Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-05-22
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-Spring Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

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graduate.
The Sprague roller mills have closed
down, as they have ground up the sup
ply of wheat.
The mayor of Bellingham has issued
an order that all saloons and the cred
| light" district must close at midnight
At the request of the saloonkeepers
of Tacoma, the city council has abol
ished the free lunch feature of saloons
The Washington State Board of EN-
balmers will meet in Seattle, June IA.
Two examinations will be held at that
time.
The next annual convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples union of the
state of Washington will be held in
Spokane June %.
The supreme court at Olympia has
affirmed the conviction of j. A. Nc
Intire, who was held at Walla Walla
for horse stealing.
Husum.-The much-talked-of Can
field ditch, which is to supply water
for irrigating the Lyle section, is to
be pushed to completion.
masked man held up the Jefferson
saloon, Tacoma, recently and held eight
customers at bay while he robbed the
till and made good his escape.
At the record price of $1.05, Karl
johnson, living four miles east of Day
ton, has sold 1900 bushels of red chaff
wheat to the Portland Touring mills.
II. o. Eames, president of the Eames
| Tan hot h.
ably fatally wounded his wife and
then swallowed quantity of carbolic
acid at Seattle.
Deputy Auditor Claude +. Gage of
Seattle Saturday issued a marriage
license to Masao Kuky, Jap, aged "a,
and Mayme Jeffrey, aged 21, both of
Denver, Col.
George Ingrim, 10 years old, re-
Gently killed 6oo-pound black bear
near his fathers camp, four miles
east of st. Mary's mission on the Col
vile Indian reservation.
Under the last ruling Of the inter
state commerce commission rates af-
fecting Spokane will be simultaneously
announced by the railroads affected
and by the commission on June l.
While playing in the back yard at
his home near Pine City, James c.
Hodgens, the 2-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Hodgens, fell into a
barrel sunk in a spring and was
drowned.
The 6-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. M. Anderson was burned to
death while playing around some burn
ing straw at the home of John Camp
bell, seven mil, west of Hatton, re-
Gently.
Governor Hay expresses both sur
prise and displeasure that during his
absence the legislative investigating
committee had abandoned its original
plan to make a special report Of the
insurance department.
The victim of a conspiracy entered
into between his wife and Charles L.
Newcomb, a laundry wagon driver,
: Martin Kvalshaug, 81 years old, was
shot down about midnight, just after
alighting from a streetcar at Tacoma
Saturday.
Cigarette smokers are dismayed over
the discovery that the new criminal
code contains a paragraph which not
only prohibits the sale of cigarettes
but makes it misdemeanor for any
one to be found with the "makings
in his possession.
The first official act of Governor
Hay on his return Saturday was to ap
prove the official bond Of Secretary
of State /. NJ. Howell, who at once
took Office. Ben Fish was reappointed
assistant secretary and the others OF
the Office force are continued.
The postofice at Bremerton, situated
, in building close to the Puget sound
navy yard, was entered recently by
professional cracksmen, who drilled the
safe and took away its strong box
containing $4,000 worth of stamps
diamond ring valued at $3.50 and
4 nearly 5000 in cash.
z The tax commission has received re
4 ports from all express companies do
9 ing business in this state showing theii
4 gross income for state business for the
8 year ended March 81 last aggregated
1902, 617, as against about $4,000 the
T. previous year. At the per cent ia,
+ the companies pay $45,136 to the state
The closing features of the inter
scholastic meet at Pullman was helC
in the college gym Saturday when th'
q contest for the four oratorieal medals
was won by Sprague. The first media
was won by Gray Greenwood o.
: Sprague; second, Dudley Hagan, Spo
= kane; third, Ortis Harris, Dayton, an,
= fourth, Allen Phillips, Prosser.
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