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

During last week the shipments of
hay from Toppenish averaged over 30
carloads a day.
The war between rival companies to
get into Wenatchee and the Wenatchee
valley with an electric railway has
started.
A counterfeiters den, which has been
in operation for some time has been
discovered in Spokane. Three persons
are under arrest.
A resolution demanding the abolition
was passed by an unanimous vote of
the lay delegates to the Columbia River
conference of the Methodist church.
Clifford Pinehot, former chief forester,
and United States Senator Miles Poin-
dexter Of Washington sailed from Sc
attic for Alaska on the steamship
Northwestern, to be gone nearly six
weeks.
Grating property has been fixed at S14,-
100000 by the state public service com
mission. The original cost is fixed at
SIS, 59S,s57, and the cost to reproduce
today is given as $15,62s,246.
Freight rates from Seattle and Ia
coma to Spokane and intermediate
points are to be reduced by the public
service commission, but probably they
will not be cut in two, as was demanded
by the Seattle and Tacoma jobbers.
In fire, started by lightning, which
destroyed the home of f. M. Morgan
at Spokane, Mrs. Morgan lost her life
in an effort to rescue her two little chill
dren from the flames. The children, a
boy aged 10 and a girl aged 8, were
saved.
Seattle.-W William Schmulbach, the al.
legged slayer of Policeman William
Smith in Joplin, Mo-, November 10, 1909
will be taken to Joplin by Missouri off.
GERS. The scars and bullet wounds on
Schmulbach s body make his identified
tion complete, according to Seattle de
tectives.
lnc obdtC bOBdu DuoluOoi
this month with $1,s90,156 cash on hand
according to the statement of Treasures
Lewis. There is $24s,5 in the state
general fund. The military fund il
overdrawn about $4,000, and the tw,
state highway funds and the rock quar-
ries rotary fund carry an aggregate o
about $6sO,OOO.
Toppenish. Edward l.. Davis, trav
cling representative of the Carbondal
Coal company, brother-in-law o
James Ashton and prominent residen
of Tacoma, died at the Toppenish hos
pital as result of injuries receives
when Northern Pacific train strucl
an automobile in which five women an
five men, including the chauffeur, wer
riding. Miss frankie Vaughn was in
stantly killed and Miss Ray Scott wa
seriously injured.
The state bureau of inspection est
mates that it will spend about $4,000
annually in making expert examina
tions of the finances of the differen
cities and towns of the state. TIL
sioners of all the counties and to tn
authorities of about $50 cities and town
estimates of the cost of the examini
: tions for next year, so that these al
therities may make tax levy for tn
money to pay the examiners.
The estimates include the followin
counties; Adams, $40U; Asotin, $500
Benton, $3OOl Columbia, 5000 Dougla
$780, Ferry, 5000; Franklin, $500; Ga
field, 5000; Grant, $500; Klickitat, $780,
Lincoln, $500; Okanogan, $500; Pen
Oreille, 5000; Spokane, $1,000; Steven
$500; Walla Walla, $500; Wbitmai
5000; Yakima, $500.
In the cities and towns the amount
range from $25 for Almira, up to $500
5 for Seattle. They include Clealur
800; Colfax, $500; Ellensburg, 1885,
5 Hllyard, $3.50; North Yakima, $40I
Pullman, 5000; Roslyn, 500; Spokan
$500; Tacoma, $500; Walla Wall
$1,000; Wenatchee, 5000.
Seattle.-United States Judge Co
nelius H. Hanford has dissolved IL
temporary restraining order issued La
week on the petition of August S. Pc
body of Chicago, trustee for the bon'
holders, restraining the city of Seatt
, and the residents of the Rainier vale
from interfering with the Seattle, Rel
ton & Southern railway in its attemI
to collect second fares. The dissolutio
of the restraining order removes all oil
stacles in the way of the city's attemp
ing to force the Seattle, Renton
Southern to haul passengers within til
city limits for a single fare and issu
transfers interchangeable with those {
the Seattle Electric company, whic
operates rival car lines. This action {
Judge Hanford s does not end the lit
cation, as arguments are to be hear
on the application for permanent il
junction. Pending final action on ii
case, however, the court win not int