Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-01-25
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
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 T

WAoCIN0I YIN NJ ES-
Mrs. c. H. Pomeroy, 81 years old.
wife of a well-known lawyer. and a
popular hostess of the h%ouseboat col
ony at Lake Washington. was drowned
in the lake recently.
The second day of Sunday closing in
North Yakima found the saloons tight
ly closed.
Bitten in the throat by a vicious
young horse, j. H. Adams, a farmer, II
miles from Kirkland, bled to death
within two hours after the attack.
BY an overwhelming vote, following
three hours of heated discussion, the
state federation of labor went on rec
ord as opposed to the Sunday theater.
A disease that is supposed to be hog
cholera has been the cause of the
death Of more than 100 fine porkers
in the immediate ~neighborhood of Pa
louise.
Murdered, the. body of Keevil AL
bring, the 20-year-old son of A. j. AL
bring. a rancher, living three miles
northeast of Mead, 10 miles north of
Spokane. was found recently.
Fire broke out early Sunday morn
ing at the farm residence of Joseph
Kelly, 10 miles south of Walla Walla.
~17-year-old son, and the severe burning
of William A. Kelly Oh Spokane, an
uncle of the dead boy.
The Wenatchee Milling company re-
ports that it has shipped $50 cars of
four during 1907. This represents
close to 800, 900 bushels of wheat.
Three sets of twins and six other
children have made Henry Clay Max
well of Wapato one of the ~proudest
fathers in the state.
State general fund warrants need
not be discounted, declare members OF
the state board of finance, although
some state banks are shylocking OIL
these. President Lord of the Capito
National bank announced today he
viii cash at par all such warrants, as
hi has lone since mo fund" warrants
were issued.
Promptly at II o'clock last Satur
day night every saloon and variet,
theater and restaurant in Spokane
stopped the sale of liquor, in compli
ance with the order of the mayor. Thu
shows will not reopen.
More han 100 young n middle
aged men have registered in the Jen
kins' institute, the Y. M. G. AS edu
cational department just opening.
Mary l.. Anderson of Rosalia ha
petitioned the superior court of Whit
man county to admit the will of he
late husband. ID. F. Anderson. VIII
died at Rosalia recently, to probate.
AS a result of agitation by tn
sheepmen using the Rainier forest re
serve, more sheep will be permitted t
Craze on the reserve.
Two powder houses at P. WEIGH (
Co.'s camp No. 3, nea Cheney, wer
blown to atoms by a dynamite expl'
sion recently.
J.. W. Vessey and John Peters
wealthy sheepmen with interest
around Prosser and North Yakim:
and G. A. Goggin OF Seattle, stat
manager for the Loyal American
who left Seattle on March 29, 100
bound for Durango, Mexico, to pu
chase land, have not been heard froi
for many months, and 1t Is feared the
have met with foul play.
The State Federation of Labo
unanimously voted to put the Alask'
YukonrPacihc exposition in Seattle o
the Unfair list.
Rural route No. l has been ordere
established April / at st. Andrew
Douglas county, serving 300 Poop
and 76 families.
Forty loaves of bread for one dolis
at Spokane is the new wholesale prit
at which the staff of life is now bein
offered.