Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-01-01
NORTHWEST STATES
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
WASHINGTON AND OREGON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fall outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
The main line of the Northern Pa
cifc from Spokane to Tacoma and Sc
attic is to be shortened 100 miles dur
ing 1910.
The Sound steamer Columbia, YES
sci of 100 tons, was rammed and sunk
by the steam schooner Tiverton at the
Standard Oil company s wharf at Sc
attic.
One of the largest land sales made in
Sprague district was consummated re-
Gently when T. N. Lynch sold his farm
of $50 acres for $22,4 400 The land is
eight miles south
Charles S. Voorhees,, prominent Spo-
kane attorney, for two terms terri
torial delegate from Washington to the
United States congress, one of the pio-
neer residents of the city, died at his
home Sunday. Heart failure is given
as the immediate cause of death.
Eastbound mail train at Odessa Sun
day struck the buggy of John Schimke,
seriously injuring the three occupants,
John Rougust and Ruth and Talbert
Schimbe, the latter two being the chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel E. Schim-
Ike of Odessa, aged 9 and years re-
spectively. The driver died the same
day.
Ben. Bergunder, one of the Oldest
and most prominent residents of Col
fax, fell recently on an icy sidewalk
and is confined to his home in seri-
Gus condition.
The Seattle National bank and the
Puget Sound National bank, two large
banking houses, are to consolidate.
Governor Hay signed final discharges
the oath which gave liberty to 25
eonvicts who have been working all
summer on state road work in the
Cascade mountains.
In the 10 banks and trust companies
of Spokane, with a population OF
$4,000, there is a larger aggregate
capital stock than in the 10 similar in
stitutions of Denver, Col, city with
about 100000.
A Washington nurseryman has closed
contract to furnish 10000 fruit trees
to be set out on 500 acres at Priest
rapids. The order will contain 24,00(
apple trees and $4,000 peach trees.
A stabbing ARRAY occurred at lone
recently in which a lumberjack by ts'
name of Kirby was seriously if mo-
fatally injured.
With wheat at a dollar and higher
wheat men believe the high prices will
be not only maintained, but are de
stined to go to still greater extremes
by spring.
Convicts at the state penitentiar.
gave their minstrel show Christina
afternoon, and gave it well. A stag
was erected in the dining room ant
, set with scenery furnished by tn
theaters in the city. The actors an
the audience, with perhaps a dozel
exceptions, were all prisoners.
Judge r. S. Lovett, successor of
II. Hartman as head of the great Han
riman system of railroads, has alread
) taken steps to meet the effort of tn
Seattle Commercial club, acting, it
, believed in New York, with the back
l ing of James j. Hill, to divert tn
3 China trade to the northern port, S
? it is said in Wall street.
Whitman county won the gran
q sweepstakes prize in the boys cor
D growing contest inaugurated by Wasl
n ington State college and the Orego
t Railroad & Navigation company la:
l spring and set a pace for older cor
Y growing states in the yield. Four coul
J. ties competed in this contest and til
+ winner of the sweepstakes prize of SIC
I had the yield of 80 bushels an acr
o This was Warren Love of CARTEL,
e whose two brothers are graduates {
/, Washington State college and who's
?. father is a prominent farmer.