Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-23
WASHINGTON STATE

1t is proposed that the state super
w. d. Kelly, a pioneer of Odessa and
one of its most popular citizens, is
dead.
The issue of $4,000 school bonds at
.Waterville were sold to the state Sat
urday.
Seven persons were injured, three
seriously, in two coasting accidents
Sunday, when two bobsleds ran into
street cars.
David S. Troy, a democrat, elected
from Jefferson county, is slated for
chairman of the senate committee on
appropriations.
The state has s112,S53, 4S5 in assets
ment found in the report of the state
bureau of inspection.
The year 1912 compared with 1911
had more cold, wind and moisture, &C
cording to figures compiled at the Spo-
kane weather bureau.
Anton Effinger, well-known pioneer
at Walla Walla, died Saturday, aged
70. He has lived there So years. Nine
children survive him.
The Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd
Fellows and other lodges expect to
occupy the new $4,000 fraternal build
ing at Tekoa this week.
January 20 is the date fixed for all
of the county assessors of Washington
to assemble in Olympia for their meet
ing with the state tax commission.
The commercial club at Waitsburg,
by resolution, authorized the trus-
tees to take out membership in the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors congress.
Judge Thomas H. Brents of Walla
Walla, who retired Monday, has held
office for 16 years and is one of the
best known jurists in the northwest.
William Mcdonald, who served four
terms as judge of the superior court
of Whitman county, died in Seattle Sat
urday of inflammatory rheumatism,
aged SO years.
Henry Wallace, 60 years old, died in
Seattle Sunday of injuries received
when he was shot by a highwayman
who attempted to hold up his grocery
store in Tenth avenue.
A. w. Reiser of San Diego, Cal.
cornetist in the Puget sound navy yard
band, was burned to death at Bremen
ton recently by an explosion while
| lighting fire with petroleum.
Clarence Newman of Port Orchard
county clerk of Kitsap county, i:
charged with murder in the first de
gree in Mason county Newman sho
and killed his step-father, John Davis
during a Christmas visit.
Transcontinental traffic over tn,
Milwaukee and Northern Pacific wal
completely tied up the first of the weel
as a result of the worst blizzard anC
snowstorm that has ragged in the Cas-
cades for a number of years.
Almost one-third of the student
now attending the University of Wash
ington are depending entirely upol
their own resources for their financia
support, and one-third more of then
are partially earning their own wa,
while at school.
By granting SO grade crossing
sought by the Milwaukee railroad TO
its extension from Cohassett on tn
Columbia river to Hanford on the &C
lumbia river, the public service con
mission has insured the constructor
of that branch.
More than 5000 sacks of wheat wer
brought to Davenport on sleds in tire
. days last week. A rising market, whic
has advanced three cents in the las
week and stands at IA cents for blue
stem and 20 cents for club, has T,
stricted the selling to small lots.
The question of building silos is r
ceiving considerable study by the farm
ers in Lincoln county, and in order t
have fair trial, Davenport bank ha
authorized $4,000 to be loaned, withol
: interest, to 10 farmers around Dave
4 port for the purpose of erecting silos.
S A special train carrying every meI
g Der of the state legislature to Chene
t Medical Lake, Walla Walla and ever
other point in Washington where i
stitutions are located is being adv
Gated. The trip, it is estimated, wou
|, cost about $1,000, take up five day
n and give every legislator a person
e view of the appropriations situation.
Found not guilty on two com