Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-10-10
WASHINGTON STATE

ton from Seattle to open a vinegar
factory.
The special election at Pennington
to BOND the town for $4,000 was car
ried, 80 to "a.
Success has marked the fair at Col
vile, both in point of attendance and
extent and variety of exhibits.
The second annual three-day exhibit
Of the grange agricultural fair at Hun
tiers, Wash, was a fine display.
B. R. Barton of Spokane answered
to 81 years when the clerk asked how
old he was when he registered to vote.
Mrs. ]. P. M. Richards, aged So
years, wife of the president of the
Spokane & Eastern Trust company, at
Spokane, is dead.
The new building of the Knights of
Pythias built at Pasco, Wash, at q
cost of over 100000 will be dedicated
in December, according to present
plans.
More than 1000 railway trainmen,
their wives and families attended the
dedication of a trainmen's monument
at Greenwood cemetery, Spokane, Sun
day afternoon.
The 10000 Masonic temple building
in North Yakima, Wash, was dedi-
Gated recently by Grand Master Frank
N. McCandlass of Tacoma in the pres.
ence of 900 Masons
Fred S.. Merrill, a pioneer of Spo-
kane, died Sunday following an opera.
ton. Mr.. Merrill was a native OF
Pennington, Me-, and was a direct de.
scendant of Lyman Abbott.
What to do with the immense fruit
crop is worrying orchard owners OF
Whitman county. 1t is estimated there
are 100 carloads of excellent apples in
the neighborhood of Pennington, yet
there seems to be no demand.
Seventy-five per cent of the shingle
mills in western Washington nave shut
down for an indefinite period, the mill
men believing hat the curtailment
will prevent a break in prices and will
enable the manufacturers to clean VI
old stock.
Saturday was pledge day at the Uni
versity of Washington, and as thu
goods passed up the boulevard to tn,
Greek letter sorority houses they haC
elected to join the fraternity men dot
ted the t~horoughfare and cheered then
) as they passed.
A freight wreck occurred on tn.
Mansfield branch of the Great North
ern railroad Sunday evening one mill
north Of the Palisades, and almost d
! rectly over old Chief Moses cave !
wheel broke on a car and deraile'
four cars filled with wheat. No on
was seriously injured.
I d. l.. Dutton of Rosalia has bough
a car of heavy draft horses. Some O
the teams brought as high as $500
The horses were shipped to Chicago
The hog and cattle buyers hav
: shipped several carloads of hogs t
the Spokane market recently. TIL
2 price paid ranged from 8 cents to 1
cents.
In reply to a telegram from Georg
e E. Barstow, past president, and fou
members of the board of governors @
3 the National Irrigation congress-, a
: Salt Lake City, this week, urging hir
e to accept the presidency of that bod
D to succeed Senator Newlands, Cover
r nor Marion E. Hay t~elegraphed tina
/ he would accept If the post were ter
dered him.
. The order made by the public SCI
L vice commission establishing the priI
L ciple that the maximum freight rate
charged by railroads operating with
L Washington state are determinable b
!, virtue of the distance of the haul wa
Il upheld recently by Superior Judg
= yesterday in Diminishing the SUI
y brought by the Northern Pacific raj
way against the commission.
d Counties Taxes to State.
Olympia.-The various counties wi
pay their share Of the general stat
taxes, according to the ruling of tn
state board of equalization. Th
amounts follow:
Adams, $133,983; Asotin, $36,49s
Benton, $50, 1929; Chelan, $1OO, 239; c,
lumbia, $51,3S2; Douglas, $500; Ferr,
$17,335; Franklin, $64,477; CARTEL,
$30,385; Grant, $94,824; Kittitas, $11s
! 987; Klickitat, $7S,653; Lincoln, $14s
1852; Okanogan, s4O,1SS; Pend Oreill
. 500, $780,; Spokane, $710,07O; Steven
eco OO1. uTo1Io yxT.11- 01oo or1- 1y.L