Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-02-03
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court house.
Prospects for one of the best wheat
crops in the history of Benton county
are assured.
Paving throughout the entire business
district of Toppenish is being consid-
cred by property owners and city Off
Gals.
Thirtyfour prisoners from the Mon
roe state reformatory has been taken
to the Walla Walla penitentiary on ac-
count of incorrigibility.
Catalan & Co., North Yakima IS larg
est department store, which was burned
out in the Miller building fire recently,
will not resume business it is reported
Sheriff William Miller has posted no
tees of the sale of the property of
the Aladdin Mining company on Febru-
airy 8, to satisfy the claim of Stevens
county.
The resignation of Judge George Don
worth of the western district of Wash
ington, which was withdrawn, is ex-
pected to show up at the White House
this week.
The city of Spokane is to be sued
for $4,000 damages by Cuyahoga coun-
ty, Ohio, for infringement of copy
righted plans in constructing the Mon
roe street bridge.
After he had failed in his attempt to
murder his wife, Edwin JONES' So years
old, janitor in a bank, killed himself
by sending a bullet through his brain
at Seattle recently.
Part of the work of the Yakima Val
ley Fruitgrowers association, with
headquarters in North Yakima, is es-
tablishing schools in various fruit dis
tricts to teach grading and packing
apples.
Irrigation of alfalfa land before the
alfalfa starts its first growth in the
spring is of much more value to crops
than irrigation after the shoots have
started, according to statements of
men experienced in hay growing.
The superior court of King county has
been enjoined by order of the state SUI
preme court from interfering in any
way with the increase of telephone
rates at Seattle by the independent com
pany, as ordered recently by the state
public service commission.
1t is the intention of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway to
rush to completion line from Spokane
70, Il aI, nj fra
mental trains in and out of Spokane
that way until the O.-W. r. & N. com
pletes its work from Marengo to Spo-
kane.
Saloons in unincorporated towns in
Ferry county will not be permitted to
operate without giving a surety bond
instead of a personal bond, and all sa-
looms outside of incorporated towns
will be required to close at O'Clock
and not open before clock in the
morning
Plat the fasting treatment, undergo
ing which Miss Claire Williamson, a
wealthy English woman, died at Olalla,
and for whose death Mrs. Linda Bur
field Hazard, a fasting specialist, is
now on trial in the Kitsap county SUI
ptrior court at Port Orchard for muir
der, was professional and involving no
offense, is the contention of the de-
Tense.
The Great Northern ''Owl" train
north bound from Seattle for Vancou-
yer, b. c., ran into mud slide half
mile south of White Rock, just across
the international line, Sunday morning
and the engine, the express car and the
baggage car went into the ditch.
The engine crew jumped and escaped
with slight injuries. None of the pas
sengers were seriously hurt.
A. L. Weeks, Familiarity known as
." Boomer Weeks, has been appointed
the head of the Spokane fire depart
ment. He succeeds A. Harry Myers, who
recently resigned after II years of serv-
ice in that capacity. A. L. Weeks is "a
years of age, having been in Spokane
since 1888. He began as ladderman
April 80, 1898, and has been secretary
of the department since 1901.
Tho two railroads of Pend Oreille
county will pay more than one-third of
the total taxes of the county. The
Great Northern will pay real estate
taxes amounting to $17,75O and personal
taxes of $1165. The Idaho & Washing
ton North&ern s real estate taxes are
$45,OO7 and its personal property taxes
$3.50. The total taxes to be paid the
county on all property amount to
$19s,32s.
Walla Walla recently experienced the
worst fire it has had in several years,
in the almost total destruction of the
three-story brick Jones building with
the loss of nearly all the goods and fur
nishings contained in it and the death
of Assistant Fire Chief Bob Wolf. The
total loss will range in the vicinity of
$125,000, with most of it insured. Fire
losses. A NJ Jensen Co S6O ono.