Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-11-18
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, MONTANA, IDAHO
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-Fal Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES,

WASHINGTON NOTES,
Pasco is to have electric lights and
a system of water works and sewers.
Spokane dry goods dealers are form
ing a Merchants Protective associa-
ton.
The 18th annual teachers institute
for Adams county will open Deem
Der 4.
Again the clearances of the local
banks have exceeded $4,000,000 in a
single week.
Roy E. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Latah to succeed ].
Mason, resigned
Plans are being prepared in tenta-
tive way to make Medical Lake pop
ular resort next summer.
Insanity is on the decrease in this
state, according to statistics compiled
by the state board of control.
The council committee of Tacoma
has recommended increasing the sal
aries of city officials and employees.
Threshing is nearly all completed
near Davenport, but to the southeast
of town there is still more grain to
thresh.
David Kieffer was killed at the
Thompson logging camp on Nelson
creek, four miles from Chewaukum, by
a falling tree.
William Cowles, clerk of the school
board at North Yakima, has been ar
rested on the charge of forgery in
raising school warrants.
The state superintendent gave no.
tice recently that there will be meet
ing of the state board of education in
North Yakima December 2S.
]. II. Shively, insurance commission
er of this state, has returned from
Ohio, where he stumped the state in
the interests of the republican ticket.
Shaefer & Tefft of Spokane have
placed a contract for twenty-five ton
ice plant and machinery with the
York Manufacturing Co. of York, Pa.
1t is said Colonel L. Frank Boyd, eX-
mayor of Spokane, may soon enter the
consular service of the United States,
representing this nation in some for
eign city.
The sim Of s159,941 will be distrib-
representing the quarterly apporton-
ment of state funds. The November
quarter is the small one of the year.
Mrs. Helen Moore Hubbell, widow
of Frank B. Hubbell, the well known
CAPITALIST who committed suicide III
Seattle October 2S, has applied to be
appointed administrator OF his estate
The .Spokane-C Columbia River Rail
road & Navigation company mas
awarded a contract to M. p. Zindorf
of Seattle for the grading of 63 miles
of railroad from the Columbia river
to Fletcher. Adams county, Washing
ton.
Secretary Hitchcock has rejected the
Tieton and Okanogan irrigation pro
iect on the ground that it would re
quire more money to complete them
than there is in the reclamation funo
at present. 1t is estimated that the
cost would be about $1,500,0 900.
Colonel Howard Hathaway OF Ev
erett has brought before Governor
Mead a petition for communication lC
life Imprisonment of the death sen
fences imposed upon Angus McPhal
of Snohomish county. McPhail is tc
hang at the penitentiary December .
After a strike lasting since the Isl
of May, the Northwestern Brewers as
sociation and striking brewers have
signed an agreement Although neltn
er will discuss the matter 1t is posi-
lively known the strikers won every
point including the eight hour day anc
closed shop.
Because so much time has elapsed
between the commission of the frauo
and the discovery of their populations
many of the timber land claimants
whom the federal government beheVe'
to have secured extensive land hoiu
ings in this state fraudulently may es
cape criminal prosecution.
One of the most important actions
taken at the recent convention OF th'
Washington Good Roads association
was the decision to employ mrs
class practical man in the capaclt!
of organizer, at salary of $4,000 pc
wear. and the provision made for rails
ing the money to meet the expense
MONTANA SQUIBBS.