Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-05-16
WASHINGTON STATE

The annual Waitsburg horse show will
be held May II and 1s.
The unions of Spokane are to avoid
strife by taking conservative attitude
toward the open shop.
1t is announced that the O.-W. R. &
N. at Tekoa will be made transfer
station to transfer freight.
At Seattle, Miss Dean Rice, aged 20,
a seamstress, was killed by an automo-
bile recently when it overturned.
Miss May Vickers, aged II, daugh-
ter of Edward Vickers Of Dayton, COM
mitted suicide recently by taking car
bolic acid.
Mangled under the wheels of a street
car, Cody Lewis, aged 6 years, the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis, at Spo-
kane, was instantly killed.
Head shaved and CARRIED in convict IS
clothes, Charles w. Wappenstein, for
merly police chief in Seattle, is now
convict No. $3.50 at the state peniten-
tiary.
The Lincoln County Editorial associa-
ton will meet at Davenport May Is, the
same day representatives of the com
mercial clubs of towns in the county
assemble there.
The board of managers of the Wash
ington State Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teachers association decided at
its meet in Tacoma to hold its next
meet in Spokane.
Henry j. Thola, rancher on Sum
mitview road, two miles south of North
Yakima, was so severely stung by
swarm of bees which he was trying to
entice into a hive that he died.
Miss Julia DAILY, who is believed to
have committed suicide by leaping from
a fifth floor window of hotel in Sc
attic, was much better known as judith
Hughes, which was her pen name when
she was society writer for a Seattle
daily paepr.
Frank D. Garrett has purchased from
w 4ilidiil anu IL. OnOOh OtO dCl CO
of farm land two and one-half miles
southeast of Davenport for $40, 900. The
farm is one of the most highly improved
in Lincoln county and its buildings
alone are valued at $4,000. All the
farm is under cultivation.
w. j. Page, ra1fcher of the Tieton,
was mortally wounded by an explosion
of two sticks of dynamite which he
was carrying across field on his ranch
in the Cowiche. Page was engaged in
blasting out holes in which to set fruit
trees at the time of the accident.
A new route from Spokane to the
coast, furnishing an opening for the ore
| fields of Metaline Falls and giving the
Idaho & Washington Northern an out
let into Canada and to the coast has
been surveyed by the Canadian Pacific
railway from Trail, B. c., to Metaline
Falls.
With the most impressive funeral
service held by Kittitas valley Indians
since the burial of old Chief Toby, the
body of Princess Laura Enia- aich-ick
was laid to rest on the old Mason ranch.
Practically every Indian in Kittitas
county was in attendance Princess
Laura, the most popular girl of the
remaining few of the Kittitas tribe, was
killed on the Yakima reservation while
endeavoring to ride an outlaw pony,
which reservation bucks could not han
die. The animal reared and fell back
ward, crushing the girl.
| The United States reclamation serv-
ice will, on May 25, throw open for
settlement 1852 acres in the Tieton unit
of the Yakima reclamation project, from
~ to 16 miles west of North Yakima.
Of this land 1857 acres are irrigable
under the government project. The land
has been divided by the government into
Al farm units from 21 to 80 acres each.
The land is the last in the Tieton unit
of the Yakima reclamation project to
be given to the public by the govern
ment until the work on the Sunnysde
unit is completed and the tracts there
ready. Each settler who takes land in
the Tieton unit will receive the land
for the filing fee and for living on it
five years. The United States reclama-
ton service has spent $5,S0O,00o on the
Yakima irrigation project, and expects
to spend $3,OOo,OoO more. Last year
it supplied water to lis persons for
$4,000 acres.
Whitman County Well Off.
| Alleged ILLEGAL exnendituree Of naor1,,
$4,000 are reported by state examiners