Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-06-29
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.

elected principal of the Spokane high
school, His salary was fixed at $4,000
year.
The fifth annual Lincoln County Pr
oneer and Historical associations pic
mic was the most successful in the his
tory of the association.
Hundreds of carloads of harvesters
are being brought to Tacoma for trans
shipment to Vladivostok, whence they
are sent by rail to Manchuria.
A Great Northern railway passenger
going west was wrecked about eight
miles up the Tumwater canyon west OF
Leavenworth Saturday night. The
train was a double-header. The first
engine spread the rails, falling on its
side. The second engine was thrown
from the track into the Wenatchee r1v-
en- carrying the mail car along with 1t.
There was nobody injured except the
fireman, who was slightly injured
about the head.
The large blast near Kahlotus on
George Chew's contract on the Port
land & Seattle line was exploded Sat-
urday night This blast consisted of
10000 pounds of powder, which rep
resents an outlay OF over $4,000. for
powder alone.
State Horticulturist Frank E. Hunt
ley and his deputy, P. S. Darlington,
are in Wenatchee to investigate the
condition of the orchards and the fruit
crop. Mr.. Darlington will make We
natchee his headquarters and have un-
der his official observation the coun-
ties of Chelan, Douglas and OkanOgan.
]. E. Messy of Pullman is not gull
ty of maintaining a nuisance and
Judge Chadwick instructed the jury to
return verdict.
jennie McLain has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla. The crime for
which he was arrested and to which
he pleaded guilty was that of the muir
der of William Cameron, a white man
on the Colville reservation about two
weeks ago. McLain is a halfbreed
Indian.
The Stevens County Pioneer society
will hold it's regular annual meeting
and picnic at Chewalah next Sunday.
The body of William Gustavus Adol
plus Schoening, formerly a student a.
the University of Washington, was
found floating in the bay near the
fire boat at the foot of Madison street
Seattle, Wash, Coroner Carroll be
lieves that Schoening committed sui
eide while temporarily insane. The
body had lain in the water at leas
two weeks.
: Ernest F. w. Poolton, aged Is, {
It student in the freshman class of thu
II Seattle high school, died Monday al
l. the result of burns received from al
e exploding lamp.
l. Under the name of the Young Men
> Buddhist association of Seattle, Japa
:, nese of Seattle have raised fund o
$4,000 and have purchased a site TO
% temple.
i. George w. France, for over sevel
n years postmaster of Hoquiam, sue
D. cumbed to a lingering illness from car
le Ger of the stomach and other organ
n which was too far advanced to be re
i moved.
d While Mrs. Bumgardner and he
y daughter Clara were assisting the fel
u ryman in crossing the Central ferr
~ recently the rear wheel, which the
. were operating, got beyond their col
"a troll, and, catching in the clothes c
J. the woman, threw them overheard
70 Mrs. Bumgardner caught in the rope
k and was rescued, but the younger won
o. an, being less fortunate, was throw
3, far out in the stream beyond all POI
" sible help and was drowned.
st Saul Louie, the Indian charged wit
e, murder in the first degree for brutal
e. beating the life out of his sweetheal
+ on the reservation April 10, becaus
q she lavished her affections upon a.
other red man, was sentenced to
N years in the penitentiary at Wal
~ Walla.
a Complete returns from the speci
s. election held in school districts No.
Of 10, 25, 38, 49, 46, 81 and 116 Whitma
he county, to decide whether or not the
st should organize into high school di
as trict show that large majority vote
p against organization.
40 The wreck which happened on Il
e. Spokane & International recently at
- point near Spokane Bridge, killt
- George e. Kendall and w. H. Water
% both train men.
IDAHO NEWS