Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-07-02
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

w. III. AcuH OF Spokane has been
elected grand patron of the Eastern
Star of Washington.
The Tacoma school census for 1910,
just completed, shows that there are
20,O45 children of school age.
Sixty convicts employed on the state
road south of Bellingham, who went
on strike for an eight-hour day, have
won their strike.
The first apple-p packing school in
Prosser, made necessary because Of the
heavy crop of fruit this year, is being
conducted in that city.
While working on trestle spanning
Box Head canyon Theodore Sicora fell
100 feet today and was instantly killed.
The body was taken to lone.
The enrolment of the summer sci
enee school, Pullman, for teachers has
passed the 230 mark and new teachers
are being enrolled almost daily.
President Taft has sent to the SEN
ate and that body confirmed the nomi-
nation of Frank A. Twitchell, as re-
ceiver of public moneys at Seattle
Installation of six high-tension power
wires of the Yakima asco company
from Kennewick to Pasco, together
with two telephone wires, has been COM
! pleted.
The bodies of A. r. Needles and his
stepdaughter, Miss Blanche German, of
Tonopah, New, who were drowned in
Swan lake, southwest of Seattle, few
days ago, have been recovered.
Charles NJ. Carr, resident of Spo-
kane, recently applied for a patent on
a device to be used on mail pouches
Several demonstrations of the model
has shown that it will fulfill all the
expectations of the inventor.
Cash in the state treasury Monday
aggregates $2,543,s13, according to the
weekly report of Treasurer Lewis. OF
this $7S7,96 is in the general fund
$551,354 in the highway fund and more
than 81 ,O6S,oOo is in permanent funds
to invest in bonds.
A. D. Mitchell, aged "a, a reporter
for Bradstreet IS Mercantile agency, was
drowned in Lake Union, Seattle, Sun
day afternoon. With j. w. Mexican hi
had gone out in a sailboat and he divec
in for a swim. Soon Mitchell cried GU
in distress and sank just as McKeaI
reached his side.
What is regarded by State Geologis
Henry Landes as the richest deposits
of tungsten existing in the northwes
has been partially developed ON STATE
lands in Stevens county, IL miles nortl
of Deer Park. Prof. Landes was sen
by State Land Commissioner Ross t,
investigate and make report on thes'
lands.
White Salmon.--With day laborer
demanding $2.75 a day and man an(
team So a day and board, future or
chardists are finding it very costly t,
clear their land, and some have qui
development work for the time being
Japanese labor was advanced to 1925
the highest that oriental day labor ha
ever received.
To aid the work in Washington o
the national irrigation congress and a
the request of President Fowler, Gov
ernor Hay has appointed the following
advisory committees: r. Insinger o
Spokane, Professor o. l.. Waller, Pull
} man; w. w. Hindman, Spokane; w. I
Clark, Wenatehee, and DIR. N. G. Bla
lock, Walla Walla.
President II. II. Mclean of the farm
ers union at Walla Walla, says tina
three, and perhaps more, farmers grail
warehouses will be built in the count,
this summer. These Independent farm
ers warehouses have realized a prof
of Is per cent for their owners ant
their erection is considered by the farm
ers one of the best investments.
Jesse l.. Chapman, aged rs years
a native of Ohio, who crossed the plain
in 1852 and took up a homestead a
the mouth of the Nisqually river,
5 dead. Warned by Chief Leschi of the al
l preaching Indian uprising in 1885,
: Chapman s mother, with the younge
members of the family, went to Olympi
e for safety, young Chapman remainin
e and enlisting with the settlers for tn
: Indian war of 1856.
2 After suffering for 30 years with
fractured skull, during which time b
+ was subject to frequent fits of acut
insanity resulting from the pressuI
of splinter of bone upon the brain
q Robert Lynch, plumber of Wall
t Walla, has been relieved of his affii
e tion by an operation. The patient VIZ
J. changed almost in a twinkling from
l. morose sufferer into clear minded an
unusually bright man.
Out of the million dollars worth {
= work now being done on the highwa,
in the state of Washington, $125,0O0
- being spent in Spokane county alon
There are now three state aid roat
being constructed in and around SIP
kane and by the time winter sets
- the facilities for getting in and out
:, this city will be equal to or bett
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