Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-08
WASHINGTON STATE

Whitman county will remain in the
seventh class for the present.
More than $50 carloads of potatoes
will be produced in the Kittitas valley
this year.
County treasurers of the state will
hold convention in Spokane Septem
Der IS, 10 and 20.
The estate of DR.. w. H. Olds, who
was shot and killed by his wife at Spo-
kane, was appraised at $4,000.
At the end of 10 months there are
4s9 depositors in Uncle Sam S postal
savings bank in Spokane, whose depos
it's amount to $43,749.
The horses in the Cornell district
which have been suffering from infu-
enza, have practically recovered and
the disease has disappeared.
The latest step in the sanitary cam
paign in North Yakima is the enforce
ment of the laws requiring all dairy
COWS to be tuberculin tested.
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Judge w. w. Black, democrat, for
eight years judge of the superior court
of Snohomish county, has announced
his candidacy for governor of Washing
ton.
Paul Grasso and James Rossei, Sec
ton men ON the S. G. B. c. railway,
were drowned in Kettle river near Dan
vile, Saturday, at the noon hour, while
in bathing.
The Spokane city council committee
appointed to investigate and report on
the ACCESSIBILITY of general city store
will render a report favorable to the
proposition.
Mystery surrounds the sudden disap
pearance of Joe Smith, aged Is years
totally blind, who was placed on q
train at Wenatchee and started for his
home in Spokane.
The special bond election held al
Prosser for bonding school district No
16 for $4,000 for the erection of new
modern school building carried by ;
vote of over two to one.
John B. Curtis, telegraph operator
who escaped from the custody of Sher
, if German as he was being brough
, across the Cascades in June, 1911, wa
captured in Seattle recently.
Among the most prominent summe
lcah or OF ha TTr,iv n
Washington, is DR.. Edwin Frazier, 8
years old, who works harder and NOR
optimistically than any one in tn
e chemistry department.
At Everett August 3, 4, and
will compete the singing societies of tn
Pacific coast at the annual sangerfest
!, Singing societies from Washington
California, Oregon, Montana and Brit
: ish Columbia will compete.
e The largest display of fancy tabl
grapes ever assembled in the northwes
will be shown at Kennewick at tn
second annual Columbia river crap
carnival, which will be held in tina
city September 1921.
e Five persons afflicted with smallpo
!. were apprehended on the streets q
+ Wenatchee Saturday, and large nun
/ Der of persons suspected of having tn
f disease are under surveillance. A ser
Gus outbreak is feared.
e Mrs A. Moller, of Madison, Wis, an
:. a young man believed to be Charlie
J. Bears of Shelton, Wash, were browne
o in the Wishkah river, near Aberdeen
d Sunday. Bears died in trying to saw
n Mrs. Moller, his act being one of pun
e heroism.
C John L. Druse, a farm hand Twin
~ near North Yakima, was killed Satu
D. day, when he lifted a high-voltag
e power wire with a pitchfork to allo
T. load of hay to pass under it. Jane
d Bunnell, his employer, caught Druse &
= he fell and received shock which ma
n cause his death.
e J. L. Irwin, one of Colfax's be!
II known citizens, was instantly kille
T. Saturday morning when his automobi
e ran off a bank in the south end {
"a town and the car turned completed
over. Irwin IS head was crushed an
his hands and body badly bruise
Death was instantaneous.
- Water has been turned into the ne
70 concrete reservoir constructed at Wal
a Walla, marking the completion of OF
N of the unique development projects {
the Walla Walla valley. This is I'll