Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-04-20
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA news.
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 NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
The price for prison sacks this year
will be 8 cents. E.
1t is said Everett will be a ter
minus Of the Milwaukee road.
Spokane voted favorably for an is
sue of 100000 in school bonds last
Saturday
The meeting Of the grand lodge of
the A. O.. U. w. takes place at Aber-
deem this week.
Fire has destroyed the residence of
L. H. Koontz with practically all the
contents at Pasco.
Italians working six miles west of
Cheney found a dead man about 100
yards south of the railroad track.
Stockholders in the Columbia Valley
Bank of Wenatchee are to open new
banking institution at Cashmere. 4
Ed Sinclair was acquitted by jury
at Walla Walla Of the murder of Gust
Kostovos, Greek restaurant man.
Hon. S. G. Hyde has been appointed
justice of the peace by the county
commissioners of Spokane recently.
A large package of dynamite was
found in the street opposite the home
of F. E. Ping at Wenatchee recently.
Benton county will have term of
the sdperiour court on the 18th OF
this month that will probably last
week.
The Waterville city council has ac-
| cepted the bid of the state for the
purchase of $4,000 worth of water
bonds
The c. & o. S. S. company are con-
structing a new river steamer to be
known as the Okanogan for the upper
Columbia river.
The Wenatchee city council has pur
} chased a $4,000 combination chemical
ton to the city,
The Kennewick Courier has been
declared the official paper of Benton
county for the period from July 1,
1907, to July 1. 1908.
The shout of fire by some one in
the gallery of the Savoy theater, Ia
: coma, started a panic Sunday after
>, noon. No one was seriously hurt.
: Lyman Shotwell and Ira Collier won
the Wenatchee high school declama-
e tory contest and will represent that
n city at Seattle and Pullman May 1918
Captain G. o. Lorenzo, pioneer
resident of Tacoma, was stricken with
: heart failure Sunday and falling to the
I ground died before assistance reached
e him.
A train on the Spokane Falls &
: Northern crashed into boulder three
i miles this side of Myncaster, B. c
L Sunday morning. Engineer jeff Irby
e was the only one injured.
5, The commissioners of Douglas coun
ty have designated May as the day
y on which special election is to be
n held in Coulee City to vote on the in
r corporation of that town.
The state has filed on approximately
10000 acres of land in Whatcom coun
ty in the United States land Office a
y Seattle The state claims this lane
S as indemnity for lost common schoo
a grants.
y Leslie Larson, the year old son O
l, L. e. Larson, living at Hatton, Wash.
h died recently. The little fellow fel
n into vat of boiling water and was
IS terribly scalded, living but 40 hours
!, afterward.
II William Constantine was fount
u guilty at Seattle of assault with ;
. deadly weapon with intent to com
nit murder. Constantine fired si-
shots at Jesse Hall, his son in law
all of which took effect in the man.
. body. Hall recovered from tn
- wounds.
- Four men, believed beyond doubt t
- be the desperate bandits who, des
!, pite a rain of bullets from officers
n coolly exploded charge after charg
a. of dynamite against the doors of tn
&c safe of the Ephrata bank and late
m escaped into the darkness, were car
tured about eight miles from Ephrata
The amount of booty secured will no
exceed $50, and has been recovered
* All the dynamite used failed to pene
id trate the inner vault of the safe, wher
le The treasure is kept.
Whitman County Notes.
IN Spring work is greatly delayed. SEED
to ing is just begun, but the farmers ar
IN ever hopeful
Albert Powell, during the nine year
he has been sexton of Colfax GENE
terry, has taken part in burying So
If bodies.
no Recently ~ of the farmers in tn
al vicinity of Cotton closed deal wit
~ 80 DBL q