Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-20
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.


A railroad agent has been installed
at lrby, six miles east of Krupp.
George I. Crane of Spokane has pur-
chased the Brewster nurseries of w. j.
Doust, also of Spokane, for $4,000.
Plans for the new 900 Knights of
Pythlas building which is to be erected
at Spokane are nearly completed
The jury in the case of Joshua Klein
at Tacoma brought in compromise YER
dict of guilty of an assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to do bodily
harm, and recommended him to the
clemency of the court.
Water was tapped this week in the
fifth artesian we'll on the Blalock fruit
farm at Walla Walla. 1t flows about
5000 gallons minute and is larger
than other wells sunk on the farm The
fountain pitches eight feet into the air
an a stream 10 inches in diameter.
Fire in the Oroville Lumber company
stable destroyed the stable, all the
dressed lumber, 200,0 900 shingles and 10
tons of hay. The barn and contents
were valued at $4,000, with no insur-
ance. The Office and livery barn saved
by the chemical engine and bucket bri-
gade.
Thirteen spars for Emperor Will
liam s new racing yacht have been
shipped to Hamburg from Hoquiam.
J. B. Yerger, an Oregon lumberman,
has purchased the plant of the insolvent
Everett Lumber company at Everett
from the receiver for $4,000, and oper-
atoms at the long idle mill are to be
resumed Immediately.
Emmett Bagley, a patient at the
Steilacoom insane asylum, suicided re-
Gently.
Word has just come from Washing
ton, d. c., that the reclamation service
has taken action with regard to al
legged locators, who have been locating
homeseekers on land withdrawn from
entry at North Yakima. The machin-
cry of the government has been set to
work and the practice probably will
be stopped very quickly.
Patsy Jonas, well known Splinter
was arrested recently at Colville, on
the charge of having robbed the safe
of the Colville feed store of $50. He
Immediately confessed to the robbery
Annie Jennie, an Indian, living with
in few miles of Renton, Wash, where
she was born, died last week after
living 100 years.
A company has been. organized t.
build cold storage plant at Lind.
Whitman couaty's fourth grand jury
since 1899, convened by order of Judg'
Garfield March 2, Saturday made it
final report and was discharged. AS thu
result of the deliberations SO true bill
were found.
The Mabton siphon, which has beer
under construction for nine months, i
finished. This siphon is numbere'
among the great engineering feats o
the west. The water is taken from tn
Sunnyside canal and runs on gradua
incline almost three miles to the Yak
ina river There it makes a sudde
drop of 1875 feet The water is the
run under the Yakima river, distanc
of $50 yards, with pressure of ton
on the walls of the siphon. The e1
posed parts are all constructed of CO
ment pipes, five feet in diameter. Th
completion of this siphon brings a larg
tract of irrigable land under cultivation
At recent meeting of the Yakim
Horticultural union, President w. \
Irish was elected general overseer an
Ray Paddock sales manager. The of
GERS were elected because of the resign,
ton of f. E. Sampson, general manage
who leaves here April to become mai
ager of the Okanogan Fruit union {
Vernon, B. Q.
The eleventh legislature authorize
the expenditure or disbursement of SIS
565,29O, as compared with $6,844,349 a.
propriated for all purposes by the legi
lature of 1907 and $3,663, 300 in 100
In addition, this legislature has autho
lied the sale of the capitol land graz
for the erection of a new capitol
Olympia according to plans which
was estimated in 1895 would have co
million. While no recent estima
has been made, it is probable that Il
cost of the building now would exec
million and half and perhaps real
two millions.
Judge yesterday of Tacoma issu
the call for grand jury to meet MO
day, April 5, to investigate the Jami
son charges against Mayor Linck al
Chief of Police Duley in connecti'
with the operation of the restricted d
trict and to conduct an inquiry in
municipal affairs in general.
A. Horton, poor man, a recent {
rival at Tacoma from the east, has ]
ceived the news that his share of S
ter's estate was $22, 900 in cash, viii
would be Immediately sent him.