Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-07-17
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
Washington And oregon.
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Spring Outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
State Treasurer j. G. Lewis reports
81, 1894 cash on hand.
w. T. Perkins, one of the old settlers
of Medical Lake, died recently.
While fishing at Spokane Burrell
Kimm, years old, was drowned.
Alfalfa growing is rapidly increas-
| ing in favor in the Palouse country.
James A. Fife of Seattle has been
arrested, charged with kicking his wife
| to death.
Elmer Miller, 10 years old, took
cramps while swimming at Spokane and
drowned Saturday.
While insane from excessive drink,
j. III. Hamilton drowned himself in
Lake Chelan recently.
Joe Travis of Spokane, correspondent
of the International Correspondence
School, committed suicide.
Press Connors, alleged to be the
leader of a gang of horse rustlers,
was recently arrested at Ephrata.
The Swedish Glee club, comprising ~
Spokane men, will attend the sanger
fest to be given at Seattle July %.
Closer estimates of the losses in the
fire in Wenatchee recently place the
amount at $4,000, partially covered by
insurance.
The county commissioners have
agreed to buy the bridge across the
Yakima river at Toppenish, and will
pay about $65oo
The famous old sidewheel steamer
Yosemite, which went on the rocks
near the Puget Sound navy yard re-
Gently, went to pieces.
K. A. Greek, aged %, a sawmill
man, recently shot and killed S. Hoff-
man, aged 26, a fellow workman, 25
miles north of Spokane.
AS the result of frightful injuries
which she received by being crushed in
an elevator at Spokane, Mrs. Margaret
M. Morrison died soon after.
Hon. James Burke of Kalama recent
ly received a check for $372.s7 from
the state treasurer, the amount being
due for services rendered in the Indian
war of 1856.
Losing his grip after boarding a NOV.
ing freight train on the Milwaukee
road at Rosalia, Gus Henroid of Walla
Walla, aged 35, Saturday fell As feet
receiving fatal injuries.
A petition has been fled by j. l.
Smith to be appointed special admin
istrator of the estate of Henry Fowl
straw, the man who was shot by EC
Scholis Thursday night in the woods
near Colbert.
The railroad commission August
will take up the final hearing on thu
Cunningham petition for a reduction
i of grain rates from the East Side t,
D the Coast. The first hearing was hat
o at Ritzville May 10, 1908.
Chief of Police Sullivan of Spokan
/ states that the cigarette law will b
5 strictly enforced in Spokane in spit
: of the fact that judges at Tacoma an
{ Everett, on the Coast, have ruled tina
o the new law passed by the state legis
s lature is unconstitutional.
u The farmers union of Ritzville ha
fixed the following scale of wages 70
q the coming harvest: For haying-$1.5
Y a day; header box drivers, So; loader
u of header boxes, stackers and spik
n pitchers, $3.50; running header, $685.
is Combine work-Runner, $3.50; driver q
y sack sewing, $3.50; tender, SIS. TIL
II wages are about the same as paid las
year.
If Information has been secured fro
n Ralph Carter, arrested at Garfield wit
j. horse belonging to Henry Gable, I'll
IS. Franklin county horseman, that poin
rs to the disclosure of the most gigant
" organization of horsethieves that hi
r. ever operated in the west, and the me
IN implicated are said to be scatter,
through the country from Pasco al
Yakima to the British Columbia line.
}" The funeral of the late Francis y
ne Cushman, congressman from the Thi
ne district of Washington, was held
no Tacoma Tuesday afternoon in &
Oh state armory. A detachment of Tro
M e, w. N. G., of which Congressmi
n Cushman was formerly an active me-
10 Der, acted as escort. The Knigh
IL Templar assisted in the funeral 81
vices and the deceased was given
m Masonic burial.
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