Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-01-25
WASHINGTON STATE

IN Spokane this week.
Washington State Federation of La
Dor is in session at Spokane this week. !
Chelan county started the 18th year
OF its existence as a county this month.
Hardware dealers from over the
northwest met in Spokane Wednesday.
Grandview's business section has
grown rapidly during the last summer.
The buildings erected have cost 1913 800.
An election was held at lone, Sat
urday, the citizens voting to issue bonds
for $4,000 to build and equip new
school building.
The rainfall in western Washington
for the year 1911 was the least ever
recorded-21.69 inches, 10 inches less
than in 1910.
Retail liquor dealers of Spokane,
members of the Royal Arch have de-
clared open war on the Anti-Saloon
League of Washington.
The district conference of the Nor
wegian Danish Methodist church for
the Rocky Mountain district is in SEES
sion at Spokane this week.
Mrs. Jacob Goetz, wife of the we'll
known hotel man and pioneer mining
man of Spokane and the Occur d 'Alenes
died Sunday at the family residence.
Chelan, in Chelan county, has its
accounts in bad shape, according to the
report of the state bureau of inspection.
It's assets are 1904, while its liabilities
are $s512.
J. R. Walker, recently named to
succeed A. w. Perley as state inspector
of tracks and railroad equipment, has
left Spokane for Olympia to assume
his official duties.
The postoffice receipts for the Spo-
kane office for the calendar year end
ing December 81, 1911, show an in
crease of $6,511.55. The total receipts
for 1911 are $476,O42.s9
Two hundred dollars reward has beer
5 offered for information leading to the
2 arrest and conviction of the man who
robbed the Bank of Commerce al
Everett, December IS, 1911.
Establishment of mutual hospita
associations by all concerns engaged il
hazardous industries will be recon-
mended soon by Governor NJ. +. Ha!
and the state industrial insurance com
mission.
The public service commission ha
issued formal orders refusing to amend
. its earlier order denying the Mort
q Coast right to cross public highways a
grade in Yakima, Benton and WALL
Walla counties.
5 George w. Carr and Ed S. Evers
t convicted of fraudulent use of the mai
e in the exploitation of their loan sys
TEN. the National Home company
were fined $500 apiece and costs, whic
h will amount to $4,000.
A farmers institute will be held i
Toppensh during February. The Wasf
g. Iington State college instructors will de
" liver talks on horticulture, orchar
pests, veterinary, live stock, dairyins
poultry and home economics.
=, Charles P. Bennett. one of the lea(
ing attorneys of Republic, is undo
? arrest. charged with grand larcen,
accused of having appropriated $135
while acting as the administrator
the estate of James Whips, deceased.
Gong Lee, alias "Bologna," Pull
e mans lone Chinaman, will not ha'
to marry Miss Anna Hopper of Sp
1t kane, nor pay her $4,000 "hea
ID balmD for failure to become her hu
g band. unless a new suit is started.
=. In sentencing Abe Post, a whit
9. SLAYER. to two and a half years IN tt
- Mcneil island penitentiary, Judge Ru
- kin of the federal court upheld tt
constitutionality of the intersta
. statute brought up in Post s case.
lie To prevent any possibility of sin
er ing or turning turtle the steamsh
De Strathalbyn, badly damaged in tn
collision with the steamer Virginlan
Three Tree point Sunday, was beach'
near the commercial dock in Tacon
ms harbor.
1, Tn recent opinion J. T. S. Lyl
ne assistant attorney general, holds tn
We when corporation has been strick'
to from the rolls of the secretary OF sta
Us and dissolved that it can not be
IL vived under the laws of 1911 witho
Ia reincorporation.
The international Power compan
through Wilbur S. Yearsley Of 81