Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-20
WASHINGTON STATE

of its existence as county this month.
Hardware dealers from over the
northwest met in Spokane Wednesday.
Grandview's business section has
grown rapidly during the last summer.
The buildings erected have cost $3s,5OO |
An election was held at lone, Sat
urday, the citizens voting to issue bonds
for $4,000 to build and equip new
school building.
The rainfall in western Washington
for the year 1911 was the least ever
recorded-21.69 inches, 10 inches less
than in 1910.
Retail liquor dealers of Spokane,
members of the Royal Arch, have de
clared open war ON the Anti-Saloon
League of Washington.
The district conference of the Nor
wegian Danish Methodist church for
the Rocky Mountain district is in SEES
sion at Spokane this week.
Mrs. Jacob Goetz, wife of the we'll
known hotel man and pioneer mining
man of Spokane and the Occur 'Alenes
died Sunday at the family residence.
Chelan, in Chelan county, has its
accounts in bad shape, according to the
report of the state bureau of inspection.
It's assets are 1894, While its liabilities
are $s512.
J. r. Walker, recently named to
A o. -,
of tracks and railroad equipment, has
left Spokane for Olympia to assume
his official duties.
The postofiice receipts for the Spo-
kane Office for the calendar year end
ing December 81, 1911, show an in
crease of $6,511.55. The total receipts
for 1911 are $476,O42.s9.
Two hundred dollars reward has been
offered for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the man who
robbed the Bank of Commerce at
Everett, December 10, 1911.
Establishment of mutual hospital
associations by all concerns engaged in
hazardous industries will be recon-
mended soon by Governor M. E. Hay
and the state industrial insurance com
mission.
The public service commission has
issued formal orders refusing to amend
; its earlier order denying the North
Coast right to cross public highways at
grade in Yakima, Benton and Walla
Walla counties.
George w. Carr and Ed S. Evers
convicted of fraudulent use of the mai
in the exploitation of their loan sys
TEN, the National Home company
were fined $500 apiece and costs, which
will amount to $4,000.
= A farmers institute will be held il
= Toppenish during February. The Wash
+ ington State college instructors will de
liver talks on horticulture, orchard
pests, veterinary, live stock, dairying
poultry and home economics.
?, Charles P. Bennett, one of the lead
l., ing attorneys of Republic, is unde
). arrest, charged with grand larceny
accused of having appropriated $135
while acting as the administrator o
the estate of James Whips, deceased.
Gong Lee, alias "Bologna, Pull
man 8 lone Chinaman, will not hav
to marry Miss Anna Hopper of Spo
!, kane, nor pay her $4,000 "hear
: balm for failure to become her hus
= band, unless a new suit is started
i. In sentencing Abe Post, a whit
SLAYER, to two and half years in tn
} Mcneil island penitentiary, Judge Rud
a kin of the federal court upheld tn
e constitutionality of the interstat
e statute brought up in Post IS case.
e To prevent any possibility of sink
> ing or turning turtle the steamshi
Ii Strathalbyn, badly damaged in tn,
9 collision with the steamer Virginian Of
8 Three Tree point Sunday, was beache
e near the commercial dock in Tacom
II harbor.
v In a recent opinion J. T. S. Lyl,
J. assistant attorney general, holds tina
f when corporation has been stricke
S. from the rolls of the secretary of stat
v and dissolved that it can not be II
Y. yived under the laws of 1911 wlthou
reincorpOration.
:. The International Power compan,
through Wilbur S. Yearsley of Sp'
l. kane, its president, has filed on waite
rights to 100000 cubic feet of waite
IS per second at three points on tn
It Pend Oreille river between Metalin
is Falls and the international boundar,
Orders for fir ties that will require az
ie proximately 100000 feet of lumbC
= have been placed by two transeontinei
tai railroads with Pacific Northwe'
: lumber men. The Canadian Pacific raj
= way recently placed an order wit
= Washington and British Columbia mil
- for $4,000 ties.