Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-10-05
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS.

packing pears, plums and prunes.
Cromwell Dixon and R. C. st. Henry
will be the aviators at the Spokane In
terstate fair the week of October 2.
Sunday witnessed the dedication of
the new Emmanuel Episcopal church
erected at cost of $4,000, at Kellogg,
Idaho.
A fire starting in the living room
of the manager of the Midvale (Idaho)
Telephone company destroyed more than
half the business portion of the town
Saturday.
Fleet as a deer, dressed in the skins
of animals and roaming the woods, a
wild man has been discovered in the
Middle Nook canyon, about 25 miles
from Bozeman, Mont
At the age of 80 years Isaac Pen
rose, who came to Spokane with his
family 10 years ago, died recently at
the home of his son, William T. Pen
rose, the welkknown printer.
Mrs. Ellen Sewer, aged 76, we'll
known pioneer of Butte, was thrown
from buggy by runaway horse Sat
urday, alighting head first against a
rock and dying from the injuries.
The lumber output in the Inland EN-.
pire is valued at $21, 100000 and the
standing timber in the Spokane coun-
try estimated at $4,000, 900, 900 feet, or
enough to build 100000 high-class
dwellings, or to house IS per cent of
the nation population. Washington,
Idaho, Oregon, Montana and California
have so per cent of standing timber.
The secretary of the interior has au-
thorized the reclamation service to
place cement Innings in number of
main distributaries of the Umatilla
irrigation project, Oregon. Plans for
the work include the lining of more
than 10000 linear feet of canals and
construction of about 10000 linear feet
of cement pipe, at total cost approx
mately of $4,000.
After a two weeks slump in fruit
shipments in the Wenatchee valley, due
to the closing of the peach and pear
season and the beginning of apple ship
ments being week late, the carload
shipments. are now beginning to in
crease, IA carloads being sent Saturday
night, seven being for the export trade,
three of which are bound for London
and four to Australia.
In sentencing L. w. Young, a Sc
attic dairyman, to 10 days in the county
Jail for selling SKINNED milk as real
milk, Superior Judge Wilson R. Gay
announced that hereafter it would be
the policy of the superior court judges
to impose the highest penalty on VIC
lators of the pure milk law. Fines, he
said, had been no deterrent. Young
was recently fined $3.50 in city court
Swelled by business men from Port
land, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Cen
tralia and Chehalis and all points in
western Washington at least 10000
persons Saturday afternoon witnessed
the opening of the bridge across the
Chehalis river, which admitted to Aber
deem and Hoquiam the Oregon and
Washington Railroad and Navigation
company and the Chicago, Milwaukee
and Puget Sound railway.
According to Construction News OF
Chicago building operations in 68 prin
} cipal cities of the United States fol-
August amounted to $s0,7s7,6 $50, as
compared with $72,555,232 in the cor
responding month last year, showing g
net gain of IL per cent. Chicago show.
the greatest gain-289 per cent-whift
Duluth shows the heaviest loss-97 pei
cent. The whole country would show
a considerable loss were it not for the
} remarkable record made in Chicago
Generally the loss is heavier and more
general in northwestern cities than il
other sections of the country. Port
land 8 loss is 20 per cent; Seattle, 2!
per cent; Spokane, % per cent, ant
Tacoma, IA per cent. Spokane is cred
tied with 1872 permits of a value o.
1891, 900, as against 1913 permits, value
$503,635, in August, 1910.
, After prolonged illness resulting
, from old age the Rev. William Pelan
, age 81 years, Spokane pioneer anc
grand chaplain for all the CRANE
lodges of the Masonic order in Wash
? ington, died September %.
The deceased was born in Englan,
and was ordained into the ministry il
the early '40s at Charlottesville, Ind
He held Presbyterian charge for 2
years and was chaplain in the Uniol
army. He then went to Iowa and wa
many years at Wells, MINI.
In 1899 Mr.. Pelan came to Spokane
: He was the oldest past grand CON
4 mander for Indiana at the time O