Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

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ried at the recent school election by
vote of approximately two to one.
With the opening of the winter sea
son there is renewed activity in the
farmers organizations in the Palouse ,
country.
The Vancouver high school debating
team recently won a unanimous deci-
sion over the Goldendale high school
at Goldendale.
j. w. Fry, Jr., of Davenport, has filed
a voluntary petition of bankruptcy in
federal court. He declares his assets
to be $115 and his Liabilities 1920.
That the new Lewis and Clark high
school at Spokane will not be ready for
occupancy by the beginning of the sec
ond semester, February l, is now con
ceded.
Ida and Nettie Johnson, the runaway
Centrala high school girls, who led
their father chase over a part of two
states, were finally captured in Walla
Walla.
The third annual Whitman County
Poultry show, December 1928, prom
Uses to far eclipse either of the shows
which have previously been held in
Colfax.
Reports of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific for the number of
cars loaded in November give an in
dication of the increase in business in
the northwest.
For the second time the 12-year-old
boy burglar, whose numerous robberies
have astonished the police, has again
escaped from the parental school by
slipping past the guard.
James Wynn and j. D. Hanly have
organized an ice and creamery com
pany, with a capital stock of $4,000,
and will install a creamery and ice
manufacturing plan in Colville.
The body of James Blackham, a la
borer, was found half mile northeast
of Factoria, on the east shore of Lake
Washington, hidden in the brush near
road. He had been murdered for his
money.
Locating survey work on the west
side of the Cascades for the extension
of the North Coast line of the Harri
man system to the Sound has been sus
pended until spring because of heavy
SHOWS.
Spokane shippers, at recent meet
ing, decided to ask the interstate com
merce commission to postpone its order
for "backhaul reductions until Spo
kane s new rates from the east become
effective.
With seven bullets in his body
Walter Foote is dead at Sedro Woolley
while his fellow bandit, Fred James
who was captured after a three hours
fight with posse of 200 men, is il
the Skagit county Jail.
f. S. Ives and George Carr, who wer,
indicted last month charged with usin.
the mails to defraud in exploiting tn
merits of the loan system of the Ma
tional Home company, were foun'
guilty of the charges by the fedora
jury at Spokane.
Accused of working the bunco gam
of betting on fake horse race on job
Bell of Spokane to the tune of $500
Sam Browsley is held at the Seattl
iai hn
while, Jim Mulligan, who Bell says, ha
/ the money, has disappeared
Declaring that they have been pa,
;. ing the jobbers 35 cents a barrel t
sell their output of flour to the reta
T. merchants, two of the largest flor
mills of Spokane have agreed to di
: regard wholesalers in the future an
sell direct to the retail trade.
The first commercial electric ligh
in the valley of the White Bluffs cou
. try were lighted Thanksgiving day f
the first time, marking the beginnir
of an electric lighting system which
: planned to cover the town of Viii
Bluffs and fruit ranches adjoining.
The largest single shipment
blooded animals ever received in Il
Kittitas valley was consigned to Hem
> Kleinberg. The shipment consisted
+ % head of full-blooded Aberdeen Pc
Angus animals, and is valued at near
$4,000. The cattle were bought
n Corvallis, Ore.
A. w. Cameron of Spokane and
5. w. Alden of Seattle have fled articl
of incorporation in Whatcom county
/, a fish and storage company. The COZ
&c pany will build at once a large war
!. house and fish cnrinr nlant. and In,