Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-14
WASHINGTON. IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA news.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-crop Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Milk IL cents quart at Tacoma.
Two Great Northern freight trains
collided in the Newport yards recently.
Nobody was killed.
The weather throughout the Palouse
country is all that could be desired for
the completion of harvest work.
Marion Russis, a young Frenchman,
aged 81 years, met his death by drown
ing in the Palouse river recently
w. Phillips, rancher in the Matches
valley, committed suicide recently by
shooting. He leaves wife and fam
ily
Too drunk to exercise reason, Carl
Brown of Tacoma, 40 years of age,
was run over by an electric train and
killed
Tomato shipments continue from
Sunnyside, and it will be another
month before the entire crop is mar
keted.
In struggle with a thief in a room
at a hotel in Seattle recently, Detec-
tive Lee A. Barbee shot and killed his
adversary.
Jefferson H. Fulton, of Asotin, has
left for Manila to enter upon his duties
as second lieutenant in the United
States army.
A floating dock has been built for
the accommodation of steamboats,
landing at Kennewick, and moored at
the landing.
There is hay famine on the coast
The death of Mrs. Mary P Shieldse
an old pioneer of Garfield county, oc
cured at Seattle recently.
Joe Mackine, a Finnish contractor
was killed recently at Aberdeen
Wash, by falling from the lift in E
well which he was digging.
Horse thieves appear to be numer
Gus in the Yakima country, a number
of cases where horses have been stol
en- being reported within the past few
| days.
| Beginning this week the Washing
ton, Idaho & Montana Railway com
pany will put on two trains each wa.
daily between Palouse and Deary
| which is the present terminus.
Farmers of the vicinity of Daytol
: are taking advantage of the fin
weather to haul their grain to tn
} warehouses as fast as possible, an,
already the houses are nearly filled
: Most of the farmers have sold thei
grain.
The entire city of Wenatchee is il
dire straits because of a f1ume bein
washed out at the Wenatchee Electro
company. No power is to be had il
the city, nor lights, and as a result
the entire community has bee
/ plunged into state of things border
4 ing on the archaic.
The annual business excursion of tn
Spokane Merchants & Manufacturers
association will this year touch tn
country lying west of Spokane alon
the Washington Central and Grea
Northern roads. The start will b
. made on Wednesday morning, Sept
= IS, at 7:30 o'clock.
Tied in their stalls and unable t
, escape from the burning building, 2
horses belonging to the City Da
Scavenger company were cremated il
t a fire that destroyed the company
stable at Spokane. Thirty tons of ha
in the loft of the barn, where the fir
: is supposed to have started, were ais
1 lost, making the total loss over $40
000 Only about $4,000 of this wa
covered by insurance.
, The old soldiers in camp at Chewe
lab recently elected the following off
:, GERS for the ensuing year: Commander
Comrade F. A. Parmeter of Daisy
!, Wash; senior commander, Conrad
Childs, Kettle Falls, Wash; JUNO
, commander, Comrade Stafford, Kettl
Falls, Wash; adjutant, Colonel Fish
:, Kettle Falls. Wash; officer Of day,
t. Grove, Deer Park; officer of guard
Mr.. Anderson, Spokane; quartermas
: ter, Z. A. Keyes, Spokane.
Fire destroyed the Webb hotel a
Shelton, 20 miles from Tacoma, re
Gently. Miss Bailey and Mrs. Nudge
) both of Shelton, are known to b
among the lost The following perish
ed: Miss Ivy Bailey, chamberlain
w. H. Holmes, master mechanic in tn
Peninsula Railway shops; Pearl T
Larson; boy driver for Connolly, tn
butcher; Mrs. Gay of the hotel; Dal
. j. Hennessey, a logger. Eight or min
are still unaccounted for.
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