Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-06-11
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-Business outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


warehouses at Alstown, Douglas, Sup
plee, Withrow and Mansfield.
Carefully sealing each crevice and
opening in his room in cheap lodging
house, man believed to be w. IL. Lund
of Everett, Wash, committed suicide in
San Francisco by inhaling gas.
AS yet the Seattle police and the mil
itary authorities at Fort Lawton have
been unable to identify the negro who
made a brutal attack upon Mrs. J. w.
Redding at her home in the neighbor-
hood OF Fort Lawton, Saturday.
Floods and washouts last year cost
the Northern Pacific in this state $751;,
2O2.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of z. IL. Sautbein, a mer-
chants police officer of Spokane, miss
ing since March 10, has been solved by
the finding of his body, Saturday, in
the Spokane river.
The Elberton picnic will be on in
all its glory June Is, 16 and II.
William Register, aged 40, brake
man on the Tacoma Eastern railway,
was run over by freight cars going into
siding seven miles from Tacoma Sat
urday night.
There are 260 oranges in Washington,
an increase of 101 for the year. Last
month the membership aggregated
1886.
Ray Colburn, Frank McCanse, Will
liam Wilson and Frank Ford, the four
young men who held up a Seattle street.
car May 10, and robbed the passengers
of 81 800 in money and jewelry, entered
pleas of guilty in the criminal court
and were sentenced to serve from five
to 20 years each in the state prison.
The robbers were arrested in Portland
and the streetcar company paid $1,000
reward to their captors.
Yakima county will produce in 1910
the most bountiful harvest ever
known in the history, in every branch
of horticulture and agriculture, accord
ing to present indications.
The expected yield in the Yakima
valley this year is 1900 carloads OF
pears, peaches, plums and mixed fruit
and 1900 carloads of apples.
The prospects for hay crop in Ben
ton county are favorable. There is
about 5000 acres in alfalfa, and timothy
and clover, probably rs per cent is il
alfalfa. The alfalfa yield will be about
eight tons per acre for the season.
The crop outlook for Lincoln county
was never brighter than this year.
1t is estimated that Garfield county
has 143,7OO acres of improved farm
land, which this season is devoted tt
1OO,49O acres of wheat, $4,000 acres 0.
barley and in the neighborhood of 6O'
acres of alfalfa.
IL. NJ. Boone, a former state senate
from Whitman county, former stat
bank examiner and former president o
the Palouse State bank, was foun'
guilty of the alleged embezzlement o
= $4,000. Boone was indicted and trie
for the embezzlement of $4,000
= Boone s attorney moved for a new tria
i, Judge Garfield fixed the bond at $40
=, 900, which was furnished.
3 A rear end collision occurred at tn
west end of the railroad yards a
= Prosser Saturday. A heavily loade
j. freight train of 6s cars was on the mai
}, line, Just pulling onto a siding, whe
n without warning train No. 4, a ma
n train, crashed into the caboose. III
d caboose was crushed to kindling woo
l. and two cars next were badly wrecks
The passenger had slowed down
about IL miles an hour.
The Chelan county commissions
have Joined hands with Wenatchee an
- now have a sprinkling wagon for use {
country roads adjoining that city.
If The wheat crop of the Walla Wal
e. section is placed at 10 per cent lie
al than normal this year.
rs By a vote of about four to one Il
le citizens of Walla Walla at an electi'
y. Saturday, decided to vote $4,000
ot bond issue to build an addition to Il
IS. Sharpstein school.
le Duncan Pierce, farmer who liv
u near Seattle, arrived in Palouse Frida
le having walked the entire distance fro
81 Seattle to attend the meeting of t
Washington State Grange, in Pullm
next week.
Pullman will celebrate this July t
10 the first time in several years.
=. Tacoma has a population of apprc
"a imately 110,24S.
~ Henry L. Bowlby, state highway co
81 missioner, arrived in Spokane Tuesd
to prepare for the removal of $50 &C
-. victs from the state penitentiary
h Walla Waila to the state roek-crushi
be plant at Marshall, nine miles southei
10 of this city.
- While over 1000 people gazed
- horror, A. Meyers, former employee
the Milwaukee railroad, was ground
bits beneath the wheels of a switch
> kline in front of the Othello station S
- urday.
DC IDAHO NOTES.
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