Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-09-08
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


The normal school at Cheney is under
going complete renovating prepare
tory to the fall opening September 5.
Saturday marked the first extensive
selling of wheat in the Colfax market,
more than 100000 bushels changed
hands.
Within the next two or three weeks,
it is figured, the new $4,000 high
school building at Ritzville will have
been completed.
Members of organized labor at Spo-
kane are jubilant over the failure of
the city council to pass the proposed
anti-picketing ordinance.
The state board of control has APP
pointed Ed Rogers of Olympia as trav
cling guard and parole officer for Wash
ington reformatory at Monroe,
The fruit growers around Garfield
have organized the Garfield Fruit Grow
ers union, with w. B. Harris president,
and j. L. Trimble vice president.
Timbermen, conservative advocates
and forestry officials are bending every
effort to stay the fires in the fir forests
of the western part of the state.
their sixtieth wedding anniversary at
their home in Pennington a few days
ago. They were married in Illinois.
The tomato crop in the vicinity of
NNoi oh fbic For
previous failures, yielding good returns
at soc a box. The peach crop is also
good.
The Yakima valley hop crop this
season will be, according to present
estimates, between IL, 900 and 10000
bales The first picking commenced
last Monday.
Orchardists of North Yakima esti-
mate their total loss from one day Is
tie-up of the Northern Pacific road
at $4,000. Burned bridges in north
ern Idaho caused the delay.
In the recent death of Joseph Dc
Long Whitman county loses the second
of the two first white settlers in its
limits. Mr.. De Long lived AZ year:
on his ranch southeast of st. John.
A postoffice has been established al
Grotto, King county, and the one a
HOLSTER, Douglas county, has beer
the Office will be served from Bridge
port.
Harvesters and farmers of The
lower fiat adjacent to Eureka have
practically concluded the harvest O.
the 1910 crop. The yield has beef
comparatively good one with No.
quality for the average.
Fire did damage estimated at nearl,
a half million dollars on the waite
front at Tacoma Saturday, burning
over FIVE acres of valuable property
The mill, plant and stock of the f.
McNeeley and Company saw mill wer
destroyed.
With only so cents and three loave
of bread between himself and starva
ton, John Brady, railroad construC
ton workman, is believed to have de
liberately laid down on the railroa
tracks near North Yakima and Above
a train to decapitate him.
The largest real estate deal eve
put through in the Okanogan countr
was contaminated last week when
N. Mears, representing Boston synd
cate known as the Boston and Wasl
ington Apple Orchard association, pul
chased 700 acres of irrigated land o
Tarheel fat, Immediately south OF tn
city of Okanogan.
National bankers in Washington stat
appear anxious to avail themselves {
the Aldrich- law. Spokan
Seattle and Aberdeen bankers have co
responded with the treasury depar
ment about organizing national Gu
rency associations, the purpose of whi'
is to enable national banks to iss'
during panics emergency circulate
based on commercial paper and 9th
securities. At least 10 national bank
with 100000 aggregate capital al
surplus, may organize an associatio
The department hopes the Washingt'
banks will organize, as currency associ
tions can serve as fire extinguishers
panics.