Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-04-24
WASHINGTON ITEMS

The Pennington high school debat-
ing team won from the Palouse team
April IL.
The annual convention of the Adams
County Sunday School association was
held in Ritzville this week.
The postoffice department has grant
ed to Pasco city delivery service, with
two carriers, effective July 1.
The annual meeting Of group of
the Washington State Bankers asso-
citation will be held in Spokane May
IA.
The Killarney, pink rose, has been
decided upon by the civic improve
ment club of Toppenish as the Off
cial flower for the town.
The release of the first mortgage
(date 1870 ever recorded in Columbia
county was placed on the county rec
ords at Dayton Saturday.
The body of Richard e. McGregor,
who was drowned a week ago by fall
ing from an O.-W. R. & N. bridge eight
miles above Washtucna, was found
April ~.
The local committees at Walla
Walla having charge of arrangements
for the grand lodge meeting of the Odd
Fellows there June 9, 10, IL and H.
are getting their plans in shape.
1t is considered certain that the
Washington Water Power company
will this summer extend its transmits
sion lines from Davenport to Crestor
and Wilbur, Almira and Hartline.
The Pacific Motorcycle Racing asso
citation has subleased the Meadow:
mile track, Seattle, for the year anC
will give a series of motorcycle races
which will extend through the summe
and fall at various times.
, William Bowen was accidental,
burned death Sunday morning il
tho him on his ranch eight miles from
L ton. His mother, so years age
was burned to death in the timber o.
4 the same ranch where her son met hi
: fate yesterday.
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+ promising hearty support, and hui
dreds of enthusiastic delegates frol
Whitman, Adams, Franklin, Spokan
i and other eastern Washington coul
S ties in accord, the Palouse irIigatio
t. project was given mighty boost Sa
i urday at Colfax.
Work on the identification of tn
o Great Northern from the Cascades
Spokane at a cost of more than ST.
a 100000 will commence soon. The cor
h pany has practically acquired all TT
It land around Lake Chelan, also alor
IL the Chelan river to the Columbia riv'
e and adjacent to Chelan Falls.
20 The pardon board has completed
II work at the state prison after actin
on 2O6 cases. Forty-two paroles we
ct granted. Recommendations wer
in Final release to 81, conditional ps
81 dons for four, full pardons for fly
lie final release from parole for eigl
lie final release from conditional pard
W for 10.
t. The smallpox situation over t
Us SldbS ndS NdllSu lOlIh q vi So4e"A 49,
the Washington state board of heal
by DR.. Eugene R. Kelley, its secretal
in which the people are assured II
the state board no longer advocat
he or insists upon quarantine for sms
pox, and that the only safe plan is
ed people to be vaccinated.
he The commissioners of Okanog
or county have decided to meet the
wv preparation of the United States for
ar service of $1,000 for improvement
IN county roads with ali equal amou
as The money will be expended in t
ne projects. One is on the road betwe
an Conconully and Loomis and the OIL
ri is on the county road between Ok
IL. ogan and Twisp.
he A rally of people living within
he territory of 100000 acres under
bal Quincy valley irrigation project v
es- held at Quincy Saturday, at which p
re- pie pledged themselves enthusiast
,ts ally to form an irrigation district q
,oe bond the land for funds to compl
IS surveys for data to present to vot
to of the state on the $40,000,000 bond
no issue for the irrigation of Quincy '
the ley lands.