Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-10
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
PIace-FalI Trade ls Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The citizens of Kennewick have
decided on a $4,000 school structure
in brick or cement.
Mrs. Sukhoda Banarjee, the Hindu
has arrived in Seattle and
will deliver lectures.
Construction work on the Great Nor
thern between Wenatchee and Oroville
has been commenced.
Indications are that the senate will
confirm u. s. Marshall Charles B.
Hopkins as marshal for western Wash
ington.
The Freer, Human & Jones fruit
ranch, situated two miles from Cash
mere, has been sold to w. E. Human
for $4,000.
The friends of Postmaster Albert
Dickinson of Waitsburg are jubilant
over news from Washington announc-
ing his reappointment.
Governor Mead has announced the
appointment of j. L. Riseland as fish
commissioner to succeed T. R. Ker-
shaw, whose term is expired.
No new facts have come to light
relative to the peculiar death of Miss
Jessie Cow, the % year old girl re-
siding IS miles east of Waterville
| recently.
State Auditor Clausen has given out
the following statement of receipts
and expenditures for February: Cen
eral fund, total receipts, $151, 667.7S;
expenditures, sS7,2S3.12.
The Grote-Rankin company of Spo-
kane has bought the Teale-Hills Fur
niture company's business of Seattle,
and will increase it's capital stock
from $125,000 to s350,000.
The federal department of agricul-
ture is to give practical illustrations of
how to build good roads in the Pa
louise section. A specimen of good
roads is to be built near Pullman.
In the CULLEN family, resident in
!, Whitman county, is another evidence
of longevity, five generations now liv'
[ ing. All but one of the persons de-
scribed reside within the county con
fines.
r The Fairview creamery, property Of
the Ellensburg Creamery company, 10
Gated in the Fairview district, was
burned recently. The plant is
total loss, and the loss is about $4,000
There was a very small insurance OF
f the building and machinery.
A record making judgment of $S7,
J. 500 was returned for the plaintiff
l. in the civil court at Spokane in thu
t case of H. A. Hunter and ]. A. YOUNG
e against the Wenatchee Land company
l. The litigation has been extended, in
s volving many points of law.
Representative Jones bill permit
e ting Yakima Indians to sell 60 acre
r, of their homesteads for irrigation pull
|, poses, which has passed both hous
e and senate and referred to the interio
s department by the president for ins
IT review AS the secretary is in favo
II of the measure an early signature b
d the president is anticipated.
IL The order dismissing Lieutenar
T. Donald F. McClelland from the Unite
Is States army for conduct unbecomin
- an officer and embezzlement of con
~ pany's funds, has been received 6
% Fort Wright, at Spokane, by Lieutel
10 ant Colonel Bolton, commanding o
d. ficer at the post Lieutenant McCle
A. land was found guilty by court ma
ie tial last December
~ The Ladies' Improvement club he
- picnic in park at Granger recentl
- Men and women volunteered to tri
- trees, grub underbrush and improV
the park in general, and the lars
~ force of workers made the only natur
- public park in the valley very attrae
80 i've. picnic dinner was served. A
those not working paid for meals, al
quite a sum Of money was realized