Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-06-06
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
Place-Crop Outlook Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

WHICH crushed MIN 10 death.
w. Woodland, a restaurant man at
Tacoma, recently drowned himself in
peculiar way. He hired a boat, and,
rowing out into the sound, tied the
rope around mis- neck, tied a heavy
stone to his feet and jumped over
board. When the boat drifted ashore
the body was found.
A combination of the Sunnyside SUI
and the Sunnyside Valley Republican
and an utilization of this paper with the
Toppenish Review, the Granger News,
Mabton Chronicle, Grandview Press
and Prosser Republican-Bulletin is a
plan now on foot which promises to
result in a great change in the news
paper situation in the Yakima valley.
Charles Wheeler, the section fore
man at Elk who has been praying for
assistance to locate $500 which he
confessed he stole from the Great
Northern depot at Elk, has had his
prayer answered, but in a most I'M
expected manner. Wheeler is now
free. The thief was Harry Russell,
10 year old boy who lived about two
miles from Elk.
Senator Levi Ankeny of Walla Walla
has sold to Peter McGregor and J. e.
Taylor of Hooper the Ankeny ranch
in Adams county. The ranch consists
of $500 acres of decided land and 49,
500 acres of leased land. The pur-
chase price is said TO have been $780,
OO0 Included in the deal We're 500
head OF Hereford cattle.
While playing near his parents
home at Ellenburg the 20 months old
son of Rev. and Mrs. X. A. Thompson
fell into the creek and was drowned.
Spokane has been selected as the
next meeting place Of the eighth mis-
sionary department of the Episcopal
church and the international clericus.
The grand lodge OF Odd Fellows for
the state will convene in Walla Walla
June ] for four days session.
Manager p. c. Holland is out OF the
Wash ACTON Printing and Bookbinding
company, Walla Walla, and the recent
strike is over.
William Grady a labOrer, who was
employed Ia the mines at Clealum,
was instantly killed recently by a
train.
General orders, covering, among
other things, Memorial day parades,
have been issued from the Office OF Ad-
jutant General Orus Hamilton.
The power plant and the pumping
machinery which Will irrigate The Han
ford project under construction for q
year are practically completed.
Al a recent meeting Of The We
natchee commercial club . large sum
Of money was donated 40 advertising
fho valley
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fhis week IA fhe Charleston Canning
company the cooperative association
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