Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-19
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
Place Business outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS,

=. ". Eckler, a Irel8nJ conductor on
the Northern Pacific, was dangerously
injured Sunday in a collision between a
switch engine and a caboose in the
freight yards at Argo, south of Seattle.
Both caboose and the switch engine
were badly wrecked.
According to Portland dispatches,
the completed analysis of the contents
of the stomach and a portion of the
liver from the body of Mrs. Edith Pc
pooh, who met death in lonely cabin
near Northport, Wash, August 20, 1909,
has been completed by Doctors Matson
and Cathey. A total of about two
grains of strychnine was secured and
crystallized.
A. Gustafson, a spooltender in a log
ging camp near Belleville, was killed re-
Gently by the accidental discharge of a
revolver in the hands of John Kent, a
friend, who was examining the weapon
with view to trading for it.
Dynamite was successfully used to
stop a fire that threatened to destroy
the little suburban town of Redmond,
on the east side of Lake Washington,
Sunday evening. Three business build
ings had been destroyed when the vol
unteer firemen decided to use dynamite
to stop the spread of the flames. The
loss was $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
Professor Schwable, from the south
ern part of the state, has assumed
duties as principal of the Twisp schools.
Hatton, the first town in Adams
county to vote ON local option, voted
dry at the special election Saturday
~ to %. Every qualified voter regis
tered cast vote.
State Treasurer Lewis reports 81 ,093,-
S43 cash on hand in all funds. The re-
ceipts for the week were $404,593 and
the expenditures were $5s,65O. The
general fund now holds $14O,511, mill
tary funds $4,000 and public highway
funds $137, $40.
The Farmers Educational and Co.
operative Union of America, through
the Spokane union, will organize a
terminal agency for the storage of
produce in Spokane, and will incor-
porate at once with a capital stock
of $4,000.
Professor Franz Mueller, pioneer mu-
stefan and composer of Spokane, who
died Saturday morning, was born, of
German parentage at GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
August 1, 1853.
Robert Ingels, a coal passer on the
steamer Inland Empire, was drowned
in the Columbia near the Kennewick
docks recently.
George Fred De Graft, a printer of
Spokane, is a candidate for United
States marshal for the district of east
ern Washington.
The contract has been let for the con-
struction of an addition 4OxsO feet,
with two stories and a basement, to
the east end of the Stevens county
courthouse. The contract price is
$3.50.
If buzzing bees and bursting buds
are signs, spring has arrived in the
Columbia river valley at Kennewick
Pasco, Burbank and Richland.
About 300 men are employed on the
I. & w. N. extension from lone to
Metaline, and now that the snow is
rapidly going off this force will be in
creased.
Efforts to increase the membership OF
the Ellensburg Chamber of Commerce
from GO to 200 were started recently
by two committees.
Carroll Morgan, for more than 81
years a resident of Springdale section
died recently.
President William Bryan of the Uni
versity of Indiana will deliver lecture
in Washington State college March 20
He is a brother of President E. A
Bryan of Washington State college
Pullman. He comes west TO attend tn,
Inland Empire Teachers association
meeting at Pendleton this month.
One of E. R. Kirkland IS freigh
teams, while crossing Sullivan lake
: near Metaline, on the ice with a heav,
load of provisions, broke through an'
was drowned. The teamster saved him
self by jumping.
Farmers began spring work Monday
Flowing started ON the hills and soutl
slopes, but it will be weeks before tn
bottom lands can be plowed. TIL
weather has been balmy and the sur
l face of the ground has dried rapidly
Spring seeding will begin about Apr
1 if the weather continues favorable
Z A party of Great Northern surveyor
is again at work running lines for tn
proposed cutoff between Loon LAX
, summit and the valley, by which
l is intended to do away with muc
heavy grade and number of sharl
curves.
At a special annexation election a
Kennewiek Saturday the citizens dc
( clared themselves in favor of extend
. ing the corporated limits of the city
The area to be taken in is about 81
acres having population of 200 Thi
will enable Kennewick to become
city of the first class.
Efforts to secure the release of Sid
ney Sloane, the principal in the cele
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