Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-14
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-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.


John Hedman was drowned recent
ly in the Columbia river three miles
west of Columbus.
The firm of Cooper & Levy of Sc
attic has been arrested and fined for
each of the various buildings they |
rent for immoral purposes.
Representative Jones has taken up
with Governor Mead the feasibility Of
appropriating state funds for topo-
graphic survey of Washington
E. Riste superintendent of the We
natchee schools, has rendered his res
ignation. Miss Ida M. Case, principal
of the high school, has also resigned.
w. j. Downing, a laborer at rail
road camp near Penewawa, dropped
dead recently while at work. Death
is supposed to be due to the extreme
heat.
Mrs. Henry Strohm of Dayton,
Wash, was recently placed under
$500 bonds for shooting the 1O-year-
old son of j. M. Dunlap with 22 cal
iber rifle. The boy had annoyed her.
Marion A. Mulroney, formerly a
Plaza boy, but now in charge of the
wireless telegraph service on the U.
S. S. Boston, is only 20 years of age.
He learned the Morse system of teleg-
raphy at his home in Plaza, Wash.
The officials of the Sound single
mills bureau admit that it is the in
tention of single manufacturers
throughout the state generally to try
and resume operations this week with
non-union men.
Mystery surrounds the disappear
ance of ]. F. Kennedy of Lewiston,
a surveyor, who has been employed
by L. S. Wilson, in charge of sur
veying crew for the Northern Pacific
near Marshall Wash.
In a row recently over changing a
team with which Sol McGrith was
hauling water for Fred Hopkins at
the latter's farm near Walla Walla.
McGrith fired three shots from a 3S
caliber revolver point blank at Hop
kins' head at close range, two OF
which took effect with probably fatal
result.
First gashing his throat with
razor, Trussaint Beaudry, aged 5S,
prosperous farmer of Mckee valley
leaped into an irrigating ditch at
North Yakima and drowned himself In
a foot of water On account of i'll
ness he had scarcely slept for IL
days and was temporarily insane.
The coroners jury at Asotin, after
investigating the cause of the deatf
of Christian Blomond, alias Frene
Stang. leader of the three Jail break
ers. returned a verdict that he came
to his death by gunshot wound In
fiicted by Harry Draper OF Spokane
while acting under the authority O
Sheriff R. H. Richards.
G. Meade Emery, distinguished
lawyer of Seattle, was shot and prop
ably fatally wounded at his residence
in that city Saturday night by Ches
ter Thompson, a University of Wash
ington student and son OF VIII ID
Thompson, former attorney Tor Tn
Great Northern Railroad company
The cause was infatuation for Char
lotte Whittlesey, niece of the str1cke
man. who had denied his attention
and then asked her uncle that her &C
mirer be denied admittance should
desire to see her. Judge Emery wa
shot down on his own threshhoi
while attempting to restrain Thoml
son from entering the residence.
Two electric cars on the Point d.
fiance line at Tacoma were in hea(
on collision Sunday and five passei
gers and one employee were injured.
The body Of Max Papineau OF Pa
ton. ILL.,, son of a manufacturer ther'
was found on top of a westbound pa
senger coach Sunday at Seattle. IL
supposed that he was beating his wa.
The hot weather in the Yakima va
lev has caused the death of thousand
of fish in the Yakima river. WACO
loads of dead fish have lodged again'
the different dams and the farmer
are hauling them away for fertilizer.
Barney Leroy Layman was instant
killed by lightning recently thre
miles east of Toppenish. He was
years old. A younger brother stan
ing near was shocked. but recovere
Frank B. Bonner, formerly of SIP
kane. was drowned at South Bend Ss
urday night
The state still holds Soap lake. TT
reported sale of riparian rights prov
to be false.
OREGON NOTES.
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