Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-08-04
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-FaII Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Jack Hudson received wounds from
which he died, and Carl Herbert was
seriously injured while leaning out of
adjoining windows of the smoking car
As the train was passing Through
Prairie station. The men are both of
Acme and were en- route to Deming.
Following terrific bolt of lightning
at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon many Of
the buildings in Spokane suffered from
total failure of electric lights Sunday
night and a number of small fires kept
the department busy during the early
hours Of the evening. The fires were
due to disorganization of the system
of distributing electric power through
the wires.
w. l. Creelman, 20 years of age, the
son of wealthy parents owning prop
erty in San Francisco and Los Ange-
les, and for two weeks employed in
the secret service of the Northern
Pacific Railway company, was the
burglar fatally shot at Spokane the
other evening
Little Joe Jannot Of Keller, aged
2 years, was accidentally shot the other
evening at the Gold Cord mine, on
Silver creek, by Will Jannot, his
father, an employee of the mine, while
adjusting a 90 rifle.
The weather has been so oppres-
sively hot that the hay harvesters
have chosen to rest during the mid
die of the day and labor in the fields
by moonlight after night.
Work on the ", v. & e. between
Midway and Nelson is progressing
rather slowly owing to the shortage
of ties at various places along the
route.
The labor famine in the Palouse
country is still unbroken.
Harold ]. Marugg, aged 6, of Spo-
kane, was drowned in the Spokane
river last Saturday.
A force of men is putting in the
new and sidetracks for the o. R. &
N at Council.
State Grain Commissioner w. H
Reed has reports from number Of
correspondents in the Big Bend an6
Ritzville countries which show seri
Gus loss in the grain crop below what
H. A. Rolf has taken charge of the
First Bank of Kiona as cashier ant
resident manager. He succeeds G. j
Anderson, the unfortunate young mar
who was drowned in the Yakima river
at that place last week.
State Labor Commissioner G. f
Hubbard announces that he has in
structed his deputies to require al
mills operating the socalled "clippe
knot saw" to have the same provided
with substantial safeguards or thei
use discontinued from now on other
wise certificates of inspection will b.
withheld from shingle mills usini
them.
Fire destroyed the barn on the J
r. Thompson place, two miles nortl
of Dayton, the other afternoon, to
gether with the contents, including
$40 belonging to Ed Hammond AM
500 of Wilbur Browns, the none.
being in bedding used by the men.
The car shortage promises to be
serious problem in moving the whea
crop the coming fall, judging from tn
manner in which the cars are tie
UP in the yards at various points o.
the roads.
The new Walla Walla city officer
have taken the reins of government
Farmers of the Inland Empire VIII
have heretofore been fortunate in es
Gaping any serious trouble from pest
may experience difficulty in the nea
future with the Hessian fly, unles
Immediate concerted action to abor
don wheat growing is taken for tn
eradication of this pest, which has a
ready made it's appearance in Clar
county, Oregon.