Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-19
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

The warehouses at Lacrosse have
taken in 100000 sacks of wheat this
fall.
Fire destroyed one Of the big stables
at the interstate fairgrounds Saturday
Loss $4,000.
Joseph Chambers, a pioneer, who
died in Cheney recently, was born Oc
tober 4, 1880, in Monroe county, In
diana.
During the last week 100 carloads of
apples have been shipped out of the
Wenatchee valley to every part of the
globe.
Frank Market, carpenter, aged 25
years, was run over and killed by an
eastbound mail train on the Great
Northern near Bluestem recently.
Sunday morning concluded the three
days. session of the nineteenth annual
meeting of the Columbia river branch
of the Woman IS Foreign Missionary So
ciety at North Yakima.
Mrs. Becker, wife of a rancher south
of Irby, was found dead at the foot of
the cellar steps by her children. 1t is
supposed she missed her footing. She
leaves a baby nine days old and other
children.
Complete tabulation of values of
Lincoln county shows that taxes for
the coming year will be paid on basis
of valuation for all property of $24,-
676,704, a slight decrease over that of
last year, when the rolls showed $24,-
704, 622.
The 2-year-old son of Mike Arndt
at Sprague fell into bucket of boiling
water and severely scalded its back and
hips. In removing the child IS clothes
, after the accident the greater portion
of the skin was taken off and the little
fellow is in a very serious condition.
Mrs. L. NJ. Powell of Dayton has a
hen with a brood of chickens whose
history has been brilliant. Last March
the hen was Matched. In July she COM
, menced laying. In September, less
y than months old, the hen Matched a
brood of chickens in time to go with
u them to the fair.
a Tacoma. - Mystery surrounds the
e death of T. o. Sebree, a wealthy New
IS Mexico rancher, whose body was found
II in tie water under dock with bullet
hole through the head. A diamond ring
is and stickpin which Sebree was known
,r to possess are missing. A revolver wa
It found on the dock.
al The accident fund authorized by tn
80 workmen IS compensation act has al
rs ready reached the respectable total o
5000, with every prospect that i
IL will pass the quarter of million mari
IN by January. Almost without exception
the larger employers of the state ar
nj complying with the demands of tn
es law.
Smoke was seen to issue from the e1
~ tinct crater of Mount Baker Saturda
~ afternoon by residents of the towns G
''' Glacier and Maple Falls. AS soon q
Il the report spread scores of people wit
;" glasses took to the hills on the on
&c skirts of Bellingham and were abb
plainly to see the dense pail of smob
gathering about the snowy crest of tt
peak.
as The first woman in the state to Fl
in for a municipal Office is Mrs. Edna Y
he Edings, who has fled a certificate Wi
De- the city clerk at Olympia as candida
mt on the citizens ticket for city trea
az urer. She is the only candidate
70. that ticket for the Office, as the incul
,as bent, w. H. Bracket, is the only ca
lie didate for nomination of the republic.
ticket for treasurer.
m. The actual pack of canned salmon
try Puget Sound up to September 20 W
en- 1,276,923 cases. This is the large
his pack of salmon ever put up on we
ter when the .sockeyes have not run
10y large numbers. The pack of pi
VIC salmon is more than twice the size
rbe the next largest pack on record.
in less than 1,013,1s4 cases of this XII
wi of fish have been packed.
on
'lv- Olympia, Wash-C. A. Pratt, of
ges industrial insurance commission, a
try w. V. Tanner, attorney general
Washington, have gone to Chicago
attend a conference on October 10 a
IA or IL or Is states and commissiC
nts on the subjects of state and fede
IN workmen's compensation, amendme
+. to the interstate commerce law, unifo
am accident reports and malingering of
at tients under compensation.
the
gun plans for the construction of
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