Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-25
WASHINGTON STATE

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The movement for good roads is being
agitated extensively in Chelan county |
A train killed Ed Thorndilxe, former
ly town marshal of Seattle, in terri
torial days, last Sunday
Additional service is ordered estab
lished May 1 on the rural route at Pom
eroy, to serve $50 families.
Contracts have been let for an addi-
tional 25 miles of grading on the Kettle
Valley railway west of Carmi.
The shearing of 10000 sheep near
Pasco has been practically completed
began.
Governor Hay appointed Everett
Smith, prominent Seattle attorney, as
judge of the superior court to succeed
William R. Gay, resigned.
E. c. Hamshaw, aged 30 years, a
mining man of Attn, B. c., and Los
Angeles, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself at Seattle, Sunday.
ssventy-fve miles of suburban roads
were covered by the volunteer good
roads crews of Spokane, which gave
practical celebration of the state good
roads day.
John F. Clark, son of Patsy Clark,
the millionaire mining man, and Miss
Cicely Hogan, popular society girl of
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80, at San Francisco.
Total receipts of $45s,733, of which
$446,046 was for real and person taxes
and improvements, are reported for
March by County Treasurer Frank
Bond at North Yakima.
Mrs. Fleta Brett Laurence, the wife
of G. G. Laurence, Jr., who took bichlo-
ride tablets with suicidal intent, died
Sunday morning at Spokane. She was a
divorced wife of Frnka d. Allen of Spo-
kane.
c. c. Wallace, private banker of Ket-
tie Falls and Republic, who was ar
rested April at Kettle Falls by Sher-
if Moran of Ferry county and placed in
Jail, has been released on the acceptance
of a $1,000 bond.
The Cove schoolhouse, near Ellens.
burg, one of the Oldest school build
ings in the valley, was totally destroyed
by fire recently. The building is fully
covered by insurance, and the loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Hounded, her husband says, by threat
ening letters from a former lover who
, beseeched her to 'elope with him, Mrs
Josephine Merritt, wife of Clarence w
Merritt, and bride of but month, com
mitted suicide in Tacoma recently.
Ten thousand acres more of Wen
atchee valley land will be placed under
water through the construction of thu
irrigation projects now under way il
this section, the greater portion o.
which will be completed this season.
An endurance egg-laying contest TO
hens of the Yakima valley and Washing
ton will be held in North Yakima thi
summer by the Washington State fail
= The contest will last 60 days, ending
, noon, September 26, the fourth day o
> the week of the fair.
State Auditor Clausen has prepared
j printed statement for free Distribute
l. showing each detail of the state ger
n eral fund appropriations made by tn
last legislature, the expenditures for tn
first year, the period ending March L
t 1912, and in connection statemen
v showing which of the offices have bee
d collecting revenue and how much.
The state supreme court has reverse
- the conviction of Peter Miller, foun
y guilty in Pierce county on change
|, venue of an alleged robbery in Seattl
The supreme court reversed convictic
of Miller before on the ground that 8
alleged confession was secured
''third degree" methods. The admissiC
g of this confession in the Tacoma tri
I, was an error, holds the supreme cou
10 in the decision handed down. Mill
ol declared he was kept in dark cell al
=. beaten by the Seattle police until
confessed. The defendant is to be tri
f. again.
The body of Carson Long, son
es Alderman Il. K. Long of Chicago, W
or disappeared from North Yakima Mar
rs S, was found Friday night in the va
On ina river, five miles below North va
til ina. Both legs and one arm were b
he ken, and it is believed Long W
knocked off Pomona bridge into t
river by train. Nearly 5000 and v
liable papers were found on the boo
80 eliminating the theory of foul pl'
M Long IS relatives have spent no less tn