Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-12-31
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Sunday night of 5000 in cash and post
age stamps
Mrs Susan Burger. an octogenarian
pioneer of the Klickitat valley and
head of family of five generations,
died Friday.
Machinery is being installed at the
O.-W. r. e. N. shops at Starbuck. 1t
has been found that the plant is neces-
sary for heavy repair work on loco
motives.
A lake deposit containing the high
est percentage of potash ever found
in the state has bee nlocated by A
j. Sutton in the country northwest OF
Riverside.
Bluestem wheat at Wilbur is 8S cents
bushel Club is 81 cents Oats are
$3.50 and barley $3.50 ton. ware
house company bought 10000 bushels
of wheat last week at from s5 cents to
81 cents a bushel.
Porter Bros big sawmill, situated
four miles west of Nelson, which has
a contract for furnishing 1900, 900 feet
of flume lumber for large irrigation
project has shut down for the winter.
Logging will be continued by the COM
pany. ..
On the strength of letter received
from State Chemist Elton Fulmer, DR..
II. T. Graves, commissioner of agricul-
ture, announces that he would instruct
deputy pure food inspectors to begin
- 81 oil 1d
"diabetic" flour.
The report of the city building in
spector at North Yakima, shows that
since January the number of build
ing permits issued has been 1872 for
new construction and l54 for repairs,
the total estimated cost being $172,-
913, $34.476 greater than in 1914.
The highest prices for horses this
season was paid at Ritzville this week
by Mr. White of Laclede, Idaho, when
and John Donekas for $3.50 and one
from Henry Bauer for $3.50. The horses
are to be used in the lumber camps.
During a brief but heated exchange
of words between two Italian railroad
laborers at Mesa Dec 25 Joseph Ric
clio suddenly drew a gun and instantly
killed Frank, Magga. AS both were
supposed to be good friends no mo
tive is known for the homicide.
John Kramer, Sr., rancher, age 6S
was shot to death, Edward Kramer
his son, was wounded seriously, ant
Charles Myers, a relative, was arrest
ed on a charge of murder as the re
suit Sunday of a free-for-all fight a
: Christmas party on ranch nea
Vancouver
The Leavenworth postoffice was de
stroyed by fire Monday, nothing being
saved. The office was in the Leaven
worth Investment company building
, The stocks of the Palace store and thu
Leavenworth Furniture company stor
were also destroyed. Buildings de
stroyed were valued at $4,000 ant
goods at $16,500
Title to 100 acres in Snohomish coun
j ty containing 20 alleged mining claims
on which it is estimated $445,000 ha
| been spent in improvements and dc
velopment work, was vested in Pete
II. Chapel, of Seattle, Friday under
decision of the United States genera
land office. The claims were stake
in the '90s as the Wayside Missio
mines.
{ To officers and others in the Colun
bia county Jail George w. Allen, a ia,
: mer, confessed to setting three fire
+, which destroyed two barns belongin
u to NJ. S. Hatfield and the Baileysbur
furniture factory a month ago. ALE
= had been convicted of forgery in tn
r first degree and was sentenced
serve one to 20 years in the state PEI
itentiary at Walla Walla. He is b
lieved to be crimfnally insane.
a Frank w. Stone, wanted at Olympi
in connection with an alleged shortat
of the funds of the state industrial |
- surance department, was arrested
g Portland, Monday. ]. w. Gillies, fo
u mer claim adjuster for the insuran
commission, and Frank Kearns we
,r already under arrest for alleged col
* plicity in the frauds. Stone is alleg'
& to have been used as a 'go-betweei
in cashing fraudulent claims again
the commission.
n In a Commercial Way.
a. Spencer Bros. have purchased t
lie confectionery and cigar store of r.
Mead at Creston.
l.. B. Miller, pioneer jeweler of Pr
man, died last week of Bright's d
in ease at the age of 54.
ne The Economy Grocery store b
as been opened at Pullman under
nd management of Ed Berg.
rs. Nj. S. Holland has traded his fur
er ture store at Waterville for an alta
OF ranch near Boise. Idaho.
he Nevadans Have Rabies.
Salt Lake City, Utah.-An urgent