Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-08-21
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
Washington and OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
Prom Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall Outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

The town of Deer Park is growing
rapidly this summer.
Krupp will soon be one of the dry
towns of the county
President Barend III. Kroeze of Whit
worth college, has resigned.
The National Bank of Palouse has
opened its doors for business.
President Taft will visit Spokane,
September %, from a. m. TO 10 P. m.
w. A. Odlum, aged 3s, was fatally
Seattle.
A. IL. Crow & Co.'s thresher was
destroyed by fire near Oakesdale re-
Gently, due to a smut explosion.
The Mabton bridge, spanning the
Yakima river just north of Mabton, was
totally destroyed by FIRE Sunday.
Another of the early pioneers-Mrs.
Emma Southwell-died recently at Day
ton, aged "a years, from heart disease.
A guardian has been appointed for
Alexander Stewart, builder of the law
ishly elegant Stewart resident at Waits
burg.
The North Pacific saengerbund has
closed it's sessions at Everett. Seattle
will be the meeting place for the saen-
gerfest in 1910.
The dead body of A. c. Michael, a
bachelor, was found lying on the floor
of his shack, about six miles north of
Colbert, Saturday.
More than 100000 bushels of grain
will be harvested in the vicinity OF
Davenport this year and marketed at
Davenport warehouses.
The Northeastern Washington Union
Veteran associations annual encamp
ment commences in Chewelak, August
"a, and will end August 81.
Palouse business men have completed
the military arrangements for harvest
festival, carnival and stock show to be
held here September IA, Is, 16 and II
The Portland Mazamas, famous
Notwithstanding club, planted al
American flag made of bandanna hand
kerchiefs on the summit of Mount Ba
ker, Saturday.
bOIu DDOhduC COMPANIES VI thO htA
tional guard viii be mustered out O.
service within the next 30 days, as the.
are below the standard set by tn
war department.
The II. M. Byllesby company of Chi
cago has begun work on the new powe
house for the Northern Idaho & Mon
tana Power Co. at Newport, and groun'
will be broken at once.
One of the oldest hardware and i'm
plement houses in Whitman count
changed hands Saturday when d.
Anderson & Sons sold their stock q
Rosalia to Aker Bros. g. Panlin.
The Wenatchee business men did nc
raise a sufficient amount of money t
cooperate with Waterville in an elet
trio road. Waterville will now use tn
money for road to connect with tn
Great Northern branch.
The first carload of this season
wheat was shipped from Palouse, MOI
day to Seattle. The wheat was of I'll
forty-fold variety and was grown b
j. P. Cleary, who lives a mile east {
town. The price paid to the grove
was rs cents a bushel.
James Smyth of Spokane, receive
notice from president of the nations
association that he had been appointe
a member of the executive committt
of the national board and for the cor
ing year would represent that part
the United States west of Chicago.
The body of Ross McCord has be-
recovered from the Columbia river, tv
miles south of Bissell, after havil
been in the water two months, wit
he was knocked from the deck of
ferryboat, while he and wife we
crossing from Stevens to Ferry count
r. v. Ia Dow, superintendent
United States prisons, states that o.
of the three big government prise
provided for by recent act of congre
will be situated on McNeil's island,
Puget sound, and where there is now
federal prison far too small for t
needs of the government.
With simple but appropriate Gel
monies the monument erected in Mou
Pleasant cemetery by organized lab
IN seattle, IN memory OF the 10
known dead whose bodies were recC
cred from the wreck of the ill-fat
steamer Valencia, which was lost
the cost of Vancouver island early
1906, was unveiled Sunday afterno'
The monument is a field stone sh'
seven feet high and was erected by
labor organizations of Seattle at c.
of $500.
OREGON SQUIBs.