Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-06-18
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 STATE NEWS.

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.
The summer session of the State Nor
NAL school began Thursday with an
enrolment of 208
The Fry Bruhn Packing company has
bought the Yakima Meat company s
plant, including retail markets.
Fully 5000 people watched the last
days sport of the fifth annual Volun-
teer Firemen s tournament at Sprague.
There will not be jury term of
court for Adams county until Septem-
Der next, and probably not until
October.
Before an audience of $4,000 Fri
day, Tacoma s magnificent stadium was
dedicated and a gorgeous festive pa
geant enacted by 1000 school children.
1t is announced that Benjamin f.
Barge prize, the highest mathematical
award given at Yale university, was
won by William A. Peters Jr. of Sc
attic.
Farmers of the Walla Walla valley
are purchasing great quantities of farm
machinery in preparation for the har-
vest season, which is rapidly approach
ing.
The prospective resignation of Presi-
dent Il. A. Bryan of Washington State
College, causes universal regret. He
has carried on the work successfully
for II years.
Conductor Weir of Everett was killed
and two brakemen were fatally in
jured in a freight wreck Saturday at
Skyhomish, on the main line of the
Great Northern.
One thousand delegates are expect
ed to attend the seventeenth annual
convention of the Washington State
Christian Endeavor Union, which will
open in Spokane June. 21.
Charles +. Gee, clerk, aged 30,
was drowned from a canoe in Lake
Washington during the storm that
swept Seattle recently. SO far as
known Gee was the only loss of life.
Members of Colfax Lodge No. 4,
Knights Of Pythias, assisted Grand
Keeper of Records and Seals Harry
Love of Colfax in instituting a X. of
p. lodge at Maiden recently.
While attempting to save the life
of his 12-year-old brother, Fred Knut-
son, aged IS, was dragged to the bot
tom of the swimming pool near Nook
sack, Whatcom county, and drowned.
The will of the late Charles w. Car
son, pioneer, filed for probate at Spo-
kane, distributes the entire estate, con-
sisting of Spokane real estate valued
at from $4,000 to 5000, to his
family.
Fully 5000 people gathered last Fri
day evening in the armory to witness
the commencement exercises of the
Spokane Central high school, when 22o
young men and women received their
diplomas of graduation.
The annual catalogue and prize list
of the Washington State fair at North
Yakima September 20 to October is
being distributed. 1t contains many
new features and will interest exhib-
dtors throughout the state.
Dallas Greene, 10 year old son of
j. w. Greene, a well known real estate
dealer of Spokane, was caught and
crushed Sunday in an elevator operated
by his own brother, Earle Greene, aged
I6 years, and received injuries that
may result in his death.
The Cheney volunteer fire team won
first place in the fifth annual tourna-
meut of the Inland Volunteer Fire
mems association, and clipped three
dfths of second off the world IS rec
ord of so seconds in the novelty hose
race, a record which was formerly held
by Brooklyn.
The Pullman Auditorium, the larg-
est frame theater in the northwest,
burned to the ground Friday night
after fair-sized audience had left the
building at the close of an entertain
ment given for the members of the
State grange by members of the grad
uating class of the State college.