Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-21
WASHINGTON STATE

fax stays wet by 70 majority.
The Columbia river water is prac-
tically free from contamination.
Owing to heavy rains recently the
Pend Oreille river has risen about Is
inches.
The Washington state fair insured
deficit this year of 5000, according
to reports.
The Stevens county teachers insti-
tute will be held in Colville November
%, 26 and q.
Peanuts of the double ointed variety
were successfully grown near Ellens-
burg this year.
Scarcity of labor, such as has never
been known in Lincoln county before,
is seriously hampering construction
operations in many lines.
Damages in the sum of $4,000 were
granted Miss Nellie Storle of Tacoma
in breach of promise action against
Fred c. Hogan of Spencerville, On
tario.
John Cunningham, aged 70, who died
last month at Garfield, had a peculiar
proviso in his will. He wished to be
buried between his first and second
wife.
F. P. Kingsbury, federal surveyor
general of this state, will forward his
resignation soon to Washington to
take effect at the change of admins
tration next March.
One of the things for this pro-
gressive state to be proud of in its
recent election is that it elected a
woman to the legislature. DR.. N. Joli-
don Croake of Tacoma.
Herbert j. White, a hotel man of
Spokane, was drowned recently while
hunting ducks in small boat on Cold
Spring lake. The unfortunate man in
discharging his shotgun upset the boat.
The lower house of the next legis-
lature probably will be divided be-
tween republicans, democrats and pro-
gressives, with no one party having a
majority. Republicans will retain con-
| Allen p. Eldred, bookkeeper in a
Seattle bank, hoodwinked a deputy
sheriff who had gone to his room to
arrest him, and committed suicide by
taking poison. A shortage of $500 in
Eldred's books had been discovered.
Laboring men of Spokane are plan
ming new organization to be called
the "Sanitarians of Organized Labor
They will have as their object the
keeping of a high standard of santa
ton in the places where they are en-
ployed.
The Hazelwood dairy herd, which
won 10 firsts, nine seconds and nine
thirds, besides several other prizes al
the Waterloo Qowa) and Chicago
Stock shows, will also show at the com
ing Pacific International Dairy show al
Portland.
Impressive memorial services were
held Sunday at Seattle for the late
John L. Wilson, proprietor of the Sc
attic Post-Intelligencer and former
United States senator, while his body
was being laid in the earth at his birth
place, in Charlottesville, Ind.
Work for 1000 men through the win
ter will be afforded by contractors
who announce that construction will
be pushed more vigorously than ever
! on the Wenatchee-Pate branch o.
the Great Northern. Most of the worl
will ha for common lahOrarc
Slides on the Grays Harbor brancl
of the Northern Pacific near Sherlock
between Olympia and Tacoma, hat
= blocked trains Sunday, and expert,
who visited there say the line may no
] be opened for 80 days, as the bluff
caves faster than it can be removed
Ten thousand sheep from the noun
tain feeding grounds in the Cascades
have already crossed on the Whit,
Bluffs ferry, and thousands more ar,
on the way from the hills to cross tn
Columbia there on their way to tn
winter feeding grounds in the warn
!, regions of the Columbia river basin.
|, Winnie Brown, who was found no
|, guilty by jury at Colfax of the charg
of numbering her father, Alfred Neeves
. on the grounds that she and her hus
a band, who participated in the shooting
+. which resulted in Neeves' death, wer
r suffering from emotional insanity a
the time of the shooting, was arraigne
in the superior court and committe
= to the custody of her aunt.
Hogs as an aid in land clearing hav
been tried out by V. w. Solder of Che
e welah. Mr.. Solder has about 40 acre
&c Of bottom land covered with a dens