Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-25
WASHINGTON STATE
Spokane saloons now number 217.

+. w. Tledt, a rancher living eight
mics north from Wilson Greek, mas
started "a cheese making industry.
The country around Pennington prom
lses not only the best grain, hay and
potato crop ever harvested, but new
record Tor fruit.
-Four men broke out of the Franklin
county jail sunday morning by saving
through tue bans Oh the cage and digging
through the BRICK wall
Mrs. W. Ii. Myers has disposed OF
her 100 acre rancn III the southwest part
OF Whitman county to b. L. Henne OF
Gle Elum Tor 700 cash.
Charles White, SO years old, promi-
nenU Ill nnanclaI circles in Spokane for
the last ~ years, died recently follow
ing AN operation for hernia.
The second annual horse show, which
was neld at Waveriy last week, was well
attended and the class of STOCK the
best that has ever been exhibited there.
William Campbell, whose home is
said to be in Minneapolis, was instant
ly killed, but all other passengers were
removed from the cars before the fire
started.
At Spokane the jury returned YER
dict OIL not guilty. against Mrs. Della
Olds, charged with the murder OF her
husband. Or. W. II. Odds, on the night
of May IS.
Jesse Richmond and Edward Hub
bard, both aged 10, sons Of well known
Spangle people, were drowned while
) swimming, taking cramps in Hangmal
creek near Duncan, six miles north OF
Spangle.
The Washington State college viii
give scholarship to the boy who writes
the best essay telling what he saw anC
learned at the farm school for boys
to he held at the Spokane Interstate
fair this fall.
| Baron Shibusawa, Nakana Buei an(
other japanese have decided to estab
lish silk manufacturing plant at Sc
attic. The capital of the concern i
S placed at $1,5OO,O0O. Raw silk viii
b be imported from Japan and will com
1 in free OF duty.
\ fire in l.. l.. Lyle's threshing outfit
west Of Hatton, recently, completely de
stroyed the header box and injured tn
t horses feeding out Of it before the
u could be cut loose. One horse was mad
: blind. The FIRE was caused by one o
u the crew smoking
V Bruce Compton, a powderman in tn
r employ of Secore Brothers of KelsC
Wash, subcontractors having charge c
the rock crushing ON the Goldendal
street work, was instantly killed II
a Gently by the premature explosion Of
IL blast Of 60 sticks of dynamite.
4 George Browne, one of the founder
# and for many years secretary OF the >
e Paul and Tacoma Lumber company an
f until recently an officer in 16 oth'
f Washington corporations, died Sunda
# morning at his country home near IL
a. coma. He had suffered a stroke {
apoplexy.
Fire of an unknown origin, startir
N in a saloon at Alder, near Tacoma, d
stroyed the $4,000 sawmill, planil
Oc and single mill plant of the Relian
Lumber and Timber company, and
es boarding house and two saloons. II
ne total loss is estimated at $165,000,
er Guiding 100000 feet of sawed timb'
lg all we'll covered by insurance.
"a Efforts of the Spokane chamber
~ commerce to have legislation enact
90 ~ at Washington, D. c., to provide for t
80 leasing to white settlers of land on t
30 Colville reservation, which has been
~ lotted to minor Indians, the rentals
~, be nominal and to be devoted to
~ education of the minor Indians and
,Is Improvement of the land, are meet
~ with legal obstacles.
I'D WE'RE ROAMING WITH BARE FE-
&C. Leader of Faith Cure Pilgrims Is Jai