Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-07-20
WASHINGTON. IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA NEWS.
A Few Interesting Items Cattle cred
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous AccI-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook 10 Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

have been taken to the penitentiary.
Farmers in eastern Washington are
being urged to make a determined
fight against the spr lad of wild mus
tard, which is getting quite a foot
hold.
Henry Cameron, q farmer living
about two miles from Colbert, was
burned to death recently in his farm
house. He was about 55 years old
He had been in town and was under
the influence of liquor when he went
home.
The loss in the fire which destroyed
the Farmers Alliance Warehouse
company's warehouse at Fallon sta
ton, four miles south of Palouse. is
much greater than at first reported.
Philip Low, agent in charge, reported
that 900 tons of oats alone had been
destroyed, entailing loss of at least
$4,000.
The new brewery of the Ellensburg
Brewery and Mating company burned
to the ground recently with a loss to
the company of $4,000, and only $1,000
insurance.
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c. M. Taylor at Cornell was entered
recently by unknown parties and
robbed of $3.50.
The fruit crop is late in the Yaki-
ma region.
A movement to spend 100000 on
better roads is being planned in Yak
ina county.
On the Potlatch ridge for space
one-half mile wide and three miles
long hail fell recently as large as hens
eggs all over.
by recent rains in the Yakima coun-
try have caused a stiffening of prices
in that market.
Patrol Driver Ed Minnick and De-
tective Clancy of Tacoma were both
badly hurt recently when Harry Nc
Cracken's automobile crashed into the
Central patrol wagon
Joe Crock, a polish miner, shot and
killed Bakass Dieago and seriously
wounded Joe Frankie recently al
Black Diamond. The shooting was
without provocation.
According to the summarized cen
sus returns the figures given for the
lumber and timber industry in this
state as a whole show that 1927 es
Establishments, with a combined CAPT
tai of $517224,128, were manufactur
ing lumber and timber products a.
the census of 1905. These establish
ments employed on the average 404,
626 wage-earners, and they paid $1S3,
O21,519 in wages consumed materials
costing s1S3, 786,21O, and manufactur
ing products valued at $3.50, 022,69O
Kiona celebrated the Fourth, beins
the only town in Benton county u
observe the day with public celebra
ton.
Through a conditional purchase thu
Yakima Mckee Valley Land compan,
has secured from P. M. Joice and Id
M. Poice 35,147 acres of arid land II
the Mckee valley, the price beini
$500 900.
Mrs. Laura Gibbons of Palouse re
ceiyed the intelligence recently of tn
drowning of her son Glen in tn
Kootenai river at Wardner, B. c.
p w. Madden, for 81 years resi-
dent of Wild Rose. prairie, north
Spokane, died recently.
The largest sale of sheep reported
in North Yakima in some weeks wa
made in Chicago recently by Cofhl
Brothers of North Yakima, the firm
disposing of 10000 head at $3.50 each
Henry F. Baldwin, recently al
pointed chief engineer for the Oregon
& Washington railway, Hartman
new road to the northwest and Seal
tie. has arrived in Seattle and vii
begin work at once.
The Northwestern Lumber CON
pany, the principal stockholders i
which are Barley brothers and M. +
Quinn of Pennsylvania, have pun
chased 10000 acres of timber land Il
Western Washington. Considerable
$2,000,000.
Track laying on the Spokane & lr
land is finished to the site of the depo
at Colfax The ballasting gang is onl
a few miles out and will probably b
in by July Is or 20.
Six new clerks have been granite
the Spokane postoffice.
The rains of the last few days mea
a bumper crop of hops for the stat
of washington The only dishearter
ing influence is the market.
It is said Congressman Wesley l
Jones of North Yakima will be car
didate for United States senator froI
the state Of Washington against Ser
ator Levi Ankeny of Walla Walla.