Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-05-02
WASHINGTON STATE


"open shop" in all building trades.
The Washington chapter, p E. O., is
to be held at Arlington June 5, 6 and z. |
A 50cent advance per barrel in the |
wholesale price of patent flour has
caused the retail -four price to soar Is
cents on the sack.
Commercial bodies of Seattle are
making extensive preparations to en-
terrain the Northwest Development lea
que in Seattle June to s.
The Lincoln county high school track
meet and oratorical contest will be held
in Wilbur May II. All nine of the
county high schools will be represented.
The improvement spirit has secured
firm hold upon Pullman property owners
and talk of pavements and concrete
sidewalk construction is heard on every
hand.
Two thousand shade trees to be
| planted on the streets of Toppenish
have been purchased by the city and
approximately 1000 have already been
planted.
A report comes from George Chew g
construction company on Snake river
that Frank R. Wilkinson of this place
was instantly killed recently by the
blowing up of boiler on dinkey en-
CINE.
James Brady, a wealthy sawmill
operator, and his wife were found dead
in their bed at their home in Edmonds,
20 miles north of Seattle recently. Ap-
parently Mrs. Brady had shot her hus-
band and then had committed suicide.
Governor M. E. Hay has issued a pro-
clamation in response to one sent broad
cast by President Taft, calling for aid
for the sufferers in the flooded districts
of the lower Mississippi. The pro.
clamation is issued in the name of the
Red Cross society.
Struck by dirt slide in the approach
to the tunnel which he was construct
ing for the Canadian Northern Rail
road company at Lytton, B. c., recently
Thomas Walsh, pioneer contractor and
miner of Spokane, was crushed tC
death.
Bichloride of mercury used as an an
} tiseptic by Mrs. Gus Richard, Spokane
) while bathing last week, was absorbed
by the tissues of the body as a poison
and caused the death of the sufferer a
, the hospital. Mrs. Richard formerl,
lived at Addy.
The will of Fred Mcclellan, who die,
recently at Davenport, was filed TO
probate Thursday. The will, which j
5 a copy of the late E. H. Hartman
r will, leaves all the property to tn
widow, Dacy Cheek Mcclellan, there be
: ing no children.
A fatal accident occurred Sunda,
: evening about s miles east of Colfa1
Z on the Palouse road, when the automc
bile driven by James M. Siegel wa
overturned, killing his wife, Mrs. Ell
l Siegel, instantly, and Mr.. Siegel sus
tanned a dislocated shoulder and severa
! bad bruises.
One hundred head of dairy cattle wi
t be brought to Toppenish this week b
w. J. Rogers and R. w. Ashton Q
r Pipestone, Mimi, who recently pu
chased the stock at st. Paul, MINI
f. when they secured 24S head of tube
culin tested cows to be distributed
n the Pacific northwest.
l. Clarence Dayton Hillman, the Seatt
# multi-millionaire real estate dealer, ws
e. removed Saturday from the Jail to IL
federal prison on McNeil's island ,
serve a sentence of two and one-ha
years Imprisonment for using the mai
to defraud in connection with his tow
"a site promotion schemes.
John E. Ballaine, proprietor of IL
: Seward, Alaska. Daily Gateway, o
- ganizer of the Alaska Central railws
and former adjutant general of Was
ington, announces his candidacy for Il
republican nomination for congressms
~ at large from Washington, on a pla
form favoring help to Alaska in obtai
20 ing a system of government-built, go
70 ernment-owned and government-ope
u ated railroads.
s. Not over $4,000 grain bags are left
IS the state penitentiary, according
tn Warden c. S. Reed. The estimated OF
as put of the jute mill up to the first
he August is 100000 bags, and all but
Il. mere handful have been ordered. 4
"a. of these bags have gone into the han
10 of farmers of Washington. The nu