Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-05-23
WASHINGTON STATE

chestra.
A Spokane contractor will build the
new high school building at Cheney
for $1S,610.
Spokane IS proposed bond issue for the
building of school additions has been
placed at $25O,oOO.
Harold Tess, aged 10 years, son of
J. +. Tess, Spokane, was accidentally
drowned Saturday.
Reductions of about 81 per week
have been made by the Spokane wait
ers under their new scale of wages.
Senator Jones bill granting AZ acres
to the town of Okanogan, Wash, for
public park purposes, passed the senate.
By proclamation Governor Hay rec
commended the observance of June IA
as Flag Day, but did not name it as
a legal holiday.
The population of Seattle for 1912,
according to the latest directory, is
2s1 1896. The gain in. population in the
last year is 1911
The Rev. James W. Kramer, pastor
of the First Baptist church of Spokane,
was elected moderator of the Spokane
Baptist association.
The state insurance department the
last ~ years, on gross expense of
$766,339, has returned a net profit to
the state treasury of $1,6s3,229.
Leaving a farewell note, in which
she told of her sensations as gas slowly
took her life, Mrs. Hilda Dietila of
Everett, aged 35 years, committed sui
eide.
The state board of control has fixed
May % as the date for the formal
dedication of the new Northern hospi-
tai for the insane at Sedro- Woolley in
Skagit county.
William W. Cowen, a plasterer, aged
So, and his two sons, William John, 10,
and Everett G., 10, were drowned in
Lake Washington, at Seattle, Sunday,
when their canoe, from which they were
fishing capsized.
A three years extension of time has
been granted to Wilbur l.. Yeasley
, and others for the construction of a
dam in the development of a power site
on Pend Oreille river, two miles south
of the Canadian boundary line.
Showing more than $4,000 offered
in cash prizes, exclusive of the race
purses, which are $4,000, the premium
list of the Washington State fair, to
be held in North Yakima September 90
to 2s, is now ready for distribution.
The state has secured Judgment by
| default against the Pacific Express com
| pany for $1943, interest from Septem.
Der 30, 1910, and costs. The action was
brought to collect the s per cent state
2 tax on gross earnings of the company
Road building in Chelan and Douglas
counties is one of the principal topics
of discussion among the residents OF
the counties and encouragement is being
given the movement by the indorse
ment of the farmers through the sec
: Z tons where the proposed improvements
are to be made.
Toppenish has been designated by tn,
state public service commission as 4;
} grain inspection point, upon the com
plant of farmers that the Spokane bu
9 reau was not enough for the entir
East side. Everett has been estab
lished as a Coast inspection point, il
addition to Seattle and Tacoma.
O Cash on hand in all funds of tn
o state aggregates $2,695,975 in excess o
n the 5000 overdraft of the capito
n building fund and $2136 overdraft o
I, the agricultural current fund The gen
IS eral fund has $3.50, 449; the militar
p fund, $59,653, and the highway an
G quarry funds aggregate $1,090,910.
Is With the arrest of Fred Martin, age
k 35, cement worker and contractor, tn
n police say they have solved the puzzl
of recent remarkable series of jew
elry robberies in Seattle, the homes G
five rich men having been entered an
!. jewelry valued at 1880 taken. Nearl
" all of the plumber has been recovere
q. from pawnbrokers. Martin has vii
4. and child.
d. Despairing in efforts to win wa.
Ill increases by continued refusal to T
lie turn to work, the Industrial Worke
RS of the World are stated to have Gale
off the strike in the lumber and shi
gle mills of southwestern Washingtt
and among longshoremen on the Pacit
~ coast. A general return to work amor
,s- strikers on the Canadian Northern
so expected to follow.