Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-12-29
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, MONTANA And
IDAHO HAPPENINGS
ARE BRIEFED.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
At Rosalia A. J. Harris, an old pio
neer, died recently.
During 1910 Prosser nearly reached
the 100000 mark in its building of
business blocks
The first snow of the season fell at
Ritzville Saturday, bringing the first
sleighing of the winter.
Washington IS death rate for the year
ending October 1 was 9.97 per LOCO
people, according to the annual report
of vital statistics.
With five cases of smallpox and sew
eral cases of measles among the con-
vlcts, health authorities have placed
quarantine on the state reformatory
at Monroe
Alleging that the present location
of the state capitol is unsatisfactory
and inconvenient, Everett residents
nave launched proposition in favor
OF removal to this city.
James McCredie, aged 70 years. a
pioneer stockman of the Yakima val
ley, was killed at Mabton recently by a
fall from derrick, in the removal of
which he was assisting.
Washington wool growers will be in
terested in the annual convention of the
National Woolgrowers association. to
be held in Portland January to 7. and
the big sheep show in connection
with it.
Mrs. h. r. Brown, sister of General
Sterling Price, former governor of Mis-
souri,, died in Seattle Saturday of blood
resulting from a scratch on
her hand from splinter of wood four
days ago.
The contract for supplying the farm
ers OF Walla Walla section with grain
bags was not let at the annual grain
sack meeting of the farmers union as
none of the 10 bids submitted were
considered low enough.
At Seattle C. P. King, juror, and
Adam Zickler, the complaining witness
in forgery case, were sentenced to 30
and 10 days, respectively, in the county
jail for having violated the court Is
Instructions and discussed the case out
side the courtroom.
Mrs. Matte A. Thomas, reputed to be
worth 100000 in land holdings in the
state of Washington, has won her suit
in Seattle for the annulment of her
to J. w. Phillips in Victoria,
B. c., and for the restoration of her
individual property, accumulated before
the alleged union.
The Tacoma & Eastern railroad has
paid to the state treasurer the sum of
81, 900, the amount of a Judgment is
sued against it in the superior court
OF Thurston county in a suit brought
by the state board of railroad commits
sioners for the former IS failure to have
its frogs, switches and guard-rails prop
erly blocked. Fn.il
With heavy fog hanging overhead
North Yakima was plunged into semi
darkness Saturday night by washout
in the upper Naches valley, which
wrecked 60 feet of the flume feeding
the Naches power plant. All of the
lower valley as far as Kennewick was
cut off all day and until late at night.
as were residence parts of North
Yakima.
Fred Llewellyn, formerly of Spokane,
has been appointed adjutant general by
Governor M. E. Hay to succeed George
b. Lamping, resigned. Major Llew-
ellyn is now a resident of Bellingham
and has been serving as major in the
national guard. Major Harvey J. Moss
of the coast artillery reserve corps will
be appointed assistant adjutant general
of the state.
Showing Columbia county's property
valued at $6,697, 615, exclusive of rail
roads and other public service corpora
tions, County Auditor Jack Swart has
completed his abstract of tax rolls for
1910. The number of acres of assessed
land is 400,151, which shows that agri-
culture is increasing here. Valuation
placed on all lands is $4,s64,145, while
the value of personal property is
$1,o79,s7o.
An enterprise which involves the for
nation of a circuit of theaters cover
ing the states of Washington, Idaho,
Oregon and Montana is announced by
Raymond Bell of the Bell Theatrical
company. This company, known as the
Vino Theatrical circuit, will attempt
to do for the smaller towns of from
1000 to 1000 population, what the Cort
circuit of Seattle does for the larger
cities. The main Offices will be at