Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-09-02
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


provement are now under way in tins
city.
Admiral Togo visited in Seattle Mon
day for a farewell visit to the United
States before sailing for Japan.
Spokane county has $4,000 school
children; 400 district teachers are EN-
ployed and 200 buildings occupied.
James L. Denny, pioneer settler and
well-to-do farmer of the Camas valley
district, five miles west of Springdale;
is dead.
w. E. Bishop of.Walla Wslla is under
arrest under the instructions of the
United States marshal, charged with
white slavery.
The ninth annual Wilbur fall fair,
October II, IS, 10 and 20, promises to
be the best of its kind ever held in
Lincoln county.
Spokane 100000 park bond issue,
voted May 3, 1910, and since held in
allegiance by contestants in the local and
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by the state supreme court.
The catalogue of the University of
Washington, which has just appeared,
contains the names of 2427 different
students for the year 1901. This is
an increase of 271 over the previous
year.
Davenport.-Defnite reports from
Lincoln county wheat growers do not
confirm the early estimates of an enor-
nous wheat yield, although the yield
will be between 20 and 80 bushels to
the acre.
Twelve miles of water right on the
Klickitat river near Lyle, Wash, which
has been owned for several years by
Spokane parties, has been sold to the
Northwestern Electric company of San
Francisco.
Olympia, Wash.-The public service
commission has certified to the tax COM
mission that the value of the Cornell
Northern, a separate corporation al
though part of the Northern Pacific
system, is 81, 100000.
John Federowski, aged "a, an Austrian,
federal prisoner in the Spokane county
Jail, committed suicide by leaping from
the second-foor corridor, his brains
being dashed out on the cement pave
ment of the floor below
Olympia thousand dol.
lars of shortages were uncovered in
Pierce county by the state inspectors,
according to their report. OF the
shortages the examiners secured refunds
to the county aggregating nearly $4,000
Mrs. Della Tatten, who with her
mother, Mrs. Beebe, was found guilty
of the murder of James Sutton in a
dispute over a roadway in Brender can
yon, near Cashmere, year ago, is now
declared insane by Sheriff J. E. Fergu-
son of Chelan county.
Seattle.-Frank H. Kimball, alias J
L. Workman, alias Joe A. Matthews, SO
years old, was arrested in a Tacoma
lodging house by detectives on charge
of forgery He was brought to Seattle
In his suitcase was found cash and bills
TO the amount of $17,24O.
Kennewick, Wash.-Mrs. R. P Tulles
wife of a prominent local druggist and
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wal
lace and granddaughter of Colonel
Wallace, after whom Wallace, Idaho
was named, died here after 10 days OF
intense suffering following burns result
ing from an alcohol explosion.
John Rogstad, the logger. who, OIL
August 5, shot and killed DR.. Brysor
Museott in the Olympic mountains back
of Brinnon, installing him for a cou
gar, pleaded guilty to assault in the
second degree and was fined $40 and
costs. Rogstad is penniless, and will
serve out the fine in Jail, where he has
been since the mistake.
Davenport.-In Lincoln county there
was sold during the year a total OF
2143 acres of state land of which the
state received $50, 800, or an averag,
of $26.36 an acre, while in no case was
land sold for less than $40 an acre. BY
the sale of the land there is added tC
the county rolls property in the amount
of 1924, 1858, which represents 43 per cent
of the real value.