Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-12-19
WASHINGTON STATE


pioneer, is dead.
The Albion Farmers union me nbers
met recently at Albion and decided to
cooperate in the matter of dair,F stock.
More than zoe farmers attended tre
meeting to organize the Benton Coun.
ty Crop improvement association Sat
urday.
Ellensburg's wooden mill has been
working overtime for the last few
weeks to keep abreast of many large
orders.
The body of Louis Sharpstein, son
of F. B. Sharpstein Of Walla Walla,
who was killed in an automobile acct
dent near Dayton, was taken home for
burial.
A bad fire broke out in the principal
business section of Odessa Saturday
and destroyed the entire Wilson block,
a brick building having frontage of
about so feet.
Twenty-four hours after they held
up an old man at Toppenish and took
$140 from him Pullman Haskin and
David Leslie were arrested at Ellens
burg, Saturday.
An extensive system of government
supervision over wireless telegraphy
become effective Friday. San Fran
cisco and Seattle will be among the
divisional headquarters.
State Senator Peter Jensen, former
secretary of the state pharmacy board,
was acquitted at Tacoma at his pre-
liminary hearing on a charge of en-
bezzling $11S9 from the board.
The board of commissioners Of
Pend Oreille county have let the con-
tract for a new ferry boat at Usk to
cost $500 and have also purchased a
gasoline engine to operate the ferry.
The Jones-Scott company bought
100000 bushels of wheat December 7,
paying about zoe for club and 72Rc
for bluestem. One lot of 1875, 900 bush
els was a pool of bluestem, club and
turkey red. The farmers agency
bought the Kibbler lot of $4,000 bush
els.
Hop prices in the Yakima valley next
year were apparently fixed by a con-
tract Saturday between McNeff Broth
ers of Portland and the Yakima Orch
ards Securities company for it's 1913
output at 1912 cents a pounds. Last
years contract between the same par.
10; &c q
yield.
About $50 farmers and business men
met in Colfax, Saturday, to discuss
the ACCESSIBILITY and practicability OF
constructing a railroad from Colfaz
down Union and Alkali flats to connect
with the Northern Pacific at Riparia
or with the O.-W. r. e. N. at Hay sta
ton. Committees were appointed anC
plans were discussed.
Governor-elect Ernest Lister has ap
pointed c. c. Dill of Spokane as his
private secretary. Mr.. Dill is nov
deputy prosecutor at Spokane. He wa:
formerly a newspaper writer on Cleve
land, o., papers. Still he is a youns
nounces the coming appointment o
Frank M. Lamborn, Tacoma, as state
printer.
"The largest and best lot of hog
even seen together in the Inland EN-
pre- was the verdict of scores o
prominent hog men who attended Pull
: mans first annual hog show last week
The show was a success beyond thu
highest hopes of the promoters ant
, will be made an annual affair. J. K
Smawley of Pullman was easily thu
champion prize winner.
Statements of the local banks o
. North Yakima on call of the comp
troller November 26 show an increas
: in deposits of $54O,375 since Septem
Der 4, a decrease of 100000 in loan
) and discounts and an increase of S531
] 266 in cash on hand. Compared wit
/ year ago the deposits show an in
5 crease of $295,93S, and combined re
2 sources a gain of S3S9,774.
An appropriation and a resolution
for the expenditure of $4,000 has bee,
made by the county commissioners O
Lincoln county, its 1912 share of tn
permanent highway fund. 1t calls TO
improvement of the Davenport-Hal
rington road by matchmaking or OIL
erwise hard surfacing from the cit
limits of Harrington toward Daver
port as far as the funds will carry tn
work. 1t is thought that about hal
the distance between the two town
/, can be improved.