Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-06-06
WASHINGTON STATE

600.
Dentists from all over the state of
Washington are in session at Spokane
this week.
Electric light rates in North Yak
ina will be reduced soon from ~ cents
per kilowat hour to 10 cents.
An innovation in the routine of life
in the town of Davenport will be mar
ket day, the first of which will be held
June l.
Phoenix, Ariz-Howard H. Lewis, a
prominent Seattle attorney and real es-
tate man, aged SO, died in Phoenix,
Ariz., Sunday.
c. f. Lewis, pioneer of Waterville,
is dead He was 95 years old March
10 and was a familiar figure in Water
vile at public functions.
Work has started on the erection by
the Yakima Evaporating company of
plant which will have capacity of 80
tons of green apples daily
People having contributed practically
$4,000 to the Saving Whitman col
lege" campaign, plans are being made
for canvassing outside points.
William Dawley, aged SIS, a steeple-
jack, well known on the Coast, fell rs
feet at Seattle when painting the steel
smokestack of rendering plant on
Harbor island and was probably fatally
injured.
With II teams in the field, a number
in excess of that ever participating in
any past meet, the seventh annual
tournament of the Inland Volunteer
Firemen S association will be held at
Ritzville June 4, and 6.
With assets of $5S,344,344 and with
a total debt of $14, 1894, 2s0 Seattle s
credit is still good for $4,31s,O35. The
latter amount represents the capital
surplus of the city shown by the city
comptroller. The assessed valuation of
the city for 1911 is $211, 1897 org
Formal proclamation of the trans
forming of Gonzaga college at Spo-
kane into university is to be made
during the Silver Jubilee celebration
on June 10, 20 and 21, when the twenty
fifth anniversary of the founding of
the institution is to be celebrated.
With tears of gratitude in his eyes
and so overcome with joy that for a
moment he could scarcely talk, Arthur
Ash, on trial in the superior court al
Spokane on charge of killing James
Boon on a ranch near Sprague, Wash.
heard the verdict of "'not guilty.
Charles s. Barrett of Union, Ga.
president of the Farmers Educationa
and Cooperative Union of America
was in Spokane tuesday of this weel
to attend the annual session of tn,
Washington State Farmers union, t.
be held in this city, commencing thai
day.
After lying at the point of death a.
the result of advanced age for severa
days, Moses Brinkerhoff, age 81 years
one of the first conductors to punch
ticket on the Northern Pacific at st
Paul, and the oldest railroad man from
point of service in the United States
died at Spokane, Sunday.
Spreading with insidious and incur
able persistence to the cells of he
brain, frequently inducing mental de
rangement and physical suffering
acetanilid poisining, created by takin,
headache tablets, caused the death Fri
day of Mrs. Emma Maggie Clay, age'
40 years, at Spokane. She leaves
husband and six young children.
stranger entered the office of tn
sheriff of Kitttas county recently ant
after standing around for few mo
ments, walked over to the big iro
safe, upon which rested the sheriff ,
vest, removed Sheriff German IS watcl
and chain, and walked out of the office
Five men were in the room at the time
and none of them observed the theft
Mrs. Nancy Jacobs, survivor of TIL
Whitman massacre in 1S4S, told he
experiences in the massacre at the an
nual meeting of the Inland Empire Pic
, neers association at Whitman, Me
} mortal day, May 30, at Walla Walls
Mrs. Jacobs escaped from the Indian
} by hiding beneath the floor of tn
Whitman home. She was a small gin
! at the time.
, Don Jaime Repins to Talk