Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-08-12
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


At Ellensburg city electricians are
at work installing the 550-pound fire
alarm bell.
Mountain climbers are greatly inter
ested in the race to the top of Mount
Baker this week
The postal savings bank in Ellens-
burg is proving far more popular than
was first expected.
The Albion postofice was robbed
Saturday night. Money, stamps and
jewelry were stolen.
Mrs. J. Matthews of Sisco recently
swallowed a quarter of a pound of
chloroform, dying soon after.
Lincoln county schools show good
gains More pupils, more teachers and
better salaries paid than before.
More than 500 persons enjoyed the
annual outing arranged by Spokane
commercial travellers at Medical Lake
Saturday.
The 3-month-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Wright of Pilchuck
choked to death as a result of eating
dry meal
A contract for laying the crushed
rock and oil mixture on the state aid
road from Sunnyside to Mabton has
been let.
Two cloudbursts reported in central
Washington, 10 miles from Davenport,
at head of Porak CANYON. did great dam
age, Sunday.
Louis Schneider, farmer west of
Palouse, raised stool of wheat con
tanning 1873 stalks, all grown from one
kernel of wheat.
The Rev. A. J. Loomis age Sc years,
died at his home in Spokane recently. Q
He was a pioneer of the west, and came
to California in 1852.
William Rockefeller, accompanied by
Percy Rockefeller, his son, and A. J.
Earring, president of the Milwaukee,
were in Seattle the first of the week.
Mrs. Bernice Radcliffe the 2e-year
old wife of j. w. Radcliffe, an employee
of the Seattle Electric company, com
mitted suicide by inhaling chloroform.
Governor Hay says there will be no
extra session of the legislature called
in view of the reapportionment which
gives this state two additional repre-
sentatives in congress.
The new county of Pend Oreille will
come to the front with a showing of a
valuation of $4,OOO,OOO, an increase of
half million over the assessment of
1910.
In addition to arc lights, Pasco s
business district will soon be illumined
with ornamental cluster lights, making
the city one of the best lighted in the
northwest.
The state supreme court has unani-
mously sustained the validity and le-
gality of the King county $1,75O,OOO
bond issue, approved by the voters
November 8, 1910.
One hundred members of the Wash
ington State Funeral Directors asso-
citation, after their meeting in Seattle,
took a trip to Vancouver, B. c., on
four days trip on the Sound
Colonel Otto A. Case, for two ana
} one-half years county auditor and prior
to that four years county clerk in Sc
attic, has announced his candidacy for
the republican nomination for governor.
The attorney general holds that pri-
vate individuals have no right to in
spect the records of the sanitary in
spectors employed by the state board
of health, since they are not public
records.
DR.. Bertrand Muscott, aged 40,
prominent physician and sportsman of
Anacortes, Wash, was shot and instant
ly kill in Olympic mountains, Sunday,
by John Rogstead, logger, who mistook
him for a cougar.
J. Fifty-three children and grandchil-
dren of the late Cashup Davis met in
a family reunion and picnic at the old
home, now belonging to the youngest
son, Charles Davis, at Steptoe Butte,
Whitman county.
The so or more fruit growers in Spo-
kane district have formed the Spokane
District Fruit Growers ASSOCIATION.
The proposed articles of incorporation
are identical with those of the Yakima
district association.
The alleged defalcations of M. L.
Bevis, now in the Spokane Jail, might
easily total $15o,OOO, if claims against
him in other parts of the country and
outside the jurisdiction of the local
courts were available, it is said.
In a special car over the Northern
Pacific the family and relatives of J.
A. Humbird, the millionaire lumber
man of Minnesota, who died at the
age of rs years, left Spokane with his
body for his former home in Hudson,
Wis, 20 miles east of st. Paul, MINI.
Pacific Beach, Wash.-The twenty
fifth annual convention of the Wash