Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-09-10
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-Crop Outlook just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

Fifteen carloads of soft fruit are be-
ing shipped daily out of Wenatchee.
1t is said Wenatchee will not exhibit
at the Spokane National Apple show.
Over 500 carloads of apples have al
ready been placed In a pool at Wen
atchee.
The Columbia river is lower at pres
ent than at any time during the last
five years.
Carl johnson, 80 years old, of Spo-
kane, was drowned in Clear Lake Sat
urday morning.
II. D. Merritt, a prominent citizen of
Spokane, is candidate for congress on
the democratic ticket.
The Moses Coulee Orchard company is
planning to set out $4,000 fruit trees
this year on its holdings in the Moses
Coulee.
The management of the Stevens
county fair placed a force of men at
work Monday preparing for the install
lation of the exhibits.
Hannah A. Elder, wife of the late
James Elder, pioneer of 1877 and one
of Dayton s best known women, died
recently. Death was due to dropsy.
Pullman citizens must go to the meat
markets for their meat and carry it
|, home in their arms, as the grocery
stores refuse to deliver meat for the
meat markets.
The State Bar association will meet
in Spokane next year. A resolution
was adopted at recent meeting in
favor of naming the judges of the SUI
perior and supreme courts at nonpar-
tisan convention.
The management of the Stevens
County Producers association has is
sued an exhaustive premium list for the
county fair, which will open at Col
vile September 81 for three days
session.
Caught by the belt and whirled to the
big pulley wheel, where he was badly
twisted and bruised, Mack Shields,
while feeding threshing machine near
Rosalia recently, received painful
though not fatal injuries.
Mrs. ]. P. Potts of Weston, Ore, died
at Walla Walla recently, victim to
the only known case of pellagra con-
.tracted in the northwest. Her affection
was also the only one of its kind in the
northwest which has terminated fatally.
The Rev. DR.. Edwin L. House of the
Westminster Congregational church,
Spokane, has been extended an invita-
ton to take charge of the home mis-
sion work of the Congregational church
for the state of Oregon, and act as
state superintendent.
Having decided the ground on which
the Northern Pacific station at Spo-
kane now stands and the triangular plot
lust north of the station to the com
pany several years ago in return for
passes, II II. Cowley now asks that the
instrument be Cancelled.
Approximately 100000 acres of tim
Der and cut-over lands in western
Washington have been burned over by
the destructive forest fires that have
swept various sections west of the Cas-
cade mountains this season. Close to
100000 has been spent so far in fight
ing the forest fires.
Miss Janet Moore, president of the
Washington State Federation of Wo
men IS Clubs, appointed the following
delegates to the National Conservation
congress, to be held at st. Paul this
week: Mrs E. G. Ennis, Aberdeen
Mrs. M. V. Beck, Seattle; Mrs. G.. G
Brown, Everett; Mrs. j. w. Mathews
Pullman, and Miss Myra Ballou, Pull
man.
]. K. Lynch, a prominent San Fran
cisco banker now touring this state
says that there will be little money
during the next two years for the de
velopment of new enterprises, but
plenty of money for legitimate bust
ness. He says it will be a period o.
conservative financial action in which
imitation and validating will b'
checked.
c. W. Winter, who founded and a
president of the institution manage'
and conducted the Bank of Colville
has moved to Spokane to make it hi
future home. Mr.. Winter also control
the Farmers and Merchants bank o
Springdale, the Branch bank of Kettl
Falls and the First National bank o
Chewelah, with combined assets o
about s75O,0OO, all of which he vii
manage from his Spokane office.
Leading railroad construction eng
neers of the country viii, at the re
quest of the Washington state railwa
commission, pass upon the plans 70
the snowsheds, ETC., the Great NORTH
ern viii build in the Cascades, so tina
the commission will be prepared, whe
the work is completed, to approve
in every way as being all that is nee
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