Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-05-11
Washington, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerou Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-FaIl Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The North Yakima Carnegie public
library was dedicated Saturday, H. P.
James, representing the library COM
mittee, turning over the keys to Mayor
Fechter. The building cost, including
the site, almost $4,000.
The new steam schooners, to cost |
in all $250,000, are under construction
at the Lindstrom shipyards at Aber-
deem.
An eastbound passenger train struck
a buggy in North Yakima Sunday after
noon and hurled Samuel Kesling, one
of the occupants, so feet in the air
and caught his brother AID under the
cowcatcher, dragging him for 400 feet,
while he chung desperately to the pilot
to avoid being crushed under the
wheels, AID dying in a few minutes,
while his brother was found to have
his right leg broken and several minor
injuries.
Fire Sunday destroyed the coal tar
plant of the Puget Sound Sheet Metal
works at Seattle. An electric spark
dropped into a tank of tar, which
caused an explosion. The company's
loss is estimated at from $4,000 to-
S15,OOO partially covered by insurance.
LII d ltdl-cnQ COilloiOh Oh lAO SoiSA
way cable line, Seattle, seven persons
were injured.
Effective Monday morning every
barber shop in Spokane commenced to
charge 35 cents for cutting hair
Two million dollars will be added
to the 1907 assessment roll of Clacka-
mas county
]. M. Snow. the state highway COM
10 hou
among the counties of the state the
$4,000 appropriated by the last leg
islature for the improvement of state
roads.
Spokane ranks fifth among the cities
of the United States in the percentage
of increase in bank clearings.
Signs of storm in Whatcom county
over the contest for lands opened for
settlement last winter are brewing,
states west side report
There is a movement on foot among
the business men of Sprague to or
ganize a commercial club.
1t is feared s. w. Waddell Of Belling-
ham and his IL year old son Sinclair
have been drowned while fishing in
the Narrows west of Tacoma.
Chester Thompson, who killed G..
eally sent to prison, is the decision of
the state supreme court.
Saturday was Spokane's second an
nual cleaning day.
The Metal Trades association and
the Pacific Foundrymen's association
have unanimously agreed TO file the
demand of the iron molders for wage
scale of 81 a day.
orio fol m hin line has
been formed by the Centennial Mil
Company of Spokane and Seattle and
the Jebson Steamship company OF
Hamburg.
Reports from the east to the effect
that the Chicago, Milwaukee & st
Paul is to indefinitely discontinue work
on the Pacific extension are denied by
H. R williams, president of the Chica
go. Milwaukee & st. Paul in Washing
ton.
Whitman County Notes.
Several farmers of Rosalia are ship
ping in beet pulp from Waverly to feed
to their dairy COWS.
A. L. Ballaine, farmer living IN
Pleasant valley, lost large machine
shed. containing a threshing machine
and other farm implements, valued al
$4,000, by fire recently.
Miss Fern Healy of the Washington
State college won the oratorical con
test at Corvallis, Ore, against the Ore
gon Agricultural college and Whitman
college.
new floor is being put down on the
Cooper lake bridge in the south enc
of Colfax.
In travelling over Whitman count!
one can see every evidence of the large
acreage devoted to wheat and othe
grains, and the almost sure results tina
are to follow the plentiful railfall fol
lowing the SHOWS of winter.
The new road law provides tina
when a county commences the build
ing of road or roads of permanent
character the state shall bear half thu
expense.
The water supply at Elberton is t
be further tested by a new well ant
gravity system preferred II suppi'
is sufficient.
MONTANA ITEMS
Missoula had a public cleaning da.
last Tuesday.
The counsel for James S. keerl,
III - Ia n.