Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-08-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS

lnWtblf ultQ dt SPOKANE.
The shortage in the city treasurer's
office at Spokane has reached $1,000.
Miss Dilla Rains, school teacher at
Pomeroy, is in a serious condition, as
a result of being thrown from her
horse.
Covered with fire by an explosion of
gasoline. Andrew Gunther, age Is, rode
a motorcycle until it fell under him at
Spokane. He died soon after.
Hail and rain storms have damaged
the streets in Republic, to such an ex-
tent that extensive repairs have be-
come necessary.
Impounding OF fish in stream by
the erection of screen where such
stream leaves ones land constitutes
public nuisance.
of Douglas county last week. The
storm lasted over an hour and de-
stroyed all crops.
John w. Steele passed away at
nington, VT, March 20, 1884, and came
west with his family in 1916.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc with
the orchards in the Okanogan dis
tricts, stripping the trees of leaves.
The fruit for the most part is un-
touched.
Steamboat traffic on the Columbia
river improved by the building of the
Cello locks has been taken advantage
of by farmers living near Kennewick
for the shipment of hogs to Portland.
The Most Rev. John Bonzano, apos-
tolic delegate to the United States
from the pope, is in Seattle to attend
the national convention of the Knights
of Columbus, which will meet in Sc
attic this week.
The torpedo boat destroyer Whipple,
after undergoing repairs at the Puget
sound navy yard for week has gone
to Sitka and Dutch Harbor to join
the four torpedo boat destroyers that
went north recently.
Fighting cats overturned lighted
lamp in the oil room of a general mer
chandise store at the town of Frances
recently and the resulting fire practi
cally wiped out the town. The esti
mated loss is $4,000
Reversing its former decision on the
advice of the attorney general and OF
the strength of public policy" thu
, state tax commission is sending let
ters to the county assessors advising
them that the county assessor cal
extend the tax rolls.
Thomas Collins of Palouse, an aget
veteran of the civil war, who was TAX
en- to the soldiers home at Ortinl
about three months ago, totally blind
has returned to his home with the sigh
of one eye fully restored. The cur
is the result of an operation performe'
at the soldiers home.
Attorneys acting for the plaintiff
, in the NJ & X. Gottstein liquor case
\ testing the constitutionality of tn
4 statewide prohibition law passed b
2 the people in 1914, have filed motto
> in the Thurston county superior cour
= of appeal to the supreme court. TIL
: appeal is taken from the decision @
' the Thurston county superior cour
l. Judge D. F. Wright presiding, in whic
, the constitutionality of the dry" lay
f was upheld.
S The secretary of the Washingto
State Bar association has receive
copies of the program for the join
meeting of the Washington and Orr
: gon State Bar associations in Por
d land, August %. "a and 25, which il
+ dictate that this meeting will be mos
g important in the annals of bar ass
citation meetings in the northwes
}. There will be a big joint meeting afte
e which each association will hold sep
: rate meetings to adopt resolutions an
y conduct other business. Former Pres
: dent William Howard Taft will be tn
" chief speaker
l. Rolling logs were responsible fl
= most of the deaths suffered in loggin
d and lumber camps in the state durir
e the three months of April, May an
IL June, both during the years 1914 an
IT 1915, according to data which has bee
u compiled by the industrial insurant
commission. In the logging and luz
- bering industry, by far the most ha
o ardous of those listed under the wor
mems compensation act, during Il
= three months of April, May and Jul
of 1915 there were total of 20 dealt
as compared with 81 for the san
y months of 1914.