern officials are favoring making
Wenatchee the division point instead
of Leavenworth.
"Jack the hugger,' who has terror
lied women on the streets in Tacoma
for the last two months by springing
upon them on the sidewalk, has been
identified in the person of George Han
son, aged 21 years, teamster for a
local furniture company. He was ar
rested last night clad in fantastic
woman s garb, which he said he had
donned as joke on his sister He adj
mitted to the police that he was Jack
the hugger.
Permanent organization of district
10, Washington State Christian En-
deavor union, was perfected at the
meeting at Spokane Saturday and ar
rangements made to hold regular CON
ventions, similar to the one now being
held, every two years. The officers
elected are:
C. +. Cowan, Spokane, president.
A. B. Carr, Potlatch, vice president.
&hAoo 1hAhhlO ~. 1dJAOiJ 1dIdn, oSSiO-
tary.
Parry Borgstrom, Cheney, treasurer.
ii. S. Palmer and A. d. Bass of
Charleston held a meeting Monday and
organized a fruit growers association
for Asotin.
Governor Hay has appointed Ben
Sheets additional superior judge of
Chehalis county, as authorized by the
last legislature.
The summer science school for teach
ers will open in Washington State col
lege Monday, June 21, for six weeks
Arrangements are Being made to give
wider range Of instruction for teach
ers than ever before and the prospects
are good for large attendance.
The Ritzville Warehouse company
has let contract to S. S. Schiller fol
the construction of one of the largest
if not the largest, grain elevators il
Adams county. The elevator will have
capacity of over 10000 bushels.
May Kruger of Seattle has been ap
pointed member of the national com
mittee of the American Humane so
ciety.
eyes, the failure of the Palous,
State bank of Palouse will bankrup
me, but have made it a rule of my
life to pay every cent l owe, and
shall try to settle all indebtedness OF
the present catastrophe with the fnan
cial institution with which was for
merly Connected" said Deputy Stat
Bank Examiner II. M. Boone of Pa
louise.
Dr. Barley, the new Presbyterian
moderator, has notified Presbyterian
of this state that he will visit Seattl
about June 10.
The surveyors employed by the Bry
ant Land company of Seattle to find
feasible route from Kamiah to timbe
holdings being purchased by A. M
Ingersoll, vice president of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, hav
located a line with a maximum grad
of 2 per cent, the road to be only 1
miles long, in order to tap the timbe
holdings of the Milwaukee official
With the arms folded and one lie
crossed over the other as though som
one had placed the limbs in that pos
ton, the body, with bullet in tn
brain, of Anton Mortenson, a farl
hand reported as missing from the
Edberg dairy farm, five miles north q
Spokane, was found in a lonely spC
near the farm recently. 1t is now b'
heved that Mortenson was murdered.
Joseph H. STORES, Harvard gradual
brilliant campaign orator and lawyer {
Lincoln, Neb., is under arrest at S.
attic as fugitive from justice. Store
who was known in Seattle as JOSEF
M. Mccarthy, is wanted in the N
braska city to explain the disappea
ance of $4,000 in cash and diamond
valued at $1,000, which were placed
his care when he was appointed admit
istrator of the estate of Mrs. Helen
Horn, an aged widow, who died und
somewhat peculiar circumstances.