Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, Oregon
and MONTANA ITEMS.
a Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


fronting Spokane dairymen.
1t is confidently believed that pay
able gold has been found in Eshowe,
Zuzuland. :.
1t has been carefully estimated that
at least 1900 acres of fruit trees will
be put in by the farmers in and close
around Brewster.
1t is reported gambling dens are
again running wide open in Tacoma.
Not the slightest effort is being made
to conceal the fact.
Jacob Johnson, a Northern Pacific
Waterman at Toppenish, was fright
fully mangled at North Yakima re-
Gently by being run over by freight
train.
The State asylum at Medical Lake
has advertised to receive bids for 2700
cords of wood for the asylum. The
bids will be opened Saturday, Deem
Der 8, at p. m.
The state superintendent announces
that III teachers. certificates had been
issued to Spokanefapplicants and 16 to
Stevens county applicants as a result
Ol the IeCtnI cAduludllOuS.
Chinese and Japanese are to be pro-
tected in Tacoma hereafter. Judge
Linck recently gave white man and
negro 80 days on the chain gang for
beating Chinese restauranteurs.
Fire in the interior of the Grand
opera house at Seattle recently caused
$4,000 damage. 1t is believed to have
Id lf~A fah
cigarette dropped by stage hands.
Special memorial services were held
| in the First Presbyterian church in
Seattle Sunday afternoon in honor of
the victims of the steamer Dix dis
aster. Many prominent divines assist
ed in the services.
Conductor F. E. Hatton of the Ida
fell from the top of boxcar recently,
while his train was pulling into the
siding at Selah % miles east of FL
lensburg. His injuries will not prove
fatal.
DIR. Levi L. Sutton, farmer and
practicing physician, and one of the
! first settlers in that part of the coun-
|
half miles east of Hatton, recently. He
was born in Orleans county, New
York, September 1. 1885.
]. N. Tompkins, president and found
ell of the Farmers & Mechanics bank
of Cashmere and Wenatchee, died sud
denly last Sunday in Seattle. He was
Sc years of age, and until a few hours
| hol ~, y h.
lieved to be excellent health.
G. B. Dunning, department com.
mander of the department of Wash.
ington and Alaska of the Grand Army
of the Republic, accompanied by AID
jutant General William H. Wiscomb
has returned from a visit which they
were making to the posts of western
Washington.
Major A. N. Brown, Governor Mead s
private secretary, is working to Sc.
cure a state rogues' gallery to be used
by the police departments sf the state
says a west side report. The gallery
will probably be kept in Seattle when
completed, and pictures will be added
to it constantly.
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Commissioner Meter of Tacoma es-
Inmates that it will cost $4,000 to re-
store bridges and roads of Pierce
county to the condition they were in
before the floods. This does not in
clude the loss in the Stuck river val
ley, where the diversion of the White
river has caused endless havoc.
trio of lycr, WI or oh
a window of Blackburn & Burrows
general store at Ridgefeld recently
unlocked the door, rolled 700 pound
safe two blocks and half down the
street into cut, punched off the COM
bination, blew the safe open with
black powder and got safely away
with $500 in money.
Tacoma has 140 saloons, exactly the
same number as before the present
saloon ordinance went into effect
about six months ago. There is ap-
parently no tendency to decrease the
number of the increased fee, from
5000 to $500, as the opponents of the
measure urged at the time of its pas
sage.
| Jduudly Will De buoy hiohlu III
Pullman. There will be three big con-
ventions under the auspices of the
Washington State college. The first
of these will be the annual conven-
ton of the Washington State Bee
keepers association, January z, and
continue two days.
Beginning Tuesday, January s, the
Inland Registered Stock Breeders as
sociation will hold its annual session