Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-27
NORTHWEST ITEMS
Washington, MONTANA AND
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of tho Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

William II. Rudolph has been APP
pointed postmaster at La Crosse.
The Masonic fraternity of North
Yakima will soon erect a Masonic tenn
pie.
The Dayton harvest has closed, owing
to light crop and abundance of ma
chinery.
A. N. Taylor, Dungeness, Wash, has
been appointed teacher at the James
town Indian school, Wash.
The S. Willard company of Union
town received in one day into its ware
house 10000 bushels of grain.
AS the harvest in the Palouse coun-
try progresses the farmers express
greater surprise at the story of good
yields.
Between so and rs Greek laborers
are distributed between Genesee and
Cotton repairing the roadbed, placing
ties and laying steel.
Lineman Wilcox was badly hurt re-
Gently by telephone pole falling over
with him over a rocky bluff about two
miles north of Pomeroy.
The first shipment of about 16 cars of
fruit from the Weidrich orchard was
shipped from La Crosse Saturday to
Chicago. 1t consisted of 252 boxes of
summer apples and 500 crates of prunes.
Thomas Leary, foreman of a switch
ing crew in charge of Great Northern
train wrecked in the Great Northern
railway yards at Spokane Saturday
morning, died in the hospital a few
hours later of fractured skull.
With a permanent market estab-
lished, melon culture in the Touchet and
Tucannon valleys can be made to yield
heavier returns than apple orchards, ac-
cording to R. P. Ray, who will this
season sell something like $1,000 worth
of melons from four acres.
After staying on his father Is ranch
near Steptoe since the Fourth of July
when he shot Dell Mcconnell in a Col.
fax saloon, James Roberts, aged is
years, was arrested Saturday by Deputy
Sheriff William Cole. He has confessed
The Green River Hot Springs Hotel
and Sanitarium, high in the mountains
along the Great Northern railroad, in
the center of the state, is in ruins as
the result of a fire which was started
by burning brands from nearby forest
fires.
Robert and Hustin McCroskey have
finished threshing their big grain croI
near Garfield, and have about 10000
bushels of splendid grain. Their college
bred wheat No. 10S made "a bushels al
acre, their red Russian 81 bushels and
their oats 20 bushels an. acre.
By the capsizing of boat, George F
Adams, aged So, whose family lives al
Shannon avenue and Oak street, anC
Steven M. Georger, 12-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Georger, living il
Boulevard park, were drowned in the
river Saturday afternoon at 4:30 a
Spokane.
The bids for the sale of the $4,000
issue of bonds of the Chewelah higl
school were opened Saturday and thu
state of Washington was found to b.
the best bidder, bidding par for thu
bonds, to bear So per cent interest
The bids for the construction of thu
schoolhouse will be opened September Z
Export companies have alread.
bought million bushels of club whea
in Walla Walla valley, the grain beini
purchased mostly in small lots, seldom
exceeding 10000 bushels. The buyinl
has been done quietly in order not T.
bull the market and has succeeded S
far, as prices ranged from 70 to so l.
cents bushel net at Wal1a Walla.
81 The Okanagon Valley Pubhcit
league, composed of the towns of Ma
lott, Omak and Riverside, has formed
permanent organization by the adoptio
of constitution and bylaws and tn
election of the following officers c. +
Plumb of Omak, president; George ,
Stewart of Malott, vice president
George S. Lee of Okanogan, secretary
and Arthur Lind of Riverside, trea.
{ urer.
Fire originated from an unknow
cause Sunday morning, completely d,
stroyed the William Musser Lumbe
company's plant, did vast damage t
the Union Iron works and swept owe
section of residence district, causin
! further loss. A conservative estimat
of the total loss is 100000, mostly co,
cred by insurance. The burned are
covers a stretch of about six block
: long and four blocks wide.
MONTANA NEWS NOTES