Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-27
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-Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


Governor S. G. Cosgrove is improv-
ing so rapidly he will be able to leave
for Washington state by May ] to as
sumo the reins of government is the
opinion of DIR. f. w. Sawyer.
The regular annual meeting of the
board of regents Of Washington State
college will be held in Pullman April Z.
The aeroplane being built at Hatton
by Charles a. zornes is attracting much
attention. Out-of-town visitors are
drawn to Hatton daily. Two Seattle
men visited town today to investigate
the work
With record of giving 10 gallons
of milk every "a hours for several
weeks, a 3-year-old Shorthorn COW
owned by A. L. McCauley of Dayton
promises to become the most famous
COW of this breed in the world. Mr..
McCauley says by April / the COW will
have made a record of 10 gallons daily.
The new depot of the Spokane, Port
land & Seattle road at Kennewick is
now completed and in use.
Beginning March %, the single mills
will begin resuming operations and by
April 1 all the single cutting plants
in the northwest will be running.
The Spokane spring building record
is still climbing beyond all precedent.
Saturday morning the total value of inn
provements for which building permits
have been taken out amounted to $904,.
$50.
A few minutes before the time set
for surprise party on her, Emil Carl
son s daughter, age ~, living near
Ferndale, went for bucket of water.
In some manner she fell into the well
and drowned. When the party of
young people arrived to surprise the
girl, they found her dead.
The little 3-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Musolf of Bellingham
was burned to death recently.
In the arrest of Joseph Gladney, J
E. Davidson, Mrs. Grace Gilman and
II. Hardy, Sheriff R. t. Hodge of Seat
tie says he has in custody the ring
leaders of an organized band of con
fidence operators and passers of worth
less checks.
GA mans thirst is not regulated
by the size of the town in which he
happens to be Sundaying," is senti
ment expressed by acting Governor
Hay in vetoing senate bill No. 81, thu
Potter Sunday liquor license bill. II,
refuses to veto clause in new crimina
code banishing cigarettes
Cattlemen of Columbia county ar,
rounding up their herds on the winte
ranges and during the next few day
nearly 1000 head of cattle will pas
through Dayton on their way to sum
mer ranges in the Wenaha reserve.
Falling rs feet and striking on hi
head at the foot of the Great Northern
trestle west of Spokane, c. l.. Lam
phere, a private in Company L of thu
Third infantry at Fort Wright, was in
stantly killed.
Alice Griffin and Mary Miller, Noun
Vernon girls, each 16 years of age, dis
appeared from the University of Puge
Sound.
County Auditor p. p. Green of Spo
kane has been rendered and will accep
the position of chief accountant of tn
commission to be selected by the gov
ernor to devise and put into effect
uniform aceountancy system through
out the state. Bob Butler, the base
ball "fan," will probably get Greene
job.
The growth of population and prop
erty values on the Yakima Indian res
ervation is shown by figures that hav
just been compiled from the assesse
valuation of the school district, whic
includes the greater part of the res
ervation, was $453,000, not enough t
permit bonding the district for a neN
school building. This year the as
sessed valuation is $1,042,0s5.
The supreme court has sustained tn
manslaughter verdict against Charlie
Churchhill, who, October 7, 1907, sho
and killed Mary ziegler in saloon a
North Yakima.
/; Nick Petrick, convicted of murder
ing Marshall Harry Miller at Kent o
April 10, 1908, was sentenced at Seal
tie to be hanged at the state peniter
tiary at Walla Walla on May 81.