Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-10-28
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

The Whitman county fair was a great
success.
The third annual Chesaw fair was
most successful.
Governor Hay is expected to visit
Republic October 81.
Medical Lake dairymen are to have
dairy testing association
Loomis has received its first load
of -four from the mill at Tonasket.
waitsburg-The price Of eggs is 60
ing up They are selling for 40c a
dozen.
After a short illness George P. Toll
ton, pioneer, died at Hoquiam re-
Gently.
The new dormitory for students of
the Ellensburg normal school is com
pleted.
The annual meeting of the Washing
ton Association of Title Men will be
held in Spokane october %.
Fire has destroyed the plant of the
Chehalis Lumber company at Littel.
The loss may reach 100000
J. G. Dressed lost his farm home,
in Echo valley, recently by fire. The
loss is about $500, with small insur-
ance.
There will be no school in Adams
county this week on account of the
county teachers institute, which will
be held at Lind.
Shortages aggregating more than
$4,000 on the part of former officials
of Cowlitz county are reported by
state examiners.
A strong plea for segregation of the
sexes in the state training school and
an appeal for a separate training school
for girls is being advocated.
Mrs. Emma Dart, a resident of Spo
kane since 1882, died last week, aged
3d. She leaves son and daughter
Leonard and Mrs. Claire Hunt.
The Pluvius Development company
has resumed work to complete the large
storage reservoir of 5000 acre feet ca
pacity 10 miles north of Almira.
Twenty-Five blocks of bitulithic paw
ing, constituting a $135,OOO job, JUS
finished at North Yakima, was rejecte,
by the city commission as not ac
ceptable.
Barbara Robertson, 35 years old, reg
istered from Victoria, b. c., was foun'
dead in her room in Seattle AppaI
emily she had committed suicide b.
drinking chloroform.
w. II. Moody of Connell, FranlSli
county, has filed a petition in volur
tary bankruptcy in federal court
: Moody's assets are $9,7675O and hi
) liabilities $24,571.35.
Petitions to Governor Hay asking
pardon for II. M. Boone, convicted O
larceny by embezzlement for the a
legged wreclSing of the Palouse Stat
bank, are being circulated throughou
Whitman county.
f In the departure for Portland tn
week of Dean A. w. Hendrick, form
| erly of the Whitman college facult.
> whose resignation was accepted, the il
stitution loses a professor eonnecte
with it nine years.
One of the largest land deals
Adams county this year was made 7,
Gently, when Representative D.
Scott sold his old home farm six mile
/, west of town to w. G. and Henry .
Donekas, 500 acres, for $4,000.
Bill Byrd, slayer of three men q
Spokane, will not hang. The jury this
tried him for the killing of job
! ManslSer, the contractor, returned
verdict of murder in the second d,
gree, which means sentence of frol
5 10 years to life Imprisonment.
The state general fund is down I
less than $500 cash, but Treasure
Lewis says he will not issue intere:
bearing warrants, but will carry tn
warrants as an overdraft just as he ha
been carrying military and capt.;
building warrants for some tim
Payees will receive cash, the warrant
will not draw the usual per cent il
terest, the money to pay them bein
diverted from other cash funds. Their
is $6Os, 900 cash in the two highwa
funds and $2sO,OOO in the new indus
trial insurance accident fund. Tot;
cash on hand is $1,65O, 900, and receipt
for the week were $132,446, and di
bursements we're $74,i9i.