Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-12-16
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

go the pleasures of the tobacco guild
while on duty.
An attempt was made recently to de-
stroy by fire the Motter-Wheeler store
at Walla Walla.
Dixie rock, taken from the state
quarry at Dixie, is declared excellent
material for road making.
The name of Arthur B. Foley has
been sent to the senate for cOnfrma-
ton as postmaster of Wilbur.
Frank Shields, manager of the Walla
Walla Fruit and Vegetable union, has
been re-engaged for another year.
Judge Webster of Spokane holds that
the state law prohibiting breweries
from advancing money for retail liquor
licenses is invalid.
Formal demand is being made upon
agents Of bonding companies to repay
promptly to different counties amounts
they have collected as premiums upon
official bonds.
At Seattle Warren Camp of Los
Angeles, aged 23 years, a musician in
large restaurant, fell to the floor just
after leaving the piano the other night,
dying within short time.
The state highway department has an
elephant on its hands in the Marshall
rock quarry, near Spokane, on which
thousands of dollars have been spent
and not pound of rock crushed.
The Home Telephone company was
sold recently by Samuel Bridges mas
ter in chancery, at auction to the Sun
set Telephone company for $550,O00
This includes the plants in Tacoma and
Bellingham.
An explosion of an acetylene lighting
system at the home of Albert Tjossem
three miles south Of Ellensburg, re
Gently, resulted in the serious injury
of Albert Tjossem and lesser injuries
to his father, r. P. Tjossem.
A large force of men and teams wa
put to work on the Hanford PUMPING
plant at Coyote rapids, marking the be
ginning of an extensive campaign b,
the Pacific Power and Light compan.
in the valley of the White Bluffs coun
try.
Seattle jobbers have made a protes
to the public service commission
claiming that the announcement tina
the distributive rate would not be mad
c effective until March 1 is contrary t
;, assurances given them by the commits
|, sion.
~ Baffed at every turn of the road, tn
authorities at Spokane have failed {
}, produce a tangible solution TO the my
r terious murder of Anna Weber, tn
g German girl whose body was foun
h lying in the snow in the western PAL
of the city.
t. The steamships Tamba Maru an
Il Inaba Maru of the Nippon Yusen Ka
h she IS Seattle feet are to be withdraw
n and substituted by the Yokohama Mar
and Shidzuoaka Maru, now under co
struction. The old boats will be place
IS on Asiatic routes.
h The body of Harry Il. Traynor, ma
is agcr of a large boarding and sal
u stable, was found in a sink hole {
the flats at Seattle Saturday. The
~ were no marks of violence on the bod
;s and apparently TraynOr had been suff
N Gated in the mud.
10 George f. Woltman is Charleston
err census taker, to decide whether to pla
the town in the third class, as vot'
in the recent municipal election. II
n required number is 1900. The last ce
~ sus showed 1857. Vineland, as an i
u corporated section about the town, h
> almost as many, the Charleston postofii
It serving 5000.
Malcolm R. Patterson, who shot al
a dangerously wounded R. II. Seal
BY Port Orchard, is in Seattle Jail, lock
ne up in default of 1000 bail, the often
ne charged against him being assault
h. the first degree. Patterson s faith
Elk Governor Malcolm R. Patterson
as Tennessee, has engaged counsel for hi
al Seal is in a hospital
IN Walter f. Lyman, the ex-policem
lg arrested in Seattle charged with pa
s. ing worthless bills of state banks, h
confessed that he had cleared up near
+, $4,000 in the last two months by 81
~ ting afoat currency in Seattle and ?
coma. The bills were modernized
ba splitting them, inserting silk threa
~ between the halves and then repastir
An unmasked highwayman still in
20 teens, who has terrorized the residen
Ne district of Tacoma recently by h;
"a. dozen daring holdups, capped the {
be max by holding up three men will
- block of the tabernacle where GiT
ha Smith, the evangelist, is holding for
while the crowd which had attend
the meeting was passing along the oil
side of the street.
~ Sheriff's Slayer Is Killed
an White Rock, S. D.-After runni
III battle of 30 miles with a company