Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-10-21
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

q. A. Stewart has resigned his Office
of commissioner Of Ferry county.
W. f. Hair Of Spokane, was fatally
injured while coupling cars at st. John.
The street sweeper recently purchased
by the city of Pasco is at work daily.
J. L. Mohundro, state bank examiner,
has received notice at Seattle Of his re-
appointment.
A net profit Of $4,000 has been made
By the state penitentiary jute mill since
April l this year.
A newly organized Free Hebrew
School and Educational alliance has
been started in Spokane.
Fruit shipments from wenatchee
have now increased to so carloads
day.
A total of 500 cars of soft fruits
have been shipped from the Yakima
valley during the present season.
Twenty-four Of the 26 candidates for
recent admission to practice law before
the Washington supreme court were sue
eessful.
A combination strike and lockout af-
fecting 500 stage employees and all the
principal theaters, nine in number,
started Sunday in Seattle.
By a recent ruling of the Pacific
board of fire insurance underwriters,
Spokane agents will profit in the way
of increased commissions.
Charles Phillips, convicted of second
degree murder in Okanogan county,
must serve his term. The supreme
court upheld the lower court. =
Enough pie plant was raised on one
acre of ground by E. P. Goerig, near
Vancouver this year to make nearly
$4,000 pies, which would net $35, 1000
The Interstate Telephone company
has purchased the Independent tele-
phone plant at Newport, Wash. The
alue is between $4,000 and 5000.
Believing that conditions are ideal
in Horse Heaven for a turkey paradise,
Kennewick men are formulating plans
for pasturing large hocks on the hills
in that region.
Bubonic plague germs have been
found in three rats recently caught in
Seattle. The city council, to extermi-
nate the rats, has ordered all al}eys
near Pike street paved.
W. S. Hunt has left for the land
shows at Omaha and Chicago, where he
will have charge of the Prosser exhibit,
which will be a part of the Yakima
valley exhibit at these land shows.
At Vancouver Charles w. Hammond,
"a years old, convicted of the murder
of his employer, Edward c. Barhydt,
rancher, was sentenced to serve from
10 to 80 years in the peniteptiary.
The large barn on the farm of J. o.
Cooper, FIVE miles south of Pullman, on
the Genesee branch of the Northern
Pacific, burned Sunday night, killing
four horses, two of them being import
ed stations, valued by Mr.. Cooper at
$4,000 each.
While driving to Walla Walla from
her country home, Miss Lillian Russell
was aecosted by strange man, who
asked ride to the city. Miss Russell
refused, whereupon the man drew a pis-
toll, ordered her to stop and forced her
to drive him to the city.
President E. A. Bryan of the state
college, accompanied by his wife and
daughters, Lila and Gertrude, sailed
lmuocdav from Navv York for Eurona
They will spend about six weeks in
) England and then go to the continent.
. They plan to be in Europe until next
April.
e Contractors are now preparing to bid
on the construction of the big fiume
which will extend from Mitchell to
Grade creek on Lake Chelan and which
will furnish water to thousands of acres
now arid. The new project will involve
an expenditure of approximately $780,
600, and 100000 feet of lumber will
r be used in the construction of the
D fiume, 10 miles long.
The state of Washington viii proba.
bly, have TO borrow money to meet its
f bills this week. Treasurer Lewis re
{ ports but $37 300 cash on hand in the
0 state general fund and that he has over
T drafts at the bank now on the military
] and capitol building funds. There is
$379,426 cash in the state permanent
school fund, but most of that is pledged
to buy municipal bonds.
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