Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-05-14
WASHINGTON NEWS.

"A new town hall is to be built at Fair
field.
The annual state convention Of the
knights Of Columbus, was held in Van
couver Monday and Tuesday.
Fire in the barn and dry kilns of the
Ideal Lumber company, at Spokane,
Sunday, destroyed property valued at
$4,000
Burglars who broke into the house of
Earl Poleen, Seattle, Sunday night, got
away with silverware and jewelry
worth $500.
John Fisher, said to have been
thrown from moving Northern Pacific
freight train, died in Spokane from in
tenal injuries.
2. Moran, foreman in the w. f. Lin
giles pole camp, five miles east Of
Laurier, was instantly killed by tree
falling on him.
All survey work on the Ritzville-
Ellensburg cutoff OF the Northern Pa
cihc railroad has been completed and
CONSTRUCTION work has been started.
The jury at Tacoma in the case of
Mrs. Martina Kvalshaug, on trial for
completely in the murder Of her hus-
band, disagreed and were discharged.
r. p. Greene and B. o. Nelson of
Spokane have organized the Spokane
Audit and System company, incorpo-
rated Of Spokane, and will do a gen
leral auditing and systematizing bust
ness.
Death recently removed James E.
Bergman, pioneer farmer and discov-
'erer Of the Florence (Idaho) gold mines
Mr.. Berryman died on his large farm
at Bergman, is miles from Walla
Walla.
Charles j. Kershaw, aged 70 years,
one OF the best-known pioneer citizens
of Tacoma and for many years prom
inent figure in grain circles of Chicago
and Milwaukee, died Sunday in TIA
coma o. an acute attack OF jaundice and
pneumonia.
Link by link the state is forging its
cham of evidence around William Gohl,
accused of the murder of Charles Had
berg, whom John Klingenberg confessed
ne killed on the morning of December
~ ut Indian Creek at the alleged com
mand Of William Gohl.
Alfred Beamer of Spokane, who has
-ibecny superintendent of the Idaho divi-
jsioa3of the Northern Pacific for several
years, has resigned and will be sue
ceeded by j. M. Rapelje, now superin-
tendent of the Yellowstone division,
with headquarters at Glendive, Mont.
Police Sergeant Bunker and Police
man Hunt of Spokane have arrested
two young mon whom they believe to
BE members of the gang of piekpoekets
which has made two rich hauls lately.
The men gave their names as Victor
JohnsOn and Andrew Louey, from Min
neapolis.
Luke A. Miley, an architectural en-
gineer, leaped from a street car at Sc
attic, Sunday afternoon and, rushing to
the curb, fred a bullet from an auto
matte revolver through the head of E.
A. Morrison, tile filter, who was walk
ing company with .Miley's wife and
6year-old son Donald.
The bodies of the two children
drowned at Touchet recently, were
found there Sunday on the bank OF
the river. The boy, Jacob Schifner, &
years old, was drowned April %, and
little 2-year-old Audrey Grigsby one
week later. Both drownings and the
findings of the bodies have occurred on
successive Sundays.
Charles Irwin, janitor at the court
house at North Yakima, was painfully
burned by an explosion in an ante-roon
of the building recently, due to his
lighting a match in the gas-flled room
His body, from the waist is blistered
Charles -Nickle, who was with him, wal
also burned, and both men were knocked
20 the floor by the explosion.
A state board of charities, laving ;
limited supervision of the societies o.
Washington which have for their pur
pose the alienation of the needs of tn,
distressed, was advocated by GovernO
M. E. Hay in his address which was dc
livered at the opening session of thu
fourth annual convention of the stat
conference of charities and corrections
He stated also that as a result of al
investigation of the penal institution
of the state large portion of the in
mates gave as the reason for their pres
ence there their inability to control tn
desire for liquor.
MONTANA ITEMS.
Libby doctors have opened a hospita