Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-22
WASHINGTON STATE

A. L. Rogers of Waterville refused
a position on the public service com
mission.
w. w. Liggett has been appointed
secretary of the chamber of commerce
at Pasco.
John R. Simpson, 81 years old, was
killed in a cavein accident at Seattle
Saturday.
Steamboat navigation has been re-
sumed on the Columbia up to the
White Bluffs country.
Inventories of state institutions COM
pleted by the board of control show a
total value of 1892 5s.
Grant Neal, former member of the
state board of control under Governor
Mcbride, died in Seattle, Sunday.
To combat crime with education in
stead of punishment, is the plan of
Warden C. S. Reid of the state peniten.
tiary.
| Whitman is still a county of the sew
enth class, as the commissioners de-
clare federal census inaccurate and un-
reliable.
The Grant County Good Roads asso-
citation has, through its officers, sue
ceeded in doing much good work in
road building
In observance of Lincoln s birthday
anniversary, Monday, all city, state and
county governments of the state took
a much-needed rest.
H. F. Alexander of Tacoma presi-
dent of the Alaska Pacific Steamship
company, has been elected president
of the Alaska Coast company.
1t is probable that the Columbia river
fruit growers will join forces with the
Yakima Valley Fruit Growers assoca-
tion of North Yakima the coming sea
son.
w. E. Bishop, hotel keeper, convicted
of violating the white slave traffic act
was sentenced to serve term of two
Years in the federal penitentiary at Nc
Neil island.
Governor Hay will urge the state tC
|, pay convicts on state highways, singl,
men to get so cents and married mer
rs cents a day, the money to go tC
their families.
The state supreme court affirmed tn,
conviction and sentence to life impris
onment of Mrs. Della Totten of Cash
mere, found guilty of shooting to dealt
James Sutton.
The election of the Quincy Vale,
Water Users association resulted a
follows; J. o. Mara, president; E. NJ
Scott, vice president; G. D. Banko, di
rector for the Quincy district.
OF the $42s,O57 collected by the stat
b, industrial insurance commission up til
February /, 57,329 has been paid on
to injured workmen, and $62, ZIG is he'll
y in reserve on approved claims, leavin
$370,72s in the accident fund.
. Tn a terrific hand-to-hand struggl
/ with an 1S-year-old thug named J. W
> Cress in the darkness of a kiln she
o six miles east of Spokane, Manue
Steinke, 21 years old, received two bul
let wounds, which proved fatal. Steink
{. was robbed of $50 in cash.
Because his injuries were cared fo
+ by horse doctor, who refuses to fl
out the required physician S repor
e John Surbridge of Bellingham may nc
II Irecover from the state accident fun
for injuries received at Bellinghai
while employed by the telephone con
pany.
l. w. w. Payne and c. F. Voight, exam
IS accountancy, have returned to Cola
l. to check the county books which the
began last fall but dropped after
month s work because they We're r.
fused pay by the county. The la
T, has since been declared constitutions
Mrs. Pearl Henke, aged 25, wife {
=, Professor Henry Henke of the Washing
=, ton State college at Pullman, viii
temporarily insane, jumped from IL
second story window Saturday evenin
breaking her neck Mrs. Henke gay
birth to a baby boy two weeks ag
- The baby died, causing her great grie
When J. Grossmutz, a tailor, livir
at 116 Eighteenth avenue, retunC
G. home in Seattle, he found the body
IL his "a year old wife lying on the di
Ill ing room floor with bullet hole in IL
,, left temple. Upstaids he found Phil
Bromberg, aged 80, dealer in secon
at hand clothing lying on the bed with