Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-07
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

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penters building a cattle yard at Elber-
ton.
The funeral of II. G.. Parliament,
man, was held in Republic
last week.
The second rabbit drive of the season
will be held eight miles west of Mesa,
December 2.
The fire and water committee of the
city of Pasco has purchased a steam
fire engine.
December 27, 90 and 20 the Wash
ngton Educational association will meet
in North Yakima.
Upwards of $4,000 worth of fine furs
in stock was stolen from fur store
in Seattle recently.
The Ellensburg Carnegie library was
ordered closed for fumigatien owing to
the scarlet fever scare.
Senator Miles Poindexter has left for
Washington, d. c., to attend the COM
ing session of congress, which convenes
in December.
A farm consisting of 800 acres, seven
miles north of Creston, was recently
sold by Charles NJ. Barbre to Ashley
Barnhart for $4,000.
John B. Guyer, defaulting accountant
of the Washington & Oregon railway
who is charged with embezzling $4,000,
was captured in Winnipeg.
State Secretary C. W. Wilcox of the
Y. M. c. A. is in Ellensburg arranging
for the state convention to be held
there December 16, II and 1S.
A man whose name was given by
railway officials as Ed L. Tetreen was
struck by train near Marshall june
tion recently and almost instantly
killed
A large delegation of Spokane bust
ness men will visit Lewiston and sur
rounding towns December 13. The
Lewiston live and fat stock show will
be visited.
The state industrial insurance com
mission has received from the city of
Spokane a check for $2465.69, the
city's first payment under the employ
ers' liability law.
DR.. B. L. Whitman, one of the most
noted Baptist ministers in America, died
in Seattle, Sunday. Death was caused
by a blood eliot, which had formed in
his leg, bursting and going to his heart
Quiet again reigns in Aberdeen, and
no disturbance of any kind was at
tempted there by the Industrial Work
ers of the World, who are seeking by
demonstrations to force the repeal OF
the street-speaking ordinance.
Alleged illegal disbursements OF
$50, 253 of Spokane county funds be
tween January 1, 1905, and January l
1911, are reported to the attorney gen
eral by state examiners who have beer
checking up the finances of the county
The supreme court reversed the YER
dict of King county court which con
victed Axtell Mist of murder in tn,
second degree for Staying Policeman
Judson p. Davis in Seattle on the nigh
of February 23, 1911, and granted Ms
a new trial.
It is reported B. w. Coluer, chairman
of the republican central state commit
tee, is prepared to go on record pledg
ing that delegates to the national con
vention will be elected by a state re
publican convention, under the old eau
Gus and primary plan.
The "back haul" decision by tn
interstate commerce commission will
not be of real value to Seattle an,
other Coast jobbers on business within
this state until the state public serv
ice commission makes its distributing
rates eastbound from the Sound.
Gong Lee, a Chinaman, aged 70 years
a vegetable gardener of Pullman, wol
the affections of Miss Anna Hopper,
Spokane woman, and then refused t
appear on the wedding day, according
to the papers in breach of promis
suit filed against the celestial at Spo
kane.
County Assessor A. Z. Parish of Kin,
, county, Washington, has written a let
ter to Secretary of the Interior Fishe
asking when the government may be ex
pected to survey the lands of tn
Northern Pacific railroad in King an
other counties. In King county the rail
road owns $4,000 acres of land, which
being unsurveyed, has escaped taxatio
for 20 years. This land is worth mill
ions of dollars.
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