Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-30

Union Flat country to Hooper on the
S. p. e. S.
Eight of the seventeen successful
applicants for admission to the bar at
the recent examination were from east
ern Washington.
Henry LA, farmer living about
eight miles southwest of Odessa, sus-
tanned a serious injury when he was
crushed by fall.
Mrs. Rose McCroskey of Palouse,
who has been named postmistress of
the Washington state senate, is the
first woman to hold such position.
State conventions of the state fedora
ton of labor, the county assessors as
sociation and state society of correc-
ton and charities convened in Olympia
Monday.
The Reardan school is serving warm
lunches this winter in the domestic
science department, especially for the
benefit of the people who drive in
from the country.
The Colville chamber of commerce
served a banquet to the delegates to
the annual meeting of the Stevens
County Federation of Commercial
Clubs, which was held Tuesday.
At Pullman, DR.. ]. j. l.. Heldring,
veterinarian and for four years pro-
fessor of materia medica in Washing
ton State college, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the mouth
Following a conference of democrat
ic senators and representatives with
Governor Ernest Lister, plans have
been made to fight the proposed jun
keting trip to all state institutions.
The body, fragments of which were
scattered along the railroad tracks at
Spokane, Saturday, has been identified
as that of Robert Jones, about 80 years
old, formerly farmer from Garfield.
Lost in a heavy storm as he was
trying to make his way through five
feet of snow to his cabin six miles
from Blueslde, H. H. Pedrow, 81
years old, rancher, persisted recently
Cattle rustling is being carried OF
in the Walla Walla valley, according
to Sherman Pettijohn of Prescott, who
has filed complaint charging John Doe
McGrew with the theft of 81 head O.
stock.
1t is reported that L. II. Pruitt, 4;
prominent business man of Ephrata
has purchased the Sloan sanatoriun
at Soap lake, one of the largest ant
most popular health resorts in thi
state.
There is now SO inches of snow OF
the level throughout Whitman county
This is the heaviest amount ever re
corded in the Palouse country, tn
highest previous record being 2
inches.
Brakeman Edwin Snyder of Tacom
and Fireman Studlack were frightfull
scalded Saturday morning when a ives
bound Northern Pacific freight trai
went into a ditch two and a half mile
west of Castle Rock.
The twenty-secOnd annual report {
the State Agricultural Experiment st;
ton at Pullman, Washington, is no
ready for free distribution. This r,
port covers the work of the station fC
the year ending June 80, 1912.
To make the habitual drunkard +
. sponsible for efforts to get drinks, il
. stead of placing all burden of blan
: on the shoulders of the saloonkeepe
:, is the purpose of a bill introduced
: this session of the state legislature.
The board of county commissions
of Stevens county have ordered II
elk from the Yellowstone Nation
> park to be delivered on board cars
that place at So per head. These al
p mails will be distributed in the vario,
', mountain districts.
;, Frank S. Blattner, one of the mo
prominent attorneys of Tacoma al
Il for nearly % years a resident. WI
drowned in Commencement bay Satu
L day when his 40-foot cruising launc
; La Kumanog, caught fire while on
way from Tacoma to Quartermast
harbor.
Whether peas for canning can
successfully grown in the Yakima
e dian reservation, and, when came
d will retain their green color and pre-
l. er food constituents, are questions tn
r are to be solved this year at the ]
If quest of a large cannery company
l. eastern states.
Prison Warden Charles S. Reid
" Walla Walla has filed his resignati