Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-11-05
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


Ritzville opened its $4,000 school last
week.
Cornell has voted to incorporate by a
large plurality.
Violets and ripe wild strawberries
gathered October 25 is the record for
the river valley near Husum.
The Cornell & Northern railroad has
put on a regular train, making a round
trip between Cornell and Coulee City.
The condition of Rev. Herman j.
Collier, s. j., now critically i'll at Spo-
kane, is reported as somewhat improved. |
Chief Statistician William C. Hunt
of the census bureau is in Tacoma to
supervise the accommodation of that
city.
The war department has officially com
mended the Washington Coast artil
lery militia in letter to Adjutant Cen
eral Lamping, for efficiency.
Among the homesteaders in the up
per Okanogan country there are many
women who have taken up claims and
are working them, generally with sue
cess.
Spokane will not overlook a chance
to capture the 1911 convention of the
National Grange which meets at At
lantic City, N. j., November 9 to 10,
this year.
| The jury in the case of John T.
Harris, in the superior court at Ste
venson, returned verdict of man
slaughter for the killing of Isador st.
Martin.
During 1910 the Yakima valley has,
or will, produce approximately $17,050,-
600 worth of products, according to the
estimates of experts in various branches
of business.
Mrs. Margaret Gallant, widow of
Dennis Clark, well known mining man,
died Sunday of blood poisoning, at Spo-
kane. Denis Clark was a brother of
Patrick Clark, millionaire mining man.
The state highway commission is
working on plans for the construction
of north and south highway extend
ing across the state from British Column
bia on the north to Vancouver, on the
south.
Members of every woman IS club in
Seattle held a monster mass meeting
Tuesday night urging on the recall
movement directed against Mayor
Hiram C. Gill and Chief of Police Wap-
penstein.
Through the generosity of two of her
pioneer citizens, Arthur and Stanley
Coffin, North Yakima is to have a recre-
alton park and public playground, locat-
ed in the midst of the West Side resi-
dence district.
An ''easy money" man is said to be
operating in the Yakima valley. He
works an insurance game, taking So
hard, cold cash in return for a receipt,
which he represents is good for an in
surance policy.
Carload after carload of apples are
being shipped from the Walla Walla
valley to Colorado, the state which,
according to its publicity advertising,
raises more of this kind of fruit than
any two northwestern states.
Colonel Chauncey w. Griggs died Sat
urday in his 18th year, of paralysis.
He was one of the founders of the St.
Paul and Tacoma Lumber company in
1887, and had been prominent in the
commercial and financial concerns of
st. Paul before coming to the Coast.
John W. Rice died at his home in
Albion Saturday of senile decay. Mr..
Rice was II years OF age and has re-
sided in Whitman county for 35 years.
With Oliver Hall of Colfax he started
the first blacksmith shop north of the
Snake river and had continued at the
, blacksmith trade until June of this year.
Frank Anderson, a notorious burglar,
was captured recently on the Spokane
Indian reservation by Indians. He was
bound and gagged after a desperate
struggle with two of the Indian braves
and held pending the arrival of the
travelling guard from Walla Walla peni-
Tertiary, from which Anderson re-
Gently escaped.
? The Dumping Lake dam, which i'm
: pounds 35,999 acre feet of water, was
finished this week. Five hundred men
2 have been employed on this work for
the past two years. 1t is one of the big
gest feats connected with the Tieton
reclamation project. It's purpose is to
4 return to the Nachez river the amount
of water taken out of its tributary, the
Tieton river, for furnishing irrigation
water for the Tieton project.