Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-03-14
WASHINGTON STATE


day in Spokane.
Fire has destroyed G. Ewing's gem
earal store at Withrow The loss is
estimated at $4,000, with insurance of
$4,000.
Lith Standish, aged g. and Muriel
Standish, aged Z, were drowned in
Green river, a mile and a half east of
Auburn, when a wagon in which FIVE
persons were fording the stream, upset.
Construction of the Hanford- Ringold
power transmission line is under way.
Ranchers on the east side of the Col
umbia river, opposite Hanford, have
contracts for the delivery of power by
April 1.
Crushed beneath the elevator
weight that descended from the fifth
floor while the elevator was going up.
Joseph F. Schok, an elebator helper 30
years old, met instant death at Spo-
kane Saturday.
Civilian employees at the Puget Sound
navy yard will not be discharged for
participating in the municipal cam
paign last fall, when two of their num-
Der were elected to the city council on
the socialist ticket
John Jarvis and Jack Duffy, both of
Sedro- Woolley, were drowned in the
Skagit river, Sunday, when a launch
in which they were taking pleasure
ride struck a snag and threw them into
the ice cold water.
Alleged payroll Irregularities in the
freight department of the Northern
Pacific at Spokane promise to involve
many well-known Spokane railroad
men now in the employ of the North
ern Pacific freight house.
Private M. Barnard of Company X,
national guard, at Walla Walla, com
pleted a two-day sentence in the city
Jail there for skipping drill, having
chosen the Jail rather than pay the
fine of 81 levied against him.
Equipped for emergencies from
preaching sermons to gun fighting, w.
S. Edris was arrested at Walla Walla,
charged with several forgeries total
ing nearly $1,000. Edris was traced
from points near Bellingham.
A new typographical union, which
will include all the printers in Kitti-
tas county, who have heretofore been
under the jurisdiction of the North
Yakima local of the I. It. u, is in
course of formation at Ellensburg.
The Great Northern Railway COM
pany can not build its projected line
down the San Poll valley until April
20, if at all, as Judge Rudlzin has ex-
tended his restraining order against
the building of the projected line until
then.
The state public service commission
will announce in Spokane during a
session on March 1920 new tariff,
giving reduction of about 20 cents
per hundredweight on carload lots of
freight travelling from the Coast to
Spokane.
John Berg, of Port Crescent, and
Wallace Richter, farmer, two sight
seers, were killed Sunday when a guy
wire attached to a derrick broke at
the plant of the Olympic Power COM
pany, ON the Elmwha river, seven miles
west of Port Angeles.
A two days farmers institute has
been arranged by the Colville Chamber
of Commerce to be held on March II
and -, with instructors from the state
college in charge. Soils, crops, dairy
ing, swine, fruit and poultry will be
the topics discussed.
Charles II. Hufford, aged Az, a
liquor salesman, who shot and killed
Gladys Irene Tesche, aged 1s, on a
crowded street corner in Seattle last
New Years eve, was convicted of
murder in the first degree. Three
women were on the jury.
Marcel Parsons, aged II, and Bessie
Klemgard, aged 16, the clipping college
youth and high school girl, whose dis
appearance from Pullman Wednesday
led to a search that covered the Inland
Empire, have been reconciled to their
parents, were married Saturday at
Spokane.
! Permanent organization, the appoint
ment of an executive committee and
the formation of definite plans for an
appeal to President Taft and congress,
were agreed upon recently at the irri-
cation congress at Colfax, called for
the purpose of considering the pro
posed Palouse irrigation and power
project.
Wapata.-Dunn Brothers, owners of
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