Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-03-28
WASHINGTON, IDAHO. OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of tho Sur
: rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook 10 Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


of Ralston.
Chief of Police c. w. Wappenstein
of Seattle rendered his resignation.
The lowlands between Puyallup and
Tacoma are again in danger of over
flow.
The president has nominated Will
liam r. Baker to be postmaster at Col
vile, Wash
Washington and Oregon -four mil
lers have reduced the price of -four Is
cents barrel.
Floods are threatened in the Puyal-
lup, White and Stuck rivers by the
excessive rains
The new gas producing power plant
of the Wenatchee Electric company
has been put in operation.
Operations of the Spokane, Portland
& Seattle railroad commenced from
Vancouver to Pasco Monday
Two cases of smallpox have been
discovered in the schools at North
Yakima by Health Officer Helton.
English sparrows are to be exter-
minated in Walla Walla if this much
desired result can be brought about
Crazed with liquor and grief be-
cause his wife would not return to
him, James Cosgrove of Bellingham
killed himself.
The strike in the Potlatch Lumber
company's big mill at Potlatch is as
suming large proportions and much
uneasiness is felt
Moyar Lott of Orting will not permit
school to be held in the school build
ing unless the structure is properly
protected against fire.
Three girls were born to the Rev.
and Mrs. Henry Brockman of Kenne-
wick recently Two of the little girls
died ~ hours after birth
Dutch Jake" of Spokane has taken
an option on land at Bremerton, near
Seattle, upon which he intends to erect
hotel and vaudeville theater.
j. o. Ostby, president of the de-
funct Citizens State bank of Brewster,
has been arrested on a charge of re-
ceiving deposits after the bank was
insolvent
Peter Wagenaar has sold his farm
six miles west of Ritzville to ]. w
Anderson, farmer of Pullman, Wash
acres.
After disposing of $4,000 boxes OF
apples the surplus of the Yakima Val
ley Horticultural union, e. E. Samson
has returned from trip to the middle
west and south.
i Not for years has Walla Walla faced
SO serious a situation as it does this
week from floods, which come from
the Blue Mountains and have made
Mill creek a roaring torrent.
Mrs. Margaret Glidden, wife of Hen
ry Glidden, formerly a broker of Sc
attic and the son of the late S. S
Glidden, wealthy Spokane banker was
found dead in her room at Seattle Sat
urday.
Charles D. Curry and wife of Spo
kane, who were mysteriously shot
early Thursday morning, are reported
to be on the fair road to recovery and
no fear concerning their condition is
expressed.
DR.. D. B. Harrison of Palouse has
left for the Philippine islands to close
a deal whereby four Inland Empire
men will. come into possession of 80,
900 acres of valuable land located in
the Islands.
At Renton, IL miles from Seattle
part of the town is under water, and
the river is within two feet and a hall
of the flood mark made in 1906. Bot
tom land farms along both rivers have
; been changed into lakes.
; The farmers of the wheat belt lying
: south of Colfax, between there and the
Snake river, have organized a com
pany for the construction and oper
alton of the most extensive system Of
; rural telephone lines ever attempted
in that part of the northwest
William Maxwell, former auditor OF
the Potlatch Lumber company, plead
ed guilty in the Whitman county su
: perior court of obtaining money un
der false pretenses, and was given al
} indeterminate sentence of not less
than one year nor more than five
!, years in the penitentiary.
A special train equipped with ex
hibits and a lecture platform will be
run over the Spokane & Inland March
81 and %, and if the plans of the com
, mittee in charge of next December
, big apple show are carried out similar
trains will be run over the o. R. & N
and into Stevens county. The trains
will be accompanied by number OF
: men trained as specialists in fruit
growing, who will deliver lectures al