Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-03-12
WASHINGTON ITEMS

pany at Krupp is permitting farmers
to have old ties for fuel.
Overcome by carbon gas in the gar
age at his home in Spokane, Sunday,
Dickinson Hall, age "a, died soon
after.
At Chehalis, Wash, March 9, Oscar
Main, Napavine real estate operator,
was found not guilty of the murder of
Fred Swayne.
The warm rain that fell almost con-
tinuously Saturday is regarded by the
farmers of Columbia county as most
favorable for early seeding.
A large force employed by Lincoln
county have commenced placing Sun
set highway from the Spokane coun-
ty line to Creston in smooth condi-
ton.
Landing and shearing are in prog
ress in the Yakima valley and flock
masters are pleased with results. The
fleeces are heavy and of excellent
quality.
in the basis of the sale of flour and
authorized substitutes, it was an
nounced by Charles Hebberd food
administrator for Washington.
The school board of the Ellens-
burg district is formulating plans to
make the agricultural program in the
schools next year more closely func-
ton with the governments war pro-
gram.
With his skull fractured and lying
under a pile of cordwood, which ap-
parently had tumhled over on him, b.
G. Peters, engineer at the Centennial
flour mills, Spokane, was killed Sat
urday.
Governor Lister has issued a proc
: lamation setting aside March 20 as
"war savings day" and urges that
on that day every citizen of the state
of Washington buy at least one wal
saving stamp.
Because of their persistence in hunt
ing in violation of the game laws 25'
= aliens employed on railroad work nea'
l. Grandview are to be charged with un
/ lawfully having weapons, according t.
{ game warden.
Seattle's police dry squad Saturda.
y loaded a downtown drug store, stool
e and fixtures complete, onto auto truck
r and hauled it away to a municipa
q storehouse after the proprietor r. L
> Brown. had been arrested on a charg
IL of selling liquor without a prescriI
ton.
E. The United States Indian depar
a. ment has begun drainage canal a
Y point on the Wanita slough one an
g. one-half miles north and two and one
IS half miles west of Toppenish TIL
W average depth will be eight feet an
will add a considerable flow to tn
y Wanita slough.
D. Fewer cases of Contagious disease
g. are noted in the weekly health repor
+ made public Saturday by Lieutenan
t. Colonel p. c. Field division surgeon O
the 91st division Latest report fror
e the surgeon generals office shows tina
camps for incidence of disease and tn
percentage noneffective.
At the Whitman county teachers
institute to be held at Colfax Apri
1, 2 and 3. DR.. E. O. Holland, presi
l. dent Washington State College, Pull
man. will address the assembly OF
, "The Opportunity of the Teacher.
g DR.. e. H. Lindley, president of tn
Idaho university, will speak on LES
sons From the World of Business.
Professor w. G. Beach of the w. S
!. c. will give his address, Education
l. and Democracy"
g Apples and potatoes moved to maj
!. ket last week at the rate OF 20 cal
loads daily from Yakima. The lis
shows 1O5 cars of apples and SO car
II of potatoes. The former were shippe
y largely in boxcars, but all potatoe
n went east in refrigerators. Appl
n prices continue firm, but potatoes ar
e selling at from SIS to $17 ton, tn
E. lowest price for the season. Grower
A. figure the stock cost them $3.50 I
produce and store.
About $50 farmers met at Cola
Saturday for the purpose of consider
q. ing the establishment of farm labo
agencies and fixing a uniform montl
ly wage to be paid farm laborers.
- c. Scott, representing the Unite
- States department of agriculture, az
:, dressed the meeting relative to labo
- conditions throughout the northwe'
~ in the industries, telling what had bee
20 done in other counties regarding farl
- labor conditions. The speaker adv
. Gated fixing a fair wage for the me
81 and urged that living conditions of tn
% laborers be made more attractive b
m increasing their personal comfort
Mr. Scott drew comparison betwee
the S60-a-month wage, as reported /
the committee, and wages in other i
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