Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-28
WASHINGTON STATE

the recent elecllOu ny lWO NoleS.
Workmen at North Yakima are erect
ing a four-stall roundhouse for the
O.-W. r. G N.
Mrs. Carry H. Sane, pioneer of
LOOMS, Wash, mother of Mrs H. P.
Decent, died recently
At Odessa, Christian d. Weber lost
number of horses on account of pioson-
Gus weeds mixed in with hay
Five naval prisoners confined in the
disciplinary barracks at the Puget
Sound navy yard escaped recently.
At Charleston Ernest 1iffney COM
mitted suicide recently by taking
poison. No reason for the act is
known.
Mrs H. w. Bourquin of Prosser has
started a hospital there. DR. French,
county physician, will place the county
patients there.
1t is claimed there is less grain in
the hands of the producers than ever
known at this time of year in the Pa
louise country.
Paul London and his father of
LOOMS, Wash, who took 1900 head of
sheep to the Chicago market, have re-
turned and say that mutton is at the
top price.
Harold Bruce, 3-year-old son of Sam
uel Bruce of Tekoa, ran backward
against a tub of boiling water which
his mother was preparing for washing
and fell in, back first, receiving severe
burns.
Jacob Betz, aged SO, Washington
pioneer, died recently at Tacoma, of
organic heart trouble of long standing.
He was formerly mayor of Walla Wal
la, where burial took place the first of
the week.
For the first time practical operation
of the principles of the mothers per-
sion law of Illinois, the county commits
sioners of Spokane through coopera-
ton with the juvenile court, started the
plan this week.
At Independence A. A Trusket was
acquitted of the charge of numbering
j. d. S. Nicely, a Lima (Ohio) oil pro-
moter, and was held by the jury to
have been insane at the time he shot
and killed Nicely.
State President L. c. Crow and
County President A D. Kelly will tour
Whitman county. They will be at
Pennington November %, Tekoa No
vember 20, later at st. John and the
lower part of the county.
Owing to the large vote in Newport
precinct at the recent election, $50
votes being cast out of registration of
1893, the commissioners have created
three new precincts out of the terri
tory originally in one.
Because of the prospect of a short
age of storage facilities for apples still
to go forward from the Yakima valley
a committee from the Yakima Valley
Fruitgrowers' association have gone to
cities of the middle west for a storage
market.
Right of way for the Oregon Wash
ington Railroad & Navigation com
pany line through the valley of the
White Bluffs country is being pur.
chased, following closely upon the
heels of the engineers who have com.
pleted their final resurvey of the route
at White Bluffs.
Palouse business men are deter
} mined that some industry shall be es
tablished there which will make posi-
BILE a better local market for the pro
ducts of the farm and increase the
towns payroll. A canning plant and q
! cold storage and packing plant are con
sidered most feasible.
Grain sacks are to be abandoned in
the northwest and wheat will be
handled in bulk. This important de
cision was made by delegates repre-
senting every agricultural county o.
Washington, Oregon and Idaho, who
' met in Walla Walla recently at the tri
state convention of the Farmers Union
The low price of hay on the reser
: walton has converted the Wapato sec
ton into one of the foremost winte
l feeding grounds in the country for cat
q tie and sheep men. A conservativ,
0 estimate places the number of cattl
r and sheep feeding there at 100000
: Several thousand cattle came from
q Texas.
n The body of Charles Newell, son o
Edward Newell, coroner-elect of Levi
!. county, was found Sunday she
c through the head. The body lay in
= ditch in the north end of the city Q
q Centralia. Every article Of value wa
, gone from the dead youths pockets
g No clue has been found leading to tn