Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-16
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

WaHa, is dead.
Sunday schools are growing rapidly,
as the enrolment in Spokane county
is 2O,417.
The farmers union institute and
harvest home festival held at Waits
burg recently was a success.
James Z. Engle, aged 76, for many
years a resident of the Palouse coun-
try, died recently at Spokane.
The city commissioners of Spokane
ments with sand so horses can stand up.
Bill Byrd and Herman RoesteR, Spo-
kane murderers, are now in the peni-
Tertiary serving 35 and 10 years re-
s~pectively.
The plan to BOND L~eavenworth for
$4,000 for building a distributing
water system was defeated by a close
majority.
Scottish Rite Masons and mobiles of
the Mystic Shrine of the northwest
Will meet in Tacoma November 10 to
Is for a reunion.
According to C. w. Wilcox, state Sec
rotary of the Y. M. c. A., the next
state convention will be held in Janu-
airy at Ellensburg.
Ole Nelson, a laborer on the new
construction work of the O.-W. r. & NJ,
was recently killed by a premature
blast near Pasco.
Daniel Dwight, Spokane pioneer,
celebrated his ninety-third anniversary
Saturday. He was born in Dudley,
Mass November 4, 1918.
The first export shipment of lumber
from lone was made recently, when a
carload of western pine was shipped to
South Africa via New York.
Taxes received Saturday by the
state treasurer included $30,627 from
Whitman county, $2653 from Adams
county and 1914 from Callam county.
Grief over the death of her daughter
is given as the reason for Mrs. r. A..
Shattuck, Es21 Sharp avenue, one of
the best known business women in
Spokane, ending her life.
One of the largest ~banquets ever held
in Spokane is being planned in honor
of visiting delegations to the city dur
ing the carnival attending the Ma
tional Apple show, November 23 to 80.
Two ~convicts, Wilbur Sexton, from
Cowlitz county, for forgery, and Z. w.
Kempton, from King county, for as
canlt acaanaA from fhn cfofa n,,,rrx
in Selah gap but were soon recaptured.
Colville Indian reservation land will
not fall to the white settlers, as of the
300 900 acres of desirable agricultural
and grazing land to be allotted, prac-
t%ically every homestead will go to the
Indians.
Two hundred thousand dollars has
been paid into Washington s industrial
insurance fund, and before January l
the state compensation commission
expects the fund to reach a total of
$3.50, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Kegley of Pa
louise city have gone to Columbus, Ohio,
to attend the convention of the ma
tional grange as representatives of the
Washington state grange, of which Mr..
Kegley is state master.
Governor Marion f.. Hay states that
he is opposed to the movement for the
calling of a special session of the legis-
lature to enact a law providing for the
direct election of delegates to the ma
tional political convention.
Lawrence, the II year old son of S.
A. Williams, was injured by the acct
dental discharge of a shot gun, Satur-
day, and died five hours later. The
accident occurred five miles down the
Grand Coulee from Coulee City.
The patent of the st. Paul, Mime
apolis & Manitoba railway, the parent
of the Great Northern, to certain lands
in Skagit county, Washington, has been
cancelled by a decision of United
States Judge Cornelius H. Hanford.
How bad roads and heavy grades
mean a dollars and cents loss to farm
ers will be illustrated in graphic man
ner by the Spokane County Good
Roads association during the sessions
of the Country Life congress at Spo-
kane.
The public service commission is
holding a series of hearings in Spokane
this week, the first since the death of
II. A. Fairchild. J. G. Lawrence is
now chairman. The appointment of
GEORGE A. Lee as a member of the Duh-