Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-09-22
NORTHWEST ITEMS
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

WASHINGTON STATE NEWS
Seattle has full registration of Al
900, Spokane $4,000.
The State Grocerymen IS association
meets in Walla Walla September IA
and 16.
All Spokane city employees must now
pay their grocery bills, under penalty
of dismissal.
The cruiser Charleston, late flagship
of the Asiatic fleet, is now at the Puget
Sound navy yard.
Estimates of the value of the hop
crop of the Yakima valley this fall
place it at about 100000.
Mrs. H. c. Dietrick, young married
woman of Portland, attempted to com
NIT suicide in Seattle Friday.
The most disastrous fire in many
years destroyed property Friday night
at Waitsburg valued at $4,000.
Road building operations now under
way in the Bristol section insure a fine
system of highways in the near future.
Spokane is in more healthful con-
dition at present than at any time dur
ing the last five years as regards con-
tagious diseases.
Walla Walla will be represented at
the Spokane National Apple show by
the most elaborate display of apples
that has ever been sent from there.
After being a resident of Whitman
county for more than 32 years, J. P.
L. McCroskey, aged 81, died Thursday.
He was born in Tennessee and moved
to Whitman county in 1879, homestead
ing his ranch at that time.
The new law barring insanity as a
defense to criminal prosecutions was
declared unconstitutional and the hotel
inspection law, except the penalty case,
was declared constitutional by decisions
of the state supreme court Saturday.
The great International Dry Farm
ing congress, to open in Spokane Oc-
tober 3, will be addressed by the larg-
est number of prominent men in agrl-
cultural development of any conven-
ton ever held in the Pacific northwest.
Travelling half way around the world
for the purpose, Alfred Slider of Luz
cerne, Switzerland, is in the Walla
Walla valley studying fruit conditions
and learning what he can of the meth
DDS employed in fruit raising in the
northwest.
Furs valued at more than $780,
were sold by the Seattle Fur Sales
agency at Puyallup to 10 buyers from
all parts of the United States and
western Canada at the sale concluded
Saturday. Record prices were OBJ
tanned for the furs.
Mrs. R. B. Mccoy, wife of Judge R.
B. Mccoy of Sparta, was killed and
DR.. Carl Beebe Sr. of Sparta seriously
injured when the touring automobile IN
which they were riding skidded from
the bank and plunged into the La
Crosse river near West Salem, Sunday.
Valuable Indian lands on the Yaki-
ma Indian reservation, which were
allotted to noncompetents or held for
heirs of dead Indians, will be sold by
the government on September &c and
October 81. The sale will be under the
supervision of S. A. M. Young, the
agent in charge.
Control of the water power of Priest
rapids, on the Columbia river, in Grant
and Yakima cousties, Washington, has
been sold by the Hanford Irrigation
and Power company to the American
Power and Light company Of New York.
The water power is said to be the most
valuable in North America, except that
OF Niagara falls. The property trans
ferred is said to be worth $4,000
The company owns power plant, irri-
cation system and large tract of land,
all of which are included in the trans
fer.