Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
NORTHWEST NEWS.

Edith Wilson. girl about IA years
old, attempted suicide at Portland re-
Gently by swallowing several tablets
of poison. The cause of the act was
that the girl had been arrested for in
corrigibility
There is an influx of Kindus on
Grays Harbor
North Yakima has Just put in AMI
auto hose cart, which is said to do
satisfactory work. 1t is one of the few
in the Pacific northwest
After two days session the state
association of master plumbers closed
its convention in Bellingham. James
Smyth of Spokane was elected presi-
dent. The association will meet next
year in Spokane.
Sergeant w. A. Berg of North va
kima, Company e, N. G. W., won the
presidents match at the annual shoot,
which is being held under the auspices
of the National Rifle association at
Camp Perry, Ohio.
No smoking is allowed on the back
platforms of Tacoma railroad power
street cars within the city.
William Davis, who shot and killed
John MCGEE, a Seattle contractor, sew
eral months ago at Leavenworth, is
very low with heart trouble.
Rainier Beach and Dunlap, suburbs
on Lake Washington, with territory
two miles square and population Of
five to seven thousand, have voted to
annex to Greater Seattle
l.; II -
story steel building on a double corn
er in Seattle has been SOIL by James
A. Moore to G. ]. Smith and A. s..
Kerry of Seattle for $500,000.
The state reformatory commission
has selected a tract of land one and
one-half miles northwest of Monroe
as a site for the reformatory. The
price asked for the site is $4,000.
George G. Burton, now in solitary
confinement in the Seattle city Jail
awaiting transportation to Illinois to
serve term of 20 years for burglary,
is one of the most skilful safe bur
glars the authorities in Illinois ever
had to deal with.
The banks of Seattle have come to
the aid of the state commission of the
Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition and
by agreeing to cash all warrants drawn
on the fund to be raised by sale OF
shore lands as provided for by the
state at the last session of the legis
lature have eliminated all obstacles
from the path of the commission.
Work has begun on the installation
of the Gamewell fire alarm system in
Lewiston, a force of linemen having
been brought here to string the ter
miles of wire which will carry the
alarms
Montana has 1885 full members ant
468 probationers in Methodist church
There are SO churches and As parson
ages. The total value of church prop
erty is $76,625, on which there is al
Indebtedness of s14,115, which proba
bly, will be wiped out this year, a
during the last year the sum of $12,62
was paid on the debt.
A large number of the sheep o
southern Montana range in the Mad
ison forest reserve during the summe
months. the country around the hea
of the Ruby river and its hundreds o
tributaries being apportioned to dii
ferent sheepmen, who pay a liberia
fee to TIE government for the priv
lileee. The same conditions also al
ply to the other reserves, which hav
been established more recently at tn
headwaters of the tributaries of tn
Big Hole and Beaverhead.
Madison county produced nearly
: million pounds of wool during tn
. past season.
Secretary H. R. Wells of the MOI
! tana Stockgrowers association ha
called a meeting of the executiv
committee of the association to b
held at Miles City September 16.
John Ryan, managing director {
the Amalgamated company. is agai
at his office in Butte for the first tim
since last April when he started fc
New York and soon afterward sale
for Europe.
The wool crop in southern Montan
is the biggest in its history. Beave
head will weight out 1,750, 900 pound
a quarter of million more than an
other year in its history.
| M. w. Mann has been appointe
custodian at Fort Keogh, the comman
of the Sixth cavalry has departed ft
the Philippines.
II has been stated that the missile
of Governor S. T. Hauser, who wei
east recently. is in connection vii
the building of custom copp'
smelter on the Missouri river in II
vicinity of Helena. The smelter is
Ill., l., o1oeo rrovirnitv RI fho low,