Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-09-29
washington, MONTANA and
IDAHO NEWS NOTES.
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
Fall seeding will soon start.

Fall seeding will soon start.
After many hard fought battles Spo
kane landed the pennant in the North
western league.
Peter Dueber, late of Spokane and
member of well-known Pacific coast
pioneer family, died in Portland re-
Gently.
Eugene V. Debs, the noted socialist
lecturer, will speak at the state armory
in Spokane on Wednesday evening,
October 10.
The aeroplane built in Tacoma by
Arthur Tunnison, an enthusiastic anna
teur, at an expense of $1,000, proved
failure.
Lying unconscious on the railroad
tracks at Spokane, Martin Holum, a
marble worker, was picked up half dead
Saturday night.
Heavy rains have cleaned the apple
crop of the Wenatchee valley from dust
and insured the putting out of a fine
SAOP VI dPP4Sos
A small army of men is busy get
ting everything in readiness for the
week of October to at the Spokane
Interstate fair grounds.
The Spokane Society of Architects,
which has been dormant from the lack
of enthusiasm among its members dur
ing the last 10 years, has been revived.
Although at first mysterious, the ac-
cident to Martin Holum, E303 Second
avenue, which occurred Saturday night
at Spokane, it is now known he was
hit by a taxicab and killed.
Edward Mullen, age 90, and William
Bloom, age 80, employees of the Great
Northern railway, were instantly killed
and their bodies shockingly mutilated
Saturday night in the yards near the
King street passenger station, Seattle.
That trees afflicted with tree canler,
or black spot, may be cured by the use
of the Bordeaux mixture and other
sprays, and that this peculiar disease
may be driven out by consistent care of
orchards, is the statement of Professor
R. E. Trumble.
With but few country precincts to
hear from, w. E. Humphrey has a suf-
ficient lead in the race in the First Con-
gressional district to insure his nomi-
nation. Thomas P. Revelle will not
contest the election, but will ask for
recount.
Without evidencing the slightest
dependency Immediately before his
death, although from his own hand
came the information that the act was
premeditated, J. M. M. Benedum, scion
of wealthy family of West Virginia,
committed suicide on his small farm at
Spokane.
Drewry M. Peoples, AZ years old, for.
merly president of the Guaranty Alb.
stract and Title company, is held at
the city jail in Seattle in connection
with investigation of real estate frauds
which Captain of Detectives Charles
Tenant believes will aggregate more
than $4,000.
With a decision in its favo- Friday
regarding condemnation for right CT
way, with the extension of its franchis,
only matter of settling details, anc
with its tracks built to within IS miles
of North Yakima, six weeks more coult
see the North Coast completed int
North Yakima.
The Non-Partisan Judiciary league o.
Washington has been formed to haste,
in every practicable way the effectiv,
discharge of this obligation and move
ment disregarding party affiliations
. The organizers call upon those in sym
pathy with it to at once form loca
leagues in their counties and send rep
resentatives to a conference to be he'll,
at Tacoma September 20.
/ After the most disastrous year il
? its history, due to the terrible col
lision near Occur d'Alene and the flood
along its line in the spring, the Spo
kane & Inland Empire railroad found
!, on balancing it's accounts, that the lin
had Melted $24, se2.33 for the year. TIL
wreck near Occur 'Alene cost the com
pany $295,072.65, while the floods i
the Palouse this spring added abou
$270, 900 to the debit side of the ledger
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