Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-09-01
WASHINGTON, MONTANA AND
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
4 Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Accl-
dents and Personal Events Take
Place--Crop Outlook Just Fair.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

William II. Rudolph has been APP
pointed postmaster at La Crosse.
The Masonic fraternity of North
Yakima will soon erect Masonic tenn
pie.
The Dayton harvest has closed, owing
TO light crop and abundance of ma
chinery.
A. N. Taylor, Dungeness, Wash, has
been appointed teacher at the James
town Indian school, Wash.
The S. Willard company of Union
town received in one day into its ware
mouse 10000 bushels of grain.
AS the harvest in the Palouse coun-
try progresses the farmers express
greater surprise at the story of good
yields.
Between so and rs Greek laborers
are distributed between Genesee and
Cotton repairing the roadbed, placing
ties and laying steel.
Lineman Wilcox was badly hurt re-
Gently by telephone pole falling over
with him over a rocky bluff about two
miles north of Pomeroy.
The first shipment of about 16 cars of
fruit from the Weidrich orchard was
shipped from La Crosse Saturday to
Chicago. 1t consisted of 252 boxes of
summer apples and 500 crates of prunes.
Thomas Leary, foreman of a switch
ing crew in charge of Great Northern
train wrecked in the Great Northern
railway yards at Spokane Saturday
morning, died in the hospital a few
hours later of fractured skull.
With a permanent market estab-
lished, melon culture in the Touchet and
Tucannon valleys can be made to yield
heavier returns than apple orchards, ac-
cording to R. P. Ray, who will this
season sell something like $1,000 worth
of melons from four acres.
After staying ON his fathers ranch
near Steptoe since the Fourth of July,
when he shot Dell Mcconnell in a Col
fax saloon, James Roberts, aged 10
years, was arrested Saturday by Deputy
Sheriff William Cole. He has confessed.
The Green River Hot Springs Hotel
and Sanitarium, high in the mountains
along the Great Northern railroad, in
the center of the state, is in ruins as
the result of fire which was started
by burning brands from nearby forest
fires.
Robert and Hustin McCroskey have
finished threshing their big grain crop
near Garfield, and have about 10000
bushels Of splendid grain. Their college
bred wheat No. 10S made "a bushels an
acre, their red Russian 81 bushels and
their oats 70 bushels an acre.
By the capsizing of a boat, George F.
Adams, aged So, whose family lives at
Shannon avenue and Oak street, and
Steven M. Georger, 12-year-old SON of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Georger, living in
Boulevard park, were drowned in the
river Saturday afternoon at 4:3o at
Spokane. '~
The bids for the sale of the 500. 600
issue of bonds of the Chewelah high
school were opened Saturday and the
state of Washington was found to he
the best bidder, bidding par for the
bonds, to bear 515 per cent interest
The bids for the construction. of tho
scnoolhouse will be opened September 7.
Export companies have already
bought million bushels of club wheat
IN Walla Walla valley, the grain BEING
purchased mostly in small lots. seldom
exceeding 10000 bushels. The buying
mas been done quietly in order NOT to
ouil the market and has succeeded So
rar, as prices ranged from 70 to so I .
cents bushel net at Walla Walla.
The Okanagon Valley Pnhl;o;.u
league composed of the towns of Ma
iott' Omak and Riverside, has formed q
permanent organization by the adontion
Oh constitution and bylaws and fine
election of the following officers: @ p
riumb OF Omak, president; Georoa T
Stewart of Malott, vice nros;So =.
george ). Lee of okanogan, secretarv
urer. treas
flre originated from an ,n1,n
cause Sunday morning, comnleteIu A.
stroyed the William Mpssar ue-
company's plant, did vast DAMAGE %
'ne Union Iron works and swent ouov
SEXTON Oh residence district. caus;na
iurther loss. A Conservative ;e
Oh the total loss is $50, 900, mostly oo, '
ereu by insurance. The burned ~
covers a stretch of about six No., ola
long and four blocks wide '''ooAs
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