Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-02
WASHINGTON STATE

Influential business men and promi-
nent merchants are conducting quiet
campaign for an "open town. in Spo
kane.
The business men of Newport held a
meeting recently TO get together and
plan for sewers, new city hall and
new high school.
Captain Otto Sverdrup, master of
hansen IS Arctic ship Fran, is in Sc
attic to fit out two steam whalers
which he will take to Alaska this
Summer.
Preliminary steps have been taken of
West Side which may result in set
Ting for all time the long standing
question of whether it is Mount Raj
nier or Mount Tacoma.
A. B. Campbell, Spokane pioneer and
millionaire mine owner, who died re-
Gently, divided his entire estate equally
between his wife, Mrs. Grace Camp
bell and his daughter, Miss Helen
Campbell.
At North Yakima it is reported Mrs
Eva Burtland has confessed that she
wrapped the body of her newly born in
FAINT in a bundle and gave it to her
12-year-old son, with instructions to
throw it in an irrigation ditch.
While there is an attitude of ex-
pectancy, nothing has developed Of
ficially at the builders exchange or
elsewhere to indicate that there is
concerted action among building con
tractors for the open shop at Spokane.
The trades unions of Spokane stand
ready to solve the financial difficulties
of the day labor plan of doing improve
ment work by investing from 100000
to 100000 in city day labor improve
ment bonds, according to announcement
from that city.
Arbor day, April II, is to be fttingly
observed at Kennewick this year by
the planting of 10 miles Of trees along
the west bank of the Columbia river.
The day will also be featured by a big
get together meeting Of the townspeople
and country folk.
Rev. Charles f. Aked, former pas
tor of the Rockefeller Fifth Avenue
Baptist church of New York and now
pastor of the First Congregational
church of San Francisco, will. deliver
the baccalaureate sermon at the Uni
versity of Washington, June 8.
S. A. Perkins, president of the Wash
ington State Good Roads association,
has appointed the following committee
on legislation and codifying: Chair
man, Frank w. Guilbert of Spokane;
James McNeelery, Tacoma; Frank Ter
rance, Orillia; M. E. Olson, Yakima;
c. b. Kegley, president Washington
State grange; John p. Hartman, Seattle.
Several miles of permanent macadam
road are being built entirely without
expense to the county of Okanogan.
that vicinity are donating the work
and the improvement is being made at
low cost, under the supervision of
Clay Fruit. The valley is favored with
unlimited quantities of ideal road ma
terial.
Admitting that they had manufactur-
ed dies and counterfeiting instruments
that were as nearly perfect as could be
made by skilled labor, but declaring
that they were fred with the fervor of
invention and scientific research, and
had not intended making spurious
money, W. II. Mahan and A. E. Har-
rington of Aberdeen are in Jail at
Tacoma.
In documents filed for record in the
Lincoln county auditor, Preston H. Will
son, of Seattle, claims the inappropriate
ed waters of Crab creek above the
Grant county line in township %,
range 81, flowing above ground, and
also seeks to appropriate the under
ground flow of the ancient bed of Crab
creek, where it crosses the line of Lin
coin and Grant counties, about quarter
of a mile east of the town of Krupp
Despite the long drawn out fight made
by the Stevens county shippers for a
revision of the freight tariff imposed by
the Great Northern upon patrons of the
Spokane Falls & Northern branch
which serves the Colville and Columbia
river valleys, and Notwithstanding that
the state public service commission
made an order of revision on December
IS, last, to be effective January II, il
is said by the shippers that the rail
way company has not yet complied
with the order.
George A. Lovejoy of Spokane was
elected second vice president of the
Washington State Association of the
Sons of the American Revolution at the
annual meeting in Seattle. Other off
GERS elected were as follows; Robert
G. Walker, Tacoma, president; Thomas
W. Prosch, Seattle, first vice president
Christopher w. Horr, Seattle, secretary
A. V. Bell, Seattle, treasurer; Robert
G. Saunders, Seattle, register. These
men, with DIR. S. ]. Holmes, will com
prise the board of managers.