Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-12-09
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

The Stevens county Pomona grange
met in colville December 5.
George o. Jones has sold his 27o-acre
farm two miles south of Spangle, for
$4,000.
Free text books for Walla walla car.
ried at the recent school election by
vote Of approximately two to one.
With the opening of the winter sea
son there is renewed activity in the
farmers organizations in the Palouse
country.
The Vancouver high school debating
team recently won unanimous deci-
sion over the Goldendale high school
at Goldendale.
J. w. Fry, Jr., of Davenport, has fled
a voluntary petition of bankruptcy in
federal court. He declares his assets
to be $115 and his liabilities. $5,720.
That the new Lewis and Clark high
school at Spokane will not be ready for
occupancy by the beginning of the sec
ond semester, February l, is now con-
ceded
Ida and Nettie johnson, the runaway
Centralia high school girls, who led
their father a chase over a part of two
states, were finally captured in Walla
Walla.
The third annual Whitman County
Poultry show, December 1929, prom
Uses to far eclipse either of the shows
which have previously been held in
Colfax.
Reports of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific for the number of
cars loaded in November give an in
dication of the increase in business in
the northwest.
For the second time the 12-year
boy burglar, whose numerous robberies
have astonished the police, has again
escaped from the parental school by
slipping past the guard.
James Wynn and J. D. Hanly have
organized an ice and creamery com
pany, with a capital stock of $4,000,
and will install creamery and ice
manufacturing plan in Colville
The body of James Blacxham, a la
borer was found a half mile northeast
of Factoria, on the east shore of Lake
Washington, hidden in the brush near
road. He had been murdered for his
money.
Locating survey work on the west
side of the Cascades for the extension
of the North Coast line of the Harri-
man system to the Sound has been sus-
pended until spring because of heavy
SHOWS.
Spokane shippers, at a recent meet
ing, decided to ask the interstate com
merce commission to postpone its order
for backhaul" reductions until Spo-
kane's new rates from the east become
effective.
With seven bullets in his body,
Walter Foote is dead at Sedro- Woolley,
while his fellow bandit, Fred James,
who was captured after three hours
fight with a posse of 200 men, is in
the Skagit county Jail.
f. S Ives and George Carr, who were
indicted last month charged with using
the mails to defraud in exploiting the
merits of the loan system of the Ma
tional Home company, were found
guilty of the charges by the federal
jury at Spokane
Accused of working the bunco game
of betting on a fake horse race on John
Bell of Spokane to the tune of $4,000
Sam Browsley is held at the Seattle
Jail for the Spokane police. Mean
while, Jim Mulligan, who, Bell says, has
the money, has disappeared
Declaring that they have been pay
ing the jobbers 35 cents a barrel to
sell their output of flour to the retail
merchants, two of the largest flour
, mills of Spokane have agreed to dis.
regard wholesalers in the future and
sell direct to the retail trade.
The first commercial electric lights
in the valley of the White Bluffs coun-
try were lighted Thanksgiving day fol-
the first time, marking the beginning
of an electric lighting system which is
planned to cover the town of White
Bluffs and fruit ranches adjoining.
The largest single shipment OF
blooded animals ever received in the
Kittitas valley was consigned to Henry
Weinberg. The shipment consisted OF
% head of full-blooded Aberdeen Poll
, Angus animals, and is valued at nearly
/ $4,000. The cattle were bought il
Corvallis, Ore.
e A. w. Cameron of Spokane and J
e w. Alden of Seattle have filed article,
t of incorporation in Whatcom county Of
a fish and storage company. The com
I pany will build at once a large ware
2 house and fish curing plant, and hav,
, the same completed in time to engag,
! in the halibut and cod business mex
e season.
Minus $4,000 of his hard-earnet