Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-12
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


a total of $4,000.
state Senator Il. A. Hutchinson Of
Spokane Is improving slowly from his
recent sickness.
Caeney water supply was cut OF
Saturday, as torrents from nearby hill |
sides submerged the reservoir.
Mrs. Wilhimina Lawson, whose mind |
became derauged over grieying over the
death vi daughter, committed suicide
at seattle Sunday
Bishop Lemuel IL. Wells of Spokane,
wh0 has been i'll in New York, is again
at bis work raising funds for western
Episcopal missions.
Hay will be scarce between now and
the first cutting of the new crop in
NAY. The entire Yakima valley is
pretty well sold out
All the bodies OF the victims of the
Wellington disaster will not be recov-
cred for month, according to a state
meat made by Superintendent o 'Neill.
Charles Marsey, the 14year-old son
of Dwight Marsey, a farmer living
three miles west OF Touchet, was ac
cideutally shot and killed by younger
brother
TIE body of l.. d. Schwartz and
Maurice O Briea, drowned at Oakesdale
on last Tuesday, were found in the
creek a mile below the scene of the ac-
cideat
John Stokes, who killed his wife, has
been sentenced to from 10 to 20 years
in The penitentiary for manslaughter
by Judge Yakey in the superior court
of Ritsap county
The body OF the late William Win
tiers of Spokane, who died recently in
New York, will be brought to Spokane
for interment, aud will probably arrive
there the last of the week.
Without an instant S warning Henry
j. Mayer, chief night dispatcher of the
Nogtheru Pacific, was crushed to death
Sunday morning while attempting to
couple j coach and baggage car at
Spokane.
The parade of about 1000 working
mea through the streets of Spokane
Tuesday night was an event novel in
the history Of that city. They want
the city to raise the scale of wages
from s2.75 to So for eight hours.
Harry B. Hanford, youngest son of
Judge c. Il. Hanford of the federal
court, has been placed in padded cell
at the Seattle city jail, becoming VIC
Ieutly insane. and his father lies pros
trated at his home as the result.
All of the Industrial Workers of the
World disturbers who have been do
ing time on the city rockpile at Spo-
kaue will be released before the end of
the present week, according to Chief
OF Police Sullivan. They all agree to
keep within the city's ordinance
Or. Ralph Matson, city bacteriologist
of Portland, has made public the. fact
thst he had found about one grain OF
strychnine in q small portion of the con
teuts of the stomach of Mrs. Edith Pc
pooh, whose husband George Pepoop
is under arrest at Northport, Wash, on
a charge in connection with Mrs. Pc
po0a's death.
Backers of the horse against the
automobile rejoiced recently at Walls
Walla. Some of the councilmen pulled
in fire alarm to test the relative
speed of the horses and the new auto
mobile chemical engine. The horses
made it in minute and half anC
were calling for second helping o.
oats before the automobile pulled int
sigdt.
Jacob Furth, president of the Puge
Sound Electric Railway company, op
Grating the interurbau railroad between
Seattle and Tacoma and other lines radi
ating from the two cities announce
that the company will not accept tn
recent order Of the state railroad com
mission ordering it to make certain re
ductious in its fares, but will carry tn
case into the courts.
The state law of 1898, requiring rail
r0dds at their own expense to conduc
aud maintain crossings, gates and bars
where their grades bisect land owned b.
a farmer, is now held to have bee
repealed by decision of the stat
supreme court in 1.-THE case of I. N. Huff
m1a against the Oregon Railway & Nav
ig1tion company, thus reversing the dc
cis,on of the lower court. The suprem
court says that under the law of 100
tbs landowner must pay the expens
o. such crossings.