Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-09-07
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

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Wenatchee.=Two miles of street i'm
provement are now under way in this
city.
Admiral Togo visited in Seattle Mon
day for a farewell visit to the United
States before sailing for Japan.
Spokane county has 1000 school
children; 400 district teachers are EN-
ployed and 200 buildings occupied.
James L. Denny, pioneer settler and
well-to-do farmer of the Camas valley
district, five miles west of Springdale,
is dead.
w. E. Bishop of Walla Walla is under
arrest under the instructions of the
United States marshal, charged with
white slavery.
The ninth annual Wilbur fall fair,
October II, 1S, 10 and 20, promises to
be the best of its kind ever held in
Lincoln county.
S%pokane's $1,000, 900 park bond issue,
voted May 3, 1910, and since held in
allegiance by contestants in the local and
| state courts, has been declared valid
by the state supreme court.
The catalogue of the University of
| Washington, which has just appeared,
contains the names of 2427 different
students for the year 1901. This is
an increase of 271 over the previous
year.
Davenport.-Defnite reports from
Lincoln county wheat growers do not
confirm the early estimates of an enor-
nous wheat yield, although the yield
will be between 20 and 30 bushels to
the acre.
Twelve miles of water right on the
Klickitat river near Lyle, Wash, which
has been owned for several years by
Spokane parties, has been sold to the
Northwestern Electric company of San
Francisco.
Olympia, Wash.-The public service
commission has certified to the tax com
mission that the value of the Cornell
Northern, a separate corporation al
though part of the Northern Pacific
system, is 81, 500, 900.
John Federowski, aged "a, an Austrian
federal prisoner in the Spokane county
Jail, committed suicide by leaping from
the second-f1oor corridor, his brain:
being dashed out on the cement pave
ment of the floor below.
Olympia.-Ninety-five thousand dol
lars of shortages were uncovered il
Pierce county by the state inspectors
according to their report. Of The
shortages the examiners secured refunds
to the county aggregating nearly $4,000
Mrs. Della Tatten, who with he
I mother, Mrs. Beebe, was found guilt,
r of the murder of James Sutton in
| dispute over a roadway in Brender can
} yon, near Cashmere, a year ago. is nov
I declared insane by Sheriff j. f. Fergu
son of Chelan county.
2 Seattle.=Frank H. Kimball. alias :,
L. Workman, alias Joe A. Matthews, 81
years old, was arrested in a Tacomi
lodging house by detectives on a charg
of forgery. He was brought to Seattle
In his suitcase was found cash and bill
> to the amount of SIT, 240.
T K~ennewick. Wash.-Mrs. r. p. Tulle:
6 wife of a prominent local druggist an
3 daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Wa
lace and granddaughter of Colon'
o Wallace, after whom Wallace, Idah'
=, was named, died here after 10 days Q
n intense suffering following burns result
+ ing from an alcohol explosion.
II John Rogstad, the logger who, o
; August 5, shot and killed DR.. Bryso
l Muscott in the Olympic mountains bac
Il of Brinnon, installing him for a COZ
gar, pleaded guilty to assault in II
second degree and was fined $40 an
> costs. Rogstad is penniless, and wi
! serve out the fine in Jail, where he h;
- been since the mistake.
Davenport.=In Lincoln county the
4 was sold during the year a total
2143 acres of state land, of which tt
:. state received $50, 500, or an averae
of $26.36 an acre, while in no case W;
land sold for less than $40 an acre. E
Il the sale of the land there is added
# the county rolls property in the amour
II of $24,263, which represents 43 per cei
% of the real value.
4 Round World in 40 Days.