Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-18
WASHINGTON ITEMS

ne lunerdl OF r. u. CrlSp, age ~, |
was held at Harrington Sunday.
The funeral services for William
Shannon, retired member of the Spo-
kane police department, was held Sun
day
Washington has won a large number
of prizes for its agricultural exhibits
at the Panama-Pacific exposition at
San Francisco.
Six ostrich eggs and one baby elk
were reported as the natural additions
to the Mantle park (Spokane) ZOO
within the last week
One thousand dollars in $40 gold
pieces was stolen from the home of
M. ]. Hatfield, Spokane, during the alb
sence of the family some time between
8 a. m. and p. M, Sunday.
The grand chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star concluded its SEES
sions Saturday at North Yakima, and
adjourned to meet next year in Taco
ma. Lillian A. Peck is the Grand Ma
tron-elect.
That the establishment of the SO a
week minimum wage scale for cham
bermaids will mean the elimination of
white girls as workers in the hotels of
Washington and the substitution of
oriental labor in their places is assert
ed by hotelmen.
Southern Lincoln county and north
ern Adams county, influenced appar-
emily by the unparalleled crop pros
pect, was 5000 strong at the meeting
of the Lincoln and Adams Pioneer Pic
mic and Historical association at the
grounds at Crab creek this week.
The body of Fred Weiss, tailor who
has been missing since June 3 when
he left Olympia, was found in the
woods Sunday by a searching party.
A bullet hole was in the back of his
head and the front of his head bruised.
All his valuables were missing
A report has been sent out that the
Kittitas county board of commission
ers appropriated $4,000 for the i'm
provement of Blewett pass, between
Ellensburg and Wenatchee. No appro-
priation has been made nor can be
made until after a survey and esti-
mate of expense has been made.
A gigantic landslide 1000 feet long
1000 feet wide and rs to $50 feet deer
took place along the Stemilt June II
near Wenatchee. AS a result the new
roadway along the Stemilt is covered
with debris for a quarter of mile
water is cut off from the Woods and
Lockwood bitches, 20 families are
practically isolated and the entire side
of the mountain is a mass of pulver
lied rock and dirt.
The 1915 crop will be 20 per cent
over that of 1914, or a total of $4,000,
600 bushels of wheat in the Inland EN-
pire country 42,600,O00 of which will
be available for export. The best judg
ment of grain buyers is that the aver
age price to the farmer last year wal
80 cents a bushel and the 1915 marke
will work at 80 cents and may go high
err. That should yield s34,OOO,0O0, al
against $31, 100000 last year
Jasper n. Willis, well-known farme
and stockman, living at Walla Walla
was accidentally shot Sunday, dyinl
almost instantly With a party o
friends he had been fishing all day
and on his return home in an aut
shortly after 6 o'clock he started t
get out, taking with him his rifle. TIL
hammer caught and the weapon wa
discharged, the bullet striking hiI
near a lower rib, on the left side.
A. l.. Miller, charged with murde
in the first degree for killing WilliaI
Chatter, his employer, at Union Mill
the night of May 2, last, was found nc
guilty by jury in the Thurston count
superior court. The verdict of acqui
tai was returned after the jury dell
Grated an hour. There was one woma
on the jury. Miller testified that b
shot Chatter when he saw him emeri
ing from the Miller home, which Cha
| ten had entered to visit Mrs. Mile
while her husband was supposed to
in Seattle. Mrs. Miller testified ths
Chatten's attentions were responsible
/ for estrangement between herself an
her husband. Chatten, who was ma
ried and had four grown children
same here from Wichita, Kan, fol
years ago.
Wool shipments from the Yakim
and Kittitas valleys for the season
| 1915 will be approximately 2,292,OC
| pounds, according to H. A. Glenn, ira
cling freight agent of the NortheI
| Pacific. OF this total, 1,720,000 pound
| have already gone forward to mark
from the Yakima valley proper, ar
| there remain about 10000 pounds
] storage. The upper end of the vale
and the adjacent district in Kittiti
: county have sent out 10000 pound
. and Mr.. Glenn says the tonnage T
naming is at least 100000 pound
and may exceed that figure littl
Z | IL dAo1fnoe 20 rnolxa onu estimate