Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-11-06
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-Fau outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON. STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
The new Children Is Home at Spokane
was dedicated Sunday.
At Kahlotus a fierce fire did nearly
$4,000 damage last Friday.
Henry o. Waters, resident of Pa
lause City for 21 years, died Friday.
John Ledbetter, for more than 26
years resident of Whitman county,
died recently.
A headon collision occurred near Gar
field on the Northern Pacific Friday,
but little damage was done.
AT Wenatchee the strike on the street
and sewer work is practically broken
and full crews are working.
Mr.. Lamberth of North Yakima has
purchased the 500acre farm of Mr.. I'm
hotf, four miles west of Plaza.
An unknown man about 35 years of
age, apparently laborer, was run down
by an electric freight at Tacoma and
killed.
While playing near a slough at Aber-
deem recently Jerry McAlpine fell from
the sidewalk into mire and was
drowned.
Fifteen per cent increase in Spo-
kane IS business in one month. That
is what the bank clearings for the
month of October show.
The reduced grain rates which were
ordered on the Northern Pacific by the
state railway commission several
,,op4lo f~o ic NOW =, affaot
Apple packers are reported on strike
in the Wenatehee valley. They have
been receiving cents per box for pack
ing and they demand 6 cents.
While hurrying to catch a train Au-
gust Hilgendorff, farmer living west
of Lind, was struck and almost instant
ly killed by the train Sunday.
Edward c. Ward, the Freewater
preacher, pleaded guilty at Walla Walla
to the charge of bigamy and was SEN
fenced from one to five years.
Girl students at the University of
Washington have taken up debating and
the board of associated students has
placed its approval on the innovation.
Another rate case is planned by the
commercial organizations of western
Washington-this time before the state
railroad commission. Plans are being
made for a rate hearing before this
body in December.
Frank Ross, owner of extensive tide
lands at Tacoma, announces that he has
sold III acres to new transcontinental
railroad, whose entrance here may be
expected within short time. The
amount involved is said to be more than
$5OO,0OO.
Several residents of Newport, who
have held claims in the LeClerc basin
for some years past, have been notified
that the contest of their patents, which
was made by the government last
spring, has been decided adversely to
them and unless they appeal to the sec
rotary of the interior they will lose their
land.
The woman who was murdered and
cremated about four miles southeast of
Clifford, Wash, has been identified as
Mrs. A. Jamson, who had been employed
as a cook on the ranch of James Logan
and George Hilton near Cedonia. Logan
recently sold the woman 40 acres for
s., 900. He is under arrest charged
with the crime.
Washington suffragists are not going
to adopt the militant tactics of English
suffragettes, according to statement
by Mrs. Emma Smith Devoe, president
of the Washington Equal Suffrage as
ISOLATION in discussing the action of
Iowa suffragists.
Blackman Brothers, prominent fruit
growers of Wenatchee, will have a crop
of apples this year that will net $780,
900, the proceeds falling about 81 ,00O
under the returns of last year. Their
orchard contains SO acres of 8, 6 and
Il year old trees.
That three judges may be majority
of the nine judges of the state SUI
Ipreme court is the unanimous decision
of the nine members of the present high
court in a decision rendered Saturday
in a case wherein it was contended that
under the state constitution it would
require a majority of the entire bench
to render an opinion.
According to reports the Chicago, Mil
waukee & Puget Sound railroad, which
is about to build a branch from Sno
Iqualmie pass to Everett, will install q
car ferry service across Puget sound
from Everett to Port Ludlow and will
build a railroad from Port Ludlow to
Fuca. The Everett branch will also be
extended north to Bellingham.
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