Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-08-05
IDAHO NEWS.

IDAHO NEWS.
All of the churches of Weiser will
hold union services in the open air
Sunday evenings during the summer.
The log cut around st. Maries will
be large this summer. Contracts are
under consideration for about 50,000,-
900 feet.
Andrew Carnegie has donated $1,000
to be applied toward the purchase of
pipe organ for the Presbyterian
church at Boise.
The 32d annual session of the Co.
lumbia River conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church will convene
in Moscow August 23.
The badly decomposed body of
Frank G. Marin was found recently
in cattle shed at the fairgrounds at
Blackfoot. He had been missing for
five weeks.
Tom Wheeler carries the record as
champion sheep shearer in Idaho. He
is now at his ranch near Hayburn. Mr..
Wheeler also won a round trip ticket
to the Portland exposition for the
rapidity and neatness of his work.
Governor Gooding has requested the
cooperation of the different towns of
the state in the organization of state
band, which will make a trip to the
Portland exhibition and participate in
the observances on Idaho day, Sep
TENDER 4.
Miles S. Johnson of Lewiston, for
four years prosecuting attorney of
Nez Perez county has been appointed
assistant United States attorney for
= North Idaho and assumed the position
on August l. Lewiston has been desig-
mated as his official residence.
After being a fugitive from justice
for over eight years, Theodore Foust
e who was indicted for robbery by the
grand jury of Shoshone county early
in 1898, was arrested by Sheriff Suth
erland and Officer Quinn, who found
him walking the streets of Wallace.
Information has reached Boise of {
fatal dynamite explosion which occur
e red few days ago at Meadows. A
Il man named Barnum was killed anC
: three other men were injured. A boz
) of dynamite at Carl Browns camp OF
+ Big creek caught fire while a numbe
of people were sitting near it, and eX
ploded before they could get away.
: A contracting firm of San Francisco
" has been awarded the contract 70
constructing the o. r. & N.-Northerl
:, Pacific connection between Ripari
- and Lewiston. The line will be start
ed Immediately and according to tn
- terms of the contract is to be in shap
for operation April 1, 1906. The est
~ mated cost is between $1,700,0 900 an
;. $2,000,000.
- Professor H. T. French, in charg
- of the agricultural college and exper
- ment station, is planning for the mos
q extensive series of farmers institute
!, throughout the state this fall thu
- have ever been held in Idaho. In a
!" there will be Is or 20 Institutes, e
tending from the panhandle to tn
III southern extremity of the state. Goo
IL roads will be a leading subject of II
d. programs.
re Mrs. Caddie M. Shupe was convicte
Vi at Paris of the crime of voluntal
vi manslaughter, in the murder of Arthl
Douglas. The crime was committt
es at Montpelier July 1. Douglas hs
been living with the woman for tv
u years, but determined to leave her. T
m- visited her and gave a final answer
ny her pleadings that he do not forsal
nc her, declaring he would not yield. 81
III then shot him.
'c- There will be launched at Il
Cramps shipbuilding yards in Phil
~ delphia next fall a battleship whi'
oi- will be one of the most effective in Il
IT. world. The battleship will be Il
re- Idaho, and belongs to what is know
Gu as the Mississippi class. The Idal
will be ship of $4,000 tons, with
waterline of 375 feet. n feet wide, al
have a coal bunker capacity of II
tons and II knots speed. Her me;
ny gross draft will be q feet. When col
as pleted she will have cost nearly s
We 100000.