Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
WASHINGTON STATE


killed in the freight yards at Colfax.
r. P. TURNKEY, pioneer merchant Of
Rosalia, is preparing to open large
branch store at Waverly
Mrs. Josephine Preston, state school
superintendent-elect announces the APP
pointment of Miss Hannah Cordy as
her chief clerk at Olympia.
Freezing weather and clear sky
put an end to the floods and snow
slides Saturday that have hampered
railroad operations in western Wash
ington.
Mrs. Mary Sheldon, widow of Thorn
as V. Sheldon, a pioneer of the Kittitas
valley, died at Thorp Saturday morn
ing, aged 70 years. Mrs. Sheldon
owned valuable residence property at
Ellensburg.
The Lamar estate at Lamar, Wash,
was sold at auction Saturday to satisfy
a judgment for $24,075, the land being
bid in by II. S. Jackson as admins
traitor of the estate of Joseph Lamar,
his bid being the amount of the judg-
ment.
T. c. Hartley, Douglas county school
superintendent, announces that the
eighth grade examinations will be held
January 16 and II at the following
points: Waterville, Bridgeport, Marsh
field, st. Andrews, Leahy, Withrow,
Mcintosh, District Eight and District
GA.
J John Moore, 80 years old, was killed,
Ed Collins, aged q, was shot in the
neck, and John Byllings, a Snohomish
policeman, was shot in the leg in pis-
toll battle that began when Moore and
Collins attempted to hold up saloon
at Snohomish, town 80 miles north of
Seattle.
]. w. Wolfe of Walla Walla has sold
to E. c. Rogers of Weston, Oregon, GAO
acres of wheat land located eight miles
west of Washtucna. This land is all
under cultivation, $50 acres in winter
wheat and one-third of the crop goes
with the place. Mr. Rogers paid $22,-
400 for this land.
At Walla Walla the tri-country con
vention of the farmers union Saturday
: discussed at length the question OF
abandoning jute bags and substituting
either cotton sacks or elevators, but
no vote was taken Nearly all who
spoke favored eliminating jute bags
Officers were reelected.
|, Requests were issued to the forth
e coming legislature of Washington by
r the farmers union of Spokane county
|, at its annual meeting to do it's bes
r to reduce taxes, build needed roads anC
institute economy by eliminating al
needless judges, officials, clerks ant
commissions, some of which are ere
d ated to give jobs to politicians"
. With Chief Justice Mount and Judg
- Fullerton dissenting the supreme cour
g denied the application of Andrew
=, Quigley of Seattle for writ directing
the King county superior court to hav
> the ballot boxes of the November
election opened. Quigley, who was
:, candidate for county auditor, allege
- election irregularities and asked a r.
- count.
d Identification as George Bowen, so
Of of a wealthy resident of Manchester
n England, was made at Seattle of tn
,e man known as X. Lirhus, who wa
Of asphyxiated in a Japanese lodgin
at house New Years morning after cell
lie brating the passing of 1912 with Wi
III liam O'Connor, who was found dea
beside him. Identification was mad
by James Shannon.
., Mrs. F. K. McBrom, former presideI
IN of the Mothers congress in Spokan
"a has received the appointment fro
t. Mrs. Helen Moore Hubble of Seattl
~ president of the Washington stat
=, branch Of the National Congress
~ Mothers and Parent-Teachers' associ
~, lions, as chairman of the state chi
labor committee and also as memb1
of the legislative committee workiI
on the mothers pension bill and d
linquert fathers bill.