Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-04-17
WASHINGTON ITEMS

Auto men in territory in Davenport
country will improve roads them
selves.
All Colfax mourns the death of J. r.
st. Lawrence, the blind musician and
optimist.
]. F. Burke of Shelton, Mason coun~
-y, is now travelling guard at the state
penitentiary.
Governor Lister has reappointeoB
Fred w. Llewellyn adjutant general OF
the state national guard.
Never before in the history of Whit
man county have wheat, oats and bar
ley been sold out so close as this year.
Howard Johnson, young farmer liv--
ing near Elberton, accidentally killed.
himself Saturday while shooting SPUR
rels.
]. c. Good, for many years connected
with the Union Meat company of Port
land is now the general manager OF.
the Mitchem Brothers packing plant,
Spokane.
The department of the interior has
granted all concessions asked for by
the Yakima Indian reservation water
users as to payments of maintenance
charges for canals.
Taking the offensive in its dealings;
with wireless telegraphers, the Union
Marconi Wireless company discharges
four of it's employees Saturday at Sc
attic who had Joined the organization
Thomas w. Walsh, chief dispatcher
and assistant superintendent OF the
Oregon-W washington Railroad & Navi-'
cation company in Spokane, has been
promoted as superintendent of new
ly made division with headquarters az
La Grande, Ore.
Representative Clark Black of Pom
eroy has been appointed by Governor
Lister as a delegate to investigate
European agricultural and farming con-
ditions and financing methods. He
will start April 81 and will be accom-
panied by his wife.
The Day ranch of 1000 acres, 10
miles southwest of D venport, has;
been sold by the Lincoln County Dairy
and Stock company to Christian.
George and Peter Janett, farmers, Of
the Mondovi country, for $4,000. This
is the largest realty transfer in
months.
One of the most important bills
passed by the Washington legislature
is one creating a department to be
known as the Department of Agricul-
ture The department is charged with
all state laws relating to agriculture.
horticulture, live stock, dairying, state
fairs, foods, drinks, drugs, oils and
other kindred subjects.
The "a Gloucester fishermen who
were brought by train from Massachu-
sets to man halibut vessels plying OUT
of Seattle. and who refused to go TIC
work when they found they were to be
used as strikebreakers, were taken i'm
mediately into the halibut fishermen $
union. The strike was won and all the
newcomers got work as well as the
strikers.
Forty farmers, claiming to represent
an annual production of 100000 tons
of hay, at a recent meeting at North
Yakima passed resolutions asking that
legislation be passed at the earliest
possible time abolishing all inspection
of hay in this state. Prior to such
action they ask that all hay be in
spected at the baler instead of at the
shipping or destination point, and that
it be graded in two, instead of three
grades.
George Edward Adams, former cash
Ter of the Seattle United States assay
office, a lineal descendant of JOIN;
Adams and John Quincy Adams, who
was paroled after serving half of his
sentence imposed for stealing 100000
from Alaskan and Yukon miners, was
convicted Saturday of conspiracy to
counterfeit United States money. John
G. Weber, aged TO- who was a fellow
prisoner with Adams at McNeil's
island, was tried jointly with Adams
and was also convicted. The two men
were captured last September in q
cabin near Kent, where they had as
: sembled a crude counterfeiting plant
Adams, who is 3S years old, is the SON
of Massachusetts clergyman, a mem
Der of the family that gave two presi-
dents to the United States, and has
much business ability.
Subject to slight change Governor
Listers itinerary for this week fol
lows: Leaving Olympia Wednesday