Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-23
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

The funeral of Henry Van Schoick
was held in Colfax November TO-
The Spokane high school went down
to defeat before the debaters of the
Sprague high school.
The debaters of the Hillyard high
school won over the team from the
Newport high school.
The state humane society met in Ia
coma Saturday in annual convention.
Marshall X. Smell of Kiowa was elected
president.
Arthur Wyant, young rancher, was
killed while on hunting expedition
near Castle Rock, when a rifle was ac-
cidently discharged in the hands of a
companion.
Department Commander Hurd of the
Grand Army of Washington and Alaska
is visiting comrades in the eastern part
of the state,
James f. Bradford, assistant corpor
alton counsel, has been elected to sue
coed his chief, Scott Calhoun, as cor
poration counsel of Seattle.
1t will require 10 months to complete
the O.-W. r. & n. cutoff between
Spokane and Aver junction, that will
reduce the distance between Portland
and Spokane 81 miles.
Spokane merchants believe the de-
termination of the government to APP
peal from the decision of the commerce
court to the supreme court is a salts
factory procedure and step in ad-
vance for Spokane.
AS they were speeding along the
country road in a new $4,000 automobile
stolen in Spokane, Joe Fritsch of Ritz
vile and w. R. Hodgman, a chauffeur
of Spokane, both mere youths, were
captured at Endicott.
At a recent meeting of the Public
Service commission that body organ
lied and j. c. Lawrence of Whitman
county was the unanimous choice for
chairman to succeed the late H. A.
Fairchild
Governor Hay has been notified by
President c. c. Moore of the Panama
Pacific exposition, that the grounds
would not be in shape for the selection
of a site for some time, so the governor
has postponed his trip.
1t is reported the projected extern
sion of the North Coast Hartman line,
from North Yakima to Tacoma will not
cross the Cascades at Cowlitz Pass, as
originally planned, but will go through
the mountains in a tunnel at Bear Gap,
10 miles farther north.
Miss "Judge' Mildred Henthorne,
the first woman in the state of Wash
ington to occupy the office of justice
of the peace, and who tried case in
volving nearly 800 at Vancouver, rem
dered her decision in favor of the
plaintiff, giving judgment for $40 and
costs of the action.
His feet slipping out from under him
on the treacherous snow that covered
the "wall' track of the Great North
ern railroad, just opposite and east of
the station house, at Spokane, Robert
c. Cool, aged "A years, a retired Illinois
farmer, was run down by string of
railway mail ears being backed out of
the yards by switch engine, and was
instantly killed. His head was cut off 4
There were 756 persons injured and
119 deaths caused by the Northern Pa
cific railway in the state of Washing
ton during the year ending June 80.
1911, but only two of those killed and
Ill of those injured were passengers
The number of postal clerks killed was
three and of railway employees killed
21 were engaged in the operation of
trains, while seven were employed in
other duties.
Governor Hay will give a hearing at
Tacoma December to advocates of
proposal to call a special session of the
Legislature to enact statute provid-
ing for direct election of delegates to
national political conventions. Peti-
tiOns are being widely circulated in the
state asking that a special session be
called to enact the law, the State
Grange, the Progressive Republican as
ISOLATION, the State Federation of
Labor and other bodies being back of
the movement Governor Hay has al.
ready said that he believed he would
not be justified in spending the money
which the special session would cost