Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-29
washington, IDAHO, oregon
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acci-
dents and Personal Events Take
Plaoe-Fall Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Officers of Spokane county have ar
rested Frank Havlin and Thomas
Blair, expert safe blowers. The prison
ers were caught with the goods on,
having a grip filed with $4,000 worth
of plunder secured by blowing open
the safe at Troyer & Engels' jewelry
store at Tekoa three days before.
Five violent deaths occurred in Spo-
kane county in the past week.
Near Holcomb, in Pacific county, re-
Gently two Japanese were killed ana
three were so badly hurt that they
will die, by a dead tree which fell
across their bunk house. All were en-
ployed by a lumber company.
A gigantic subway project, costing
nearly a million dollars, to connect the
freight and passenger terminals Of the
Spokane & Inland Railroad company
has been submitted to the Spokane
city council and franchise asked. The
proposed tunnel would be nearly
mile long, would follow beneath Front
avenue for nearly the entire distance,
and the floor Of the tunnel would be
about 80 feet from the surface OF the
street. The franchise asked for pro-
vides for a double track tunnel from
the passenger station at Main avenue
to Front avenue under Lincoln street,
thence under Front to about Center
street, between Bernard and Browne,
thence diagonally from Front avenue,
coming out into the freight grounds OF
the company at some point between
Division and Sheridan streets, with the
right to carry power lines for the
operation of its electric railway sys-
TEN.
Two men were killed, one fatally
injured and a fourth badly scalded in
a collision near Spokane between a
light engine and freight train on the
Great Northern.
Ellensburg met defeat at the hands
of Prosser on the ship subsidy de-
bate. Prosser defended the negative,
while Ellensburg supported the affirm
alive.
From IL acres Of apple trees In his
/ orchard at Zillah, ]. R. Rammermann
ksold this fall 5000 boxes or $3.50.
From 191 Winesap trees he obtained
,O5 boxes and from It's Yellow New
4 ton trees, 1000 boxes He sold these
apples at $1.25 box.
Andy De Young, young man about
,25 or 80 years Of age, supposedly from
pullman, committed suicide at Spo-
kane recently.
Because Christian Fredriksen had
not bathed in three years. Mary Fred
riksen, his wife, obtained decree OF
divorce in Seattle.
Charles Buckingham has been ap-
pointed to succeed Charles j. Baker
for the unexpired term of two years.
A young woman known as Maggie
Dooley took carbolic acid in an at
tempt to commit suicide at Spokane.
Washington, Idaho & Montana en-
CINE No. Q. hauling construction
train, ran over William Burgan at the
gravel pit switch, one mile west Of
Harvard, near Palouse, killing him in
stantly.
Many Lincoln county residents are
interested in the Yuma country ant
the freakishness of the Colorado river
who are closely watching the efforts
to keep the river from doing irrepar
able damage.
The floods in the Palouse are sub
siding. The streams are going dowI
rapidly and the damaged RAIDS will
soon be in condition to repair.