Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-08-07
WASHINGTON ITEMS

A heavy smoke hung over the Kitti-
tas valley Sunday. indicating forest
fires.
The third alfalfa crop around Nab
ton is being harvested, and promises
to surpass the first two yields.
Prominent lawyers of the state have
places on the program which will be
given at the Washington State Bar AS
sociation meet at Wenatchee this
week.
DR.. T. F. Kane, former president of
the University of Washington, has va
Gated the official residence on the cam
pus, and Henry Landes, dean of the
college of science and acting resident
phas moved in.
The new cottage ward buildings of
the northern hospital for the insane
at Sedro- Woolley, which will be COM
pleted within a week, will give the
state the finest institution for the care
of the insane in the United States
Mrs. Thomas Precious, wife of the
mayor of Gold Bar, Wash, was killed
and four injured, when an automobile
with a party from Everett to Gold Bar
struck a stump near Monroe recently.
Forest fire smoke obscured the road.
Labor Commissioner e. w. Olson
has sent out to all county attorneys
copies of the obligatory orders issued
by the commission fixing the minimum
wages for women and girls. This ac-
ton is to prepare the attorneys for
prosecution in case the orders are VIC
lated
A forest fire was reported Sunday
from Ford, 10 miles south of Spring
dale where the flames swept a large
area of logged-off lands and grain
fields. A number of small blazes are
reported from the Colville reservation
region.
An unprecedented demand for teach
ers who are graduates of the Wash
ington state college has resulted in "a
of the members of the June graduating
class having already accepted posi-
tons as instructors in high schools II
all parts of the state.
The work of matchmaking the
streets at Dayton this summer, under
taken through cooperation of the Co
lumbia county commissioners and th'
Dayton city council, is finished, and il
regarded as one of the best public i'm
provements ever undertaken in tina
county.
Frank Alexander's threshing ma
chine, running on the j. M. Baker farm
J between Colfax and Thornton, was de
stroyed Saturday following an explc
sion in the separator. Elmer Hunley
who was running the farm, lost be
tween 500 and 600 sacks Of threshe'
wheat in the fire, but the grain was IN
sured. No insurance.
The petitions for initiative measur
No. the employment agency bill, an
: No. 9, the "first aid" bill, were counte
, by Secretary of State Howell Satul
: day. and both were found to have su
: ficient names to entitle them to go b'
!, fore the voters The so-called int
= pork barrel road bill, initiative mea'
!, ure No. 10 of the "seven sisters" ha
= 31.O15 valid signatures, S21 too few
give it a place on the November ba
L lot.
n The threshing machine owned an
d operated by Chris Paulson five mile
l, southwest of Tekoa exploded Satu
! day. being destroyed with 400 sacl
o of wheat. The separator tender, &c
n Strange, was burned before he cou
get off the machine. Laws GREGG
C. machine, operating east of Tekoa
c the reservation, exploded also, enta
ing a total loss. The continuation
S. the machines burning have cause
g. many farmers to postpone threshii
lie until rain falls.
III For the second annual conventi'
of the Northwest Merchants assoc
ton to be held at Seattle, August
%, the Seattle Sales Managers ass
c. citation will provide the best possit
le program. Among the entertaining
10 features decided upon are the IN,
r. tic Night; automobile rides over t
= city for the merchants and their ia
lilies: three luncheons for the visiti
~ merchants, and an excursion to I
- Puget Sound navy yard at BremertC