Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-06
WASHINGTON STATE
The census figures for Charleston show


1905.
1t is feared that the deep snow may
prove fatal to quail of the state.
During the year 1911 20 new bust
ness houses were opened to the public
at Ellensburg.
Mrs. Della Totten, who was con
victed of murder at Wenatchee, is now
hopelessly insane.
George N. Alexander, one of the pio-
neer railroad builders of the west, died
at Seattle, Sunday.
The robbing of the Northern Pacific
depot at Oskesdale Friday night of
$4,000 in gold is still mystery.
J. Brooks Mackay was appointed
chief of police when DR.. J. Floyd Tiff
assumed pthe Office of mayor in Colfax.
Harry w. Bringhurst has succeeded
Fire Marshal Gardner Kellogg of Sc
attic, who retires at the age of 70
years.
The annual meeting of the Inland
Empire Retail Dealers association is
to be held at Spokane, January 16, II
and IS.
AT the close of business December 30,
1911, there were 345 depositors in
Uncle Sam IS postal savings bank at
Spokane.
The Waterville land office has with
drawn a number of power sites along
the San Poll river on the Colville In
dian reservation.
Total losses in Seattle by fire, both
buildings and contents, for 1911, were
$744,s91. Insurance on the property
affected was $3,379,9sO.
L. c. Jarvis, pioneer railroad
builder of the Irland Empire and for
merly a resident of Spokane, died re-
Gently at San Diego, Cal.
According to late information f. c..
Miller, Aberdeen, will in all probability
be the successor of J. C. Lawrence on
the public service commission.
l.. Keyes, a young married man, was
killed at Everett Monday, when a gas
plant he had improvised out of an old
oil can exploded when he struck a match
to test it.
Railroads operating in Washington
have tacitly agreed to put in carload
rates from the Coast to Spokane that
will be One-third less than less-than-
carload rates.
A petition in bankruptcy involving
$780, in unsecured claims and
1854, 416o1 in secured claims was re-
Gently filed in federal court by J. Ar
thur Nelson of Cusick, Wash.
Six young people were injured New
Years Anna Forsyth, aged IA, so seri-
ously that she is not expected to live,
when a bobsled on which they were
coasting in Seattle struck a post
Arrangements have been made for
the installation of IS street lights in
Zillah and also for the complete wiring
of the city, so that all business houses
and residences can be connected for
lighting.
Irrigation from artesian wells for
lands that have just been reclaimed
from sub-irrigation by the work of the
United States Indian service is the plan
of several land owners south and west
of Toppenish.
Statements made by Charley Hufford
the liquor salesman who shot and killed
Miss Gladys Tesche in a throng of
New Year IS celeb,s tors at Seattle, indi-
cate that he will make an insanity
plea as his defense.
The new rates on the Spokane Falls
& Northern railroad will 90 into effect
January IS, if the Great Northern rail
road company does not appeal from the
order of the public service commission
which fixed the rates.
Washington steam railroads have
paid approximately 10 per cent of the
expenses of the state government dur
ing the last six years, according to a
statement issued at Olympia by the
state tax commission.
For the year ending December 81,
the receipts of the state insurance de-
partmnt were $3O2,O76.75. This shows
gain of $17,56 over the preceding
year. Out of the total collections
$2s0,O00 is profit for the state.
Andrew Hulkes, a 14-year-Old boy
was killed at Irondale recently by the
accidental discharge of his gun while
hunting ducks. Hulkes' death is the
eighth from hunting accidents in west
ern Washington since the opening OF
the season.
An agreement has been reached be
tween the Kiona-Benton Land and Wa.
ter company the Benton Land com
pany, S. J. Harrison and associates, by
which steps viii be taken Immediately
for survey of an extension to the Sun.
nyside canal to lower Benton county.
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