Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-30
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

More wheat is now coming into Har-
rington daily than at any time this
season. At the same time less is be-
ing sold.
The party of Northern Pacific sur
veyors, numbering IA, have finished
their survey of the new road through
the Kennewick valley.
Jessie Bacon, a laborer, aged 40, was
run over by a rig driven by Chris Issit
at Walla Walla recently, fracturing
his skull. He died five hours later.
George Schmidt, a shoemaker, was
instantly killed by j. Overbaugh, by
an accidental push of the hand last
Saturday. Schmidt who was intoxi-
Gated, fell on stone walk.
Sedgwick post, No. 8, G. A. r. and
the Woman's Relief corps, at Spokane,
held memorial services Saturday even
ing, the first in the history of these
organizations in that city.
Four masked men held up the Head
light saloon at Spokane while five men
were in it, robbed the men of SIS in
money, got about $25 from the till and
escaped without interruption.
! Railroads entering Spokane expect
large crowds at the Spokane fair in
October. The rates they have given
in some respects are better than here
tofore and cover a wider territory.
The G.. A. r. district reunion OF
southeast Washington will be held this
year at Asotin. No formal organiza
ton exists as yet, but one will prob
ably be formed at this convention.
Fifty-nine cases of typhoid fever ex
list among the convicts in the peniten
tiary and new cases are reported daily
The prison has 765 convicts and thu
officials fear a much greater epidemic
North Yakima was closed Sunday il
the strictest construction of the Sun
day closing law. Every business hous
was shut up tight excepting hotel
and drug stores, the latter keeping
open part of the time.
The Portland & Seattle Railwa,
company will ultimately, it is reporte
at Olympia, extend it's line up the &C
lumbia and Okanogan rivers to Orc
vile in Okanogan county and theme
into British Columbia.
A confiagration at Barneston, lii
tie sawmill town on the Cedar river
: destroyed the planning mill, drykiln
and sheds where the dry lumber wa
piled of the Kent Lumber company
. Damage amounting to $4,000 wa
l done. 1t was fully covered by insul
ance.
: 1t is expected the reclamation Sc
vice will soon announce the undertal
! ing of the old Leadbetter canal sout
of Kennewick on the first bench. Thi
= project will water the high land frol
!, point on the Yakima river, east {
c Prosser, taking in about 10000 acre
= above the Kennewick canal.
e In addition to the new bank whic
/ will open at ColfaX the city is to hay
2 a third bank to be known either g
l. the Farmers & traders or the Me
? chants & Farmers bank, about Nov.
The bank is to succeed and absorb tt
Bank of >Colfax, the oldest bankin
institution in eastern Washington.
A freight wreck near the center (
It Stampede tunnel delayed traffic Sa
urday on the western division of TT
l. Northern Pacific railroad "a hour
It Eight loaded cars were derailed al
L the trucks torn from under them. The
D are piled in a confused mass. No OF
IS was hurt. The train was an extr
W made up of 80 westbound loaded car
l. most of them filed with wheat for t
L coma.