Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-02-08
WASHINGTON STATE

of the county at the court house.
Prospects for one of the best wheat
crops in the history of Benton county
are assured.
Paving throughout the entire business
district of Toppenish is being consid-
cred by property owners and city Off
Gals.
Thirty-four prisoners from the Mon
roe state reformatory has been taken
to the Walla Walla penitentiary on ac
count of incorrigibility.
Catalan & Co., North Yakima IS larg
est department store, which was burned
will not resume business it is reported.
Sheriff William Miller has posted no
tees of the sale of the property of
the Aladdin Mining company on Febru-
airy s, to satisfy the claim of Stevens
county.
The resignation of Judge George Don
worth of the western district of Wash
ington, which was withdrawn, is ex-
pected to show up at the White House
this week.
The city of Spokane is to be sued
for $4,000 damages by Cuyahoga coun-
ty, Ohio, for infringement of copy
righted plans in constructing the Mon
roe street bridge.
After he had failed in his attempt to
murder his wife, Edwin Jones, SIS years
old, a ianitor in bank, killed himself
by sending a bullet through his brain
at Seattle recently.
Part of the work of the Yakima Val
ley Fruitgrowers association, will
: Headquarters in North Yak lima, is es
tablishing schools in various fruit dis
tricts to teach grading and packing
apples.
Irrigation of alfalfa land before TIL
alfalfa starts its first growth in. tn
, spring is of much more value to crop
q than irrigation after the shoots hav
Z started, according to statements o
/, men experienced in hay growing.
: The superior court of King county ha
}. been enjoined by order of the state ST
n preme court from interfering in an
o way with the increase of telephon
rates at Seattle by the independent con
t pany, as ordered recently by the stat
+ public service commission.
;. 1t is the intention of the Chicago
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway
rush to completion a line from Spokar
to Plummer, Idaho, and run transcont
mental trains in and out of Spokar
a that way until the O.-W. R. & n. con
pletes its work from Marengo to Sp
i kane.
n Saloons in unincorporated towns
Ferry county will not be permitted
e operate without giving a surety Dor
al instead of a personal bond, and all 5
e, looms outside of incorporated tow
Is will be required to close at 9 o'cloC
e and not open before 6 o clock in Il
S morning
"a That the fasting treatment, underg
If ing which Miss Claire Williamson,
W wealthy English woman, died at Olall
II and for whose death Mrs. Linda Bu
,r field Hazard, a fasting specialist,
10 now on trial in the Kitsap county S
ptrior court at Port Orchard for mi
der. was professional and involving
offense, is the contention of the
tense.
al The Great Northern "Owl' ira
orth-bound from Seattle for Vance
yer, b. c., ran into mud slide half
'e- mile south of White Rock, just aero
es the international line, Sunday morni
cn and the engine, the express car and
W baggage car went into the ditch.
&c The engine crew jumped and escap
% with slight injuries. None of the p
at sengers were seriously hurt.
Use A. L. Weeks, Familiarity known
lis - Boomer Weeks, has been appoint
the head of the Spokane fire depa
ment. He succeeds A. Harry Myers, W
TX recently resigned after II years of SCI
ice in that capacity. A. L. Weeks is
'b- years of age, having been in Spoka
since 1888. He began as ladderm
ce- April 30, 1898, and has been secrets
Up of the department since 1901.
re- Tho two railroads of Pend Orei
ne county will pay more than one-third
by the total taxes of the county.
III Great Northern will pay real est
taxes amounting to $17,75O and perso
taxes of $1165. The Idaho & WASH
ton Northern IS real estate taxes
90 $45,OO7 and its personal property ia,
led $5579. The total taxes to be paid
as county on all property amount
me $19s,32s.