Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
WASHINGTON STATE

day closing ordinance.
State Veterinary Inspector DR.. A. ].
Damman has resigned and gone to Van
couver, B. G.
Whitman county farmers are engag
ing more extensively in the hog bust
ness this year than formerly.
The constitutionality of the state
anti-weed law was sustained recently
by decision of the state supreme court.
Governor Hay has proclaimed Thurs
day, April II, as Arbor day. 1t will
be generally observed by the schools
of the state.
The Albion local farmers union has
closed deal with the Interior Ware
house company for their house at Al
bion, Whitman county
Struck by an engine on the Milwau-
kee railroad, L. A. Ccnroy, : signal
man, was hurled through the air and
crushed near Ellensburg.
The complete report of the Spokane
fire department shows the total loss
by fire for the year of 1910 to be
1921, 1857.
The city of Olympia has assets total
ing $144, 1880, and liabilities amount
ing to 5000, 467.09, leaving a surplus
of liabilities amounting to $146, 343.49.
State Senator John A. Whalley of
Seattle died of heart disease recently
at the home of his sister in San Ansel-
mo, suburb of San Francisco, aged 4S
years.
The body Of John Roddy, who mys-
teriously disappeared from aboard the
government steamboat Yakima, near
the Entiat rapids, in the Columbia river,
is still missing.
Seattle.-Police believe that N. M.
Davis, alias Henry Rodgers, an elabo-
rately dressed and bediamonded man,
whom they have arrested on suspicion,
is the burglar who has robbed so many
houses of rich people lately.
John R. Kinnear, aged 20, lawyer,
millionaire real estate owner and pio-
neer politician, died of paralysis at his
home in Seattle Sunday after an i'll
ness of seven years. He came to Seat
tie from Paxton, ILL.,, in 1888.
Miss Anna Westerberg of Edwall is
made the chief beneficiary by the will
of Peter Edwall, her uncle, who died
few months ago at Spokane. He was
the founder of the town of Edwall, hav-
ing plated the TOWNSHIP in 1892.
A $4,000 fire at Hatton Sunday
burned up a row of business houses
and if it had not been for the hard
work of the whole community working
as a bucket brigade and the timely ar
rival of the Cunningham fire engine the
whole town would have been wiped
out.
On the exact spot where Chief Law
yer of the Nez Perez Indians prevented
the massacre of Governor Stevens
of the territory of Washington, Gen
eral Joel Palmer and their party al
Walla Walla in 1855, a bronze me
mortal tablet is to be erected in mem
DRY of the heroic deed of the Indian
chieftain.
In addition to providing a sum esti
mated to reach 100000 for the pur
pose of founding a Masonic home in thu
state of Washington, the will of Mrs
Lizzie Brownell Irvine of Seattle, ad
mitted Saturday to probate by Judg'
A. w. Frater, provides requests to tn
amount of $4,000 to 40 relatives ant
friends and SIX Seattle charities.
The Farmers union has secured thu
required number of locals in Steven
county, and met in Chewelah recent.
to organize q county union, consisting
of five locals The work was carrie'
out by State Organizer l.. c. Crow o
Pullman and Warren McCurtain o
Standpoint, Idaho. The union at Cusick
in Pend Oreille county, was taken int
the Stevens county union.
An international dental congress i
to be organized by dentists of the Pa
cific northwest The Washington Stat
, Dental society will take up the plan t
have every state and city in Washing
ton, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Cali
fornia represented to form a denta
, congress at the state convention to b
held May 81, % and 20.
The $50 striking mill workers, all fol
/. eigners, were shipped out of Raymon
Saturday afternoon. Two hundred spt
!, cial police notified the men who qui
!, work as the result of agitation by Ii
!, dustrial Workers of the World that a
; who did not return to work would b
/: forced to leave town. and they had