Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-08-25
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous AccI-
dents and Personal Events Take
Piace-FaIl Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Four-year-Old Archibald Casalng was
drowned in a well at Tacoma re-
Gently.
The last of the single mills OF
western washington, shut down on
account Of the recent strike of the
weayers. has resumed operations.
The state board of education has
decided the custom of calling the roll
in schools and then dismissing the pu-
nils for holiday must be discontn-
ued.
Mrs. N. E. Munson, wife of the late
N e. Munson, the Great Northern en-
qineer who was killed in the wreck
of a passenger train at Chain lake on
Julv 23. has offered a reward OF $zoo
for the recovery Of the body.
The drill team from Spokane Acre
of Eagles won first money in the
prize drilling contest at the nauonai
convention at Milwaukee.
William Henning, 81 years OF age,
committed suicide by hanging himseli
in a cell in the Everett city jail.
Several :Walla .Walla grocers have
taken ND the proposition of recon-
mending to the next legislature tne
massage of a law requiring the stamp
of the manufacturer to be placed on
eyery package of butter offered In the
market to furnish a means OF ldenVl-
ficatiop in case of short weights or
adulteration.
The fruit harvest is on in earnest In
the Wenatchee valley
Superintendent Jesse Smoot OF the
government reclamation service mas
heeun work on the Okanogan 1rrlga-
ton project, and the plan requiring
wears to mature promises swift fTui-
ton
Claire Hunt of Colville has been ap-
pointed special locating agent In tne
Spokane Indian reservation.
Invitations have been issued for a
triple wedding to take place in Puy'
allup. The principals in the unusua
ceremony will be Miss Agnes j
Barry and John Mills Jr., Miss Gather
inc L. Decker and Fred l.. Mills, MISS
Frances B. Mills and Shirley d. Barry
Two of the bridegrooms and one o.
the brides are the children OF Mr.. ane
Mrs John I1ills.
The Spanish War veterans hold mex
convention at Spokane.
Fire consumed the residence o
Charles Biery at Wenatchee SATURDAY.
and incinerated a 5-months-old bah,
who was sleeping in the house wnii
the mother had gone into the gardel
with the father.
Stockholders Oh the Farmers Teie
phone & Telegraph company turne
down the proposal of the Pacific state
Telephone company to merge the tw
systems.
The fiercest forest fire Pierce cour
ty has experienced this year is re
ported raging over big tract {
logged off land about three mile
south of Puyallup.
One of the largest cold storag
plants in the southeastern section
the state is that just completed
the state penitentiary.
There was wild runaway or !
horses with a combined harvester an
thresher in Adams county, in whic
12 horses were killed. nine cripple
and the harvester and thresher wa
broken into splinters. The damae
from the runaway amounted to S5oO
The Waitsburg council has let II
\ contract for the purchase of PUN
and motor for the new filter syster
The Chelan forest fire is dying GU
Cuba and Rex. the two original al
ing elks, fought a desperate duel
Spokane, which ended in Rex being
badly injured that he had to be kilie
Harvest work is again In full pias
having been resumed since the rain
and is being rushed.
The death of William Baldwl
whose body was found floating in u
Columbia near Bossburg, about "
weeks ago. looks like murder.
Willard Rabbits was accidental
killed recently while rolling logs
the bank of the Pend d'Oreille rlv
about 40 miles below Newport OPP
site McInnis' mill.
Mike McHale, who shot and XIII
William Drugan, his mining partn'
near Chewelah recently, was liberal
on recommendation Of the prosec'
ing attorney.
IDAHO NOTES.
Few residents of Lewiston or N
PIERCE county we're too poor to p
1905 taxes according to the final