Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
WASHINGTON STATE


Water in the new city well at Gar
field was struck at depth of 1886 feet
There were 1916 marriage license.
issued in the state of Washington dur
ing the year 1912.
A. G. Moore, 80, native of Arkan
sas and for Is years a resident of Dav
export, died at his home recently.
Eleven carloads of cherries were
shipped from North Yakima to tn,
Chicago markets between June 20 and
80.
The state has $2,667 ,492 cash on
hand. Receipts for last week were
$256,066, and disbursements were $261,.
OPS.
Nine Indian boys and girls gradu-
ated recently from the Yakima Indian
reservation school at Fort Simcoe,
about ~ miles west of Toppenish
The Wisconsin Society of the Inland
Empire will give it's annual picnic at
Natatorium park, Spokane, July IL, and
all former Badgerites are expected.
All convicts who have been working
on roads have been sent back to the
state penitentiary to make bags to
supply the demand of the farmers.
Fred Hoefel lies with fractured
skull, his wife is unconscious and Mrs.
Christ Reiker is severely injured as
result of an automobile accident Sun
day afternoon, when Christ Reiker g
machine overturned on a piece of level
road five miles west of Ritzville.
Writing in an agony of pain and
seized with one CONFUSION after an
other, Mrs. Herman Eden, aged IS
years, wife of wealthy Peone prairie
farmer, died near Spokane from eating
raisins, by mistake, which had been
treated with poison to kill squirrels.
Members of the state board of con-
troll met in quarterly session at the
state penitentiary for the considera-
ton of pardons, paroles and other mat
tiers at the penitentiary this week,
such as the operation of the jute mill
and the newly established prison
school.
Professor Paul White, head of the
state college agronomy department, re-
ports the crop conditions on the college
experiment farm as being the best in
years. The plans for the present sea-
son include the raising of a large
amount of seed for distribution through
out the state.
More than 800 delegates were pres
ent at the Christian Endeavor conven-
ton at Tacoma last week. North
Yakima was selected as the place for
holding the 1913 convention of the
Washington-Idaho Christian Endeavor
union. The Rev. E. A. King of North
Yakima is president.
E. C.. Cleveland, rancher near North
Yakima, was recently tried and found
guilty in justice 8 court of refusing to
obey the notice of Assistant Horticul-
tural Inspector c. G. Horner to prune
his pear and apple orchard to rid it of
pear blight. He was given minimum
fine of $50 and costs. The case will be
appealed.
A. F. SCHNEIDER, assistant cashier of |
the Fidelity State bank at Uniontown,
left home June 20, presumably for an
outing in the vicinity of Occur d 'Alene
and st. Joe, Idaho and has not been
heard from since. The stockholders of |
the bank have made good deficiency
of $4,000 without disturbing the re-
serve fund.
A man working for a railroad COM
pany is not expected to strain himself, |
declares the state supreme court. Ira
Irwin was ordered to throw a handcar
off the tracks to get it out of the way
of fast coming locomotive. The en-
CINE was close. Irwin strained a hernia |
and sued for damages. The court SAYS
he can not recover because of contribu-
tory negligence.
Frauds, the filing of fake deeds and |
inducing two aged and feeble men to
appoint designing relatives to the con-
troll of their property are charged in
complaint made in the superior
court for Walla Walla county recently
seeking to quiet title to $500 acres of
the Lamar estate. The suit is brought |
by H. S. Jackson, administrator of the
estates of James Lamar and Joseph
Lamar, against Bessie Lamar, admin
lstratrix of the estate of David Lamar,
David Lamar's estate being the alleged
fraudulently transferred property of
James G. and Joseph Lamar. The
amount involved is $4,000, represent
ing the annual proceeds from the es-