Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-07-17
WASHINGTON ITEMS

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Alexander McAllister, the pioneer
blacksmith of Walla Walla, is dead
aged rs.
Crop conditions in Whitman county
and southern Adams are not so bad
as reported.
The explosion of a gasoline stove
in kitchen of S. w. Melvin, Benge.
destroyed the building, causing loss
of $500.
Thirteen logging camps west of
Hoquiam in Grays Harbor county are
closed as a result of walkouts follow
ing a strike call
An educational exhibit of market
stock will be shown at the Inter
state fair in September for the bene-
fit of stockmen.
Labor organizations to provide for
an equitable distribution of farm help
are being formed by the farmers of
the Inland Empire.
Street car motormen and conductors
and employees of other branches of
the Tacoma Railway & Power COM
pany's lines have voted to strike.
Ground was broken at Deer Park
recently for the new 60xll0 packing
plant to be built by a fruit growers
association at a cost of about $4,000.
The land office department in
Washington d. c. will reject all app
licants for homesteads on the tim
Der lands of the Colville Indian res
ervation.
The landowners under the Tieton
project voted Saturday to create the
be organized under the state irriga-
ton district law.
Spokane's annual apple show, which
will be held the week of November
1924, will be known as the 18th Nat
ional Apple show and patriotic and
historical pageant.
are to be released late this summer,
according to announcement from the
state game farm at Walla Walla,
where the birds are now being
raised.
For the purpose of protecting the
grain crops of eastern Washington
from fires and to head off incendiar
ism the state insurance commissioner
has Captain w. A. Groce, working
through that section organizing the
farmers.
The French government has award
ed a contract to the Guthrie shipyarc
of Seattle for the construction of two
SS00-ton steel steamships at cos
: of more than 100000. The United
, States shipping board has approved
the contract
Ole Johnson. age SO, for more thar
80 years a railroad builder and con
struction foreman for railroads an(
railroad contracting companies of tn,
northwest, was instantly killed by
falling tree while fighting fire neal
Eagle Gorge recently.
Timber is being shipped from
Walla Walla to the Coast for the frs
! time in its history Several car
loads of locust logs, cut slightly larg
er than cordwood, were sent for us'
in Portland shipbuilding yards. ST.
cord was paid.
1t has been decided by the stat,
capitol commission to spend $1,000
to secure the two blocks of land be
tween Main street and the present
capitol grounds, giving the state al
entrance a full block wide into the
new capitol group.
One hundred and twenty-five sacks
of wool, ''in the grease" representing
the first carload shipment of WOO
ever to be sent out of the Palouse
country. was sent out of Colfax re
Gently which brought the growers
so cents per pound.
Job seekers who applied for places
at the federal employment office
North Yakima, during June out mum
bered the places available by SOS
Comparisons show that 721 more per
sons desired work in June, 1917, than
in June a year ago. while there were
but 1888 more jobs available.
On July state lands were sold
in % of the SO counties of the state
bringing s10O,14S for uplands apprais
ed at s96,O46; s97,5S7 for timber app
raised at s95.O26 and s10.S79 for tide
lands appraised at s9SSS, netting the
stats much more than was expected
Tide and harbor area leases brought
the appraised figure of s1152. Some
thing over 100000 worth of lands
Of all kinds put up were not sold.
The supreme court has granted 2