Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-05
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.

All saloons have closed at Wilbur.
A commercial club has been organ
lied at Wapato.
A fve-story hotel at North Yakima is
to be built this summer.
Both the city Jail and the county
jail in Wenatchee are empty.
The higher-wages- determines theory
has many advocates in Spokane.
The Great Northern has paid part of
the losses of the Krupp fire August 25.
Corporation Counsel e. o. Connor of
Spokane has decided to resign March Is
Henry Meiners, one of the Oldest
pioneers of Walla Walla, died recently
William b. Champion, an aged and
respected citizen of Asotin, died re-
Gently.
The Masonic fraternity is to erect
the first steel structure at North Yak
ina, costing 100000.
l.. Davies of Davenport has been re
appointed by Governor Hay as state
dairy and food inspector.
The tax rolls for Grant county show
the rate is less than one-half what it il
in the old county of Douglas.
j. Ii. Scheibner sold his ranch of 32C
acres northwest of Wilbur for $14, 500
cash to Robert Sheffels, a neighbor.
Carl Pitzer Of Centralia, for year
an instructor in music at the Washing
ton state training school at Chehalis
has been discharged.
Colonel William II. Garland, an ageC
promoter, was recently arrested in Sc
attic, charged with grand larceny il
selling alleged worthless coal stock.
Leonard Hagenauer, professor of agri
culture at the University of Illinois
has been chosen to fill the vacant chat
of agronomy at the Washington Stat
college.
Mrs. Matte MAIDEN, whose Made
name was Wadsworth and who's
mother lived at Fairmont, w. v, wa
found recently in the bay at Seattle
death being accidental.
The Lorrimer & Gallagher company
of Chicago and Seattle, who have bee
awarded the contract by the Chicago
Milwaukee s. Puget Sound Railwa
company to fill in practically all il
wooden trestles between the Columbi
river and the Idaho boundary line, b'
gun work at Lind Monday.
Action to cancel the charter of til
Weyerhaeuser companies to do bushes
in Washington for alleged violation {
r the conspiracy clauses of the new Grim
nal code is threatened as sequel
, the long legal battle between the Mic
: men Boom company and North Shol
) Boom company involving booming RICH
in North river.
l Descending like an invading arm
from ambush, the North Coast railroa
2 the other night threw grading an
, track-laying crews into Kennewick an
. before city officials and property owne
were aware of the fact 100 men and
teams were laying track along Froi
street. The Front street route has bee
the subject of controversy between Il
Q railroad company and the city al
e property owners for months.
= Ortis Hamilton, former adjutant ge
;, eral of this state, is now convict N
a 56s3 at the penitentiary. He com
Y to prison with a promise made by hil
self, his relatives and his friends, tn
he will not ask for a pardon or paro
inside of five years. After being co
victed on the first charge Hamilt'
agreed to dismiss his appeal on conc
ton that the state drop the 9th
cases against him. He took 1870
f from the state.
s Following charges lodged by F.
d Huntley, state commissioner of hor
i culture, against District Inspector
3, f. Crowell alleging failure to coop
t. ate with his superior officers for t
D. good of the service, participation
n fractional disputes of a local charact
and failure to make an equitable
-e vision of his time between Steve
l. and Ferry counties, Mr.. Crowell was
b. moved from the service.