Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-08-26
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

ton state convention will take place il
this city September IS, 16 and II.
Asotin.-Richard Patterson is dead
He came to Asotin county 81 years age
from California. He leaves an estat,
valued at 100000.
Charles w. Nofke of San Francisco
80 years old, and Edward McMullen
30, of Tacoma, were drowned at Long
Beach, Cal, Sunday.
Fire originating in the new store OF
Clark & Anderson at Bay Center de
stroyed all the business portion of the
town except one store.
The city comptroller s checkers in
Seattle eliminated sufficient illegal sig
natures on the petition to recall Mayor
Dilling to kill the movement.
Tacoma.-Through gifts of skin from
80 fellow laborers Rex Hart, with one
half of his body scared by hot metal
from the Tacoma smelter, will recover.
Seattle.-Linda Hodgson was killed
and three persons were injured when a
touring car in which they were riding
ran off trestle and plunged to the tide
flats.
Olympia.-The Charles II. Lilly com
pany of Seattle can not recover $1,000
paid the Northern Pacific for switching
charges, according to decision of the
state supreme court.
The steamer Charles Bureau has be-
gun regular trips on the Columbia to
haul summer fruit, making one or two
trips a week. Peaches are beginning to
ripen throughout the upper Columbia
valley.
Colfax.-Carl Weems, the man who
shot and killed Lee Cantrill in the Last
Chance saloon here August IA, was ar
raigned in the superior court charged
with murder committed while engaged
in robbery.
Pullman.-Miss Elaine Kennel, q
graduate of Washington State college
school of music, class of 1909, is to make
her debut in grand opera in Paris il
November, singing the role of Juliet il
Romeo and Juliet"
On application of Neale Bennett Of
Madison, KY, District Federal Judg,
Frank H. Rud5in has appointed JOSEPH
M. Mitchell receiver for the Lowe
Yakima Irrigation company of Rich
land, Benton county.
Seattle.-Albert J. Tenant, prom
inent Seattle lawyer and former mem
Der of the state legislature, is dead, fol
lowing an operation for appendicitis
Mr.. Tenant was a law partner of ex
, Secretary of the Interior Ballinger.
Seattle.-Captain Frank Il. Thornton
commanding the Sixty-third company
United States Coast artillery, wa
found dead in his quarters at Fort Wor
den Sunday. Death had APPARENT,
been due to an overdose of bromidia
Seattle.-Frank Snyder has been az
rested on a charge of violating the fed
eral antiwhite slave law by bringin,
) Myrtle Anderson to Seattle iron
Plains, Mont, August Is. He wa
taken to Jail in default of $4,000 bail
Loran Hawk, who recently shot an,
seriously wounded William Graham a
a school house near the mouth of tn
Grande Ronde river, was shot and in
stantly killed by Press Montgomery,
cowboy, during a brawl at Josepl
Creek, Asotin county.
There can be no dam built across tn
creek which serves as the outlet 70
Rock lake, in Whitman county, 70
the supreme court handed down a de
cison upholding the Whitman count,
superior court in the case of Milai
Still and others against the Palouse Ir
rigation and Power company.
Olympia.-The weekly statement o
the state treasury shows receipts o
SOC, 100 and disbursements of $72, 1893
leaving cash on hand, $1,915,432, bu
$316,267 of this is in the state genera
fund. The military found has an over
draft of nearly $4,000, while the tw,
highway and rock quarry funds hav,
an aggregate of about $67O,OOO.
Seattle-The contests between tn,
singing societies of the Pacific coas
were held as the principal feature o.
the saengerfest of the North Pacif,
saengerbund. Choruses from Los An
geles, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Ever
EFT, Salem, Boise and Chehalis competed
for prize cups and the judges were con
cealed behind a screen in one of tn,
boxes.
Walla Walla was awarded the 1911;
Saengerfest.
The following officers were elected
President of the saengerbund, A. Bach
thold, Walla Walla; first vice PRECEDENT
Christ Best Kalispell; second vice pres
ident, o. Weigel, Vancouver, Wash.
secretary, J. Hansen, Walla Walla
treasurer, David Zimmerle, Seattle
standard bearer, Carl Arnold, Tacoma.
Gun Goes Back.
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