Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-08-01
WASHINGTON STATE

Jarvis of Cbewelah, was drowned in
Wait IS lake while bathing with several
young men Sunday.
The contract for the construction of
the $4,000 school building for River
side has been awarded. The building
is to be of reinforced concrete.
j. M. Dunn of Sunnyside has been ap |
pointed United States commissioner for
the eastern district of Washington for
four years, beginning July Is, 1912.
Miss katherine Wawa, 24 years old,
was killed Saturday in Seattle, when
she was thrown from an automobile
driven by Victor Dubois of Spokane.
The exhibit of farm machinery and
appliances shown at the Spokane Inter
state fair, September 80 to October 6,
will be the most comprehensive ever
displayed in the Inland Empire.
Pullman is putting in municipal
scales at the city hall and the city clerk
is to be weighmaster. When man
buys a load of coal he can demand
that it be weighed on the municipal
scales.
The verdict of the jury at North
Yakima against the reclamation serv-
ice in its action in federal court last
February to recover $751; 900 from Theo
dore Weisgerber will not be set aside
by Judge Frank Rudkin, according to
his ruling announced Saturday.
The Western Pine Manufacturers
association will hold its semi-annual
meeting in Spokane, beginning Tuesday,
July 30. One day will be spent in SEES
sion here and Wednesday, July 81, the
lumbermen, accompanied by their wives
and daughters, are to take trip to
Spirit lake to inspect the plant of the
Panhandle Lumber company.
James S. Klemgard and c. A. White
pioneers of Pullman, plan to leave soon
for a years vacation, which will be
spent in an automobile tour of Oregon
and California They will take theil
families in their touring cars and start
. about August /. They plan to go by
easy stages and to get to San Diego
Cal, for the winter.
) Preparations are being made by tn,
grange at Hunters for an agriculture
c fair to be held at Hunters, Septembe
: &c, 81 and 2S. At this fair field crops
fruits, vegetables, poultry and liv
r stock that are produced in the fertil
n valleys of Stevens county will be ex
g hibited, likewise needlework, came
|, fruits, preserves and jellies.
G Awakened from sleep by an uncom
5 Portable feeling that something wa
near, Ed O'Hare, a tailor of Spragu'
u awoke to find huge rattlesnake lazil
L coiled on the pillow within a few inche
e of his head. Quickly turning the pillo'
IS over, he caught the snake off its guar
ii and succeeded in killing it with ston
l, He cut off the rattles, nine in numbe
n Mystery surrounds the manner
n which John J. Mcclure, aged 3d. can
le to lose his life on the Great Northel
N railroad tracks at Washington stree
pr Spokane, where he was found dead b
10 side the tracks shortly after A 'clo(
Sunday morning, with his head col
Nv pletely severed from his body
in though cut off by knife, few mi
10 utes after a switch engine had pass
n over the tracks.
ng When a thief grabbed purse co
No tanning $50 belonging to Mrs. G.
'rt Lewis of st. Maries, Idaho, in t
n writing room of Seattle hotel cha
er was started which ended in the ARE
to of the man after five blocks of d.
at perate pursuit by the Idaho womi
rk Mrs. Lewis followed the man until S
is. reached King street station, where 1
er, trolman L. j. Forbes started in
ne STAYED until the finish.
"a Should Okanogan county be divid
IN is the question now being agitated.
H. certain sections of the county thu
~ is strong sentiment in favor of divisi
IL while in other sections it is equally
- strong against it. People in the Me
g ow valley are anxious that a Meth
-, county be created. This feeling is
To- pecially strong in Twisp, which wo,
become the county seat should the
u, islature grant the request. In
49, north half, especially at Oroville,
gument is made for an east and west
- vision, which would create Cosgr'
A0' county and give Oroville the coul
seat.
Andrew Lang Poet. Is Dead.