Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-10-31
WASHINGTON ITEMS

/ reopenlng OF WOmans notei at
Spokane is on.
Henry Williamson, a pioneer of
Whitman county, died recently Of
stomach trouble.
Lighting kitchen fire with coal oil
proved fatal to Joseph Dotter, labor
er, 29 years of age, at Spokane re-
Gently.
The reports of the Ellensburg banks
to the comptroller of the treasury and
the state bank examiner show all pros
porous.
John Marley, pioneer Of the Wilbur
country, recently sold to Rudolph
Dreger his 800 acres of wheat land
southeast of Wilbur for $4,000.
Miss May Gordon, 25 years old, a
stenographer, jumped down light
we'll from the thirteenth floor of a
Seattle office building Saturday.
Tweny-three hundred and fifty stu
dents are now enrolled in the Uni
versity of Washington. This brings
the total registration for the year be-
yond the 5000 mark.
With high Masonic honors the late
Frank p. Weymouth was buried Sun
day afternoon at Spokane. The grand
commandery, Knights Templar, had
charge of the services.
AT Walla Walla Saturday II. II. Vim
cent sold 10000 bushels of turkey red
and bluestem wheat. The grain
brought about so cents for bluestem
and II cents for turkey red.
Water needed for agriculture pur
poses cannot be claimed under miners
rights for mining claims that are moth
ing but prospects or for a townsite
when the town has been abandoned.
Fourteen young business men Of
Prosser have bought musical instrl-
ments and the PIosser band will
shortly be increased to 80 pieces 3
j. Pacius has charge of the band.
The twenty-seventh annual meeting
of the Washington Educational asso.
citation will be held in Spokane on
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, October 20, 80. 81 and November
l. Teachers from all parts of the state
will be present.
Roy G. Adams, federal farm agent
, at Ritzville, is preparing to get the
use of the postal franklng privilege
and will, he says, be able to furnish
> bulletins to farmers at minimum
+ cost He is arranging to have 900 a.
1 falfa bulletins distributed.
> Pullmans new street lighting sys
q TEN is now in operation and make.
I this one of the best lighted towns il
the Inland Empire. The new system
includes Ill tungsten lights of so, 81
and 100 watt power and provides
\, light for each quadrangle.
Charles Flescher, an employee of tn
n Bremerton navy yard, who was stricl
y en- with ptomaine poisoning after cal
II ing dried beef, recently obtained a vel
re dict awarding him $4,000 in the ST
& perior court in a suit which he inst
e. tuted against the Carstens Packin
company.
An estimate made by President "
u FL Paulhamus, of the Puyallup
o Sumner Fruit Growers association, il
i dicates that the business handled
g. the organization for the present sci
al son will aggregate $1,0O0,O00. a
il against approximately $750,000 las
lie year Disbursements to growers du
a ing September aggregated $780, 900.
s. The Tacoma Commercial club an
u Chamber of Commerce are to wit
al draw from the National chamber ,
u Commerce. Failure of the nations
20 body to act on the complaint concern
q ing the boycott placed by San Fra
rs cisco on finished lumber products {
ID Puget Sound is given as the cause.
Secretary Frank Morrison of tn
/, American Federation of Labor is gi
ID ing his assistance to the organize
6. workingmen of Spokane in efforts
o. induce delegates to the annual CONVEX
q. ton of the A. F. of L., which is to /
if held in Seattle next month, to stop o
in Spokane either on their way to {
ID from the convention.
Do Mrs. Josephine Preston, state supe
intendent of public instruction, a
nounces the October apportionment
current school funds, the first for tn
school year. The total amount apo
- toned is $2SS,965.71, of which Kir
- county gets the largest share, ST.
- 65023; Spokane next, 33,SS6.29. an
Pierce third. 29,232.74. The amour
~ apportioned eastern Washington cou
-, ties is as follows: Adams, $2,992.2.
~ Asotin, S1,92S97; Benton, $254S.9l
- Chelan, S50SO.11; Columbia, $2O69. A:
- Asotin, S1,92S.97; Benton. S254S.4:
Douglas, $267O.5S; Ferry. $1O11.1'
a. Grant s262915; Kittitas, s5O35.5.
'e Klickitat, S2792.4S; Lincoln, s5Ss6.54
-" Okanogan, s3419.4S; Pend Oreill
s1246.45; Stevens, 549.99; Walla Wall
- S7OSS.O3; Whitman, s12,9913S; Yah
- ma, S12, 401.S7.