Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-04-30
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
PIace-Business Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The first crates of Kennewick s straw
berry crop are expected in market this
week.
The Ellensburg chamber Of commerce
has Endorsed a movement for county
fair in Kititas county.
j. Il. Gall of Douglas has an auto
matte potato planter, and is planting
large acreage of potatoes.
North Yakima S handsome new de-
pot, that of the Northern Pacific rail
road, was occupied for the first time
Saturday.
Superintendent j. w. Smith of the
Ritzville schools has signed contract
TO take a similar position at Genesee,
Idaho.
The Ritzville band boys have reor-
ganized and played at the opening of
The Adams house, the new $4,000 ho-
tel, April rs.
Rosalia is without a newspaper as
the result of $4,000 fire which com
pletely destroyed the Citizen-Journal
building Saturday.
Marion Morrison, aged IL, of Seattle,
died Sunday as the result of drinking
carbolic acid from a bottle she thought
contained medicine.
After an exceptionally cool spring the
weather of the last week has been warm,
and every detail of the weather this
spring has been ideal for the wheat crop.
Judge. j. w. Rose, one of the best
known lawyers of the Pacific northwest,
died on his home farm near Lyndon,
Whatcom county, recently of Bright s
disease.
While smoking in the town Jail at
Granger, a man known as Griffin set
fire to the bed clothes and was burned
K to death in the fire, which occurred Sun
day night.
While no state appropriation has been
made for national guard armory in
North Yakima, the members of Com
pany E and Company NJ national guard
of Washington, are considering head
quarters and drill hall.
John Benson, aged 40, fatally shot
himself through the head while in bed
at his home in Ballard, Sunday, because
he believed that the closing of the shin
gle mills by the manufacturers presag-
ed a long siege of hard times.
nn honor of Dean Reed, Dean Cooley
and Wilfred B. Shaw, secretary of the
alumni association, who are visiting
Spokane on a tour of the west, the
University of Michigan Alumni asso-
citation of Spokane Saturday night gave
a banquet.
The sheriff's Office of Portland is sat
listed that in the arrest of a gang of
alleged crooks at Spokane, headed by
Eddie johnson, that gang which op-
Grated in Portland and the northern
part of Oregon and the southern part
of Washington has been apprehended
Forty-fve convicts have exchanged
the somewhat combining life inside the
prison walls for work outside. Fifteen
go to work on the roads at Lyle on the
Washington side of the Columbia il
Klickitat county. The others will WORK
in rock-crushing plant at Meskell
near Chehalis.
Completely unnerved and weeping
Historically, Charles j. Weller, extra
dited from San Francisco in connection
with the murder of Mrs. Frediki
Schulz, near Tacoma, April 4, made
lengthy confession, admitting his gull
and throwing himself on the mercy o
the courts.
To test the grain inspection law t
determine what is meant by "publi
warehouse" the attorney general ha
brought suit in the Pierce county cour
against the Merchants Warehouse con
pany asking for judgment at $50 pc
day for five days because the count
has refused to take out license unde
the public warehouse inspection prov
sions of new law.
The coroner IS jury that investigate
the killing of Dorothy Waters, 6-yea
the killing of Dorothy Waters,
year-old child, at Seattle, by the aut
mobile of DR.. j. II. Lyons, a promineI
physician, brought in a verdict tn;
the machine was proceeding at an u
lawful rate of speed.
A comparative table prepared by Sc
rotary Koors of the state tax commi
sion showing by counties all taxes levi,
for the state in 1905 and 1909 SHOW
that King county, which in 1908 pa
31.376 per cent of all the taxes, dropp,
to 2s.s75 per cent, while Spokane,
the same period increased from 1914,
per cent to 1L211 per cent. Pier
county dropped from 1885 per cent
the state total in 1908 to 1883 in 100
Twenty electric signs now aid in igt
ing Wenatchee avenue, while "a a
lights hang in different parts Of tn
city The population was estimated
1900 one year ago, while now the es
mate places it at 5000. The school e
rollmen now is 1900 while year a
the record shows 900 enrolled.
William Frederick Jahns, alias Jam
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