Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-08-17
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA NEWS.
A 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 NOTES.


or move on.
Construction on the Portland & De-
attic railroad, is being rapidly pushed
to completion.
The bodies Of Vern Wilcox and
Roberf d. Mitchell, who were drowned
In the Columbia river recently near
Bridgeport. were recovered
Elisha Tarble, an old pioneer and a
member of the Stevens County Pho
neer association, died recently.
Carl B. Roden, assistant in the Chi
cago public library has been elected
librarian for the Seattle library.
Whitman county will be entirely out
OF debt this fall, according to the state
ments of the county commissioners.
1t Is said the warehouse men
throughout the Inland Empire have
raised the price for storage and hand
ling of grain.
Under regulations issued by the sec
rotary of the interior, automobiles
will hereafter be permitted in Mount
Rainier national park.
1t is said Washington's new CT
garette law which is in effect will yet
result in the manufacture of new
variety of cigarettes.
L. F. Darr, a prominent hardware
marchant Of Uniontown, met with an
accident recently during a runaway
that will probably prove fatal.
The wreck on the Northern Pacific
at Garfield has all been cleared up.
The four men injured are doing nicely,
mr. fhnu mill
AS many as 80 cruisers have been
looking over timber for the Chicago.
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad in the
dense forests on the Olympia PENN
sula.
Riley Harris, declared by the King
county sheriff to be one of the most
noted and daring horse thieves in the
country, was captured in his camp in
Seattle.
w. H. Ludden, well known at
tcrney of Spokane, has announced his
intention of making the race for the
nomination to congress from the Third
district
During the past year ending June
80 the police of Spokane made a total
of $40 arrests, of which number 4917
were for city offenses and 553 for
state offenses.
In a rearend collision Of southbound
trains on the Northern Pacific at Kala-
ma recently Conductor c. B. Carl of
Tacoma, who was in the caboose OF
the forward train, was instantly killed
Magnus Olson, who is to have charge
of the chorus work of the Nord Pa
cifc saengerfest, which will be held
in Spokane from August 20 to Septem
Der 1, says a large crowd will be
there.
After 30 years spent in searching
for his two children, who had been
taken from his home by their mother
33 years ago, NJ L. Fauver of BOYD
county, Nebraska, has located them in
Whitman county.
The Prosser city council has re
ceived petitions from large number
of taxpayers, which were granted, tc
call a special election to bond the city
for $4,000, for the purpose of sinking
a deep well to obtain better city
and domestic water supply.
Orders have been issued from the
Great Northern headquarters instruct
ing all agents to refuse consignments
of shingles for points via Duluth OF
Superior, along the Great Lakes, ow
ing to congestion of freight at the
docks at the head waters of the lakes
The report of Professor Elton Full
mer of the Washington State college
on his examination of the stomach o.
CLYDE Henion of Newport has beer
made public, and the chemist states
that he did not discover any poison
that could have caused the death o.
Henion, or any trace of poison.
An investigation of the complaints
made by members of the United Span
ish war veterans that unjust discrim
nation against veterans of all wars
is in vogue at the Puget Sound nav,
yard is to be carried on by them. Gran
Hinkle of Spokane was elected com
mander for the ensuing year. They
will meet at Tacoma next year.
The farmers of the vicinity of Day
ton have been taking advantage of the
high price offered for barley, which II
81. and in some cases higher, per 10(
hounds. The farmers have estimated
a total yield of 100000 sacks of barley
alone If this is true, and with the
wheat crop, there will be nearly 81, 900,
600 in circulation in that vicinity dur
ing the coming fall.
At a recent mass meeting in Seattle
at which 200 single manufacturers
we're present, fund of $4,000 was