Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-08
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


The total valuation of Chelan county
is $14,173,59 This includes all prop
critics.
Twenty-four Baptist missionaries, en-
route from the east to the Orient, de-
parted from Seattle Saturday.
Frank 1. Bell, aged 80, an employee of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway, killed himself in Seattle Satur-
day.
Albert Bill and George Jim, two res
ervation Indians and brothers, were run
down and killed at different points early
Sunday morning at Tacoma by speeding
trains.
There are 70 school districts in Okan-
ogan county and about 100 teachers
are employed. The last school placed
the county in the lead for the state
with gain of Is per cent.
The Spokane rifemen who took part
in the state militia shoot have returned
home from Seattle, having won all the
first prizes in the shoot both for in
dividual and team shooting.
Indians from all tribes of the north
west and many visiting Indians from
eastern tribes assembled in Toppenish
Monday morning and for 10 days will
hold a convention. Fully 5000 Indians
are expected.
Captain V. L. Cottman, commandant
at the Bremerton navy yard, has re-
ceived instructions from the navy de-
partment to purchase a site for a tor
pedo station at Keyport, about 10 miles
from Bremerton.
Conconully will remain dry until the
general election of 1912, the decision
in the first contested local option case
fight being rendered Saturday by Judge
Ernest Peck of the superior court of
Okanogan and Ferry counties.
Two men, booked as Frank Kelly and
James Stewart, were picked up by the
police at Pasco, tried before Justice
Reider and bound over to the superior
court under $1,000 bonds each, charged
with aiding prisoners to escape from
the county Jail.
Two highway robbers, John Byrd
and William Tanner, were given rapid
justice in the superior court at Ia
coma recently. They were arraigned,
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
serve five years each in the state prison,
all within the space of few moments.
James S. Spears, 21 years old, was
drowned in the waters of Puget sound
Sunday, when a dory, in which he and
his brother Robert were sailing, was
capsized in a heavy squat off West
light. Robert Spears was rescued by a
boat from the steamship Dirigo, which
was passing at the time of the accident.
With waving banners on which scrip
tural texts and notices were inscribed,
with songs both religious and patriotic
on their lips, the line of ten thousand
Sunday school children marched through
the downtown streets Saturday at Spo-
kane in the second annual Sunday school
parade.
, A. E. Veatch, who for four years has
been editor and manager of the States
man-Index, republican newspaper, of
Colville, has relinquished his position
to Alonzo Melville Doty, for 10 years
owner and editor at Visala, Cal. Mr..
Veatch will accept a position in the
office of the county auditor.
The largest real estate deal of the
season was made recently when Dorman
brothers of Spokane sold their stock
and hay ranch on Crab creek for $780,
900 to the Laney brothers, wealthy
stockmen of Montana. The ranch con
} sists of 1850 acres, 500 of which is
meadow, $50 acres wheat land and the
remainder pasture.
At Pullman the automobile belong
ing to J. S. Klemgard was struck by
a train from Moscow and Mr.. KLEIN
CARDS son Gordon and Ray Tuttle,
riding in the machine, were injured.
The train was rounding curve and was
not seen by the boys until they were
on the track. The train struck the
back part of the automobile and threw
it nearly so feet.
Completion of the Tieton irrigation
project near North Yakima by the con-
struction of the laterals of unit No.
5 has been authorized by Secretary
Ballinger along with authorization to
the reclamation service for advertising
for bids for the work. Unit No. 2 is
now being completed. When completed
the system waters $4,000 acres, of which
$4,000 is in unit No. 3.
At deadlock, the grain market at
Dayton shows no indication of immedi-
ate change. Scarcely a bushel has
changed hands in Columbia county for
two weeks, due to lack of demand from
exporters and millers. With numerous
farmers holding crops of two years
ready cash is becoming scarce and
banks are making no extensive loans.
Fully 90 per cent of this years crop
is still in the farmers hands and Willie