Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-04
WASHINGTON STATE

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me of the earliest settlers in Spokane,
lied Sunday.
A. P. Mcleod, brakeman, aged 20
years, was instantly killed recently |
near Spokane.
The Fidelity Lumber company, at
Newport, will start its sawmill on
run of 100000 feet April 1.
The Spokane court holds that the
city has right to specify that cakes,
rolls or packages of butter for sale
shall weigh one pound.
1t is reported that the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railway will
build a line through the Flathead val
ley from Butte, Mont, into Canada.
The attempt of the Standard Oil
company to secure a refund from the
Great Northern for freight overcharge
on the Spokane & Northern branch has
failed.
Realizing the need of ferry across
the Columbia river at Hanford, the bus
mess men and ranchers organized the
Hanford Ferry company to install one
Immediately.
Harry Shaw, who, with Harry Hum
phrey, was accused with attempting to
rob railroad employee, was sentenced
at Seattle to serve from five to 10
years in the penitentiary.
Dividends returned to policyholders
by mutual fire insurance companies are
not to be deducted from the gross
premiums collected in computing the
tax due the state under the insurance
code.
Charged with grand larceny by false
pretenses, President c. M. Scott of the
Western Farm Mortgage company, a
loan organization of Sunnyside, is
being sought by Yakima county Off
Gals
Grain in cars on March 1, or sold
on or before March 1, at noon and in
transit is not assessable, holds the state
tax commission in an opinion given to
the assessors of Douglas and Garfield
counties.
President Taft sent to the senate the
nomination of Elmer M. Hayden of Ia
coma for federal judge in the western
district of Washington, filling the va
cancy caused by Judge Donworth Is
resignation.
George R. Smith, prisoner being
taken from Seattle to San Francisco
escaped near South Tacoma by leapine
from window of the Shasta Limited
while the train was travelling close Il
60 miles an hour.
The settlers in the Hanford an(
White Bluffs district expect to hav,
their branch from Beverly, on the mail
line of the Milwaukee, built into tn,
upriver district in time to handle THU
season IS fruit crop.
j. j. Dodd, the well known attorney
whose death at the age of 81 years oc
Cured in Creston, March %, was tn
Oldest barrister actively engaged in tn
Big Bend country, and in point of prac
tice the oldest attorney in Loncoll
county. His death was from pneu
monia.
} The break in the canal of the Sela
Water Users association, which pei
mitted the flooding of the farm of Abe
supreme court in a decision, but wa
due to negligence of the company i
maintaining the ditch. For that res
son the supreme court affirms the jud&
, ment for the damages in favor of Da
e ton granted by the Yakima superic
court.
John r.. Early, the leper, about who's
case there has been much publicity,
{ to be given a place as an attendant
-, the marine hospital near Port Tow
sent, where he will be placed
charge of another leper, Andrew CIR
: yer. Early is now in Tacoma with h
0 wife and children. He is to receive
= salary of sos a month, which, with h
: pension, will give him a comfortab
living.
d Determined to spare no effort to ca
$ ture John Tornow, accused of the mu
). der of his twin nephews, John and w
j Bauer, and suspected of the murder
J. Sheriffs Colin Mckenzie and A.
!. Elmer, who were pursuing him, Il
s county commissioners have posted I
Il ward of $4,000 for the capture of Tc
now, dead or alive, and a simil
amount for the capture of the slay
of the Bauer boys and of Deputy Sh'
q ifs Mckenzie and Elmer.
a Commissioner bennett of the gener
rs land office has advised the secretary