Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-08-05
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

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Two mail sacks were stolen from the
O.-W. r. & N. depot at Garfield, Sun
day All the letters were looted
The management of the Whitman
county fair has selected October 16 to
21 as dates for the fair at Colfax
While driving across the railway
tracks at Tacoma John L. Eddy, 90,
retired farmer, was instantly killed.
Fire has destroyed the woodworking
plant owned by Henry Mathews and the
house owned by w. B. Hughes at
Colville.
Peter Hansen committed suicide by
hanging himself in a barn in the Horse
Heaven country, where he was working
for Peter Timm.
Joe Brown Jr., II years old, son of
Councilman Joseph Brown, was drown
ed Sunday while swimming in the
Yakima river.
Record breaking export flour orders
for September and October delivery
have been booked by Seattle millers
during the last two weeks.
Rosalia farmers are in the midst of
the years harvest. Fall wheat in
many places runs too thick and high
for binders to handle easily.
There will be no reduction in wheat
rates from points in the Palouse coun-
try to Seattle and Tacoma over the
Oregon-W Washington railroad this year.
Miss Eva Trombley and Frank X.
Thibodeau, her uncle, were drowned
while bathing in Bachelor slough, near
Ridgefeld, near Vancouver, last Sunday.
Mrs. Ahira Morse, of Pomeroy, COM
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid
at her home in Freewater, Ore. She
was the daughter of the Rev. E. 2.
Hastings
Forest fires in the Cascades are cloud
ing the atmosphere in the Wenatchee
valley with smoke. Several million feet
of lumber have already been destroyed
by fires.
Harvesting is well under way around
Waterville and results show that the
hot weather has reduced the yield, the
loss from normal being between 10 and
25 per cent.
DIR. B. c. Hyde of Kansas City, con
victed of the murder of Millionaire
Thomas II. Swope, and who is await
ing new trial, is in Seattle, accom-
panied by his wife.
About 1O,OOO,O 900 feet of timber with
in the Wenatchee national forest is nov
being offered for sale by the distric
forester, George H. Cecil, with head
quarters at Portland, Ore.
The contest of the will of Franl
/ Rider, deceased, a former resident O.
/ Whitman county, bids fair to develol
5 into one of the most important probat
l contests in the history of the state.
The North Yakima land Office official
have received no notification from
: Washington of the withdrawal o
14,720 acres of land in the vicinity o
Roslyn, as announced in dispatche
from Washington.
The steamer San Jacinto from Ho
1 quiam for San Francisco, with lumber
ran into the rocks on the south jett,
= while passing out over the Grays harbo
= during a fog and was sunk. No live
were lost.
: Caught between the boiler of his en-
, CINE and the separator Alonzo J. Whit
! man, age Is years, an engineer on
3 threshing machine working near Dee
Creek, met a horrible death recently
when he was crushed and mangled be
tween the two machines.
That the establishment of the ne,
n terminal freight rates for Mort
d Yakima from Missouri river points Wi
y mean a saving to North Yakima shiI
S pers and consumers of 100000 pc
s year, is the statement of Thoma
s Carlyle.
Prosecuting attorneys of the stat
Z had an earnest discussion of the d
= lemma of many counties in trying t
Il enforce the anti-weed law without an
funds set aside for that purpase, at tn
recent meeting of the state bar assoc
alton, but were not able to arrive a
v any conclusion.
p Joseph Taro, who conducts an aut,
I. mobile stand in Seattle was shot an
p killed by passenger in his car Satui
3 day night. 1t was either a deliberat
Is plot to murder Taro or to a holdup e.
petition into which the auto driver an
his car had been impressed. The mu
derer escaped.
II For IS minutes Saturday afternoo
y every train on the Bellingham Bay
d British Columbia railway, the Bellinl
e ham Terminals railway and the ira
'e tion line was stopped; the mills of I'll
E Bellingham Bay Lumber company an
4 the plants of the Bellingham Improv
q ment company were closed for the san