Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-09-30
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

Thirty people are employed in the
two packing houses at Moscow, Idaho,
packing pears, plums and prunes.
Cromwell Dixon and R. c. st. Henry
will be the aviators at the Spokane In
terstate fair the week of October ?.
Sunday witnessed the dedication Of
the new Emmanuel Episcopal church,
erected at cost Of $4,000, at Kellogg,
Idaho.
A fire starting in the living room
of the manager of the Midvale (Idaho)
Telephone company destroyed more than
half the business portion of the town
Saturday.
Fleet as a deer, dressed in the skins
of animals and roaming the woods,
wild man has been discovered in the
Middle Nook canyon, about 25 miles
from Bozeman, Mont.
At the age of 80 years Isaac Pen
rose, who came to Spokane with his
family 10 years ago, died recently at
the home of his son, William T. Pen
rose, the well-known printer.
Mrs. Ellen Sewer, aged 76, we'll
known pioneer of Butte, was thrown
from buggy by a runaway horse Sat
urday, alighting head first against
rock and dying from the injuries.
The lumber output in the Inland EN-
pire is valued at $21 100000 and the
standing timber in the Spokane coun-
try estimated at $4,000, 900, 900 feet, or
enough to build 100000 highclass
dwellings, or to house s5 per cent of
the nation IS population. Washington,
Idaho, Oregon, Montana and California
have so per cent of standing timber
The secretary of the interior has au-
thorized the reclamation service to
place cement Innings in number of
main distributaries of the Umatilla
irrigation project, Oregon. Plans for
the work include the lining of more
than 10000 linear feet of canals and
construction of about 10000 linear feet
of cement pipe, at total cost approx
mately of $4,000.
After a two weeks slump in fruit
shipments in the Wenatchee valley, due
to the closing of the peach and pear
season and the beginning of apple ship
ments being week late, the carload
shipments are now beginning to in
crease, IA carloads being sent Saturday
night, seven being for the export trade,
three of which are bound for London
and four to Australia.
In sentencing l.. w. Young, a Sc
attic dairyman, to 10 days in the county
Jail for selling skinned milk as real
milk, Superior Judge Wilson r. Gay
announced that hereafter it would be
the policy of the superior court Judges
to impose the highest penalty on VIC
lators of the pure milk law. Fines, he
said, had been no deterrent Young
was recently fined $3.50 in a city court
Swelled by business men from Port
land, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Cen
tralia and Chehalis and all points in
r western Washington at least 10000
persons Saturday afternoon witnessed
the opening of the bridge across tn,
$ Chehalis river, which admitted to Aber
deem and Hoquiam the Oregon anC
Washington Railroad and Navigation
company and the Chicago, Milwaukee,
and Puget Sound railway.
According to Construction News o.
Chicago building operations in 6s prin
cipal cities of the United States 70
August amounted to $50, 1877 $50 al
compared with $72 ,555,232 in the cor
: responding month last year, showing
net gain of IL per cent. Chicago show
the greatest gain-2S9 per cent-whil,
: Duluth shows the heaviest loss-97 PEE
cent. The whole country would show
a considerable loss were it not for tn,
remarkable record made in Chicago
, Generally the loss is heavier and NOR,
general in northwestern cities than il
other sections of the country. Port
land s loss is % per cent; Seattle, .,
per cent; Spokane, % per cent, and
Tacoma, If per cent. Spokane is cred
tied with 1872 permits of a value OF
1891 900, as against 1913 permits, value
$5O3,635, in August, 1910.
After a prolonged illness resulting
from old age the Rev. William Pelan
age 81 years, a Spokane pioneer and
grand chaplain for all the grand
lodges of the Masonic order in Wash
ington, died September %.
The deceased was born in England
and was ordained into the ministry il
the early '4Os at Charlottesville, Ind
He held a Presbyterian charge for q
years and was a chaplain in the Unior
army. He then went to Iowa and wa;
many years at Wells, MINI.
In 1889 Mr.. Pelan came to Spokane
He was the oldest past grand com
mander for Indiana at the time OF
his death. He took the Scottish Rite
degrees and was a 32d degree Mason
For II years he has been the state
grand chaplain, but had lost his sight
and was not able to take part in the