Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-17
WASHINGTON STATE

MISSION.
w. W. Liggett has been appointed
secretary Of the chamber Of commerce
at Pasco.
John r. Simpson, 81 years old, was
killed in cavein accident at Seattle
Saturday.
Steamboat navigation has been re-
sumed on the Columbia up to the
White Bluffs country.
Inventories Of state institutions com
pleted by the board of control show a
total value of $3,372, 45s.
Grant Neal, former member of the
state board of control under Governor
Mcbride, died in Seattle, Sunday.
To combat crime with education in
stead of punishment, is the plan of
Warden c. S. Reid of the state penten-
tiary.
Whitman is still county OF the sew
enth class, as the commissioners de-
clare federal census inaccurate and I'M
reliable.
The Grant County Good Roads asso-
citation has, through its officers, sue
ceeded in doing much good work in
road building
In observance of Lincoln IS birthday
anniversary, Monday, all city, state and
county governments of the state took
a much-needed rest.
II. f. Alexander Of Tacoma, presi-
dent of the Alaska Pacific Steamship
company, has been elected president
of the Alaska Coast company.
1t is probable that the Columbia river
fruit growers will join forces with the
Yakima Valley Fruit Growers assoca-
ton of North Yakima the coming sea-
son.
w. L. Bishop, hotel keeper, convicted
of violating the white slave traffic act,
was sentenced to serve term of two
years in the federal penitentiary at Nc
Neil island.
Governor Hay will urge the state to
pay convicts on state highways, single
men to get so cents and married men
rs cents day, the money to go to
their families.
The state supreme court affirmed the
conviction and sentence to life impris
onment of Mrs. Della Totten of Cash
mere, found guilty of shooting to death
James Sutton.
The election of the Quincy Valley
Water Users association resulted al
follows; j. o. Mara, president; f. M
Scott, vice president; G.. d. Banko, di
rector for the Quincy district
OF the $42s,O57 collected by the stat
industrial insurance commission up til
February /, 1929 has been paid on
to injured workmen, and $62,716 is hell
in reserve on approved claims, leaving
$37O,72S in the accident fund.
In terrific hand-to-hand struggl
with an 1s-year-old thug named j. W
, Cress in the darkness of a kiln she
six miles east of Spokane, Manue
Steinke, 21 years old, received two bul
let wounds, which proved fatal. Steink
was robbed of $50 in cash.
Because his injuries were cared 70
by a horse doctor, who refuses to fl
out the required physician IS report
John Surbridge of Bellingham may no
recover from the state accident fun
for injuries received at Bellinghar
while employed by the telephone com
pany.
w. w. Payne and c. +. Weight, exam
iners working under the state board o
accountancy, have returned to Cola
to check the county books which the,
began last fall but dropped after
month S work because they were re
fused pay by the county. The Law
has since been declared constitutional
Mrs. Pearl Henke, aged 25, wife o
Professor Henry Henke of the Washing
ton State college at Pullman, Will
temporarily insane, jumped from tn
second story window Saturday evening
breaking her neck. Mrs. Henke CAV
birth to a baby boy two weeks age
The baby died, causing her great grief
When J. 0rossmutz, tailor, livin
at 116 Eighteenth avenue, returne
, home in Seattle, he found the body 0
his "a year old wife lying on the din
ing room floor with a bullet hole in tn
left temple. Upstairs he found Phil
Bromberg, aged 30, a dealer in second
hand clothing lying on the bed with
bullet hole in the right side of hi
head. On the floor was a 32-calibe
revolver, with two empty shells.
The postmaster general has designa
ted the following Offices in Washington
as postal savings repositories, in effec
March s: Asotin, Camas, Chelar
Charleston, Coneonnully, Deer Park
Enumelaw, Ephrata, Pennington, Fri
day Harbor, Garfield, Granger, Grant,
Falls, Kettle Falls, Marysville, Medica
Lake, Newport, Oakesdale, Okanogar
Port Angeles, Port Orchard, Quincy
Reardan, st. John, Selah, TeninC