Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-09-17
NORTHWEST ITEMS
WASHINGTON, MONTANA AND
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
Prom Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


Seattle has full registration of A.
600, Spokane $4,000.
The State Grocerymen association
meets in Walla Walla September IA
and 49,
All Spokane city employees must now
pay their grocery bills, under penalty
of dismissal.
The cruiser Charleston, late flagship
of the Asiatic fleet, is now at the Puget
Sound navy yard.
Estimates of the value of the hop
crop of the Yakima valley this fall
place it at about 100000.
Mrs. H. c. Dietrich, a young married
woman of Portland, attempted to com
NIT suicide in Seattle Friday.
The most disastrous fire in many
years destroyed property Friday night
at Waitsburg valued at $4,000.
Road building operations now under
way in the Bristol section insure a fine
system of highways in the near future
Spokane is in a more healthful con-
dition at present than at any time dur
ing the last five years as regards con-
tagious diseases.
Walla Walla will be represented at
the Spokane National Apple show by
the most elaborate display of apples
that has ever been sent from there.
After being a resident of Whitman
county for more than 80 years, j. P.
7. McCroskey, aged 81, died Thursday.
He was born in Tennessee and moved
to Whitman county in 1879, homestead
ing his ranch at that time.
The new law barring insanity as a
defense to criminal prosecutions was
declared unconstitutional and the hotel
inspection law, except the penalty case,
was declared constitutional by decisions
of the state supreme court Saturday.
The great International Dry Farm
ing congress, to open in Spokane Oc-
tober 3, will be addressed by the larg-
est number of prominent men in agrl
cultural development of any conven.
ton ever held in the Pacific northwest
Travelling half way around the world
for the purpose, Alfred Slider of Lu
cerne, Switzerland, is in the Walla
Walla valley studying fruit condition:
and learning what he can of the meth
DDS employed in fruit raising in the
northwest.
Furs valued at more than 100000
were sold by the Seattle Fur Sale.
agency at Puyallup to Is buyers from
all parts of the United States ant
western Canada at the sale concluded
Saturday. Record prices were OBJ
tanned for the furs.
Mrs. R. B. Mccoy, wife of Judge R
B. Mccoy of Sparta, was killed anC
DR.. Carl Beebe Sr. of Sparta seriously
injured when the touring automobile Il
which they were riding skidded from
the bank and plunged into the Ii
Crosse river near West Salem, Sunday
Valuable Indian lands on the Yaki
ma Indian reservation, which were
allotted to noncompetents or held foi
heirs of dead Indians, will be sold by
the government on September 20 anS
October 81. The sale will be under thu
supervision, of S. A. M. Young, th'
agent in charge.
Control of the water power of Prizes
rapids, on the Columbia river, in Gran
and Yakima cousties, Washington, hal
been sold by the Hanford Irrigation
and Power company to the American
Power and Light company of New York
The water power is said to be the mos
valuable in North America, except tina
of Niagara falls. The property trans
ferred is said to be worth $4,000,00o
The company owns power plant, irri
cation system and large tract of land
all of which are included in the trans
fer.