Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-07-31
WASHINGTON STATE

pamela, for $500
The town of Reardan faces a fuel
famine as the rainy weather made
hauling of wood impossible.
The next quarterly meeting of the
Inland Empire Federation of CONNER
cial clubs will be held in Colfax next
spring.
Contractor tanning was awarded the
contract to construct four and a half
miles of permanent highway between
Walla Walla and Milton, the price be-
ing $4,000.
Two slight earthquake shocks were
felt Sunday night by residents in the
southeastern part of Seattle, including
the Mount Baker park, Columbia and
Rainier beach districts.
Miss Ethel A. Burnett, daughter of
the late Rev. G. c. Burnett, formerly
rector of All Saints church of Spokane,
died recently at the Good Samaritan
hospital in Portland, Ore.
With an estimated attendance of be-
tween 600 and 1000 persons, the first
annual convention of the Northwest
Association for Deaf Mutes will be
held in Spokane July 1 to 4, 1913.
Ben Jacobs, who shot and wounded
Ed Lowrey at Chelan landing recently,
says he will plead guilty, and hopes to
Il wanted to kill Lowrey," he con-
fessed to the sheriff.
Half million dollars will be- spent
during the wilmer by the Pacific Pow
er & Light company in improving the
upper works of the IS miles of canal
and pipe which brings North Yakima
water supply from the upper reaches
of the Naches river.
Theodore Roosevelt's plurality over
Woodrow Wilson in this state was
24,303. according to official figures.
The vote for governor was Lister,
democrat, 97,2S9; Hay, republican, &c.
GLIB; Hodge, progressive, 77,87S. Lis
ter's plurality, 626.
Henry Gable, sentenced in December,
1907, to five to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary, was pardoned by Governor
Hay recently that the man might go
back to a little Minnesota town to
claim a third interest in an estate OF
100000 left by his father.
The Western Fruit Products com
pany, incorporated for 100000, of which
Rufus Wilson of Seattle is organizer
will erect plants next year at North
Yakima and Wenatchee and will later
extend it's operations to Medford, Hood
River and White Salmon, according tc
his announcement.
Seattles so-called strap-hanger ordi
nance, which provides that each stand
ing passenger in every street-car shall
be allowed at least four square feet
was declared void by the court. The
: Judge held that relief from overcrowd
ing was in the hands of the state pub
lie service commission.
That 700 carloads of cattle have
been shipped to Toppenish this fall
the stock to be fattened on Yakima
reservation alfalfa, is the statement o
the railroads. These cattle have beer
brought from all parts of the west
many of them being shipped from
Texas and Mexico. They will be fee
there during the winter and then sen
to Spokane, Tacoma, Seattle and Port
land to packing houses.
The large potato crop of this yea
2 and the small demand for them ha
= put the farmers and business men o
2 the central part of the state to think
t ing of the advisability of establishing
a starch factory at some point in tn
county and of using potatoes to max
starch. This plan will be considere
: at a meeting of the Lincoln Count
= Booster club, which will meet in Ores
: ton about the first of the year.
, This week it is expected that tn
: fruit dryer which Messrs. F. d. Mineaf
? A. B. Caps and Ralph Dunford hav
: installed in Prosser will be open 70
:, business. The plant will be operate
= by the tunnel and hot air process an
: will have a capacity of 200 bushel
of green fruit a day. The slicer an
peeler are electrically operated an
1000 apples an hour is the capacity {
the peeler. The plant will take car
n of the surplus fruit of the Prosser di
i trict