Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-10-13
WASHINGTON, MONTANA and
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


The total valuation of Chelan county
is $14,173, 1914. This includes all prop
critics.
Twentyfour Baptist missionaries, en-
route from the east to the Orient, de-
parted from Seattle Saturday.
Frank l. Bell, aged 80, an employee of
the Chicago, Milwaukee G. Puget Sound
railway, killed himself in Seattle Satur-
day.
Albert Bill and George Jim, two res
ervation Indians and brothers, were run
down and killed at different points early
Sunday morning at Tacoma by speeding
trains.
There are 73 school districts in Okan-
ogan county and about 100 teachers
are employed. The last school placed
the county in the lead for the state
with a gain Of Is per cent.
The Spokane rifemen who took part
in the state militia shoot have returned
home from Seattle, having won all the
first prizes in the shoot, both for in
dividual and team shooting.
Indians from all tribes of the north
west and many visiting Indians from
eastern tribes assembled in Toppenish
Monday morning and for 10 days will
hold a convention. Fully 5000 Indians
are expected.
Captain V. L. Cottman, commandant
at the Bremerton navy yard, has re-
ceived instructions from the navy de-
partment to purchase site for tor
pedo station at Keyport, about 10 miles
from Bremerton.
Conconully will remain dry until the
general election of 1912, the decision
in the first contested local option case
fight being rendered Saturday by Judge
Ernest Peck of the superior court OF
Okanogan and Ferry counties.
Two men, booked as Frank Kelly AMI
James Stewart, were picked up by the
, police at Pasco, tried before Justice
Reider and bound over to the superior
court under 81 900 bonds each, charged
D with aiding prisoners to escape from
; the county Jail.
> Two highway robbers, John Byrt
and William Tanner, were given rapit
. justice in the superior court at Ia
B coma recently. They were arraigned
pleaded guilty and were sentenced t.
: serve five years each in the state prison
!; all within the space of few moments
James S. Spears, 81 years old, wa
drowned in the waters of Puget soun'
Sunday, when a dory, in which he an,
his brother Robert were sailing, wa
= capsized in heavy squall off Yves
>. light. Robert Spears was rescued by
: boat from the steamship Dirigo, whic
was passing at the time of the accident
T, With waving banners on which scrip
tural texts and notices were inscribed
with songs both religious and patriot
on their lips, the line of ten thousan
I Sunday school children marched throug
|. the downtown streets Saturday at Spo
kane in the second annual Sunday schoc
lparade.
A E. Veatch, who for four years ha
= been editor and manager of the States
< man-Index, republican newspaper, o
Colville, has relinquished his positio
to Alonzo Melville Doty, for IL year
owner and editor at Visala, Cal. M
= Veatch will accept a position in tn
office of the county auditor.
The largest real estate deal of til
is season was made recently when Donna
brothers of Spokane sold their stoc
ID and hay ranch on Crab creek for 500
is 900 to the Laney brothers, wealth
u stockmen of Montana. The ranch COZ
= sists of 1850 acres, 500 of which
. meadow, $50 acres wheat land and til
N remainder pasture.
III At Pullman the automobile belong
le ing to j. S. Klemgard was struck
a train from Moscow and Mr.. Klein
gard IS son Gordon and Ray Tuttl
riding in the machine, were injure,
n The train was rounding curve and wa
s not seen by the boys until they wei
10 on the track. The train struck tn
back part of the automobile and tire
70 it nearly so feet.
a, Completion of the Tieton irrigatio
"a project near North Yakima by the COZ
~ struction of the laterals of unit N
has been authorized by Secretar
Ballinger along with authorization
the reclamation service for advertiser
for bids for the work. Unit No. 2
now being completed. When complete
- the system waters $4,000 acres, of whic
=. $4,000 is in unit No. 8.
id At deadlock, the grain market