Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-07-17
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Fair" October l to A.
Apricots are ripening in the We
natchee valley and shipping is in full
swing.
John Adams was recently murdered
and robbed about six miles west o.
Walla Walla.
Safe breakers blew the safe in 6
/ saloon at Waterville July 5 and es
capped with 5000.
Weeds are a fruitful source OF
trouble to property owners and county
officials these days.
The address by Governor Lister was
the chief feature of the celebration of
the Fourth at Hoquiam.
Every indication points to the big
gest crop of wheat ever known in
eastern Whitman county.
Jacob Mariner, living about 10 miles
northwest of Warden, was killed re-
Gently by cave-in in cistern.
DR.. c. S. Penfield, aged Sc years, a
resident of Spokane for the last %
years, died Monday, due to apoplexy.
The fifth annual convention of the
Pacific Logging congress will be held
in Spokane September "a, IS, 26 and
81
Charles X. Wood, wealthy bachelor
Ga years of age, who recently died at
Oakesdale, left a fortune estimated
at 100000.
Announcement is made of the open
ing of 10000 acres of land in Grant
county, embraced in the Quincy Irri-
cation project.
R. D. Jarboe, who has had charge of
the Edwards & Bradford lumber yard
at Davenport, has been appointed
state grain inspector
Rocks weighing tons were washed
down hillsides in recent cloudburst
that washed out a roadway for two
miles near Conconully.
John Caller, known by all of the old
timers as Dutch john" still lives on
the Colville reservation at an age ap-
proximting 100 years.
The recently burned round house
and shops on the S. P. & S. at Lamont
are to be replaced at cost of $4,000.
Work is to start at once.
The fourteenth biennial convention
of the Theatrical Mechanics sasocia-
ton of the United States and Canada
In oil
kane
S. ]. Tant died recently at Long
Beach, Cal. He made the first plat of
the town of Garfield, Wash. His son,
Mark, was the first white child born
in that town..
Mrs. Sophia Lien, aged 10 years, fell
upon a butcher knife in her kitchen
at Seattle Sunday, severed the jugular
vein and the carotid artery and died
soon afterward.
G. P. Coey of Rockford has sold for
a consideration og $4,000 a farm of
4SO acres, five miles southeast of Rock
ford, in Spokane county. The buyer
is A. ]. Brincken.
Fire recently destroyed every bust
ness building except one in Easton,
railroad town at the east portal of the
Northern Pacific tunnel through the
Cascade mountains.
The mutilated remains of Ode Car
ter of Monticello, KY, a private in
Company l, Fourteenth infantry, Fort
George Wright, were found Sunday
morning under the railroad trestle at
Spokane.
Clifton Baker of Index, Wash, aged |
Fl years, fell $50 feet from a cliff over
looking Lake Isabel, in the Cascade |
80 miles from Everett, last |
Saturday, and was instantly killed by
striking the rocks below.
Mrs. Frank Hartman, wife of farm
er near Olympia, drowned her
9-months-old baby in a creek running
through the farm and made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to drown herself Sun
day. Insanity is given as the cause.
The price of grain bags will not
bother Ben Grote, an extensive Eureka
Flat farmer, as he will harvest and
ship in bulk. He expects a big yield.
Frank Richmond, a Prescott farmer,
expects the largest yield in 20 years.
Earl Morgan. 15-year-old son of c.
0. Morgan, Seattle, was so badly in
jured by the explosion of toy cannon
which he was holding between his
knees while loading that it was nee
essary to amputate his right leg above
the knee.