Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-10-14
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-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

that big grading Outnt with abOu
100 men is at work on the north banl
of the Columbia at Wallula.
Nome has come forward with 6
subscription of $4,000 for the Alaska
exposition, proposed to be held in Sc
attic in 1907.
The Great Northern has authorized
a reward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of each man implicated il
the recent holdup of the overland
train near Ballard.
Information is wanted as to the
whereabouts of Frances Bartlett OF
Frances Err. 1t is understood she has
also been known as Madge Cohen.
Address George Err. Lynden, Wash.
Blown up by dynamite, the barge
Newport a lumber freighter of the
best type on the Pend d'Oreille river,
was reduced to wreckage at her moor
ings at Newport, recently.
Three persons killed, each at diff
ferent place and time, together with a
serious wreck in the Northern Pacific
yards, was Tacoma's casualty record
for last Friday. The dead are: Ed
ward Tromar, Northern Pacific fire.
man; John F. Keiser, Northern Pacific
switchman, and Charles Robinson, an
Indian.
Rev. U. F. Hawk of Spokane has
sold his farm of 800 acres, IL miles
south OF Colfax, to Paul Priest of Spo-
kane for $4,000. or about s43.75 an
acre.
F. w. Staff, carpenter employed
by the Washington Water Power Com
pany, was accidentally drowned in the
Spokane river Saturday.
At the recent meeting of the Presby-
terrain state synod it was decided to
divide the Presbytery of Puget sound,
placing King, Jefferson and Clallam
counties in one and the counties of
Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan and Che
Ian in the other. The latter is to be
called the Presbytery of Bellingham.
AS to forestry the state of Washing
ton is placed in a class by itself by
the findings of the Lewis and Clark
exposition forestry jury awards, which
gave out that gold medal had been
awarded to the Evergreen state for
every entry in the forestry class and
there were between 40 and so.
The total number of teachers en-
ployed in the state is 5179, of whom
1928 are males and 1851 females
Male teachers receive an average sal
airy of $64.51; females s51.61.
The long looked for opening of
Spokane's new public library will take
place November 1.
Preparations are already under way
for the meeting of the State Educa-
tional association, which will be held
at North Yakima December 20, 29 and
80
Governors Rogers and Mcbride par
doned in eight years 112 penitentiary
convicts, an average of IA a year. Gov
ernor Mead has pardoned % convicts
in the first nine months of his ad-
ministration and has also committed
three sentences, RENTED two fines
and paroled Is convicts.
A rural route service from Pome-
roy to Tucannon and Marengo goes
into effect December 1.
Deep gloom has settled upon the |
new farmers of the Palouse country
who have their grain crop unthresh-
ed, and they will suffer serious loss.
A state bank with a capital stock
of $4,000 is assured for Thornton.
The waters of the Columbia river
are rising rapidly, occasioned by
heavy rains near the headwaters. In
the past week the raise has been more
than Is inches.
Albert Laabs has purchased a half
section of land of G. G. Buck for ST.
900. The land lies a mile and a half
northwest of Davenport and is con-
sidered a fine ranch.
w. r. Lamb has received his ap-
pointment as the first postmaster of
Richland, a new town recently start
ed nine miles west from Kennewick.
H. A. Fairchild and John S. McMil-
lin, members of the state railroad
commission, announce that all COM
plants of shippers about refusal of
railroads to grant joint rates will be
heard at the Colfax meeting.
Rev. David Leland Spaulding, a |
Methodist minister, 80 years of age,
succumbed Sunday to old age at the |
residence of Judge e. H. Sullivan, Spo- |
kane.
The United States surveyors employ |
I'd in locating the international |
boundary line of the 49th parallel west
If the summit of the Rocky mountains
will complete their work this fall, and |
he Canadian parties will probably |
inish next season.