Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-06-19
WASHINGTON ITEMS

is now chaplain at the state peniten-
tiary.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
are in session TT Walla Walla this
week.
The Masons and Eastern Stars are
in grand lodge at Aberdeen
this week.
Mayor W. R. Belvail of Palouse City
has rendered his resignation to take
effect at once.
The Fourteenth infantry regimental
band of Seattle is now at Fort George
Wright, Spokane.
The returns from the irrigation dis
trict election at Quincy show it carried
by big majority.
An alien must have a permit to bear
fire arms before he can secure hunt
ing or fishing license.
Charles N. Grant was successful at
Toppenish in the unofficial election
for the local postmastership.
A. W. Rinehart of Seattle has been
appointed chief of the new state bu-
reau Of weights and measures.
The body of p Christensen, drowned
in Sheep creek, near Northport some
time ago has been recovered.
The flood situation in the Calispel
valley is growing serious and great
loss of property seems imminent.
1t is the intention of the Shriners Of
Spokane and of the northwest to make
June Is the banner day of the Pow
Wow week at the Falls city.
A pitched battle at Wilson Creek be-
tween Italian laborers in the railroad
yards and a band of alleged l. w. WIS
resulted in the fatal injury of one man.
State superintendent of public in
struction has issued a statement show
ing that $139,08658 is to be divided
among the different counties for
school purposes.
When property holder has a place
of business destroyed on March 1, by
fire he has to pay the taxes on it the
same as though he enjoyed the use of
it throughout the year.
Judge Frank Rudkin has decided
that violators of the federal law on
the Occur d'Alene Indian reservation
will be tried in North Yakima here
after instead of Spokane.
The arrest of Mrs. C. c. Van Arsdal,
one of the prominent women of Clark
ston, on a serious charge by federal
officials has caused a sensation. She
is accused of contributing to the de-
linquency of Nellie Hall, 10 years old.
The commissioners of Chehalis coun-
ty have sanctioned the payment of
$4,000 in rewards to Giles Quimby, the
deputy sheriff who recently shot and
killed John Tornow, ''the beast man
of the Olympics," who was credited
with having murdered six men.
Mrs. Bert Howell, wife of a promi-
nent pioneer farmer who lives three
miles east of Palouse, across the Idaho
line, was instantly killed by lightning
Saturday evening during a severe cleo
trical storm which passed over the Pa
louise country She was 49 years old
andmother of Is children.
Where customers shake dice or pla,
with the understanding that the loser
is to pay for the same, proprietors
cannot be prosecuted under the pen
atty gambling act, yet they can be
held liable under the statute which
makes it a gross misdemeanor to allow
such things to be done on the prem
Uses.
]. M. Semple, superintendent of the
Eastern Washington Hospital for the
Insane at Medical Lake, has written
the state board of control asking a
complete investigation of the conduct
of the institution under his administra-
ton. He insists that the charges have
been made by a number of discharged
employees and former inmates.
The 100000 capitol bond issue
will have to be publicly marketed, ac-
cording to a unanimous decision
handed down by the supreme court
recently. The court holds that the
investment in these bonds would vio-
late the organic law of the constitu-
ton. The case arose out of the at
tempt of the state board of finance
to purchase 100000 of these bonds
Actual work has started on the i'm
mense power project on the Pend
Oreille river between Metaline Falls
and the international boundary line by
the International Power & Manufac-
turing GO II 10 astir,a OF cd that II will