Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-07-23
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

Republic Saturday voted TO retain
the saloons.
The Ritzville Commercial club plans
fair this fall
Washington State college will open
on September 81.
Packages now go from New York to
Puget Sound in so hours.
The passenger business is heavy ON
all railroads.
Fred Thompson, one of the best
known fruit growers and shippers of
North Yakima, says that pear blight
is attacking orchards in the Yakima
valley.
Her dress catching fire from match
spark flying through the air, Grace
Watkins of North Yakima was so Sc
verely burned at Toppenish. that she
died soon after.
The farmers union of Walla Walla
announces that it has won it's conten-
ton with the telephone company and
the proposed So year increase in rates
will not be made.
Chelan IS new steel bridge over the
Chelan river, costing $4,000, is COM
pleted. The bridge is an important
section of state road No. 10, which
runs from Wenatchee to she Canadian
line.
Not for some years has the Asotin
part of the state witnessed such
drouth. For three weeks no rain bias
fallen and the weather has been warm,
the mercury ranging as high as 104
degrees.
At meeting of the executive board
of the Wilbur Fair association plans for
the eighth annual Wilbur fall fair, Sep
TENDER 81, 2s, 20 and 80, were com
pleted. The feature will be the live
stock show.
Seven persons were injured at Seat
tie, Sunday, one probably fatally, when
an automobile driven by w. A. Briggs
and carrying a party of his friends ran
into another machine, driven by Henry
Miyamoto, a chauffeur.
There is $2,344,OOO cash in the state
treasury, according to the weekly state
ment of State Treasurer Lewis. OF
this $9O6,500 is in the general fund.
The week IS receipts were $230,9s0, and
disbursements were $1s7,20s.
A contract made prior to final proof
by a homesteader to convey water
rights or rights of way for water
power bitches is void, declares the state
supreme court, and the courts will not
attempt to enforce such a contract.
Charles Chrisman, a farmer living
north of Trinidad, sent last fall two
samples of wheat to the National Corn
exposition at Omaha, Neb. Saturday
he received a Sc prize and two ribbons,
, the j. J. Hill prize, for bluestem and
winter wheat.
David J. Hedges, the 16-yearold son
of S. B. Hedges, president of the Puget
Sound Bridge and Dredging company,
was drowned in the Skykomish river
near Monroe by the capsizing of a
canoe in which he and a companion
were moving up stream.
, While applying liniment to a wound
ed shoulder of his horse, Fred Harmon,
young rancher living a few miles
south of Wenatchee, felt an irritation
on his nose and attempted to relieve it
, with his finger. Shortly after the nose
became infamed and blood poisoning
set in, and despite the best of medical
aid, the young man died from the
effects.
! Snoqualmie falls, in the western part
of the state, have been obliterated, the
water now being entirely diverted to
turn the wheels of an electric plant that
furnishes power to Seattle and Tacoma.
The cataract was formerly world
famous. The Snoqualmie river, 1876 feet
wide, plunged over precipice 26s feet
. high, the water being turned into spray
during the descent.
The arrival of Congressman ]. A.
Goulden of New York, president of the
Chelan Consolidated Copper company,
has aroused new interest in mining
. matters in Leavenworth. His company
has a capital of $12,OOO,OOO and is con-
trolled by prominent New York peo-
! pie. 1t has large holdings at Tudex
as well as in the famous Red Noun
tain mining district and is working at
both places.