Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-02-26
NORTHWEST ITEMS.
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
and Washington.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Business Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.
A new Great Northern depot is prom
sed for Newport.
Michael Regan, 1o2 years old, died
in Seattle recently.
Many cases of hog cholera have ap-
peared in the vicinity of Walla Walla.
Palouse grain dealers are making
large shipments to the Coast for export
trade.
The commercial club of Tacoma
plans a iunket to eastern Washington
in May.
The Colville Chamber Of Commerce
was organized at recent meeting of
the business men.
Weneha reservation will accommodate
900 head of cattle and horses and
1922 900 head of sheep this year for
grazing.
State Senator r. A. Hutchinson of
Spokane is improving gradually and
is on the road to rapid recovery from
his recent illness.
1t is reported that Colyille's main
business street will be improved this
summer by the addition of an 1s-inch
layer of crushed rock and gravel.
Five boys, ranging in age from IS to
% years, have been arrested at Che
halls on a charge of setting fire to the
school building which was recently
burned.
The Washington Veterans home at
Port Orchard, formally dedicated on
Lincoln s birthday this year, received
its first inmate Tuesday, Washington IS
birthday.
The announcement is made by the
e Bellingham Bay Lumber company that
i, its mill at Bellingham will Immediately
e resume operations The mill has been
closed down for two years.
Snow drifts 10 feet deep have cut
, off travel on many roads leading out
. of Dayton. In many places, it is re
ported, fences, fruit trees, gates and
even small outbuildings are buried.
Thousands of ground squirrels have
= been starved to death and thousands
of others are on starvation rations il
= the country surrounding Walla Walla az
result of the recent fall of snow
A united effort will be made by the
d people of KennewicS and Pasco to pre-
vail upon the Good Roads convention
:, this week to indorse the building of &
l. wagon bridge over the Columbia river
Conspiracy, fraud and favoritism,
e are the sweeping charges made agains
l. the state dental board, and the legisla
d tive investigating committee will NEE
= to examine the charges in Seattle thi
week
% G. M. Wilson, proprietor of the Park
is side Stock farm near Wilbur, has re
e. turned from the east with a carload o
N imported registered stations and mares
IS consisting of Shires, Percherons ant
Belgiums.
II, The Uniontown branch of the Farm
=, ers union has bought the farmers
- warehouses at that place and at Leon
:, and will take possession of them Jun
- /. The price paid for the warehouse
i, at both places was $4,000.
Funeral services for F. f. Michael:
: who committed suicide at Spokane las
- week in a fit of dependency as the RI
= suit of continued poor health, wa
~ held Sunday at the Masonic tempt
under Masonic auspices.
k H. f. Shepherd and E. Shepherd rel
Sc resenting the California Fruit Gamers
or association, which has purchased tn
Weber Russell cannery, North Yakim;
are now at Walla Walla to arrange fC
tb the operation of cannery there.
RI Sam Mitchell, formerly a logger {
I'M Aberdeen, and now owner of a lodI
IS ing house in Seattle, and Mrs. FueI
M Terada, are now man and wife, tn
nj first instance in the records of Kin
nd county of an American man weddin
all a japanese woman.
i'll Surgeon M. w. Glover of the Unite
States public health service reports
lis Washington that a suspected rat kill'
er, in Seattle had been fully identified
in afflicted with bubonic plague. The II
* was killed in a district covered
en- wooden buildings and the city has 9
c.. ready ordered the district cleaned.
nd The contract for the construction
a Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Soul
las railroad s branch line to Everett W
awarded to Horace G. Henry of
attic. The branch, which will be
miles long, will leave the main line
Moncton, King county, and the CO
of construction will be about $3.50
w per mile. Work will be begun Mar
- IS and completed in nine months.