Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-12-07
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WARRINGTON STATE NEWS.
Matt L. Piles of the state board of
control is at Medical Lake, where he
will act as superintendent of the state
institution for feeble minded until
permanent appointment is made in
place of Jesse r. H. Pritchard, who is
about to retire.
When the waterways congress con-
venes at Washington, D. c., December
4, and 6, there will be in attendance
from the state of Washington two vet
eran open river. workers, Dr. N. G. Bla
lock and Professor w. D. Lyman o.
Whitman college.
The third annual show of the Kitt'
tas Poultry association will be held in
Ellensburg from December II to De
cember Fl.
Henry Potter, aged 10, of Aberdeen
Wash, shot himself in the head recent
ly because of love for Marguerite Nc
earthly, 16-year-old girl employed as
an assistant nurse in ST. Joseph's has
pital. Potter died without regaining
consciousness.
Mrs. Annie Cowley, wife of M NJ
Cowley, retired banker, wealthy prop
the Inland Empire, died suddenly at
Spokane Sunday as the result of a
hemorrhage of the brain.
Charlie Matsui, young Japanese,
was found guilty of the murder of a
fellow countryman, Frank Narasaki,
last September at North Yakima.
w. R. Gowdy, one of the most prom
inent young men of Hoquiam, was
killed by being accidentally shot while
attempting to remove his gun from a
boat. The full charge of shot entered
the right armpit, severing an artery
According to a ruling by Judge
Smell of Tacoma, corporation can
not bring an action against an indi-
vidual, force him into court against
his will. put him to expense in defend
ing the action, and then ask for a
PENDANT is remunerated.
At Tacoma building material is now
enough cheaper that a rating of fully
20 per cent in the cost of construction
can be made over that of three
months ago.
Two projects are now in embryo to
connect North Yakima with the Column
bia river. One is an electric line to
Hanford, and the other a direct wagon
road to Priest rapids.
The Spokane & British Columbia
railway, projected along the San Poll,
Columbia and Spokane rivers from
Republic, Wash, to Spokane, is re-
newing activity. The company's rep
resentatives are securing right of way
and it is understood work will begin
the first of the year.
The Big Bend Transit company,
which is building an electric line from
Miles to Spokane, along the Spokane
river and which has several miles
graded at Miles, will resume work
about December /.
The jury which has been hearing
the suit at Wenatchee of d. e. Fisher
against l.. V. Eighme, who is charged
with the alienation of Mrs. Fishers af-
fections, brought in verdict of $500
for the plaintiff. Fisher brought suit
for $4,000.
So far during the apple season ]. d.
Dumass of Dayton has packed $4,000
boxes of apples, out of which he has
shipped 10000 boxes to New York.
and is now awaiting the arrival of
cars to ship the remaining $4,000
boxes, and also those that he will pick
during the next week, as he has an
other weeks picking on hand.
The financial situation in Colfax re-
mains about the same. Business con-
tinues to be good, and the only thing
necessary to put it on normal basis
again is for the wheat to begin NOV
ing