Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-03-19
items FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
and WASHINGTON.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Business outlook Is Good
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

All saloons have closed at Wilbur.
A commercial club has been organ
lied at Wapato.
A fve-story hotel at North Yakima is
to be built this summer.
Both the city Jail and the county
Jail in Wenatchee are empty.
The higher-wages- theory
has many advocates in Spokane.
The Great Northern has paid part Of
the losses of the Krupp fire August 25.
Corporation Counsel E. o. Conner of
Spokane has decided to resign March IS.
Henry Meiners, one of the Oldest
pioneers of Walla Walla, died recently.
William b. Champion, an aged and
respected citizen of Asotin, died re-
Gently.
The Masonic fraternity is to erect
the first steel structure at North Yak
ina, costing 100000.
l.. Davies of Davenport has been re-
appointed by Governor Hay as state
dairy and food inspector.
The tax rolls for Grant county show
the rate is less than one-half what it is
in the old county of Douglas.
j. III. Scheibner sold his ranch of 800
acres northwest Of Wilbur for $14, 800
cash to Robert Sheffels, a neighbor.
Carl Pitzer of Centralia, for years
an instructor in music at the Washing
ton state training school at Chehals,
has been discharged.
Colonel William H. Garland, an aged
promoter, was recently arrested in Sc
attic, charged with grand larceny in
selling alleged worthless coal stock.
Leonard Hagenauer, professor Of agri-
culture at the University of Illinois,
has been chosen to fill the vacant chair
Of agronomy at the Washington State
college.
Mrs. Matte MAIDEN, whose maiden
name was Wadsworth, and whose
mother lived at Fairmont,- w. ", was
found recently in the bay at Seattle,
death being accidental.
The Lorrimer & Gallagher company,
Of Chicago and Seattle, who have been
awarded the contract by the Chicago,
Milwaukee q Puget Sound Railway
company 70 al IN practically all its
wooden trestles between the Columbia
river and the Idaho boundary line, be-
gun work al Lind Monday
Action 10 cancel the charter OF the
Noyerhaeuser companies 10 do business
Ia Washington for alleged violation Of
tho conspiracy clauses Of the new erimi-
nal code - threatened as a sequel 10
the long legal battle between the Aieo-
mon Boom company and North Shore
Boom company involving booming rights
in NORTH river.
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from ambush, the North Coast railroad
the other night thlew gfading aud
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