Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-24
NEWSOF NORTHWEST
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-FalI Trade 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Wv W. co.
A number of hop contracts have re-
Gently been made by growers in Yaki-
ma county for this years crop at 10
cents a pound. Last year the aver
age sum received by the growers was
about 10 cents, while for 1904 it was
% cents or over.
Completely exhausted, after a seven
hour battle with a seven foot shark,
Patrick Sullivan and w. D. Yates pull
ed their boat into Seattle.
An immense flow of water has been
struck at the well being drilled by
L. S. Green for the city on A street
in Ballard
His neck broken and his feet touch
ing the ground, w. A. Holland of Ia
coma was found hanging by slender
cord tied to a small limb of tree in
the woods north of the new Tacoma
high school building
The controlling interest in the Mo-
ran shipbuilding plant in Seattle has
been sold by Moran brothers to the
Griscoms of Philadelphia. The sum
involved is between two and three mil
|
battleship Nebraska.
Seattle is to have a garbage plant
and municipal crematory.
Much of the wheat in the Palouse
section was injured by the recent cold
weather
Friends and acquaintance of DR..
James M. Allen, the veteran minister
of the Christian church of Spokane,
who died last week, paid tribute of
love and respect at his bier in the Gen.
trail Christian church Sunday after
| noon.
A veterinary surgeon states that the
horses around Reardan were poisoned
by eating straw on which there was
fungus growth
Gilbert Cowles, the Yakima city
school board clerk who forged war
rants, has been senteiced to five years
in the penitentiary.
Spokane men have filed articles Of
incorporation at Olympia for the In
land Thresher company, to engage IL
the manufacture of motor driver
thresher machines.
Whitman college won the debate
/, with the Washington State college
elementary school
George Brouchou, who resided il
the Yakima valley, was frozen t.
death during the late cold snap HI
started for his home across lots, and
failing to appear, search was made
resulting in the finding of his body.
M. E. Mergens, until few days ag,
station agent with the Great North
ern railway at Marysville, is in thu
county jail at Everett charged will
embezzlement of $153 of the com
pany's receipts.
A purchasing agency of the com
missary department of the Unite'
States army is to be established a
Seattle Immediately.
Attorney General Atkinson has pre-
pared formal complaint asking TO
a permanent injunction to prevent tn
destruction of Castle Rock, the ia
{ nous landmark on the Columbia rive
above Portland.
G Mayor Ballinger of Seattle last Sat
. urday issued an order to the polio
, to put an end to dice playing at ciga
stands and all other forms of gambling
G operated by retail cigar men
Farmers who believe their whea
o will have to be resown are buyin
q seed and getting ready to commenc
work when the snow disappears.
: The severe cold has undoubtedl
h damaged early fruits and the fall sow
O wheat is retarded in its growth, bu
\ the general opinion of the whea
!. ranchers is that the wheat is not ser
q ously damaged.
, Members of the Woman's Temper
A ance union have drawn up a petitio
/. to Governor Mead to be presented t
g the various churches Sunday, askin
\ for the parole and release from tn
J. penitentiary of Myrtle Upton, tn
). young girl convicted in Whitma
>. county of horse stealing and sentence
to term of two years.
Unexpected demands for coal dul
ing the recent cold snap completely e,
hausted the supplies and these hav
Il not been replenished.
b Attorney H. j. Snively of Mort
e Yakima, whose residence was con
% pletely destroyed by fire recently, wi
f. soon commence the construction of
% handsome stone residence upon tn
r old site on Mob Hill Mr.. Snively est
S mates his loss, after the payment c
the insurance policies, at $500.