Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-11-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS

That Ephrata is 'perilously close TO
the limit Of Indebtedness" is the re-
port of the state bureau of inspection.
The third week in December, 1914,
was selected as the date for the In
land Empire pet stock and poultry
show at Spokane.
Carrie Wenham, aged SIS, wife of w.
H. Wenham, died Friday night at Pull
man after 10 days illness with bron-
chitis and asthma.
Walla Walla wheat dealers estimat-
ed that 100000 bushels of grain
changed hands Saturday. The Farm
ers' grocery bought $4,000 bushels.
Club brought 20 and II cents, and blue
stem 80 cents.
Burning oil in transformer at the
substation of the Seattle municipal
electric light plant Sunday night
burned out the feed wires, extin-
guished all the street lights in the city,
as well as the lights in many homes
and churches.
Herman Bauer and William Bauer,
two brothers who left their home in
Seattle on hunting trip October 6
and stated they would be away for one
week, have not returned and it is the
belief of Game Warden Harry Rief
that they are lost in the Olympic
mountains.
H. G.. Scott, recently appointed city
inspector of weights and measures at
Tacoma. has issued formal notice to
bakers and handlers of bread, indi
eating that there is noncompliance
with the. regulations governing the
weights of leaves, and that it is his
intent to enforce it's provisions hence
forth.
William Topping of Ashland, Ohio
minor, Saturday obtained verdic
for $4,000 against the Great Northern
Railroad company, because his father
Edward Topping, was killed in thu
Wellington (Wash.) snowslide disaste
of March 1, 1910, when SO persons pei
ished.
J. r. Shinn, who was appointed b.
the Spokane county commissioners t
the position of county agriculturis
has assumed his office. Mr.. Shinn'
duties will consist of advising wit
farmers as to methods of preparin
the land for the seed, seeding and har
vesting crops, as well as feeding an
other farm problems.
Secretary of State l. M. Howell, e,
officio chief of the department {
weights and measures, has approve
an agreement between Adams. Bento
and Franklin counties by the terms
which the three counties will enio
jointly a sealer of weights and mea
ures. Application for approval of
similar consolidation of Columbia an
Walla Walla counties into single i
spection district is pending.
1t is now certain that the supren
court of the United States will
asked to pass upon the constitutions
ity of the Washington workmen's col
pensation act passed by the 1911 legi
lature, and under the provisions
which all employers of labor engage
in hazardous work are compelled
contribute to the state Industrial 1
surance fund The appeal to the fe
eral supreme court will be taken |
the Mountain Timber company of Coy
litz county, which has made motion
the supreme court and has filed n
tice to that effect with Attorney &c
eral w. V. Tanner.
Statistics compiled by the state
partment of agriculture show that IL
spring planting of 1913 has so exten
ed the planted area in the state thi
more than a quarter of a million acre
are now in fruit trees.
Recorded paintings bring the tot
fruit tree acreage to PSI, 947, with
probability that four nurseries not +
porting will swell this total conside
ably. OF the total acreage 230,7l
acres are in apples, 1926 acres beir
planted to this fruit last spring.
/ While Yakima county still is Il
leading fruit county of the state. lea
! ing all competitors both in total acr
! age and number of paintings tn
spring, Okanogan and Grant counti'
, are showing remarkable increases
/ the number of trees planted and b
r fair to be close competitors of YAH
= ma before long.
! Yakima and Spokane counties we
r the heaviest purchasers of strawberl
plants for spring planting, while Wha
, com and Skagit counties led in Il
purchase Of bush berries. On Il
whole, fruit tree paintings of la
J spring were rather less than those
1912.