Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
NORTHWEST ITEMS
washington, MONTANA and
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

Aberdeen has decided to expend
100000 filling in $50 acres of tide
fats.
B. r. Tillman, Jr., son of Senator
Tillman of South Carolina, was a Wis
itor in Spokane recently.
Experts estimate the market value
Of the northwest s apple crop at from
100000 to $29,000,000.
The annual convention of the Wash
ington State Retail Grocers associa-
ton will be held September 14-15 at
Walla Walla.
Forest fires raging four miles north
of Bellingham have compelled several
families to hurry with their household
effects to the city.
An apple tree and two cherry trees
estimated to have been 90 years old
were cut down recently at Vancouver
to make room for a new brick block.
Whitman county has completed the
county bridge which extends from Mill
street to Main street, Colfax, making
easy access to the large grain ware
houses.
At the sixth annual convention of
the Washington state Elks' convention
at Port Angeles, Robert Shields of Bal
lard was elected to the presidency of
the organization.
Fraudulent advertising of the alleged
opening of 100000 acres of irrigated
land in the Yakima Indian reservation
is denounced in recent warning state
ment issued by the interior depart
ment.
Superior Court Judge Edward W
Taylor, well known on the bench in
Seattle and Tacoma, and as an attorney
in Nevada and California cities, dice
Friday at Conconully. He was 81 years
of age.
A city of 100000 is the basis OF
which all work of the civic plans com
mission of Seattle will be done. TIL
plans are to be extended in the futur
to cover territory embracing 15
square miles.
Mr.. Ballinger has lost practically al
his personal fortune in defending him
self from the attacks that have beer
made upon him. 1t is said that one at
torney fee alone in the congressional
investigation cost him $4,000.
The supreme court has appointed
II. yesterday of Tacoma member o
the committee to examine candidate
for admission to the bar. He succeed
ed j. r. Briggs of the State Bar asso
citation, whose term expired.
The state treasurer has paid over t,
Tacoma city officials 100000 in ex
per cent Tacoma bonds, which hav'
been purchased as an investment 70
state permanent school funds.
King county schools had an enroll
ment of ASSES pupils, in 265 schoo
houses, taught by 1,1ss teachers anC
using school property valued at $5,161,
593, during the school year of 1909
1910, according to the annual repor
of the county superintendent of schools
A. S. Borrows.
According to the report of County
auditor Chittenden, recently ISSUED
thSiC dAO oOfyOfJ dCicS VI lduQ 10 u,
assessed in Franklin county, the valu,
of which is placed at s2,37o,s5O. TIL,
value of the personal property is LISTED
at 1927 1877, and the railroad property
totals $1,958, 450, the aggregate valu,
of all taxable property being $5,77s,
GAS.
The discovery of the top of an auto
mobile in the river near Mount Yer
non by the Skagit county sheriff an,
a party of searchers has served to con
firm the fears of the relatives of D. r
Rowland, an Anacortes hveryman, an,
C. ID. Sterling of Portland, a machin
list, that the bodies of the two Inel
are lying at the bottom of the river
The two left Mount Vernon for Ana
eortes and have not been seen since.
A lecture hall is being provided 70
the state fair, September 26-Octobe
l. in which fifteen minutes illustrate
lectures will be given on topics tina
interest the fruit grower, farmer
stockman and "average citizen" TIL
topics will include horticulture, it
pests, treatment, packing, etc. TIL
agricultural courses will include talk
on soil. irrigation, and kindred in
portant subjects, while the students
stock Judging contest will be the es
sence of a complete course of lecture
by educators of state and national II
pute. The State college faculty an
State Superintendent Dewey are worl
ing out the details of the lectur
course.