Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-10-06
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

Tacoma is hot after the $145,OOO gov
eminent torpedo station.
Wenatchee is gaining much promi-
nence as a convention city.
Plans are on foot to reorganize the
Wenatchee Business Men S association
A number of Chinese pheasants have
been distributed in Chelan county this
week.
Spokane must pay $6s7,6sO taxes on
this year state levy as against but
$547, O35 in 1909.
October IS is the date of the cele-
bration in honor of the opening of the
Pasco reclamation project.
The people of Vancouver will soon
vote on the proposition to bond the
city for $4,000 water system.
Fort Walla Walla has been aban-
doned for almost the first time in so
years. Walla Walla has no soldiers.
D. H. Magyar of Leavenworth was
elected president of the Washington
Press association at Wenatchee re-
Gently.
The Seattle police are without clue
as to the identity of the murderers
of Bryan Cogger, the Hood canal tim
herman whose body was found Tuesday.
f. II. Marvin, manager of the Mer-
chants Transportation company, an
nounces the company will build a $50.
900 steamer for the Tacoma Olympia
run.
Shriners from all parts of the United
States will attend the ceremonial ses-
sion of Ell Katif temple, A.. A. o. N.
M. s., of Spokane Wednesday, Oc-
tober 5.
Stricken by grief over often alleged
of her two sons, Mrs. Her
mine Kuple, little widowed mother of
~, committed suicide Sunday morning
at Tacoma
According to statements, Judge
Thomas Burke, the candidate for the re-
publican senatorial nomination, spent
$1s,361, while Congressman Miles Poin-
dexter paid out $1,000 for campaign
expenses.
The Palouse country may have TO
import potatoes for home consumption.
The crop is the lightest ever grown,
owing to the prolonged drouth, which
cut down the yield.
At the bottom of the 2O-foot shaft on
his claim near the Queen mine in Cedar
canyon the dead body of M. j. Austin,
aged 81, was found recently by B. II.
Denham, farmer living near.
Representatives of half a dozen re-
ligious bodies Of Spokane took part in
the farewell given to DR.. H. I. Rasmus
at the First Methodist church Sunday
night at Spokane. He goes to Long
Beach, Cal.
For the first time in the history of
the city the women of Spokane will
celebrate at the Interstate fair and
have a Women day. Elaborate prep
arations have been made for street
parade at noon Tuesday, October 4.
Last Saturday Martin Wilson was
watering team at a ranch two miles
north of Irby, when another team
hitched to wagon started to run and,
in swinging around near the watering
trough struck Martin Wilson, killing
him almost instantly by dislocating his
neck.
Five Whatcom county men, John
Carse, l.. l.. Collier, E. w. Stone, Jed
Parish and Ben Holley, must answer
to the charge of setting fires which
did $250,000 damage to farm property,
according to complaints filed by Dep
uty State Fire Warden A. w. Frost of
Bellingham. Other arrests are ex-
pected to follow.
Orders Of the state railroad commits
sion affecting train service and station
facilities on the Great Northern all
over the state were passed upon by
the supreme court recently in an omni-
bus appeal from the superior court of
King county, to which court the rail
road had previously appealed from the
orders of the commission. The decision
is in the main a victory for the rail-
road commission.