Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-07
WASHINGTON STATE

President Bryan is again in charge
of Washington State college, having re-
turned from his tour of Europe.
influential business men and promi-
nent merchants are conducting a quiet
campaign for an "open town" in Spo
kane.
The business men of Newport held a
meeting recently to get together and
plan for sewers, new city hall and
new high school.
Captain Otto Sverdrup, master of
Nansen' Arctic ship Fran, is in Sc
attic to fit out two steam whalers
which he will take to Alaska this
summer.
Preliminary steps have been taken of
West Side which may result in set
Ting for all time the long standing
question of whether it is Mount Raj
nier or Mount Tacoma.
A. B. Campbell, Spokane pioneer and
millionaire mine owner, who died re-
Gently, divided his entire estate equally
between his. wife, Mrs. Grace Camp
bell, and his daughter, Miss Helen
Campbell
At North Yakima it is reported Mrs.
Eva Burtland has confessed that she
wrapped the body of her newly born in
FAINT in bundle and gave it to her
12-year-old son, with instructions to
| IL.
While there is an attitude of ex-
.pectancy, nothing has developed Of
ficially at the builders exchange or
elsewhere to indicate that there is
concerted action among building con
tractors for the open shop at Spokane.
The trades unions of Spokane stand
ready to solve the financial difficulties
of the day labor plan of doing improve
ment work by investing from 100000
to 100000 in city day labor improve
ment bonds, according to announcement
from that city.
Arbor day, April II, is to be fittingly
observed at Kennewick this year by
the planting of 10 miles of trees along
the west bank of the Columbia river
The day will also be featured by big
get together meeting of the townspeople
and country folk.
Rev. Charles F. Aked, former pas
tor of the Rockefeller Fifth Avenue
Baptist church of New York and now
pastor of the First Congregations
church of San Francisco, will deliver
the baccalaureate sermon at the Uni
versity of Washington, June 8.
S. A. Perkins, president of the Wash
= ington State Good Roads association
, has appointed the following committee
on legislation and codifying: Chair
man, Frank w. Guilbert of Spokane
James McNeelery, Tacoma; Frank Ter
rance, Orillia; NJ. E. Olson, Yakima
: C. B. Kegley, president Washington
State grange; John p. Hartman, Seattle
: Several miles of permanent macadar
road are being built entirely withou
h expense to the county of Okanogar
e People of Tonasket and ranchers i
o that vicinity are donating the wor
n and the improvement is being made a
low cost, under the supervision o
Clay Fruit. The valley is favored wit
unlimited quantities of ideal road ms
:, terial.
d Admitting that they had manufactu
II ed dies and counterfeiting instrument
o that were as nearly perfect as could |
If made by skilled labor, but declarin
e. that they were fred with the fervor {
# invention and scientific research, an
rs had not intended making spuriol
ID money, w. H. Mahan and A. E. Ha
b. rington of Aberdeen are in Jail
Tacoma.
In documents filed for record in IL
Lincoln county auditor, Preston IL. w
~ son, of Seattle, claims the unappropria
ed waters of Crab creek above Il
,e Grant county line in township 2
tn range 81, flowing above ground, al
of also seeks to appropriate the unde
In ground flow of the ancient bed of Or;
O. creek, where it crosses the line of Ii
r. coin and Grant counties, about quart
ir of a mile east of the town of KruT
Despite the long drawn out fight ma
by the Stevens county shippers for
revision of the freight tariff imposed
to the Great Northern upon patrons of t
up Spokane Falls & Northern bran
or. which serves the Colville and Columt
'r- river valleys, and notwithstanding tn
ut the state public service commissi
~ made an order of revision on Decent
"a 1s, last, to be effective January II,
we is said by the shippers that the "a
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