Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-07

With a capacity of four and half
tons of raw apples per day Ellens-
burg's new $4,000 evaporation opened
Saturday.
Mayor W. J. Hindley delivered the
official address at the laying of the
cornerstone at the new city hall, Spo-
kane, Saturday.
Reversing the King county superior
court, the supreme court by recent
decision enjoined the holding of any
wet and dry election at Kent.
Gymnasium night schools where the
shop girl may don her boomers and
frolic to her hearts content have been
opened at Spokanes high school.
After harvesting and storing 47,OOG
sacks of wheat from his 1000 acre
ranch, Girard Clark, Colfax farmer,
has 5000 sacks of wheat and no place
to put it.
A plan is developing at Winona to
hold rattle and encourage matrimony
by disposing of some of the bachelors
of the community to manageable
young women by lot.
All the single mills of Washington,
which have been shut down for 80
days to steady the market, which
showed signs of weakening, resumed
operations Monday morning.
The Pasco lodge of the Knights Of
Pythias will hold one of the biggest
? house warnings in celebration of the
? completion of the new $4,000 castle
hall Thursday night of this week.
Last year the total amount raised by
taxation in Whitman county including.
? state, county, school districts, road
districts and municipalities was $685.
/ 1855. This year the total tax to be
raised is $S5O,175.
e The state supreme court has denied
the application of Sam B. Sill of Wa
terville to have his name placed on
the non-partisan judiciary ticket of
Douglas and Grant counties through
S mandamus proceedings against l. M
Howell, secretary of state.
"a The students of the University Of
: Washington who protested against the
q acceptance of a gift of $4,000 chimes
from Alden j. Blethen on the ground
y that the gift was tainted" were beat
'e en-. The chimes have been formally
accepted in the face of the student
i, protest.
lie A Joint committee of disinterested
al bankers and business men of North
r. Yakima will meet this week to take
is the first steps toward an amalgama-
nd ton of the two big cooperative fruit
re selling agencies of the Yakima valley,
ed the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers as
m sociation and the Yakima County Hor-
ticultural union.
w President N. R. Sibley of the Wen
w. atchee Ice, Cold Storage and Canning
nc company announces that his corpora
&C ton will Immediately rebuild the big
,rt plant that was burned recently. Sib
,et ley declares that insurance policies
O amounting to $4,000 cover 80 pei
al cent of the loss on the plant, but tina
m. the chief loss is about $4,000 worth O.
.se business.
Emil Sorenson, who was arrested
ge at Seattle, recently, charged will
ent opium smuggling, was pardoned from
res federal prison less than six month
ng ago by President Taft on the recon
or mendation of customs officers after h
ldl- had been convicted of smugghn
zen opium. Sorensons new offense is a
'ck legged to have been committed in par
me nership with H. Benson, who was al
as rested with a valise containing 5000
ry- worth of opium.
ave Vincenzo Perrino and Diamico DC
;es, .,;1rot,,oo1,;r,r ooo1 noinors oun1ove
18th ~ 49, b. So rrroo+;on Iiol
and Power company at Renton, VIII
were alleged to have been restraine
of their liberty by the company, a.
peared in the superior court and sal
VI that they were not being deprived {
any right. Carmelo Spezzi, a strike
OF brought habeas corpus proceedings +
aW- Gently, alleging that Perrino and o.
bic, were held prisoners in the company
ella stockade at Renton.
Denouncing the claims of Miss MAJ
Burkett of Olympia, who had been e
gagged to marry George F. Vance,
brakeman, accidentally killed at Aid
four weeks ago, who had been give
,,,o. verbal and tentative will for all
ond Vances property, Mrs. George
Vance of Portland came hurriedly
Tacoma and had Vances remains c
humed. She proved to the satisfacti
of the officials that she was the rigl
SONS full wife of the brakeman and all /
;ken personal effects were turned over