Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-03-27
ITEMS OF IDAHO, MONTANA,
Washington and oregon.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges Of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.


The jury in the case of Joshua Klein
at Tacoma brought in a compromise YER
dict of guilty of an assault with a
deadly weapon with intent to do bodily
harm, and recommended him to the
clemency of the court
Water was tapped this week in the
fifth artesian well on the Blalock fruit
farm at Walla Walia. 1t flows about
5000 gallons a minute and is larger
than other wells sunk on the farm. The
fountain pitches eight feet into the air
in stream 10 inches in diameter.
Fire in the Oroville Lumber company
stable destroyed the stable, all the
dressed lumber, 100000 shingles and 10
tons Of hay. The barn and contents
were valued at $4,000, with no insur-
ance. The Office and livery barn saved
by the chemical engine and bucket bri-
gade.
Thirteen spars for Emperor Viii
Liam s new racing yacht have been
shipped to Hamburg from Hoquiam.
J. B. Yerger, an Oregon lumberman,
has purchased the plant of the insolvent
Everett Lumber company at Everett
from the receiver for $55, 900, and oper-
ations at the long idle mill are to be
resumed Immediately.
Emmett Bagley, a patient at the
Steilacoom insane asylum, suicided re-
Gently.
Word has just come from Washing
ton, d. c., that the reclamation service
has taken action with regard to al
legged lOcators, who have been locating
homeseekers on land withdrawn from
entry at North Yakima. The machin-
cry of the government has been set to
work and the practice probably will
be stopped very quickly.
Patsy Jonas, well known sprinter,
was arrested recently at Colville, on
the charge of having robbed the safe
of the Colville feed store of $50 He
Immediately confessed to the robbery.
Annie Jennie, an Indian, living with
in a few miles Of Renton, Wash, where
she was born, died last week after
living 100 years.
A company has been organized to
build a cold storage plant at Lind.
Whitman county's fourth grand jury
since 1899, convened by order of Judge
Garfield March 2, Saturday made its
final report and was discharged. AS the
result Of the deliberations 80 true bills
were found.
The Mabt0n siphon, which has been
under construction for nine months, is
finished This siphon is numbered
among the great engineering feats Of
the west. The water is taken from the
Sunnyside canal and runs on a gradual
incline almost three miles 10 the Yak
ina river. There Il makes a sudden
drop Of 1916 feet The water Is then
run under Che YalSima river, distance
Of 1870 yards, with pressure Of tons
on the walls Of the siphon. tho OK
posed parts arc all constructed Of ee.
mept pipes, fye feet ~ diameter The
completion of this siphon brings q large
tract of iFrigable land under cultivation.
al q recent meeting of the Yakima
horticultural union, President w ~
Irish was elected general oYelseor and
Ray Paddock sales manager 4he oii.
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