Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-07-16
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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-Bssiness Outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

w Ao111INO4ON . ALL In "a w . |
The first effects of the poor crop pros
poets throughout the middle and eastern
states is felt in Palouse with the Pot
latch Lumber company taking off its
night shift there and at Potlatch.
The Pacific coast nurserymen meet in
annual session at Walla Walla this
week.
Samuel Harris, a well-to-do farmer,
was killed Saturday by lightning at
Burlington, Iowa.
The Puget Sound Navigation COM
pany has awarded to Seattle ship
building firm the contract for the CON.
struction of another steel steamship, to
cost $125,0OO, have speed of 10 knots
and be delivered by December 1. The
new vessel will be used on the daylight
run between Seattle, Irondale and Port
Townsend.
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Washington Bankers association
will be held in Aberdeen Hoquiam, the
twin cities of Grays Harbor, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, July 81, % AMI
l23, 1910.
A race of three railroads for the
Boring river coal fields and the devel-
lopment of that section of Alaska is only
awaiting word from the government
that coal may be mined.
Sheriff Haviland announces the
fourth annual robbery at the Northern
Pacific section house at Eureka. The
visitors took $12 and several revolvers,
blankets and garments. The shack is
used for Chinese laborers.
!, There was $2,30O,22s cash on hand
Saturday, according to the weekly re-
port of State Treasurer Lewis. Receipts
, for the week were SOL, 056, and dis
, bursements were 1921 ,404, which latter
included 100000 invested in interest
bearing bonds by the state board OF
finance.
George Thompson, prisoner in the
King county Jail serving a sentence OF
six months for assault, escaped from
: the sheriff IS office Saturday by leapine
> through an open window, and has moi
been recaptured.
. Reports show that the wheat croI
g has been hard hit by the drouth. Som'
spring-sown fields are curling and dry
ing green, while others will yield but
half crop.
:, Fred Miller was taken to Conconull.
L from Riverside and charged with muir
der in the second degree for the killing
IS of John Doves on the night of July
IS at Nelson's camp, about three and one
e half miles north of Riverside. He vii
l. be released ON bail of $4,000.
i At Leavenworth I. M. Platt, Grea
d Northern section hand, was Instant
y killed recently by accidentally grasI
3 ing a live wire.
Lyman Cohen of Portland, who is o
tour of the Oregon and Washingto
wheat sections, reports the prospec
&c of crop smaller than that of last yea
NJ but of greatly superior quality.
Id Directly in the path of a prairie fiji
ie which burned several sections of gra'
~ u, near Benge recently, the home of
tT Stallion, with two little children, ma
Sc rowly escaped destruction.
n According to reports, Colfax has tv
en- cases of typhoid fever and two cas-
Us lof diphtheria.
Two bloodhounds from the kenne
at the state penitentiary have BET
IIeCelNcU dJ NOIJn dhiuld, anu VIII
=; TRAINED to chase criminals.
60 George C. Mitchell, who controls t
.es Selah Hop company, has sold that &C
poration IS s0-acre hop ranch in the S
re llah valley to John B. Schwaegler CO..
ge pany. The company is incorporated (
ny $4,000. Mitchell does not, howev'
ne retire from the hop business by IL
na transfer, retaining one ranch, while
buying and selling corporations W
mt continue in business.
At Toppenish fruit and hay shippi
ale has commenced. In four days 263 C;
up of hay and fruit were shipped fri
that point.
rm Wool growers in Kittitas county t
year received relatively the high
per price in years for the product.
ter DR.. A. t. Hoover of Burlington,
miles south of Bellingham, was shot a
,al killed by his stepson, Martin Hubba
for aged 20, recently. Hoover had strr
ed, lHubbard's sister and a quarrel
lowed in which the elder man shot
ne e the youth and missed. Hubbard Il
zoo 90 shot Hoover, the bullet taking effect
the thigh. A coroner's jury was
uid lpanelled and returned verdict of ju
Ion fable homicide.
less The state board of examiners can
zen refuse to issue a certificate to pract
,iu' veterinary medicine to one who he
her a diploma from a legally chartered ;
10 authorized veterinary college da
prior to 1908, according to an opin
feet rendered by Attorney General Bell
of DR.. S. B. Nelson, secretary of the bot
ap- At a recent meeting of the board
fora education at Cashmere it was deci
ene to have agriculture and horticult
~ taught in the Cashmere school.
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