Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-02-23
WASHINGTON NOTES.


ger train on the Oregon Railroad &
Navigation line entered Hay station
Saturday evening, Donielle Pomanti. a.
well-dressed Italian, smashed a win
dow and leaped from the running
train and was instantly killed.
After shooting his divorced wife
four times and inflicting fatal injuries,
Louis Mazoretsky, well to do second
hand dealer of Vancouver, sent a bull
let through lis own head, killing him
self instantly
Reduction Of 25 per cent in fire in
surance rates throughout the north
west, practically reestablishing the
rates that were in effect before the
raise subsequent to the San Francisco
fire, Is to be made at once.
A workman on the st. Paul road
was killed recently eight miles south
of Sprague by falling from a wagon
while in an intoxicated condition. His
lame is said to be G.. Thamaker
A head-on collision occurred recent
Nv between two freight trains at Mel
sons siding, near Clealum. No one was
killed. The cars were badly piled up,
recurring eight hours work by two
wrecking crews to clear the lines.
Among the new buildings in Spo-
kane none is more notable than the
structure Just completed and occupied
by the Holley-Mason Hardware com.
pany. at the southeast corner of Rail-
road avenue and Howard street. 1t is
the only reinforced concrete building
in Spokane, and is perhaps the best
structure of it's kind in the northwest.
It was built at cost of 100000 The
building is six stories high, with base
ment and has a frontage of $50 feet
on Howard street and depth of $50
feet.
Mrs. Caroline Kline Galland one Of
the wealthiest residents of Seattle,
who died recently, left will, by the
terms of which nearly every dollar
of an estate estimated to be worth
nearly a million and a half dollars,
goes to charity.
The Pacific Coast Coal company has
granted an increase in wages to the
employees in it's various coal properties
the new scale having gone into effect
about the first of February. The raise
amounts to about 10 per cent.
Many hundreds Of tons of hay are
held in the Palouse warehouses by
the farmers, waiting for the price to
reach $40. Dealers are now Offering
$40 at the warehouse.
James Bunch, who recently entered
the home of Levi Wiley in the cas-
part Of Palouse and after almost kill
ing Mrs. Wiley, set fire to the house
and cut his own throat, is lying at thu
Palouse general hospital, too veal
from loss of blood to talk. His re
covery, however, is practically Ger
tain, and as soon as he is able to leave
the hospital he will be arraigned OIL
the charge OF attempted murder.
Krupp's first brick building is abou
completed.
A Chinook wind is anxiously looke'
for by stockmen.
At the end of the fourth week o
the Washington legislature the senat
has passed 40 senate bills and 81 hous
bills, total of 76, and the house ha
passed 70 house bills and IA senat
bnl, total of "a. The number O
houses, therefore, is Al, of which 2
originated in the house and IA original
ed in the senate. OF these 10 hav
been signed by the governor.
Spokane county is given another 81
perior court judge, to be appointed a
once by the governor in the new omn
bus judicial districting bill agreed VI
Oh today by the subcommittee OF tn
state judiciary committee.
Tacoma was closed tighter Sunda
than ever before in the history of tn
city. The saloons did not make a
attempt to open. Practically all of tn
cigar dealers announced their inter
ton of keeping their stores closed alst
Visitors to Spokane can have seat
reserved for any of the following a
fractions by writing Charles Mueh
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