Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-03-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Seven big lumber plants at Everett
have declared for the open shop,
which means a fight on unions.
Friday, March 10, was given official
standing as salmon day" by proc
lamation issued by Governor Lister.
The tunnel of the Cascade irrigation
district through the hill opposite
Thorp, 2120 feet long, was bored
through Friday.
The funeral of Zell M. Beebe, former
Colfax pioneer, killed by an automo-
bile accident in California 10 days ago, |
was held Sunday.
After over 20 years service the
manufacturing part of the Gilbert
Hunt company plant was closed Satur-
day at Walla Walla.
Louis Hefte, a teamster, aged so,
shot himself in the head with a re-
volver at Spokane Saturday. Booze
is given as the reason.
Fruitmen of Walla Walla valley have
organized for the eradication and pre-
vention of the diseases and insect
pests now attacking fruit trees
Because she did not appear in time
to claim the estate of Nicholas Hos
cheid, the widow will lose the Kittitas
county property, valued at about $1,000.
Notwithstanding heavy roads the
sessions of the extension school, I'M
dow 90 I
Development league, was we'll attend
ed.
A referendum vote taken at the
convention of the Farmers unions of
Whitman county showed but one
union in favor Of employing a farm
expert.
Mrs. Stella Maris, a widow, and her
two daughters, Gayle, age Z, and Hell
en-, age 4, were burned to death near
Spokane Saturday when their home
burned.
Toppenish has purchased a King
road drag for it's streets. The dates
for holding the next Indian fair and
roundup have been set for September
3. 4 5 and 6.
Only about 10 per cent of the water
power in the state of Washington that
may, under practical conditions, be
generated all the year around, has
been developed.
The body of the Shaw boy. who was
drowned with his father and sister
and presumably his mother, in the
swoolen waters of the Selah creek re
Gently, has been found.
The mass meeting of citizens o.
Whitman, Adams and Franklin coun
ties to discuss the Palouse irrigation
project, will be held in Colfax Marcel
Z, instead of March @ as first planned
William Wilson and Arthur Letter
who confessed to forgery, were sen
fenced at Pasco. Letter was giveI
six months to Is years in Monroe re
formatory, Wilson two to Is years il
Walla Walla prison.
Walter Schroeder, 81 years old, anC
his brother, Clifford Schroeder, 1!
years old, were drowned in Lake Un
ion, Seattle, Sunday, when a small mo
torboat in which they were riding wa
swamped by the rough water.
| At the meeting of the Stevens Coun
ty Live Stock association recently, A
Morrison of Valley was elected pres
ident; Joseph Reynolds of Meyers
, Falls, vice president; James Craw
: ford of Colville, secretary, and G. M
Baker of Narcisse, treasurer.
Ned Harris, a pioneer farmer of tn
Bald Ridge county, is in the Lincoh
county Jail awaiting the filing of
charge. His son, Ray Harris, "a, |
near death at the Hartwell place, 1
miles northeast the result of a tel
rible stab given by the father.
Harry e. Goldsworthy, a gradual
from the agricultural department o
! the Washington State college, wi
be sent into the Big Bend countr
r by the Washington State college t
, make extensive Investigations col
corning the problems which confron
: the farmers there.
The bureau of statistics and imm
grafton, under the office of Secretar
of State ]. M. Howell has designate
darch 81 and 2S as the tentative date
: for the gathering in Olympia of rel
resentatives of commercial organiz'
lions from all over the state OF di
I cuss ways and means of accomm'
!, dating to the best advantage the II
flux of immigrants expected upon tn
opening of the Panama canal.
+ During the year just passed tn
d value of the salmon pack in the stat
: exceeded that of any previous yea
e Records recently compiled show II
o Puget sound pack during 1913 to haV
e been 2,5S3,4 63 cases and that of tn
Columbia rivera part Of which We
packed on the Washington side OF N
river-to have been 266.479 cases. I'll
% value of the Puget sound pack We
o s13.329.16S and that Of the Columb