Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-01-29
NORTHWEST Notes
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
AND WASHINGTON.
A 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 ITEMS.


A petition has gone to Washington
asking another rural mail route from
Spangle to be known as R. L. d. No. 3.
A rousing meeting Of the Farmers
union was held at Garfield, when ~
new members joined, making a total
of 25 new members this month. State
Organizer Reed made an address.
Two million sacks to be used in har-
vesting this year IS wheat crop of Walla
Walla county were purchased recently
by the Walla Walla Farmers union
from Tacoma firm at contract price
of $5.4s a hundred.
Fears that fall-sown grain through
out the Inland Empire had been in
jured during the recent cold weather are
allayed among farmers, who declare
that the warm winds of the past week
have thoroughly thawed out the ground.
Grain shows an excellent growth.
The Inland Empire excursion, as the
party of Spokane and Walla Walla ex-
cursionists is officially called, arrived at
Los Angeles over the Southern Pacific
Coast line. A committee from the
chamber of commerce met them in
Santa Barbara.
According to w. N. Irish, president
of the Yakima County Horticultural
union, officials of the North Coast in
formed him when in Spokane last week
that the Strahorn line will be prepared
to handle a part of this year IS fruit
crop of the Yakima valley.
The hard rains of the last week have
brought branches of the Palouse river
up and they are filed with floating ice.
The ice has jammed in several places
and men are employed to dynamite it
from under the railroad bridge at the
lower end of Colfax.
Paul Montgomery, aged 60, dropped
dead of heart failure at the w. p.
Reser ranch near Walla Walla. Mont
gomery was a convict on parole who
was sent here from Seattle last No
vember for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Frank Stossell was robbed of 500, a
watch and drafts for $1,000 in Yakima
rooming house recently. Stossell was
on his way home from Oregon. Thieves
entered the room while he was sleeping,
taking his trousers and all. The vic
tim was forced to borrow clothes and
money to resume his journey home
ward
The state has received $4,000 from
the federal government, being the
quarterly payment of the $500 per
annum allowed toward the. support of
the inmates of the state soldiers home
at Orting. The entire maintenance ex-
penses of the home for the current and
for several ensuing months will be paid
out of federal money on hand, saving
the state general fund just that much.
Spokane was included in the zone
of an earthquake recently, according to
the record of the seismograph at Con
zaga college. Four distinct shocks were
recorded in six minutes. The general
direction Of the movement of the
earth crust was north and south, the
markings made by the instrument in
these directions being much more pro-
nounced than were those east and west.
Justice J. w. Holman, aged civil war
veteran, was yesterday appointed by the
council as police judge of Dayton for
the twentieth successive term. Judge
Holman served four years in the Union
army, coming to Columbia county soon
after the war. He claims the honor of
having held the office of police judge
longer than any other man on the Pa
cifc slope and to having tied more mat
rimonial knots than any person in the
same territory.
George Pestot and his wife, who
with their children were found naked
and dancing on the roof of their home
at Lynden, near Bellingham, recently,
waiting for the Lord to come in a
fiery cloud and bear them to heaven,
one of the children dying from ex-
posture during the dance, were adjudged
insane and committed to the asylum.
Both are violent, the woman being in
a straightjacket, manacled hands and
feet and tied down to a cot when Wis
tied by the lunacy commission in the
county Jail. The three children of the
couple have regained their reason and
are in the charge of the Associated
charities.