Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-06-20
WASHINGTON STATE

Inc annual 1OuhNAf
Kittitas valley is on this week.
Mrs. Peter Janett, one of the Oldest
residents of Davenport, is dead.
Charles White, for 80 years resident
near Pomeroy, and a civil war veteran
died recently.
George w. Burch, age 81 years.
pioneer of Spokane, died recently Oh
heart trouble.
The Tacoma anti-treating ordinance
is valid, according to recent ruilng
of the supreme court.
Citizens of Miles and vicinity VIII
hold three-day celebration at old Fort
Spokane, July 3, a, and 8.
The thirtieth annual encampment OF
the Department of Washington and
Alaska G. A. R., at Pullman last week,
was a great big success.
The county commissioners have let
contracts for the construction of SIX
steel bridges in Adams county, at a
total cost of about $4,000.
Davenport's volunteer fremen won
the Inland volunteer fremen meet at
Ritzville, capturing 1925 in cash prizes
besides a number of trophies.
Albert Stachli, prosperous farmer,
living seven miles northwest of Addy,
ended his life Saturday morning by
shooting himself through the heart.
While playing about an engine room
at Elbe, near Tacoma, Orval Frazier, 10,
was scalded to death. A steam pipe
broke above him.
Charles Aleck, charged with the muir
der of E. H. Rothrock, former city edi-
tor of the Chronicle at Spokane, will
go to the insane ward of the state peni-
Tertiary for life.
John Gilmore, lineman in the en-
ploy of the Milwaukee on the west end
of the Columbia division, with head
quarters at Othello, was run down by a
light engine on the Boylston hill and
killed.
DR.. Frank d. Johnson, who was
charged jointly with Adelbert B. Clark
who got a life sentence, with the muir.
der of Lawrence Bar, the Centralia
banker, December 30, last, was ac
quilted.
Leroy Stilson, a wealthy pioneer
farmer of Whitman county, who has
been living for the last seven years al
Spokane, was drowned recently in
Snake river, near Idaho Falls, in south
ern Idaho.
The Asotin Farmers Warehouse as
ISOLATION has decided to build large
Touring mill near the warehouse, the
mill to have capacity of 100 barrels
daily. A committee was appointed to
solicit stock.
L. A. Bowman, manager of the Enloe
Electric company, was killed at Rosalia
Saturday. He had climbed a pole to
cut wire when his body came in con.
tact with live wire. A widow and
three children residing in Rosalia sur.
vive him.
On call of President H. M. Hansen of
Wilbur, representatives from all com.
mercial clubs and farmers union locals
banding together to form the Lincoln
County Development league, will meet
at Wilbur June IA and hold the first
business meeting
Fire believed to have started in the
old planning mill Saturday morning at
the Tacoma plant of the st. Paul and
Tacoma Lumber company did damage
to the extent of nearly 100000. II
was insured. Five hundred men will he
thrown out of work.
A. X. Carey, prominent contractor of
Pasco, was arrested Sunday on the
charge of numbering Henry E. Chris
Jensen, who died on train the morn.
ing OF June 1, on his way to Spokane,
The evidence at the command of the
prosecuting attorneys Office has con.
WINGED the officials that they are iusti-
fed in charging that Christensen died
from the effects of strychnine placed
in his flask of whiskey.
Contributions to the "savinq Whit.
man college fund have reached the
$lsO,ooo mark, with the goal now in
sight, 100000 being all that is needed
to insure the permanence of Whitman
college in Walla Walla and the opening
OF It's doors to students next fall.
While taking the body of Mrs. Anpe-
Ina Wilmington to North Yakima the
team drawing the wagon ran away and
threw the body on the roadway. The
body was picked up and brought into
town and will be sent to her form or