Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-08-05
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON news ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Bur.
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Outlook 10 Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


Preparations for harvest work are
being made and many machines begin
the seasons run this week.
Horticulturists of Stevens county re-
port that the orchards are growing an
abundant yield of late fruit.
From the school census nearly COM
pleted, Ballard figures out a popula-
ton of 1000, or more than double
what it was five years ago.
Operations are progressing rapidly
on the Northern Pacifc's new turn
table at the Spokane roundhouse. The
new turntable complete will cost $4,000.
Thomas Warren, a pioneer, who
crossed the plains from Kansas before
railroads were thought of west of the
Missouri river, died recently at North
port.
The members of the state board of
health are reported as fearing an cpl
demic of typhoid fever in certain sec
lions of the state where the disease
has been prevalent for several weeks.
Gus Deluge. a truckman employed
by the Grimmer Truck company, at
Spokane, was instantly killed in the
> basement of the Rookery building Sat
urday afternoon by boiler rolling
, on him.
Archie R. Cannon of Spokane sus-
tanned a compound fracture of the
: right arm and other injuries by being
caught in the betting of a threshing
machine recently.
That early estimates of damage
done by the hot wave were exagger
:. ated is now conceded by many OF the
best posted farmers and grain mer
;, who have been examining the graiI
:, and crop conditions.
The announcement is made that j
OBJ. Scobey, receiver of the Olympia
land Office and a politician OF stat
{ wide reputation, would soon resigl
J. his position and remove to Portland
II to enter the land law practice.
{ More than 20 experienced TELEGRAPH
IS operators have been employed by tn
S Northern Pacific railway for duty Of
the line between Tacoma and Port
1t land within the past two weeks, neces
y STATED by the installation of CON
r plete block signal service on the sout
D. end.
o. Nearly four score mountain climt
ct ers. men and women of the Mazam
p club, with the added forces of tn
lie Sierra club of California and the Al
palachian club of the east, have speI
in two weeks in PARADISE, and have a.
es complished the feat of climbing tn
IL great Rainier-Tacoma peak.
at Lester Richardson, of Seattle,
ed years of age and son of respectful
IL parents, was arrested recently for blu
ed glary and confessed that IN the la'
ne two months he has looted 20 room
in various hetels in the city, securir
Da money and jewelry, which he lavishe
ei on his friends. From one room Ric
If ardson stole $500 that he spent
nc two weeks
w. Just across the Columbia river nort
at of Wenatchee lies a fiat of land co
re tanning nearly 5000 acres, which
Ia the present time is only dotted he
I'M and there by an occasional shack
the homesteader. This land is know
H. as Columbia valley, and it is now
in settled fact that at least 5000 acr
,is will be irrigated.
Ia. A sudden drop in temperature, brin
,re ing with it a severe hail storm, accol
IN panied with thunder, swept sudden
no over the Dalles Sunday afternoon. T.
X storm was entirely unexpected al
,te after the drop in temperature had
a Cured, the thermometer again took
Jump and the heat was almost as
pressive as before A hail storm f
M lowed of a peculiar nature. Small
regular chunks of ice, differing EMIL
~ ly from the regular stones, pour
from the clouds.