Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-22
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 STATE NEWS.

price Of grain sacks this year is prob
able in view of the decreased cost Of
manufacture at the penitentiary
w. b., Shaffer, president of the
Waitsburg Development league and a
member of the Inland Empire excur-
sion party was robbed of wallet |
containing between $500 and 5000
shortly before the special train left
Portland.
Fire recently Quilted the interior of
the new public school building COM
pleted two years ago at Auburn, en-
failing a loss estimated at $4,000.
Jumping off Tacoma streetcar
backwards, John Hilburg of Seattle or
Ballard struck the pavement and re-
ceived fatal blow.
After a constant struggle of three
years the Pacific States Telephone
company has completely vanquished
the Interstate Cooperative Telephone
company, and has undisputed posses
sion of the Palouse field.
Fire recently destroyed the three
story frame building Of Fidler & Gray
and several smaller buildings at
Kelso, entailing loss Of about $4,000.
WI A number of small business places
were burned out.
The petition of j. G. Norris of Ell
lensburg to be appointed guardian OF
the estate of his wife, Mamie Norris,
committed to the insane ward at
Walla Walla for killing her foster son,
Tom Murray, reveals the fact that
hap firia ru N,
an insurance policy of young Murray
for $500.
The Moran Brothers of Seattle and
the Campbell Lumber company OF
Prosser are drilling for artesian water
in Horse Heaven, where each company
owns large tracts of land.
State Oil Commissioner F. A. Clark
reports 9,555,535 gallons of oils in
spected during 1907. The fees collect
ed amounted to s19,279.60.
If Secretary Garfields report can be
taken as an index the Occur d'Alene
and Colville reservations will be
opened to settlement this year.
The board of Whitman county COM
missioners have the letting of con-
tracts for nine new bridges In that
county.
Governor Mead has refused to grant
the parole recommended by the prison
board for j. e. Brown, sentenced in
November, 1904, from Whitman coun'
ty to a term of five years, on the
charge of attempt to murder. Brown
assaulted and shot L. j. Turnbow, a
prominent resident of Garfield, in the
summer of 1908.
The first annual poultry show ever
given under the auspices of the Asot1n
County Poultry association closed Sat
urday evening
Paul Brainerd won the oratorical
= championship from Whitman college
His address, "The Modern Menace
was an arraignment of Mormonism
Miss Madge Fowler was second.
The debate held in Colfax recently
between the Rosalia high school team
and the Colfax high school team re
suited in a victory for Colfax.
The experiment tried recently by
Waitsburg of giving day to the sale
of horses and cattle by ranchers O
the surrounding country was tried II
Dayton SdIulu dy' OuSSooS AoAAo ~
the effort
The funeral of the late James VIII
liam Brown was held at Cheney Sat
urday. The deceased had been a Ma
son for so years, and was IS year.
old at the time of his death.
Pullman high school won the debate
with Johnson high school Friday.
Citizens around Pullman are elatet
over the semi-official announcement
that the Spokane & Inland Empir'
Electric Railroad company will exten'
its line from Colfax to Charleston, VII
Pullman, and that the work will b.
done this year.
The steamer ST. Paul, running OF
the river from Trinidad to the st. Pau
bridge, has been frozen In an Ice Jan
for the last week, about 20 miles be
low Trinidad.
]. B. Atkinson, chief clerk to Mas
ter Mechanic Dressed of the 0. r.
N. at Starbuck, has taken charge 0
the bank at that place.
But one Of the 1917 state banks an
three trust companies doing bushes
in Washington failed to weather tn
recent financial storm, according t
the first annual report of State Exam
liner A. w. Engle, advance sheets o
which were made public recently.
IDAHO EVENTS.
The steel work Of the new mail