Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-01
WASHINGTON STATE

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1911, cost the taxpayers $7O,923.
The planters of the White Bluffs
country are cooperating with the Han
ford Fruit Growers association this
year,
Representative Humphrey of the
First Washington district will be APP
pointed federal judge to succeed George
Donworth.
Pneumonia was the greatest de-
stroyer of human life in Spokane in
1911, claiming 161 out of 1920 deaths
Next was tuberculosis, which killed 112
people.
Authorized to buy $4,000 worth of
horses, two Canadian horsemen, James
Bryce and II. Monroe of Victoria, B. c.,
were in Ellensburg this week nego-
tiating for animals.
Sixty-three candidates for various
city Offices are in the race for the pri-
mares on February 20 at Seattle, that
many candidates having filed when the
books closed Saturday.
More than 50 farmers and fruit
growers met in the commercial club
room at Kennewicll and organized a
permanent organization to be known as
the Kennewick Farmers institute.
DIR. Philip Frank, member of the
Washington state board of health, and
formerly president of that body, and
a pioneer physician of the Yakima val
ley, died recently from kidney trouble.
Awakened at daylight to find them
selves within burning building, at
Walla Walla, Mrs. Thomas Bennett and
her mother-in-law, Mrs. Eliza Bennett
were badly burned, the latter seriously
The supreme court has denied the
z motion for a new trial of II. NJ. Boone
, convicted of wrecking the Palous,
State bank, of which he was president
and sentenced to 10 years in the peni
Tertiary.
| Owing to moderate weather, the
D Columbia river is rising slightly and the
0 ice has practically all gone out. 1t il
expected the Columbia and Okanogar
= Steamboat company will soon put thu
= boats on again.
= 1t is said that Mrs. Bessie Chowen
matron of the Orphans home at Spo
; kane. who died suddenly at the institu
+ ton recently, was the sister of Franci
Il J. Heney. the prominent San Francisc
graft prosecutor.
4 J. w. Shepard. a teacher at WALL
p Walla, succumbed suddenly Saturda
4 after a brief illness to what is state
+ to have been a case of blood poison
$ ing brought about by frozen heel Will
on a sleigh ride.
# Roderck Mackenzie. - years of ag'
e one of the pioneers of the state, VIII
d has been closely identified with the d.
II velopment of the country 20 miles Yves
4 of Spokane, died at San Diego, Cal, FIR
e. day night of heart disease.
"George" Tibbitts, sheep-herde
who shot Press Montgomery, who
At now lying critically i'll in the hospiti
w at Lewiston, was released on a 800
A. cash bond His trial will be held ;
st Asotin in the early spring, it is expec
ed.
he Mrs. Christina Olson, young woma
IS, convicted of horsewhipping Superb
at Judge John F. Main in the Xii
Id county courthouse last October, WI
a sentenced in the criminal division
the court to the lowest possible pc
~ atty. which was a fine of 81 and cost
TO amounting to $42.70 in all.
% Assessor Purchase has completed e
~ tending the tax rolls of Pend Oreil
40 county. The total assessed valuati'
10 of the county is $4,s02,703, and t
total amount to be raised by taxes
$19s.32s. Of this sum the state receiv
- $31 COL. the school funds SOL 1877, t
- county current expense fund 1884,
-, road and bridge funds 51,607.
lis Nine large railroad contracting fir
he or their representatives are in TacoI
to meet the Northern Pacific enginet
and 90 over the projected Port Defian
%. line. 20 miles, between Tacoma a
no Tenino, including the long tunnel
,e, Port Defiance. The estimated cost
m. the work is 100000, and bids W
ID. be submitted between now and Jan
VS. airy 81.
"Dear Sis: have killed Bell by
he cident. Forgive me, forgive me.
les have taken poison to end my life.
icy CIT. B. NEFF.'
ity The above note, crudely written
be piece of writing paper, explaining
les deed, was found in the hatband of T.
Neff, aged %, rancher near Puyall
who accidentally killed his 12-year-