Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-11-26
WASHINGTON ITEMS

MIS-. minerva Jane jennings, age -,
died recently at st. John.
4761 is the number of automobile Ii |
censes issued for Spokane county.
Mrs. John Grandy, age 50, died re-
Gently at her home in Orondo from
grief and old age.
The estate of the late Michael M.
Cowley, pioneer Spokane merchant
and banker, amounts to $225,000.
Thrown from his horse and dragged
for considerable distance, Carl Anland,
a farmer, living near White Swan, was
killed.
Thomas G. Clark, a candymaker, for
merly employed in a Pasco candy
store, committed suicide recently by
shooting.
Overdrafts in the state treasury for
the week ended November % total
$4,000, according to the report of
the state treasurer.
William Holt, SO, who died recently
in Seattle, left Miss Joe Susuki, a Jap
anese girl in his employ, the bulk of
his $150,000 fortune
The University of Washington will
offer a short course of forestry and
lumber, beginning January and to
continue until March %.
o. L. Sloggy, bartender at Spokane,
was justified in shooting John Rowan,
who attempted to hold him up recent
ly, according to a coroner's jury.
Water users in the Wenatchee recla-
nation district Saturday voted to bond
the district for $35O,OOO to improve the
canal and pay off the Indebtedness.
Spokane is the only Northwestern
city to show an increase in building
November 1, over the same period in
1914.
Fred Conklin of Brewster, was
awarded the sweepstakes grand prize
for the best five boxes of apples grown
in the world, at the Panama exposi-
ton.
The state supreme court decided in
a Lewis county case, that defendant
against whom a judgment is rendered
can not be imprisoned for non-pay-
ment.
James Kane, formerly of Northport
has moved to Colville and is arranging
to build sawmill in the white pine
belt near Threeforks, IL miles north
east of Colville.
Charles Lee, aged 49, son of William
Lee, a rancher of Chelan, was killed
recently, falling and fracturing his
skull when the horse which he was
riding stumbled.
DR.. d. M. Stone of Seattle has beer
appointed by our governor as a mem
Der of the state board of medical ex
: aminers to succeed Dr. Robert Percy
Smith, resigned.
That the state board of finance has
authority, without awaiting Legislative
sanction, to retire the $205,024 out
! standing normal school bonds, is the
: unanimous belief of the members o
that body. If possible it will be done
Rescue workers in the Northwestern
Improvement company's mine at Ra
, vendale have removed most of thu
/, bodies of the miners who were a
work in the shoots when overcome b.
last weeks explosion in which 81 wer
killed
t The largest check ever issued in tn
] Big Bend to an individual for grail
J. was given to Bruce Jones, who live
D near Waterville, when a grain con
pany paid. him s19,792.75 for part @
q his 1915 wheat crop. Mr.. Jones rails
d ed over 10000 bushels this year
S Sending his 1S-year-old son, Elmer,
into a tree to shake out four coon
= which had taken refuge in the brancl
5 es, j. G. Henderson. mountainee
(. living As miles from Walla Walla, fire
e his gun at what he thought was a cool
The body of his son crashed to tn
S ground.