Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-28
WASHINGTON STATE

whitman county farmers have formed
a telephone firm.
Work on Pasco's new city hall is
gong on rapidly.
Judge George Donworth has retired
from the federal bench in Tacoma.
John Roddy, well-known resident of
Wenatchee, is believed to have
drowned Saturday.
Helger Hellison, an East Pike street
grocer of Seattle, committed suicide
Saturday while drunk.
The April meeting of the Whitman
County Farmers union will be held in
Pullman April and 4.
An illustrated lecture on civic i'm
provements is to be given in Pullman
March 20 by J. L. Dumas.
The state central committee of the
prohibition party has decided to call
the state convention for May Z, at
Everett.
Machinery that will more than double
the capacity of the Yakima Creamery
company plant at Toppenish is being
installed.
Struck down by a sudden attack of
heart trouble, Kassel Gottstein, Sc
years old, a prominent business man of
Seattle, is dead.
Natives of the Philippines living in
this state are neither citizens nor
voters, but under federal law may be-
come such by naturalization.
Deputy Sheriffs Colin Mckenzie and
A. Elmer, from Montesano, have been
missing for eight days. They were on
a search for John Tornow for murder
Clyde Beers, a hack driver, aged 1s
at Walla Walla, who is charged with
having shot and probably fatally
wounded Martin Milan, a passenger, is
still at large.
J. Davis, sheepman living neal
Rtzville, reports the sale of about 900
acres of farm and pasture land, thu
former at $50 an acre and the latter a
$3.50 an acre.
/ Postal savings banks effective Apri
, II have been ordered in Black Diamond
Chewelah, Concrete, Grandview, Orc
5 vile, Ridgefeld, Riverside, Sultan
Tekoa and Wapato.
The Wenatchee Commercial club
inaugurating a movement to encourag
the planting of trees and the beautify
ing of yards and streets general
throughout the city.
d A meeting of Yakima Valley Con
mercial club representatives to form
p federation to work for the joint int
t ests of cities of the valley was hel
n at Granger March %.
J. Interest continues in the propositio
of Senator Charles f. Myers to cut l
the large land holdings and attract
= reasonable prices and no commission
n settlers to the Davenport wheat be-
The jury in the case of II. c. PHI
lc lips, president of the Commercial Ban
is of Vancouver, defunct, who was charg
RS with receiving deposits after he kne
" that the bank was insolvent, broug
IL in verdict of not guilty.
A few railroad to open up the mi
eral wealth of the metaline country, c
tending from Metaline Falls to G.
r. Vile. and eventually extending farth
into the north and west, undoubted
o will be built. is the latest report.
The will of Leslie L. Grim, a bacl
TO lor. who died in a squalid Holy Rol
OF camn on the beach at Ballard yt
ne ago. leaving his $4,000 estate to
rt Rev. Thomas II. Gourley, head of
OF Holy Rollers, has been declared val
at A Northern Pacific train bound fr
las Bellingham to Seattle, overlook
nd freight train on a bridge Saturd
us. crashing into the freight train g
hurting the caboose off the bridge {
ar ductor J. c. Martin of Everett '
SIS, kelled.
IS The Great Northern railroad c'
un' many has awarded a contract for or
lty mo Sc miles of railroad on the W
re, ,,or+b branch of the Great MOI
atchee nortn Drahch VI unO
nu ern. extending from Wenatchee to
eros. The construction of this So M
riy of road will cost the company betw
Oly S.. SOC, 900 and $3,OOO,OOO.
est The bill increasing the appropriate
DO for the Walla Walla public build
1t from $4,000 to $35O,OOO passed
his senate. Another providing $4,000
lid. the public building at Wenatchee
also passed. The house probably
take no action before next session