Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-12-18
NORTHWEST STATES
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-Fan Outlook Is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

OItoSluR III ulo DccI ClOIuCc
and putting on his overcoat and rubbers,
A Ross, a laborer about 80 years of age,
from Jamestown, n. D., and more re-
Gently from Logan, Mont, tried to Gem
nit suicide in Spokane, Sunday.
State Senator j. d. Bassett will here
after manage his string of banks and
other business in central Washington,
from Spokane, where he now resides.
Mrs. Margaret McKibben, Mrs. E.
Bliss, Mrs. James A. Hunter and A.
Bell, conductor, were injured in a col |
lision of street cars in Spokane, Sun
day. The first named is serious.
The Mabton- Euclid bridge was
washed out recently by high water in
the Yakima river. This bridge was in
course of construction, about three
miles east of Mabton.
The Inland Empire will be a mart for
eastern realty buyers next spring is be-
lieved by real estate agents who have
canvassed the situation since the land
drawing last July.
Mistaking medicinal tablets the two
days-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. III.
Hess, residing few miles below town
at Bridgeport was accidentally poisoned
and died soon after.
The state board of land commission
ers are at Lake Chelan. They will hold
sessions to determine what price the
Great Northern interest must pay to
dam the outlet OF that lake in connec-
ton with the company's electric power
plans.
Ed. Hayes employed at Alfalfa was
seriously injured by heavy timber
falling on him.
The most violent gale in years swept
the lower Sound Saturday.
The weekly report of State Treasurer
Lewis shows $71O,217 cash on hand, OF
which $177,619 is in the general fund
The body of Stanley L. Wakelin, aged
20, an English remittance man and SAID
TO be the son of wealthy lord, wa
found Saturday in the brush near Sc
attic with a self-inficted bullet wOuns
in the temple.
d. G. Reed, superintendent Of cit.
schools at North Yakima, has been re
elected.
The jury to try former Adjutant Gen
= eral Ortis Hamilton was secured Mon
day and the taking Of evidence starte
Tuesday.
Cleanup day for Walla Walla was o.
dered by Mayor Eugene Iaussiek TO
Thursday, December ?.
Senator Piles has publicly announce
he will not again be q candidate.
Seattle may lose its water supply, Q
the present high stage Of Cedar rive
threatens TO break the pipe line to th
city.
The Palouse farmer has receive
more money for bis hogs this seaso
than ever before and has grown thel
al less expense, because on each far
there were several acres Of heaY
wheat on Che ground that the sielfl'
could NOT reach. Hoge were fattene
on this after harvest
Peter Cahill, resident Of Wait
burg for 20 years, died recently
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