Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-09-28
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

held at Wenatchee this week.
The Ritzville fair begins September
&c and continues for four days.
At Almira a commercial club has
been organized with 81 members.
Present indications are that the state
tax levy this year will be higher than
ever before.
The funeral of the late Mrs. f. f.
day afternoon.
A large number of hotel keepers of
Seattle are to attend the State fair in
body on September &c.
All county school superintendent will
meet in Olympia September 1922 with
State Superintendent H. B. Dewey.
In the 20 years of residence at White
Bluffs by old pioneers, none has seen
as continuous rainfall as that last week.
Kerr-Gifford company, grain dealers,
are to be sued by the state because of
their refusal to comply with the state
grain inspection law.
With a bullet hole in his breast,
Elmer Gwinn, prominent young man
of Walla Walla, lies at the point of
death, the victim of an attempt to com
NIT suicide.
The state has ST., 49s, $50 cash on hand,
according to the weekly report of the
state treasurer. Receipts for the week
were $4s,o61 and warrants aggregating
$126,616 were paid.
I Amid the enthusiastic cheers of
nearly 200 Seattle business men union
civic organization was put in the pro-
cess of formation last week and pledged
to revive the old Seattle spirit and de-
vote its influence to the civic veal.
One of the features of the first an
nual grape carnival, held IN Kenne
wick September 81 and %, was the
school for growers conducted by Pro
fessor W. s. Thornber, director of the
Lewiston Charleston school of horticul
ture.
The chamber of commerce of Rosalia
offered ssistance-fnancial or other
wise-to the Broadview Dairy company
whose big barns at that. place were de
stroyed by fire September Is. The tota
loss is estimated at $4,000, with $14,
900 insurance.
The judiciary committee of the Sc
attic city council voted to recommend
for passage the Grifiths single tax reso
luton. This resolution proposes al
amendment to the city charter provid
ing for the single tax in Seattle, be
ginning with the 1912 levy, and SHOULD
it be approved by the council will b
turned over to the voters in March.
With the death Friday night o
Iannzi Luigi, an Italian section hand
u who was shot in the leg at Wilso
Creek recently, lack Finney, a wei
known farmer of that town, and hi
/ hired man, George Howard, may hav
to answer to a charge of manslaughtel
Fnney and Howard admit shootin
Luigi but claim he and fellow country
men were stealing fruit in Finney
J orchard.
t 1t is officially announced by til
Northern Pacific railroad that plaI
for the construction of the LAX
Union belt line, in Seattle, to co'
. 100000, are nearly ready, and ths
the track will be laid at once, the con
~ pany itself doing the wor kif bids al
unsatisfactory.
The company will also shorten II
Fremont e. Ballard main line, build
n bascule bridge over the Lake Was
T. ington canal and reconstruct a Sea
n tie pier for the Canadian Pacific stear
a ers, these latter improvements to co
e 81 100000.
New shops, roundhouse and termina
at Auburn and Pasco, Wash, will co
:, 81 loo, 900 and all the work is to
done during the coming IL months.
,e State Bankers Meet.
e Charles A. Mclean of Spokane
- the new president of the Washingt
State Bankers association, chosen !
10 Gently.
,fl E. T. Conan of Spokane was nam
81 vice president of the American Ban
q. ers' association for the state of Was
er ington.
r.. Delegates to the national convent
of the American Bankers ASSOCIATE
at New Orleans next month will be
III Grier Long, D. w. Twohy, E.
gu Andrews, N. H. Lattimer, Victor
az Roeder, N. B. Coffman and W. G. b.
H. lers. Alternates will be: W. J. 10
n mers, D. H. Moss, P. M. Wilma
u Charles A. Brewer, L. L. Work, H.
on Jones and w. H. France.
Other officers chosen for the st;