Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-02
WASHINGTON STATE

The Washington Educational asso-
of this week.
The members of the Federated clubs
of the Valleys of the Yakimas met at
Mabton recently.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
has taken over the holdings of the
First National bank at Maiden.
Changes reducing such strict en-
trance requirements at the University
of Washington for next year were an
nounced recently.
Frank Lamborn, who will be public
printer under Governor Lister, has
closed the deal to purchase the plant
of Public Printer E. l.. Boardman.
Officers and men at Fort George
Wright, at Spokane, are packing up
in order to get everything prepared
for departure to Hawaii December 80.
Safe crackers blew open the safe
of the Falkland postoffice a few miles
south of Tacoma Saturday and es-
capped with $275 in cash and $3.50 in
stamps.
The short mining session annually
held at the college of mines, Univer-
sity of Washington, will begin on jan
uary z, 1913, and continue for three
months.
Clair Hunt and his alloting crew,
consisting of II men, have broken
camp near Keller and suspended the
work of making Indian allotments I'M
til next spring.
Two hundred and fifty-three seniors
have applied for degrees at the Uni
versity of Washington, diplomas to be
awarded at commencement time in
June of next year.
Mrs. Savage, wife of Thomas Savage,
pioneer farmer of Whitman county,
and mother of Mrs. Ortis Hamilton
died at the family home two miles
west of Pullman, Saturday.
To take care of the 10000 gallons of
fruit brandies already manufactured
by the North Yakima Distilling COM
pany the treasury department has es-
tablished a liquor bonding warehouse
at North Yakima.
A school for farmers and fruit grow
ers will be conducted at Kennewick
the week of December 80 by agricul-
tural experts from the state college
at Pullman. No charge will be made
+1,o inc
A H. Reynolds and the Kirkman
Investment company at Walla Walla
have bought 3246 acres of land two
miles from Pleasant View for a con-
sideration close to 100000 The prop
erty was owned by the Stine-Paxton
corporation.
Immediately after learning of their
defeat last night by the narrow mar
gin of 203 votes the leaders of the
anti-saloon forces in North Yakima
swore out an unknown number OF
warrants charging perjury in the sec
! ond degree in swearing in votes.
Fifteen hundred sacks of potatoes
weighing 100 pounds each were dis
posed of at the potato auction conduct
ed by one of the public markets Sat
urday, at Seattle, an an experiment il
reducing the cost of living. The prices
: ranged from 40 cents to 60 cents &
sack, the average being 45 cents.
One of the largest deals recent.
} consummated in the Moses lake dis
2 trict in Grant county was that where
t by ]. M. O'Sullivan, an attorney O
Ephrata, purchased GAO acres, know
as the Edwards tract, at price of $Sl
: an acre, or 54,400 for the section
! The land is located half mile from
:, Moses lake. 1t is absolutely raw, un
improved land.
Aggregate receipts by the stat
treasurer for last week of S122,S05 AM
. disbursements of but S65,99S reduces
( the overdraft of the state general fun
to $29S,147. The military fund cor
s tains S65,540 cash and the two high
= way funds have about sSS6,0O0. Mos
n of the rest of the S2,262,476 cash o.
hand is in permanent funds awaitin
l. investment by the state board c
a finance.
s By the first apportionment of cour
a ty school money for the year the 10
r districts will receive a total of $11
o SIG. A recent state apportionmen
It distributed by Superintendent Neele
is amounted to S4699. BY the six appol
e tionments of both state and count
is money the schools of Lincoln count
II receive nearly a quarter of millio
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