Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-15
WASHINGTON STATE


from boxes at the Rtzville postoffice. |
1t is reported that plans for remov
ing Whitman college at Walla Walla
to Spokane are developing.
Orders for an automobile hearse, pail
bearers coach and limosine has been
placed by a Spokane undertaking firm.
F. j. Hultine and his son, Emil, aged
20, while attempting to cross the Upper
Quinault river in canoe, were
drowned.
Representative Stanton Warburton is
making an effort to have a United
States weather observatory established
on Mount Baker.
1t is reported that Secretary r. J.
MacLean, of the chamber of commerce,
had rendered his resignation to engage
| in other business.
The State Bank of Kahlotus has
closed its doors and the accounts and
other business were transferred to the
bank at Washtucna.
A big coyote drive will be held next
spring over the Inland Empire, and it
expected that at least 500 farmers and
hunters win participate.
The friends and relatives of S. E.
Burgunder, who disappeared from Col
fax Saturday night, December 30, 1911,
entertain fears for his safety.
More horses, Master races and better
special attractions for the Whitman
county fair is the result of a meeting
held in Walla Walla recently.
Repairing of roads in the Wenatchee
valley has been going on during the
winter months, and over six miles of
, road have been surfaced with rock and
gravel.
Thirty road foremen met at Daven
port recently to receive instruction or
better road maintenance, for which Lin
coin county annually spends abou
900.
| Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, organizer o.
] the l. w. VS., who was tried on
charge of conspiracy at Spokane SOM
time ago, is now a leader in the strik
of 10000 textile operatives at Law
renee, Mass.
AS the result of an agreement amon
the judges of the superior court benc
: of King county, the closest scrutin
will hereafter be given to all divorc
n cases presented, and decree for trivia
d causes will be barred.
r, A United States reclamation servic
u camp will be established at Glen, seve
miles above Benton City, which will
e used Immediately as a base of operi
l. tons for the survey of the extensio
% of the Sunnyside canal to the foot {
t. the RattlesnalIe range.
Women assessors will be employed f,
70 the first time in the history of tt
ID state, this spring, it is said, when Cou
A. ty Assessor Glen B. Creighton, of Sp
ST kane county, will use seven women de
10 uties to aid in the personal proper
assessment beginning March I.
re Herbert Matson, 25 years old, W
f. sentenced at Seattle to from five
&C 20 years in the state penitentiary f
i'll grand larceny and highway robbel
es Guy C. Gambler, an actor, 25 years o.
&c also drew five to 20 years for parti
n. pating in the holdup of r. G. Wolff
the night of November IS.
Aiming at a knot-hole in smol
all house on his ranch, five miles west
at Pullman Arthur Luck shot true to t
mark, the rife ball speeding throu
Il. the hole and blowing through the bri
70, of II year old John Carpenter, son
Mrs. Frank Carpenter, housekeeper
b Luck. The boy died in an hour.
No At recent meeting of the Wa
ington board of education II new hi
a schools were placed on the accredif
list, among them Endicott, Bothw
Gle Elum, Concrete, Cosmopolis, Crest
"A Edison, Ferndale, Granite Falls, M
% roe, Renton, Richmond, Sultan, Sum
Vashton and Winslow.
ug. With w. II. De Larm of Seattle
Allen Jay Biehl of Portland, comp
II, ing the firm of ode Larm & BIZ
Bonds,' missing, and not a dollar
25. assets in sight, the holders of
8. SIS 900, 900 bond issue of the Column
Fl, River Orchard company find not
of hope in the situation.
Head of his class in the third y
- at Vancouver high school is a b
"a boy, George Meyers, of Pullman,
IN of the pupils of the state school at
~ couver. Alvin Duvall of Krupp
49, Sarah Bodwell of Snohomish, who
,ar also being educated at the state sch
ldailv attend the high school and st