Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-06-16
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding country-Numerous Accl-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-FaII Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NoTEs.

celebration.
Attorney General John D. Atkinson
has been called to Alaska on bust
ness trip.
The Spokane county pioneers 10th
annual picnic at Medical Lake was a
great success.
Tacoma's mayor has put himself
on record as in favor of saloon and
restaurant boxes.
Excellent work is being done on the
wagon roads leading into Colfax from
the surrounding country.
The Everett Milling company will
begin the erection this week of a
large grain warehouse at Ephrata.
C. E. Briggs, a well to do rancher
of the upper Methow valley, and
pioneer, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself recently.
The finding of John Carrolps body
in Garrison creek near Walla Walla,
removes all doubt as to the aged milk
mans death. He disappeared May ~.
Kettle Falls citizens have voted
unanimously that the district be bond
ed for $1,000 to build an addition to
the large school building and establish
high school
George Taylor, engineer on the
> McInnis Lumber company's tug Sa-
ner on the boat about four miles be-
low Newport.
Governor Mead today granted
:, parole to John Harrigan, alias Charles
: w. Hamlin, who was sentenced in
: w hatcom county on August 6. 1902, to
. IA years for robbery.
\ The prosecuting attorneys of the
. state will hold a convention al
= Everett on July IL, 10, and IA IN
- connection with the eighteenth annua
session of the State Bar association
. we'll dressed man who committed
- suicide at the Tacoma hotel has beer
- identified as William Campbell Beas
= ley, publisher of the Commonwealth
% Magazine of Seattle. His former
:, home was in Peoria Ill.
% Twenty farmers of the Kittitas val
:, ley have formed an association ant
- purchased Samson De Thorembrais
: an imported Belgian stallion, from Nc
Laughlin Brothers of Columbus, Ohio
q for $4,000.
D.. One of the largest realty transfer
=, in Yakima county in recent months
- was the sale of the Bounds ranch IL
10 Selah valley by P. A. Bounds to UT
:. ban Ditman, widely known stock
rs man, for $4,000.
Nv Theodore Strong, laborer in tn
rs Erickson Peterson construction gam
,g on the o. w. & l. road at Riparia
e. met with a serious accident recent
no which will neccessitate the amputs
ia ton of his left leg above the knee.
1t is announced that Samuel A
Wells, former receiver of the Spokan
land office, has been nominated b
h. President Roosevelt to succeed Ell
H. gene B. Hyde, the present receiver
+. who succeeded Mr.. Wells four year
,s- ago.
"a Thirty-six of the 81 counties {
20 Washington were represented at th
o,. first annual convention OF farmer
d. held. under the auspices of the Wasl
as lington State college. Okanoga
Q. county was the only one not sendin
a delegation.
No One hundred and fifty farmers MI
IN lin Cunningham Saturday and voted
N. build a farmers elevator. Steel sto
nd age tanks will be put up to handle tt
20 crop. All the wheat will be handle
ba- In bulk. This does away with viii
the farmers call the sack graft"
n.- A. A. Armstrong. who killed Robe
Patton near Aberdeen three years ag
ora was hanged at the penitentiary Fl
nj 6.Q6 o'clock III
I'M execution was successful In every q
&c tail. The mans neck was broken
or. the fall and death came in Is minute
Although so years old he bravely m
ey. death.
Manager Lennox of the propos
ss Whitman county fair has been wor
100 ing hard laying plans for the ever
he has about decided to hold the fs
,ds the first week in October. The priz
will be more valuable and cover
,er larger number of displays than ev
30 before.
&c Wenatchee valley fruit growers a
receiving higher prices for fruit tt
year than ever before, the prices
to date averaging so per cent high
,,,h than those paid last year. The v
; natchee Valley Fruit Growers as
NJ citation, an organization of the gro
"a ers of the Wenatchee and Columl
valleys, controlling S5 per cent OF
~, fruit raised in the Wenatchee vail
is doing the work.
Engineers of the reclamation S
to vice are measuring the area of lar
mt contracted for the Tieton project 4