Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-09-21
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS


ment of the postal savings bank in
Spokane October z has been made.
The names of three women and SO
men are on the Whitman county jury
list drawn for the October term
Olympia.-Former officials of Wilbur
are found to be short $2355, according
to the report of state examiners made
public here.
Wenatchee.-This season 425 carloads
of fruit have been shipped from this
point and shipments are averaging 25
carloads daily.
Bucoda.-Charles Sells, miner, was
shot here and probably fatally wounded
by his sonin-law, Charles Edwards,
during a family quarrel.
Nearly 20 of Spokane IS leading bust
ness men, members of the Spokane
Merchants association, left this week
ON private train for their annual tour
of the surrounding country.
Davenport-The inventory of the
estate of Michael Moriarty, the Rear
dan banker and grain man who died six
weeks ago, shows the estate worth
500, 7s9, of which all but $4,000 is per-
sonal property.
For several years sheriff of Stevens
cuonty, throughout which he was known
for his daring and efficiency, former
United States cavalryman and Indian
fighter, Thomas d. Hayden, died at an
old age Saturday night at Spokane
hospital, county charge.
A mis-step cost Oscar Anderson, aged
IS, his life, while at work on the new
Milwaukee trestle across the river, at
Spokane. Anderson, in stepping from
one tie to another, lost his balance and
fell head foremost to a pile of logs, 25
feet below His skull was fractured.
Walla Walla.-More wheat changed
hands Saturday than for many weeks,
estimates placing the entire sum at 75,-
600 bushels For the last week daily
sales have been running in the vicinity
of 10000 to 10000 bushels, and con-
sidered small for this season of the year.
With a total vote of 1854 cast for
mayor, the largest ever polled and SO
per cent of the registration, A. j.
Splawn was elected first mayor of
North Yakima under the commission
plan by majority of 9s4 votes over
Patrick Mullins, his opponent Will
lam Redman and Wilbur Crocker were
elected commissioners.
Seattle.-The eight-hour law for
women, passed by the last legislature,
was declared constitutional Saturday
blu Superior Judge John F. Main, who
imposed fine of $40 upon Mrs. Hen
rietta Somerville, factory forewoman,
because she required girls to work
more than eight hours a day. The case
will be appealed to the state supreme
court.
Five hundred farmers, at the widest
massmeeting ever held in Ellensburg,
Saturday denounced the terminal in
spection law as robbery of the farm
ers, and passed a resolution that no
hay should be shipped out of Kittitas
valley subject to terminal inspection
The meeting was attended by State
deputies.
Tacoma.-The mystery of the disap-
pearance of 16-year-old Marjorie RE
man from Seattle last February was
cleared up in the superior court Satur-
day, when Attorney Louis I. LeFebvre,
during habeas corpus proceedings, in
stituted by the girl IS mother, Mrs. Liz
zie Magnusen of Valdez, Alaska, ad-
mitted that the girl was in a Catholic
institution in San Francisco, located
on Guerrero street.
Olympia.-The new industrial insur-
ance commission law does not apply to
operators of elevators in office build
ings or hotels, except when the eleva-
tor is used in connection with con-
struction work. 1t does not apply to
those engaged in the maintenance of
individual steam heating plants of
houses, hotels, apartment houses or
residences, and it does not apply to
water works systems unless the hazard
is great, according to rulings made by
w. V. Tanner, attorney general in
rulings to the industrial insurance COM
mission. He also holds that farmers
who have men grub out stumps or blast
them out occasionally do not come
within the provisions of the act. How
ever, in event clearing of land is done
on large scale with donkey engines,
dynamite and the like, he says the
workmen come under the provisions of
the act
D1egle Gets Three Years