Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-11-12

| Thomas Bell has been appointed post
master at Port Stanley, San Juan
county.
The Farmers union and the grange
are taking an interest in the question
of taxation this year.
The depot safe at Clear Lake, Skagit
county, near Mount Vernon, was
robbed recently, the thieves getting
$155 in cash.
| The state of Washington, according
| to the latest statistics, has the unen-
viable reputation of granting more di-
vorces than any other state in the
union of equal population.
j. A. Kellogg, pioneer business man,
ex-mayor of Dayton, former auditor of
Columbia county and state representa-
tive from that district, committed sui
eide at Seattle recently. He was
Respondent
Former United States Senator George
Turner win be the principal speaker at
memorial exercises which will be held at
Whitman college Tuesday November IS
in honor of the late Ex-Governor John
II. McGraw of Seattle.
State Bank Examiner J.. l.. Mohun
dro says that in future the state bank
ing department will refuse to charter
banks in communities where they are
not needed, and will urge change in
the state law so as to make $685. the
lowest capital permitted.
In the Palouse many farmers are SOW
ing their fall wheat crop despite the
lIru condition Of ba soil Cs,r, fol.
lowed fields that were cultivated are
in good condition for fall seeding, but
those not cultivated are hard and dry
and it is impossible to get the seed in
the ground.
DR.. A. A. Tozier, state oil inspector,
has filed with Governor Hay his report
of business done during the first six
, months of his term of Office. His re-
ceipts exceed those of the same period
of 1909 by $6,419. During that time
he inspected 9,7s4,6ss gallons of oil and
collected $19,5s in fees.
William L. Bilger and others who own
a land abutting Lake Washington, Sc
attic, have secured permanent injunc-
q ton restraining the state, county and
contractors from lowering the lake level,
e from putting the property in an assess
ment district and from issuing bonds or
n adopting any method that will cloud the
title to the abutting property.
d Work on the irrigation project in the
north central part of Okanogan
|, county by the Okanogan Irrigation and
Improvement company, which entails an
expenditure of 100000 for placing un
t, der water 1890 acres of land, viii
5 be started November is, according tc
Colonel A. M. Dewey, director of the
,r company.
H. M. Colvin, instructor in Spanish il
N 1.-THE University of Washington, eat moth
ing for 20 days. Mr.. Colvin has suf
i, fered with stomach trouble, and is act
ing upon the hypothesis that. what hi
stomach needs is good rest.
o. The Amalgamated Band of the lowe
lie Yakima valley is the name that ha
ST been selected for the band being drille,
a by Bandmaster H. w. Hare, preparation,
81 to visit to the National Apple shoy
$. in Spokane this November.
Of A delegation from the chamber o
i, commerce will attend the Pacific Coas
le congress, called by Governor Gillett o
= California to meet in San Francisco
November IL, 10 and 10. The Northerl
Pacific railroad is issuing special ticket
AZ and return certificates at fare and
is quarter from all points in Idaho, Wash
n ington and Oregon, in conjunction wit
ne the Southern Pacific at Portland, whic
ne may be had from November Z to Is
or the return to be up to and includin
- November 20. The fare from Spokan
viii be, going, 1920; returning, $10.4C
70 The mining town of Wilkeson, i
Pc Pierce county, will make no tax lev
90 this year for either city or schoc
ra taxes, and the mining towns of Sout
al Prairie and Rushton will only make
al 6-mill levy for school purposes. 1t
, o. said the liquor licenses in these town
re is sufficient to met all municipal e,
10 penses.
of In making up the material for
students directory at the Universit
he of Washington it has been found tha
re- men and women students in sever;
cases are rooming in the same hous
of a direct violation of the rules of tt
We, institution. Those students who
re. not change their rooming quarters ,
of once will be asked to discontinue the
lit work at the university.
'ty General James A. Drain, at the N
of tional Capital, former adjutant gener
sht of Washington, is a strong advoca
100 of the bill recently approved by the n
tional guard convention at st. LOU
providing that the federal governme
shall pay the militia of the states.
KS The Rev. III. o. Kerns, better know
throughout eastern Washington
AXIS Father Kerns," recently return
from Kansas with pride. He is
years old and his bride &c years. 7
IN. couple viii reside in Dayton, whe
ties Father Kerns is pastor of the Unit
nnn / Brethren church