Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-26
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

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of commissioner of Ferry county.
w. +. Hair of Spokane, was fatally
injured while coupling cars at st. John.
The street sweeper recently purchased
by the city of Pasco is at work daily.
j. l.. Mohundro, state bank examiner,
has received notice at Seattle of his re-
appointment.
A net profit of $4,000 has been made
by the state penitentiary jute mill since
April 1 this year.
A newly organized Free Hebrew
School and Educational alliance has
been started in Spokane.
Fruit shipments from Wenatchee
have now increased to so carloads
day.
A total of 500 cars of soft fruits
have been shipped from the Yakima
valley during the present season.
Twentyfour of the 26 candidates for
recent admission to practice law before
the Washington supreme court were sue
cessful.
A combination strike and lockout af-
fecting 500 stage employees and all the
principal theaters, nine in number,
started Sunday in Seattle.
By recent ruling of the Pacific
board of fire insurance underwriters
Spokane agents will profit in the way
of increased commissions.
Charles Phillips, convicted of second
degree murder in Okanogan county
must serve his term. The supreme
court upheld the lower court.
Enough pie plant was raised on on'
acre of ground by E. P. Goerig, neal
Vancouver this year to make nearl,
175,O0O pies, which would net $4,000
The Interstate Telephone compan,
has purchased the independent tele
phone plant at Newport, Wash. TIL
alue is between $4,000 and $4,000
= Believing that conditions are idea
in Horse Heaven for turkey paradise
= Kennewick men are formulating plan
for pasturing large focks on the hill
in that region.
Bubonic plague germs HAYES bee
found in three rats recently caught i
Seattle. The city council, to EXTERN
nate the rats, has ordered all alley
near Pike street paved.
5 w. S. Hunt has left for the Ian
/, shows at Omaha and Chicago, where b
will have charge of the Prosser exhibi
which will be a part of the Yakim
valley exhibit at these land shows.
D At Vancouver Charles w. Hammon'
I "a years old, convicted of the murdt
of his employer, Edward c. Barhydt,
q rancher, was sentenced to serve fro
+ 10 to 90 years in the penitentiary.
= The large barn on the farm of j.
v Cooper, five miles south of Pullman, {
l. the Genesee branch of the Northel
Pacific, burned Sunday night, killir
four horses, two of them being impor
IS ed stations, valued by Mr.. Cooper
e $4,000 each.
y While driving to Walla Walla fro
d her country home, Miss Lillian Russo
J. was accosted by strange man, w
J. asked a ride to the city. Miss Russ'
ID refused, whereupon the man drew p
toll, ordered her to stop and forced h
to drive him to the city.
lie President E. A. Bryan of the sta
&c college, accompanied by his wife a
lie daughters, Lila and Gertrude, sail
as Tuesday from New York for Euro
1T They will spend about six weeks
is England and then go to the contine
They plan to be in Europe until ne
April.
Giving himself up in Minneapo
that he might be returned to Spoka
E T. and tried for the embezzlement of $3s
=. from a Touring mill company, M.
g Doyer, a trusted bookkeeper and ca
% Ter until last July &c, found himself
- free man against his will several no
vi later, as the firm would not prosecu
'"' He wanted to get back to his fam
but was "broke."
Contractors are now preparing to
nd on the construction of the big flu
off which will extend from Mitchell
,er Grade creek on Lake Chelan and VIII