Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-09-24
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-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
Fail seeding will soon start.

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Fall seeding will soon start.
After many hardfought battles Spo-
kane landed the pennant in the North
western league.
Peter Dueber, late Of Spokane and
member of a well-known Pacific coast
pioneer family, died in Portland re-
Gently.
Eugene " Debs, the noted socialist
lecturer, will speak at the state armory
in Spokane on Wednesday evening,
October 10.
The aeroplane built in Tacoma by
Arthur Tunnison, an enthusiastic anna
teur, at an expense of $1,000, proved a
failure.
Lying unconscious on the railroad
tracks at Spokane, Martin Holum, a
marble worker, was picked up half dead
Saturday night.
Heavy rains have cleaned the apple
crop of the Wenatchee valley from dust
and insured the putting out of fine
crop of winter apples.
A small army of men is busy get
ting everything in readiness for the
week of October 3 to 9 at the Spokane
Interstate fair grounds.
The Spokane Society of Architects,
which has been dormant from the lack
of enthusiasm among it's members dur
ing the last 10 years, has been revived.
Although at first mysterious, the ac-
cident to Martin Holum, E303 Second
avenue, which occurred Saturday night
at Spokane, it is now known he was
hit by a taxicab and killed.
Edward Mullen, age 26, and William
Bloom, age 80, employees of the Great
Northern railway, were instantly killed
and their bodies shockingly mutilated
Saturday night in the yards near the
King street passenger station, Seattle
That trees afflicted with tree canker
or black spot, may be cured by the use
sprays, and that this peculiar disease
may be driven out by consistent care OF
orchards, is the statement of Professor
R. E. Tumble.
With but few country precincts t.
hear from, w. E. Humphrey has a suf
fcient lead in the race in the First Con
gressional district to insure his nomi
nation. Thomas P. Revelle will moi
contest the election, but will ask fol
a recount.
Without evidencing the slightest
dependency Immediately before hil
death, although from his own hand
came the information that the act wat
premeditated, J. M. M. Benedum, seior
of wealthy family of West Virginia
committed suicide on his small farm al
Spokane.
Drewry M. Peoples, AZ years old, for
merly president of the Guaranty Alb
stract and Title company, is held al
the city Jail in Seattle in connection
with investigation of real estate frauds
which Captain of Detectives Charles
Tenant believes will aggregate more
than $4,000.
With a decision in its favo- Friday
regarding condemnation for right Of
way, with the extension of its franchise
only matter of settling details, ant
with its tracks built to within IS miles
of North Yakima, six weeks more coulc
see the North Coast completed into
North Yakima.
The Non-Partisan Judiciary league OF
Washington has been formed to haster
in every practicable way the effective
discharge of this obligation and move
ment disregarding party affiliations
The organizers call upon those in sym
pathy with it to at once form loca
leagues in their counties and send rep
resentatives to conference to be hello
at Tacoma September 26.
After the most disastrous year il
its history, due to the terrible col
lision near Occur 'Alene and the floods
along its line in the spring, the Spo
kane & Inland Empire railroad found
on balancing its accounts, that the lin,
had Melted $24, s92.33 for the year. The
wreck near Occur d 'Alene cost the com
pany $295,072.65, while the floods il
the Palouse this spring added about
$270,00 to the debit side of the ledger