Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-10-31
Washington, IDAHO. Oregon
and MONTANA items.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous AccI-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The Columbia county tax is 10 mills.
1t is reported that there are about
Is cases of smallpox in Pullman.
Irwin w. Mathews of Waterville is
dead, after a short illness with pneu-
monia.
The Idaho Trust company and the
National Bank of Lewiston are to be-
come one in the near future.
From IL to Is cars of apples a day
are being shipped from Wenatchee to
different sections of the United States.
The Spokane rate case will not be
decided for a month, according to the
secretary of the interstate commerce
commission.
The generous rains recently are of
inestimable value to the country. The
rain has been general and came in the
nick of time.
Harry Z. Gordon, a pioneer resident
of Spokane, where he has resided con-
tinuously since 1885, died of locomotor
ataxia Saturday.
Madeline King, who confessed to hav-
ing burned the body of her aged hus-
band, was acquitted of the charge of
murder by jury at Port Orchard.
Walter A. Davenport Of Colfax has
accepted a position with the Seattle
branch of the Foster & Kleiser Adver-
tising company, in which he is a stock
holder.
Spokane postofice receipts for the
month ended September 80 show an in
crease of 10 IL per cent over the re-
ceipts of the corresponding month last
year.
Work on the New Ridgeway theater
building at Colfax is progressing rap
idly and the superintendent thinks the
structure will be ready for use by the
first of December
Ed Green, a recent arrival from
northern Michigan, was killed recently
near Sedro Woolley while at work as
brakeman for the Puget Sound & Ba-
ker River Railroad company.
A movement has been started to put
new life in the Spokane Playground as
ISOLATION, to increase its membership,
establish and equip Fairgrounds in
every school district IN the city.
John Hanson Of Everett, for the past
six months a member Of the board of
pardons Of the Washington state re-
formatory at Monroe, has been ap-
pointed for the long term ending July
~, 1913.
Exclusive Of the 5000, 900 that has
been paid for the site TO be occupied
by Spokane 3 new II story hotel, prop.
erty on Sprague and First avenue has
sold within the last two weeks 10 the
amount Of nearly 100000.
The loyal parishioners of the All
tanum church, North Yakima, came
down on their pastor the Rev Owen
Umstead, recently, and now the par
oehial henroost is loaded tin it bends
The Rev. Mr.. Cmstead WAS given q
chicken shower
A report from Tacoma says that thf
state executive committee Of tho 50
eialist party has decided not 10 paj
the fee demanded Of Us candidates or
the state ticket, but 10 make the race
BY means Of stiekers and the writing
Of the names OF tho candidates upol
tho ballots
robert sofompps, ~ years Old, pro
priotor Of the staf dairy al Rigney Hul
Tacoma, nas shot aud killod Sunday b
bis dairy rapeh by Fred Abel, AZ yfan
old, sho, Win Roy Comfy teo yeafa DIV
junior Hae Aupilng upon the dairy
map's land 4he boy muldefeT claim
enc deed Hae dono W folf defenso
IDAHO hoTEe.
ono fnafuIf III iho ofl0al exlllf a.