Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-03-06
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Walla Walla Wheat sold at s1.60 on
Saturday.
Despondent because he lost his job
Lyman B. Tibbetts, age Al, killed him.
self at Spokane Sunday.
All of the Mckee valley is included
in the Mckee National Farm Loan as
sociation organization, which has just
been completed.
Gently sold a carload of 80 head of
hogs weighing 1850 pounds to a
Spokane company at 13Hc.
The highest price ever paid in
Odessa for wheat was offered Satur-
day when dealers quoted SLIGO a bu.
for bluestem and early Bart wheat.
The naval appropriation bill. as it
passed the senate. contained ever
larger appropriations for the Bremen
ton yard than when it passed the
house.
The Ames Shipbuilding and Dry
dock company of Seattle has signed
contracts to build nine large steel
steamships at a cost of more than
81 100000.
Whitman Pomona grange No. 2
has unanimously adopted resolutions
of approval of the plan to secure
the services of a farm adviser for
Whitman county.
The house judiciary committee has
unanimously adopted an amendment
to senate bill SO, allowing trust com
panies to continue in the administra-
in the senate.
Wrestlers from the Washington
State college at Pullman demonstrate
ed their superiority Saturday over
the University of Washington ath
letes. They won three bouts. tied
one and lost one.
Seattles police department is in a
sorry, disgraceful predicament. Its
chief, it's inspector and five members
of its detective bureau are under in
distment-all charged with grating
or offenses akin to grating.
Members of the Seattle G. A. r
are planning to entertain 5000 vet
Grams and members of affiliated or
compment of Washington and Alaska
June 10, 20 and 81.
Announcement is made of the for
nation of a company composed O
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ers for the purpose of building {
$4,000 elevator at Pleasant View. {
station IL miles west of Starbuck.
Wool growers of the Yakima val
ley are already contracting for thu
shearing of the 1917 clip. ShepemeI
are expecting a good clip, exceeding
the total of last year by 100000 lbs
bringing the amount to S2,225,000 o
By a vote of "a to Al the hous
passed house bill "a, establishing
fourth normal school at Centralia
and authorizing one-tenth mill levy
raising 100000 annually. as the in
itial provision for financing the new
institution.
} in the northwestern fight to elimir
} ate from tourist tickets over tn
} southern railroad lines the $3.50 al
bitrary which they charge passenger
who desire to come or go Wit tn
northern route.
: Harmony that has prevailed b,
) tween Governor Lister and the legi.
4 lature was perceptibly Jared Frida
S when the executive vetoed three bill
s and sent them back to the senat
with an intimation that more vetoe
are to follow. The first measur
vetoed was senate bill, 240, appr'
: priating an additional $4,000 for LEI
: islative expenses. The governor 70
lowed this with veto of senate bi
AZ, the "drugless healer" bill an
: senate bill 201, another of the legisl;
E tive group of medical bills, reno
ing two present osteopathic member
} from the state board of medical e,
aminers. These are two bills of
group of five passed by the legisli
ture providing a separate examinin
} board for each separate class of hea
= ers.