Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-12-02
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-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Secret Service Officer Steven A.
Connell makes an estimate that Geo.
Edward Adams, defaulting cashier OF
the United States assay Office in Sc
attic, has made away with an amount
in excess of 100000
Harry Davis, private secretary to
Representative Jones, has been in
formed by Secretary Hitchcock that
the department would take no action
on Washington irrigation projects I'M
til the matter could be taken up with
the Washington congressman.
A resolution to provide for a post
graduate course of lectures upon all
branches of medicine and surgery was
recently adopted with unanimity at
special meeting Of the Spokane County
Medical society and the faculty of 20
physicians was appointed.
w. j. Shaughnessy, formerly pub
Usher of the Kennewick Courier, was
killed on the railroad four miles east
of Prosser last week. 1t is supposed
he was either struck by train or
fell off while riding on a train. His
body was found completely cut in two.
Wllnlll lut past lOul IuOhluo lOuA
times as many inspections of dairies
and creameries have been made in
Washington as were made in the pre-
ceding six years." says L. Davies
state dairy and pure food commits
sioner.
The state railroad commission has
appointed o. o. Calderhead an exper
on railroad freight rates. He was for
merly a cashier for the Northern Pa
cific Railroad company.
After searching for four months TO
their brother, Thomas E. Jones, wh'
was reported to be MORALLY wounded
in the mountains of Idaho, near Spo
kane, Mrs. William Martin and Mrs
Georgia Nevin of Denver have give
up the quest without securing trac
of Jones.
Lieutenant d. G. McClelland Of Con
pany e, at Fort Wright, has returne
$40, Company Els missing funds.
Cleaning day in Spokane, last Satul
day, was pronounced success.
The permitting of gambling in thei
places will prove quite an expensiv
luxury to the proprietors of the fly
saloons in Walla Walla, whose license
were revoked by the council. The t
tai amount forfeited by reason of til
revocation of licenses is $2045.50.
George Raymond of Seattle hi
made one of the largest purchases
wheat land that has taken place
the Alto vicinity in a long time, whe
he closed a deal for the Charley Jol
place of HOO acres at $40 an acre,
about $4,000 for the ranch.
The railroad commission has acceI
ed the resignation of j. Will Tyson
temporary secretary, to take effect
april l, 1906, and elected Clinton
Snowden of Tacoma permanent seer
tary; selected o. o. Calderhead
Seattle as expert employe; made MI
C. e. Van Etten, permanent clerk
an increase in salary of $500 p
year, or total of $1,000, and voted
employ Mr.. Snowden as clerk fro
January l to April 1, at a salary
$100 per month.
A syndicate composed of David
Ham, E. A. Torrance, F. d. Care
C. L. Hoffman,, Aaron Kuhn and
S. Yearsley, has purchased 5000 acr
of land in southern Alberta, N. w.
for 100000.
Tacoma grain buyers who are So
to belong to the combine are nonco
initial over the opinion of the ass
tant attorney general that the comps
said to have been entered into
millers and buyers is in restraint
trade, as contemplated in the int
state commerce law, prohibiting su
combinations Those who say anythi
at all are inclined to consider
matter as joke.