Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-12-04
NORTHWESTlSTA7ES
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-Fau Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

and putting on his overcoat and rubbers,
A Ross, laborer about 80 years of age,
from jamestown, N. D., and more re-
Gently from Logan, Mont, tried to com
init suicide in Spokane, Sunday
State Senator j. ID. Bassett will here
after manage his string of banks and
other business in central Washington,
from Spokane, where he now resides.
Mrs Margaret McKibben, Mrs. E.
Bliss, Mrs. James A. Hunter and A..
Bell, conductor, were injured in col
aision of street cars in Spokane, Sun
day. The first named is serious.
The Mabton- Euclid bridge was
washed out recently by high water in
the Yakima river. This bridge was in
course of construction, about three
miles east of Mabton.
The Inland Empire will be mart for
eastern realty buyers next spring is be-
iieved by real estate agents who have
canvassed the situation since the land
drawing last July.
Mstaking medicinal tablets the two
days-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. III.
Hess residing few miles below town
at Bridgeport was accidentally poisoned
and died soon after.
The state board of land commission
ers are at Lake Chelan. They will hold
sessions to determine what price the
Great Northern interest must pay to
dam the outlet Of that lake in connec-
ton with the company's electric power
plans.
Ed Hayes employed at Alfalfa was
seriously injured by heavy timber
falling on him.
The most violent gale in years swept
the lower Sound Saturday.
The weekly report of State Treasures
Lewis shows $710,217 cash on hand, Of
which $177,619 is in the general fund
The body of Stanley e. Wakelin, aged
26. an English remittance man and said
GO be the son of a wealthy lord, was
found Saturday in. the brush near Sc
attic with self-iAficted bullet wound
an the temple.
d. G. Reed, superintendent of city
schools at North yakima, has been re
elected.
The jury to try lprmer Adjutant Gen
eral Ortis HamiltdA was secured Mon
day and the taking of evidence startet
Tuesday.
Cleanup day for Walla Walla was or
dered by Mayor Eugene Taussick TO
Thursday, December 2.
Senator Piles has publicly announced
he will not again be candidate.
Seattle may lose Its water supply, a
che present high stage of Cedar rive
threatens to break the pipe line to tn
city.
The Palouse farmer has receives
more money for his hogs this seasoi
than ever before apd has grown then
at less expense, because on each fam
there were several acres of heav.
wheat on the ground that the sickle
could not reach Hogs were fattene
on this after harvest.
Peter Cahill, resident of Waits
burg for 20 years, died recently.
The state fish hatchery has con
pleted fish traps in the Twisp an
Methow rivers. Salmon are running we
this fall and it is thought that a
unusual amount of fish eggs will b
occurred.
The Sunnyside city well has bee
sunk 275 feet.
Construction work on the doubl
track on the Occur d'Alene division 9
che Inland Empire system, extendin
from Spokane to Greenacres, is b.
ing rushed.
The Spokane Dental association hi
offered to treat free of charge all il
mates of charitable institutions in I'll
city on condition that the city be,
the expense Of fitting up room
The city hall or other central locatic
for the work.
Wheat bid was $103 at Walla Wall
The town of Brewster. is the seer
Of commercial war that means, muC
60 the development of the Okanoga
country. Three railroad systems a
reaching after traffic, with its grei
future possibilities. Two rival irrig
ton companies are after, the waite
of the Methow river for ifrigating Il
Brewster flats.