Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-05
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


The state fair is on at Yakima this
week
Walla Walla now has new postal
bank
The town of Springdale voted dry and
three saloons will be ousted as result
of the election.
Four men broke the Pasco Jail Sun
day, but were captured before they got
many miles away. a
Elmer Drummond was convicted by
jury for the killing of William E.
Flynt near Chewelah last June.
Several men have ben laid off at the
roundhouse at Lamont recently and it
is rumored that the shops will close.
The resignation of DR.. Elmer E. Heg
as state health commissioner and Sec
rotary of the state board of health has
been rendered.
Washington state leads the common
wealths of the nation in healthfulness
according to a special statement issued
by the census bureau.
Gypsy Smith, the noted English evan
gelist, will visit Spokane, beginning
next Saturday evening, remaining some
time doing religious work.
Walla Walla county lost $665.e1 from
July, 1904, to March 81, 1911, accord
ing to the report of the state bureau of
inspection of public Offices.
Mrs. S. S. Glidden died at Waukesha,
Wis, Saturday. Mrs. Glidden was one
of the pioneers of Spokane, coming here
with S. S. Glidden in 1885.
Eugene Lorton of Walla Walla has
gone to Oklahoma City, where he will
become managing editor of the Okla
homa World, a new publication.
The Columbia river is reaching it's
lowest stage of water. When actual
freezing takes place in November the
water level will be at its lowest.
Martin Shomers and Node Hardesty,
charged with the robbery of the store
of E. N. Jouvet at Springdale last
May, have entered a plea of guilty.
Actuated by what is believed to have
been jealousy, Frank Calvin, moving
picture operator, twice shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Mrs. Vivian r.
wing, a trained nurse, at Eatonville, 80
miles from Tacoma.
Many recommendations for changes
in the state tax laws were considered
by the county treasurers convention
at Tacoma last week. The treasurers
will hold their next convention at Spo-
kane in September, 1912.
Realizing the Importance of the anti
smut convention to the industrial life
of the northwest, the Spokane Cham
Der of Commerce will send five dele
gates to Pullman to attend the conven-
ton Friday and Saturday.
immigration Officer Farris of Custer,
20 miles northwest of Bellingham, cap.
tured 35 pounds of struggled opium
valued at $500, along with John Mar
Gus of Portland, Ore, who admitted
bringing the drug across the boundary
The death of Jacob Slaght at Colfax
Saturday marked the passing of an
early pioneer of the Palouse. Slaght
was "A years old and had lived in and
near Colfax since the early '7Os, being
among the first to locate in the Palouse
valley.
The secretary of the interior is ask
ing for proposals for. the excavation
and backfitting of trenches and con.
struction of wood stave pipe and other
structures in the vicinity of Mabton
in connection with the Sunnyside unit
of the Yakima irrigation project.
Charging her husband s former stem.
ographer with alternating the affections
of Adolph A. Gust, worth $780, 900
Mrs. Sarah A. Gust has commenced an
atcion in the King county superior court
against Pauline M. Miller for 2OOOC
damages. Gust is former resident OF
Butte, Mont, and later of Prosser
Wash, and came to Seattle to reside
two years ago.
Armour & Co., bidding from its diff
ferent branches in the northwest
landed all the contracts for butter anc
cheese for state institutions for the next
six months at 20 cents for butter and
1872 cents for cheese. Beef was bought
at less than cents for the eastern hos
pital and up to 11.09 cents at Stella
COON; mutton as low as cents fo
Medical Lake. There were several sue
cessful meat bidders.