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

The state fair is on at Yakima this
week.
walla walla now has new postal
bank.
The town of Springdale voted dry and
three saloons will be custed as a result
of the election.
-Four men broke the Pasco Jail Sun
day, but were captured before they got
many miles away.
Elmer Drummond was convicted by
a jury for the killing of William E.
Flynt near Chewelah last June.
Several men have ben laid off at the
roundhouse at Lamont recently and it
is rumored that the shops will close.
The resignation of DIR. Elmer E. Heg
as state health commissioner and Sec
rotary of the state board of health has
been rendered.
Washington state leads the common
wealths of the nation in healthfulness
according to special statement issued
by the census bureau.
Gypsy Smith, the noted English evan
gelist, will visit Spokane, beginning
next Saturday evening, remaining some
time doing religious work.
Walla Walla county lost $665.s1 from
July, 1904, to March 81, 1911, accord
ing to the report of the state bureau of
inspection of public Offices.
Mrs. S. S. Glidden died at Wauxesha,
Wis, Saturday. Mrs. Glidden was one
of the pioneers of Spokane, coming here
with S. S. Glidden in 1885.
Eugene Lorton Of Walla Walla has
gone to Oklahoma City, where he will
become managing editor of the Okla
homa World, a new publication.
The Columbia river is reaching it,
lowest stage of water. When actual
freezing takes place in November the
water level will be at its lowest.
Martin Shomers and Node Hardesty
charged with the robbery of the store
of E. N. Jouvet at Springdale last
May, have entered plea of guilty.
Actuated by what is believed to have
been jealousy, Frank Calvin, a moving
picture operator, twice shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Mrs. Vivian Ir
wing, a trained nurse, at Eatonville, sc
miles from Tacoma.
Many recommendations for changes
in the state tax laws were considered
by the county treasurers convention
at Tacoma last week. The treasurerl
will hold their next convention at Spo
kane in September, 1912.
Realizing the Importance of the anti
smut convention to the industrial lif,
of the northwest, the Spokane Cham
Der of Commerce will send five dele
gates to Pullman TO attend the conven
tion Friday and Saturday.
Immigration Officer Farris of Custer
20 miles northwest of Bellingham, cap
tured 35 pounds of smuggled opium
valued at $500, along with John Mar
Gus of Portland, Ore, who admitte
bringing the drug across the boundary
The death of Jacob Slaght at Cola,
Saturday marked the passing of al
early pioneer of the Palouse. Slagh
was "A years old and had lived in an,
near Colfax since the early '7Os, bein
among the first to locate in the Palous
valley.
The secretary of the interior is ask
ing for proposals for the excavatio
and backftting of trenches and cor
struction of wood stave pipe and othe
structures in the vicinity of Mabtor
in connection with the Sunnyside uni
Of the Yakima irrigation project.
Charging her husband s former ster
ographer with alternating the affection
of Adolph A. Gust, worth $35OO0C
Mrs. Sarah A. Gust has commenced al
atcion in the King county superior cour
against Pauline NJ. Miller for $4,000
damages. Gust is a former resident o
Butte, Mont, and later of Prossel
Wash, and came to Seattle to resid
two years ago.
Armour & Co., bidding from its diff
ferent branches in the northwest
landed all the contracts for butter an,
cheese for state institutions for the mex
six months at 90 cents for butter an,
1872 cents for cheese. Beef was bough
at less than cents for the eastern hos
pital and up to 11.O9 cents at Stella
COON; mutton as low as s cents 70
Medical Lake. There were several sue
cessful meat bidders.
Colonel William F. Prosser, who com
manded the Second Tennessee eavalr
during the civil war and who was aft
erward a member Of congress from tn
Nashville district, died Saturday i
Seattle, aged n years. He was a pei
sonal friend of Lincoln and Grant an
was prominent in the Grand Army an
Loyal Legion. Colonel Prosser was
member of the constitutional CONVEX
ton of Washington and served teri