Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-23
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-FalI Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


and fair to be held in Waitsburg
While engaged in a hand to hand
fight on board a, scow dashed to the
tug Fearless about midnight, George
Ross, cook, and Edward Paggett, a
deckhand, fell overheard and were
drowned near Tacoma.
The estate of Mary j. Mood, stu
ated eight miles west of Palouse and
consisting of 400 acres, has been sold
at administrator sale to w. S. Mood
of Tacoma, one of the heirs. The pur-
chase price was $18,65S.60.
Hattie Harrison, variety actress at
Spokane, attempted to commit suicide
between 1870 and 1 o'clock Sunday
morning by swallowing antiseptic tab
lets and is not expected to recover.
The gage of battle has been thrown
by the Seattle Master Builders asso-
citation, comprising practically all the
building contractors, when it gave the
building trades assembly, comprising
the allied trades unions of the city,
until Monday, March 10, to adjudicate
its wage demands.
Saloon licenses in unincorporated
IOWnS III w ulludu COuuly Will NC
$1,000 year in the future.
Chairman Fairchild of the state
railroad commission announces that at
recent conference Of the commits
sion with representatives of the Hili
and Hartman lines, the latter agreed
to Immediately issue interchangeable
mileage at 2h cents a mile, good on
all roads.
Governor Mead announces the ap-
pointment of Representative L. P.
Hornberger of Spokane as a member
of the Observation-Disclosures exposition
state commission.
The new primary law makes no pro-
vision of independent candidates,
that is as individuals. The theory
was that the independent candidate is
solely a man who thinks he was job
bed out of the convention nomination.
Under the new law every man who
wishes has fair field and no favor
for nomination.
The organizing of crew of sheep
shearers has begun in Dayton. A com
mencement will be made on Snake
river this week, when they will start
on a clip of $4,000 feeces for Dawn
Brothers, with 5000 for Jackson Broth
ers, 5000 for Charley Dodge and be
tween 1000 and 5000 for others in e
district.
The secretary of the interior has au
thorized the reclamation service tC
prosecute the work of constructing
laterals and structures required in the
distribution system of Okanogan irri
cation systems.
f. M. Martin and son of Cheney viii
begin at once the construction of {
feed and Touring mill.
The influx of homeseekers has be
gun.
Spokane's fight for better freigh
rates was again taken up in Chicago
Monday.
The Cheney debateing team won thu
debate from the Lewiston State Nor
nal school team Saturday evening b,
vote of to / by the judges.
The railroad commission has ap
pointed Mr.. Perley of Whitman count.
inspector of tracks and equipmen
under the new law.
Burglars entered the North Yakim
postoffice recently and after spending
considerable time ransacking the OF
flee and making an unsuccessful al
tempt to open the safe by drilling
holes. left with Sis in stamps AM
about So in money.
II. G. Taylor, an educated Indian
was arrested at North Yakima F'rida
for forgery.
Mike Ansalod, an Italian, was kille
by a passenger train west Of Ellens
burg recently.
The two longshoremen's unions o
Seattle met and have merged thei
interests in new union to be inde
pendent of all national affiliations.
Thirty-seven schools of Lincol
county have raised $1,000 for the Gil
culation library fund. There are los
books in circulation and will 500
reach 4000
Mrs. Rosario Van Kroonenburg, tn
pretty Spanish wife of G. Van Kroor
enburg. a newspaper correspondent
Tacoma. is supposed to be in Spokan
hiding from her husband who, sh
alleges, is cruel to her.
IDAHO NEWS
Lieutenant Frank Steunenberg, [
s. A.. attached to the University c