Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-09-03
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

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
The normal school at Cheney is under
going complete renovating prepare
tory to the fall opening September 5.
Saturday marked the first extensive
selling of wheat in the Colfax market,
more than 100000 bushels changed
hands.
Within the next two or three weeks,
it is figured, the new $4,000 high
school building at Ritzville will have
been completed.
Members of organized labor at Spo-
kane are jubilant over the failure of
the city council to pass the proposed
-picketing ordinance.
The state board of control has APP
pointed Ed Rogers of Olympia as trav-
cling guard and parole officer for Wash
ington reformatory at Monroe.
The fruit growers around Garfield
have organized the Garfield Fruit Grow
ers' union, with w. b. Harris president,
and j. E. Trimble vice president.
Timbermen, conservative advocates
and forestry officials are bending every
effort to stay the fires in the fir forests
OF the western part of the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 7. Lane celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary at
their home in Pennington a few days
ago. They were married in Illinois.
The tomato crop in the vicinity of
Waitsburg is, making up. this year for
previous failures, yielding good returns
at soc a box. The peach crop is also
good. =
The Yakima valley hop crop this
season will be, according to present
estimates, between 1000 and 10000
bales. The. first picking commenced
last Monday.
Orchardists Of North Yakima esti-
mate their total loss from one day 8
tie-up of the Northern Pacific road
at $4,000. :: Burned bridges in north
ern Idaho caused the delay.
In the recent death of Joseph De
Long whitnian county loses the second
of the two ,.frst white settlers in its
limits. Mr. De Long lived AZ years
on his ranch southeast of st. John.
A postofIise has been established at
Grotto, King county, and the one al
HOLSTER, Douglas county, has been
discontinued. The former patrons OF
the office VIII be served from Bridge
port. i
Harvesters and farmers of the
lower fiat adjacent to Eureka have
practically concluded. the harvest OF
the 1910 crop. The yield has been
a comparatively good one with No.
quality for THE average.
Fire did damage estimated at nearly
a half million dollars on the water
front at Iacoma Saturday, burning
over five acres of valuable property
The mill, plant and stock of the E. j
McNeeley and Company saw mill were
destroyed.
With only so cents and three loavel
of bread between himself and starva
ton, John Brady, "a railroad construc
ton workman, is believed to have de
iberately laid down on the railroa'
tracks near North Yakima and allowed
train to ldecapitate him.
The largest real estate deal eve
put through in the Okanogan countr,
was consummated last week when w
n. Mears, representing Boston syndi
cate known as the. Boston and Wash
ington Apple Orchard association, pur
chased 700 acres of irrigated land OF
Tarheel flat, Immediately south of TIL
city of Okanogan.
National bankers in Washington stat
appear anxious to avail themselves o
the Aldrich- Vreeland law. Spokane
Seattle and Aberdeen bankers have col
responded with the treasury depart
ment about organizing national cul
reney associations, the purpose of whic
is to enable national banks to issu
during paAies emergency circulation
based on commercial paper and othe
securities. At least 10 national banks
with $5,0O0,0O0 aggregate capital an
surplus, may organize an association
The department hopes the Washingto
banks will organize, as currency assoca
lions can serve as fire extinguishers j
panics.