Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-31
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-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Whitman county farmers believe
damage to wheat is less than ex-
pected.
Arrangements have been completed
for the cannery to be established at
Spokane.
Farmers are elated over the slight
damage to winter wheat by the recent
cold snap.
Mayor Wright Of Tacoma says he
Wi. order the police force to close
the dance halls.
The commercial club of Prosser has
decided to inaugurate a Benton county
fair this fall to be held at Prosser.
The members of the Tacoma Re-
tail Grocers' association have taken
a decided step for patronizing home
industry.
The Waverly Commercial club got
into action last week and gathered up
every tin can within the city limits
Twelve big wagonloads were hauled
away.
The credit for the capture of Jack
Hopkins, wanted for horse stealing,
is due to Deputy Sheriff Hall of
Sprague, who worked up the case and
made the arrest
Some mining interests at the head
of Lake Chelan seem opposed to the
setting aside of that section as ma
tional park. A petition against the
project was circulated at Chelan.
Ora Holdman, Robert Fancher and
Carl Hall, students at Whitman col
lege, have been dismissed for hazing
other students, and number of 9TH
ers have been severely disciplined
The citizens of towns of the state
as a whole have decided to follow in
the lead of some of the larger cities
this spring and have general clean
up of the town in the interests of
both health and beauty.
Too much free love has caused the
dissolution of the Freeland colony, an
equality settlement near Bow, Skagit
county A receiver has been appointed,
and it means that the little band
will be broken up and the effects
sold to satisfy creditors.
After making a thorough investiga-
ton ]. M. Brown, county fruit inspec
tor OF North Yakima, is satisfied that
the loss of fruit due to the recent cold
snap will be of small moment. He
thinks that the apricot trees alone
were damaged, and these but slightly
The Washington Land, Stock & I'm
provement company, composed OF Spo
kane men and controlling seven sec
lions of raw land situated in the vi
cinity of Winchester, in Douglass
county, has been organized for the
purpose Of breaking and improving
the raw lands of Douglass county.
The supreme court holds that the
proper remedy to be invoked against
an order made by the state land com
mission is by mandamus instead Of
by appeal. Recently the court hello
tnat a mandamus would not lie against
an order made by the state board Of
land commissioners, and that the prop
er remedy in such case was by appeal
A gang of cracksmen, which for 8
month or more has been preying upor
the safes Of the stores and banks II
the small towns of the Inland Empire
operated at Medical Lake Sunday
morning. The safe in the A. w. Greer
store on Lake street, opposite the Vir
gin hotel, was blown open by the gang
The safe blowers secured $40 from
the depository.
In response to an inquiry on the
subject, the attorney general has CIV
en- the state board Of control al
opinion to the effect that 1t is lawfu
to work convicts on the public road:
in their prison garb of stripes, ane
that under the law the sentiment o.
common humanity Is the only restric
ton upon the working of convicts II
blasting rock or other dangerous work
sleeping Tom," man afflicted
with peculiar malady, has returned
to North Yakima. He has been known
to 90 to sleep while standing on thu
sidewalk and to fall over into the gut
ter. Some time ago he was engaged OF
a trench being dug in the city. He ha(
worked but few days when he wa
sized ore afternoon with drowsy spell
and was found asleep leaning agains
the side of the trench, holding the picl
over his shoulder. He appeared to hav'
dropped asleep while in the act o
swinging the pick.