Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-05-22
WASHINGTON ITEMS

due to the warm weather.
Ephrata has decided to issue bonds
for a $4,000 schoolhouse.
Wenatchee's new gas plant will be
in operation by the first of October.
A jury term of court, the first in IS
months, is called for June 8 at Water
vile.
John F. Jarvis, pioneer, was
burned to death in his home on the
outskirts of the town of Valley.
The state fish commissioner has al
lotted 10000 trout fry for Deer and
Boulder creeks, Stevens county.
At Roslyn recently Henry E. Smith.
SO years of age, formerly chief of the
fire department, committed suicide.
John Warren, aged so, civil war
veteran, died recently at Spokane He
predicted the exact date of his death.
Conditions for a big wheat crop this
fall are 10 per cent roorer than they
were 80 days ago around Walla Walla.
Palouse City announces a flower
show to be held September 6, at which
time prizes will be awarded for the
best flower exhibits.
I. w. Dugas of Tekoa, who became
entirely deaf after cleansing the dust
fl ON his ears with kerosene, has had
his hearing restored.
George Cooper, lineman for the
Washington Water Power company at
Rockford, was shot, during a quarrel,
by CityMarshal Robert Bacon at Rock
ford recently.
The crop condition in the Big Bend
country is very promising. Ihe winter
wheat is of good color, good size and
thick on the ground, and spring wheat
is growing very rapidly.
Friends of Senator Poindexter de-
clare it was he who stopped the nomi-
nation of State Supreme Court Judge
Stephen ]. Chadwick as United States
judge in western Washington.
At Seattle David Johnson, machin-
list, "a years old, and his 23-year-old
bridge of six months were accidentally
asphyxiated in bed when a hose at
tached to gas fixture broke.
John G. Lawrence, progressive can
didate for the Covernorship nomina-
ton in the 1912 primaries, has closed
a deal for $40 acres of highly improved
land northeast of Mansfield, for $780,
900.
Tacoma voters Saturday defeated a
proposal to issue bonds for the con-
struction and operation of a municipal
street car line connecting the city with
the manufacturing district of the tide
flats.
Arthur A. Lewis, former city treas
urer of Spokane, named by Governor
Ernest Lister to place on the public
service commission, is now in Olym--
pia, where he will mako his future
home.
W. e. Ralston, professor of veter-
mary science at the state college, who.
has been completely paralyzed for
nearly three months, is slowly recov--
ering the use of his arms, and a COM
plete recovery is probable.
Dow Cope of North Yakima high
school took first in the recent orator
ical contest of the North Yakima.
Prosser and Ellensburg high schools.
His subject was "The Crime of 1907
Burton Wheeler of Sunnyside took sec
ond, with "The Man With an Idea"
The Pomeroy grain market has been
active recently and practically all Of
last years crop is Sold A Portland
man bought over 10000 sacks of wheat
and about the same of barley. The
price of wheat ranged from rs to so
cents, according to variety and quail
ity, and barley sold for $1.15 the hun
dredweight.
One of the largest timber transac-
lions ever made in the Newport Sec
ton is the deal whereby the Consoli-
dated Lumber company of Elk has sold
its timber west of Blueslide and Ruby,
lying between the river and the Ste
vens county line, to the Panhandle
Lumber company. The deal covers
about 100,000,000 feet of timber, large
percentage of which is white pine.
Senator Jones appeared before the
senate Indian affairs committee re-
Gently and urged that the Indian ap-
bill be amended increasing
the appropriation for the Indian train
ing school at Tacoma from $4,000 to.
100000 and the number of pupils from
300 to $50. Also urged adoption of his
amendment to the same bill appropri-
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