Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
Washington, IDAHO, oregon
and MONTANA news.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Accl.
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Fal Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Medical Lake has ia attendants.
Samuel McCauley has been appoint
ed regular rural carrier at Dayton.
1t Is said Everett will be connected
by electric road with Seattle at an
early date.
The embargo on through eastbound
dead freight, in effect west of White
fish, Mont, since January 2, will be
lifted March IS.
Victor Dessert, owner of the Pacific
hotel and a pioneer resident of Spo-
kane, died recently. His fortune was
rated at $75O,O0O.
The annual bean bake of the G. A.
r. post and Woman's Relief corps at
Pullman last week was one of the big
events of the season.
The funeral of H. G. Stimmel, who
died in Seattle, was held Sunday aft
ernoon at Spokane, where he had made
his home for 23 years.
A cooperative store, with a capital
stock of $4,000, fully subscribed, is to
conduct general merchandise bust
ness in Harrington.
A number of schoolgirls in Walla
Walla, ranging in age from 10 to Is
years, have been stealing small arti-
Giles from the different stores in town.
John H. English, aged SIS years, who
lived south of Palouse, was found dead
recently at the foot of bluff along
the Palouse river just east of the city
limits.
The case against a Tacoma skating
rink proprietor who kept his place open
on Sunday has been dismissed. The
court held the prosecution had failed
to make a case.
The February report from Medical
Lake hospital for the insane shows an
average attendance of 526 patients
with 16 new ones, six discharged and
two deaths.
1t now appears that Washington will
be divided into three congressional dis
tricts, one east of the mountains and
two west. Klickitat will be in the
Pierce county district.
Roy N. Wolfe, who was selected last
December as the champion debater of
Whitman college. will be given the
debate trophy, awarded by the gradu-
ating class of last year for the best
debater.
The IL year old son of Mr.. Snead
OF Garfield, while out hunting SPUR
reis recently with younger brother
and neighbours son named Davis,
was accidentally shot dead by the
Davis boy.
County officers at Bellingham are
having trouble with negro laborers i'm
ported by j. j. Hill to replace Japs on
the Great Northern. The negroes have
been quarantined, but refuse to remain
III the camps.
Mrs. Jane Anderson, the Oldest
woman in the state of Washington and
perhaps on the Pacific coast, died last
week at the home of her daughter
Mrs. w. H. Hamilton, in Bellingham
She was 101 years old.
The body of a woman was found
on the ice in the Mohawk river near
Schenectady, ~ Y, recently. She
had jumped from a passenger train.
Her ticket bore the name of Mrs.
Maria Becker, of Chehalis, Wash.
Efforts are being made by the
friends of Herman Lown of Edmonds,
Wash, to secure for the young hero
a Carnegie medal. Young Lown saved
four girls from drowning last Sun
day after a boat in which they were
rowing had capsized, himself receiving
serious injuries.
Mother Smith of Portland, known
over the northwest for her work in
trying to reform the criminal element,
visited the Walla Walla Jail and peni-
Tertiary and preached to the prisoners
recently. She travels without money,
and says that God always provides for
her wants.
The town of Prescott is headquart-
ers for the new association recently
organized under the name of Farmers
& Wheat Growers of America. The
purpose of the association is to pro-
tect the members from the grain buy
ers' combine, and assist in marketing
their product to the best advantage.
1t is reported there is scarcity OF
farm laborers throughout the Palouse
country and wages have been adj
vanced. Farmers are paying ST. to
$3.50 per day and board for common
farm work, and some are offering 35
per month and board for steady work,
with regular harvest wages during har-
vest.
MONTANA ITEMC