Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-10-23
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-Fal outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

The Wilbur high school now issues
a paper.
Inc odessa Telephone company has
added so new phones.
Wheat has taken a jump at Mohler,
the price now being 30 cents.
Whitman county farmers are getting
out OF debt at a lively rate this tall.
Completed, the new school building
at Washtucna has been turned over to
the district.
Last Saturday Henry Fields, Great
Northern brakeman, was killed IN an
accident near Winchester.
In the railroad yard at Leavenworth
early Saturday morning two engines
met head on, both being badly wrecked.
The mystic order of sEnakops will
open the National Apple show at Spo-
kane with street pageant on the
night of November Is.
The 3-year-old son of Dan Kidwell
met tragic death Saturday near his
home at Peola. He was riding on load
of hay and fell under the wheels.
The convention of the State w. G. t.
IT,, which closed Friday evening at
Spokane, was an interesting one and
has aroused new enthusiasm among it's
members.
e. A. Carpenter, aged ~ years, a
wealthy retired farmer of the Kittitas
valley, is lost in the mountains near
the head of Wilson creek, 25 miles from
Ellensburg.
The Colfax flour mill, owned by c..
H. and II. H. Warner, has been sold
to Mark P. Miller of Moscow and c..
e. Wood of Genessee, who will take
charge October IS.
Joseph Nessell, who has a fve-acre
bearing orchard near Wenatchee which
has produced heavy crop Of Winesap
apples, expects to show carload at
the National Apple show at Spokane.
The highest price ever paid for land
in Garfield county was marked Satur-
day when Charles Watson bought 40
acres, three miles north of Kirby, from
J. T. Mcqueen and the heirs of Eliza
Mcqueen, for $4,000, or $50 an acre.
! James Warmoth has sold his home
and orchard tract at the edge of Gar
field and with Mrs. Warmoth, will
Il
he expects to make his home at Hood
e River.
Sunday schools of North Yakima
J paraded in that city Saturday 2,00C
strong in procession over three blocks
: long. The occasion was the last day
of the county Sunday school conven
!, ton.
The attorney general now rules that
+ where the court appoints an attorney
to defend a prisoner charged with {
state offense the county, not the state
must pay the statutory allowance o.
q $40 a day attorney fees.
Tacoma Saturday adopted the com
+ mission form of government by vot'
,, of about Az to l. The new charte
{ provides for the election of a mayor
four councilmen and comptroller, ant
e the first election viii be held mex
g April.
g At the home for veteran soldiers a
Orting there are now registered 66
g inmates and there are 400 at the in
d stitution, the balance being out at thi
time on furlough. In a very shor
time some $50 to 200 of the veteran
, will be removed to Port Orchard
q The Franklin county organization o
. the Cornell farmers unions held
picnic and basket dinner Saturday. TIL
feature was the discussion of the mai
d keting of the wheat grown by the farm
n ers and the cheapest way of handlin
the crops.
'. Lum Sickles, an alleged gambler, II
le Gently discharged from the county jai
,r climbed to the top of telephone pol
ID at North Yakima recently, and, shou
,e ing the words, "This world is not fc
me-, - dove to the street. He struc
>, on his head, breaking his neck, an
r died without regaining consciousness
At the recent bar examination, 4
i, of the SO who took part in the test
4 were successful and were granted pc
=, mission to practice law before til
e supreme court of this state. In ever
instance the applicants were men, M
a woman seeking admission to the b;
: at this time.
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