Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-23
WASHINGTON STATE

going on rapidly.
Judge George Donworth has retired
from the federal bench in Tacoma.
John Roddy, well-known resident of
Wenatchee, is believed to have
drowned Saturday.
Helger Hellison, an East Pike street
grocer of Seattle, committed suicide
Saturday while drunk.
The April meeting of the Whitman
County Farmers union will be held in
Pullman April 3 and 4.
An illustrated lecture on civic i'm
provements is to be given in Pullman
March 20 by J. /. Dumas.
The state central committee of the
prohibition party has decided to call
the state convention for May z, at
Everett.
Machinery that will more than double
the capacity of the Yakima Creamery
company plant at Toppenish is being
installed
Struck down by a sudden attack of
heart trouble, Kassel Gottstein, Sc
years old, a prominent business man of
Seattle, is dead.
Natives of the Philippines living in
this state are neither citizens nor
voters, but under federal law may be-
come such by naturalization.
Deputy Sheriffs Colin Mckenzie and
A. Elmer, from Montesano, have been
missing for eight days. They were on
search for John Tornow for murder
Clyde Beers, a hack driver, aged IS,
at Walla Walla, who is charged with
having shot and probably fatally
wounded Martin Milan, a passenger, is
still at large.
J. Davis, a sheepman living near
Ritzville, reports the sale of about 900
acres of farm and pasture land, the
former at $50 an acre and the latter at
$3.50 an acre.
Postal savings banks effective April
- have been ordered in Black Diamond,
Chewelah, Concrete, Grandview, Orc
vile, Ridgefeld Riverside, Sultan,
Tekoa and Wapato.
The Wenatchee Commercial club is
inaugurating a movement to encourage
the planting of trees and the beautify-
ing of yards and streets generally
throughout the city.
meeting of Yakima Valley Com
mercial club representatives to form a
federation to work for the joint inter
ests of cities of the valley was held
at Granger March %.
Interest continues in the proposition
of Senator Charles f. Myers to cut up
the large land holdings and attract by
reasonable prices and no commissions
settlers to the Davenport wheat belt.
= The jury in the case of II. c. Phil
lips, president of the Commercial Bank
of Vancouver, defunct, who was charged
with receiving deposits after he knew
that the bank was insolvent, brought
} in verdict of not guilty.
A new railroad to open up the min
eral wealth of the metaline country, ex
tending from Metaline Falls to Col
vile, and eventually extending farther
e into the north and west, undoubtedly
5 will be built, is the latest report.
The will of Leslie L. Grim, a bache
Tor, who died in a squalid Holy Roller
camp on the beach at Ballard a yeal
? ago leaving his $4,000 estate to the
/ Rev. Thomas II. Gourley, head of the
5 Holy Rollers, has been declared valid
A Northern Pacific train bound from
Bellingham to Seattle, overlook a
freight train on a bridge Saturday
crashing into the freight train and
hurting the caboose off the bridge Con
ductor J. C. Martin of Everett was
kelled.
The Great Northern railroad com
pany has awarded a contract for grad
ing SO miles of railroad on the Wen
atchee north branch of the Great North
ern, extending from Wenatchee to Pat
eros. The construction of this SO miles
of road will cost the company between
So, $780, 900 and $s,OOO,OOO.
The bill increasing the appropriations
for the Walla Walla public building
from $4,000 to $35O,OOO passed the
senate. Another providing $4,000 for
the public building at Wenatchee was
also passed. The house probably will
take no action before next session, as
the democratic majority has decided
there will be no public building legis-
lation at this session.
Claims that the actual boundaries of
the Yakima Indian reservation include
part of Mabton and lands under the
Mabton irrigation system are to be
placed before the authorities at Wash
ington, d. c., by the Rev. George
Stwire Waters, head chief of the Yaki-
ma tribes. He says the original stakes
have been found, showing boundaries