Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-09-14
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


During last week the shipments of
hay from Toppenish averaged over 30
carloads a day.
The war between rival companies to
get into Wenatchee and the Wenatchee
valley with an electric railway has
started.
| A counterfeiters den, which has been
| in operation for some time has been
discovered in Spokane. Three persons
are under arrest.
A resolution demanding the abolition
of the office of district superintendent
was passed by an unanimous vote of
the lay delegates to the Columbia River
conference of the Methodist church.
Clifford Pinchot, former chief forester,
and United States Senator Miles Poin-
dexter of Washington sailed from Sc
attic for Alaska ON the steamship
Northwestern, to be gone nearly six
weeks.
Valuation of the Spokane Inland OPP
Grating property has been fixed at $14,-
100000 by the state public service com
mission. The original cost is fixed at
SIS, 59S,s57 and the cost to reproduce
today is given as SIS, 6ss,246.
Freight rates from Seattle and Ia
coma to Spokane and intermediate
points are to be reduced by the public
service commission, but probably they
will not be cut in two, as was demanded
by the Seattle and Tacoma jobbers.
In fire, started by lightning, which
destroyed the home of f. M. Morgan
at Spokane, Mrs. Morgan lost her life
in an effort to rescue her two little chill
dren from the flames. The children,
boy aged 10 and a girl aged 8, were
saved.
Seattle.-William Schmulbach, the al
legged slayer of Policeman William
Smith in Joplin, Mo-, November 10, 1909,
will be taken to Joplin by Missouri Off
GERS. The scars and bullet wounds on
Schmulbach IS body make his identified
ton complete, according to Seattle de-
tectives.
In the cities and towns the amounts
range from $25 for Almira, up to $4,000
for Seattle. They include Clealum,
800; Colfax, $500; Ellensburg, $3.50;
Hillyard, $3.50; North Yakima, $500;
Pullman, 5000; Roslyn, 800; Spokane,
$500; Tacoma, $500; Walla Walla,
$1,000; Wenatchee, 5000.
The state treasury began business
this month with $1,s9O,156 cash on hand,
according to the statement of Treasurer
Lewis. There is $24s, 5ss in the state
general fund. The military fund is
overdrawn about $4,000, and the two
state highway funds and the rock quar-
ries rotary fund carry an aggregate of
about $6sO,OOO.
The estimates include the following
counties: Adams, $500; Asotin, 5000;
Benton, $3OOl Columbia, 5000 Douglas,
$500; Ferry, 5000; Franklin, $500; Gar
field, 5000; Grant, 5000; Klicl1itat, $500;
Lincoln, $500; Okanogan, $500; Pend
Oreille, 5000; Spokane, $1,000; Stevens,
$500; Walla Walla, $500; Whitman,
5000; Yakima, $500.
ppenish.-Edward L. Davis, tray
cling representative of the Carbonate
Coal company, brother-in-law of
James Ashton and prominent resident
of Tacoma, died at the Toppenish hos
pital as a result of injuries received
when a Northern Pacific train struck
an automobile in which five women and
five men, including the chauffeur, were
riding. Miss frankie Vaughn was in
stantly killed and Miss Ray Scott was
seriously injured.
The state bureau of inspection esti-
mates that it will spend about $4,000
annually in making expert examina
lions of the finances of the different
cities and towns of the state. The
bureau has just sent to the commits
sioners of all the counties and to the
of about $50 cities and towns
estimates of the cost of the examina-
lions for next year, so that these au-
thorities may make tax levy for the
money to pay the examiners.
Seattle.-United States Judge Cor
nelius II. Hanford has dissolved the
temporary restraining order issued last
week on the petition of August S. Pea
body of Chicago, trustee for the bond
holders, restraining the city of Seattle
and the residents of the Rainier valley
from interfering with the Seattle. Rem
ton & Southern railway in its attempt
to collect second fares. The dissolution
of the restraining order removes all OBJ
stacles in the way of the city's attempt
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