Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-10-14
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


week was visited by 12O,s94 persons.
The warehouses at Lacrosse have
taken in 10000 sacks Of wheat this
fall
Fire destroyed one of the big stables
at the interstate fairgrounds Saturday.
Loss $4,000.
Joseph Chambers, a pioneer, who
died in Cheney recently, was born Oc-
tober 4, 1890, in Monroe county, In
diana.
During the last week 100 carloads Of
apples have been shipped out of the
Wenatchee valley to every part of the
globe.
Frank Market, a carpenter, aged 25
years, was run over and killed by an
eastbound mail train on the Great
Northern near Bluestem recently.
Sunday morning concluded the three
days session of the nineteenth annual
meeting of the Columbia river branch
of the Woman IS Foreign Missionary So
ciety at North Yakima.
Mrs. Becker, wife of rancher south
of lrby, was found dead at the foot of
the cellar steps by her children. 1t is
supposed she missed her footing. She
leaves baby nine days old. and other
children.
Complete tabulation of values of
Lincoln county shows that taxes for
the coming year will be paid on basis
of valuation for all property of $24,-
676, 704, a slight decrease over that of
last year, when the rolls showed $24.-
704,622.
The 2-year-old son of Mike Arndt
at Sprague fell into a bucket of boiling
water and severely scalded its back and
hips In removing the child's clothes
after the accident the greater portion
of the skin was taken off and the little
fellow is in a very serious condition.
Mrs. l.. M. Powell of Dayton has
hen with brood of chickens whose
history has been brilliant. Last March
the hen was Matched. In July she com
menced laying. In September, less
than months old, the hen Matched
brood of chickens in time to go with
them to the fair.
Tacoma. - Mystery surrounds the
death of 7. o. Sebree, a wealthy New
Mexico rancher, whose body was found
in the water under a dock with a bullet
hole through the head. A diamond ring
and stickpin which Sebree was known
to possess are missing. A revolver was
found on the dock.
The accident fund authorized by the
workmen S compensation act has al
ready reached the respectable total of
$21s,O0O, with every prospect that it
will pass the quarter of a million mark
by January. Almost without exception
the larger employers of the state are
complying with the demands of the
law.
Smoke was seen to issue from the ex.
tinct crater Of Mount Baker Saturday
afternoon by residents of the towns of
Glacier and Maple Falls. AS soon as
the report spread scores of people with
glasses took to the hills on the out
skirts of Bellingham and were able
plainly to see the dense pail of smoke
gathering about the snowy crest of the
peak.
The first woman in the state to file
for a municipal Office is Mrs. Edna w.
Edings, who has filed a certificate with
the city clerk at Olympia as candidate
on the citizens ticket for city treas
urer. She is the only candidate on
that ticket for the office, as the incum-
bent, w. II. Bracket, is the only can
didate for nomination of the republican
ticket for treasurer.
The actual pack of canned salmon on
Puget Sound up to September 20 was
1,276,923 cases. This is the largest
pack of salmon ever put up on a year
when the sockeyes have not run in
large numbers. The pack of pink
salmon is more than twice the size of
the next largest pack on record. No
less than 1,O13,1s4 cases Of this kind
of fish have been packed.
Olympia, Wash.-C. A. Pratt, of the
industrial insurance commission, and
w. V. Tanner, attorney general of
Washington, have gone to Chicago to
attend a conference on October 10 and
Ia or 12 or Is states and commissions
on the subjects of state and fedora,
workmen s compensation, amendments
to the interstate commerce law, uniform
ccident reports and malingering of pa
tients under compensation.
Grant county commissioners have be-
gun plans for the construction of
cross country road, beginning at Trini-
dad, on the west boundary line of the
county, and extending easterly along
the Great Northern as far as Adrian
and then in a northeasterly direction
to Coulee City and Hartline and on to
the east line of the county. Here the
road will connect with the main road