Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-04-16
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The funeral of William H. Dunphy
was held at Walla Walla Saturday.
Building permits issued by the city
of Spokane for the first three months
of 1915 show an increase of $4,000
over the same period last year.
Judge w. H. Jackson, on petition of
Attorney General W. V. Tanner, has
entered an order of insolvency in re
lation to the Northport State bank.
The twelfth annual summer session
of the University of Washington will
convene on June 81 and continue to
July 80. Plans are being made for a
large attendance.
The Japanese steamship Hakashika
Maru sailed from Tacoma for Vladi-
vostok recently, carrying a cargo of
1900 tons, nearly all of which was
for Tho Russian army.
The former John A. Gellatly resi-
dence at Wenatchee has been pur-
chased for $4,000 by the Methodist
church, to be opened as a hospital
June l. 1t will be known as the
Deaconess hospital.
Charles G. Heifner has accepted
the position of executive commissioner
from Washington to the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition in place of Richard
Seelye Jones, removed. Mr.. Heifner
is at San Francisco.
According to recent opinion hand
ed down by Federal Judge Frank H.
Rudkin the Great Northern company
is not entitled to refund of S22,297
paid under protest as taxes on its
road in Okanogan county.
Governor Lister has accepted an
invitation to address the biennial
convention of the National Anti-Sa-
loon league at Atlantic City July 6.
The governor during his journey will
visit the California exposition.
J. f. Johnson has returned to Wen
atchee from Seward, Alaska, where
he is interested in a townsite, and
announced that his resignation as
county assessor would be placed with
the county commissioners this week
AS lue GILLIAN Vi Il luleG-COIutItO
love affair Arthur Boyd of Waterville
Wash, is in the receiving hospital at
Los Angeles with three bullet holes
through his right arm and one in the
leg and Miss Mydtle Binning is in
the city jail charged with the shoot
ing.
c. f. Monroe, assistant animal hus
bandman at W. S. c., has written his
resignation as a member of the state
college faculty. Monroe resigns tC
become county agricultural agent o.
Grays Harbor county. Grays Harbol
is a stock-raising community. This
! is the 10th county in the state to EN-
ploy county agriculturist.
The county commissioners at Pasct
/, Saturday settled the long standing
controversy with the O.-W R & N
! company for taxes. The county set
tied on the basis of the original levy
but allowed the rate Of interest OF
the delinquent, payment to be 6 pc
cent instead of Is per cent, the statu
tory rate. The settlement represented
a loss of $1,000 to the county. Thu
amount paid was S9,161.
Work on three large submarines TO
/ the United States government will b.
; begun at the yard of the Seattle Con
struction and Drydock company with
in thirty days Material is being as
sembled. All three submarines will
: be laid down at the same time, ant
4 there will be only a few days be
tween their launchings. Two hundre'
extra workmen will be employed. TIL
' boats will cost $1,500,00O.
: A career as a safeblower, was in
terrupted for Henry H. Hollinswort
in his arrest Saturday night at Spc
: kane, when his denial of the nigh
S before was changed to a confession
: Hollinsworth is accused of trying t
: obtain $4,000 from the safe of tn
: Washington Water Power compan
s at Long Lake, Wash, early Thurs
Y day and is held on a charge of a
tempting to rob a postoffice.
: United States District Judge Nete
er, on the petition of the Puge
Sound Traction, Light and Powe
5 company, has issued a temporary il
!. junction restraining the state publ
service commission from enforcing il
,, order that the street car compan
provide seats for all passengers O
the Alk Point and Fauntelroy par
p cars in Seattle, and extend its All
y Point line. The company asserts tn;
, the order violates the federal CO.
:, stitution.
n Mrs. Frank Ryan of Seattle, forr
erly of Spokane, died of tuberculos
- at North Yakima Saturday. Mr.. Rya
g is president of the Ryan & Newto
= company, produce merchants of Il
Is northwest. She is survived by M
10 Ryan and four children, by a siste
k Miss Myrtle Nosler of Seattle, al
two brothers. The funeral took pla,
at All Saints cathedral, Spokane. MI
10 Ryan was a daughter of the la
a Captain ]. M. Nosler, a pioneer