Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-21
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA
and OREGON news ITEMS.
Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of tho Sur
rounding oountry-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Placo-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Esther Mitchell the 18-year-old girl
who cruelty slew her brother George,
is in the King county Jail, penniless
and deserted by her family. Mrs.
Crefield, who, to avenge the Staying
by George .-.lchell of her husband, the
notorious holy roller" induced Esther
to kill George, is also behind the bars,
with only her father and brother to
befriend her.
The funeral of the late Judge George
Meade Emory, shot and killed by
| Chester Thompson in Seattle, was
held Sunday morning at the family
residence Two hundred prominent
lawyers and members of the Elks and
Loyal Legion attended. The body was
cremated.
1t is said that Cofax is in need Of
carpenters.
In a running fight with officers near
Zillah, an unknown young man, want
ed for horse stealing, was wounded
three times and will probably die.
A hurricane passed three miles
northeast of Valley recently. A vast
amount Of valuable timber was blown
|, down, crops were beaten to the ground
, and fences destroyed and telephone
wires dismantled.
{ The farmers in the cove east of Pa
louise have during the recent hot
! weather been turning night into day.
! Those who are blowing land TOR sum-
, mer fallow, instead of working teams
Q in the heat, plow during the night.
= That North Yakima is singularly
q free from fevers of all descriptions
/ this year is attributed to the care
g taken by the authorities in keeping the
u city clean.
Three grain warehouses are under
construction in Ka..lotus.
Secretary of War TAFT will visit
:. Fort Wright, American Lake and
Fort Lawton and other Washington
- posts next October for the purpose o.
20 locating a brigade post at one of the
o places.
- Spokane has captured the 18th an
"A nual convention of the Baptist Youni
C Peoples union for July, 1907. 1 MS wa
r. decided at Omaha, Nev.
80 DR.. S. B. Nelson, professor of vet
Urinary science at Washington Stat
4 college and state veterinarian, has OF
=. fered a SOLD silver cup for the bes
q team of mares or geldings, or mar
= and gelding, at the Interstate fair l
a. Spokane. The team must weigh nc
"a less than $500 and be driven to
Re. truck or wagon.
10 That the American lake site will
"a selected by the government for tn
location of brigade post is vouche
for by a government surveyor.
The supreme court has decided tn;
a man who goes on unsurveyed go
he eminent lands and builds cabin ar
opens a coal mine is entitled to tt
Ter cabin and mine and necessary land II
hi. his improvements as against any 9th
to person that may come along in h
his absence and take possession.
adj The Hessian fly, the most dread'
raj wheat pest, has made its appearan
in Clarke county.
n Micheal Burns, one of the men &C
OK. fined in the county Jail at Asotin
are the charge of burglary committed
Charleston and who with his compa
ions escaped from Jail but was lat
captured, has become insane as t
rem result of his experience while endes
roo oring to evade the officers.
The Secretary of the Interior Hitchco
ole has adjusted the allotments for t
her various irrigation projects in Wa
ad. ington as follows: Okanogan, $3.50
cd 900; Tieton, s1,25O,OO0; Sunnysi
osie $1,O00,000 work in the Indian res
mix walton, 100000 total of $2,95O,O
ara Contracts for the purchase of la
along the Columbia river for the Ri
said of way for the branch of the CIR
eed Northern between Wenatchee 6
hot Oroville are being signed up, the C
ling tracts including the purchase of
ole. years crop.
and The body of Krisjan Johnson of
Their tario was found beside the railr'
had track in secluded nook near Seat
gave A brick is supposed to have been u
we're by his assailants. He is supposed
but have been killed in drunken bray
All The total expense for the Spok
. city schools proper was $316,76t
Added to this is $7,76796, interest
warrants, and S2,537.5O. interest
a. bonds.
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