Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-02
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

success.
The third annual Chesaw fair was
most successful.
Governor Hay is expected to visit
Republic October 81.
Medical Lake ~dairymen are to nave
a dairy testing association.
Loomis has received it's first load
of flour from the mill at Tonasket.
Waitsburg.-The price of eggs is GO
ing up. They are selling for 4Oc a
dozen.
After a short illness George P. Toll
ton, a pioneer, died at Hoquiam re-
Gently.
The new dormitory for students of
the Ellensburg normal school is com
pleted.
The annual meeting of the Washing
ton Association of Title Men will be
held in Spokane October %.
Fire has destroyed the plant of the
Chehalis Lumber company at Littel.
The loss may reach 5000, 900.
j.. c.. Dressed lost his farm home,
in Echo valley, recently by fire. The
loss is about $500, with small insur-
ance.
There will be no school in Adams
county this week on account of the
county teachers institute, which will
be held at Lind.
Shortages aggregating more than
$4,000 on the part of former officials
of Cowlitz county are reported by
state examiners.
A strong plea for segregation of the
sexes in the state training school and
l an appeal for a separate training schoo
for girls is being advocated.
= Mrs. Emma Dart, a resident of Spo
kane since 1882, died last week, aged
81. She leaves a son and daughter
Leonard and Mrs. Claire Hunt
e The Pluvius Development compan.
has resumed work to complete the larg'
, storage reservoir of 5000 acre feet ca
>. pacity ~ miles north of Almira.
Twenty-Five blocks of bitulithic paw
ing, constituting a $135,O00 job, jus
finished at North Yakima, was r%ejecte
= by the city commission as not ac
ceptable.
Barbara Robertson, 35 years old, reg
, istered from Victoria, B. c., was foun
dead in her room in Seattle. Appal
emily she had committed suicide b
drinking chloroform.
w. II. Moody of Cornell, Frankli
: - EI-1 --4.+.~. - .-,1,,t
: tary bankruptcy in federal cour
. Moody's assets are $9,767.5O and h
liabilities $24,571.35.
= Petitions to Governor Hay asking
pardon for H. M. Boone, convicted {
larceny by embezzlement for the a
legged wrecking of the Palouse Stat
h bank. are being circulated throughol
r Whitman county.
In the departure for Portland tn
week of Dean A. w. Hendrick, forr
erly of the Whitman college facult
" whose resignation was accepted, the /
Ia stitution loses a professor connects
III with it nine years.
One of the largest and deals
Adams county this year was made I
Id Gently, when ex-Representative d..
u Scott sold his old home farm six mil
o. west of town to w. G.. and Henry
" Donekas, 500 acres, for $4,000.
no. Bill Byrd, slayer of three men
Spokane, will not hang. The jury tn
tried him for the killing of 10
Mansker, the contractor, returne
verdict of murder in the second {
r. gree, which means a sentence of fro
m 10 years to life Imprisonment.
The state general fund is down
in less han 500 cash, but Treasul
he Lewis says he will not issue inter'
bearing warrants, but. will carry t
warrants as an overdraft just as he /
OF been carrying military and CAPT
aA building warrants for some tin
Payees will receive cash, the warral
will not draw the usual 5 per cent
he %terest, the money to pay them bel
IT: diverted from other cash funds. TIL
is $685. 900 cash in the two highw
funds and $3.50, 900 in the new ind
trial insurance accident fund. To
cash on hand is 81, $50, 900, and receil
for the week were $132,446, and
bursements were $74,4o1.