Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-13
WASHINGTON STATE


A Chautauqua win be held at walla
Walla this summer.
Five companies of Puget Sound are
now in an electric merger.
United States District Judge George
Donworth of Seattle has resigned
For the first time in several years
the Pend o 'Reille river is frozen over
solid.
According to assessors report, the
total valuation of all property in Stew
ems county for 1911 is $7,s55,175.
Constitutionality of the act creating
the industrial insurance commission will
be argued in the federal court in April
A lumber company has acquired title.
for s22 800, to 1910 acres of timber land
in the northern part of Spokane county.
A lumber company is contracting the
ogging of 100000 feet of yellow and
white pine logs for the Beyersdorf mill
at Diamond lake.
State permanent funds on January 1.
this year, aggregated $9,270,7O1, of
which all but 1864, 100 had been in
vested in interest bearing bonds.
The United States submarine boat F3
was launched recently from a Seattle
shipyard, where three other vessels of
the same class are to be constructed
The sale of the Holdings of the Hoos-
Ter Land company of New York city,
consisting of 1881 acres of timber land
in Kittitas county, to New York capt
talsts, is confirmed.
]. M. johnson is now agent for the
Colville Indians. Captain John McA.
Webster was relieved of part of his du-
ties as agent for Indians in casters
Washington and northern Idaho.
While watching the funeral procession
of Dennis Rose, whose death resulted
from the kick of horse, Pat Donahue,
a Dayton truck operator, was kicked in
the face by horse, dying few hours
later.
Benumbed with the cold while steal
ing a ride on the pilot of the engine up
the Snake River line recently, Patrick
Boyle fell before the wheels of the rush
ing engine and was cut and torn to
pieces.
When shotgun slipped down be-
tween several logs on his sled at Moab
and was accidentally discharged, E. S.
+ Mackay, aged 60, received the full
charge of shot in his left hip, SCATTERING
the bones.
James Brown, charged by information
fled in the superior court of Stevens
county with first degree assault upon A.
g A. Stevenson at Springdale last August,
: has been brought back from Portland
f for trial
', At recent meeting of the commits
= sioners of Franklin county an appro-
priation was made to advance two great
jects-development of the Columbia
t. river and government irrigation for
Franklin county.
Mrs. Sarah B. Ferry, aged IS, widow
of Elisha P. Ferry, first governor of the
:, state of Washington and one of the gov
= errors of the territory of Washingt on,
y died Saturday morning at the home of
:. her daughter, Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary,
II of Seattle.
4 Each shooting with poor aim in the
l. growing dusk, Sunday evening. Dan
kubertt, Austrian bartender, famed as
gun man and Fkiller," and Mrs. Eli
Radovich, an Austrian woman fought
pistol duel in the street. She NAV
K die, he WASH Il hit
= While journeying from Sherlock. on
> the Nesqually river, to Seattle in a
q small open boat and camping at night
- on the open beaches of Puget sound
- an old man, said to be a blacksmith
j was frozen to death on the beach near
: Steilacoom, recently.
's The bodies of Mrs. Mary P. Hyde
ee Rosslow, who died at Lemon Grove
r. Cal, December %, and Miss Louis,
ne Rosslow, who passed away in her bertI
while returning to Spokane bringing tn,
~ body of her sister, arrived in Seattl,
e. Tuesday on the steamer President
N. Pleading guilty to burglary, Pau
Starke and Frank Warner, alias Gala
bama Dutch,' were each sentenced t,
from to IS years in prison, and Harr,
J. Eastman, ringleader of a band o
OF thugs who operated in Seattle durin,
". the last few months, drew sentenc
n of five to IA years.
40 The Very Rev. Emil Kauten, former
ly rector of Our Lady of Lourdes Cath
de Ollie church, Spokane, and for the las
l. 10 years chancellor of the diocese o
~ Seattle and chaplain of the Providene
hospital, Seattle, died Sunday morning
90 at Seattle. He was one of the mos
et widely known and popular Catholic mis-
sionaries in the northwest, having serv
ed the church in this section since com
-, ing to America, SO years ago.