Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-16
WASHINGTON STATE

otAihitAs
All the lands necessary for the
grounds for the new state capitol have
been acquired by the state.
A woman who is married to a man
not a naturahzed citizen of the United
States can not vote in this state.
The body of J. j. Brannan, real
estate dealer, so years old, was found
floating in the bay at Seattle, Sunday.
David X. Larimer, formerly a mem
Der of the editorial staff of a Spokane
paper, died recently in Sioux City,
Iowa.
The jury in the case of Elmer L.
Amidon, accused of census frauds in
Tacoma, disagreed. A new trial will
be held.
The formation of Y. M. C. A. at
Pomeroy is under way and modern
$4,000 building with gymnasium will
be erected.
At her home, 40 miles northwest of
Almira, Mrs. King was seriously hurt
by a 2-year-old bull which knocked her
down, breaking her leg.
Lack of court business is given as
the reason for vacating the jury term
of Whitman county superior court pre-
viously set for March IL.
General Sir Robert S. Baden-Powell,
founder of the boy scout movement,
spent Sunday and Monday in Seattle,
after visit in Portland, Ore.
Governor NJ E. Hay has appointed
Mr.. Wilson, a Seattle man, to the va
cancy on the public service commission
caused by the resignation of ]. C. Law
renee.
An increase of 2es per cent in his
flock of sheep is reported by A. B.
Shumway, living near Walla Walla
Five ewes gave birth to twins and two
to triplets.
A county grange with SO charter
members was organized at Newport Sat
urday. The next meeting Of the Pc
mona grange will also be held at New
port the first Saturday in April.
In spite of $3147s9 cash receipts fol
the week State Treasurer Lewis reports
that the state general fund is over
drawn $656,725. During the week th'
warrants paid aggregated $211,2Ss.
. Washington State college is having
several thousand pictures of the col
e lege campus and buildings printed TO
5 distribution throughout the state. TIL
r pictures are SO inches long by II niche
wide.
Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston o
! Walla Walla has the distinction of be
= ing the first woman in Washington
since the passage of the suffrag
amendment, to become a candidate 70
state office.
The average population of the stat
of Washington per square mile woul
S be 1887 if the 1,141,9 $50 people in tn
e state were distributed equally over tn
+ area of the state which amounts t
65,755 square miles.
The Northern Pacific is preparin
4 to litigate the recent order of the stat
public service commission in fxin
the freight rates in the state of Wasl
!. ington in accordance with the shorte'
mileage of any road.
Il BY a majority of s24 George Cotteri
was elected mayor of Seattle over I
n Gill, who was once elected mayor an
e later recalled Over $4,000 votes wei
= cast. Gill stood for an open town an
/ Cotterill is a prohibitionist.
The Woodrow Wilson element in IL
= democratic state central committee, Il
by Chairman Charles G. Helfner, We
e in sharp fight to call the democrat
i; state convention at an early date, Mo
. day, May 6, at Walla Walla.
n A decision in test suit by the sta
lie supreme court set aside a recent ruin
by Assistant Attorney General J. S.
Lyle and declared that Sc promine
corporations which Lyle had held we
lie without legal existence were proper
IN doing business.
. Action has been started in the S
: perior court by Attorney General
> V. Tanner, representing the town
Wilbur, to recover $2266.S3 from
w. Maxwell, an attorney of Wilb'
x who was city clerk of that place
1907, 1908, 1909 and 1910, on accou
of alleged shortage in his accounts.
H. M. Boone, former president
the State Bank of Palouse, must ser
his sentence in Walla Walla penit'
tiary, to which he was sent after
recent conviction on the charge
larceny by embezzlement. AS Gt
ernor Hay declined to interfere in
case by use of the pardon power, \
Boone is now in the state Institute
Charles H. Hufford, the liquor sal
man who shot and killed Gladys Ire
Tesche, II years old, on CROWD
street corner in Seattle New Yea