Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-05-07
Northwest ITEMS
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 ITEMS.

w A041Nd yin 14GsIhos
The boulevard from Walla Walla to
the state penitentiary was begun Mon
day and so convicts put on the job.
In replatting the Dayton cemetery
City Engineer Frank w. Guernsey has
found more than 200 unmarked and
unknown graves.
Following quarrel with Will Morse,
said to be her closest friend, Mrs. AL
mira Moser committed suicide at Spo-
kane by taking carbolic acid.
The result of the Seattle enumeration,
when completed, is expected to be bit
ter disappointment, the total recorded
population being estimated at only
$4,000.
r.. j. Maclean, formerly president of
the board of trade of Wilmington, Del,
has taken up his duties as secretary of
the Spokane Chamber of Commerce,
succeeding Levi G. Monroe, who re-
signed.
Ellensburg.-Charles Mason, one of
the wealthiest Indians in the valley, and
known to old settlers as a staunch
friend of the white man, died recently.
| His fortune is estimated at from $685.
900 to $4,000.
Firing point-blank, at distance of
| IL feet, an unknown person killed
James Boone, a rancher, and wounded
Fred Rolen, his hired man, on the Har-
ris ranch, nine miles east of Sprague
at clock Friday night.
Mrs. Jenn Sorenson and three chill
iren were burned to death in fire
which destroyed their homie in Enum
claw recently. Sorenson managed tC
save the two youngest children, but
was himself badly burned.
The Twenty-ffth regiment, now a
northwest posts, United States infan
try, has new commander, Colonel vii
liam p Evans, promoted from heuten
ant colonel of the Eleventh infantr.
IN March 25, and recently assigned t.
ais new command.
After paying bounties for so coyot
skins Saturday morning, at the rate o
81 each, Deputy Auditor j. w. Sweas.
1T Walla Walla has received lette
|
ltion of $4,000 for bounties had bee
exhausted and that no more money wa
AVAILABLE for reimbursing the countie
for bounty expenditures.
Miss Lottie Herdman, aged "a, and /
!, &. Saunders, young man of the sam
lge, were drowned in Green lake, 81
attic, Sunday, when canoe in whic
hey were riding was overturned by tn
, swell from passing launch. The youn
1 nan s father, David Saunders, is a res
y lent of Bluefeld, w. Va, Miss Hero
nan IS parents live in Seattle.
On May 1 the state board of fnanC
took up 100000 worth of gener'
b fund bonds, which will reduce I'll
!, bonded indebtedness of that fund I
an even 81 100000, as it is at 81 10000
7 at the present time. On January l I'll
. state floated 100000 worth of bono
. to carry the state over the period unit
. the spring taxes began to come in.
. One passenger was killed, two fatal
a injured and Is others more or less hu
recently by a collision of a passeng
car of the Seattle, Renton & Southel
Electric railway and loaded coal c.
on the same road at Rainier beach (
W Lake Washington, seven miles from Il
center of Seattle. The man killed W
Judge w. c. Bell of Harrodsburg, K
(. Ralph Kilcox of Mitchell has be-
st notified that he has fallen heir to 81
s. 900 in cash, an automobile, a secti
Or of valuable wheat land with horses a.
er stock, left to him by a sweetheart
IA boyhood days with whom he had seq
te rated in a lovers quarrel, and of who
Id he had since known but little. WilcC
Mt young man now of % years, and
rs benefactress grew up in an Greg
lg town together, and when they were
!" years old became engaged to marry.
ne quarrel arose, and the engagement "
w broken.
GU The Washougal Dairy and Land co
pany recently made a deal involvi
SCI, 500 and 1,711 acres. The G. G. 4
derson ranch, consisting of 271 acres,
MI which 25 acres are in full-bearing prr
lv trees and has 100 acres under cult
he ton, with all buildings and two 1907
hv silos; also sufficient water power to !
m all kinds of machinery, valued at S.
nix 600, was traded to Alfred Glenn
Walla Walla county wheat ran
TX having a full section of fall wheat 8
,er quarter in spring wheat. This ral
he consists of 1,440 acres and the valuat
3D. is $31, 500.
IL. IDAHO JOTTINGS.