Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-02-27
WASHINGTON ITEMS

la Saturday, price 90c.
The death rate among the Indians
on the Yakima reservation is about IA
per thousand annually.
1t rained three-fourths of an inch
Friday at Quincy and water flowed
down the streets like a river.
Directors of the Touchet Valley Fair
association have set the 1914 fair for
Columbia county for September 1912.
]. D. Mcneil, aged 40 years, was
struck and killed by Spokane & In
land electric train near Spokane Sat
urday.
c. S. Boss, G. A. r. veteran, died
recently in Portland of heart failure
Mr.. Boss founded the town of Boss
burg, this state.
H. ]. Miller of Endicott sold $4,000
bushels of wheat Friday, receiving in
return a check for S27,229. The price
was about rs cents.
North Yakima valley experienced its
first spring freshet Saturday when the
warm rain started the snow In the
lower foothills to melting.
That woman has a right to col
lect for her services as housekeeper
in her separate capacity is the ruling
made by the supreme court.
Edward H. Barber, age 80, for the
last year chaplain at the state peni-
Tertiary, is dead from an operation for
gall stones. Septic poisoning set in.
Washington is the 2Sth state, Oregon
the 32d and Idaho the Gath state of
the Union in the matter of the value
of their respective crops last season.
The Toppensh public schools pos
sess 900 stereopticon views and 1S
sterescopes arranged in a cabinet and
filed ready for use in educational work.
The working girls home, recently
established at Spokane, was dedicated
Thursday of this week with appropri-
ate ceremonies. 1t provides a good
home for girls at actual cost.
China" eggs took decided drop on
the Spokane market Saturday when a
produce company voluntarily delivered
1853 cases, 0,4S0 eggs, to be exact, to
the city crematory to be burned.
Farmers of Garfield county are en-
deavering to launch a boom for the
construction of railroad up the Dead
man valley from it's mouth on Snake
river to the Ledgerwood place on the
Alpowa ridge.
John Miller, formerly of Spokane
was killed at Tekoa Thursday night by
an electric shock received when his
hand came in contant with an electric
light socket. Death was almost in
Simultaneous.
Peter Miller viii be obliged to serve
from 20 to 40 years in the state peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla, as the SUI
preme court has affirmed his convic-
ton as an habitual criminal in the
Pierce county superior court.
Northern Pacific overland passenger
train westbound was partially derail-
ed Saturday night at Black River juno
ton, 10 miles from Seattle, and Engi-
neer Charles Dulin of Seattle instantly
killed. None of the passengers was
injured.
Mrs. Peter Lancaster of Spokane has
received the appointment as inspector
general of the United States for the
Daughters of the Grand Army of the
Republic, with headquarters at Chi
,cago The appointment comes from
the national president, Mrs. Agnes c.
Martin.
Three masked men held up an inter-
urban train on the Seattle-Tacoma
electric railway Saturday night and
robbed the passengers of more than
$3.50. The passengers made no resist
ance. After the robbers had collected
their tribute they leaped from the NOV
ing car and escaped.
The Toppenish, Wapato. White Swan
$1,000 of government mon' y for the ed
ucation of Indian children resident
within the districts as result of the
recent refusal of the interior depart
ment to ratify the contracts made as
usual to cover the fiscal year ending
June 80.
Attorneys for the railroads state
that the roads would appear before the
court of Thurston county March 2 and
request an order to the treasurers of
counties of the state to accept the
taxes rendered by the railroad on its
physical valuation minus the good will
tax, without giving up their right to
collect in full should the roads lose in
their tax suit. The county treasurers,
believing that they would be unable to
collect the full tax if they accepted
only part refused taxes ter 1ered and
it remains a question of law whether
the railroad would be able to save the
3 per cent discount allowed If the taxes
are paid before the date Of delin-
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