Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-02
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-Outlook Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Inc t3NdeC poN, NNNO
100000 financial institution planned
for Colfax, will open October l.
The Bank of Downs at Downs has
been purchased by ]. d. Bassett or
Ritzville and H. w. Davis of Spokane
1t is said Adams county will produce
this year 100000 bushels of wheat
or 100000 bushels more than last
year.
The body of Engineer Peter Bro
kaw of Spokane, who was drowned
June 3 in the Kootenai river, has been
found.
Frank Lee has sold his farm four
miles below Penewawa to Lewiston,
Idaho. real estate firm for $4,000 The
farm consists of 100 acres of land.
From prevailing crop conditions, 1t
is evident the warehouse men of Da-
venport will have handled about $780,
600 bushels when the season closes.
DR.. w. James Howells, superintehd-
ent of the Medical Lake hospital for
the insane, has left for six months
tour through the United States and
Europe.
Professor Arthur R. Priest, head OF
the department of rhetoric and ora
tory at the University of Washington,
has been elected dean of the College
of Liberal Arts.
William BEDFORD, a pioneer of 1862,
aged rs years, died at Walla Walla
recently leaving five grown children.
He farmed extensively at one time IN
Washington and Oregon.
A device, the result of nine years
work by Victor E. Campbell, Gold
endale, Wash, jeweler, has been in
vented to prevent escape of gas AFTER
the flame is blown out.
Miss Ida K. Greenlee, for the past
, five years teacher in English in the
Seattle high school, has been elected
, assistant in the department of Eng
fish at the University of Washington.
? R. P. Pickerell, special agent of the
; navy department at Washington, has
z unearthed he claims, evidence OF
+ graft" at the Puget sound navy yard
c at Bremerton and has forwarded his
r report to Washington.
The first effect of the Chinese boy
colt of American goods has been felt
in Seattle in the canceling of orders
for 200 900 sacks of flour which were
; to have been shipped by the Centen
|, NAL mills on the first outbound boat
l. Milton Gabel, once a prominent pol
q; itician and business man of eastern
7, Washington, who is serving a sen
J. tence in the penitentiary for embez
element. has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Mead within 60 days of the enc
of his term.
T.; Postmaster Willard T. Harrison plan
=; to make a private census of the cit.
Of Spokane by means of the mail car
S, ciers as soon as he feels that the re
b suits will show a population OF 1900
:; people.
The Spokane Fish Protective assc
lie citation is the name of the new organ
t, ization which will have for its pul
pose the promotion of trout fishing i
Il the Spokane river and its tributaries
Is A large number of the grOceryme
of the state are planning to attend tn
/ meeting of the grocers, which is to b
,; held in Tacoma on the 10th, 18th an
IS, 18th of September.
IS, Acting Land commissioner has il
D; formed the land officers of the Waite
vile district to withdraw from a
forms of disposal the following d.
scribed lands on account of the Ok
e- hogan irrigation project. All of tow
ship "a north, range &c east, not a
N, ready. withdrawn.
The new bonds of the city of Sp
ID, kane, amounting to $450,000, issued
pay for building improvements an
Id, extensions to the city water syster
were sold to the banking house of
Id. w. Harris & Co. of Chicago for IL
sum of $46O,41S.
w. AS the elimination of long standir
family trouble, Bernard Cohn, ia
" or, shot and probably fatally wound'
his father in law, w. Poznansky,
- ELY IL Front avenue, Spokane, Su
w. day. Cohn, according to his viii
~ served IA years at San Quentin f
manslaughter.
One of the worst windstorms know
., during the history of Spokane pass
d. over that city Sunday evening. F
y, five minutes, about 1920 o'clock, t
0u wind. from the southwest, attained
"a velocity of SO miles an hour.
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