Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-21
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

Spokane trolley conductors must fore
go the pleasures of the tobacco quid !
while on duty.
An attempt was made recently to de-
stroy by fire the Motter-W Wheeler store
at Walla Walla.
Dixie rock, taken from the state
quarry at Dixie, is declared excellent
material for road making.
The name of Arthur b. Foley has
been sent to the senate for confrma
ton as postmaster of Wilbur.
Frank Shields, manager of the Walla
Walla Fruit and Vegetable union, has
been re-engaged for another year.
Judge Webster of Spokane holds that
the state law prohibiting breweries
from advancing money for retail liquor
licenses is invalid.
Formal demand is being made upon
agents of bonding companies to repay
promptly to different counties amounts
they have collected as premiums upon
official bonds.
At Seattle Warren Camp of Los
Angeles, aged 90 years, musician in
large restaurant, fell to the floor just
after leaving the piano the other night,
dying within a short time.
The state highway department has an
elephant on its hands in the Marshall
rock quarry, near Spokane, on which
thousands of dollars have been spent
and not a pound of rock crushed.
The Home Telephone company was
sold recently by Samuel Bridges, mas
ter in chancery, at auction to the Sun
set Telephone company for $55O,OO0.
This includes the plants in Tacoma and
|Bellingham.
An explosion of an acetylene lighting
system at the home of Albert Tjossem,
three miles south of Ellensburg, re-
Gently, resulted in the serious injury
of Albert Tjossem and lesser injuries
to his father, r. p. Tjossem.
A large force of men and teams was
put to work on the Hanford pumping
plant at Coyote rapids, marking the be
ginning of an extensive campaign by
the Pacific Power and Light company
in the valley of the White Bluffs coun
| try.
Seattle jobbers have made a protest
to the public service commission
claiming that the announcement thai
the distributive rate would not be made
effective until March / is contrary tc
assurances given them by the commits
sion.
Baffed at every turn of the road, the
authorities at Spokane have failed t.
produce a tangible solution to the mys
terious murder of Anna Weber, TIL
German girl whose body was found
lying in the snow in the western par
of the city.
The steamships Tamba Maru an'
Inaba Maru of the Nippon Yusen Kai
she s Seattle fleet are to be withdraw
and substituted by the Yokohama Mar,
and Shidzuoaka Maru, now under con
struction. The old boats will be place.
on Asatic routes.
The body of Harry T. Traynor, man
ager of large boarding and sale
stable, was found in a sink hole o
the flats at Seattle Saturday. Their
were no marks of violence on the body
and apparently Traynor had been suffc
Gated in the mud
George F. Woltman is Charleston
census taker, to decide whether to plac
the town in the third class, as vote
in the recent municipal election. TIL
required number is 1900. The last eel
sus showed 1857. Vineland, as an il
; corporated section about the town, ha
almost as many, the Charleston postoffic
serving 5000.
Malcolm r. Patterson, who shot an
dangerously wounded R. T. Seal g
Port Orchard, is in Seattle Jail, locke
up in default of $4,000 bail, the often:
charged against him being assault
the first degree. Patterson IS fathe
Elk. Governor Malcolm r. Patterson {
Tennessee, has engaged counsel for hir
Seal is in a hospital.
. Walter f.. Lyman, the eX-pollcema
. arrested in Seattle charged with pas
, ing worthless bills of state banks, hi
! confessed that he had cleared up near
$4,000 in the last two months by sc
ting afioat currency in Seattle and T
coma. The bills were modernized
splitting them, inserting silk threa
s between the halves and then repastin
An unmasked highwayman still in h
, teens who has terrorized the residen