Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-01-18
WASHINGTON STATE

Five companies of Puget Sound are
now in an electric merger
United States District Judge George
Donworth of Seattle has resigned.
For the first time in several years
the Pend 0 Relic river is frozen over
solid.
According to assessors report, the
total valuation of all property in Stev-
ems county for 1911 is $7,s55,175.
Constitutionality of the act creating
the industrial insurance commission will
be argued in the federal court in April.
a lumber company has acquired title,
for $22 500, to 1910 acres of timber land
in the northern part of Spokane county,
\ lumber company is contracting the
logging of 100000 feet of yellow and
white pine logs for the Beyersdorf mill
at Diamond lake.
State permanent funds on January / =.
this year, aggregated $9,27O,7O1, OF
vested in interest-bea bonds.
The United States submarine boat F3
was launched recently from Seattle
shipyard, where three other vessels of
the same class are to be constructed.
The sale of the Holdings of the Hoos-
Ter Land company of New York city,
consisting of 1881 acres of timber land
in Kittitas county, to New York CAPT
talists, is confirmed.
J. NJ. johnson is now agent for the
Colville Indians. Captain John McA
Webster was relieved of part of his du-
ties as agent for Indians in eastern
Washington and northern Idaho.
While watching the funeral procession
of Dennis Rose, whose death resulted
from the kick of horse, Pat Donahue
a Dayton truck operator, was kicked ir
the face by horse, dying a few hours
later.
Benumbed with the cold while steal
ing ride on the pilot of the engine W
the Snake River line recently, Patrick
Boyle fell before the wheels of the rush
ing engine and was cut and torn t.
pieces.
When a shotgun slipped down be
tween several logs on his sled at Moal
and was accidentally discharged, E. S
Mackay, aged 63, received the full
charge of shot in his left hip, shattern,
the bones.
James Brown, charged by information
filed in the superior court of Steven
county with first degree assault upon a
A. Stevenson at Springdale last August
has been brought back from Portlan'
for trial.
At a recent meeting of the commits
sioners of Franklin county an apprc
pration was made to advance two grea
; acknowledgment of the Columbi
river and government irrigation 70
Franklin county.
Mrs. Sarah b. Ferry, aged So, wido'
of Elisha p. Ferry, first governor of tn
state of Washington and one of the gov
errors of the territory of Washington
died Saturday morning at the home q
her daughter, Mrs. Eliza Ferry Lear.
of Seattle.
Each shooting with poor aim in til
growing dusk, Sunday evening, Da
=, Rubertt, Austrian bartender, famed {
gun man and "killer,'' and Mrs. f
, Radovich, an Austrian woman, fougl
=, pistol duel in the street. She ma
= die, he WASH It hit.
While iourneying from Sherlock, q
J the Nesqually river, to Seattle in
small open boat and camping at nigl
= on the open beaches of Puget SCUM
an old man, said to be a blacksmit
f was frozen to death on the beach ne;
e Steilacoom, recently.
y. The bodies of Mrs. Mary P. Hyd
Cal. December 80, and Miss Loui'
Rosslow, who passed away in her bert
= while returning to Spokane bringing Il
body of her sister, arrived in Seatt
y Tuesday on the steamer President.
Pleading guilty to burglary, Pa
8 Starke and Frank Warner, alias Gal
e bama Dutch" were each sentenced
+ from to IS years in prison, and Harl
Y j. Eastman, ringleader of band
= thugs who operated in Seattle duril
n the last few months, drew senten
v of five to II years.
The Very Rev. Emil Kauten, forme
ly rector of Our Lady of Lourdes Cat
Ollie church, Spokane, and for the la
\ 10 wears chancellor of the diocese