Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-12-05
WASHINGTON STATE


pamela, for $500
The town of Reardan faces a fuel
famine as the rainy weather made |
hauling of wood impossible.
The next quarterly meeting of the |
Inland Empire Federation of CONNER
cal clubs will be held in Colfax next |
spring.
Contractor Lanning was awarded the
contract to construct four and half
miles of permanent highway between
Walla Walla and Milton, the price be-
ing $4,000.
Two slight earthquake shocks were
felt Sunday night by residents in the
southeastern part of Seattle, including
the Mount Baker park, Columbia and
Rainier beach districts.
Miss Ethel A. Burnett, daughter of
the late Rev. C. c. Burnett, formerly
rector of All Saints church of Spokane,
died recently at the Good Samaritan
hospital in Portland, Ore.
With an estimated attendance of be-
tween 600 and 1000 persons, the first
annual convention of the Northwest
Association for Deaf Mutes will be
held in Spokane July 1 to 4, 1913.
Ben Jacobs, who shot and wounded
Ed Lowrey at Chelan landing recently,
says he will plead guilty, and hopes to
begin his term as soon as possible.
Il wanted to kill Lowrey," he con-
fessed to the sheriff.
Half million dollars will be spent
during the wilmer by the Pacific Pow
er & Light company in improving the
upper works of the 10 miles of canal
and pipe which brings North Yakima
: water supply from the upper reaches
of the Naches river.
Theodore Roosevelt's plurality over
Woodrow Wilson in this state was
24,303, according to official figures.
The vote for governor was: Lister,
democrat, 97,2S9; Hay, republican, &c.
613; Hodge, progressive, 77,S7S. Lis
ters plurality, 626.
. Henry Gable, sentenced in December,
1907, to five to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary, was pardoned by Governor
Hay recently that the man might go
q back to a little Minnesota town to
claim a third interest in an estate OF
e 100000 left by his father
The Western Fruit Products com
pany, incorporated for 100000, of which
Rufus Wilson of Seattle is organizer
will erect plants next year at North
Yakima and Wenatchee and will latel
extend it's operations to Medford, HOOD
River and White Salmon, according tC
his announcement.
Seattle's so-called strap-hanger ordi
nance, which provides that each stand
ing passenger in every street-car shall
IL be allowed at least four square feet
e was declared void by the court. The
D. Judge held that relief from overcrowd
IL ing was in the hands of the state pub
< lie service commission.
n That 700 carloads of cattle hav'
d been shipped to Toppenish this fall
= the stock to be fattened on Yakim
q reservation alfalfa, is the statement o
a the railroads. These cattle have beel
n, brought from all parts of the west
many of them being shipped from
c. Texas and Mexico. They will be fe
= there during the winter and then sen
n. to Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle and Por
n. land to packing houses.
Id The large potato crop of this yea
re and the small demand for them ha
ly put the farmers and business men {
lie the central part of the state to thinl
ht ing of the ACCESSIBILITY of establishin
starch factory at some point in tn
county and of using potatoes to max
starch. This plan will be considere
e. at meeting of the Lincoln Count
is Booster club, which will meet in Gre
is ton about the first of the year.
~ This week it is expected that tt
gu fruit dryer which Messrs. F. d. Minea
a.tS A. B. Capps and Ralph Dunford hay
-. - installed in Prosser will be open II
-, business. The plant will be operate
GU by the tunnel and hot air process al
NC will have a capacity of 200 bushe
oo of green fruit a day. The slicer al
peeler are electrically operated al
1000 apples an hour is the capacity
the peeler. The plant will take ca
an of the surplus fruit of the Prosser d
lal trict.
IDS
Id Miss Taft at Panama.