Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-11-14
WASHINGTON STATE

The premium list for Pullmans first
hog show, December Z, has been COM
pleted.
For the first time in the history of
Kittitas county an aeroplane flew over
Ellensburg and valley Friday.
The Farmers Telephone company
has taken over the business of the
Pacific States Telephone company in
Waterville.
Mrs. John Kenzie, wife of Captain
John Kenzie, retired, who was former
ly instructor if the Washington nation
al guard, died recently in Seattle.
A fine team of horses belonging to
C. ]. Rothrock, living near Trinidad,
took fright at an auto, plunged into the
Columbia river and was drowned.
Spokane flour mill men won a tenn
porary compromise victory on the
tariff controversy with the railroads
over the advance in wheat rates.
The hop crop in the Yakima valley
this year was 23,84S bales, an increase
of 1871 over that of 1911. The yield
of 1911 brought growers $1,150,990.
Mrs. Will A. Belts of Spokane has
been appointed secretary of Deacon
ess bureau of the Pacific northwest,
which includes the Columbia river, the
Idaho, the Puget Sound and Oregon
conferences.
William Bryan of the department of
justice, who is investigating the pay
roll scandal at tn Bremerton navy
yard, has disclosed some vital evil
dence. Among other things requisi-
tons were found which were not law
fully issued.
A. H. Sperry, a railroad man Of Spo-
kane, will take charge Immediately of
the Pacific & Great Eastern, the Foley
& Welch railroad, which the Spokane
railroad contractors are building from
Vancouver to Fort George, distance
of 500 miles.
R. F. Parkhurst, former assistant
cashier of the First National bank of
Seattle, who was convicted in 1909 in
the federal court of embezzlement of
approximately $4,000 from that insti-
tuition, has been paroled by President
Taft
In the arrest of five men Saturday
on burglary charges the police at Spo-
kane believe they have broken the
backbone of the criminal gang in oper-
alton during the last month. In two
raids by detectives, nearly $500 worth
of jewels was recovered.
In winning the grand sweepstakes
for cattle at Chicago live stock show,
recently, John l.. Smith with his Hol-
stein herd, from Hazelwood's dairy,
has done one of the biggest things that
ever happened to the state of Washing.
ton in an agricultural way.
Earl Hamilton Smith of Manila, and
son of Eber c. Smith of Stevens coun
ty, is at Washington, d. c., where he
will be the resident correspondent OF
the Cablenews-American of Manila. He
arrived from the islands last week in
company with his mother and wife.
Last year between 60 and So pei
cent of the land in Walla Walla county
was sown in the autumn. There is al
least rs per cent of the land that viii
be in crop next year, now planted
And before the last grain is put into
the soil, four-fifths of the land it is
ESTIMATED, will have been seeded.
Details of the washout of the Elwhs
river dam of the Olympic Power com
pany near Port Angeles, are known
The dam itself is intact and not ever
cracked. The cost of repairing the in
Jury to the powerhouse and of extend
ing the dam to bedrock will not eX
coed $150,000. The washing out of thu
silt in the river beneath the dam is ;
benefit to the builders, who will no
be obliged to remove the earth ant
stones.