Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-06
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Washington. MONTANA AND
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Business Outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

w ASdlNGION STATE NE WIS
A new fire station is to be built at
Yakima.
There are s,e2s school children in
Walla Walla.
farmers rest room for Wilbur is
now assured.
The total of children of school age in
Whitman county is 1o,347.
Spokane bank clearings for the
month of July amounted to $780,
222.
The body of Sam Fern, who was
drowned in the Cowlitz river, has been
recovered.
The Yakima Indians will hold their
annual potlatch directly after the state
fair at Yakima.
The ''wets" of Dayton are out with
petition, the third in IS months, for
another local option election.
All trains on the Northern Pacific
were delayed Saturday, owing to the
burning of bridge near Kennewick.
Olga Margaret Holmberg, aged 4
years, of Tacoma, was burned to death
recently while playing with matches.
With a grand parade of troops in Ia
coma Saturday, about 1000 in line, the
military tournament closed a success
full week.
Assessor Galbraith finds that Spokane
county has property subject to taxa
ton of the assessed value of $1O2, 346,-
1913 this year.
The business district of Yakima City,
the oldest town in central Washington.
was wiped out by fire Saturday at a
loss of $4,000.
The annual session of the Pacific
Coast conference of the German NJ. E.
church will be held in Walla Walla
August 25 to 20.
While the mother looked on help
lessly, Alma Hildebrand, aged 21, and
Irving, aged IS, were drowned in Lake
Whatcom Saturday.
Residents in the vicinity of Oakland
addition to Tacoma have reported to
the police that a wild man is terroriz-
ing the people in that district.
A fine program has been prepared for
the Columbia River conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, to be held
in Spokane August 30 to September 5.
The recent death of Mrs. Mary
Martin of Spokane marked the pass
ing of one of the Oldest pioneer women
of Washington. She came to this state
in 1877.
w. j. Clarity, paymaster' S clerk on
the receiving ship Philadelphia, is I'M
der arrest at Bremerton in connection
with the robbery of $4,000 from the
ships safe.
S. M. Steele, aged 80 years, died
Sunday morning at Spokane from a
broken neck, the result of fall from
a second story window of the Emer-
gency hospital.
Professor w. G.. Beach, head of the
department of economic science and
history in Washington State college,
has resigned to go to the University
of Washington.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston will de-
liver an address at the fourth annual
picnic at Hayden lake, Thursday, Au-
gust IL, under the auspices of the New
England club of Spokane.
Florence Strobe, 30 years old, was
shot and killed at the home of her
former husband, Charles Lyts, Seattle,
Sunday. Lyts says the shooting was
accidental. He was not arrested.
G. c. Thomas, aged IS years, for 25
years resident of the Yakima valley,
was caught between hay rack and
gate post Wednesday and so severely
crushed that he may not survive.
Forest fires, thought to be under con-
troll, have broken out with renewed fury
in the township north of Deer Park and
are causing thousands of dollars of dam
age in the cordwood and white pine.
William Overman, about "a years old,
an employee at the Patten quarry in the
East Selah valley, was crushed to death
Sunday morning about 1870 clock in
the presence of his wife and two sons,
whom he had asked to warn him of i'm
pending danger and who had called just
as great rock toppled over on the hus-
band and father.