Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-09

lcge and w s. s. will take place
March %. a The subject is: Resolved.
That municipalities should own and
operate their street railways.
The third annual debate between
Whitman college and Pacific univer-
sity at College Grove, Ore, took place
Wednesday evening.
Daniel Weaver, a prominent farm
or near Cheney has received three full
blooded Angora goats from Helena,
Mont They are the offspring Of two
South African bucks, the mohair Of
which recently sold for $3.50 a pound.
bringing $266.50, there being Al pounds
IN one clipping.
Harry Davenport, George Wood
ward and Edward Mason, all of the
junior class Of Whitman college, were
chosen after tryout debate recently
to represent this institution in the
coming debate with Willamette uni
versity.
A needed enterprise at Washtucna
is -four mill. The Washtucna coun-
try produces extra good milling wheat.
The town of Quincy is to be incor-
porated, with F.. T. Campbell, mayor;
G. D. Banko, ]. L. Dickinson, H. D.
Vail, ]. j. Cox, H. C. Shockley, trus
tees, and w. H. Linn, treasurer.
Frank Kaufman was killed in the
railroad yards at Sprague recently, be-
ing run over by freight train. He
has relatives in Chicago and Kansas
City.
w. H. Walker, ex-deputy sheriff Of
Franklin county, is in the Pasco Jail
charged with killing Charles Ander-
son, who died in a Spokane hospital
recently.
Pure bred Shetland ponies, Jersey
cows and Poland China pigs are to be
bred near Spokane by G. H. Hamley
OF Maquoketa, Iowa.
Arrangements are being made by
Lieutenant Cushing Post, G. A. R., of
Ballard, for the entertainment of the
state encampment of the order during
June 1928.
Considerable counterfeit money in
TIE form of SIS and $40 bills has been
circulated about. Spokane for the past
10 days.
The senate privileges and elections
committee returned the direct prim-
airy bill with a number of amendments
and an emergency clause attached
which may enable primaries to be held
II. Spokane this spring under the new
law.
The King county 100000 bond is
sue to aid in the construction of the
Lake Washington canal has been in
validated in the supreme court at
Olympia. The county Is not permit
ted to become interested in a private
enterprise, according to the consti-
tuition.
After escaping conviction Oh tech.
nicalities at Olympia, Tacoma, Seat
tie and Port Townsend, George King,
leader in conspiracy by which half
the counties in the state were de-
frauded out of hundreds of dollars,
through the collection of bounties on
wildcat scalps shipped to Bellingham
from the east, gave up a long legal
battle for liberty and was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment
The body of a man found on the
beach at Whiterock, on the Canadian
side of the line, about two miles from
Blaine, few days ago has been iden-
titled as that of William Johnson,
Dakota creek farmer, who disappeared
on December 81.
The police of Spokane are on a still
hunt for "Peeping Tom who has
been seen there.
Seattle merchants, wholesale and
retail, city manufacturers and export
ers have invested the enormous sum
of $4000,000 in merchandise from the
Atlantic states which has been or
dered months ago, but which may be
months reaching Seattle, due to the
freight blockade on railways.
Dorman Bros. have about consum-
mated sale of their 5000 acre ranch
near Lacrosse. This is one of the very
best farms in the country and is in
4 high state of cultivation and well
improved.
The North Yakima Builders asso-
citation have voted to grant the car
penters union an eight hour day at
the same pay they now receive for
nine hours, which is $3.50 day.
In round numbers, 100000 bushels
OF wheat of last seasons crop have
been delivered at Prosser.
AS a result of a head-on collision
between two streetcars near Fort
Lawton, Seattle, Sunday, 10 persons
were injured, two of whom may die.
Motorman D. M. Mckay had both
legs broken and was otherwise so
badly mangled that no hope is enter
tanned for his recovery. Two women
are numbered among the injured.